Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
i never tried wolverine.
would you say it’s similar to Nutria or coon? maybe otter?
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i never tried wolverine.
would you say it’s similar to Nutria or coon? maybe otter?
Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
Joe may be reading this, so we getting him up to speed on South Louisiana food.
that’s what i said, raccoon.
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Very well.
OHSportsFan
Fan of Ohio Sports in Indy
Joey B taking in the New Orleans Buckeyes today.
(Also, apparently his arm is in a sling)
(Also, apparently his arm is in a sling)
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Meet Joe Burrow: LSU's Toughest Renaissance Man and Maybe Savior at QB
Joe Burrow remembers tucking a stool into his locker and then collapsing onto the floor. He’d never passed out before so this was all new. His body was devoid of nutrition after one of the longest games in college football history, LSU’s seven-overtime, five-hour marathon loss at Texas A&M in which Burrow attempted 38 passes and ran 29 times. One minute, he lay on the visiting locker room floor. The next, he was on a table with an IV in his arm and trainers feeding him cookies and applesauce. And then he saw his parents, ushered inside by team personnel for one of the scariest sights any parent could see—their son a literal example of a human body giving out after a football game. The issue was serious enough that it delayed the team from departing Kyle Field that night, trainers tending to the Tigers’ star quarterback before finally helping him to the bus. “To see somebody put that kind of effort, desire and passion in a game,” longtime head LSU trainer Jack Marucci says, “it’s probably one of the first times I’ve seen anyone get into that kind of state of fatigue.”
Eight months later, toward the end of his five-hour twirl through SEC media days Monday, Burrow says of the episode, “It’s not my favorite memory of the season.” But isn’t it the most Joe Burrow thing of the season? He is, after all, heralded as the tough guy with gobs of grit, a player who seeks collisions and refuses to slide, who as a backup quarterback at Ohio State begged Urban Meyer to play on the kickoff team. What’s more Joe Burrow than collapsing onto the locker room floor after a football game? “He literally,” LSU coach Ed Orgeron says, “left it all on the field”—almost too much of it. Burrow emerged last season as a potential savior at an embattled position for this program. He cemented himself as a centerpiece to the 2019 team with this kind of stuff, not just for throwing for more than 3,000 yards or tossing 18 touchdowns to five interceptions, but for being a fearless kid that Cajuns love so much. There is more to Burrow, though, than a bunch of stats and bruises, and he got to show his weird, quirky side here at college football’s biggest unofficial kickoff event in this Birmingham suburb.
You’ve seen Burrow throw TDs, take body blows and convert third downs, but have you heard him talk about black holes, time travel and neutron stars? Because that’s what he read about last week on his phone after he lost cable TV as Hurricane Barry swept across south Louisiana. “There’s a theory of white holes,” was how Burrow began one sentence in front of puzzled reporters Monday. Oh, he was just getting started. Burrow has views on social issues, stances that some players are not knowledgeable or courageous enough to publicly express. He believes players should be compensated—“the system right now is broken,” he says—and he’s got his own views on racial inequality, pointing to a recent tweet from President Donald Trump that directed four U.S. Congresswomen to “go back” to their home countries. Trump has faced a backlash over the tweet suggesting freshmen U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, all women of color, weren't born in America. Omar, a Somali refugee, is the only who wasn't born in the United States. “Why does racial inequality have to be political?” Burrow asks aloud. “It’s basic human decency.”
Fearless on the field and off it, Burrow, of course, has a lighter side. He wore blue and yellow socks Monday depicting on it the Road Runner from Looney Toons. He’s a cartoon buff. He’s got much more where they came from, he says, including a Space Jam sweater he still sports. He’s a guitarist, too, but he can only play one song—Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin”—because it’s the only tune he learned during guitar lessons before breaking his arm and never restarting tutoring. Burrow spent a summer in New York interning at Goldman Sachs. He has an interest in Wall Street, too. He’s a different kind of renaissance man, but one nonetheless who can hold a conversation with anyone, including SEC commissioner Greg Sankey. The two met Monday and bonded over their shared passion for apples. Burrow eats a Honeycrisp apple each morning, a sort-of healthy version of caffeine, he says. You know, he told Sankey, that one apple is the equivalent of drinking one cup of coffee. “Really?” Sankey replied. He’s honest about a great many things. He admits to having two bizarre superstitions: eating a Carmel apple sucker before each game and wearing one game sock inside out. He likes Carmel apple suckers so much that a girl in high school asked Burrow to prom by bribing him with two giant bags of the candy. He said yes.
