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The day we start preparing for the playoffs? Thanks for the support.

Okay, my apologies. Here is another:

Hey Ned, read it again. I only changed his words from "us" to hitting "anyone". You have to read his original post to realize that. You are reading something into it that is not there. I don't play spelling Nazi. It would take up too much of my time but I have a great photo that you can copy if you want to continue to play one.

Yeah, I am afraid of what I might get if I lay out a plate of corn and get any takers.

WHAT? Five pages of comments and there is no storm? ;D From the rotation of the clouds in the Tampa Bay area and in the Gulf, it sure looks like it has a very good potential.

It is high school athletics not the NFL or college.

What brought on this tirade?

The last time that I fished Rayburn, they were hitting white spinners over creek beds. Of course, that was about 15 years ago.........

If I could just do that with women.

'72 Nederland 20 FP 12 '80 Nederland 38 FP 0 '81 Nederland 21 FP 16 Overall Record FP 7 - 3

That's what I thought. Maybe it is a guy dressed in drag trying to crash the party. ;D

At least internet forums didn't exist until fairly recently. It was hard to hear the criticism.

Wouldn't this next "lady" be Jerry?

You mean the 6 different predictions that change almost hourly? At the moment, it is predicted anywhere from around Corpus Christi to the upper Florida coast and then back out into the Atlantic. Give it about 6 more hours and I am sure it will change significantly again.

When I see coaches, school teachers, police officers, soldiers, high school athletes, etc., receive criticism, I am often reminder of my favorite quote. It was taken from part of a speech that Teddy Roosevelt made in 1910. I think it deals very well with situations were people criticize others but would not step into their shoes or who will criticize from the outside. I have no problem with the right to criticize. It is an important right however some people that criticize might do well to step back for a moment and "walk a mile in my shoes" before making comments. The passage from the speech is called: MAN IN THE ARENA. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;…. who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Paris Sorbonne,1910)

What is not looking good? There is a group of disroganized clouds off the Atlantic coast of Florida. Nothing is going to develop that will effect us other than maybe some thunderstorms... and we get those all the time in the summer anyway. Put the generators away and get ready for Friday night's games.

.... and the Brooklyn Bridge is still up for sale if you make me an offer.

I have six entries in. I have my fingers crossed.

Didn't PN-G go to the spread a couple of years ago, only to ditch it a few games into the season?

Nederland needs to show some improvement in stopping the run. They also need a more aggressive pass rush. I think a better pass rush would shut down a lot of the other team's options. Nederland seems to be able to stop most runs up the middle. The offense needs a lot of improvement. Some of it is with the inexperience in the line but a lot is with the young quarterback. I think he has shown a very strong arm and accurate. He can do it on the run. He needs to work on technique in getting more planted when he can and he needs to do a better job in spotting downfield receivers. I think it is just inexperience and nothing more. He certainly has as good of skills as any of the Nederland quarterbacks of late. The good signs are that even with their problems, they have beaten two good teams. They should have beaten Forest Brook by a few touchdowns and did so. No surprise there but they lived up to expectations in starting a sophmore quarterback in his first start. I think much improvement is going to be needed between now and the time district starts if Nederland is going to challenge for a playoff spot but I think it can happen.

No. Let's not imagine it.

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