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Chop,

Lyons, Jensen, Scott, Cullen are not nearly as big a problem as Gunspoint, Cypress Station, Ella area. Seems there are multiple drive-bys, shootings, robberies, etc.

For about 30-40 years a couple of blocks around Jensen & Lyons had more murders than any other block in America.
 
SECholes were chortling about how the Pirate was going to run up the score on the lowest Big 12 team in the bowls. Gonna enjoy Finebaum silence tomorrow
 
SabreHorn said:
For about 30-40 years a couple of blocks around Jensen & Lyons had more murders than any other block in America.
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Yeah, I know. I never felt weird driving around the Third Ward or stopping at food places there. The "Bloody Nickel" was a different story entirely. I felt much unease just driving through that place in the broad daylight "back in the day"...

Plenty of good folks there, but the bad ones they've got are reeeaaalllll, reeeaaalllll bad.

Maybe some dumba$$ Californians can be talked into moving in to "gentrify" The Fifth... :smokin: (probably already happening, and the juke joints and bbq & catfish shaks will be replaced by bistros serving Mocha Lattes, organic wheatgrass drinks, or whatever they like...) On second thought--prolly best to just leave it "as is"...
 
Now here's a happy story about a formerly bad guy gone good from the "Bloody" Fifth:

He really packed a punch!

(Redemption is real!)


"George Foreman was born in Marshall, Texas. He grew up in the Fifth Ward community of Houston, Texas, with six siblings.[13] Although he was raised by J. D. Foreman, whom his mother had married when George was a small child, his biological father was Leroy Moorehead. By his own admission in his autobiography, George was a troubled youth. He dropped out of school at the age of 15 and spent time as a mugger."

George Foreman - Wikipedia

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SabreHorn said:
Chop,

Lyons, Jensen, Scott, Cullen are not nearly as big a problem as Gunspoint, Cypress Station, Ella area. Seems there are multiple drive-bys, shootings, robberies, etc.

For about 30-40 years a couple of blocks around Jensen & Lyons had more murders than any other block in America.
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Cypress Station/Ella show what just one generation can do to an area...there was a time where that area around Spring High South, before they called themselves Westfield, was fairly safe. The area around the hospital had several professional buildings and even with the addition of Eastador, err I mean new Westador, the area stayed stable.

THEN came some of the buyouts of Enchanted Oaks and the downward trend started because the remaining houses because cheaply repaired rentals, which unfortunately, brought in some undesirable elements, especially as new apartments went up. Now if you want a car disappeared, you just park it in the lot of what used to be Gander Mtn.

Gunspoint earned its reputation with the killing of the deputy in the parking lot there. To this day, I believe Deputy Allee's killing remains unsolved...thirty years after the fact. Crime would get even worse in the area post-Katrina when the refugee dump put a lot of people into apartment complexes in the area. Instead of going back to Louisiana, they stayed and either targeted or became targets...

But we digress...
 
Tech looks like trouble next year.
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I mean, potentially anyone could be trouble for Texas right now, but I doubt this bowl game is much of an indicator, unless we too have half our starters out....
 
Chop said:
Now here's a happy story about a formerly bad guy gone good from the "Bloody" Fifth:

He really packed a punch!

(Redemption is real!)


"George Foreman was born in Marshall, Texas. He grew up in the Fifth Ward community of Houston, Texas, with six siblings.[13] Although he was raised by J. D. Foreman, whom his mother had married when George was a small child, his biological father was Leroy Moorehead. By his own admission in his autobiography, George was a troubled youth. He dropped out of school at the age of 15 and spent time as a mugger."

George Foreman - Wikipedia

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Young George Foreman was a bad man! But I remember him from my childhood, during his second reign as world champ. The loveable, grill-selling, age-defying Preacher George Foreman was truly inspirational.
 
Iowa St playing pretty equal with Clemson thanks to Purdy’s passing but absence of Brice will be the telling factor in the end, imo.
 
Statalyzer said:
I mean, potentially anyone could be trouble for Texas right now, but I doubt this bowl game is much of an indicator, unless we too have half our starters out....
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That's a great point. MSU was missing starters on OL and DL. It was a game until well into 2nd half. Chalk this one up to attrition.
 
CreakyHorn said:
That's a great point. MSU was missing starters on OL and DL. It was a game until well into 2nd half. Chalk this one up to attrition.
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Qb and wr’s for MSU played like crap all game. No excuse there but suckage.
 
Just think— if we would of retained Herman, we probably would be in the Alamo bowl instead of OU. And we would be winning. Lol
 
giveemhell said:
In this day and age, when players and coaches alike are making choices solely to advance their own selfish agendas, I think it's kinda cool that Stoops came back to coach his old team in their bowl game.
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Isn’t his son on the team?
 
For those that say bowls don’t mean anything …Bowl winning teams and fans are extremely happy. Tech, OU, Minnesota, Houston, etc….It isn’t because they wanted to be there and the other team didn’t, why they won. Crucial opt outs can hurt, but most teams have back ups in the caliber of the starters.
With Opt out policy, you don’t have to be there if you Don’t want to…the people playing on both sides want to be there.
 
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