1VaBlue1

December 13th, 2023 at 7:52 PM ^

Yeesh!  I didn't know anyone even remembered that stuff!  It's what my grandad and dad drank when I was growing up.  At grandpa's funeral, my brother brought a case and we all popped one open.  I don't think any of us got through a whole can.  Gotdam that was some nasty-ass beer!

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lmgoblue1

December 13th, 2023 at 9:15 PM ^

That "nasty-ass" beer got me to my freshman year at UM. My Dad was the distributor for that beer in Kalamazoo along with Hamm's and Old Style, and various other small regional beers.  I had some awesome parties when I was a senior in High School in 1976. There was only one rule: No Bud or Miller or Pabst in the house. Eventually those beers forced him to sell and we moved to Traverse City where he opened a restaurant. And that restaurant got me the rest of the way through.  I still have some wicked cool original props and glasses, and a bottle of that nasty-ass beer that has never been opened.  So, in a way, I graduated from Michigan due to that beer, and I will always have a fond place in my heart for it. But yeah, craft beer is delicious!

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XM - Mt 1822

December 14th, 2023 at 9:33 AM ^

i don't know how to post a pic from my phone, but if you were comfortable giving me a throw-away email i'd contact you back channels.  dad did all sorts of live TV commercials and you're old enough to have at least a vague memory of the some of them - for instance, he did live PBR commercials, motorola, things like that.   a jingle i remember he shared with us, 'what'll you have?  pabst blue ribbon, pabst blue ribbon beer!'  

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AZBlue

December 13th, 2023 at 10:46 PM ^

FWIW - the 247 portal rankings seem to put a lot of stock into total potential impact (skill weighted with available years of eligibility) as much as immediate impact.  This is why E. Hausmann was rated as the #4 overall transfer last year when he came to M as a true Soph. 

What seems to sometimes skew the rankings for young players is that they weigh college productivity very heavily over HS rankings, even for true Frosh.  Hausmann had a good freshman season = high ranking.  --------- Moore struggled when thrown in the fire as starter at UCLA while Chiles put up good numbers -- even though his time was limited to garbage time and 60+% of his rushing and passing yardage came in blowouts against UC Davis and Stanford.  (To be fair Chiles was a top-60 recruit == so relatively close to Moore (4) out of HS.)

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