1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

So Matt confirmed with her they had sex and recommended she get tested for a STD.

 

 

What a dirty dawg

I did what?

A lot of people picked Araiza to the Eagles before the draft. Howie didn't draft him knowing the allegations, that he'd be cut when word got out, and Howie could just sign him as a free agent after he's released and not waste a draft pick on him.

4D chess

Find yourself a woman who will look at you like Jalen Hurts looks at Al Green.

 

@TorontoEagle we may have found your answer.

Not that theres anything wrong with that.

Just saw a commercial for the new Prime series based on the movie, A League of Their Own. Showed a black woman.  Are they really going for revisionist history? (Way too much of that.) The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League wasn’t integrated. There were no Blacks.   Now, interestingly, the **** League did integrate, with a few woman players.  

Next thing you know, I am going to believe that the two fighter pilots (Taylor and Welch) from a forgotten minor field at Pearl Harbor switched to bombers and flew with Jimmy Doolittle.  Hollywood and nonsense.  Somethings never change. 

23 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Find yourself a woman who will look at you like Jalen Hurts looks at Al Green.

 

@TorontoEagle we may have found your answer.

 

13 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Just saw a commercial for the new Prime series based on the movie, A League of Their Own. Showed a black woman.  Are they really going for revisionist history? (Way too much of that.) The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League wasn’t integrated. There were no Blacks.   Now, interestingly, the **** League did integrate, with a few woman players.  

Next thing you know, I am going to believe that the two fighter pilots (Taylor and Welch) from a forgotten minor field at Pearl Harbor switched to bombers and flew with Jimmy Doolittle.  Hollywood and nonsense.  Somethings never change. 

I thought the same thing.  There's a newer WW2 movie and they have black guys in the 101st Airborne.  It takes the inclusivity to a whole new level when you try to rewrite history just to show diversity. 

Not only that, apparently they made it VERY GAY.  The 1940s were nothing like today.  

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/-league-remake-hits-home-run-queer-viewers-rcna43287

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

I thought the same thing.  There's a newer WW2 movie and they have black guys in the 101st Airborne.  It takes the inclusivity to a whole new level when you try to rewrite history just to show diversity. 

Knew a guy whose dad was a famous ww2 general who spent his senior years bitterly complaining about how integrating the military was a disaster and how blacks were inferior and unfit to be soldiers. 

So you would be happier showing that? 

9 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

 

thank  you. 

22 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Just saw a commercial for the new Prime series based on the movie, A League of Their Own. Showed a black woman.  Are they really going for revisionist history? (Way too much of that.) The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League wasn’t integrated. There were no Blacks.   Now, interestingly, the **** League did integrate, with a few woman players.  

Next thing you know, I am going to believe that the two fighter pilots (Taylor and Welch) from a forgotten minor field at Pearl Harbor switched to bombers and flew with Jimmy Doolittle.  Hollywood and nonsense.  Somethings never change. 

My wife’s godmother was close friends with a woman whose son was the first black soldier killed on Omaha Beach. He was a member of the 320th Barrage Balloon Division. Just want to put to rest the story there were no blacks at Normandy on D-Day. 

7 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

Knew a guy whose dad was a famous ww2 general who spent his senior years bitterly complaining about how integrating the military was a disaster and how blacks were inferior and unfit to be soldiers. 

So you would be happier showing that? 

Um, that's not what I was saying at all. 

5 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

Knew a guy whose dad was a famous ww2 general who spent his senior years bitterly complaining about how integrating the military was a disaster and how blacks were inferior and unfit to be soldiers. 

So you would be happier showing that? 

Just show history as is.  There has been bad, unfair behavior since the beginning.  

Fix the future.  Don't edit the past.

2 minutes ago, justrelax said:

My wife’s godmother was close friends with a woman whose son was the first black soldier killed on Omaha Beach. He was a member of the 320th Barrage Balloon Division. Just want to put to rest the story there were no blacks at Normandy on D-Day. 

During my career, I've made hard decisions on whom to fire.

I can't imagine making military decisions knowing that soldiers will die as a result.

4 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Just show history as is.  There has been bad, unfair behavior since the beginning.  

Fix the future.  Don't edit the past.

So unless something is 100 percent historically accurate, it shouldn't be portrayed in a movie or tv show? Seems like a really difficult standard to meet. For example, women's pro baseball was essentially softball for most of its existence, do we pull our hair out about that? 

If we have a show about the military, and 99 percent of the time was spent training, should we demand it reflect that reality? 

14 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I thought the same thing.  There's a newer WW2 movie and they have black guys in the 101st Airborne.  It takes the inclusivity to a whole new level when you try to rewrite history just to show diversity. 

Not only that, apparently they made it VERY GAY.  The 1940s were nothing like today.  

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/-league-remake-hits-home-run-queer-viewers-rcna43287

So basically this is a tall tale about how some wish the actual League was as opposed to any historical accuracy. I think I will pass.   I grew up on westerns.  But my great grandfather lived the time.  He would laugh at everyone wearing a six gun. Back in that time when average folk were pulling $300-$500 a year, no one was spending $17 on a Colt or $.50 for a box of cartridges. He lived just across the river from Indian Territory and his father traded across the river.  I have his dad’s flintlock rifle.  

