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IndyFrisco wrote:The "1st rounders" joke had been played. I thought I added a new twist. Maybe not. Sorry fer bunchin' up yer panties.

P.S. Keep away from the AIDS and stuff.

i was actually just pointing out that i find jon quite reasonable.

i ended up steering clear of the hiv africa side. now i live in chicago where no one understands my clicks. i was thinking i'd like to be remain involved with hiv issues stateside, but i refuse to buy red. fuck ohio state, right?

the_ouskull wrote:I was like that with Dazed and Confused... and Swingers... and Above the Rim... and Weird Science... and...

..but with Swingers, it's kinda difficult, mainly because of the most painful scene in the history of movies; the answering machine scene. It's like watching a fuckin' Ben Stiller movie... it literally hurts. That, and their drive to Vegas always put me out.

the_ouskull

The answering-machine scene is brutal, like the daughter getting killed in Last House on the Left. The knife just keeps turning.

...and the thing about it is, it's completely legit. Like, I could see ME (well, me before I woke up... not NOW so much) doing the exact same thing. I've SEEN people I know do it. (I wonder what THAT message sounded like from the girl's end... my buddy all, "and then I, uh..." and then me coming in, seeing him, slapping the phone out of his hand, and then picking it up and hanging it up while I'm bitching at him..)

He starts off with the best of intentions, but he also wants to come off as cool, and then he gets cuts off 'cause he takes too long getting to cool... Then he calls back, and feels that he has to explain why, and realizes that he's not confident on the phone, and feels he has to explain THAT, and digging and deeper and digging and deeper...

Gah. It makes my testosterone hurt just thinking about it.

the_ouskull

BTW Vince on Sunday was a beast, he ended the day with 3 TD two passing and one running. His QB rating for that game was 127, not bad for a rookie playing against a team facing playoff elimination. I bet Buffalo fans are still wondering what the hell went wrong.

Young turns critics into believers
By BUCKY GLEASON
12/25/2006

Nobody had to convince LenDale White the guy was for real. He's been a believer since last January, when he stood helplessly on the sideline and watched Vince Young torch his Southern California team for 267 yards passing and 200 yards rushing in the Rose Bowl while leading Texas to the national championship.

It was among the greatest big-game performances in college football history. Young had three touchdowns that game, including an 8-yard scramble with 19 seconds remaining to cap the winning drive and a 41-38 victory over Southern California. The only thing that left White, now Young's Tennessee Titans teammate, more stunned was the ridiculous criticism of Young that followed.

Scouts moaned about his arm, complained that he relied too much on his legs to become a successful NFL quarterback. He bombed the Wonderlic test, which is designed to somehow measure players' intelligence. It looks like the real dummies were his hometown Houston Texans, who passed on him with the first pick overall.

"Going into the draft, everybody said he couldn't throw," White said Sunday. "They said Matt Leinart would be better. They said Jay Cutler would be better. Vince drops back and throws the ball as well as anybody. Anybody who doubted Vince Young needs to open their eyes and realize he's for real."

Yeah, he's for real.

You don't hear anybody whining about Young's awkward throwing motion or low test scores nowadays. The only score that matters to the Titans is the one at the end of the game. Young has won six straight games and eight of his past 10 starts. He hasn't just passed the true test of a QB. He's become valedictorian and president of the NFL Draft Class of 2006.

"The sky is the limit for Vince Young," White said. "He should definitely be the rookie of the year. There should be nobody competing with that. We find a way to win, and usually it's because of him and how gifted he is."

Young helped the Titans win their fifth straight game by seven points or less, this time a 30-29 victory over the Buffalo Bills. It would have been ludicrous after the Titans lost their first five games to suggest they would be in playoff contention going into the final week of the season, but Young has turned everybody into believers.

The rookie's latest step toward greatness was a performance that justified the price of admission even if it meant a disappointing exit for a Christmas Eve crowd at The Ralph.

All anybody needed to see Sunday was the play Young made on the Titans' last play of the first half, a sign of a quarterback coming of age.

The Titans faced fourth-and-2 with 14 seconds remaining on the Bills' 36-yard line, a distance Buffalo would ultimately confirm too long for a field-goal attempt into a fierce wind. Young rolled left, looked long, pumped and began a memorable journey through the Bills' defense.

Once he was in the secondary, you knew he was gone. He sliced through the middle behind three blockers, cut right, back left and breezed into the end zone. If it seemed like he had done that before, well, he had. Two weeks earlier, he abandoned the pocket in overtime and raced 39 yards for the winning score to beat the Texans, reopening a deep wound in Houston.

"He's like a man among boys whenever he uses his speed," receiver Brandon Jones said. "Every week, he does something amazing. I can't believe some of the things he does. It's great to have a quarterback you can revolve around because you know he's going to make something happen."

Young didn't just hurt the Bills with his legs. He completed 13 of 20 passes for 183 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. He threw a 32-yard strike to Jones into a stiff wind in the second quarter, which set up a field goal. He made a tight, third-down throw on the final drive while methodically directing the Titans to the winning kick.

The threat of him leaving the pocket opened up the running game for Travis Henry when Tennessee needed it most. All told, Young didn't look like a runner who happened to play quarterback. He looked like a quarterback with the ability to run. He did what was required to win.

"I'm a quarterback," he said. "Anybody who says that I'm not, I don't care. All that matters to me is that I'm moving the ball down the field. At the end of the four quarters, and you see 0:00, that's all that matters to me."

The critics had it completely backward. Young is not Michael Vick, as some feared. He's more like another great passer blessed with similar mobility, a guy once known for his legs who entered the Hall of Fame with his arm and his head.

Yes, he looked like Steve Young.

Heres a VY youtube clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8UZCrO8gqU&NR

booger eater

was out of college by the time swingers came out
Movies we watched when i was in College all the time were
Tombstone
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
Reservoir Dogs

I would have thought this was the Vince clip you wanted to see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhaiXNLcKng