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1 day 12 hours ago That would seem to fit what

That would seem to fit what Bob told me exactly. His literal words were "Michigan Replay is my show." He owned it from the time he took it independent (when he got Brandy) and it remains his today. I'm sure neither side wants to make this into a thing but Inside Michigan Football can at most claim to be a successor to Replay. Bob owns more than the name.
1 day 14 hours ago Watched several times and I

Watched several times and I can't tell for sure, but who else could it be? I seem to remember a different camera view of the same bear hug.
1 day 15 hours ago I don't have a direct answer

I don't have a direct answer to that, sorry. Remember, people can act different ways toward different folks -- if you met the people who come through the camp that Grbac runs nowadays you'll get a very different picture of him from that of people who knew him in college. Bob knew him as an interview subject on his show for several years, which is necessarily going to be a different relationship than Elvis had with his peers. Also take into account that getting Bob to say anything negative about someone, including people I could extrapolate as probably having some strong animosity toward Bob and Replay, is like pulling teeth, while he readily can name a nice thing about seemingly everyone he has met. This is both an effect of speaking on the record with a reporter, and of Bob being a geniunely nice guy.

I'm the same age as Henson and there were plenty of rumors about him and what he did with his Yankee money floating around campus, especially after he let that Buckeye buy him out of his senior year. However my personal interactions with Drew -- some from skiing against Brighton, most from a summer being the guy who opened Pizza Bob's at 7 in the morning when Drew was the only customer -- never showed a hint of the loudmouth party jock he was made out to be around campus. I thought he came off as polite, shy, and valuing his privacy. He was just an athlete: ludicrous work ethic, hypercompetitive, enormous appetite, terrible taste in sub selection (seriously: capricola at 7 a.m.?), and preferring to be left alone with his homework and his earbuds. People who partied with him saw a completely different side. People who interviewed him saw another side.

Gaining a complete idea of another person means marrying them, and then even that takes a lifetime in which you still will probably never figure out what's so important about where a sponge is sitting at any given moment or why making moaning sounds when you're sick is considered reprehensible. What Bob's perspective gives us is just one more view of Elvis Grbac as a person who left a strong impression among various athletes who spoke for Michigan over 33 years.
1 day 17 hours ago ...more like outside a

...more like outside a Starbucks in Royal Oak. It's hard to judge the effects on recruiting of the recent media changes. I would guess that today it doesn't matter as much as it did a decade ago except on football coaches, who are generally older and have a greater appreciation for a program that would be on at a certain hour. I didn't get into this so much with Bob. When we got to the end of the story it was how awesome watching a game in the Big House is with me nodding in earnest agreement, and then a dog walked by and we talked about Zipper for a time.
1 day 17 hours ago I left this vague because I

I left this vague because I meant to get clarification, then I forgot to get clarification -- I got the impression that the old turf was kept around in storage (or at the very least that the university had multiple rolls, which I presumed were the old ones)  so when they were getting rid of all of it, they were really getting rid of all of it.
1 day 17 hours ago Negged for not showing the

Negged for not showing the proper appreciation for lion manes. 
2 days 14 hours ago I think I read once that they

I think I read once that they re-wrote the whole thing after Star Wars came out to take advantage of the new space craze (throwing out the book Moonraker almost entirely in order to create a flimsy excuse to get into space and shoot lasers). It would explain why that one feels stocky (ie they use lots of stock characters and motifs) and rushed.
2 days 14 hours ago I liked Casino up until the

I liked Casino up until the card game. I liked the mystery of Baccarat as the game of choice, whereas Texas Hold 'em, which wasn't even played well in the movie, couldn't capture the sense that only the greatest players in the world could be at that table. Anyone at my Thursday night game could have played at that table, and it made it all the more ridiculous that America (which is THE poker nation) couldn't produce a better player. Part of Fleming's whole schtick is to show British things as triumphant over America, and I don't think they should change that because it's part of the heart of what Bond is: British hands-on, gloves- (and other articles of clothing-) off spying when the CIA is all about big expenditure and watching satellites. HOWEVA the choice to make it Texas Hold 'Em ruins that effect because that's our game, man!

Once it becomes a poker movie, the subplot isn't as interesting as, say, Rounders or Lock, Stock, or Maverick.

That's my complaint about it.
2 days 14 hours ago I thought the Bourne

I thought the Bourne Repetition was well filmed but the Bourne Redundancy was just boring.
2 days 18 hours ago Somewhere on an OSU board

Somewhere on an OSU board right now is a guy bragging about how they were losing badly to some team in their new hockey league so they beat the shit out of some meatchicken from scUM and his teammates didn't even stick up for him lolz!
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