My dad, despite being practically blind in one eye, was a crack shot.  I asked him how he became so good.  He pointed out how much a shot cost in the thirties and that they couldn’t afford to waste a single one.

After talking with both, I never watched westerns quite the same way although I still watch them. Nowadays, I laugh at the women’s dress and hairstyles as part of it.  

We are warping our understanding of our roots. I think I will stick with the original movie, despite its flaws, and pass on the new series.  

3 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

So basically this is a tall tale about how some wish the actual League was as opposed to any historical accuracy. I think I will pass.   I grew up on westerns.  But my great grandfather lived the time.  He would laugh at everyone wearing a six gun. Back in that time when average folk were pulling $300-$500 a year, no one was spending $17 on a Colt or $.50 for a box of cartridges. He lived just across the river from Indian Territory and his father traded across the river.  I have his dad’s flintlock rifle.  

My dad, despite being practically blind in one eye, was a crack shot.  I asked him how he became so good.  He pointed out how much a shot cost in the thirties and that they couldn’t afford to waste a single one.

After talking with both, I never watched westerns quite the same way although I still watch them. Nowadays, I laugh at the women’s dress and hairstyles as part of it.  

We are warping our understanding of our roots. I think I will stick with the original movie, despite its flaws, and pass on the new series.  

It’s a movie, not a documentary 

17 minutes ago, justrelax said:

My wife’s godmother was close friends with a woman whose son was the first black soldier killed on Omaha Beach. He was a member of the 320th Barrage Balloon Division. Just want to put to rest the story there were no blacks at Normandy on D-Day. 

There were. But the segregation within the Army was very real as well.  Understanding that segregation and the thought process behind it is key to understanding our history. He was trusted with a balloon but not with an assault role.  I just believe that understanding the depth and truth of our history helps us understand how far we have come and the miles yet to  travel.  Take the woman of the **** leagues.  They got heckled with suggestions their place was in the kitchen cooking for their husbands. Just like in the All-American league there was pressure to wear skirts. Misogynistic regardless of race.  

Sorry for the diversion and editorializing.  Just a reaction to a commercial on Prime.

Just realized that our buffer prohibits me from saying N e g r o Leagues even though that is what they were called.  Someone please explain to the  United N e g r o College Fund, that solicits me regularly that the word is no longer allowed.   Geez Louise, that is Spanish for Black.  I realize the term is antiquated and out of favor but it is not disparaging.  

37 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

So unless something is 100 percent historically accurate, it shouldn't be portrayed in a movie or tv show? Seems like a really difficult standard to meet. For example, women's pro baseball was essentially softball for most of its existence, do we pull our hair out about that? 

If we have a show about the military, and 99 percent of the time was spent training, should we demand it reflect that reality? 

Never watched Band of Brothers did you?  

Tora, Tora, Tora or Pearl Harbor as movies of the same event, I would take the former every time. 

34 minutes ago, downundermike said:

It’s a movie, not a documentary 

Badda Bing, Badda Boom!

Just now, BigEFly said:

Never watched Band of Brothers did you?  

Tora, Tora, Tora or Pearl Harbor as movies of the same event, I would take the former every time. 

I did and enjoyed it, but i also knew it was a dramatization of actual events that bore little resemblance to reality. 

Let’s digress to toe injuries.  @HazletonEagle would be better to address but I presume that most likely Hargrave and Ward have turf toe.  Based on my reading Grade 1 is a one week injury, Grade 2 is a two week injury and Grade 3 is two to six months.  Hargrave is getting close to 2 weeks.  Do we need to worry?   Seems like we are around three weeks for Ward.  That sounds like a Grade 3.  So as to Ward, it almost looks like they are crossing fingers and hoping he heals so they can release rather than IR him (and as to the former, sign him to the Practice Squad).  

2 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Let’s digress to toe injuries.  @HazletonEagle would be better to address but I presume that most likely Hargrave and Ward have turf toe.  Based on my reading Grade 1 is a one week injury, Grade 2 is a two week injury and Grade 3 is two to six months.  Hargrave is getting close to 2 weeks.  Do we need to worry?   Seems like we are around three weeks for Ward.  That sounds like a Grade 3.  So as to Ward, it almost looks like they are crossing fingers and hoping he heals so they can release rather than IR him (and as to the former, sign him to the Practice Squad).  

Either of them could have had a toe stepped on and fractured. Then you're looking at about 4 weeks.

No idea.  Team is too vague on injuries these days.  Tough to guess at anything unless they say a little more. 

Miami claims another one. 

25 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Miami claims another one. 

At what point do we just make it illegal to go to Miami? 

3 hours ago, jsb235 said:

Knew a guy whose dad was a famous ww2 general who spent his senior years bitterly complaining about how integrating the military was a disaster and how blacks were inferior and unfit to be soldiers. 

So you would be happier showing that? 

Huh?