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Al Davis, Dead at 82
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:24 am
by pinback
For his work with the Raiders, Jamarcus Russell, John Madden, the AFL's general influence on the NFL, and acting like a crazy old grandmother, I salute Al Davis.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:59 am
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Why? Did he die or something? (To Twitter.)
Huh. I never thought he'd die.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:54 am
by Tdarcos
I have a hell of a lot more respect for Joe Robbie, who built the stadium in Miami with no taxpayer subsidies, he didn't ask taxpayers to contribute so much as one thin dime to finance his hobby.
Plus he did a really cool cameo of himself for the movie Black Sunday, where Palestinian terrorists are going to crash the Goodyear Blimp, filled with rifle darts, into the Superbowl and kill 100,000 people.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:24 pm
by pinback
Joe Robbie is also dead.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:45 pm
by Tdarcos
pinback wrote:Joe Robbie is also dead.
Yeah, I know, I'm sorry, I should have said - and meant to say - "The late Joe Robbie."
Poor bastard died without a will and failed to do the simplest financial planning to protect his heirs when he died. His family got royally raped by taxes (especially taxes), fees and other costs.
I mean, all I have is a few hundred dollars plus some stuff in a storage facility I've kept since about 1998, now about 75 miles away in a storage facility because it's more than I can keep in one room and I don't really want to abandon it (mostly due to sentimental reasons) but I still have a will.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:19 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Can I have that stuff?
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:27 am
by Tdarcos
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Can I have that stuff?
You really want to come all the way to Fredericksburg, VA to pick up someone's personal possessions? Besides, you'd need a delivery van, I put stuff in it all the time as I didn't need it.
Basically I just about filled a 5' x 10' x 8' high storage room. I have about 68 boxes of stuff plus some totes. By 'boxes' I mean the standard roughly 14" x 10" x 1' height that they sell in office supply stores to archive office papers.
Why would you want my possessions anyway?
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:31 am
by Tdarcos
Tdarcos wrote:By 'boxes' I mean the standard roughly 14" x 10" x 1' hight that they sell in office supply stores to archive office papers.
That's supposed to be 'height'.
Update 2011-12-28, the original post has been updated now that post editing has been restored.
<s>Goddam it, Jonsey, when are we going to get capacity to edit posts back? I'm getting to the point of seriously going on strike and say I won't do insightful posts here any more until I can have the ability to edit if I made a mistake I didn't catch.</s>
I retract that comment since post editing was restored,