A Marching Band Post?

Ohio State's band is kind of hypnotic.

(It's a tribute to Hollywood. Video here.)

The "Not Impressed" Girl At Age 8

Paris Hilton As Miley Cyrus

Mini Tech Coach For Halloween

Smallest Running Back In The History Of Ever

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I had to mow the lawn again on Saturday. I'm not sure I've ever had to mow it this late in the year. Stop growing!!
• I watched the Cowboy game with about an hour delay so I could fast forward through the commercials. 
• After my comment about ghosts on Friday, someone told me a Decatur courthouse square ghost story that kind of creeped me out. A spiritual medium was even brought in (like that little lady in Poltergeist.) 
• The World Series game ended with a pick off last night? Were the Rangers secretly running the bases?
• I went to a high school football game on Friday and was reminded how annoying a pack of junior high kids can be. 
• It's not unusual to see Dez Bryant yelling on the sideline but normally it is incredibly funny how everyone just acts like he isn't there. I'd love to know what he said to get Jason Witten so mad. (Of course, we'll never know. He was just being "passionate".)
• When Vince Young was at UT, he tried that reach over the goal line for a score against the Aggies and it backfired. 
• Is it taking later for the leaves to fall this year? 
• Syria is still having a civil war, right? We were on the verge of dropping bombs and then it's completely out of the news. 
• I've not watched Ted from start to finish but I normally laugh at it when its on and then feel guilty about doing so. 
• Halloween costume "Hey, now."
• Baylor's Student Senate is recommending dropping the phrase "homosexual acts" from the relevant portion of the student code and replacing it with "non-marital consensual deviate sexual intercourse." Ummkay.
• Decatur put up 651 total yards on Bridgeport on Friday in route to its 52-7 win. 
• Strange world: There was a shooting this morning at an Arlington apartment and Arlington Police have already released a youtube video about it. 

Dez Is An Idiot

Full clip. The best part is Demarcus Ware grabbing the guy by the collar.

I still have hopes of my bet for the Cowboys' season wins being  less that 8.5. They try hard to make it true.

Random College Football Thoughts

• Good grief. A three hour lightning delay at the TCU/Texas game?  You see delays more and more these days but weren't they rare "back in the day"? 
• I once went to a TCU/OU game in a rainstorm wearing full rain gear. (I just looked it up: 1998). 
• Texas Tech and OU was a great game. Tech made it a heck of a fight. Their record is no fluke.
• But Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury needs to throttle his "rock star status" back a bit. ESPN had him give fashion tips to journalists and he went along with it.  
• I've always believed in the goal line halfback pass which no one ever uses, and I used to tell that to an OU buddy of mine years ago. Even he had to have smiled when Tech pulled that off yesterday.
• There is no way Tech should have allowed that busted reverse by OU. 
• And the Evil Empire may be back.  
• As much as I consume Baylor football, I had been convinced all year that they needed to get to 7-0 before they would face four games against four good teams. I realized yesterday it is five games and five good teams. I worry about my mental health. 
• Baylor is better than all five (TCU, OSU, UT, OU, Tech) but there is not way they get through that unbeaten. Baylor should put 30+ up on all of them. If they don't, there's trouble. 
• But Baylor has won 11 straight games. 
• Last night during the Baylor game, the camera kept cutting to despondent Kansas fans in the crowd. They've lost a ton of games over the last three years. I empathize with them. Truly. No one has suffered more than a Baylor fan. That's why I use the Walter White machine-gun-in-the-trunk analogy. I want to treat those last five teams on the schedules like modern day Nazis. There are some scores to settle. 
• Last year, after the Cotton Bowl, I remarked on how fantastic Johnny Manziel was. Someone dogged me that I had "jumped on the bandwagon." That still bugs me. "Jumping on the bandwagon" means you have become a "fan" of a team/person and desire them to continue to win. I think the guy is great, but I don't care if he succeeds in the future.
• Another buried college football beef: I once wrote that RG3 would never have won the Heisman had not the great last second TD pass against OU occurred. Someone told me I was completely wrong. You, sir, are an idiot. 
• Place your bets on Miami/Florida State next week. I'll take Florida State. I haven't looked at the line but I'm guessing Florida State -6. Edit: Holy cow. It's Florida State by 21.
• Urban Meyer is insufferable. 
• Charlie Weis has stolen a lot of money. And had a lot of cheeseburgers. 
• Nebraska's Bo Pelini won't be around for long. 
• Mrs. LL is disturbed by the slurring speech of Lou Holtz. 
• The ESPN feature on the "puntrooskie" is fantastic. 

