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We try to hit Smalls when in NYC b/c you can stay all night vs many where you buy tix for an hour or so and then get shuffled out. Covid really killed jazz clubs. The green mill in Chicago was always our go to post dso/deadco/JRAD but now the music stops at midnight vs 4am pre covid.

Saw Hyryder at the bluebird in Bloomington, IN last night. Really cute music club that is only open during shows so seeing this wasn’t some bar show but an actual venue, we made the short drive. Hyryder never disappoints. The only issue is they aren’t doing full 4 hour start to finish anymore. They are doing like 3:45. My greed is off the charts. DSO used to start almost every show at the second of showtime. Even saw them start one 2 minutes early. Id tell people the show will start in 10 minutes b/c it was 7:50. They were like no band does that. I’m like trust me. Of course deadheads are the greediest fans ever. We want 5 hours not just 4 and god forbid dso does a 8:15 to 11:50 show. Hey guys there’s time for 1 more!!! But as I age, 3:30 start to finish is sufficient…….sometimes.

Was curious if anyone here was at the making of the touch of grey video after the 1987 Laguna seca show. I found the making of the video on internet archives. Dead Ringers: The making of touch of grey https://archive.org/details/grateful-dead-making-of-1987-vhs

There was a point where I wanted to name our little man Levon (lead singer drummer)as I really love that name as well as Levon Helm’s voice and drumming, but figured 95% of the people would think we named him after an Elton John song so didn’t want that. Meili was telling people we were going to name him Lettuce for a few weeks.

Curious how fast DSO played the opening Touch when they recreated the 6-15-1985 dead show in 2014 and 2002. That song is so ridiculously fast tempo. If you aren’t familiar with it check it out. It’s so fast, it’s really not played well and would be hard to play well. You can’t really do anything with it at that tempo. You are trying to just not fall off the bus.

the score was already accidentally posted on PFR. 37-34 eagles. The Sportsbooks had that score at 250-1 and it quickly got bet down to 80-1. Someone’s getting fired in the NFL offices for letting the final score slip out early. 10-0 Chiefs after Q1 is what the NFL has scripted, but the eagles make a comeback b/c the nfl knows it’s good for ratings.

i was planning on going to those with Gr8tfulpair before my mom had surgery and then had no one to keep the little man. I’d have been real disappointed

in the offseason you add a FA who gets you 18 sacks and you trade for a WR1 who gives you 1500 yards. That’s how you get to the SB.

Losing pollard to a broken leg eliminated any ground game possibility. You have to be able to run to win. It’s how Cincy beat the bills. It’s why the eagles are so good. If the damn kicker had made the 1st xp, we’d have kicked the 50 yarder and there would have been no broken leg 2 plays later and no int a play after. We wouldn’t have been in that spot. And it’s really sad for Pollard. He’s a FA who’d have gotten paid well from someone and now his future is uncertain.

The Dak picks hurt. Not being able to trust the kicker caused us to go for it on 4th down and a play later lost the most explosive player on the field to a broken leg. That was the killer. It was tied up 2nd half but we had no run game and the 49ers defense is brutal if you get one dimensional. Heartbreaking game. Next year zeke is gone and can’t sign pollard with a broken leg. Dallas had limited weapons before pollard went down. Overall depressing game starting with the missed extra point. That took the air out of the game for the boys

Cincinnati is dominating the bills defense. Hopefully Dallas comes out and can do that to the 49ers.

Friends accuse me of being biased against Deadco b/c I see so much DSO. I’m biased towards good music. Hyryder is fantastic. I’ve also seen some bad dead tributes who I won’t name. I listen to the music and if it’s good I like it and if it’s not I don’t. It’s pretty simple. I’d love to be in love with Deadco. Think of how many extra shows in cool venues I’d see. It sort of sucks. I’ve seen them in a bunch of cool venues but that tempo just sucks it out of me. Folsom field, Shoreline, wrigley. I tried and tried. It’s not like I didn’t give them a shot. I’ve had fun at most shows but it’s not the musical fun of other bands. It’s the fun of being in a football stadium in the middle of summer with friends seeing a big spectacle.

This year the NFC is much stronger. The eagles and 49ers can both pound the ball and both have elite defenses. My cowboys have a shot if they can block the 4 man rush of the 49ers but that’s a big if like last season where they allowed a whopping 24 QB pressures vs the 49ers.

Why would you think he’d keep missing XP’s. He missed like 1 all season. 4 in a row is a fluke. That’s prob why coach didn’t start going for 2. Eventually he’d hit one and we need him next week. but wow my boys looked good!!!

