Eric Briggs

My lady keepers: In ur career u will be in contact w/ lots of coaches & trainers. If any of them do anything to u that’s inappropriate..TELL SOMEONE. If no one listens 2 u tell me. I have plenty of duct tape, A baseball bat, a large empty warehouse & a woodchipper. Love u all.

@ElMystico @PatsKam The Q manuscript has never been 'officially' identified but it is widely believed to be the Gospel of Thomas.

@PatsKam Yup. Jesus existed. But you look at the early sources. Like Q. They record his wonderful sayings. No reference to his miraculous birth hid miracles or his resurrection. They came much later.

Notice how all of the history books define time by “BC” (Before Christ), yet people still try and deny Jesus existed. There is no “Before Muhammad” There is no “Before Buddha” There is no “Before Guru Nanek” There is no “Before Confucius” JUST Before Christ.

@TheSlySamurai @kirkkinsey True depending on where you live. Here in my part of northwest Houston there are 15 ECNL teams. So its not unusual to have a hs team with ECNL players from a few different clubs.

@ericdbriggs @kirkkinsey If there’s only a few ECNL teams in a major market, wouldn’t they be spread out all over different high schools? That’s my experience, where I am there’s two ECNL teams and the girls that play high school are all over the area.

The fact that there’s buzz around a high school soccer game is good, but it doesn’t mean that the quality is high or that players are going to develop well The passion is something worth building on, but a lot would have to change about HS soccer for it to lead to better players

@MCameron008 Here in Tx UIL and club do a pretty good job of staggering their seasons so kids can play both. In high school i know of countless players who play multiple sports. Soccer and football skills overlap well and coaches realize that.

What’s the difference between a HS student athlete not being allowed to play 2 HS sports simultaneously, and soccer players not being allowed to play HS and club simultaneously?

@TheSlySamurai @kirkkinsey Disagree. Most high school teams are made up of club players and lots of ecnl kids. Thats why we like to scout HS games. 22 players from 5 or 6 different clubs all in one game. Its a fallacy that HS is not better than club.

@ericdbriggs @kirkkinsey Club soccer on the girls side at the highest levels (ecnl) is generally better than high school soccer. But that doesn’t mean HS soccer sucks, or there isn’t a place for it. Nothing beats winning for your school in front of the community you live in.

@OnDisasters I watched this documentary and it was heart breaking.

The "Kee Bird" fire May 21 1995: a former USAF B-29 [45-21768 – “Kee Bird”] is destroyed by a fire in Greenland, no victims. Plane had been abandoned since 1947 after a non-fatal accident. A team of aircraft restorers attempted to repair and fly it out of the location, but a fire broke out while it was still on the ground. The Restoration team´s efforts were the subject of a PBS Nova documentary, entitled “Frozen in Time”, and hence this footage exists, as they were filming what would be the aircraft´s engine startup. The fire was not the worst setback on this restoration: one of the project team´s engineers, Richard Allen 'Rick' Kriege, perished from illness during the restoration process. It was later determined that the conflagration began in the aircraft´s APU – Auxiliary Power Unit

@boomstickbabe WHAT? Never? Its all American ground up peckers and snouts with added salt. Whats not to like?

I’ve never eaten a hot dog. Like, never. Why? Because I think they are disgusting. Lips. Hooves. Assholes & all the rest of the discarded parts. Well, take a good look folks - I ate one. Why? I still don’t know why I did it.

@blkgunsmattr Never point a weapon at anyone unless you are prepared to end them.

What’s the best advice you’ve received from a firearms instructor?

@Don_K_Williams Only had one of those my entire career and felt bad for the other keeper. Wind caught it. Completely unintentional.

What the…

@lrakreyem @engineers_feed Bingo

@engineers_feed The sorts of things found in the Mandelbrot set. youtube.com/watch?v=4LQvjS…

What's the coolest mathematical fact you know of?

@rawsalerts Its almost like cruises are rat infested floating petri dish cattle boats.

🚨 #BREAKING: Canadian cruise passenger isolating in British Columbia tests positive for hantavirus.

@GlennDavisSoc Guess Rick Springfield, Cheap Trick Oingo Boingo weren't available??

