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2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread

Fayettenamcanesfan said:
Tepper needs to sell and concentrate on MLS Or get WNBA team he can fuck up. Maybe he can handle one of those dodge ball teams on ESPN the Ocho.
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Tepper does need to sell, will it happen, no, but for all the excitement with that one playoff game hype a year ago, this current team between the injuries and the lack of depth of talent is probably trending somewhere in the neighborhood of a 5-12 season in the shittiest division in football.
 
Yeah, I dunno. Tepper finally seems to have figured out how to let the football people run the football program, and a lot of the current issues seem to be down to a catastrophic series of injuries and the generally bumpy path between being a sucky team and being a decent team. I don't like the guy, but he did flip a switch after that incident where he chucked a drink at a fan in Jacksonville ... or where ever. If he sold now, they'd probably get some other VC nitwit who would need 3-4 years to figure out how to manage a club.
 
Tony Romo is out at CBS, his contract was terminated by mutual consent. If/when he wants to get back on the air, he’s a free agent. However, based on who sits in the top chair at ABC/ESPN, NBC and Prime (who just extended Herbie’s contract) and his performance over the last few years, we may have seen the last of him for a while.
 
Ahead of the Finland trip, my wife and I decided to enroll in Global Entry. We have friends in suburban Charlotte that did the online application, had it accepted and their in person interview at Charlotte Douglas Airport in a 3 day span last week. We applied on Wednesday, got conditional approval on Friday morning and they offered us an interview in Charlotte at 7:30 that morning. As teleportation wasn’t an option, we had to search for another appointment. That was the last available appointment in Charlotte for the rest of the month. And Charlotte is the only enrollment center in North Carolina. So today we did a round trip drive to Dulles Airport, 529 miles, 8:42 behind the wheel, 10:30 total elapsed time. But we got our final approval before before we crossed back into NC.
 
Bryce has been good since middle of last year. Not worried about him anymore. He leads the league in passing yards and completion % /yards on deep balls. With all the injuries on defense they’ll have to score 28+ every night. Holding them to a FG is a win
 
andyt said:
Ahead of the Finland trip, my wife and I decided to enroll in Global Entry. We have friends in suburban Charlotte that did the online application, had it accepted and their in person interview at Charlotte Douglas Airport in a 3 day span last week. We applied on Wednesday, got conditional approval on Friday morning and they offered us an interview in Charlotte at 7:30 that morning. As teleportation wasn’t an option, we had to search for another appointment. That was the last available appointment in Charlotte for the rest of the month. And Charlotte is the only enrollment center in North Carolina. So today we did a round trip drive to Dulles Airport, 529 miles, 8:42 behind the wheel, 10:30 total elapsed time. But we got our final approval before before we crossed back into NC.
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We got Global Entry when they first became a thing. We booked our interview 45 days in advance at the first available opening in Charlotte. Securing a Global Entry pass is unquestionably a hassle, but it's definitely worth the aggravation. You'll be thanking yourself when you roll back into a port of entry and there's a several hundred yard long serpentine line of travlers waiting to clear customs...especially if you have a connecting flight to catch. That little card is absolutely magic for cutting through the B.S. and reducing waiting, and waiting some more.

Jim
 
Pucking Lamplighter said:
We got Global Entry when they first became a thing. We booked our interview 45 days in advance at the first available opening in Charlotte. Securing a Global Entry pass is unquestionably a hassle, but it's definitely worth the aggravation. You'll be thanking yourself when you roll back into a port of entry and there's a several hundred yard long serpentine line of travlers waiting to clear customs...especially if you have a connecting flight to catch. That little card is absolutely magic for cutting through the B.S. and reducing waiting, and waiting some more.

Jim
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I haven’t been anywhere except Canada or Mexico since 2014, so I never bothered with it. That and my company wouldn’t pay for it. So we survived on just Pre-check.
 
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