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wvParticipantwvParticipantJust somethin I didnt know.
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“A Puka Dog is a famous Hawaiian-style hot dog served in a unique bun that is hollowed out and toasted on a heated metal rod.The word puka means “hole” in Hawaiian. Instead of slicing the bun from the top, a special metal poker drills a hole through the end of the soft bun, toasting the inside and preventing sauces from leaking or making the bread soggy..”
wvParticipantGloria Steinum defending the CIA. Calling them ‘enlightened’.
wvParticipantyup. nacua is a helluva receiver. my only two questions are can he stay healthy and can he stay out of trouble.
He’s being called ‘Hannibal Lechter’ out there on the internets. Dunno if that label will show up at away games or not. Sigh.
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vwvParticipantDisappointing that we have to wait….but…good. Good decision.
Bring him along slowly, carefully.
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vwvParticipantType of acceptance speech you wont see at, say, the Grammys.
wvParticipantVideo:”…There’s a dude currently teaching Myles Garrett how to hit even harder and I think he should be arrested for doing so”
Jeezus Christ
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vwvParticipantIs this a “how your body clock relates to daylight” thing v. “the actual hours as determined by a timer” thing?
I think what he’s saying is that McVay’s Rams represent the Enlightenment, Science, and Democracy, while Shanahan’s 49ers represent Superstition, Witches, and the Dark Ages.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantHere is a way to look at this (courtesy my wife):
Everybody is framing this as a time difference of 17 hours (between PST and Aussie time). But as we all know, the world is round, and calendars and time zones are arbitrary. So while Australia is 17 hours ahead of us (California) on the worldwide, agreed-upon calendar, they could be seen as being 7 hours BEHIND us. Instead of seeing Melbourne as having its sunrise 17 hours before California, as far as the human body is concerned, it’s sunrise is 7 hours AFTER ours. So if you set the calendar date aside – and we are because we will be watching the game on Thursday even though it will literally be played on Friday – the time difference is actually LESS than the time difference between Los Angeles and London.
It strikes me that what the Rams could have done – similar to the way they stayed in the EST zone prior to their London trips – is flown to Hawaii a few days ago. The time difference is 3 hours between CA and HI, and having just returned from HI myself, I can attest that the adjustment was pretty minimal. That would have placed the Rams a mere 4 hours difference from Melbourne (or 20 hours if you wanna stick to the calendar – which, I think, emphasizes the absurdity of saying it’s 17 hours different from CA, as Hawaii would be FARTHER away from Melbourne than Los Angeles according to the current way of thinking about this).
When you consider this, it would be far WORSE for east coast teams to play in Australia even though they are “only 14 hours different” because it would 14 hours one way, and 10 hours the other. IOW, we will probably never see the Eagles or Jets play in Melbourne.
Ok, well tell your wife, she didnt dum it down nearly enough for me. I got lost in all that time-stuff.
What i want to know is: what did you see/do in Hawaii?
I always wanted to see the Pipeline. Sposed-to-be a beautiful wave.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantPurdy, McCaffrey, Deebo, Mike Evans, and maybe Kittle. And the big bad monster Left Tackle.
That could be a good offense early in the season, before the substation starts picking off niners, one by one.
How will that crafty shanahan attack the Rams defense?
I think Mike Evans is gonna make some big plays. And i think the Rams are gonna be jet-laggy and the 49ers wont be. I think the Rams offense is gonna be klutzy, and there will be drops, penalties, and turnovers.
But god dammit, on paper, this is a super-team. And on paper,
my shaky, homer-prediction is, somehow they gut out an ugly win :Rams 24
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vwvParticipantRodrigue, Rosenthal preview Seahawks/Pats and Rams/49ers
Sep 6, 2026 NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
Gregg Rosenthal and Jourdan Rodrigue get you ready for the kickoff to the 2026 NFL season with their previews of the Super Bowl rematch between the Patriots Seahawks and the 49ers Rams facing off in Melbourne, Australia.00:00 START
01:30 Patriots @ Seahawks
02:00 Seattle run game
07:20 Patriots defense against Darnold
10:30 Patriots offense
15:30 Rams vs. 49ers
17:00 49ers x-factor
19:00 McVay Shanahan rivalry
23:10 Trent McDuffiewvParticipantSo….are we Patriot fans this week?
Is that what its come to.
Wed, Sept 9. Pats v Seattle
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vwvParticipantSeems like a lot of Cope.
Sounds like I just heard the guy argue that the Rams are possibly soft because their method is to acquire vast quantities of talent whereas the Seahawks are tougher because they kinda suck in comparison.
Narratives. Stories. Stories we create. I read these stories people tell, whether its sports or politics or whatever, and…a lot of times you can tell exactly why the person would create such a narrative but its often got little to do with ‘reality’.
The Seahawks love their ‘story’ about who they ‘are’ and who the Rams ‘are’. Blah blah.
This also relates to the Oliver Sacks thing i posted on the other board. He shaped facts to match up with his preconceived meta-story.
