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Post by inger on Jan 24, 2022 22:25:00 GMT -5
So ashamed of my huge legs in that cheerleader photo… You haven't been skipping leg day at the gym, thats for sure. Lol, the real legs never needed a gym. I was never slow, though for from super fast, much of my power came from the legs and torso in both baseball and golf… |
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Post by rizzuto on Jan 25, 2022 17:07:49 GMT -5
Sean Payton just stepped down as the Saints' head coach. The Saints were a joke of a franchise before his tenure, with only one playoff game won in their entire history. In all my years of rooting for the Yankees and seeing managers come and go, this is not even remotely the same: I feel like a family member has died. ![]()  |
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Post by kaybli on Jan 25, 2022 19:32:24 GMT -5
Sean Payton just stepped down as the Saints' head coach. The Saints were a joke of a franchise before his tenure, with only one playoff game won in their entire history. In all my years of rooting for the Yankees and seeing managers come and go, this is not even remotely the same: I feel like a family member has died. ![]() Tough luck, rizz. The Saints are definitely at a crossroads. |
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Post by rizzuto on Jan 25, 2022 19:36:32 GMT -5
Sean Payton just stepped down as the Saints' head coach. The Saints were a joke of a franchise before his tenure, with only one playoff game won in their entire history. In all my years of rooting for the Yankees and seeing managers come and go, this is not even remotely the same: I feel like a family member has died. ![]() Tough luck, rizz. The Saints are definitely at a crossroads. Ugh, Kay. Crossroads, indeed. 1979 was the New Orleans Saints first non-losing season with a record of 8-8. Saints' fans were absolutely celebratory and excited for a playoff run the next season, only to suffer the worst season in franchise history at 1-15. It wasn't until 1987 that the Saints had their first winning season at 12-3. Prior to the arrival of Sean Payton, the Saints had a grand total of five (5) winning seasons over 39 years. In Sean Payton's 15 seasons as active head coach, the Saints totaled ten (10) winning seasons and never had a record worse than 7-9. In the 39 years before Payton arrived in 2006, the Saints totaled four (4) seasons in which they scored 370 points or more. Under Payton, the Saints exceeded that total fifteen (15) times. Not only were the Saints under Payton successful, they were also almost always fun to watch - win or lose. |
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Post by kaybli on Jan 25, 2022 19:40:48 GMT -5
Eli Apple is the biggest jerk. And he's a terrible CB to boot:
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Post by inger on Jan 25, 2022 21:31:14 GMT -5
Tough luck, rizz. The Saints are definitely at a crossroads. Ugh, Kay. Crossroads, indeed. 1979 was the New Orleans Saints first non-losing season with a record of 8-8. Saints' fans were absolutely celebratory and excited for a playoff run the next season, only to suffer the worst season in franchise history at 1-15. It wasn't until 1987 that the Saints had their first winning season at 12-3. Prior to the arrival of Sean Payton, the Saints had a grand total of five (5) winning seasons over 39 years. In Sean Payton's 15 seasons as active head coach, the Saints totaled ten (10) winning seasons and never had a record worse than 7-9. In the 39 years before Payton arrived in 2006, the Saints totaled four (4) seasons in which they scored 370 points or more. Under Payton, the Saints exceeded that total fifteen (15) times. Not only were the Saints under Payton successful, they were also almost always fun to watch - win or lose. I recall those feelings with several of the Colts coaches through the years. Shula was a really tough one, since he went to a then division rival. Marchibroada <sp?> was tough for me to lose. Know what? I don’t even know who their coach is now… |
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Post by rizzuto on Jan 25, 2022 22:55:51 GMT -5
Eli Apple is the biggest jerk. And he's a terrible CB to boot:
Apple never seems to fit in anywhere he has been, not the least of which includes his teammates. Strange dude. |
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Post by rizzuto on Jan 25, 2022 23:04:22 GMT -5
Ugh, Kay. Crossroads, indeed. 1979 was the New Orleans Saints first non-losing season with a record of 8-8. Saints' fans were absolutely celebratory and excited for a playoff run the next season, only to suffer the worst season in franchise history at 1-15. It wasn't until 1987 that the Saints had their first winning season at 12-3. Prior to the arrival of Sean Payton, the Saints had a grand total of five (5) winning seasons over 39 years. In Sean Payton's 15 seasons as active head coach, the Saints totaled ten (10) winning seasons and never had a record worse than 7-9. In the 39 years before Payton arrived in 2006, the Saints totaled four (4) seasons in which they scored 370 points or more. Under Payton, the Saints exceeded that total fifteen (15) times. Not only were the Saints under Payton successful, they were also almost always fun to watch - win or lose. I recall those feelings with several of the Colts coaches through the years. Shula was a really tough one, since he went to a then division rival. Marchibroada <sp?> was tough for me to lose. Know what? I don’t even know who their coach is now… There just are not many NFL coaches successful enough to stay in one place for 16 years. Something drained the energy from Payton this season, perhaps it was cumulative. I’m really bummed out ☹️ about it. With Payton, I was always confident the Saints would be competitive. Somehow, I suspect if his QB was Mahomes or Josh Allen, he’d remain ensconced as head coach. |
