My team is Dallas Cowboys, I can't give up
On "Them Boys", 1/2 my family is for the "Boys"
the other 1/2 is for Denver Broncos!
So I go with what team is playing! I really have
a problem the few time they play each other!!
John L, trying to be cute, calling them Denver Donkeys? Sherry and Denver fans may not, but most donkeys will be offended...
According to the RHS survey, there was an 18% interest in Sports including NFL (football) and NBA (basketball), and other. However, looking at post # 8734, there has not been any additional comments. If no additional responses, Sports, like an unlucky turkey, may get the early axe.
Example, the Denver Bronco Defense was called the "Orange Crush" during the 1970's.
OK, Rex and John L, I've Got Big shoulders!
It's my Grandson and Granddaughter you have
to contend with. The Boys are my #1.
So Guys, Rex and John, who are your Teams.
Besides the Roswell Coyotes?!?!
Originally Green Bay was my #1 favorite team because my parents are from Waukesha. My Dad was counselor to Staubach at NMMI, and he eventually became a family friend. So when he joined the Cowboys, they became my #1 team.
The Packers actually has two nicknames. They are known as "The Pack", and even better and more well known, "The Cheeseheads".
In the 1960's, I Iiked coach Bud Grant and the Vikings. In the 1970's - 80's was the Oakland Raiders, I lived in Santa Cruz, south of Oakland. Attending many games that included tailgating before the game. Those were the days of quarterback Ken Stabler and wide receiver Fred Biletnikoff. Biletnikoff was finally caught using sticky-stuff on his hands for those finger-tip catchs. Nice guy, though. Talked with him at the Sports Bar many times.
In the late 80's, was a fan of Joe Montana of SF 49er's and receivers Jerry Rice and Dwight Clark.
In the 90's and on, I began to like different teams based on their particular talents. I guess you would say I appreciate most all teams. If a team I didn't pick, wins that day, I can't help but admire their play for the day.
Ok, Ok, I know there are other football fans out there...
Well, every since I worked out of NOLA in the Gulf, I had to claim the 'Who Dat'...(aka, the New Orleans Saints).
Loved it when folks would go to the games with a big grocery bag over their head, with a couple of eye holes cut out. Of course, when they did win a game, the word was they made a turnabout... Unfortunately usually not true.
Thanks guys, I actually agree with all of you!
So many of the Teams and Players make the
team popular! At one time I really liked,
"Loved" the Oakland Raiders coach
Tom Flores!
If I remember right Oakland was a pretty rough,
and tumble tuff team! I think I am being gentle!
But You know I kind of liked that!!! Its the Game!
Tom Flores played quarterback for the Oakland Raiders in the late 50's. Then with the Raiders' Super Bowl XI as an assistant coach, and Super Bowl XV and Super Bowl XVII as head coach of the Raiders. In the following years, Tom Flores was the official radio announcer for all Raider games. Flores was a true Raider!
The 'Who Dat' team came under a dramatic change in the years leading up to Super Bowl XLIV in 2010 when Drew Brees took the Saints to win over the Colts...of course, it was under the brilliant guidance of Coach Sean Payton. The Saints were in three more playoff championships!
IMHO, had not Denver quarterback Bo Nix been injured, I believe he would have given the Pat's a run for their money... and gone on to win the Super Bowl. Again, Sean Payton has turned another team, the Broncos, into serious playoff material.
Going through some old photos, and found one I had to share with y'all. In a previous life, Nancy was a dance hall girl...and I was a gunfighter/gambler.
Actually, we used to spend a lot of vacation time in Colorado, most of it in Cripple Creek before it turned into nothing but mini casinos like it is now. It had some really neat shops to go through.
One specialized in dressing up in vintage clothes and having your picture taken hence this picture..
We stayed at the Imperial Hotel which was like going back a hundred years in time. They had a melodrama each night in the basement, all the waiters were also the actors.
What a great picture of you and Nancy! I'm thinking "Belle Starr and Wyatt Earp"!! Bet you got lot of comments by others!
T Texas Tom, you played football at South and all three years at RHS. What were some of your favorite NFL Football teams...?
I've been enjoying the "Winter Olympics". What are some of the events you like? Ice Skate Dancing, Downhill Super G, Cross Country, Full Tube Snowboarding, Luge??
Rex, I'm not real sure about "I Get Around", Either
driving up and down Main Street as a Teen, or my
travels' in life! Ask the "Shadow" HAHAHAHA!
I was thinking you might have posted,
"Sherry" HAHAHAH!!
Rex, OH MY GOSH!! I'm a little/lot slow
on the up take!! I just got the Shadow's
message asking you to post the song
"I Get Around" Yea, He sure does!!
Sly Devil!
HUSBAND ENTERS ANNUAL HIBERNATION PERIOD BETWEEN SUPERBOWL AND MLB OPENING DAY
Feb 13, 2026 · BabylonBee.com
BLUE SPRINGS, MO — One of nature's most wondrous events was on full display at one suburban home this week, as a local husband followed his innate instinct to enter his annual hibernation period between the Super Bowl and Major League Baseball Opening Day.
Tom Kellum, a husband and father, was seen making his preparations for his yearly extended slumber, which scientists have likened to a state of suspended animation, that takes place during the stretch of time between the end of the NFL season and the start of the MLB season.
"Watch as the man gorges himself to store up extra fat for his long slumber," one biologist whispered as Kellum lumbered through the house while eating a block of cheese. "The Super Bowl is over. Now, there is only the long, cold winter of nothing but the dark emptiness of college basketball. Soon, he will enter his cave, not to be seen again until MLB Opening Day."
