Fads In Football: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Fads In Football: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Football fans are a curious bunch. We are creatures of habit. We complain about concession prices, but shovel out eight dollars for a beer and six bucks for a dog the minute the second quarter ends. We are like sheep on an open range.

Our adherence to tradition and rituals, however, is something that makes us unique.

Most of our traditions, such as Army and Navy standing together, side-by-side after the game, are sacred. But this isn’t about traditions—it’s about fads, and while some of them need to be permanent traditions, others need to be dumped forever.

A look at some of the fads in football that have made “The good, the bad, and the ugly” list.

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Charges Dropped Against Gator Bandits

Five students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who tried stealing a baby alligator from a miniature-golf course in Daytona Beach will get the charges dropped.

Prosecutors say as part of the plea agreement announced Monday, the students must do a year of community service. They will also have to do an anti-theft course, take random drug tests, pay fees to the city and they can’t visit the golf course.[Fort Mill Times]

COED Presents: Krav Maga

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Having grown up in a fairly ghetto part of Chicago and being a 6′3, 245 lb black guy, I always feel like I have the “intimidation factor” in a fight. I honestly and truly believed that, until I got my ass kicked today by a 5′6, 150 lb little white Israeli guy.

Yael, an officer in the Isaeli Army, beat me mercilessly using the technique of Krav Maga. In this part of my schooling at Anapolis we are learning different kinds of fighting techniques and styles, and I already have a strong history in Tae Kwon Do and Karate. A reasonable person would think that this knowledge would give me an advantage.

That reasonable person would actually be out of his motherfu**ing mind.

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Going AWOL Online

DODLast May, new rules went into effect barring military personnel from accessing 13 popular websites via Department of Defense computers and networks. Included among the banned sites were YouTube and MySpace.

The primary (and somewhat bullsh*t) reason for barring the sites was the DOD’s quest for bandwidth reduction and preservation. This wasn’t horribly inconsistent with previous public messages, because many military personnel spoke of serious strains place on the network from daily communication schedules as well as large data and video transmissions necessary for modern day weapons.

The real reason is that soldiers, civilian contractors, and family members of Army personnel are required to clear any posts to blogs, forums, or message boards with a superior officer before posting the content online. The goal is to prevent content getting online about the Iraqi War, and/or other sensitive information. Read More »