OT:Bigfoot
Hey everyone. I have had Bigfoot discussions with a lot of people so I thought on a boring day with not much going on, why not see what the Mgoblog community thinks about the topic.
I am a believer, but not sure if Bigfoot is extinct, supernatural or has somehow just managed to stay hidden (government cover up potentially). I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I always like to keep an open mind on ALL topics.
I have a hard time believing that American Indians and many other indigenous peoples have made up these stories for so many years. Yes, I think a lot of people who come up with sightings are full of it or crazy, but that doesn’t settle the debate in my opinion.
Some of the areas I have spent time in where I could definitely see this thing hiding out are East Texas (nothing for miles and miles and plenty of Forrest. Crawford County Michigan, East Tennessee and areas in Central California near Sequoia National Park.
Do you think Bigfoot could be real? Still today? Supernatural? ( I always keep an open mind to this).
What do you think of my observations?
What areas have you been to in this country or world for that matter where something like this could elude humans?
Last note, The Patterson Gimlin film still looks real to me. The suits they make nowadays are not even close to how real that thing looked.
Take it easy, everyone.
I thought this was going to be about Teske.
I was thinking beer.
Nothing like starting off your day with some Sierra Nevada ale.
Unless Bigfoot is getting some recruiting interest by the coaches (which I would ok with them doing, though he might not fit the "speed in space" mentality), this topic does not belong here.
With his height, long arms, and big feet giving him great balance, seems like he could be an ideal tackle in football and/or center in basketball (depending on strength and agility, of course).
Would bet a dollar that his recruiting round up would state, "Raw prospect. Struggles with pad level."
Sure he's got size for a tackle, but I think RB fits much better. You can't get much more elusive than Bigfoot... you can't tackle what you can't catch.
Would need training. Too much of a tendency to run out of bounds and hide in the crowd.
Not sure if coach would allow him on the team.
Showing up whenever he wants is not good for The Team, The Team, The Team.
All of the opponents video scouting is grainy, blurry, and loses him in the frame at the precise moment you want to see.
Haven't you seen his Jack Links recruiting film? Dude has mad, dare I say "superhuman", strength.
Someone we could refer to as a "beast" and it not make me cringe
isn't his recruiting profile "is tacopants"?
<<<< Only known photo of Tacopants...
I think a school like Clemson or Alabama, with their more relaxed academic standards, could keep him afloat academically long enough to contribute before he went to the NFL as an "athlete"/project for some team. (A lot of teams would be willing to take a flyer on someone who's that damned big.) But it's going to be nothing but remedial classes and tutoring, start to finish. I question whether he'll be able to handle the stress.
An old friend used to say, “Show me a dead one”. Myself, I’m allowing for the possibility but it’s troubling that no physical proof has been uncovered after all of these years of investigation. That film clip does appear real to me though.
I find this topic no worse than a drinking thread or OT car thread, etc
Yes, I am with you all the way on this.
That's where I am at. Where are the bones? Maybe they bury their deceased?
Theres a lot of uninhabited land out here in the pacific northwest, but I need to see bones at least.
That’s what has opened the door on the supernatural side for me. Still would be more inclined to think they hide their dead.
Better yet, they eat them, bone and all.
I hate to break it to you, but you know the stuff on X-Files isn't real, right?
You lie!
So not having any evidence, instead of indicating it might not exist, only makes you think that maybe there's something supernatural happening? Ok, I guess...
Even if we're allowing for the possibility that this primate has some sort of culture in which they bury their dead, you'd still think we would be able to find said bones or remains. I mean, we've found the remains from long dead human species such as Denisovans and Homo erectus but can't find even a single bone from a currently living 10 foot tall race of apes? Nah, doesn't seem likely to me. As much as I would love for them to be real.
"LOOK AT THE BONES!"
-Tim the Enchanter
"You manky Scots git!"
- Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot:
Perhaps they are immortal.
Like Harbaugh.
I am not a believer, but I do find it very interesting when you have "accounts" of specific creatures (add dragons to this list) that seem to appear in different cultures and times. One wouldn't necessarily think that would be the case.
This is what always leaves the door open for me.
Like, Native Americans/Himalayans/South Americans/Malaysians/Australians etc. have extremely similar legends of a giant "wild man" despite having zero contact for thousands of years.
So the separated culture similar creature argument is all well and good, but really?
