Official Jon Gruden Thread VI

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Escape Goat said:
I didn't know you were female. I'm very sorry for calling you dude earlier. Everyone is different, & I can see the appeal, but don't think it's for me. Who knows though. I will be visiting the left coast soon, and perhaps I should withhold judgement until then. I sometimes get ahead of myself. :)
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No prob. I moderate other forums, and people always think I'm a guy.

Luckily my husband (and my doctor) (and my three kids) know otherwise. :)

Anyway, if you do come out here, bring an open mind with you. It is so incredibly different from the geography of the rest of the country. And with the people and the culture and the society, it's nothing like what Faux News likes to say. :crazy: OK, OK, I'll behave.

But still, I think it's pretty cool that when I'm pushing my cart through the El Cerrito Trader Joe's, I'm hearing English and Spanish and Russian and Mandarin and Tagalog and Creole Francais and Arabic and everything else, mostly all jostling to grab the spinach or whatever. And we all communicate perfectly well with one another. I spent my teenage years living in Hawaii, and this is the only other place that feels like that. People are just so darn nice.

Oh, and since you drive for a living, here's something that they (we) do differently out here: when there's a merge lane, you just let everyone in, one car from the right, one car from the left, then the next from the right, then the left, etc. Just automatically, no drama, no waving people in like you're doing them a favor, no jostling for position, it's just expected that you take turns. And remarkably few traffic lights; it's four-way stops instead with the same idea: you go, then I go, and we all get where we're going. No one's special; no one has some sort of precedence over anyone else. And for God's sake, don't use your horn. It's tacky and a sign of being from LA. Again, this is a NoCal thing, not necessarily a SoCal thing. I'm terrified driving in LA.

But watch out for the homicidal bicyclists and suicidal pedestrians. They're all effing nuts, and I know that one will make a serious dent in my hood one day, despite my best intentions. You just haven't seen anything until you've seen a pod of 20 or so bicyclists in a helluva hurry to get somewhere, with absolutely no regard for traffic laws or common sense.

But heck, everyone, c'mon down. They talk funny out here, but you get used to it.

Oh, and you get points for saying y'all. :)
 
#1,654
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After reading through the cliff notes and listening to the local media, is everyone in agreement that the Gruden rumors are dead at this point?
 
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VolNExile said:
I work in San Francisco, and we live across the Bay. I loved my years in East Tennessee, but I gotta say, this is God's country. Breezes from across the Bay, no mosquitoes (no screens on the windows!!), unbelievable scenery and geography, I drove across the Golden Gate Bridge twice a day, annual lows in the fifties, highs in the eighties, wonderful people, lots of fun and music and crazy stuff in general going on.

(I'm a grown-up Army brat, so I never had a home. I've just been looking for the place that makes me happy all my life.)

But still, VFL.
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In my younger years, I used to visit NoCal for music at Shoreline Ampitheater, the Greeks and CalExpo up in Sac. Had a lot of fun in SF and NoCal in those days!!

It is definitely a cool place. I liked how you describe your grocery store experience with all the dialects...and melting pot interactions.

I live in Colorado (grew up in the App Mountains of TN) but have traveled all over the world...and SF is a true melting pot of cultures.
 
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Hey Jon Gruden, if you are out there please come to Tennessee. My dad said if you ever came to Tennessee we could be a family again. So please send angels to the BOT meetings today if you are up there.

- Boy off Angels in the Outfield
 
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OK, let the rumors continue: John Brice (sp?) said yesterday on the Nashville radio that Jimbo Fisher might be on Tennessee's list of coaches. Think that's a stretch, but so are some of the other names.
 
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volfan4evr said:
OK, let the rumors continue: John Brice (sp?) said yesterday on the Nashville radio that Jimbo Fisher might be on Tennessee's list of coaches. Think that's a stretch, but so are some of the other names.
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Why in the world would Jimbo leave the situation he has for ours?
 
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Smoke and mirrors, I think everyone can agree there is only one big name splash hire and it is not Fisher, Strong, Cutcliffe, Peterson, Patterson or Chavis.

Gruden 2012!
 
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