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Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Zac — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:59:55 -0000

Funny, as usual, TC!!! Actually, I don't watch the Sopranos. . .too close to home, if'n ya know what I mean. I subscribe to the "Ellen DeGeneres" Theory of animal wall hangings. She was once a guest in some guy's house, who was admiring his own hunting skills, referring to all the animals he shot and mounted on his wall. When she asked him why he hung the heads and carcasses of all these animals he'd killed, part of his reply included "Well, they are beautiful creatures, aren't they?"

She replied, "My mom's beautiful too, but I never though of shooting her and hanging her on a wall." Then, she asked the audience to imagine that for a moment.

"Yep, that's my mom; I shot her. Doesn't she have a beautiful head? Her legs are beautiful too. You wanna see em? They're on the other side of the wall."

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

1Tomcat — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:05:50 -0000

Come on Zac, your post reminds me of a Sopranos episode. Tony sees talking fish.
I started to put huge deer that you didnt kill, but I didnt want to offend any animal lovers.
Would you believe there is actually a big market for those things. I guess some rich folks
like to have big deer mounts on their office walls to impress somebody or something.
Beats the heck outa me,I did know one individual that had a replica of the world record
Bluegill mounted on the wall behind the bar of his daddy's- beerjoint /baitshop/outboard motor repair establishment. It made a heck of a conversation peice for a long time and he enjoyed fabricating stories of battleing the monster sunfish. When you walked into the place your first reponse would be that's a big-a-- fish. Claimed he was crappie fishing with live minnows below the damm etc etc. Heck I even bought his story till I found out otherwise, its a small world and I happened to use the same taxidermist. Thats no fish story, ordered the thing out of a catalog and hired the taxidermist to paint it for him etc. etc.
Hows that for thread hijack

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Zac — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:01:37 -0000

Too true, unless that's a singing fish you got there. Billy Bass anyone???

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

1Tomcat — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:47:20 -0000

Whats the main topic anyway? I was enjoying this Amersterdam thread
Somebody is selling a ring, they probably need some cash, cant eat a ring
Kinda reminds me of a Willie Nelson interveiw, He sold alot of great songs he had written to other
artist like Nite Life,Crazy and Hello Walls. These songs became huge hits for other artist, He was
asked if he had any regrets for selling these songs and his reply was " well at the time I needed the
150 bucks.
Hookem-Horns
God Bless Our Troops
P.S. What good is a Championship ring if you didnt earn it ?
Be kinda like having a huge fish on your wall that you didnt catch

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:02:10 -0000

Well, at least you did it in style, Zac, and hijacked THREE threads...

:-)

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Zac — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:57:49 -0000

My apologies up front for a drive by thread hijack.

John Pont, former HC at IN, NW, Miami (OH) and assistant under Era Parsegian (highlighting a few of his stints), passed away at the age of 80 two days ago after battling cancer. He and Parsegian were teammates at Miami (OH), where Pont rushed for over 2700 yards and had his jersey retired, the 1st jersey to ever be retired at Miami. He was considered to be top shelf as a coach, leader, and all around human being. He will be missed.

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

GeauxTigers0107 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:53:11 -0000

Maybe on the third or fourth visit....lol. It's definitely a beautiful city though. With one or two bicycles running around.

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Ramblin' Gator — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:26:40 -0000

I lived in Holland (Den Helder) for the better part of a year in the 90s and frequently visited Amsterdam. If I may offer a suggestion, it would be two words...

Banana Bar

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:52:20 -0000

Having been to Amsterdam and the rest of Nederland quite a few times, I must agree with the aforementioned article that there are plenty of things to do other than hit the red light trifecta of pot bars, window girls, and sex shows.

The scariest thing I ever did in Amsterdam was drive a car in the city center. But I did it one better the next year by riding a bike downtown--now THAT was scary...

The Dutch are good people. You can't find one of them that doesn't speak 3 languages--even the immigrants.

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

GeauxTigers0107 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:19:44 -0000

The quickest way to get into a scrap in Europe is by starting the "football" debate. Of course, their football is soccer to us. But don't call it soccer over there...lol. Talk about touchy. Once I had made a few friends, it was easy to get 'em riled up though. I'd tell 'em their national sport isn't football, "it's kick ball...nothing more. Hell, a good kick baller would get killed in American football". But before the job ended, we swapped jerseys of our favorite teams. I am now proud to say that there's quite a few LSU caps and shirts being sported in Holland and England. Of course, they all had the 2003 National Championship mentioned somewhere. {wink}

Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

GeauxTigers0107 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:05:30 -0000

I guess that's one way to put it Kev..."shopping for treasures"...lol. Window shopping, to be specific though. At around dusk-thirty when the curtains start opening and the neon lights lite up the alley's, it's just a matter of you picking your flavor of the night. You want a 6ft tall blonde? Dime a dozen. It's Holland, where all they grow are tall/blonde/blue eyed treasures.

