Brandon R. Sanders

@KevG163 Gregory Hines was a legend in anything he did. Rip.

Happy Birthday to the great Michael McDonald! One of my favorite songs of his — "Sweet Freedom" from the "Running Scared" soundtrack McDonald, Billy Crystal...and Gregory Hines rockin' the Walter Payton #Bears jersey — tipping some beers and dancing at the tiki bar

@BranSanders Well, here's a stat that might blow your mind... Peyton Manning was the last QB drafted first overall who won a Super Bowl with the team that drafted him. Since then 20 number-one quarterbacks have not (14 since Eli Manning, whose brief holdout led to a trade from San Diego).

After all this time, and data from decades to pull from, there still isn’t an algorithm strong enough to make drafting, especially an overall #1 Quarterback a sure thing. The quantification that we really enjoy is still a huge mystery. That’s sort of beautiful when you think an out it. Until of course, Musk Optimus robots start their own league and it’s rote by the book 10101

Wondering how this may relate to the impending Tua release...

Happy birthday to the only hero I had who never let me down. #RogerStaubach

Every time someone tells me coaching football is easy and they should do it.

Man this is awesome

@Lightningb97 @KevG163 It was. Also with no dog in the hunt, the 20 friends I watched it thought it was a miss, and chalked it up to an optical illusion we referred to anytime something went against. We even called “Orange Left 88”.

@KevG163 It’s no echo chamber friend. I legit have not heard of that moment being controversial. When you see most controversial moments in NFL history, ive never seen this come up.

Rich Karlis's controversial 33-yard field goal that lifts the #Broncos to a 23-20 overtime victory over the #Browns in the 1986 AFC Championship Only the second time that an #NFL/AFL league or conference championship game is decided by a field goal in overtime January 11, 1987

@MatthewPetey @billyboy316 @thechicagosares @joeypetersen8 Lying does me go good here. But in my defense, the support is one team, and my play by play consisted of eating pizza and crying, and asking my son to transfer out at halftime, all unpublished.

@BranSanders @billyboy316 @thechicagosares @joeypetersen8 Lashing out after Friday night I see

Please enjoy this Packers reaction video compilation on this glorious Sunday!

@MatthewPetey @billyboy316 @thechicagosares @joeypetersen8 Well he still has the Ravens and Tennessee cast to do from his podcast in Dallas. Wait… maybe add more teams to your sandbox.

@billyboy316 @thechicagosares They are a bunch of losers though! Right @joeypetersen8

@KevG163 I don’t think we realize what we had in Brent Musberger. We few. We lucky few.

December 30, 1973 CBS Sports' Brent Musburger interviews the victorious #Vikings following their 27-10 triumph over the Cowboys in the 1973 NFC Championship. Bobby Bryant, Jim Marshall, Gary Larsen, Fran Tarkenton, John Gilliam, Wally Hilgenberg, Oscar Reed, and head coach Bud Grant #Skol

@KevG163 Funny how memory works. I always remembered this play as a kid, but my brain thought it was Bob Trumpy all these years. Thanks for resetting the synapses.

The NFL was DIFFERENT 45 years ago What a resilient effort by the #Bengals' receiver/punter Pat McInally • Knocked unconscious after taking one of NFL history's most vicious hits early in the game, lays motionless for 10 minutes, and is then carted off • Returns to punt in the second quarter and draws a roughing the kicker call • Returns as a receiver in the third quarter and makes a SPECTACULAR over-the-head game-tying 59-yard touchdown reception December 21, 1980

@HistoricPackers Gruden pissed because he told him not to run.

Today in 1994: In the final game in Milwaukee after 62 years, Brett Favre's nine-yard TD run in the final seconds sends Packers to 21-17 win over Falcons. The win keeps Green Bay's postseason hopes alive, while effectively eliminating Atlanta in the crowded NFC playoff chase.

@elonmusk I predict you will have massive wealth at some point.

So obvious

@Howlingmutant0 @Sar_en_gas

@Sar_en_gas So lame I know

Never mind it’s somehow even more over than it was before

This offseason, 21% of 11-man Texas public schools statewide brought in a new football head coach. There's about a 20% attrition rate in the coaching profession each year. Burnout, parent involvement, and mental health challenges are causing coaches to leave the profession. - Dallas Morning News

Shelter from the Storm open.substack.com/pub/brandonsan…

I've searched UIL records back to the 1920s. State championship ties happened. Single playoff ties happened regularly. But no team in Texas history has ever won THREE CONSECUTIVE playoff games by tiebreaker, except the 1991 Burnet Bulldogs. They literally broke the system, and the UIL changed the rules. The 1991 Burnet Bulldogs reached the Texas 3A state championship game without actually WINNING three of their playoff games. This is the wildest playoff run in Texas high school football history. Before 1994, Texas had no overtime. Tied games were decided by tiebreakers , penetrations inside the 20, first downs, total yards. Coach Ed Abernathy's Bulldogs exploited this rule three consecutive times. Regional Round: Burnet 20, Vernon 20 Vernon was the DEFENDING STATE CHAMPION under legendary coach Leo Brittain. Burnet advanced on first downs, 17-15. The champs went home without actually losing. Quarterfinals: Burnet 14, Marble Falls 14 The "Game of the Century" a rematch of their county rivalry. Senior QB Mitchell Maxwell and junior fullback Phillip Massoletti led a second-quarter drive to the Marble Falls 5-yard line that stalled. That drive gave Burnet a 3-2 edge in penetrations. It ended up deciding who advanced. Semifinals: Burnet 7, Southlake Carroll 7 Carroll had won the 1988 state title and would become one of Texas football's greatest dynasties, eight state championships total. Burnet won on penetrations, 3-1. Carroll's future dominance meant nothing that night. The math: 20-20 → Win 14-14 → Win 7-7 → Win Three ties. Three advances. Each game lower-scoring than the last. Burnet "outscored" opponents 0-0 across those three wins combined. State Championship: Groesbeck 7, Burnet 0 The magic ran out at the Astrodome. The Bulldogs finally lost, their first actual defeat of the playoff run. The aftermath? The UIL implemented overtime rules shortly after. Burnet's three-tie streak is credited with changing Texas high school football forever. But the heartbreak doesn't end there. Burnet returned to the state title game in 2002. Lost to Everman 35-14. Returned in 2003. Lost to Gainesville 35-24. Three championship games. Zero championships. The 1991 team? Twenty-four kids who all started kindergarten together in Burnet. They knocked out a defending state champion and a future dynasty, without ever beating either one on the scoreboard. "We won the first playoff game in Burnet High School history," Massoletti said at their 2022 reunion. "Once we did, we knew we were going all the way." They almost did. Just never quite finished it.

@Psychoag @NashTalksTexas There he is!

@NashTalksTexas As it should. It would be unearned.

This app will actually riot if the committee ranks Texas top 10