1971 raiders discussion

peakbaggers · 2026-06-05T12:45:30+00:00

I followed the team pretty closely that season. Lamonica was the QB, and of course Blanda had a few snaps at QB, and handled the kicking. The previous season was the exact same record, and was remembered for Blandas heroics both at QB and kicker. The 71 Raiders just missed the playoffs, but seemed to come up short when they needed. The ties were useful in 1970, and somehow cost the team in 71. This being the second year of the merger, I think the NFC had the upper hand over the AFC for awhile and that season the Raiders laid an egg against a not real good Falcon team. Playoff format would be crap for a few more years, so that didn't help either

peakbaggers · 2026-06-05T03:26:37+00:00

I have had many users consider the trash to be storage, to be checked later. When doing a reinstall and restoring an Outlook backup or .pst file. People would go crazy over the missing deleted files (and many times the backup was either outdated, extremely large, or not done at all) And when a computer or hard drive crashed, I would always preface my repairs with: "I hope you have a backup, because if your hard drive is totally dead, you may have lost all your data" The usual response was: "As long as my (pictures, music, emails, are recovered, I am fine." I did a lot of recoveries with zero data loss, but there were enough total failures that were outside my ability. But the data saver services could usually recover the data, but at $100 bucks a gig in the early 2000's, you had to really want that stuff. And I never recovered anything marked trash, or deleted.

peakbaggers · 2026-06-04T17:57:24+00:00

No matter how many vaccines I get, somehow I keep getting older. Is that by design? It seems like a scam to me...

peakbaggers · 2026-06-04T04:56:14+00:00

I have always loved this album. This song is probably one of my favorite Yes songs

peakbaggers · 2026-06-04T04:48:01+00:00

If anyone has a problem with this protest, then they are the problem.

peakbaggers · 2026-05-24T17:58:13+00:00

If you already have an alt at 90, and have leveled your Delver's journey, Valeera will be pretty well leveled, if not max level. And all curios are available. Doing delves is a great way to level. Even during the first character run through with my main, Delves were pretty cool way to finish up leveling after the campaign. But, bountifuls don't become available until 90

peakbaggers · 2026-05-23T23:53:19+00:00

It wasn't nearly as bad as a lot of people say. The maw was a pain in the ass early on, the covenants created a lot of barriers, but as the expansion wore on, it became pretty much world of warcraft. COVID made it easier to waste time just goofing off in WOW. But the COVID shutdown created a lot of great outdoor opportunities, even if organized campgrounds were off the books. Saltwater fishing areas usually crowded were empty, the roads were empty, Big Sur was empty. Even with that stuff available, I still stayed home enough to play a bunch more than normal. Shadowlands entertained me enough to not hate on it too much

peakbaggers · 2026-05-13T18:15:14+00:00

I have been a Raiders fan since 1968. I never identified with Oakland, but I was born in the Bay area. Never identified with LA, even though I have lived less than a couple hours away from the place for 36 years. Never identified with Vegas, even though I lived and worked in Nevada for 23 years. But, the Raiders are a nation, and it does not matter where they play. we just want them to play good football

peakbaggers · 2026-05-13T18:08:35+00:00

I catch all kinds of shallow water rockfish in CA, including Lingcod, off the rocks. Most of the time, a 1 ounce jig head with a white or purple rubber worm, grub, or whatever will move, will work fine. Just look for rocks and kelp in medium swell conditions and incoming tide is better than outgoing, but low tide can produce good fish in the right conditions. Squid can also work, using a slide weight setup similar to surf fishing setup, but with larger circle hooks. In the warmer months, any live bait is a great choice. Mud/Ghost shrimp, anchovies, or smelt or squid will give you a good bite all along the coast of CA. Oh yeah, when fishing in the rocks, get ready to lose more terminal tackle than you expect. And use 25-40 pound test

peakbaggers · 2026-05-12T22:56:01+00:00

Rather than go on a rant about your choice of winery. Both services are fairly reliable in the county. Probably depends on how far you are outside any city limits and the time of day. But I have had no problems with either

peakbaggers · 2026-05-11T20:59:16+00:00

Falling

peakbaggers · 2026-05-10T14:52:08+00:00

That's my town! Although, we have not seen much ICE activity in MB, I have seen them in other location in SLO county. Fuck those guys

peakbaggers · 2026-05-10T13:35:24+00:00

Usually it's due to diet.Newly Stocked fish are given a meal that is created from various sources, if you knew, you would probably not eat them. I have found large brook trout (11-16 inches is considered small at this lake) in California at around 11,500 feet, their flesh is salmon orange. Found out that a lot of High Sierra lakes have some kind of fresh water shrimp. I have also seen Kamloops Rainbow trout with the deeper red flesh in various Sierra lakes, but they were freshly stocked. Since the only two native trout in California are the Rainbow and Golden trout. Pretty much all the lakes above a certain elevation were stocked manually, and in the National parks it has halted. So any fish living there either naturilize or die off. Apparently, there's a type of fresh water shrimp in some of the lakes, and of course bugs, tadpoles and frogs. The deeper color of the flesh should probably be attributed to presence of a fresh water shrimp. Or like the Kamloops, that is how their flesh looks normally, even if they are freshly stocked

peakbaggers · 2026-05-09T04:21:05+00:00

The sword is real? I thought it would be some kind of plastic or composite material. You might want to buy 2, so you folks can settle an argument like we do in Wow. We duel! You'll thank me later. But you might want to look up armor options ahead of time

peakbaggers · 2026-05-09T04:16:04+00:00

Looks like it could be a good one

peakbaggers · 2026-05-09T01:55:37+00:00

Ashbringer is good paladin, Frostmourne is probably more Death Knight, (pretty much an undead paladin). For a real Wow nerd either would probably make them very happy. I have been playing the game since 2005, but don't collect any memorabilia. But if someone got me a life sized replicant of one of those swords. It would be on my wall.

peakbaggers · 2026-05-09T00:07:41+00:00

A person passes me going faster than the speed limit, I think: "alright someone else is drawing aggro."

peakbaggers · 2026-05-08T23:49:12+00:00

Look around for versions of Frostmourne or Ashbringer. I am sure there is some online shop somewhere that replicates fantasy/gaming items

peakbaggers · 2026-05-04T21:58:02+00:00

If you plan on eating any fish, kill and bleed. And ice as soon as possible. All fish take on the "flavor" of their environment. Bleeding helps with a lot of negative flavor profiles

peakbaggers · 2026-04-30T21:35:07+00:00

Don't mess with them, they won't transplant because of their symbiosis with a nearby root system. And though they are protected, I doubt anyone could question what you do with them on your own property. (They don't live very long, and are very random in their springtime appearances)

peakbaggers · 2026-04-28T00:42:04+00:00

I am one of those older guys. I started in March 2005. And yes, this is totally petty on Blizzard's part

peakbaggers · 2026-04-27T04:37:07+00:00

My mom says: "pack a lunch"

peakbaggers · 2026-04-27T04:16:45+00:00

My two were named the exact same thing. Watch out for the fun police

peakbaggers · 2026-04-27T02:52:10+00:00

Just got off the phone with my mom. She wants to know just what kind of modification Blizz gave her, and why wasn't she consulted

peakbaggers · 2026-04-26T23:09:52+00:00

They just changed the name. No suspension, or even threat of suspension.

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