My college team played Oberlin during their 44-game losing streak in the mid 1990s (at the time Kenyon was actually respectable). My memories are hazy, but I think that in 1997 they had around 40 guys on their roster. They definitely had players going both ways out of necessity. We had around 500 yards of offense in…

Thank you for the clarification. I really do appreciate it.

Thank you for the information. I really do appreciate it.

My assumptions aren’t baseless and they aren’t really assumptions. It turns out they’re misremembered info from what was probably a mediocre set of classes I took in HS and college. It’s my mistake and other posters have been very thorough in explaining the issue to me.

Thank you for the clarification. I really do appreciate it.

Thank you for the clarification. I really do appreciate it.

You’re likely to be right. Apologies if so. This is what I was taught in school (in world religions classes at the liberal, mainline protestant private school and college I attended)

I apologize for the pedantry, but I believe Sikhism arose through the syncretism of Islam and Hinduism. So, technically, it is related to Islam.

Excellent.

And granddads have amazing tolerance for booze and can get you drunk before you know it. Like, you’re playing card with them and they give you a can of watery domestic beer and next thing you know you’re tipsy and have lost all your chips to granddad and he winks at you with the same glimmer in his eye he had when he…

She was amazing. When I was 16 we were sitting at Thanksgiving dinner and she slid her wine over to me, saying “If the government thinks you’re old enough to drive you should be able to drink wine with dinner.”

She was amazing. Absolutely amazing.

Um, I’ll take the case of bourbon.

I loved her and mourn her death every day.

That’s a move my grandfather would make.

Forgot a key detail. When my fellow defensive lineman and I got smashed on creme de menthe he shat green for three days.

I grew up living next door to my maternal grandparents. They were wonderful grandparents who were very loving and giving. Throughout my childhood and adolescence I typically went and hung with them five or six times a week.

I’d like to see an NFL vs. NBA vs. MLB party ranking (the NHL and MLS are too global and thus outliers). I have to assume the MLB has had a great share of extreme partiers than either league, partly due to its long history and its long, boring season. But, the NBA has Magic Johnson and Wilt Chamberlin and their 1,000s…

Vanderbilt produced Jay Cutler. That’s all the argument you need.

And, add in the self-absorption and utter boringness inherent in all things Baptist.