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Okay, then. For my 250,000th tweet, an outtake from the glamorous photo session that yielded my imposing profile pic:
No, YOU stayed up until dawn watching election returns when you had a dental appointment to get up for
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This is not an outlier. There are now 7 NWSL teams that average higher home attendance than one or more MLS teams, and Gotham and Boston are close. And the Thorns’ average now exceeds that of 6 men’s clubs.
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One day you might find yourself, at nearly 40 years old, wondering if you should buy a weighted Spyro plushie. And I’m here to tell you that you should
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He'd also average more yards per game than last year's Heisman winner and have over 2,000 career rushing yards.
More importantly, he's 3-7 as the starter in that bad stretch and 14-8 without Shula as OC.
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Silly exercise: Let's pretend LaNorris Sellers played to his career, non-Shula averages under Shula (or pretend he never had Shula).
At this point (31 career games), he'd be:
1st in at SC in total TDs, further from Shaw than Shaw is from 5th
1st in total O
2nd in passing TDs
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On a per-game basis, that's a difference of:
- 87 yards
- 1.4 TDs
- 1.2 sacks
- 2.2 yards per play
Over a large sample size. A few big-picture takeaways below:
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Per-game averages:
W/ Shula: 40.3 touches, 213.3 total yards, 5.2 ypt, 1.2 TDs, 3.8 sacks
W/O Shula: 40.6 touches, 300.3 total yards, 7.4 ypt, 2.6 TDs, 2.6 sacks
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W/O Mike Shula as OC (21.75 games):
Passing: 382-594 (64.3%), 5,110 yards, 41 TDs, 17 INTs, 8.6 ypa, 102.8 NFL passer rating, 56 sacks
Rushing (w/ sacks): 290 attempts, 1,421 yards, 16 TDs, 4.9 ypa
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With Mike Shula as OC (9.25 games):
Passing: 148-245 (60.4%), 1,796 yards, 8 TDs, 5 INTs, 7.3 ypa, 85.3 NFL Passer Rating, 35 sacks
Rushing (Includes Sacks): 128 attempts, 177 yards, 1.38 ypa, 3 TDs
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I've procrastinated on real work to look at this. It's time to have the LaNorris Sellers conversation.
LaNorris Sellers with and without Mike Shula:
Saw where the Pacers ALMOST beat the Hawks today despite dressing out only SIX players (one of whom cramped out of the game late, leaving them with NO bench subs at the end)
And I remember, back in '81 or '82, watching @GamecockWBB WIN AN NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME dressing only 6
Wait there's one of those UGH MAN-BOOST YOUR MAN-NESS, MEN companies called PARTICLEMEN?!
PARTICLE MEN?!
Isn't that already @TMBG's merch arm's name?
John and John should start a competitor named TRIANGLEMEN and put them out of business
You can see they did a GREAT job on their costumes!
Over on Bluesky, Will Frank identified these costumes for me: They're a pair of antipiracy PSA mascots from TOEI for a campaign to stop pirates from camming movies on theater screens.
They're basically shown before every movie in theaters
tokusatsu.fandom.com/wiki/NO…
Over on Bluesky, Will Frank identified these costumes for me: They're a pair of antipiracy PSA mascots from TOEI for a campaign to stop pirates from camming movies on theater screens.
They're basically shown before every movie in theaters
tokusatsu.fandom.com/wiki/NO…
Home now and watching this afternoon's #Gamecocks game against Maryland from Paris
Learned something new and somewhat surprising: If a PASS hits the rim, it DOESN'T reset the shot clock like a shot hitting the rim would?!
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We have lost too many wonderful people recently. This photo just came up in my memories of one who I had the pleasure to work with - the late, great Tony Todd. His Twitter account still follows mine but it feels wrong to tag him.
