M-Borg vs. THE Flavortown U Thread, Orig. by Buckeye Paul, absconded w/by talent.

[hack]

Eager and ready to hear how Urban can get in trouble in any possible way here. I don't like how his arrival at OSU put a damper on what was until then the Best Schadenfreude Opportunity Ever.

[lineygoblue]

Just win, baby ...

[Optimus Prime]

The mysterious esophageal aliment was clearly a ruse, wily subterfuge, it was time for Urbie to get the hell out of Gainesville, Dodge and quick!

Hernandez will be arraigned in court today, we then will learn of the charges.

[iam416]

While M fans have the acts of a New England Patriot and Florida alumnus, all I'm stuck with is...

16 > 1

Dark days for the FLAGSHIP.

[lineygoblue]

As a fan of the NE Patriots, and their fine QB Tom Brady, I'm actually a bit disappointed in today's events.

But, as noted above, 16 is definitely more than 1, and winning college football games is all that matters. How its done, by what means its done, and how the rules are stretched and compromised, do not matter. It is only the scoreboard that determines the real winner, and what is right and wrong morally.

You are correct, sir. 16 > 1.

[entropy]

I'm sure talent's mich grad wife had to help him with that equation... heh

[hack]

The mysterious esophageal aliment was clearly a ruse, wily subterfuge, it was time for Urbie to get the hell out of Gainesville, Dodge and quick!

No doubt about it. Faster than you in your Daisy Duke shorts rollerskating up and down the Lincoln Road Mall.

[WM Wolverine]

Ethics matter as does fair play, I was a bit of a fan of USC till sleazy Pete came to USC.

[Optimus Prime]

No doubt about it. Faster than you in your Daisy Duke shorts rollerskating up and down the Lincoln Road Mall.

Sounds like Hackistan & life partner Anderson Cooper had a little too much sangria while celebrating the Supreme Court ruling, DOMA dead, Prop 8 defeated, double rainbow indeed Hack, Plz celebrate responsibly.

[Optimus Prime]

Update:

Former New England tight end Aaron Hernandez was charged with murder in the death of Odin Lloyd.

Does this mean he will no longer play on Sundays? Can't coach/mentor Urban Meyer make some calls? It obviously worked in Gainesville.

[hack]

I recommend the sangria at Frita Batidos in A2. They use cardamom in it. Spectacular.

Of course that's a bit bold for OP, who liked to water down his fruity alcopop with his San Pellegrino. Post a picture of you soiling yourself next to a baby alligator again. Photoshop in some of that shit.

[Optimus Prime]

Wow you flamboyant reporter types, would not your time best be spent working on those memoirs? You know, recreating the Turkish Prison stint?

Perhaps titled:

" 2 fags, one night in Bangkok followed by 2 consecutive life sentences in Constantinople"?

[Tony G]

Here's The Moment Aaron Hernandez Realized He Was Being Arrested

Oh man, that look on his face. That I may never see this house again, and also I'd better put on a shirt look.

[hack]

Does this have anything to do with me? Seems like you're just running with some broad themes here which have nothing to actually do with me. It's hard for you. You have no picture of me soiling myself next to a baby gator, or hoarding effervescent European beverages. Would you like me to stage a photo of myself acting like you so we can have a fair fight? Otherwise this is going to get boring for me.

[Tony G]

The Stupid, Stupid Implications About Aaron Hernandez's "Ominous" Past



There's a troubling little narrative brewing in the matter of Aaron Hernandez. Even if the writers promoting it won't put it in so many words, it runs like this: Because Hernandez got into trouble in college, the Patriots should have seen this murder stuff coming.
No, really. See here. And here. And here and here and here. There are references to "the marijuana use, the short fuse, the shadowy friends" and a scouting report that described him as "moods unpredictable, not stable" and an expectation of scrutiny for "Hernandez's complicated past." Recall that Hernandez admitted to smoking marijuana in college, and combined with some nebulous "gang concerns," this is apparently a sign that the Patriots ought to have known what they were getting.
None of this has anything to do with Hernandez being the focus of a murder investigation; that should probably go without saying. And yet it can't, because the tattooed, "thug life" Hernandez is the subject of two separate Boston columns saying the Patriot Way has gone astray. For one, this is lazy?the worst kind of hindsight analysis. But the only counter you need to completely destroy the argument is the one made by Justin Peters in Slate today: the Patriots-should-have-known narrative implies that the entire team is just waiting to go on killing sprees.

Hernandez?s alleged pre-draft character issues have no bearing on this current murder investigation. You can?t legitimately look back at them and say, ?Yep, we should have known.? Every single NFL roster is stacked with players who?ve used drugs in the past, or have short tempers or ?shadowy friends.? And you know what? Every single neighborhood in America is filled with people with these exact same characteristics. That doesn?t make all of these people murderers-in-waiting.
It is dishonest and irrelevant to claim that these are ?ominous? signs. Or, at least, they?re no more ominous than the character flaws exhibited by other Patriots players: like Rob Gronkowski, who appears to really, really, really enjoy drinking to excess; Tom Brady, who started dating Gisele Bundchen while Bridget Moynahan was pregnant with his child; Vince Wilfork, who allegedly received $50,000 in under-the-table benefits from disgraced booster Nevin Shapiro while enrolled at the University of Miami; Mark Harrison, who allegedly trashed a hotel room while attending the NFL Scouting Combine (?The mess included urine and feces left throughout the bathroom, toothpaste on the mirror and garbage left throughout the room?); Brandon Spikes, who attempted to gouge an opponent?s eyes while playing at Florida, and whose brother is serving a life sentence for murder; and Sebastian Vollmer, [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Vollmer"]Sebastian Vollmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame].

It is worth noting one point that wasn't made in any of the columns all-but-accusing the Patriots of knowingly drafting a potential murderer: Hernandez received a perfect score on a pre-draft psychological test. Past is prologue only when you've got 800 words to file, I guess