But back to that tough side of Joe Burrow, the one that had him collapsing after a football game. “He’s a competitive guy, the tough guy, the Midwest kid you want,” Marucci says. “One thing you don’t have to teach him is grit.” Burrow’s junior season highlights are compiled in a YouTube video post titled “Toughest QB in College Football,” and it has more than 15,000 views. There’s the clip in which Burrow drags a Florida defender a few yards on a QB keeper, and the one where an Ole Miss defender pummels him to the ground at the goal line. There are some from the pocket, where he stood upright in the face of pressure to deliver a couple of significant third-down completions in the big win at Auburn last September. How about the clip of him stiff arming a Georgia defender in a move that resulted in 30 more yards?
Joe Burrow's family athletic lineage dates back to the 1940s, when his grandmother, Dot Ford, averaged more than 50 points a game as a high school basketball star. She once set the state record by scoring 82 in a single game. This is the newspaper article about that game.
Burrow’s toughness is rooted in a family full of athletes originally from rural Northern Mississippi. The Burrow athletic lineage dates back nearly a century. Dot Ford, his grandmother, once scored a state-record 82 points in a Mississippi high school basketball game back in the 1940s, and grandfather James Burrow starred as a point guard at Mississippi State. His uncle, Johnny, played safety for Ole Miss in the 1980s, and his father, Jimmy, was a defensive back for Tom Osborne’s Nebraska Cornhuskers. His two older brothers, Jamie and Dan, played for Nebraska, too. If that’s not enough, dad Jimmy followed his playing career by coaching ball for nearly 40 years. This spring, he retired as the longtime defensive coordinator at Ohio University in order to catch every game of his son’s senior season. “That did play a part in it,” Jimmy says. “It was all to go to these games.”
Sports runs deep in this family. Joe attended his first sporting event—his brother Dan’s basketball game—at the age of 5… days old. At age 6, he watched Jamie start at middle linebacker and his father coach on the sideline during the 2001 Rose Bowl, when No. 1 Miami beat No. 2 Nebraska 37-14 for the BCS title (all he remembers from that day was the T-Rex float in the Rose Parade). That’s right around the time little Joey began to play youth football, when his third-grade team didn’t have a quarterback and so it was up to the coach’s son to run the offense. That’s how Joe became a quarterback and not a defensive player like his dad, uncle and two brothers. Just because little Joey played offense did not mean he played soft. “He had no choice,” Jimmy says, “we weren’t going to let him not play physical.”
Entire article: https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/07/15/joe-burrow-lsu-sec-media-days
Excellent article!!!
Joe Burrow remembers tucking a stool into his locker and then collapsing onto the floor. He’d never passed out before so this was all new. His body was devoid of nutrition after one of the longest games in college football history, LSU’s seven-overtime, five-hour marathon loss at Texas A&M in which Burrow attempted 38 passes and ran 29 times. One minute, he lay on the visiting locker room floor. The next, he was on a table with an IV in his arm and trainers feeding him cookies and applesauce. And then he saw his parents, ushered inside by team personnel for one of the scariest sights any parent could see—their son a literal example of a human body giving out after a football game. The issue was serious enough that it delayed the team from departing Kyle Field that night, trainers tending to the Tigers’ star quarterback before finally helping him to the bus. “To see somebody put that kind of effort, desire and passion in a game,” longtime head LSU trainer Jack Marucci says, “it’s probably one of the first times I’ve seen anyone get into that kind of state of fatigue.”
Eight months later, toward the end of his five-hour twirl through SEC media days Monday, Burrow says of the episode, “It’s not my favorite memory of the season.” But isn’t it the most Joe Burrow thing of the season? He is, after all, heralded as the tough guy with gobs of grit, a player who seeks collisions and refuses to slide, who as a backup quarterback at Ohio State begged Urban Meyer to play on the kickoff team. What’s more Joe Burrow than collapsing onto the locker room floor after a football game? “He literally,” LSU coach Ed Orgeron says, “left it all on the field”—almost too much of it. Burrow emerged last season as a potential savior at an embattled position for this program. He cemented himself as a centerpiece to the 2019 team with this kind of stuff, not just for throwing for more than 3,000 yards or tossing 18 touchdowns to five interceptions, but for being a fearless kid that Cajuns love so much. There is more to Burrow, though, than a bunch of stats and bruises, and he got to show his weird, quirky side here at college football’s biggest unofficial kickoff event in this Birmingham suburb.
You’ve seen Burrow throw TDs, take body blows and convert third downs, but have you heard him talk about black holes, time travel and neutron stars? Because that’s what he read about last week on his phone after he lost cable TV as Hurricane Barry swept across south Louisiana. “There’s a theory of white holes,” was how Burrow began one sentence in front of puzzled reporters Monday. Oh, he was just getting started. Burrow has views on social issues, stances that some players are not knowledgeable or courageous enough to publicly express. He believes players should be compensated—“the system right now is broken,” he says—and he’s got his own views on racial inequality, pointing to a recent tweet from President Donald Trump that directed four U.S. Congresswomen to “go back” to their home countries. Trump has faced a backlash over the tweet suggesting freshmen U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, all women of color, weren't born in America. Omar, a Somali refugee, is the only who wasn't born in the United States. “Why does racial inequality have to be political?” Burrow asks aloud. “It’s basic human decency.”