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Post by kaybli on Jan 25, 2022 23:08:34 GMT -5
I recall those feelings with several of the Colts coaches through the years. Shula was a really tough one, since he went to a then division rival. Marchibroada <sp?> was tough for me to lose. Know what? I don’t even know who their coach is now… There just are not many NFL coaches successful enough to stay in one place for 16 years. Something drained the energy from Payton this season, perhaps it was cumulative. I’m really bummed out ☹️ about it. With Payton, I was always confident the Saints would be competitive. Somehow, I suspect if his QB was Mahomes or Josh Allen, he’d remain ensconced as head coach. Well, at least you have the Saints great defense still there. It's something. More than the Giants can say.  |
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Post by rizzuto on Jan 25, 2022 23:43:59 GMT -5
There just are not many NFL coaches successful enough to stay in one place for 16 years. Something drained the energy from Payton this season, perhaps it was cumulative. I’m really bummed out ☹️ about it. With Payton, I was always confident the Saints would be competitive. Somehow, I suspect if his QB was Mahomes or Josh Allen, he’d remain ensconced as head coach. Well, at least you have the Saints great defense still there. It's something. More than the Giants can say.  True, but the Football Giants will always attract top names because it’s New York. New Orleans isn’t for everyone, the weather isn’t for anyone, and Louisiana isn’t exactly a paradise for investment and technology. It was Payton’s first and only head coaching job, and Green Bay - his first choice - turned him down. And, for the second straight offseason, the Saints are in salary cap hell, needing to cut/reassign big time money. More than likely, the Saints will hire internally. Thanks for the positive thoughts, though. Always welcome them.  |
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Post by kaybli on Jan 26, 2022 0:01:59 GMT -5
Well, at least you have the Saints great defense still there. It's something. More than the Giants can say. True, but the Football Giants will always attract top names because it’s New York. New Orleans isn’t for everyone, the weather isn’t for anyone, and Louisiana isn’t exactly a paradise for investment and technology. It was Payton’s first and only head coaching job, and Green Bay - his first choice - turned him down. And, for the second straight offseason, the Saints are in salary cap hell, needing to cut/reassign big time money. More than likely, the Saints will hire internally. Thanks for the positive thoughts, though. Always welcome them.  Us Giants and Saints fans can always come together in hating Eli Apple. And Tom Brady.  |
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Post by inger on Jan 26, 2022 9:33:31 GMT -5
True, but the Football Giants will always attract top names because it’s New York. New Orleans isn’t for everyone, the weather isn’t for anyone, and Louisiana isn’t exactly a paradise for investment and technology. It was Payton’s first and only head coaching job, and Green Bay - his first choice - turned him down. And, for the second straight offseason, the Saints are in salary cap hell, needing to cut/reassign big time money. More than likely, the Saints will hire internally. Thanks for the positive thoughts, though. Always welcome them. Us Giants and Saints fans can always come together in hating Eli Apple. And Tom Brady. Even Apple and Little Tommy have got friends Even Apple and Little Tommy have got mommies (There’s just a terrific song in there somewhere. Just got decide what genre. For rock I could add a motorcycle, maybe a pickup truck for country, cause it already has mom in it. Jeffrey Dahmer if I want to go heavy metal punk. I’ll figure it out… Oh, even Warren G. Harding had a friend… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jan 26, 2022 10:22:13 GMT -5
Warren G. Harding had a lot of friends. He was a very affable man. That's what got him in trouble. He was not terribly selective in choosing them. As long as you were up for a game of poker and could tell a good risqué story, you were in.
Crooks like Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall took advantage of Harding's insouciance in personal matters. Now a strong case can be made that such a temperament is not what you want in a President. Thus the corruption among several of his cabinet members.