First FIFA World Cup Final halftime show featuring K Pop BTS, Madonna and Shakira.

@Don_K_Williams I will be your backup keeper. Lets do it!

I turned 63 this year And apparently someone thinks I still have what it takes to play pro! I just got an email invitation & all it will cost me is $120!! Should I fly down to Florida and tryout? 🤣

@RealAirPower1 How Goose got killed.

If you look closely at the canopy of some modern fighters (or even attack helicopters), you will notice a strange, zig-zagging line embedded right in the glass. It may look like an innocent defroster wire, but it’s actually a live explosive device - a Miniature Detonator Cord, or MDC to be exact. In fighter flying, where every single fraction of a second matters during an emergency, this thin explosive cord gives pilots a fighting chance to survive. 1/2

@MatthewModine You defined an entire generation of underdog athletes with that movie. Thanks.

I’m often asked about the pegboard scene in VISION QUEST. That was all me. No stunt doubles or safety measures. I trained for a long time and had to climb it several times to get all the angles. The “trick” is not to over extend, so you’d be pulling up your entire body weight. You have to keep it compact. Arms and elbows tight. 💪🏽 You can support the @FMJDiary project by bidding on a signed VQ poster here: ebay.com/itm/2062521319…

@Tironianae The new Epstein Class destroyers?

BREAKING🚨 President Trump stuns America by announcing the construction of “two brand new, very large battleships... They'll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100x more powerful than any battleship ever built” LET’S FREAKING GO 🔥

@boomstickbabe Don't lose that collar tab.

Just a little glimpse into my life at the moment.

@RantyAmyCurtis Its not too late to delete this ridiculous display of your lack of history knowledge.

By the way, the smallpox vaccine wasn’t invented until 1796.

@lady_valor_07 Went to a biz meeting and sat in the lobby next to a random dude. We both started talking and he introduced himself as Steve. Had a great convo, he got called into his meeting, shook hands. Had no idea who he was, im a soccer guy. Turned out it was Steve Young. Nice guy.

Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever spoken to? Not “seen from far away” — actually talked to, even for a minute. A quick hello, a handshake, a normal conversation… and you still remember it. Who was it?

@Dr_TheHistories And the question everyone should be asking is how did he shoot RFK 3 times from behind at 1-3" away when he was shooting at him from 4 feet in front of him.

"'Is everybody OK?' Those were the last words of a man who had just been shot in the head. Not a cry for help. Not a scream of pain. He asked about everyone else. Some men spend their whole lives trying to be heroes. Robert Kennedy was just being himself." It was just after midnight on June 5, 1968. Robert F. Kennedy had just won the California Democratic presidential primary, a victory that positioned him as the likely next president of the United States. The ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles was electric with hope. He had spoken of ending the war in Vietnam, of bridging racial divides, of a better America. When he finished, he was told there was a shorter route to the press conference—through the kitchen. He agreed, shaking hands with hotel staff as he walked. Then Sirhan Sirhan stepped out from a low tray-stacker and fired. Eight shots from a .22 caliber revolver. Three hit Kennedy. As he crumpled to the concrete floor, blood spreading across the linoleum, his first question wasn't about himself. Lying there, mortally wounded, he asked: "Is everybody OK?" Those around him would later say they couldn't believe it. In the moment of his own destruction, he was thinking of others. He died the next day at 42. The nation that had already lost one Kennedy brother now lost another. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated just two months earlier. 1968 was tearing America apart. RFK had been the figure who seemed capable of holding it together—a white politician who marched with Cesar Chavez, who cradled a dying child in his arms in the Mississippi Delta, who spoke of healing when others preached division. The photograph of him lying on that kitchen floor, a busboy named Juan Romero cradling his head, became one of the most haunting images of the 20th century. Romero, just 17, had been shaking Kennedy's hand moments before. He stayed with him until help arrived. He would carry the weight of that night for the rest of his life, visiting RFK's grave annually until his own death in 2018. Some men leave behind speeches. Others leave behind policies. Robert Kennedy left behind a question that still haunts us: 'Is everybody OK?' In a world that often forgets to ask, maybe that's the most important legacy of all... #drthehistories