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I was at that game!
I knew that the TD would stand when they wouldn't show the play review on the stadium's big screen. So did a majority of the fans judging by the dejected looks on their faces.

What a fantastic moment.

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That's how you know it's your year. That kind of stuff happens for you.

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Hey ICESHACK149, I see your in Fairbanks. I was stationed at FT. Wainwright back in the mid 90's, from 94-97. Whats the daily high temps for the summer up there.

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It's been somewhat rainy so far this summer which is tough since we had an old fashioned 1980's type winter (extremely cold) last year. We've seen mid-seventies a handful of times but it's been in the sixties primarily. That's a bit odd since, if you can recall, by now we should have seen some mid 80's and quite a few mid 70's days.

I'm about to fish the Russian River by Soldotna rain or shine because when you're catching fish, the weather doesn't matter.

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Used to pack a half case of beer, fly rod and a little whiskey across the Ferry and would watch the mayhem. Then walk down stream a ways and catch our reds. Great times indeed. Would stay in Centennial Park, hit Good Time Charlies and have a blast. Enjoy!!

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Redskins? I cancel them every year. This year is no different...meh.

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Meachem was a man ahead of his time ... cancelling the Redskins!

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Why don't they just assign random 4 digit numbers to teams and have them all wear the same color, filtering for obviously offensive numbers and colors of course? Doesn't that seem like a more woke and egalitarian solution? Why stop there, there's plenty of hierarchical power structures to dismantle!

Why have different hairstyles? They should all be fully shaved so as not to discriminate against those losing their hair.

How about they all wear full body coverings so as not to be identified, with no names on their jerseys.

Since sports is all about it, hell, why don't we require teams to sign and play a certain number of non-athletes, that way I could live my NFL dream completely unfettered by the unfair power structure of competence that girds this tyrannical institution.

Tell me what great leap forward or innovation ever came out of censorship? More freedom is the only way to prosper, not less. If you want to change the name, buy it, own it, and change it yourself; otherwise, go find something else to do that doesn't degrade your mental stability to the point of not being able to function.

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I saw a movie 30 years ago that predicted this. In it everything was base lined off the worst in each category. In sports if you could run faster or jump higher, you had to wear "handicappers" to slow and bring you down to the worst baseline. Wise up NFL!!! No more receivers "that can fly" they'll all be 6.8 in the 40 guys now!! NBA no more "Big Men" MLB no more pitchers that can throw "smoke"!!! I'm 68 and can't wait to sign that huge NFL contract!!!!

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I saw a movie 48 years ago Between Earth And Timbuktu, based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel that predicted this. In one part everything was base lined off the worst in each category. In sports if you could run faster or jump higher, you had to wear "handicappers" to slow and bring you down to the baseline. Wise up NFL!!! No more receivers "that can fly" they'll all be 6.8 in the 40 guys now!! NBA no more "Big Men" MLB no more pitchers that can throw "smoke"!!! I'm 68 and can't wait to sign that huge NFL contract!!!!

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Which was it?

;)

Seriously (Siriusly?), I love Vonnegut. I never saw the television play, however. Although, I'm sure I read most all, if not all, of the novels and short stories that provided the excerpts used in making the play.

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A prime example of what happens to you when you hit your "golden" years. It was the 48 year ago one I believe it was on PBS. Yep! Found it

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Vonnegut's political satire is what he is known for, of course, but I really loved his science fiction, which is what the play is apparently based upon. The Sirens of Titan was probably my favorite. The same satirical vein of his later works, yet with a very entertaining sci-fi twist. It was his second novel - 1959. Robert Heinlein had to have been an influence.

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How about we name them the Washington I never stole land from native Americans?

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Yeah but..... who did the Native Americans steal land from? And are they really Native? Just how far back should we really go?

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Neanderthals!

Neanderthals are our closest extinct human relatives. There is some debate as to whether they were a distinct species of the Homo genus (Homo neanderthalensis) or a subspecies of Homo sapiens. Our well-known, but often misunderstood, fossil kin lived in Eurasia 200,000 to 30,000 years ago, in the Pleistocene Epoch. They started to evolve 300,000 and 100,000 years ago, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

Recent research published in the October 2017 issue of American Journal of Human Genetics found that genomes of modern human groups originating outside Africa contain between 1.8 and 2.6 percent Neanderthal DNA. "Neandertal DNA is one source of variation for many traits in modern humans," study lead author Michael Dannemann, a computational biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, told Live Science.

No one knows exactly why Neanderthals went extinct and why Homo sapiens survived. Some scholars theorize that gradual or dramatic climate change led them to their demise, while others blame dietary deficiencies. Some theorize that humans killed the Neanderthals. Until recently the hypothesis that Neanderthals didn't go extinct but simply interbred with humans until they were absorbed into our species was popular.