|Dr Tarzan| Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 5 hours ago, AmishBengalFan said: So this week, the Bengals travel to Charlotte. You know, sometimes I really feel sorry for North Carolina. Hailing from Dayton I look at the accomplishments of Ohioans and compare them to North Carolinians and find that there's really no comparison. Ohio is the home to eight US Presidents (Harrison, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley, Taft and Harding) North Carolina has none. Ohio is home to the first American to orbit the earth (Glenn) and the first human to walk on the moon (Armstrong). North Carolina boasts that Vince McMahon was married in New Bern. Ohio is home to more inventors per square mile than any other spot on earth. Why from Dayton alone you've got Dunn (refrigerator - for keeping beer cold), Kettering (automobile self-starter - for getting the truck full of cold beer to your local store), Gounard (smart fan - so the beer cooler can cycle power as needed), Frei (ice cube tray and ejector - so those with portable coolers can also have cold beer), Mellowes (self-contained refrigerator - so cold beer can exist in your home), Balsey (stepladder - so you can reach the beer on the top shelf), Wrights (airplane - so beer from far away can come to you), Ritty (cash register - so you can actually buy that cold refrigerated beer from far-off lands), and Fraze (pull tab - so you can open and enjoy that cold beer). Dayton inventors also brought you the Wide Strip Steel Manufacturing Process (for making beer cans), Parking Meters (so you can buy beer downtown), Price Tag Affixing Machine (so you know what the beer costs), Multiple-Array Continuous Ink Jet Printer (for beer ads, so you know from where the beer can be bought), Motorized Wheelchair and Walker Attachment for Wheelchairs (so even the handicapped can enjoy a cold beer), Isolated home/farm electric lighting system (so folks in the boonies can see and find the beer they bought), the Black Light (for cool mood-lighting while enjoying a beer surrounded by Velvet Matadors), Controller Pitch Propeller, 100 Octane Aviation Fuel, Airplane Supercharger, Directional Compass with Dual Radio Beam Triangulation, and the Learmatic Electrostatic Gyroscope (so beer-by-air can be swiftly and accurately delivered). Oh, and Space Food, Microfiche, Cellophane Tape, Movie Projectors, Movie Cameras, Movie Film and Movie Theatres, Lighted Scoreboards, Steel Furnaces, Parachutes, Gas Masks, and Ethyl Gasoline. Plus airplane ejection seats, artificial heart and kidney, automobile airbags, bionic organs, blind solo flight, carbonless paper, chrome plating, computerized aircraft loading system, computing scale for butchers and grocers, filter cigarettes, frost proof freezer, fuzz buster, glass photographic negatives, ice-cream cone, instant blood-glucose level testing, lighting system, mood rings, night serial photography, nuclear powered pacemaker, quick process malleable iron, room air conditioner, solenoid, double glass windows, laser weapons, liberty engine and fixed focus headlights. And that's just ONE OHIO CITY! (Source: http://www.daytoncvb.com/.../dayton-fast-facts-and.../) North Carolina has a rich history... hell, they were one of the original 13 colonies for chrissakes. Yet on their state quarter, and on their license plates, they celebrate the accomplishments of two guys from Ohio. This proud state, who has given America so much -- tobacco, NASCAR, slavery -- instead has to turn to two brothers from Dayton to find something to hang their hat on. But the funny thing is that the reason Kitty Hawk even happened was because Orville and Wilbur needed a place with strong winds, winds that blew consistently in the same direction, and that was roomy and remote enough to allow them to do their experiments without interruption. The Huffman Prairie (near what is now Wright-Patterson AFB) offered them the space they needed but the winds were unpredictable. The Wright B Flyer was still experimental, and their wing-warping technology had yet to be tested under powered flight conditions, so they needed to be able to test their heavier-than-air hypothesis knowing that the aircraft would not need to turn to face into the wind. Constant winds. Constant direction. That's what Kitty Hawk NC offered. And it was desolate. Nobody in their right minds would hang out in that sand-dune strewn shit hole in 1903. That's why it was perfect for the Wright Bros - that part of North Carolina not only blew... it also sucked. North Carolina's quarter and license plates could have any of the Founding Fathers, or Dale Earnhart, or Andy Griffith, or Aunt Jemima, or Philip Morris, or the raping Duke Lacrosse Team on them. But unfortunately, they've turned their back on their heritage and instead use the image of two guys from my home town in Southwest Ohio. Look carefully at the plate.... they deleted Orville and Wilbur's image from that iconic photograph. Our friends in Carolina know exactly what they were doing. And it's so very sad that they feel so inferior that the needed to do that. Don't get me wrong. I *like* Charlotte. I just wish city and the state were a little more proud of their own accomplishments rather than co-opting the work of folks not even from there. The people of NC think the Wright Brothers were born and bred and lived throughout their final days in NC. I used to have this absurd argument in our local Wilmington Star-News with the editor in chief as he was always writing editorials about Ohio stealing NC's thunder anytime Dayton had any kind of Wright Brothers celebration. I would write a retort that they would offer to print but only if they could edit it. I told them hell no to that. Finally he just moved onto another paper somewhere unknown. Never heard another thing from him after filling him in on a not well concealed fact that the ONLY reason NC is First in Flight and not SC, Florida or San Diego....is for the sole reason that NC outer banks were the closest in proximity and had most accessibility from.....Dayton, OH where they conceived and manufactured their vehicles. I would come across people making First in Flight bragging rites and tell them I graduated from Wright State School of Medicine....in Dayton, OH....and proceed to give them 3 guesses who the school was named after. Most had no clue. Growing up in Middletown.....we also held Kitty Hawk as a kindred spirit in a state of reverence...no animosity whatsoever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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|Dr Tarzan| Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 2 hours ago, Griever said: And Dax Hill is the worst of the bunch...I'm for Turner getting his shot, he small but a very willing tackler that doesn't shy away from blockers or bigger ball carriers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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|BlackJesus| Posted September 25 Author Report Share Posted September 25 He uses "we" but he's playing good enough to win. Defense needs to step up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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|BlackJesus| Posted September 25 Author Report Share Posted September 25 3 hours ago, High School Harry said: When the guy went inside, I was wondering where Cappa was. I break down the play here ... 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Griever Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 I see Joey B is a realist...lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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|BlackJesus| Posted September 25 Author Report Share Posted September 25 3 minutes ago, Griever said: Agreed Hilton and Hendrickson are probably the only 2 on defense who shouldn't give back their game check. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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claptonrocks Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 2 hours ago, Dr Tarzan said: And Dax Hill is the worst of the bunch...I'm for Turner getting his shot, he small but a very willing tackler that doesn't shy away from blockers or bigger ball carriers. Co-sign... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|High School Harry| Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 36 minutes ago, BlackJesus said: I break down the play here ... HA! I was right for a change! In the full video on the other page Cappa looks like he things it is going to be a running play to the left side of the line. Mims gave up the sack because Cappa blew the play. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|BlackJesus| Posted September 25 Author Report Share Posted September 25 3 minutes ago, High School Harry said: Cappa looks like he things it is going to be a running play to the left side of the line. Mims gave up the sack because Cappa blew the play. Yep. They should credit Cappa for the sack if anything. Not sure what the fuck he was doing. The video in question ... S0ibbO1NasO4-Hxg.mp4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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