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Paul Howe might be the best warrior Howe. He lives in Nacogdoches.

He's from San Diego I don't know if you should check it. He was born in San Diego in 1959. He really is one of the best battlefield warriors in the history of the US. He did some superhuman stuff in the Battle of Mogadishu. Makes Batman look like a pansy.

Jeff, Are you related to Paul Howe? Best I can he's one of the greatest warriors in the history of US. He led Delta and everyone else in the Battle of Mogadishu. First man to the Blackhawk that was down. By every report he "eliminated" more than anyone if the fiercest fighting in the history of US warfare.

TV was definitely around in 1973. Kissinger literally out balled them in the highest stakes in the history of the word. I've read and listened to the transcript of Kissinger describing this to Mao Zedong a few weeks later in November 1973. Mao told Kissinger that he (Mao) was a monster for ordering millions to be "rectified," but Kissinger was more man than him because he risked the future of the world. Kissinger responded by saying that as a Jew born in Germany in 1923, he didn't do anything other than protect the standard of the American Constitution. Kissinger said that Mao could count on that in the infinite future.

Ain't Kissinger in October 1973. I really don't think anything compares to Kissinger in the Soviet Union in October 1973. Yom Kippur War. Nixon battling Watergate. Guy faces down the Soviets and orders Defcon 2. He wins. I don't know anything in the history of world that compares.

Might be the ultimate Kobe song here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob8TNqQw2hY

Part of the reason I don't consider Jeremiah Smith to be crap. Kobe was never held below ten in a big game.

When Kobe first met Phil Jackson in 1999 when he was twenty, he told him to bring him bring Michael Jordan. Who does that?

I'll reiterate. Kobe begged to work out for the Lakers in May and June 1996. He was 17. He asked to play against anyone in the draft or anyone past or present in the NBA. You don't get that these days. They won't work out against a high school guy. They got no balls.

How many college football programs have actually experienced an FBI raid other than the criminal interlopers? I don't know of any.

I'm thinking the criminal thunder are hugging the soap tighter than Barry Switzer and Charles Thomson after the FBI raid in early 1989.

More. I listened to some goober claim you can't count certain sports figures as great because their identity as cultural phenomena clouded their "greatness." He didn't use the proper plural of phenomenon, but that's a big part of the point. Popular sports are a cultural entity created by the wealth generated by the industrial revolution. Let's face it. You can't legitimately compare ball chasing to the invention of firearms, electricity, motor vehicles, nuclear power, computers, digital communication, the internet and artificial intelligence. Without those things, there wouldn't be a sufficient number of people with the resources to worry about sports.

I would like to add that Curry could never defend play doh. Without the Euro rule changes, he would have never been worth a crap on offense either.

Thinking about NBA rule changes and idiots blathering has made me think about the best basketball players in the world since in mattered in the 1970s. The list. Kareem 1971-1980 Bird 1981-1984 Magic 1985-1990 Jordan 1991-1993 (retired) Hakeem 1994-1995 Jordan 1996-1998 Shaq 1999-2000 Kobe 2001-2010 LeBrick 2011-2014 Durant 2015-2019 Doesn't matter after that because rule changes that had been passed about ten years earlier ruined the game and turned it into a Euro pansy league. Two longest runs were Kareem and Kobe. As we went on through this era, MVP voting became dumb and dumber, just like the Heisman.

Looks like it's time for some old school Bull Durham yelling and chair throwing.

Don't get hung up on ropes. My great great grandfather was hanged in Georgia in 1866.

"It's no joke. It's a rope, Tuco."

That night I watched Clint in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly after the late news for about the 200th time with my dad on channel 7. Greatest film ever made.

Add Cuban to this.

Only took about ten minutes. My Border Collie Gael did the entire job. About five minutes we located. She circled and held. Got up to her and a sow was charging and running back to piglets. Walked up with my head lamp shining. Gael held and the sow charged and backed. Took her through the back hip ranging up through the lung. About 150 lbs. Hanging in the trees and cooling just outside the yard now. Process her this evening. Made me have a crystal clear memory/flashback. Not more than fifty yards away in 1986 when I was fourteen, I shot a gator. My grandfather had four catfish ponds from which he sold channel catfish. Ponds are still there. A couple of gators had come in and were eating his brood fish in what he called his "mother" pond. He set up a couple of seine nets to catch the gators. We'd go check the nets morning, noon and evening. We were checking in a flat bottom, paddling out and saw the gator get caught in one of the seines. I had my dad's S&W model 25 with which I'd been practicing. Model 25 was the same as the Dirty Harry Model 29 but in .45 Colt instead. We got up about ten feet away and the gator was hung up. I held up the S&W and asked my granddad where to shoot. He said, "Shot him in the ass! I don't care." That's what I did. Hauled the gator out and sold it to my grandfather's friend up the road. He gave me the money and a 1933 buffalo head nickel. Don't have the cash, but I still have the nickel.

Someone asked me how I use the dogs. I use em to hunt. You gotta know dogs and how to train them. Walker for tracking and calling in the others. Border Collie for circling and holding to move in. American Bulldog for hitting and chomping if the hog is too frisky with the other two. Mr. Ruger does the rest.

Taking the dogs to go feral hog hunting with my Ruger Redhawk in .45 Colt (high pressure) in about an hour. They'll be running and rooting like crazy after all the rain yesterday. Line me up some pork for the smoking pit.

Popovich waited about ten years too late to retire. On Jokic: Gerry talked about him being a great player. There's no question he plays great. He wouldn't have started as a 4 or 5 in the NBA twenty-five years ago because he wouldn't have been able to defend the post in the pre-zone era. He wouldn't have been anything close to the offensive player or rebounder he is now because he would have literally been muscled constantly off the ball, keeping him from getting the position he wanted. This is a prime example of why attendance and market share are down in the NBA.

I think my friend's dad graduated from Arkansas in about 1960. Men didn't talk much back then.

I went to a double header between Arkansas and Baylor on a Saturday in April 1986 when I was 13 with my best friend. His dad was an Arkansas alumni. I think they split the double header. We ate at Whataburger in Waco between the double header. We ate at Braum's in Corsicana on the way back. I don't remember my friend's dad saying a word during the hole thing.