I need to start watching Badger football with the volume off. It was 3rd and 14 and the color commentator was talking about how good the UW secondary is. I said to myself no, it's terrible this year, and Michigan will get this first down and a touchdown.
Michigan 7, Wisconsin 0.
Your archetypal Wisconsin Badgers team, year after year after year, is the same:
QB: Bad to Average
RB: Good to Great
FB: Good to Great
OL: Great
DL: Average to Good
LB: Great
CB: Bad to Average
S: Bad to Average
K: Average
P: Bad to Average
Same thing *every single damn year*.
(PS) Sorry, forgot one:
TE: Great
(PS2) And while I'm complaining, I'll add that I really hate the new song for the Big Ten "Maps" commercial.
*This* is the classic version, and it needs to come back ASAP:
(PS3) Oh, and how could I forget?
Special Teams: Bad to Average
Every year. Every single year.
(PS4) You can tell how distracted/angry I am watching the Badgers right now by how many positions I forgot to list in my initial post!
WR: Average to Good
KR: Bad to Average
PR: Bad to Average
(Maybe one exception to each of these "rules" over 15 years, e.g., Jared Abbrederis.)
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(🔓) BREAKING NEWS: Team Trump Isn't Waiting Until 2024 to Find Corrupt Republicans Willing to End Our Democracy—Which Is Why Its Insurrectionist Plot Has Moved On to Blood-Red Idaho
PS/ The scariest thing about this new reporting, to me, is that it'll only take *one* corrupt GOP official to complete this stage of Trump's insurrectionist plot. Just one—anywhere in America—who's willing to risk fraud charges in order to please Donald Trump and 78% of the GOP.
PS2/ In this respect, the Biden DOJ's refusal to charge—or even interrogate, subpoena, raid, or submit demand letters to—any of the insurrection plotters sends a terrifying message to local GOP officials: the DOJ doesn't have the will to prosecute politicians on sedition charges.
FACT: Prior to 1/6, Trump lawyer John Eastman told Trump that (1) Team Trump needed 5-10 days to get GOP-led state legislatures to decertify Biden's win; (2) by law, if the joint session began it couldn't be adjourned. So it had to either never begin or be impossible to continue.
(PS) If you understand that one fact, you understand 1/6.
(PS2) You also understand why some paramilitary groups left Trump's speech early—and some never went at all. The attack had to begin at a certain time to achieve either of its objectives: 1) stop the session beginning; or 2) make it impossible to continue prior to certification.
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(🔐) NEW: Curatorial journalism can be used to get at the truth of matters in many different fields—which is why PROOF has launched a new series entitled "The Definitive Top 100." Today the series comes to Proof Games, where it tackles an age-old question. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-definiti…
(🔐) Previously on PROOF in The Definitive Top 100 series: The Best Video Game Consoles (as determined by a curation of hundreds of data-points from 55 industry outlets and experts). sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-from-55-…
(PS) I expect that Big Data will come to other sections of PROOF as well, with The Definitive Top 100 series also appearing in other sections of the publication on occasion.
If Americans understood what a run-of-the-mill misdemeanor trespassing case looks like, they'd be *scandalized* by the notion that federal defendants who breached the Capitol during what they fully understood was a violent insurrection are getting misdemeanor trespassing charges.
(PS) By way of analogy, federal prosecutors are taking individuals who committed a felony home invasion in which they hung out in the kitchen in which a bound-and-gagged family was being threatened with a knife by their co-conspirator and charging them with attempted shoplifting.
(PS2) Please understand this: the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6 isn't being taken seriously by federal prosecutors. It's not being treated as a historic assault on America. And the plotters are getting away with it. And that's why something similar will happen again.
(Mostly looking for avid retro gamers to weigh in here.)
🔸 Cobra Triangle
🔸 Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
🔸 Eliminator Boat Duel
🔸 Excitebike
🔸 Formula One: Built to Win
🔸 Micro Machines
🔸 R.C. Pro Am
🔸 Rad Racer
🔸 Super Off Road
More:
🔸 Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing
🔸 Bigfoot: Collision Course
🔸 Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge
🔸 Days of Thunder
🔸 Galaxy 5000
🔸 Mach Rider
🔸 Michael Andretti's World GP
🔸 Nigel Mansell's World Championship
🔸 R.C. Pro Am II
🔸 Rad Racer II
🔸 Seicross
🔸 Super Sprint
(PS) I just want to point out that the "right" answers here (😁) are R.C. Pro-Am and Formula One: Built to Win. It's a damn shame not one person has mentioned the latter game—which is unbelievably good! It blows Rad Racer away. (I have a special place in my heart for Excitebike.)