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[Patler]

Patler,


I read that as well...and actually went thru the math.....like, 5 x 12 plus 9...several times, thinking, my math skills have really fallen apart.

Iron mike was listed usually at six one.

Assuming a bit of shrinkage, it wouldn't surprise me to find out he was really five elevenish (not like NFL has ever inflated #s b4 : ) before the shrink that we all undergo.

Ya, I thought about the "roster enhancement" possibility and shortening with age too. But man, 5'9" is still hard to believe. That's bordering on being short!

[MJZiggy]

Patler,


I read that as well...and actually went thru the math.....like, 5 x 12 plus 9...several times, thinking, my math skills have really fallen apart.

Iron mike was listed usually at six one.

Assuming a bit of shrinkage, it wouldn't surprise me to find out he was really five elevenish (not like NFL has ever inflated #s b4 : ) before the shrink that we all undergo.

Ya, I thought about the "roster enhancement" possibility and shortening with age too. But man, 5'9" is still hard to believe. That's bordering on being short!

Ummm....'scuse me. Not from where I stand...

[Scott Campbell]

Patler,


I read that as well...and actually went thru the math.....like, 5 x 12 plus 9...several times, thinking, my math skills have really fallen apart.

Iron mike was listed usually at six one.

Assuming a bit of shrinkage, it wouldn't surprise me to find out he was really five elevenish (not like NFL has ever inflated #s b4 : ) before the shrink that we all undergo.

Ya, I thought about the "roster enhancement" possibility and shortening with age too. But man, 5'9" is still hard to believe. That's bordering on being short!

Ummm....'scuse me. Not from where I stand...

Spill it Zig. What's the tape measure say?

[MJZiggy]

5 foot. Everyone knows I define the word petite.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Patler,


I read that as well...and actually went thru the math.....like, 5 x 12 plus 9...several times, thinking, my math skills have really fallen apart.

Iron mike was listed usually at six one.

Assuming a bit of shrinkage, it wouldn't surprise me to find out he was really five elevenish (not like NFL has ever inflated #s b4 : ) before the shrink that we all undergo.

Ya, I thought about the "roster enhancement" possibility and shortening with age too. But man, 5'9" is still hard to believe. That's bordering on being short!

Ty doesn't like being called short, Ty calls it being average...whereas those taller are borderline circus freaks.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

5 foot. Everyone knows I define the word petite.

Dang. You are so the girl for me. Ty likes em petite. Ty's ex was five three, buck oh 5....i know, a bit heavy...but, she was workin on it.

[Patler]

Patler,


I read that as well...and actually went thru the math.....like, 5 x 12 plus 9...several times, thinking, my math skills have really fallen apart.

Iron mike was listed usually at six one.

Assuming a bit of shrinkage, it wouldn't surprise me to find out he was really five elevenish (not like NFL has ever inflated #s b4 : ) before the shrink that we all undergo.

Ya, I thought about the "roster enhancement" possibility and shortening with age too. But man, 5'9" is still hard to believe. That's bordering on being short!

Ummm....'scuse me. Not from where I stand...

I have a daughter your height. Yup, she's short too! But, so is her father, for an adult male. Yet, I have a 6'2" son.

[Patler]

Patler,


I read that as well...and actually went thru the math.....like, 5 x 12 plus 9...several times, thinking, my math skills have really fallen apart.

Iron mike was listed usually at six one.

Assuming a bit of shrinkage, it wouldn't surprise me to find out he was really five elevenish (not like NFL has ever inflated #s b4 : ) before the shrink that we all undergo.

Ya, I thought about the "roster enhancement" possibility and shortening with age too. But man, 5'9" is still hard to believe. That's bordering on being short!

Ty doesn't like being called short, Ty calls it being average...whereas those taller are borderline circus freaks.

Don't worry Ty, I called myself short, too. Doesn't bother me a bit.

[KYPack]

Webster was always listed at 6'1".

For him to shrink 4 inches like that is scary.

The NFL should have intervened and got Mike serious medical help.

I hope the 5'9" was just an error or something.

[mraynrand]

In the autopsy room, Omalu snapped on his gloves and approached the slab. He noted that Mike Webster’s body was sixty-nine inches long and weighed 244 pounds.

Webster was 5' 9"?

Patler, honestly, you are like Rainman.

Numbers that slip by me like so much static twirl in your brain and clatter around like a paper clip in a vaccuum cleaner when they don't align.

Are you the first one to spot the piece of beach glass among the pebbles?

Did your children find that a casual re-telling of one innocent story might contain a key piece of information that you would immediately find to be inconsistent with a prior untruthful story of theirs from weeks before?

It must be a blessing and a curse, such a mind. A useful tool with commercial value, yet unable to engage in casual conversations without hearing the logical and mathematical inconsistencies of your fellow humans as they blather along good-naturedly.

(I only bring it up because you are quite a gentleman, and you never seem to correct out of a need to be right or better than the other guy. It must simply be deep-seated desire to be precise; if one says a body is 69 inches long one must mean 5' 9" and such a number is outside normal parameters and requires correcting or explaining.)

Patler would be a master at Schaffkopf.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Webster was always listed at 6'1".

For him to shrink 4 inches like that is scary.

The NFL should have intervened and got Mike serious medical help.

I hope the 5'9" was just an error or something.

Listed is the key word. Obviously not truthful.

Intervened: Did you read the article. Then NFL fought tooth n nail to not help him. His family shoulda got way more than 1.5 mill from the NFL.

[swede]

Patler would be a master at Schaffkopf.

Yeah he would.

Growing up in Appleton I played a lot of Sheepshead, but when I met my wife's family I found it being played at another level among her uncles and cousins.

If I hesitated for a moment after a few hands had been played Uncle Frank would say "Play your Queen of Hearts" or something similar, and he was always right about what I was holding. Every card in the game Of Sheepshead has its role in the game; by paying attention to who followed suit, who failed or shmeared, and which cards had already been played, players like Frank pretty much know who has what by the antepenultimate trick.

Now maybe I could do that if I played slowly and thought about it, but her family plays at such a speed that a lead is tossed out and played on twice before a won trick has been scraped off the table.

Compared to Uncle Frank I played Sheepshead so slowly I'm sure he wondered if perhaps I had suffered a football concussion or two.

[SnakeLH2006]

Word has it that a young white dude from Wisconsin (that is better than EVERYONE and moved to Scottsdale) figured out that Tyrone Biggum's is the greatest at LIFE EVER.

That dude just knows EVERYTHING and is known as the PackerJESUS. When I say Ty you just shut the fuck up and say Jesus...cuz he is SMARTER than EVERYONE.

TY....JESUS.

Snake and Chuck Norris shut the fuck up and just fucking bow.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Word has it that a young white dude from Wisconsin (that is better than EVERYONE and moved to Scottsdale) figured out that Tyrone Biggum's is the greatest at LIFE EVER.

That dude just knows EVERYTHING and is known as the PackerJESUS. When I say Ty you just shut the fuck up and say Jesus...cuz he is SMARTER than EVERYONE.

TY....JESUS.

Snake and Chuck Norris shut the fuck up and just fucking bow.

What the fuck is your problem. You arent' even being addressed in this thread about concussions and dementia.

go back to doing whatever is is you do...getting partial laid, fucking girls atm, complaining about shaved beavers, being the best at vid games, fighting, talking shit, telling us repeatedly about your rap mp3s/youtube channel, your selling cars, and now your expertise in restaurants...in which you can't even accurately respond to Tarlams question, etc.

Man, you are making mad's point.

[mraynrand]

LOL