SmashMouth

Vidor gon win…

My best friend’s Dad coached French’s secondary when the went to state. They were fun to watch. Got to stand on the sidelines at the title game. Awesome time.

Glad your Dad got to do it his way. I hope I get to do the same too. As far as the homelessness. Like I’ve said before, off the cuff, I don’t have a definitive answer. I just know that hiding it is only going to make it worse. That’s just like some places (usually large liberal cities) handing out clean needles and safe places to shoot up at the taxpayer’s expense no less. To sound like an old fart again, that’s just kicking the can down the road. I get your point and @bullets13’s point. It’s better to restrict it to a centralized less populated area away from schools and neighborhoods, etc. Maybe I’m just being naive that there is at least hope for some of these people. For the life of me, I just can’t buy into covering the problem with a tarp and turning a blind eye.

1. Rehab 2. Mental health facility 3. To work One thing you mustn't do is push them aside like social pariahs. Like non-humans. If you're going to do that, Hell, just exterminate them so you don't have to look at them anymore. I know you don't mean to do that, but just turning a blind eye won't help anything long term.

Equivalent except the homeless are US citizens. Also, the illegal migrants for the most part are coming over to work.

I've been waiting for this...

Man I get it, and I agree to a point, but I still think the only thing you're doing is polishing a turd. The "out of sight out of mind" approach is actually worse for them. Offer true help which is not only food and shelter, but jobs & healing as well. Employment programs, drug rehab, mental health assistance, even spiritual healing is needed if you truly want to give meaningful assistance. That's not gonna happen by shoving them under the bed. Just my opinion.

Vidor having a bye week this past week will be advantageous I think. I’ll take the Pirates.

Lumberton’s current announcer. Couldn’t do the weather on TV either. Lol.

Yep. I agree with that.

Everybody stays healthy then Lumberton for the win. Should be a good game to work on fewer penalties and better blocking up front.

Examples?

As long as there’s not the threat of a fight, I’m sure he will.

I was really up in the air on this game. I think I’ll take HF in hindsight.

Would you only offer the assistance if drug screens and rehabilitation were adhered to?

Fair enough. Agree to disagree.

Great school? I don't know, but definitely not a great town. Not sure if you ever lived there, but my experience says otherwise...

I don’t have the definitive answer, but this is simply kicking the can down the road. Clean up drug addiction and address mental health issues and the homelessness all but goes away.

In all fairness, playing the game does give an advantage in some instances, but it's not the end all be all. Go all the way back to Howard Cosell, Bob Costas, all the female sportscasters. None of them necessarily played, but they sure get paid a lot of money to talk about it knowledgeably. I'm sure you're a great guy and an even better coach, but as far as being likable, you're not. And I'm trying to be nice. I'm glad that you're financially secure, and your family is very proud of you. But save it for them please. On that note: PNG is not what I would consider an Elite team, but they're not trash either as you insinuate. They beat a highly ranked, highly successful program in FBM. A proud moment if you're an Indian fan. I'm not necessarily and Indian fan, but I do support all SETX teams & SETX Sports. Do I think PNG is ready for a finals repeat? No. But they're definitely a decent team. And if you're using being "qualified" to be able to speak about high school football on a local forum, then you shouldn't even be able to post on here. This board is comprised of folks from every walk of life that enjoy discussion and some ribbing. You know, social discourse. If you don't know what that means, it's defined as a form of communication that has a social purpose or distinctive social aspect. Well sir, from the looks of things, you're not qualified to speak socially. It seems as your only reason for getting on here is to bash PNG and talk about how great you are. Well, hell, you can do that by yourself in front of a mirror, because that's the only person who really cares. Now, go on over to the Political Forum and get you a dose of all of us screw balls over there. You can complain, and gripe and name call and anything else you wanna do, and you'll fit right in.

Have you stolen any more money lately?

My daughter lives in Round Rock. At about 8:40 last night, tennis ball sized hail decimated their vehicles, home windows, roof, etc. Crazy.

Lighten up Francis...

That's true, but it's hard to improve on size and strength and agility on the O Line. Some of that stuff you're just born with.

Agreed. But they have a long way to go playing like-sized opponents. Still a major issue in my book.

You're being generous...