Just happened across the ISU v Bama 2001 Indy Bowl playing on ESPNU right now at Christmas midnight.

I was at that game. Funny to think of Bama in a lower bowl. Fun time and Bama fans were so gracious partying that day.

Damn, Ennis was a beast. I just watched Seneca fumble a snap after we drove the field in the early fourth. Yelk woofs the FG, his second miss. But we are up 13-7.

Wow, so sweet to watch Seneca, Ennis, Lane Danielson, Mike Banks, etc.

I guess I will torture myself and finish this.

But last kick will be good.

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Purdy has the spotlight at the moment, and rightfully so. Meanwhile our boy Lazard just keeps grinding. He's probably at his ceiling and is never go to be a featured WR1, but he lays out to make big catches and does the little things so well. Perfect example above, blocking three and counting them up after. Tough as they come at his position.

Need to move some estate items (1100 miles) and one of the items is a 15 + YO refrigerator. U haul trailers not tall enough to stand it up. I've had several people tell me you can move on its side if you keep pressure off compressor and wait to plug it in. Can't find much on internet to confirm that.
Anyone have any first hand experience they would care to share?

From,
isufan2 in not so sunny Florida right now. 32 last night.
And Happy New Year.

I saw someone on the bird app make something like this for West Virginia bowl games, so, here is every Iowa State endzone as seen in bowl games from 2000 to present.

Note: I am working on a graphic to incorporate the bowls from the 1970s, I have the '72 Liberty and '78 Hall of Fame Bowls done, but am looking for footage of the '71 Sun and '77 Peach to finish this project.

Early Merry Christmas to all CFers. Even to all the ones I have dumbed through the year.

As my Toyota exceeds 200k miles, I am thinking of trading her in for something else in the next few months. I am wanting a luxury vehicle and looking at something between 2009-2015 as it won't break the bank. I am thinking of getting either a Lexus, Acura, or Infiniit. I love the styles of German luxury vehicles, but everything I read about them is they are less reliable than their Japanese counterparts and much more expensive to repair. I want my cars to go over 200k without investing a lot in them.

TLDR, should I go with a Lexus, Acura, or Infiniti? Leaning Lexus at the moment, even though they're a little more pricey than the other two.

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Holiday Decorations!

Our living room is blue and orange, and things need to match in my house. Ergo, we hand make about 90% of our ornaments (we do a new one as a family each year, to varying degrees of success), and match the wrapping paper and homemade bags.

I absolutely love my mother in law, but she sent the red gifts that don’t match. Sigh.

I know it can be done, but I am about ready to smash the computer. I know it is posted somewhere but I cannot find it, because of course the search function won't search for 3 letter words...

Assembling this ******* Barbie Dreamhouse?

Tonight’s 43 point effort against the Heat, coupled with the pending NBA All-Star invite, seals the deal for me. The GOAT.

New episode from Ben and I! I mention my friends in the forums several times cause you guys are funny. Enjoy! Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

How do we get The game on 12/24, so we can watch Purdy?

This good:
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Hello. I have a lot of music backed up on Google Drive. I have yet to find an easy method of listening to those files using a Chromebook. Anyone have any suggestions on how to listen to these files directly from Drive? Is their an "app" or something that will act like a traditional media player on a computer for this purpose?

I was watching the local news today and they had a very interesting story on a proposal to change the way Iowa high schools are classified for football competition.

It's been shown there's a clear disadvantage for schools that have a large Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL) population when it comes to football competition. For example, until Roosevelt upset Waukee last season, the Des Moines public schools had lost 160+ consecutive games against the suburban schools.

So the proposal is to subtract 40% of the school's FRL enrollment from the school's total enrollment for purposes of classifying the school for football competition. I'm thinking that could mean schools like Des Moines East could be playing schools like Bondurant or Norwalk in football.

Apparently, 80% of the Iowa high schools surveyed are in favor of this proposal. I haven't thought it through very carefully, but I think I'd be in favor as well.

Last Fall, I started a thread about college search and campus visits. I do appreciate comments from my fellow CFers espcially one mentioning tat the goal is to go to good schools as my son might change his major - the poster was correct: he decided to change his career goal, instead of going to med school, he wants to major either in Biomedical Engineering or Applied Maths & Statistics.

One year later, here we are: still writing essays, waiting and getting announcements. So far he got accepted by U of Minnesota Twin Cities. Still waiting for couple of more announcements in January, including Wisconsin-Madison on the 31st). He got deferred by couple of colleges (we know those 2 would be a reach) but got accepted last week by Notre Dame. Now he's leaning towards ND now, although that means paying much more than U of M. But at the end of the day we'll see how things go and sit down to see what makes sense.

Would love to hear experiences with fellow CFers (either parents or students themselves). I always think it's fun the exchange stories like this.

If true, this is very surprising to me. The tweet has been deleted.

There is a video of the entire Bishop Garrigan vs Hopkins Minnesota game on YouTube for those interested in seeing Audi Crooks other than in highlights. Hopkins of course is the large school Minnesota team that produces Division 1 players year after year. And Bishop Garrigan is an Iowa small school team. So a mismatch in the talent pool because of school size just like when Lexi Donarski's Aquinas team player Hopkins a couple years. I just started watching but Audi seems to get up and down the floor well. Had one basket so far, some nice passes out of the post and swished a couple free throws.

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In C1/C2 for the dual on January 7th against Wyoming. Parking is close to Hilton

What are some of your holiday traditions (whatever you celebrate)?

Possible questions:
When do you open presents?
When do you start playing holiday music?
When do you decorate for a holiday?

Ryan Clanton is expected to be named Iowa State's newest offensive line coach. Guy has an insanely positive resume.

If you celebrated Christmas as a child, or do now with your own children, what are traditional stocking stuffers in your house? Or, if you don’t celebrate Christmas but other holidays with gifts, what are small traditional trinkets associated?

When I was little, we always got an apple and an orange (I can’t associate a URL with text on mobile, here is a link to the tradition of oranges in stockings: https://www.eatingwell.com/article/7873163/orange-in-christmas-stocking/ ). We usually got a bunch of chocolate (best was Butterfinger Jingles, which I can no longer find). And there was usually underwear or socks of some kind. Then a gift from Santa.

Our kids get a chocolate orange from Terrys, some Reese’s trees, and quite often underwear or socks. Our youngest specifically asked Santa for some this year while visiting, which made me laugh.

What are yours?

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Apparently nothing wrong with him, genetics of a tall family.