Fearless on the field and off it, Burrow, of course, has a lighter side. He wore blue and yellow socks Monday depicting on it the Road Runner from Looney Toons. He’s a cartoon buff. He’s got much more where they came from, he says, including a Space Jam sweater he still sports. He’s a guitarist, too, but he can only play one song—Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin”—because it’s the only tune he learned during guitar lessons before breaking his arm and never restarting tutoring. Burrow spent a summer in New York interning at Goldman Sachs. He has an interest in Wall Street, too. He’s a different kind of renaissance man, but one nonetheless who can hold a conversation with anyone, including SEC commissioner Greg Sankey. The two met Monday and bonded over their shared passion for apples. Burrow eats a Honeycrisp apple each morning, a sort-of healthy version of caffeine, he says. You know, he told Sankey, that one apple is the equivalent of drinking one cup of coffee. “Really?” Sankey replied. He’s honest about a great many things. He admits to having two bizarre superstitions: eating a Carmel apple sucker before each game and wearing one game sock inside out. He likes Carmel apple suckers so much that a girl in high school asked Burrow to prom by bribing him with two giant bags of the candy. He said yes.
But back to that tough side of Joe Burrow, the one that had him collapsing after a football game. “He’s a competitive guy, the tough guy, the Midwest kid you want,” Marucci says. “One thing you don’t have to teach him is grit.” Burrow’s junior season highlights are compiled in a YouTube video post titled “Toughest QB in College Football,” and it has more than 15,000 views. There’s the clip in which Burrow drags a Florida defender a few yards on a QB keeper, and the one where an Ole Miss defender pummels him to the ground at the goal line. There are some from the pocket, where he stood upright in the face of pressure to deliver a couple of significant third-down completions in the big win at Auburn last September. How about the clip of him stiff arming a Georgia defender in a move that resulted in 30 more yards?
Joe Burrow's family athletic lineage dates back to the 1940s, when his grandmother, Dot Ford, averaged more than 50 points a game as a high school basketball star. She once set the state record by scoring 82 in a single game. This is the newspaper article about that game.
Burrow’s toughness is rooted in a family full of athletes originally from rural Northern Mississippi. The Burrow athletic lineage dates back nearly a century. Dot Ford, his grandmother, once scored a state-record 82 points in a Mississippi high school basketball game back in the 1940s, and grandfather James Burrow starred as a point guard at Mississippi State. His uncle, Johnny, played safety for Ole Miss in the 1980s, and his father, Jimmy, was a defensive back for Tom Osborne’s Nebraska Cornhuskers. His two older brothers, Jamie and Dan, played for Nebraska, too. If that’s not enough, dad Jimmy followed his playing career by coaching ball for nearly 40 years. This spring, he retired as the longtime defensive coordinator at Ohio University in order to catch every game of his son’s senior season. “That did play a part in it,” Jimmy says. “It was all to go to these games.”
Sports runs deep in this family. Joe attended his first sporting event—his brother Dan’s basketball game—at the age of 5… days old. At age 6, he watched Jamie start at middle linebacker and his father coach on the sideline during the 2001 Rose Bowl, when No. 1 Miami beat No. 2 Nebraska 37-14 for the BCS title (all he remembers from that day was the T-Rex float in the Rose Parade). That’s right around the time little Joey began to play youth football, when his third-grade team didn’t have a quarterback and so it was up to the coach’s son to run the offense. That’s how Joe became a quarterback and not a defensive player like his dad, uncle and two brothers. Just because little Joey played offense did not mean he played soft. “He had no choice,” Jimmy says, “we weren’t going to let him not play physical.”
Entire article: https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/07/15/joe-burrow-lsu-sec-media-days
Excellent article!!!
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https://theathletic.com/1179929/201...xas-head-coach-tom-herman-ohio-state-recruit/
The story behind Joe Burrow, Tom Herman and a football connection five years in the making
By Brody Miller
Tom Herman hopped in the car and drove 75 miles northwest back to Ohio State’s campus from Athens High School. He had just seen an under-recruited local coach’s son throwing after school one day, and as he returned to the Ohio State football offices, the offensive coordinator grabbed head coach Urban Meyer.
“I found your next Alex Smith,” he told Meyer.
That day launched a months-long span in which Herman flew across the country to evaluate higher-ranked quarterbacks at Meyer’s command, tried to convince Meyer to take the kid and eventually received a literal thumbs-up from Meyer to move forward with the four-star quarterback from right in their backyard named Joe Burrow.
