...because it's football.
...because the Holiday Inn Express-- The Villages has sucky 27" HD screens.
...because this game actually has home-field NFC implications.
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You're old enough to remember when a 27" screen was big.
Indeed. Grew-up with a black and white Zenith....remote control was my Dad saying, "Turn on Channel 6---I love that Carl Zimmerman"
Who the freak do we hope to win this game?
I think I should pull for Carolina, because we get a shot at them.
Is that mathematically correct?
Should be a great game.
As a child, I would be playing in my bedroom, and would hear my parents calling me, saying to come see them and hurry! They had an 'excitement' in their voices that made it sound like I was going to get a prize of some kind.
So, I would come on the run, arrive at the room giddy with anticipation, only to hear..."Turn the channel for us, will you?" 
I believe Brak is correct*.
*That is the first time that sentence was ever written.
Flip a coin.
Timmy! posted:As a child, I would be playing in my bedroom, and would hear my parents calling me, saying to come see them and hurry! They had an 'excitement' in their voices that made it sound like I was going to get a prize of some kind.
So, I would come on the run, arrive at the room giddy with anticipation, only to hear..."Turn the channel for us, will you?"
At least you didn't have to climb on the roof to turn the antenna.
justanotherpackerfan posted:Timmy! posted:As a child, I would be playing in my bedroom, and would hear my parents calling me, saying to come see them and hurry! They had an 'excitement' in their voices that made it sound like I was going to get a prize of some kind.
So, I would come on the run, arrive at the room giddy with anticipation, only to hear..."Turn the channel for us, will you?"At least you didn't have to climb on the roof to turn the antenna.
Sadly, japf's parents didn't even have an antenna....he never caught on to the ruse.
justanotherpackerfan posted:Timmy! posted:As a child, I would be playing in my bedroom, and would hear my parents calling me, saying to come see them and hurry! They had an 'excitement' in their voices that made it sound like I was going to get a prize of some kind.
So, I would come on the run, arrive at the room giddy with anticipation, only to hear..."Turn the channel for us, will you?"At least you didn't have to climb on the roof to turn the antenna.
I did that two weeks ago, promise. Long time since cutting the cord.
gbIdaho posted:Who the freak do we hope to win this game?
6 of one, half-dozen of the other.
My original thought was to pull for the Panthers, because Philly is undefeated in the conference. But thinking a bit further, do we want Philly to build an insurmountable lead in the NFCE?
Brak had a good point about playing the Panthers later this year, too. A win tonite wouldn't be a particular problem for us if we beat 'em that game.
Growing up in Sheboygan we'd get the 4 MKE channels, the 3 GB channels, and some days a station from Traverse City would make it cross the lake.
Dad won our first TV from a name that tune radio show. Box Zenith console, B/W.
Kind of like this if memory serves me.
Do you remember what the song was?
We had a rotor....could spin that antenna right from the lazy boy. If it wasn't frozen that is or a squirrel didn't chew the wire. Those were the days....depending on the weather, 4 Milwaukee channels or 2 or 3 Madison stations.
PHI likely drops a game to WAS and DAL, plus they play DEN, SEA, LAR, OAK. They'll drop a couple in there.
CAR has 2 w/ATL, 2 w/TAM, and GBP. Then some potential softies NOS, NYJ, MIN...
Pikes.....Be honest, Rosemary Gernette did it for you, didn't she?
Blair Kiel posted:justanotherpackerfan posted:Timmy! posted:As a child, I would be playing in my bedroom, and would hear my parents calling me, saying to come see them and hurry! They had an 'excitement' in their voices that made it sound like I was going to get a prize of some kind.
So, I would come on the run, arrive at the room giddy with anticipation, only to hear..."Turn the channel for us, will you?"At least you didn't have to climb on the roof to turn the antenna.
Sadly, japf's parents didn't even have an antenna....he never caught on to the ruse.
It wasn't all bad. My dad taught me how to swim. Every day he'd take me out to the middle of the lake and throw me in so I could swim back to shore. The swimming was the easy part, the hard part was getting out of the gunney sack with rocks in it.
So, my dad was a professional musician... really wasn't fair. Named it in 1 or 2 notes. I think it was something by Rosemary Clooney, but I'm not certain. That story has taken on a life of it's own in the family over the years.
Cool stuff Hungry......my baby sister (circa 1974) won $3,000 from WOKY radio by answering the phone, "I love fun loving WOKY.".....she was 6. It paid for a lot of her college.
Peppers still has it
Peppers is still a bad man.
Edit* LOL T2P!
Blair Kiel posted:Pikes.....Be honest, Rosemary Gernette did it for you, didn't she?
It was Albert the Alleycat
WOKY radio. Remember when that was the best for rock in SE WIS... until 93 QFM.
WLS ruled in my day
Carolina didn't last long.
That was a poor pass by Scam.
Ooh, I'm reminded of the Philco my grandparents had in their basement. I have no idea if it actually still worked.
My parents got one of these as a wedding gift:
5", in case you're wondering about the screen size.
Hungry5 posted:WOKY radio. Remember when that was the best for rock in SE WIS... until 93 QFM.
QFM was for the scary stoners in my world....
Pussy.
Reitman and Mueller
Ref Pete Morelli?
Or is it Abe Vigoda?
Damn Wentz looks good.
True Story...circa 1995 I'm at home listening to the Brewers on WEVR out of River Falls...the local announcer says he has Brewer tickets for the 15th caller. I called and the guy says you're "number 1". I called again and he said you're number 2". I called and he said "number 3....12 calls later and I had tickets to a pair of games a couple of weeks later.
I don't know if that speaks more to the popularity of the Brewers at the time or the listenership of WEVR
Timmy! posted:As a child, I would be playing in my bedroom, and would hear my parents calling me, saying to come see them and hurry! They had an 'excitement' in their voices that made it sound like I was going to get a prize of some kind.
So, I would come on the run, arrive at the room giddy with anticipation, only to hear..."Turn the channel for us, will you?"
and I swear the fattening and no patience of Merika is due to the remote control device.
Brak posted:Damn Wentz looks good.
He's the gawd of Dan Patrick, and a lot of other talking heads.
He has potential
justanotherpackerfan posted:True Story...circa 1995 I'm at home listening to the Brewers on WEVR out of River Falls...the local announcer says he has Brewer tickets for the 15th caller. I called and the guy says you're "number 1". I called again and he said you're number 2". I called and he said "number 3....12 calls later and I had tickets to a pair of games a couple of weeks later.
I don't know if that speaks more to the popularity of the Brewers at the time or the listenership of WEVR
Wanna buy a Jeff Cirillo bobblehead....cheap?
I did not know that.
Same HS as Mueller, couple years behind him. We had a radio station there, WSHS. Spent THU nights spinning deep LP cuts. Those were fun nights.
