My intramural basketball team name was The Branch Davidians
Please don’t tell me your season crashed and burned.
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@Thunderbird posted:How is the Golden Bachelor a thing? I mean who thought that would be a good idea for a show?
Viagra has to sponsor something?
Man, the Rams implosion since their Owl win has been remarkable, if not spectacular.
Including McVay.
Bengals looking like they may be salvaging their season.
@packerboi posted:So the Bengals are going to start Burrow despite that calf risking further injury including potentially tearing the Achilles. Ya, that sounds like a smart way to protect your franchise QB.
Because the Bengals had to win. Since the Super Bowl era began only 2.4% of the teams that started 0-3 have made the playoffs.
Bad news for the Vikings huh, this news makes me sad…NOT!
@Blair Kiel posted:I bet they were fucking good.
I see what you did there....
@MichiganPacker posted:I grew up in county that Ed Gein lived in (about 15 miles away). Heard some stories from a guy who coached a summer basketball team I played on. It turns out his job when he was in college was to sit up with prisoners in the Waushara County jail. He got to spend time with Ed Gein for suicide watch. He said he was just this calm guy who didn't seem to show any emotion about anything (including when he'd talk about cutting up body parts).
My college intramural basketball team was named I Felta Thigh. Our logo was a drawing of a women's leg sitting on a chair with a hand touching right above the knee. That would probably get cancelled nowadays as well.
My mom grew up in Plainfield not too far from where the Geins lived. She has shared some chilling stories about her interactions with him. I am lucky to have been born based on some things she told me.
@Boris posted:No team was happier the Niners upset the Packers in the playoffs than the LA Rams.
After losing to them 6 games in a row (and 3 more since then) I can assure you they did NOT want the Niners winning that game. Just like we didn't want the Bucs beating the Rams.
My brother is a Rams fan and he was cheering his ass off for the Packers in that game two years ago.
Reminds me of the 1990's when the Pack always had to play the Cowboys in the playoffs and couldn't beat them. Always felt if we could get the Niners we'd go to the Super Bowl. And that is what happened.
@PackerHawk posted:After losing to them 6 games in a row (and 3 more since then) I can assure you they did NOT want the Niners winning that game. Just like we didn't want the Bucs beating the Rams.
My brother is a Rams fan and he was cheering his ass off for the Packers in that game two years ago.
Had we hosted the Rams in Green Bay we would have killed them. JMHO
Probably. But they wanted no part of a team that had owned them for 3 years running. I know my brother didn't!
@Maynard posted:My mom grew up in Plainfield not too far from where the Geins lived. She has shared some chilling stories about her interactions with him. I am lucky to have been born based on some things she told me.
I grew up a few miles northwest of Wild Rose. My family was lucky enough not to know him, but the odds are they were in some of the same places at the same times over the course of several decades.
Right after Gein was arrested and the description of what he did went national, someone from out of town bought the Gein place and intended to open it as a tourist attraction. Soon after that a fire destroyed all the buildings on the property that the local fire departments "failed to respond to in a timely manner."
@RochNyFan posted:I see what you did there....
I don't. I'm still confused. Perhaps some pictures would help me. And a video or two.
@Maynard posted:My mom grew up in Plainfield not too far from where the Geins lived. She has shared some chilling stories about her interactions with him. I am lucky to have been born based on some things she told me.
You can’t just throw that out there and not finish with at least one chilling story. C’mon!
I wonder if the new guy had fire insurance?
Well, I haven't heard the creepiest story for a while, but when my mom and my uncle were kids (can't recall how old exactly, I'll have to ask her again this weekend), they were with my grandma at Worden's hardware store in Plainfield. My grandpa died pretty young, I never met him, so my grandma raised my mom and uncle. Anyway, they were at Worden's, and Gein was there. My uncle was looking at hunting knives when Gein came up to him and my grandma and said that those weren't good knives, and a boy should have a knife like this--and he whipped out his knife. Then when he saw my mom, he went up to her and started telling her what a pretty girl he was, and then began touching and stroking her hair. It wasn't too long after that when Bernice Worden, the owner of the store, went missing and then was eventually found dressed out like a deer in Gein's home.
@Maynard posted:Well, I haven't heard the creepiest story for a while, but when my mom and my uncle were kids (can't recall how old exactly, I'll have to ask her again this weekend), they were with my grandma at Worden's hardware store in Plainfield. My grandpa died pretty young, I never met him, so my grandma raised my mom and uncle. Anyway, they were at Worden's, and Gein was there. My uncle was looking at hunting knives when Gein came up to him and my grandma and said that those weren't good knives, and a boy should have a knife like this--and he whipped out his knife. Then when he saw my mom, he went up to her and started telling her what a pretty girl he was, and then began touching and stroking her hair. It wasn't too long after that when Bernice Worden, the owner of the store, went missing and then was eventually found dressed out like a deer in Gein's home.
The building is still there right in "downtown" Plainfield.
110 South Main Street.
Holy crap, Maynard. Now that's a story. Creepy, creeping creeps.
So I talked to my mom, and I was a little off in my recollection! My grandpa was actually still alive at that point, and they were actually at the store across the street from Worden's--my uncle and grandpa were getting their hunting licenses when Gein approached them. But she did confirm she was in 3rd grade and that the next week was when Bernice Worden went missing.
You most certainly did not disappoint with that story. Thanks!
@Maynard posted:Well, I haven't heard the creepiest story for a while, but when my mom and my uncle were kids (can't recall how old exactly, I'll have to ask her again this weekend), they were with my grandma at Worden's hardware store in Plainfield. My grandpa died pretty young, I never met him, so my grandma raised my mom and uncle. Anyway, they were at Worden's, and Gein was there. My uncle was looking at hunting knives when Gein came up to him and my grandma and said that those weren't good knives, and a boy should have a knife like this--and he whipped out his knife. Then when he saw my mom, he went up to her and started telling her what a pretty girl he was, and then began touching and stroking her hair. It wasn't too long after that when Bernice Worden, the owner of the store, went missing and then was eventually found dressed out like a deer in Gein's home.
Try THAT in a small town...