Fandame posted:As an English teacher, I have to be impressed when someone incorporates good literature in a football post.
If good literature was the signature aspect representing most X4 posters, "Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town" would be our theme movie.
Wait, that was a book first, right?
Actually, after a quick look-up-and-read, the characters first appeared in a book titled The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald in 1945. Weird world. I happen to have a copy of the book on my bookshelf, but I haven't read it yet...
Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray played the leads in The Egg and I, but Ma and Pa Kettle proved to be so popular from the movie that Universal quickly put a series of movies about them into production.
Marjorie Main was even nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar for playing Ma Kettle in The Egg and I.
Gotta love stalkers. 
Fandame posted:Actually, after a quick look-up-and-read, the characters first appeared in a book titled The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald in 1945. Weird world. I happen to have a copy of the book on my bookshelf, but I haven't read it yet...
Nice to have something to look forward to
I have that and about another hundred books to look forward to...
It's more disappointment with Lacy. After his first two years and how MM kept his carries down, I thought he was going to be a pro bowl RB for us until 2020. But man, the guy just could not stop eating. That's pretty rare for a RB too. And if it's true he's at 267 lbs, I cannot believe anyone signed him. That's 20 lbs over a maximum weight, and probably 35 lbs over his ideal weight. That's just not acceptable for a professional athlete.
Ummmmm. This is the book club forum, bub.
Eddie Lacy's entry into the shortest book contest would be "How Eat Your Way Down To 230 Pounds" or "Everything You Need To Know About Losing Weight - But Didn't Want To Know".
Pete Carroll said Eddie isn't a 235lb back and he doesn't want him to be. He wants him to play bigger.
This is going to end poorly for everyone except for the owner of Super China Buffet in Seattle.
I wonder what Eddie would run a 40 in right now. Would he break 5.0?
At 33 pounds over what he was on his pro day, when he ran a 4.55, I highly doubt he could break 5.0
I will never forget those runs against teams like the Cardinals where he was so fat he couldn't get a TD.... Beginning of the end. Seemed to remember another against Cowboys or Lions....
Carroll is a ****ing idot but what else is new
Chubs is probably going to be the first three hundy starting tailback in the NFL. Ron Daybe looks anorexic next to homeboy
YATittle posted:I will never forget those runs against teams like the Cardinals where he was so fat he couldn't get a TD.... Beginning of the end. Seemed to remember another against Cowboys or Lions....
https://twitter.com/NFL/status...?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Presented as the slowest 61 yard run ever. The last 10 yards he starts looking behind him for someone to catch him before he can fall down from exhaustion.
It does stink. Eddie is a good kid. ****ty childhood the likes the majority of us can't comprehend. Never was able to actually just be a kid growing up in a normal home. Lived in FEMA trailer. Bought his parents a home through some hard assed effort.
I do hope the rest of his life is better than how it's started. He's never hurt anyone. Never broken any laws. I don't think the NFL is going to work out but it's not completely on him.
What are you, some kind of lefty? 
Dammit, if you're homeless, rub some dirt on it...or something like that.
I like the guy. I do. I think he went with Seattle when Pete told him to eat up. I think it's going to end quickly. I hope he's smart with his money. Would be a huge damned shame if all that hardship and hard work went to waste.
ChilliJon posted:
The British form of the word, right?
So you're saying they're fannies?
Hightower stays with the Pats.
ProFootballTalk account @ProFootballTalk 33m33 minutes ago
Dont'a Hightower gets $43.5 million, $19 million guaranteed over a 4 year deal.
Judge in the Darrelle Revis hearing today. "Get this weak assed **** out of my court. All charges dismissed"
I may have embellished parts of the judges ruling. But you get the point.
I don't think Hightower had any intention of leaving New England. A few visits might have produced a little more scratch from the Pats. He loves playing for Bill B.
So it's probably going sting when Bill trades him for a 2nd round pick in three years because that's what Bill does.
2 years.
Queens signed Latavius Murray. Damn. If he can stay healthy, that's a really good pickup. One of their better moves in recent memory.
I really wanted to make fun of this. Latavius effing Murray. When you get a chance to sign a guy that averages 4.0 yards per carry and ran for 700 yards last year behind one of the top two OLs in football you have to pull the trigger and sign him. You can't find production like that just anywhere.
Then I saw "one of their better moves in recent memory" and it struck me that it might actually be one of their better moves in recent memory.
The Vikings are desperate to win the offseason because that's about all they've got. Been that way for 20 years or so now. Get the fan base all lathered up by signing a bunch of free agents that usually don't make anywhere near the impact they were expecting.
Through all of this I'm curious to see how they respond given some of THEIR losses (such as Munnerlyn, Greenway, and probably AD).
Might as well cancel the season. Latavius Murray GOAT was signed by the vikings.
They are lesser fans for acknowledging a rival made a sound move.
To the shame closet with Lobo, CJ and TSHCMKm!
I believe signing Murray as opposed to aging AP was a sound move. I think taking a chance on Dante Jones in a 4-3 defense was a no risk move that could prove beneficial. I don't think it's NFC North altering and I believe the Packers, who usually treat high profile FA's like something needed to be scraped from the bottom of their shoes, got the FA most likely to make an impact.
I can see why some Packer fans, reading the click bait from various writers that make it seem as though John Brockington (after his rookie season), a young Willie Davis, a young Herb Adderley and a young Forrest Gregg, had been lost in FA, are a bit defensive. They get paid by the number of folks who open those links.
Now if you're going to jettison Charles Woodson in favor of M.D. Jennings and Jerron Mcmillian then.........
Murray was a solid signing by a team that realizes it might not have enough draft picks to spend one on one of the deeper positions in this draft. Remmers and Reiff are Marshall Newhouse-types but the Queens were desperate and there's a distinct lack of quality O-tackles in the draft. Their defensive line should be good and have quality depth, but that's about it.
Dontari Poe signs with the Falcons. Might have been a nice big body NT to rotate with Clark.
One year/$8 million (w/ another $2m in incentives) isn't too shabby.
I know Poe is the best 0-tech, 2-gap run stopper on the market but that seems a little high to me. He kind of reminds me of a young Ryan Pickett.
Latavius Murray (Vikings) $15M, $8.55M gtd, $1.8M s. bonus, $900K salary (gtd), $5.15M (full gtd 3rd day '18, $4.4M, $46,875 per game active
— Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) March 16, 2017
That's all fine and good, but with that OL...LOL
Murray's contract with the Vikes is for 3 years. He's a decent player but I'm not sure if I would have paid that much for him. I still think there's enough good backs coming out of college that if you pick the right one for your system they can be very productive for a pretty cheap price on their rookie contract. RB still seems to be one of the positions that players can come into the NFL and immediately have an impact.
