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    Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 9:54am
Not that anyone's particularly interested but this afternoon at about 1:30 central is what used to be a big deal bowl game - Army vs. Navy.  I suppose the most interest it draws these days is with school attendees and alums.  CBS I think.  Or folk that need a shot of NCAA football to carry them over from the main season to the other bowl games (of which there many).
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I was surprised to hear that my oldest daughter was at home watching the game today.  She cheers for Army because of her grandfather being in the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Posts: 11084 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 7:40pm
That's neat that she feels the connection to her granddad.  Too bad they didn't win.  My daughter and family are my worst "enemies" speaking in team fan terms when Texas Tech plays UT.  All in fun of course.
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Posts: 29216 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 10:10pm
Darn Army anyhow.  But I'm sure they gave it their best shot. It seems they have a lot of trouble with Navy, to the best of my memory.
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Posts: 29216 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 10:12pm
Did a little searching:
49 Army wins
52 Navy wins
7 ties

And some trivia:

the longest and perhaps most telling interruption (from 1894-1898) occurred only a few years after the rivalry’s inception. Following a reputed incident between a Rear Admiral and a Brigadier General, which nearly led to a duel after the 1893 Navy victory, President Cleveland called a Cabinet meeting in late February 1894. When the meeting ended, Secretary of the Navy Hillary A. Herbert, and Secretary of War, Daniel S. Lamont, issued general orders to their respective Academies stating that other teams would be allowed to visit Annapolis and West Point to conduct football games, but the Army and Navy football teams were "prohibited in engaging in games elsewhere." In other words, Army and Navy were restricted to home games and, consequently, from playing each other. For the next five years, the explosive rivalry was defused.
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Posts: 11084 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 10:17pm
Haha .......  I think it was said that Navy has won 3 of the last 4 games.  That can get a little old and a lot grating I'm sure.
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There's always next year....darn the torpedoes..full speed ahead!
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Posts: 29216 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Dec 2010 at 5:58am
According to this, Navy had won the last eight consecutive games. (BTW...it's an interesting read.)

For Army-Navy Game, Cadets Carry Football 315,000 Yards

Hmmm. A rather discriminatory practice....male cadets have to run shirtless, but.....
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Apparently, after looking at a short slideshow...not all the guys run like that. Some pics showed male cadets with tops and gloves.  Much smarter; it's cold out there.)
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Frank Talk from the Cowboys' Jerry Jones - 60 Minutes - CBS News

I caught a good part of it. Wow...what a "TV screen" in the stadium. 

He (Jones) seems to have come a long way in the last 20-some years...since he had his credit card cut up.
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Ah so....
Vikings' Metrodome roof collapses for the fifth time - CSMonitor.com

Now...that makes me wonder if it also happens to other dome roofs....

And congrats to Auburn....
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Posts: 11084 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Dec 2010 at 10:20pm
I think the Metrodome is the only inflatable dome.  The others, at least most of the others are structural steel.  Just trying to think of where an inflatable might be better suited but there are hurricanes in Miami and New Orleans, snow in Indiana and Chicago and forget Lam beau Field, they ain't ever gonna change I guess.  LA maybe but it'd probably burn down from debris from a forest fire or collapse in an earthquake.  Maybe inflatables just aren't meant to be except for dirigibles.
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Posts: 11084 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 11:33am

 It looks like the Metrodome repair is going to be a bigger job than they thought.  Bear-Viking Monday game to be played at the U. of Minn. outdoor field (shades of the "Ice Bowl")

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5926661&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
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Yeah...you betcha:
"This is Minnesota -- you all know how to deal with cold," Grubman said. While he said there are particular concerns about the frozen field, "football is a cold-weather game."
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Posts: 11084 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2010 at 7:04am
Friday Night Lights -  The season ain't over.  And for football action it's the Texas UIL high school playoffs with Class 3A, 4A, and 5A games all being played in Texas stadium and televised on Fox Sports Southwest.  I cranked in one game 'cause it was a local team and stayed for the second.  One kid, the "premier" running back in Texas, ran for over 300 yards.  Not too much of that "in the trenches" 3 yds. at a time stuff.
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Posts: 29216 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2010 at 10:40am
Shucks...here I was all ready to go shovel:
No more shovelers needed for TCF stadium |

Looking at the pics made me realize that I hadn't even thought about the fact that they'd have to clear more than just the playing field: all those stadium seats. Ouch.
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Posts: 11084 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2010 at 10:51am
That's definitely a consideration.  Have you ever tried to clean up an auditorium type setting?  It really is a pain and tedious.  Maybe newer designs are more broom friendly but the old style seating made it tough.
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Posts: 29216 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2010 at 3:07pm
The photos I saw showed folks with shovels...and it didn't look very broom friendly. One photo here.

There was a video at a local TV stations website.  Looked deep. And flat wood benches atop metal poles type seating.  Look like they laid sheet metal roofing in the aisle steps to make a slide for shoveled snow.  Man...my back hurts just from watching....
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Posts: 22160 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 4:36am
Just ouch! Looks like very hard work.
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Posts: 29216 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 4:44am
Just a thought that flashed through my head. I bet a lot of women are shaking their heads over that: ".....can't get a male to pick up his dirty socks and throw them in the laundry basket...but they'll jump at picking up a snow shovel in freezing weather for a stupid football game...."

Hey...priorities are priorities..right. LOL
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