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There is not a single person in my family that wastes their time watching sports. The final score of the game will be the same if I watch it or not. I think it is funny watching people plan their entire day or weekend around some sporting event. Unless you have somebody that you know playing why bother!! Even most of the Church's don't have services on Sunday evening of the Super Bowl because they know that nobody will show up or even the Priests/Reverends want to stay at home and watch the game! It is all a big marketing event pushing you to eat all the foods you don't need, buy new bigger HD TV's to watch the game with and to buy large quantities of liquor. Not this person. I'd rather play with my Shopsmith! AND I DID!!

Gene Howe wrote:Not being a sports nut puts me in the minority in my family. My wife really gets POed when I start grousing about having to watch some game or another. But, when everybody is huddled around the TV, watching a game and I head for the shop she accuses me of being anti-social and rude. Geeze, what’s a guy to do?

Dude: I think that I have almost perfected the strategy for this. I am as just bored as everyone else here by the Pro's. But both my wife and son are rabid Buckeye fans. So that is also interesting to me, by association. My son's room, having hit teenager-hood, is now a shrine to the Ohio State Buckeyes, courtesy of Mom's decorating skills. So when watching the pros once a year, the obvious question becomes, who has the most former Buckeyes on the team. 49'ers win this year, by virtue of having Ted Ginn Jr. as their kick/punt returner. So A) don't grouse, B) root for the Buckeyes if they are playing, and C) make sure that all major woodworking efforts this winter are dedicated to building a secret room for your daughter. (Ok, She is almost young enough to be my granddaughter, but we cut out the middlemen. Any questions?). Works for me!

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Dude: I think that I have almost perfected the strategy for this. I am as just bored as everyone else here by the Pro's. But both my wife and son are rabid Buckeye fans. So that is also interesting to me, by association. My son's room, having hit teenager-hood, is now a shrine to the Ohio State Buckeyes, courtesy of Mom's decorating skills. So when watching the pros once a year, the obvious question becomes, who has the most former Buckeyes on the team. 49'ers win this year, by virtue of having Ted Ginn Jr. as their kick/punt returner. So A) don't grouse, B) root for the Buckeyes if they are playing, and C) make sure that all major woodworking efforts this winter are dedicated to building a secret room for your daughter. (Ok, She is almost young enough to be my granddaughter, but we cut out the middlemen. Any questions?). Works for me!

Hello, another Buckeye fan here! Although I currently live in Arizona now, my heart (and sports loyalty) remains with Ohio State. Their football team were screwed this past year by the idiots of the NCAA. Having an undefeated season was great! And not being able to play for the national championship was disappointing. But, hopefully, we can repeat this year. I still wear my Buckeye hat when I'm out and about here in Tucson and on the golf course.

I will be on the lookout for all your posts and say "howdy" whenever possible.

Jim in Tucson, Arizona

OK, I'm evidently swimming against the current here, but I'm a 49ers fan! My home state did NOT have a football team, when I grew up, and since I was living in San Jose, and HATED the traiders, (that was not a typo) I became a 9ers fan. I remember Joe Montana, after his FIRST win, saying to all that watched MNF (there were no 9ers games on Monday Night Football that year) "you all watched a bunch of losers!"

So, I'm a little depressed. Lost $20 to a friend at work. REALLY enjoyed some of the commercials, especially Chrysler's, Paul harvey's "Farmer" ad. (Francis, any comment?) Also liked (even though I will NOT drink BUTTWIPER) the Clydesdales ad.

Was a GOOD game. Watched the whole thing, even the 85 minute "halftime" break.

steve

jb41339 wrote:Hello, another Buckeye fan here! Although I currently live in Arizona now, my heart (and sports loyalty) remains with Ohio State. Their football team were screwed this past year by the idiots of the NCAA. Having an undefeated season was great! And not being able to play for the national championship was disappointing. But, hopefully, we can repeat this year. I still wear my Buckeye hat when I'm out and about here in Tucson and on the golf course.

I will be on the lookout for all your posts and say "howdy" whenever possible.

Jim in Tucson, Arizona

Hey Jim! We could be in grave danger of being kicked off of this forum for talking football, but I think I have an angle. My brother, who still lives in Tennessee, thinks that the SEC would have kicked OSU's posterior had the "trinkets for tattoos" scandal not disqualified the Bucks. He is most likely correct, despite the Bucks being the only undefeated Division 1A team in the land this last season. Last year. Next season, watch out, big time!

Back to my angle. Last spring, I cajoled my brother, a rather successful radiologist, into making a Craigslist run for me into North Carolina. Shopsmith bandsaw, on a PowerStation, $150 for both. I picked it up on the next visit, and then the restoration began. A couple of bearings fixed up the bandsaw, but the PowerStation vibration was pretty annoying. I installed new link belts per Bill Mayo's wisdom. That helped a lot, but it still was not nearly as smooth as my Model 520. But borrowing on machine-tool upgrade experiences from my own work, a couple of structural stiffeners soon had the PowerStation purring like a pussycat.

So if no one kicks us off the forum for talking football, I hereby promise to post PowerStation stiffener photos next weekend.

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judaspre1982 wrote:We like watching the commercials also and in case Farmer never saw the Paul Harvey ad.
http://www.ramtrucks.com/en/keepplowing/
I know Farmer is a Chevy guy, as I am a Chevy/GMC truck guy also, so he will have to ignore the Ram truck in the commercial:D

Great game BTW.

Dave

The farmer commercial was without a doubt the best commercial I have seen in years. What a tribute to God and to Farmers. We are quick to salute our millitary and we should but we also need to thank the farmers of this country that raise the food that feeds us. My hat is off to every farmer.