Kellum could be heard sounding off his great bellow throughout the house before entering a nearby cave to sleep, as his wife and children knew from previous experience to remain a safe distance away during this stage. "It's dangerous to disturb him during this time," his wife, Andrea, whispered. "We all understand and don't hold it against him. He's simply carrying out what comes naturally to him. His most basic instincts are telling him to shut himself off to the world until baseball starts. He is powerless to resist this God-ordained urge. We'll have everything ready for him when he emerges."
At publishing time, Kellum had flown into a feral rage when someone awoke him to ask if he was going to fill out a March Madness bracket.
Can anyone post the origin of Curling? In what country did it originate? What year does it date back to?
Fred,
I can sympathize with Kellum. Once the football season is over, many start having withdrawal symptoms, feeling the side effects of a sudden loss of that weekend warrior drug. I, too, have an intense dislike of "March Madness," with seemingly endless basketball games on top of basketball games, with no clear light at the end of the tunnel... and give in and turn the channel to watch another (ugh) game of bowling...
Curling originated in Scotland during the early 16th century with the earliest known inscribed stone dated 1511. It was originally played on frozen lochs and ponds using "channel stones".
While some earlier evidence suggests similar games in the Low Countries Scotland is considered the birthplace and organized its first games and organized clubs.
"Great research, lass!
Were kilts also in vogue during the 16th Century"? ~ The Shadow
Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 found (along with another bearing the date 1551) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland.[5]The world's oldest curling stone and the world's oldest football are now kept in the same museum (the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum) in Stirling.[6] The first written reference to a contest using stones on ice comes from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.[7] Two paintings, "Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap" and "The Hunters in the Snow" (both dated 1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, depict Flemishpeasants playing Bavarian curling (also called ice stock sport, "Eisstockschießen" in German), a sport related to curling. As there is no broom and the sliding object has a vertical handle it distinguishes itself from Scottish curling with its horizontal stone handle. Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this time, which is also evident in the history of golf.[8]
A curling match at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1860. The curling house is located to the left of the picture.
The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, Scotland, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.[9][10] The sport was (and still is, in Scotland and Scottish-settled regions like southern New Zealand, as well as in Canada) also known as "the roaring game" because of the sound the stones make while travelling over the pebble (droplets of water applied to the playing surface).[11] The verbal noun curling is formed from the Scots (and English) verb curl,[12] which describes the motion of the stone.
Kilsyth Curling Club claims to be the first club in the world, having been formally constituted in 1716;[13] it is still in existence today.[14] Kilsyth also claims the oldest purpose-built curling pond in the world at Colzium, in the form of a low dam creating a shallow pool some 100 by 250 metres (330 by 820 ft) in size. The International Olympic Committee recognises the Royal Caledonian Curling Club (founded as the Grand Caledonian Curling Club in 1838) as developing the first official rules for the sport.[15] However, although not written as a "rule book", this was preceded by Rev James Ramsay of Gladsmuir, a member of the Duddingston Curling Club, who wrote An Account of the Game of Curling in 1811, which speculates on its origin and explains the method of play.[16]
Men curling in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1909
In the early history of curling, the playing stones were simply flat-bottomed stones from rivers or fields, which lacked a handle and were of inconsistent size, shape, and smoothness.[17][18] Some early stones had holes for a finger and the thumb, akin to ten-pin bowling balls.[19] Unlike today, the thrower had little control over the 'curl' or velocity and relied more on luck than on precision, skill, and strategy. The sport was often played on frozen rivers although purpose-built ponds were later created in many Scottish towns.[20] For example, the Scottish poet David Gray describes whisky-drinking curlers on the Luggie Water at Kirkintilloch.[21][22]
In Darvel, East Ayrshire, the weavers relaxed by playing curling matches using the heavy stone weights from the looms' warp beams, fitted with a detachable handle for the purpose.[24] Central Canadian curlers often used 'irons' rather than stones until the early 1900s. Canada is the only country known to have done this, while others experimented with wood or ice-filled tins.[25]
Outdoor curling was very popular in Scotland between the 16th and 19th centuries because the climate provided good ice conditions every winter. Scotland is home to the international governing body for curling, the World Curling Federation in Perth, which originated as a committee of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, the mother club of curling. Some outdoor curling bonspiels still exist today.
Looks like this is a copy from "Wikipedia". Why not just copy and paste the web page "link" and save some space ~ The Shadow
Now Shadow, don't discourage folks As to curling, I found out about it my first winter in Alaska. I went with a neighbor to watch a match. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen, people sliding this big rock and then running down with it sweeping like crazy.
I saw on KOB4 this am, that Ruidosa Downs is to be shut down permanently. That surely will really hurt the economy there. If my memory isn't failing me (again), Ross and Delores Casarez's Dad had something to do with the building of it. As a youngun' my family used to go camping down there, along the river where it was later built. We also camped a time or two in Fox Cave, before it was turned into a walled up tourist trap.
No one is discouraging anyone. What was suggested is the amount of space in a post can be reduced by simply posting the "website link". For everyone's information, lengthy posts eat up memory (storage) space, which means a higher rate to be paid to purchase more memory. It's just like Google or any cloud service charging more for increased storage. Let's thank the Shadow for making the suggestion.
I can't give up
Going through some old photos, and found one I had to share with y'all. In a previous life, Nancy was a dance hall girl...and I was a gunfighter/gambler. 
As to curling, I found out about it my first winter in Alaska. I went with a neighbor to watch a match. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen, people sliding this big rock and then running down with it sweeping like crazy.