Actually it was World War I, and he was the Battalion Commander of the 333d Machine Gun Battalion, part of the 172d Infantry Brigade (Much later they were the original Stryker BCT) which was one of the Brigades under the 86th Infantry Division during WWI. I just learned this tonight from this page actually. And having…

Its cool man, neither am I. Hell, I'm honestly trying to teach people who may not know about my tribe and our war aside from the name of the team and the UH-60 helicopter's name. The Blackhawk is one of the few Army helicopters to not be named after a tribe, and the only one to be named after a person.

Uh no, I said the logo needs to be more realistic. And how is it my logo? I don't work for the team, I don't live in Illinois, and I don't like the Blackhawks. My only connection with anything to do with it is that I'm a Sauk on my mom's side and also apparently the first owner was in a Brigade, the 172d Infantry…

I was talking about the Black Hawk War. I had no idea that the first owner had been with the 86th during the first world war. Knowing that now, I probably should have clarified. The Black Hawk war is not a very well known conflict even in Illinois, even though there's a ton of stuff named Black Hawk, like the 86th…

Three actually. The Touch Judges are also certified as refs by the IRB and they do make calls, though they're limited as to whether the ball has gone into touch or not and what they saw if there are questions they have regarding a try or a possible penalty if one of the touch judges had a clearer view of what…

Well, calling someone Black Hawk is not a racial slur while calling them a Redskin is. Black Hawk was a person, a Sauk war chief who knew better than to trust the State or Federal governments, and naming the team after him is honestly pretty cool considering most people have no idea about that war.

Its a non-native english speaking Microsoft fanboy schilling for them, so it may as well be an ad. Especially with the lame "pony" insults.

Ah, Hamster Dance. I remember basically doing the equivalent of rickrolling people with it on IRC and AIM. Brings back memories.

Oh okay, the letters that Twilight sends are the message. That makes sense, I just wasn't thinking about it I guess.

I never took down my old Angelfire site, so if its still around I'm not surprised, but I feel sorry for anyone that happens across it. I managed to embed a .wav of a song by The Locust that would always load after the page had, and if you've ever heard them, you know what I mean but I don't quite know how to describe…

I'm using registered youth player numbers in 1990 and then again in 1995, as my metric. You can take a look for yourself here. For a country with a pretty large population, our registered numbers didn't start to take off until after 1994 and have actually been contracting since 2008, though the "great recession" may…

I remember GIFs too. And gawd-awful embedded MIDI "music" or a five to ten second .wav file set to loop infinitely. Ugh, Im having Geocities and Angelfire flashbacks.

MLP does do that? I don't recall it, but I've only ever watched it on Netflix, since on Outhouse Networks (the real name is Brighthouse Networks, which took over from Time Warner in Central Florida back in 2003/2004 our local cable provider that actually makes Commiecast or Cox seem like a good company, fo' realz) if…

Absolutely it was a success, and thank you for not attempting to insult me for things that I did not say or even insinuate. It was much more of a success than any of the planning committees expected, including my city's planning committee. And soccer finally entered mainstream American popular culture, which is what…

Pretty easy, they'll require constant internet connectivity to use it, will target ads that you can't skip every time you put on the device and will interrupt gameplay every 15 minutes to show you, unless you purchase the Facebook Rift Premium account for 30 dollars a month or make a microtransaction to skip the ads…

^This. If I could recommend it a million times I would because I can't say it any better myself. Its great for the sport to have a professional league for young players to aspire to be in without having to go overseas or be stuck in a second-tier rut and not being able to develop, the USL is great but it was never…

So did I at first, I used to work in construction for my Dad when I was a kid and WC always means Water Closet. But I'm apparently basking in my ignorance for not blindly revising history to suit my wishes, so you may not want to listen to me.

You'd do well to notice that I didn't say a fucking thing about attendance there, at all, shithead. In no way was World Cup 94 not well attended. But at the same time, Soccer was not established as a professional sport in the United States yet, and you'd do well to recall that the Baseball strike was also that year…

I know. Which is still quite amazing considering that Soccer was not very popular in the host country at the time, I dont even think the MLS was in existence yet when we won the bid.

So was I. I wonder where the other three of us are?