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Army Football Preview: Air Force

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It's not here, of course... Army Football Preview: Air Force (Click here)

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You should probably just bookmark AsForFootball.Com , but in case you've not yet done that... Quick Thoughts: Army Ruins Homecoming at Eastern Michigan #GoArmy #ARMYvsEMU https://t.co/mibF2jG35C — Danno E. Cabeza (@Dan_T_Head) October 28, 2018 Thanks for your support.

5 Things on a Friday: As For Football

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Happy Friday, folks!  Let’s get it on. Via Pinterest

#SBRLLR: Choosing Something Real (Part 2)

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I showed up to the Hoboken Running Club wearing shorts and a tank top.  I was intensely happy to have something athletic to do in the company of other people.  Though Ugly American Night had frequently been memorable, the happiest I’d been in the Army had been at PT.  I’d enjoyed running in formation all the way back to Beast Barracks, and I’d trained for SFAS with Joe for no better reason than because I enjoyed it.  I didn’t go to SFAS, and Joe didn’t need me pushing him.  I just liked running with my friend, and I knew that the feeling had been mutual.

You're looking for this week's Army Football Preview, right?

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It's not here.  As I said last week, I've taken the Army Football portion of this blog to AsForFootball.Com .  I'm pretty excited about it.  We've got a lot of great things planned, and those guys have a whole range of skillsets that I can't easily replicate on my own.  Looks like a really good partnership. This week's preview is up, and I think it's worth your time.  Click here to check it out . Click here.  Click here.  Click here. You can handle that, right? Thanks.

Pics from the Weekend

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It was a lot of football.  Emma played with the Stratford High School Band at Homecoming on Friday, then we went to Army's EPIC win over Miami-Ohio on Saturday.  We went hiking yesterday.  I took most of these, but Sally took a bunch of the Army shots on her actual camera.  Hence the enhanced shutter speed and closer zoom. Pics are after the jump.

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I've taken my talents, at least for the purposes of Army Football, to As For Football .  I'll be doing the same stuff you've come to expect, but over there. The new post is already up!  Go check it out!!! Head to As For Football right now!!!

5 Things on a Friday: Let Them Eat Goat.

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Happy Friday, folks.  Let’s go. From ClipArtExtras.Com

#SBRLLR: Choosing Something Real (Part 1)

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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ― President Abraham Lincoln My buddy Joe rescued me in the way that only an old Army buddy can. Joe and I had met back at Ft. Knox.  The Armor Captain’s Career Course ended with a capstone exercise, a brigade defense fought via computer battle simulation.  The event was primarily a staff exercise for which we were divided into four notional armor battalions with me and Joe serving as the leads on the same notional staff.  I served as our battalion’s operations officer, developing tactics and drafting the bulk of our group’s tactical orders.  Joe ran the staff itself as battalion XO.

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For much of his life, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle truly disliked writing stories about Sherlock Holmes.  Amazing but true.  Alas, the public  loved  Holmes, and when Doyle attempted to end the series by killing off the famous detective, Londoners went crazy .  They simply could not accept that Holmes was dead.  More to the point, they didn't care overmuch what other projects Doyle himself looked forward to writing in the future.  In the end, Doyle bowed to the public's wishes and brought Holmes back from the dead.  That decision pigeonholed his writing forever.

Army Football Preview: Miami-Ohio

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After handling their business in California over the weekend, the Army Black Knights are finally back home on Saturday following a long three-game road trip.  Army faces a hungry, talented team from Miami-Ohio this week that badly needs a win.  In many ways, the Miami-Ohio RedHawks are archetypical of the kinds of teams that Army will face from here on out—strong on defense but inconsistent on offense.  This week’s contest therefore promises to be an important harbinger for the rest of the season.   After six games, the Black Knights are 4-2 with FCS doormat Lafayette remaining on the schedule.  On top of everything else, a win this Saturday virtually assures bowl eligibility.

Really Quick Thoughts: Army Issues a BEATDOWN to San Jose State

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It doesn't get much better than that, am I right?  Army wins by 50 on the road, and Navy drops a heartbreaker at home...  That's what I call a good day's work.

Quick Thoughts: A Star Is Born

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Sally and I went to see A Star Is Born  last night, starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in which Cooper is himself making his directorial debut.  I liked the movie a lot, but I had some thoughts about it, too. Detailed spoilers are below.  Click through at your own risk.

