Still is and probably always will be greatest sporting event I attended in my life. The buildup, the teams both being perfect coming in, the setting in the Rose Bowl, the way the game played out and the personal investment in who the winner was all was just perfect.
Or you know. Americans could pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop uhhh doing all the drugs at least or be less puritanical about them and severely cripple the black market for them It’s actually the perfect encapsulation of our blame everybody else society when we create the demand that gives a lot of these killers the power they have.
Most (not all) things that we do that are good for US interests have broad support, not only worldwide but at home and we work a little bit at seeing them through. I get that Maduro was an asshole leader who was terrible for his people but support for this both global and especially locally when there seem to be A LOT of other things more pressing to your average American tells me we probably fuck up the end game hard on this one when this administration inevitably gets bored with it in about a week or so and moves on to other stuff in their whack a mole approach to governing.
It's not so much the lack of cold right now that portends a shitty summer. It's the lack of moisture. The ground being dry as hell isn't a good moderator when the winds sweeping up from the SW into the state really fired up in May/June.
What? There is tons of times in history where nations look for ammo/cover for their actions. You think Collin Powell traveled to the UN with yellowcake on his mind for no good reason?
He will do something like finally start looking really competent next year and then get broken in half around game 5...it's the karma in the College Station water.
The problem is culture eats strategy for breakfast and you can't buy your way out of who you are. Well all that and Joey McGuire is a dipshit who is in waaay over his head. Also I came away impressed with Tech's front half of their defense...their back half, not so much.