Christian French

seepig said:
Our coaching staff is extinct! And there ability to prep the team for a game resembles an (no offense here because Alzheimer's is a terrible affliction) Alzheimer patient's ability to stay focused and have a clue. This coaching staff is terrible. Phil Parker's secondary is swiss cheese and most of the time without a clue. They are consistently in the wrong position pointing at each other like weren't you supposed to get that guy. It's shameful.
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No, you're shameless.
 
kmurp said:
Daughter and her friend spent 7/4 in Portland on a cross country trip. They told me that the large numbers of homeless kinda freaked them out and, at times, they felt unsafe.
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I am guessin' you guys didn't grow up in Iowa city, Ia then..
 
DoubleDown said:
Right on. If only Portland wasn't filthy with slackers, hipsters, and beardos, it would be a great place to abide.
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Wait, are we talking iowa city or Portland?? Downtown ped mall, sand rd, and most mcdonalds in the IC area say 'hi' #Sparechange? #Godbless
 
kmurp said:
No. Upstate NY. Are there homeless in Iowa city now? There weren't back in my day.
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Holy cow, we just built a brand new castle for them on riverside....blows my mind. The same damn super tan yahoos are always at their posts bright and early walkin up and down the sidewalk with their handy card board signs, creepily staring in yer car...I love starring right back until they finally look away. They don't miss a home-game day Saturday either....they love the small town people who think this guy just got here and fell on bad luck....then roll their window down handing him a $20...right after some other guy 10 mins. ago did. I am 27 years old and have seen the same 4 turds since jr. high....nice little system.
 
Jjgoiowa11 said:
Holy cow, we just built a brand new castle for them on riverside....blows my mind. The same damn super tan yahoos are always at their posts bright and early walkin up and down the sidewalk with their handy card board signs, creepily staring in yer car...I love starring right back until they finally look away. They don't miss a home-game day Saturday either....they love the small town people who think this guy just got here and fell on bad luck....then roll their window down handing him a $20...right after some other guy 10 mins. ago did. I am 27 years old and have seen the same 4 turds since jr. high....nice little system.
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Portland is like 10 Iowa Cities on Crack.
 
Jjgoiowa11 said:
Holy cow, we just built a brand new castle for them on riverside....blows my mind. The same damn super tan yahoos are always at their posts bright and early walkin up and down the sidewalk with their handy card board signs, creepily staring in yer car...I love starring right back until they finally look away. They don't miss a home-game day Saturday either....they love the small town people who think this guy just got here and fell on bad luck....then roll their window down handing him a $20...right after some other guy 10 mins. ago did. I am 27 years old and have seen the same 4 turds since jr. high....nice little system.
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Comparing Iowa City's homeless to those of Portland is like comparing your 4th grade rec league team to the Iowa Hawkeyes. We have at least 10 different kinds off homeless, including the actual lost their job/house kind, the addicts near rock bottom, the mentally ill, the war veteran, the professional homeless, the gutter punks, the street kids, the back-packer, the wanderers, and even a few honest-to-god hobos. We have dry shelters, wet shelters, methadone shelters, and shelters that will give you an apartment if you stay there long enough. There are some panhandlers (those with talent) that make mover 30k a year. I saw a guy raking it in on 5th and Morrison with nothing but a sign that said "ninjas stole my baby, need money for Kung Fu lessons." True story, when I first moved out here, I took the streetcar up to trendythird one day. While waiting for the streetcar for a ride home one day, near that hospital up there, a guy came up that seriously looked like leatherface. Stitches all over, his skull, blood crusties, he looked like a freaking 80's horror movie. He went from person to person telling them he had just gotten discharged from the hospital because he had no insurance, and had nothing and needed $100 for a place to stay. I tried not to stare, but eventually when I did I realized that it wasn't real. He had a bunch of make up on that made it look like he was injured.

Most of the homeless are not dangerous though. A few are. I was standing at a crosswalk with this homeless guy who looked like a cross between Jesus and Glen Danzig was headfirst up to his waist in the trash can next to me. All of a sudden the dude pulls his head out to reveal he has a huge knife between his teeth, takes it out and screams "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR WHO WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO THE ARMAGEDDON IN MY MIND" and stared right at me. It was a rather uncomfortable encounter, and I didn't wait for the green light.
 
You all seem to forget he wanted to be a TE. That is what Oregon recruited him as (though I assume they knew he'd be a DE), but Iowa told him he was going to be on defense. I believe that was important to his decision. tough to recall all the details after this many years.
 
hawkfarmer said:
You all seem to forget he wanted to be a TE. That is what Oregon recruited him as (though I assume they knew he'd be a DE), but Iowa told him he was going to be on defense. I believe that was important to his decision. tough to recall all the details after this many years.
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I think you're right that was a huge part of it. They moved him to defense after his first semester on campus.
 
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