But Harding himself was relatively honest, especially by the low standards of a politician. The scandals of his Administration had little impact on the country as a whole, and he was personally wildly popular, ushering in a decade of prosperity.
Back in 1979, I dragged my then freshly-married wife on a forced march of Presidential homes in Ohio. Visiting President's homes is one of my many sins. We stopped by the cribs of William Howard Taft, James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding (William McKinley of Canton is the only President with no residence to visit; we had to settle for a monument, although we did visit his assassination site in Buffalo.)
Anyway, the Harding home in Marion is a beautiful Victorian structure, very homey. A couple of the docents back then actually knew Harding-- he died in 1923, and these guys would have been born in the 1890s. They were just locals, and they loved the guy. When they realized I was actually interested in the history, they gave me an album of his speeches. It would cure insomnia. I don't think it ever made the Billboard Hot 100, and I couldn't listen for more than maybe ten minutes.
I still have it, collecting dust on the shelves with thousands of other LPs.
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Post by inger on Jan 26, 2022 11:32:24 GMT -5
Warren G. Harding had a lot of friends. He was a very affable man. That's what got him in trouble. He was not terribly selective in choosing them. As long as you were up for a game of poker and could tell a good risqué story, you were in. Crooks like Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall took advantage of Harding's insouciance in personal matters. Now a strong case can be made that such a temperament is not what you want in a President. Thus the corruption among several of his cabinet members. But Harding himself was relatively honest, especially by the low standards of a politician. The scandals of his Administration had little impact on the country as a whole, and he was personally wildly popular, ushering in a decade of prosperity. Back in 1979, I dragged my then freshly-married wife on a forced march of Presidential homes in Ohio. Visiting President's homes is one of my many sins. We stopped by the cribs of William Howard Taft, James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding (William McKinley of Canton is the only President with no residence to visit; we had to settle for a monument, although we did visit his assassination site in Buffalo.) Anyway, the Harding home in Marion is a beautiful Victorian structure, very homey. A couple of the docents back then actually knew Harding-- he died in 1923, and these guys would have been born in the 1890s. They were just locals, and they loved the guy. When they realized I was actually interested in the history, they gave me an album of his speeches. It would cure insomnia. I don't think it ever made the Billboard Hot 100, and I couldn't listen for more than maybe ten minutes. I still have it, collecting dust on the shelves with thousands of other LPs. I heard that he kept the White House well stocked with whiskey. As in VERY well stocked. Like a whole bunch of it. Now, this is The Wolfman with one of Warren G. Harding’s “bubbling under” speeches… sitting at number 370 on the top 100… |
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Post by desousa on Jan 27, 2022 7:18:46 GMT -5
Warren G. Harding had a lot of friends. He was a very affable man. That's what got him in trouble. He was not terribly selective in choosing them. As long as you were up for a game of poker and could tell a good risqué story, you were in. Crooks like Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall took advantage of Harding's insouciance in personal matters. Now a strong case can be made that such a temperament is not what you want in a President. Thus the corruption among several of his cabinet members. But Harding himself was relatively honest, especially by the low standards of a politician. The scandals of his Administration had little impact on the country as a whole, and he was personally wildly popular, ushering in a decade of prosperity. Back in 1979, I dragged my then freshly-married wife on a forced march of Presidential homes in Ohio. Visiting President's homes is one of my many sins. We stopped by the cribs of William Howard Taft, James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding (William McKinley of Canton is the only President with no residence to visit; we had to settle for a monument, although we did visit his assassination site in Buffalo.) Anyway, the Harding home in Marion is a beautiful Victorian structure, very homey. A couple of the docents back then actually knew Harding-- he died in 1923, and these guys would have been born in the 1890s. They were just locals, and they loved the guy. When they realized I was actually interested in the history, they gave me an album of his speeches. It would cure insomnia. I don't think it ever made the Billboard Hot 100, and I couldn't listen for more than maybe ten minutes. I still have it, collecting dust on the shelves with thousands of other LPs. Pipps, have you visited Calvin Coolidge's home in Plymouth Notch, Vt? I did a couple years ago and heard an interesting story about what happened after Harding died in the middle of his term. There were no phones in Plymouth Notch until Coolidge became Vice President. It was placed in the general store, just across the road from Coolidge's house. The day Harding died, officials called the phone in the store and no one answered it. It turned out, no one knew how because it had never rung. Coolidge heard about Harding from a telegraph operator who was sent after no could reach him. |
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