It's A Great Day For Spelling -- Let's Do Two

And you would think that the scroll is controlled by a different person than the stationary graphic guy.

Edit: Ok, make that one. I've got an explanation but even I don't want to hear it. Dog pile!

Above The Fold

What's Going On By The Decatur Post Office?

Enlarged:

Oregon Taking You Into The Weekend

Fleeing Car vs Two Trains: Utah Chapter

Story.

Some Rivalries . . .

does anyone remember when those Bridgeport girls got shot in the butt with paintball guns during #battleofthebigsandyweek
— Wise County Problems (@WiseCountyProbs) October 25, 2013

. . . are defined by classic games or memorable plays.

We have different standards around here.

Edit: Here's the old Star-Telegram story about the paintball incident (as reprinted, for some reason, in the Victoria Advocate.)

This One Is Not For Everyone

Saw a handful of tweets on my Twitter time line this morning saying things like, "Thanks, NPR for making me cry."  There were enough of them to get me to explore what they were talking about.

It was a 4:53 radio segment.

A transcript with text is here. BUT if you're interested in this, you have to hear it.

Just being kind to one another can solve a lot of problems.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• If you are under the impression that an arrest only occurs after a complete and thorough investigation, you need to read about the wrongful arrest of (not by) a Fort Worth deputy city marshal. 
• "I will not yield to this monkey court" - Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) yesterday during the Congressional hearing on the trouble with the Obamacare web site. Funny.
• When's the last time Bridgeport went into the Decatur game winless? 
• Yesterday the Dallas chief of police fired the cop who almost murdered the mentally ill guy buy shooting him in the abdomen. We've seen the footage from a surveillance camera but was the a dashcam on the cop's car? It was right behind the cop and was at the perfect angle. 
• And the chief announced the cop would be charged with Aggravated Assault but later said he wasn't arrested because "the judge" wouldn't sign the warrant. That's just one of I'd bet 50 judges who have the authority to sign the warrant in Dallas and the Chief could present it to everyone of them until he found someone who would sign it. 
• I don't consider "Do you believe in ghosts?" to even be a serious question. 
• "This is the biggest parade of knuckleheads I've ever seen." - Decatur attorney Paul Belew in closing arguments in Jacksboro regarding the government's witnesses who had testified in a criminal trial. (Although Paul's court appointed client might have been the biggest knucklehead of all.)
• "NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas woman was handcuffed, stripped down and booked into jail – all because of an overdue traffic ticket."  That Channel 11 story even made The Drudge Report today. I'm not sure why. Getting arrested for an outstanding traffic ticket and booked into jail following standard book-in procedures happens every day. 
• Watch Cam Newton and Steve Mariucci almost have heart attacks when a cannon went off in Tampa Bay's stadium last night.

DPS Has Confused Me Again

So DPS ratcheted up police presence for about three weeks and they were able to take back the border? It's that easy?

And check out these strange numbers from the press release:

This increased patrol presence resulted in the following activity reported by law enforcement, which compares the three-week operation to the three weeks prior, in Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Starr and Willacy counties:

• 49 percent decrease in marijuana seizures
• 42 percent decrease in cocaine seizures
• 95 percent decrease in methamphetamine seizures
• 185 percent increase in U.S. currency seizures
• 67 percent increase in recovery of stolen vehicles
• 74 percent decrease in felony pursuits

So they found less marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine? Sounds like their presence was so obvious that the drug runners decided to wait them out or simply go through other Texas counties.

In Romanian Bull News

Being a traffic cop in Romania seems like a dicey proposition to start with. And I didn't even consider the loose livestock factor.

(I think it's kind of funny the way he just takes off after he launches the cop. It's like he was overcome with Romanian bull guilt.)