There was a guy who bet 1.4mil at -12500 money line on the chargers when they were up 27-0. He bet 1.4m to win 11k and lost it lol. If I have 1.4m cash on hand I don’t think I’d be super pumped to try to win 11k risking it all. In other news, a guy jumped off his Vegas balcony. Whoever wins this Tampa/Dallas game has to play the 49ers with 2 days 4 hours less rest. Theres a reason they don’t have MNF last game of the season to not give a team 1 fewer rest days. But this is ridiculous. 49ers played the 1st playoff game Saturday afternoon and they play the winner of tonight. Wow.

Dallas had won 1. In 2016 all they had to do was stop Rodgers going 50yds in less than a minute and he got a 40yd scramble pass to a wide open guy. Against the Rams in 2018 they gave up over 250yds rushing. Horrible defense. And last year against the 49ers their insane defense had a record 24 QB pressures in that game. It’s taken an entire team failure for Dallas to suck in the playoffs and their defense looks to be normal pathetic cowboys form. Jerry spends all his money on offense. Zeke has a ludicrous 19mil cap hit. That’s stupid for a guy who can’t make big plays. Jerry has said he doesn’t trust outsiders which are free agents. He only signs FA’s to min contracts but will extend his own to inflated contracts. the Eagles went out and made deals to improve their team but Jerry won’t ever do that. He’s built teams that will at least be 9-8, but won’t risk future 9-8 teams to go for it like the eagles did. I think it’s either the Eagles or 49ers that will win the NFC. Dallas is the only other team with a shot but the O line is shot. 3 starters and the main backup are gone from last years team and we can’t run anymore. The eagles can run as well as the 49ers. The worst thing that’s happened to Dallas was the eagles losing those 2 straight forcing Dallas to play starters last game.

When was the last time Dak lost to the Eagles? It’s been a long time. Didn’t he just put up a monster game vs them. 27/35 347 3 TDs 1 int plus 40 yds on the ground. I don’t tbink the eagles gave up 40 all year or 1 300yd passing game. That’s what Dak can do. The last game was meaningless. since 2020 with Dak under center, Dallas has scored on average 3 more points than any other team. I thought you guys drafted a QB 2nd the same year we got Dak in the 4th round. Aww Carson Wentz. That was a good one. Hurts has played well this year but is hurt a bit like most running QBs. Not a sustainable thing being a running QB.

This SEC bias is ridiculous. The refs gave Georgia the game. I hope the smart peeps of QAnon decide to take this issue on because this is a conspiracy bigger than having the election stolen from Trump who we all know won. Georgia maybe had 500 fans at the game to my 70k and you want me to believe that Georgia could win. Look at the people so excited for me and Georgia had maybe 70 people there. There’s definitely fraud involved. 200k people were at the game cheering on TCU and maybe 5-6 Georgia fans and you want me to believe there’s not fraud when literally 0 fans show for Georgia and the entire state of Texas is supporting TCU. We need to get Wild at BCS headquarters. Who’s with me. We need to fight because this is TCU’s only chance ever to get in the playoff being truly around the 20th best team like their FPI ranking. We can’t let this SEC bias continue. Don’t believe the lies about how the SEC every year dumps more talent into the NFL of any conference by a lottttttt. Those are lies told by the mainstream media. Teams like TCU and Cincinnati and Michigan state would go undefeated or at worst 1 loss in the SEC. Only 10 of the top 25 recruiting classes every year are in the SEC. What about the other 4 teams who barely recruit top 40!!! The parity in the big 10 west is what makes it so strong. Parity is good. Purdue is next man up and showed why they were highly regarded. Next year maybe Northwestern will shine again. Maybe Illinois will replicate the big year.