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vSeptember 6, 2026 at 9:33 am in reply to: Just a thread for different kindsa interesting things #165872wvParticipantI didnt realize there had been a controversy about Oliver Sacks. I guess he lied about some facts in the classic “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat.”
In this piece John Horgan writes it just doesnt bother him. There was so much to like about Sacks and his books that its just not a big deal. I agree…and disagree…and, I dunno.
https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/oliver-sacks-fudged-facts-does-that-bother-me
“….Sacks’ work inspired my 2018 book Mind-Body Problems, which argues that each of us struggles with our own mind-body problems, for which there can be no single, universal solution. I defend this thesis by telling the stories of nine mind-body explorers tormented by schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, a brain tumor, sexual confusion, loss of religious faith, alcoholism and grief at the death of a child.
Yeah, I’m skeptical of case histories, but I resort to them, too.
Now back to the question: Have Rachel Aviv’s revelations lessened my admiration of Sacks? Not at all. Sacks remains one of my favorite mind-body explorers, along with William James, Henry James, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. And Douglas Hofstadter. Oh hell, I’ll include the old fabricator Freud, too.
If anything, Aviv’s investigation of Sacks deepens my appreciation of this wonderfully strange and gifted tale-teller. I feel even luckier to have crossed his path.”
wvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantSeahawks media on the rams: “They’re front-runners”
wvParticipantthe tackle
wvParticipantScott Kacsmar@ScottKacsmar
#NFL had a record 7 new division winners in 2025.
None of those 7 teams are favored to win the division in 2026.Everyone but Philly. We’ve never seen anything like this.
If you had to pick a team to win the NFC, but you couldnt pick Seahawks or Rams,
who would you go with?I think the Eagles scare me the most.
Lions? Bears? 49ers? Packers? Cowboys? Giants? Vikings? Panthers? Saints?
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vwvParticipantForeign humans. “i feel bad for san francisco”
wvParticipantDo you think Kam Curl will be even more effective behind a defensive line that now includes Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald?
I’m wondering if the team mascot will be more effective
now that the have Myles and Aaron.w
vwvParticipantStuard sounds like a prick. I like that!
…Indeed. This does not sound like a typical McVay player.
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“If I say something to him or he bites at me, we’re familiar with each other,” Stuard said of Ventrone. “There’s no distaste.”It has empowered Stuard to take charge of the goal he had when signing with the Rams, which was to become the leader of a special teams unit.
“Me as a player can be an acquired taste,” Stuard said. “… If you hate it, oh well, I’ll go somewhere else.”
The Rams have welcomed it
=========wvParticipantI realllllly hate it when they lose to Shanahan. Thats why this game is so important. Because I realllly hate it when they lose to Shanahan.
He is so annoying. Because he has won so many games against McVay when the 49ers had NO F’ing business winning. Like the first game last year. But there have been others.
I got this off the internet so who knows what part of it is true:
Kyle Shanahan (49ers) —- Sean McVay (Rams)
Regular Season Record 76-65 (.539) ———- : 86-54 (615)
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Playoff Record 8-4 (.667) ——— : 8-5 (.615)
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Total Record 84-69 (.549) ——— 94-59 (.614)
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NFC West Championships 3 ——— 4
NFC Titles 2 ——– 2
Super Bowl Wins 0 ———- 1Total Head-to-Head 11-7 ——— 7-11
Playoff H2H Record 0-1 ——– 1-0wvParticipant‘pigeon killer!’
wvParticipantwvParticipantThe Rams Are Super Bowl Favorites. Here’s What Could Stop Them
NFL on ESPNSep 4, 2026 This Is Football
The Rams have gone from a roster reset to one of the NFL’s biggest Super Bowl contenders. Jordan Rodrigue joins Kevin Clark to explain how Los Angeles rebuilt its roster, why Myles Garrett fits the plan, how the Rams are preparing for the Seahawks, and why the Eagles may still be their ultimate boogeyman.
TIMECODES:
00:00 – Jourdan Rodrigue joins This Is Football!
02:58 – How the Rams built their roster
06:36 – How the Myles Garrett Trade went down
09:34 – Did the Rams have the Seahawks in mind with their offseason moves?
17:08 – What are the risk factors for the Rams?
27:14 – How will the Rams use Aaron Donald?***
wvParticipantwvParticipantI’m on McVay’s side.
The plane trip is brutal, and there’s no getting around that. But that’s why he’s getting there 24 hours early. Everyone gets a bit to recover, but stick to the PST rhythms. Play the game, and get out.
I think it would be harder to acclimatize to a wildly different time zone and body rhythm twice in 3 weeks than to stick to the schedule, and ignore the sun. It’s minimizing the adjustment. All you have to do is rest up mentally from a 16-hour flight, not totally readjust to a completely different sleep and eating cycle as well, and then do all that again.
Well, I’m on Shanahan’s side like any clear-thinking Ram fan would be.
I despise this whole Australia thing. Its ridiculous. Like, can you imagine any fan of any team clamoring for ‘more games in Australia’.
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