PlayballerDC
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PlayballerDC
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Dallas Cowboys 💯since 1971. And will ALWAYS be ✭ Mississippi State since 1981. In the gym every night at 10:30. X is my escape into the sports world.
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@dawgsmack Looks like the rolling trash can from the Sand People in Star Wars
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@BBGreatMoments Center in football might be up there. Making line calls, making sure to get the qb the ball perfectly, and having a 330 lb mountain about to hit you with all his might as soon as you snap. Over and over and over. And oh, don’t dare flinch.
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@uscfan981 It has the Pro Football Hall of Fame. If the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was still about rock and roll, I would include that too
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@BBGreatMoments Cy Young’s…. But Nolan Ryan’s 7 no hitters is unbreakable as well
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, a third time, a fourth time, and a million times more: as long as Messi is still playing football, he is the best player in the world, no matter where he plays or the level of competition around him.
Not Lamine Yamal, not Olise, not Kane, not Mbappé, and not anyone else.
What Messi does is far more difficult and far more valuable than goals, assists, statistics, tactics, or anything else that can be measured when comparing ordinary footballers.
Messi is a level of sustained excellence that lasted for 20 years straight—a level that even Maradona couldn’t maintain for a single month throughout his career.
Messi is the best and most accurate goalscorer in the world even when he’s nowhere near the penalty area, something neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Pelé ever reached.
Messi’s first touch is better than Zidane’s. His ball control is more refined than Ronaldinho’s. His dribbling is better than Iniesta’s. And the crazy part is that these are the very qualities that made those legends special in the first place.
Messi is better than all of them at the one thing that defined them.
He’s a level above even that fictional player we used to create in PES and FIFA with every attribute maxed out and every ability unlocked.
As Aboutrika once said: “Messi is proof that God exists.”
Because honestly, it’s impossible to believe that someone like this happened by pure coincidence. 🐐🇦🇷❤️

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Another flying story. (And the time I should’ve died). 😳
When I was the Operations Officer for a USAF C-141 squadron at Travis AFB, CA, we had an “Island Run” where we flew to Hawaii, Johnston Atoll, Kwajalein, Midway Island, and into crew rest. The next day, back to Honolulu. Long first day and mostly in the middle of the night.
On approach to Midway one midnight we hit severe turbulence on at about 500 feet and ingested birds into two engines. Lost one and the other was degraded but still operating at about 50%. I initiated a go around, climbed out, and entering holding to run checklists and access our damage. The weather folks in Midway radioed that it was only going to get worse. We couldn’t get in and our divert base was Honolulu.
Thankfully, I’d “tankered” some fuel. For the wife and the kids, we used to say.
Unfortunately, because of the severe turbulence, we lost our dual navigation systems (INS) and diverting back to Honolulu was our only option.
Initially, I asked for a “DF steer” on the HF radios. Pilots will get how nits that is. Basically, a WWII means of picking up a radio signal and flying to it for about 3 hours. It’s an emergency situation, definitely.
To compound matters, my copilot was so freaked out she became “inoperable.” She couldn’t talk. So, now I’m soloing.
In what I can only surmise was a God thing, my flight engineer “Smitty” happened to be an avid fisherman and just happened to have an original Garmin GPS in his helmet bag.
This was our conversation exactly. He pulls out something I‘ve never seen. He says, “hey, will this work boss?” I said, “fuck yeah, plug in HNL and give me a heading!” It worked. We taped Smitty’s little GPS to the cockpit dash so I could see the course and navigate accordingly. I flew that frikking line like it was life, because it was life.
Approximately 3 hours later, we picked up the lights of the islands. Honolulu picked us up on radio and put us on vectors. We and landed safely in Honolulu. Sometimes you feel God’s hand on your shoulder.
I made my copilot fly the approach to bring her around. Much like driving a car after an accident. She wasn’t happy about it but she cowboyed up.
The night I probably should’ve died.

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🚨🚨The #Cowboys really like Jeremiah Smith and they own one first-round pick in 2027, would need to secure a Top 3 pick or make a significant trade up to select Ohio State star WR Jeremiah Smith
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Cowboys DC Christian Parker on Caleb Downs: “He’s as advertised. We spent significant time with him before the draft process, so we had a good feel on who he was and knew some people at Ohio State, at Alabama, in terms of how he was on the day to day that we maybe didn’t see in that 30-visit or at the combine.
“But he’s been doing great. He’s a worker. He looks for coaching. He craves that. He wants to be corrected. He wants more information. And he works as hard as he can with the extras and everything else. So it’s been good. He’s been good to work with, and I think that he’s trying to advance at the right rate.
“I think that we try to lessen those expectations in terms of what goes on outside of these walls. There’s a certain process to take as a rookie in general in the National Football League, and we try to abide by that process.”

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@CrwnGlobalMedia how does the mandatory practices compare to a Senior Bowl practice in regards to intensity? Thanks
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