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<blockquote data-quote="redblood" data-source="post: 3980615" data-attributes="member: 2947"><p>Indeed it is baddnole. I went to classifieds and and found the paypal link to taylor65 and will send it as soon as ruger or someone else confirms that is where it needs to be sent to. Just want to make sure it ends up in the right hands. I will gladly send proof of payment. I wouldn't consider not paying a debt. I did indeed lose the bet, in fact I lost 2. The other for 50.00. I also lost 100.00 when I predicted that Cutler would be taking before Vince Young. Forfeiting coin on football wager is something I excel in as of late.</p><p>But in reality, I don't think it was possible to truly lose, when you make a stand for what is right. I put my hope and faith that the bucs would choose a righteous man over a man who proved time and again, he was anything but. I clung to the assumption that the faster, more athletic, more fit, and more cognitive player would be rewarded. The winner of the only head to head meeting. The more intelligent (wonderlic) the more physically gifted (40, shuttles, vertical, BF) player with better stats would have to be the 1st pick. Well, I was in fact wrong in my theory and will dutifully honor my wager.</p><p>However, from the beginning one fact resonated with me time and time again. This was a bet that I couldn't lose. For I fought hard against one of the plaques sweeping across college football today. The rape of Erica Kinsman, the stolen crab legs, the obscene gestures, baseball field brawls and BB gun destruction were just a symptom of a bigger problem- a problem incubated by die hard college fans across the country. Fans like ol baddnole himself. Rapeis isn't the problem. Batey and Vandenburg aren't the problem. Von Pearson is not the problem. Like Winston, they are just symptoms. The problem is the fans. Fans so loyal to their "team" or "alma mater" they set aside their own principles and turn a blind eye to the destruction these thugs are creating on campus. Rather, than be a voice of outrage at their beloved institutions, they defend the players at all cost in fear that losing a 5 star player would jeopardize their holiest of sacraments- college football season. Instead of writing letters that would put pressure on the universities/alumni to clean house, they try to paint the victims as "cleat chasers" or "gold diggers" and paint grey areas for these attacks to be filed as alcohol induced misunderstandings. Citing things like the "bruises and lacerations indicate rough sex, not rape". Or "if she didn't want to have sex, she shouldn't have got in the car with him". Is the reality that the fans don't know what happened or they simply do not care, as long as FSU beats Florida or TN beats Alabama or Texas beats Oklahoma. It scares me to believe that we as football fans, even old codgers like baddnole, can dismiss these events without the 1st thread of contempt.</p><p>In hindsight, Perhaps my biggest blunder was to not look at the team that held the 1st pick. A Florida team with a coach like Lovie Smith. And now it is time to pay the tax of my mistake.</p><p></p><p>But tonight was a huge victory. Tampa Bay got their guy and they will reap what he sews, and we have all seen his farming skills. Whether it be his lack of physicality, conditioning or his off the field activities he can not outrun who he has always been. (well lets face it, he cant outrun anything). </p><p> But let the celebration in the Volunteer state begin. TN got the face of a franchise. A dynamic athlete with character who will lead by example every day of his life. Not a guy who preaches discipline in the huddle and show recklessness on the street and laziness in the weight and film room. A guy who will honor the game of football and his proud family name. And with his explosive physical skills, bring some excitement to LP. Miracles do happen in the Music City, and one happened tonight. We plucked the Duck!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redblood, post: 3980615, member: 2947"] Indeed it is baddnole. I went to classifieds and and found the paypal link to taylor65 and will send it as soon as ruger or someone else confirms that is where it needs to be sent to. Just want to make sure it ends up in the right hands. I will gladly send proof of payment. I wouldn't consider not paying a debt. I did indeed lose the bet, in fact I lost 2. The other for 50.00. I also lost 100.00 when I predicted that Cutler would be taking before Vince Young. Forfeiting coin on football wager is something I excel in as of late. But in reality, I don't think it was possible to truly lose, when you make a stand for what is right. I put my hope and faith that the bucs would choose a righteous man over a man who proved time and again, he was anything but. I clung to the assumption that the faster, more athletic, more fit, and more cognitive player would be rewarded. The winner of the only head to head meeting. The more intelligent (wonderlic) the more physically gifted (40, shuttles, vertical, BF) player with better stats would have to be the 1st pick. Well, I was in fact wrong in my theory and will dutifully honor my wager. However, from the beginning one fact resonated with me time and time again. This was a bet that I couldn't lose. For I fought hard against one of the plaques sweeping across college football today. The rape of Erica Kinsman, the stolen crab legs, the obscene gestures, baseball field brawls and BB gun destruction were just a symptom of a bigger problem- a problem incubated by die hard college fans across the country. Fans like ol baddnole himself. Rapeis isn't the problem. Batey and Vandenburg aren't the problem. Von Pearson is not the problem. Like Winston, they are just symptoms. The problem is the fans. Fans so loyal to their "team" or "alma mater" they set aside their own principles and turn a blind eye to the destruction these thugs are creating on campus. Rather, than be a voice of outrage at their beloved institutions, they defend the players at all cost in fear that losing a 5 star player would jeopardize their holiest of sacraments- college football season. Instead of writing letters that would put pressure on the universities/alumni to clean house, they try to paint the victims as "cleat chasers" or "gold diggers" and paint grey areas for these attacks to be filed as alcohol induced misunderstandings. Citing things like the "bruises and lacerations indicate rough sex, not rape". Or "if she didn't want to have sex, she shouldn't have got in the car with him". Is the reality that the fans don't know what happened or they simply do not care, as long as FSU beats Florida or TN beats Alabama or Texas beats Oklahoma. It scares me to believe that we as football fans, even old codgers like baddnole, can dismiss these events without the 1st thread of contempt. In hindsight, Perhaps my biggest blunder was to not look at the team that held the 1st pick. A Florida team with a coach like Lovie Smith. And now it is time to pay the tax of my mistake. But tonight was a huge victory. Tampa Bay got their guy and they will reap what he sews, and we have all seen his farming skills. Whether it be his lack of physicality, conditioning or his off the field activities he can not outrun who he has always been. (well lets face it, he cant outrun anything). But let the celebration in the Volunteer state begin. TN got the face of a franchise. A dynamic athlete with character who will lead by example every day of his life. Not a guy who preaches discipline in the huddle and show recklessness on the street and laziness in the weight and film room. A guy who will honor the game of football and his proud family name. And with his explosive physical skills, bring some excitement to LP. Miracles do happen in the Music City, and one happened tonight. We plucked the Duck!!! [/QUOTE]
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