01/01 - RIP 2016, It's Twenty Seventeen Sunday!

Stand up man and be PROUD. That is nothing to be ashamed about. Now that the worthless oily's are out, come on over and sit with the "BOYS in the white hats. READ GOOD GUYS...

 

nahhh...I'll root for the Chiefs this year I guess..

 

thanks. i feel like im gonna fall into a deep rabbit hole of VN addiction if i install it.

 

Okay, you and I will play the NFL version of Cowboys & Indians.. Watch out for my Winchester 73 and Colt Peacemakers...

 

I'd watch your last Superbowl appearance but I don't have a VCR

Yeppers

 

That's ok, you can dvr a new one soon.

 

I had my once a year black-eyed peas and greens too, and cornbread!
Hope it brings wealth and luck, along with good health and happiness in 2017!

 

Jerry buying himself one as a going away present?

 

Excellent! Cause I like you and I was worried for as second that I would have to mock you endlessly but it's all good!

 

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@TurkedOut Kittens in the lead, how will they pull defeat from the jaws of victory this time? The World Wonders... Oh never mind that old Halsey quote...

 

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Some context for the quote:

Crisis – U.S. 7th Fleet's calls for help[edit]
Shortly after 08:00 on 25 October, desperate messages calling for assistance began to come in from 7th Fleet, which had been engaging Nishimura's "Southern Force" in Surigao Strait since 02:00. One message from Kinkaid, sent in plain language, read: "MY SITUATION IS CRITICAL. FAST BATTLESHIPS AND SUPPORT BY AIR STRIKES MAY BE ABLE TO KEEP ENEMY FROM DESTROYING CVES AND ENTERING LEYTE." Halsey recalled in his memoirs that he was shocked at this message, recounting that the radio signals from the 7th Fleet had come in at random and out of order because of a backlog in the signals office. It seems that he did not receive this vital message from Kinkaid until around 10:00. Halsey later claimed he knew Kinkaid was in trouble, but he had not dreamed of the seriousness of this crisis.

One of the most alarming signals from Kinkaid reported, after their action in Surigao Strait, 7th Fleet's own battleships were critically low on ammunition. Even this failed to persuade Halsey to send any immediate assistance to the powerful 7th Fleet.[4][6][7] In fact, the 7th Fleet's battleships were not as short of ammunition as Kinkaid's signal implied,[7] but Halsey did not know that.

From 3,000 mi (2,600 nmi; 4,800 km) away in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz had been monitoring the desperate calls from Taffy 3, and sent Halsey a terse message: "TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS." The first four words and the last three were "padding" used to confuse enemy cryptanalysis (the beginning and end of the true message was marked by double consonants). The communications staff on Halsey's flagship correctly deleted the first section of padding but mistakenly retained the last three words in the message finally handed to Halsey. The last three words—probably selected by a communications officer at Nimitz's headquarters—may have been meant as a loose quote from Tennyson's poem on "The Charge of the Light Brigade", suggested by the coincidence that this day, 25 October, was the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava—and was not intended as a commentary on the current crisis off Leyte. Halsey, however, when reading the message, thought that the last words—"THE WORLD WONDERS"—were a biting piece of criticism from Nimitz, threw his cap to the deck and broke into "sobs of rage". Rear Admiral Robert Carney, his Chief of Staff, confronted him, telling Halsey "Stop it! What the hell's the matter with you? Pull yourself together."

Eventually, at 11:15, more than three hours after the first distress messages from 7th Fleet had been received by his flagship, Halsey ordered TF 34 to turn around and head southwards towards Samar. At this point, Lee's battleships were almost within gun range of Ozawa's force. Two-and-a-half hours were then spent refuelling TF 34's accompanying destroyers.[7]

After this succession of delays it was too late for TF 34 to give any practical help to 7th Fleet, other than to assist in picking up survivors from Taffy 3, and too late even to intercept Kurita's force before it made its escape through San Bernardino Strait.

Nevertheless, at 16:22, in a desperate and even more belated attempt to intervene in the events off Samar, Halsey formed a new task group—TG 34.5—under Rear Admiral Badger, built around Third Fleet's two fastest battleships—Iowa and New Jersey, both capable of a speed of more than 32 kn (37 mph; 59 km/h)–and TF 34's three cruisers and eight destroyers, and sped southwards, leaving Lee and the other four battleships to follow. As Morison observes, if Badger's group had succeeded in intercepting the Japanese Center Force it may have been outmatched by Kurita's battleships.[7]

Cruisers and destroyers of TG 34.5, however, caught the destroyer Nowaki—the last straggler from Center Force—off San Bernardino Strait, and sank her with all hands, including the survivors from Chikuma.

 

They will piss away the lead in the 3rd and half way through the 4th then come back and win it.

Source: Watched plenty of lions games.

 

But I have many more years of evidence backing my statement.

 

Wow cant even find a hit to do on HN. At least halftime is over.

 

Read it, I'm fairly certain you could use the history lesson. By the way, that is only a small part of many pages.

 

@TurkedOut