And if you have "other" needs, go to Amnesia and have a milk shake with your space cake. Quite the combination. After about an hour there, you won't care if the sun comes up tomorrow.

Somehow, it just doesn't seem right to add my sig in but..........
Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Kevin @ Fanblogs — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:20:07 -0000

I'm sure you were doing a steady dose of #6. http://snurl.com/2t0wp

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

-TE- — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:09:31 -0000

GT, elaborate all you like...I'm sure Kevin will indulge you-and all of us-to hear these yarns...

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Zac — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:40:59 -0000

Shoot, can you even get college football in Amsterdam?

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Kevin @ Fanblogs — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:53:04 -0000

Bitter... party of one.

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

GeauxTigers0107 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:26:50 -0000

I agree man. We always flew into Amsterdam for a 6hr layover (which was always the highlite of coming and going) then hit customs in either Memphis, Atlanta or Houston. If you've never been, go visit Amsterdam and stop in the Red Lite District.....wow! That's about as far as I can safely elaborate on it.

Sorry for the thread hijack Kev. At least we started on the right track...lol.

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:42:17 -0000

Nope. Interesting perspective--I asked. It's always good to get that cheerful little "Welcome Home" from the US customs agents at Hartsfield when I fly back in. My response? Glad to be home!

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

hokie_pokie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:30:10 -0000

The Peter Warrick Special...that will go for a pretty penny. This ring will serve as a reminder of how crooked FSU was that season. Yeah ok, I'm a little sore on how that game went down...but who wouldn't be.

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

GeauxTigers0107 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:56:57 -0000

I worked over there for a little over a year but we did have satelite so I did get to watch whatever was televised nationally. Being over there made me realize the littlest of things we take for granted. Things like walking outside and NOT seeing a group of militants carrying M-16's (or whatever that sub machine gun was) come to mind. And deodorant!!!...to even have it available, much less having the where-withall to use it also spring back into memory. All I can say is God Bless America.

And I've also recieved the same promising emails from "extremely wealthy" Nigerians looking for a way to spend their money...with my help, of course...lol.

Sorry for that bit of rambling.

Geaux Tigers
Geaux SEC

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

gatorhippy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:51:34 -0000

$3900 seems high for some CZ's molded into cheap gold...

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

-TE- — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:35:05 -0000

Our erstwhile former running back and "guy that threw it all away" Alley Broussard sold his Championship Ring from 2004...

I hate to say it, but I can't blame him...That ring reminded him of a time in his life that he might not ever reach back again...

Those big pieces of jewelry can weigh down a life...not just a hand...

To some kids who don't continue to excel, and to whom the path of life ceases being an open field, with smooth sailing across a green sea of earth and grass on the way to an end zone of adulation, those rings can stare and mock every morning, as the cold reality of an alarm clock and the 1st shift jars them awake from dreams of 90,000 screaming their name and scouts watching their every move on the field...

Can't say I blame kids who want to forget...For every kid who blazes into their memory for life, there's others that those rings find turning into Kryptonite...

Just my $0.02...It's late, and I'm a tad on the superfluous, hyperbolic side, this evening...

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:01:33 -0000

$20 a head and we'll only need 195 donors...

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

War_Eagle_Atlanta — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:57:20 -0000

Actually, I'll collect 23 cents and forward 25 to Kevin, keeping a handsome profit for myself, which is made up with volume...

???

How long were you in Nigeria, GT? Musta sucked if it was football season...

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Zac — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:46:40 -0000

Ya know, WarEagle, if'n I thought you were serious, I'd throw in $20.00 to give it a try (I know; big spender.).

There are lots of reasons the former owner put this ring up for sale. It's also entirely possible, it wasn't the former owner who put it up for sale. For all I know the former owner is still looking for it. Only the owner and/or seller knows for certain.

I do know this. I come across people selling Eagle Scout medals all the time. Trust me; many of the former owners are far from dead. Yet, despite those like me, who wouldn't think of selling their Eagle, for what-ever reason, they sell theirs.

I remember a time, early in my life as husband & father, my wife & I both HAD to sell our HS rings. We sold some other small trinkets we had at the same time. We did it to make ends meet. It happens to people. I wish I could have those things back, but they got me a little further along when I needed them. So, I'm grateful for having had them as long as I had. Sadly, I still read about people selling things they love but don't need, so they can have heat, electricity, food, or even medicine for one more month. I know I'm a big complainer; I also know how incredibly lucky I am. May the rest of you be luckier than I.

Re: Your chance to own a national championship ring!

Zac — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:31:53 -0000

Hey, Kev, they got any Boy Scout stuff in that store? (Sorry, had ta ask.)