Five years later, Herman is the head coach at Texas and Burrow is the starter at LSU, and the two will meet Saturday in a top-10 matchup between two programs that believe this is their year to return to the level they were at just a decade ago. Nobody was in Burrow’s corner more than Herman in 2014, and Saturday, he will try to stop him.
“I can assure you Tom will not take Joe lightly,” said Jamie Burrow, Joe’s brother and a former Nebraska linebacker.
After school one day in 2013, Burrow ran one of his semiweekly throwing sessions with his offensive coordinator, Nathan White. He had just won Ohio’s Gatorade Player of the Year award after a stellar 56-touchdown junior year, and his recruitment was picking up with offers from smaller Big 12 and ACC schools and from Cincinnati.
Ohio State, on the other hand, needed some convincing. “They were definitely not sold on Joe,” said Jimmy Burrow, Joe’s father and a longtime assistant coach at Nebraska and Ohio.
Herman went to see Burrow throw, and that’s when everything changed. Herman liked his arm, his release and his size, plus Burrow could move a little. He was convinced. He told Meyer the quarterback Ohio State needed was in his backyard. Meyer never wanted to take a quarterback unless he had seen him throw in person, so he said he needed to see it for himself.
Herman was in, though. “If (Joe) was playing his grandmother in tiddlywinks, I think he’d want to skunk her,” Herman said last summer. He loved Burrow’s competitiveness, which he shows when he smashes his head against the wall before games and when he ran into a pregame skirmish before facing Miami last season. “He was the Gatorade Player of the Year in Ohio two years in a row, but he wasn’t the USA Today Player of the Year and he was pissed off,” Herman said. “Like, ‘I should have won that damn award.’”
Meyer kept sending Herman all over the country to look at higher-ranked quarterbacks, as he wasn’t sure about Burrow. Herman kept telling the Burrow family, “Be patient.”
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The story behind Joe Burrow, Tom Herman and a football connection five years in the making
By Brody Miller
Tom Herman hopped in the car and drove 75 miles northwest back to Ohio State’s campus from Athens High School. He had just seen an under-recruited local coach’s son throwing after school one day, and as he returned to the Ohio State football offices, the offensive coordinator grabbed head coach Urban Meyer.
“I found your next Alex Smith,” he told Meyer.
That day launched a months-long span in which Herman flew across the country to evaluate higher-ranked quarterbacks at Meyer’s command, tried to convince Meyer to take the kid and eventually received a literal thumbs-up from Meyer to move forward with the four-star quarterback from right in their backyard named Joe Burrow.
Five years later, Herman is the head coach at Texas and Burrow is the starter at LSU, and the two will meet Saturday in a top-10 matchup between two programs that believe this is their year to return to the level they were at just a decade ago. Nobody was in Burrow’s corner more than Herman in 2014, and Saturday, he will try to stop him.
“I can assure you Tom will not take Joe lightly,” said Jamie Burrow, Joe’s brother and a former Nebraska linebacker.
After school one day in 2013, Burrow ran one of his semiweekly throwing sessions with his offensive coordinator, Nathan White. He had just won Ohio’s Gatorade Player of the Year award after a stellar 56-touchdown junior year, and his recruitment was picking up with offers from smaller Big 12 and ACC schools and from Cincinnati.
Ohio State, on the other hand, needed some convincing. “They were definitely not sold on Joe,” said Jimmy Burrow, Joe’s father and a longtime assistant coach at Nebraska and Ohio.
Herman went to see Burrow throw, and that’s when everything changed. Herman liked his arm, his release and his size, plus Burrow could move a little. He was convinced. He told Meyer the quarterback Ohio State needed was in his backyard. Meyer never wanted to take a quarterback unless he had seen him throw in person, so he said he needed to see it for himself.
Herman was in, though. “If (Joe) was playing his grandmother in tiddlywinks, I think he’d want to skunk her,” Herman said last summer. He loved Burrow’s competitiveness, which he shows when he smashes his head against the wall before games and when he ran into a pregame skirmish before facing Miami last season. “He was the Gatorade Player of the Year in Ohio two years in a row, but he wasn’t the USA Today Player of the Year and he was pissed off,” Herman said. “Like, ‘I should have won that damn award.’”
Meyer kept sending Herman all over the country to look at higher-ranked quarterbacks, as he wasn’t sure about Burrow. Herman kept telling the Burrow family, “Be patient.”
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HorseshoeFetish
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That's great stuff about Joe. Makes it even harder to admit that I hope he comes up short again. Unless LSU just trucks Texas we'll have to hear about how great both teams are all season long. I mean fuck the SEC, and I want a game against Texas for some reason. At least with Texas and a big12 schedule if they lose we can hear about them maybe not being so good.
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