I’m hoping Dallas threw the game and used it to just get a bit of cardio b/c they were pathetic. They were averaging a whopping 35.1 pts a fake since Daks return and took a dump today. It’s been 5 games since Dallas averaged at least 4 yards per carry rushing and the running backs were at a nice 2.2ypc today. You don’t win like that. Zeke finished the season with 3.8 ypc with his 19 mil cap hit. Good lord. This postseason is the last we will see him in a cowboys uniform. Micah parsons who was the odds on favorite for defensive player of the year is now a shell of himself from injuries but in a meaningless game, we play him the whole thing. A few games ago the coaches tried to take him out and he said if you think I’m too hurt to play I’m too hurt to prescribe and McCarthy let him finish a game we were up 30. He has no control of the players. Parsons with all his talent is a shell of his early season self but he doesn’t care enough to try to heal. No. He just get hurt again today and limps off the field when we were the 5 seed anyway. We lost 2 O line starters and 2 CB starters for the season over the last 4 weeks. We hired 2 retired players to be starters b/c of lack of depth. Jerry Jones refusal to sign any outside player to more than league minimum has left us paper thin at multiple positions. He was relying on rookies to automatically be starters and when that didn’t happen he had no backup plan. Last years WR5 is the WR2 this year and he can’t run a route. Of course a 5yr guy who just caught his 1st TD this year and is making the league minimum can’t be relied upon. Worst game I’ve ever seen. Our USFL punt returner muffed his 2nd punt this year. You don’t keep your job as a punt returner fumbling 2 punt fair catches in a year. It’s why he played arena football and USFL. I hope to god they were just using this as a bit of exercise and saving all the good plays for the playoffs.

epic time!!!! Trying to catch sport on tour is always fun. The only thing we got was an OSU V MD game in Columbus 4 years ago and that was like a 60-7 game. i think Billy Strings is pulling peeps from other tours. Nashville panic was so unsold that they closed the 300 level night 1 and night 2 maybe 100 tix were sold for the whole upper arena but at least we could go up there. I have to think it’s Billy pulling peeps away. He already sold out 2 nights of Bridgestone which is nuts.

It’s crazy because in a text group every friend agreed that they had to postpone the game and when the NFL initially announced a 5 minute warmup period we were like WTF!!!!!! Luckily the NFL heeded the on air personalities. The NFL is run by a bunch of idiots. I think the world forced them to do the right thing vs their inclination to continue play. Billionaires don’t get that way by not conducting business and they wanted the show to go on. Bones get broken but you don’t die in the NFL. i was reading that after cardiac arrest in general, they always induce a coma for 24+ hours and put a breathing tube in you once they get your heart rhythm back to normal in the hospital.

Saw widespread panic’s 2 night run at Bridgestone Nashville. The upper level was unsold so we went from the packerd floor up to a sweet wide open smoking section for our group. Their arena sound was dialed in. There were points that we sat and closed our eyes and left the universe and we were pretty much sober and they still scrambled my head. 30 minute long intentional psychsdelic melt segments in 2nd set. It reminded me of Roger waters how the sound was coming at you from every angle. They really did the light show up being an arena New Years and it wasn’t a normal speaker setup too. It was nicely set up to move the sound everywhere and there was a 5 minute stretch where the stage was gone and these crazy lights started taking us on a space ride. Note I just had a bit of whiskey and it felt as wild as any trip. I think I got tranced. I realize I need to see Panic more. I was blown away. Of course New Years in a massive joint gets more invested in the sound and lights but man was it was epic. edit: we got a Low Spark and a love the one you’re with at midnight New Years. I thought I was at a DSO show.

So we almost went to the music city bowl being in Nashville. Omg thank god we didn’t. There was a bowl article ranking the games and it said that game rivaled the worst games in bowl history. Every offensive player opted out. Here’s how bad the 21-0 Iowa win was. Iowa was 0-11 on 3rd and 0/2 on 4th downs. Not 1 conversion all day on 3 and 4th. Kentucky was 2/18 on 3rds. Iowa had 2 pick 6’s plus 1 drive. We soooo dodged a bullet not overpaying on the $8 tickets on stubhub. The only positive is my buddy easily won betting the 31 point under. 31 points was the o/u and that was too high lol.

he got the 1st. He never touched down. Looked pretty clearly like he got it on the review. The fact is Georgia should have never been playing osu round 1. Michigan had a great season but OSU was a better team who got whooped 1 game by Michigan. Can’t believe TCU beat them. Let’s see if TCU’s 3 star oline guys can stop Georgia’s D line like OSU’s future NFLers did. both were awesome games. Finished the osu Georgia game at 5am post show. Crazy. TCU doesn’t have the speed to escape the Georgia defenders like osu does. I’m calling a 55-27 Georgia win.

crazy. Doing a rebuild after you signed Adams to that monster contract lol. Seems like half the QBs in the NFL are injured now. Didn’t want to risk the 33m guaranteed for injury when they were cutting bait. What’s crazy is he’s no longer even in the building. He’s been asked to stay away for the last 2 weeks. I want to get 2mil a game to sit home and watch football like Carr is getting being healthy.