5 Things on a Friday: Bowl Predictions & Other Stories

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Hey folks.  Happy Friday. Let’s get it on!

#SBRLLR: Welcome to New York (Part 3)

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While I was struggling to adjust to life in the big city, my father was coming unraveled back in Tennessee.  My mother had finally left him, forcing the sale of their home in Lawrenceburg and upending Dad’s his life from top to bottom.  I don’t think he even argued in his own defense.  Rather, he just let her take whatever she wanted, allowed her to set up their soon-to-be-separate finances to her own best benefit, and--at some level--accepted responsibility for destroying her life and his.  He raged, sure, when he was drunk, but he never actually defended himself nor stopped loving my mother.  For that reason, he let her take advantage of him and of the situation. Or maybe he was just so drunk that he didn’t notice.

Army Football Preview: at San Jose State

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With the bye week in the rearview, Army Football turns its attention to the West Coast and San Jose State.  After five straight games against previously undefeated opponents, Saturday’s contest marks the first of the season in which the Black Knights will be clear, obvious, uncontested favorites over an ostensibly bad team.  That’s not a good thing, nor is it helpful that the game itself will take place nearly 3,000 miles from home in a distinctly unfamiliar stadium. This is the very definition of a trap game. It’s a good match-up, though, because it helps Army sell its brand out on the far coast, and in that, the San Jose Spartans did the Academy a favor by staging the contest at Levi Stadium.  Still, this is the kind of game that tests the focus of a young team. Army’s had a decent season so far, but they still stand just 3-2.  The Black Knights badly need a win this week to stay on the path towards bowl eligibility.

Quick Thoughts: Navy at Air Force & More

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I don't know if you watched it, but Air Force beat the Holy Hell out of Navy yesterday out in Colorado Springs.  As Coach Jeff Monken would say, "It wasn't even sporting."  The Zoomies dropped a stone-cold beat-down. Really, the game went about as we expected given Wednesday's preview, but even more so.  Much more. The game's first quarter was some of the worst football I've ever seen.  As they were for most of the game, Navy was trapped in a nightmare version of the Malcolm Perry Show, with the Zoomies keying on Perry and hitting him repeatedly behind the line of scrimmage.  Perry either couldn't or wouldn't get the ball out to the rest of his playmakers, and that let Air Force attack him personally and thereby shut down the Squids' offense in its entirety. Some fool is reading this and shaking his head.  It's true, though.  The problem really was Malcolm Perry.  He finished with 19 carries for 54 yards (2.8 yards/carry), in

5 Things on a Friday: Bye Week Blues

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Tough week without an Army game this Saturday.  Not that the guys don’t deserve a break or even that I and my family don’t have other things that we need to do with our time.  But still.  You wait all damned year for college football season, it’s tough to miss even a week of it. Oh well.  There are other games, I guess.

#SBRLLR: Welcome to New York (Part 2)

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It turned out that my new company had lost two complete substations, something like five hundred million dollars’ worth of equipment, and that this had blacked out Wall Street and much of Lower Manhattan.  We had one killed-in-action, Dick Morgan, a recently retired executive who’d been at the Trade Center that morning for a meeting with the Transit Authority.  I’d never met Mr. Morgan, but he was famed for being the only “nice guy” executive in the entire company.  For months afterwards, folks said, “They got the only good one.”

C.iC. Football Preview: Navy at Air Force

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This week, the nation’s #2 and #3 service academies square off in a football rivalry game for the ages.  No, I’m not talking about the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at SUNY Maritime.  No, I’m not talking about VMI at the Citadel. It’s Navy-Air Force Week! *sigh* I know, right?  I wasn’t really expecting to be here, either.  I was planning to run another  5 Things on a Bye Week  post, but when I polled the audience, you guys were a good bit more fired up about this week’s heel-on-heel matchup than you were about my random musings on Army Football’s  State of the Season .  It was actually pretty even on Twitter, but my classmates on Facebook were  way  more interested in Navy-Air Force, and here we are.  Alas, some of them actually  live  out in Colorado. #ArmyFootball Preview question for this week’s Wednesday post: #GoArmy Would you rather see: — Danno E. Cabeza (@Dan_T_Head) October 1, 2018 I should point out that several folks on FB asked me to do both.  I do not t