Normal sized civilized men thinking about a giant, wild man. Disparate societies should never have thought that up on their own. (Sarcasm).
Now, if you said a giant fire breathing winged serpent with armored scales and green eyes, at least that takes a bit more inventive thought.
The descriptions all seem eerily similar, tho. It's not like one culture has the wild man as hairless and seven-feet tall with a tail, whereas another has him at 15-feet tall with horns or some shit. It's all pretty uniform.
A good hypothesis on the ubiquity of dragons is that they came about from people finding dinosaur bones. This actually makes a lot of sense. Dragons basically look like dinosaurs. People can certainly stumble upon dinosaur bones doing farming or construction or whatever. What if it's 2000 years ago and you find like half of a stegosaurus spine?
I just can't believe in Bigfoot. One grainy video from 40 years ago or whatever doesn't do it for me. Others have brought up good points already. Also, Bigfoot isn't just a North American thing. Just like dragons, there are lots of cultures with the idea of some big ape-like creature, such as the yeti. Maybe old hominid bones before people knew about evolution (which is really JUST a theory by the way..../s).
OT: Talking Big Foot Wednesday.
has a bit of a ring to it.
I certainly believe in Bigfoot, because I've seen him several times.
Every time I go to a game at Michigan Stadium, I swear he's standing right in front of me during all the big plays, and I miss every damn one of them.
Siddown, ya hairy bastard! (And get off my lawn, too.)
Well someone has yet to produce a carcass but researchers like Jeff Meldrum have been able to produce hair and scat samples that couldn't be categorized as any known primate.
If their number were small and they buried their dead there are still places in this world with no humans for days in any direction, it could be possible. I'm sure many of the sightings are hoaxes or cases of mistaken identity but I bet some of the sightings are legit.
that hair and those scat samples were taken near deer camp. if you've ever been to deer camp, you'd know why they might not check out as 'primate' origin.
Bones?
Hell, how about simply DROPPINGS.
A creature that big must leave a prodigious amount of skat.
But mysteriously, doesn't.
There have been no documented "BIGFOOT" sightings since Keith Jackson passed away.
Keith Jackson went to school in Washington state at the time of many reported sightings.
There are no known photographs of Bigfoot and Keith Jackson.....
All he talked about for many years was "Big Uns" and "Whoa Nellie".....which he got from "my Great Grandpa who was a whistler and a farmer in the bush" (Fox Sports interview/October 19, 2013).
He gave plenty of hints: "the playing field is for the players and coaches and not for a Big-Footed Announcer"....(interview above).
He was a marine who later worked for KOMO-TV and covered the NW territory sports terrain for years.
He was known in the broadcast industry as "The Cougar" (Washington State).......
You do the math........
Oh, it's a real film alright.
Well we have reached peak offseason.
Everyone walks around with cameras in their pocket and yet there is not a single picture. Case closed.
Have you ever been hunting? Some deer hunters go several outings and never see a deer. Could a Bigfoot be more elusive then a deer? Me thinks so.
According to the way “Bigfoot” is supposed to walk, I find it very difficult to believe they’re more elusive than a deer.
Maybe they cloak, or have some type of “Predator” camouflage ability?
They also, ya know... find deer. Quite often.
Yea that makes sense on an individual scale. It doesn't make sense in a country of 350M people.
Montana is 147 million square miles and yet has only 1 million residents.
I refer you to the superb documentary film "Harry and the Hendersons." You will believe.
Obligatory "quit drinking and go to bed" comment. (/s)
To your questions:
I could see how back in the day some sort of creature that had been mutated/deformed could take on the appearance of what some would call Bigfoot. In today's day and age of social media and instant accessibility to information, I cannot believe that such a creature would continue to go undiscovered.
Much like in a game of telephone, stories grow as they are passed along. Perhaps the Native Americans have grown the tale of Bigfoot as generations worn on.
Personally, I'm a "show me the facts" type of guy. I'd have no problem believing in Bigfoot, UFOs, earth is flat, 9/11 was an inside job (the worst one imo), Lee Harvey Oswald didn't act alone, etc if someone set irrefutable layman's level of understanding type evidence in front of me...problem is, the only way "evidence" of such things comes to fruition is a manipulation of facts/circumstances/chain of events.
Logic trumps all. Hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!
Also - if Bigfoot did exist, do you think he could play Tackle?