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More praise for Andre Jackson

David 76 said:
The "young" yarders are so 80s with their Mike Tyson and taunting.
Great example of waste of talent because he couldn't handle his emotions. Not an example to follow.
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This is seriously stupid. To call him a waste of talent is really, really stupid. Considering where he came from, and what happened to him, he's an amazing success story. Far from perfect. But he won 50 fights, was the youngest heavyweight champ ever, and holds the third longest unified championship reign in heavyweight history at eight consecutive defenses.

Still one of of the best ever.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
is this going to be a 'tucked in or out' shirt thing? (shudders....slinks off to read conference realignment and ko threads, and what's new in hara-kiri....)
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More of a button the polo shirt top button or not thing.

Then again, I don't what this refers to.
 
polycom said:
so many ok boomer’s needed in this thread. Get off my lawn. Act live you’ve been there. Tuck your shirt in. Is just code for...jealousy among other things.
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Starts sentence with lower case letter, pluralizes boomer with an apostrophe, spells "like" with a "v," misuses ellipsis, omits comma, while flaunting self-certainty.
Sounds about right.
#giftsdiffering
 
superjohn said:
Words are hard...
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So many examples within this thread prove that point.

We all make errors:

Autocorrrect fails us.
Dictation fails us.
Fat fingers fail us.
We misspell.
Our grammar sucks.
Our word definitions are imprecise.

And yet, we puff out our chests, claiming we are right and others are wrong. And some people agree with us, and some disagree.

We charge people with stupidity, ignorance, foolishness, stubbornness, bad manners, outdated mores, immaturity, feeble mindedness.

It's all probably related to poor toilet training, and pesticides in the water.

That was some dunk, and a pretty strong put-down of the defender afterward. I wonder why it was so strong. I don't think I'll find out in this thread.

I'm just another imperfect poster, up past his bedtime, very early on Christmas Eve morning.

"Life is just a game, you fly a paper plane, there is no end..."
 
JMick said:
If you knew anything about Tyson you'd know that the people around him really messed up his psychology. Hard to put that on what was essentially a kid.
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If you are old enough to have watched his fights from the beginning, you can easily see it differently.
WingU-Conn said:
This is seriously stupid. To call him a waste of talent is really, really stupid. Considering where he came from, and what happened to him, he's an amazing success story. Far from perfect. But he won 50 fights, was the youngest heavyweight champ ever, and holds the third longest unified championship reign in heavyweight history at eight consecutive defenses.

Still one of of the best ever.
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Mike Tyson could not handle his emotions. It is arguable that this undid him. Yes, his childhood was horrific. If "waste of talent" isn't the very best choice of words, it is not far off from what the impressions were when he was a late teen-into-early 20's superhuman phenomenon and seriously faltered. "Stupid" wasn't the very best word either.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Starts sentence with lower case letter, pluralizes boomer with an apostrophe, spells "like" with a "v," misuses ellipsis, omits comma, while flaunting self-certainty.
Sounds about right.
#giftsdiffering
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tHaNks fOr tHe eNgLisH leSson, bOomEr
 
Mike Tyson was prescient.

“I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”

He is a super interesting guy and I am a big fan. He has an amazing collection of quotes and is much more intelligent than the random boomer realizes.
 
Vuce said:
Yup! Our guys can tomahawk all day then celebrate with their teammates, coaches and fans (as long as they aren’t giving up anything on defense). All for that! Show some emotion and get hyped. The disrespect we show our opponents will hopefully come from beating them by 20 to 40 points every game. And yes it will be great to get the swagger back that comes from winning a lot. Can’t wait for Jackson to join our current freshmen
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Listen I’m not saying u have to get in your opponents face after every big play but I don’t mind getting up in a guys grill and hurting his feelings once every few games.
 
Kenny11 said:
well my post was mostly a joke, which is obvious if you read the rest of it...but it’s just an impressive highlight from a teenager. Maybe the kid he dunked on was talking trash to him and there was a little something extra behind it...or maybe not. I don’t know.
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o.k. Note that there was nothing in my response that badmouthed Jackson in any way. If I missed your joke, so be it.
 
I'm trying to think, who's was the most demonstrative player on the Huskies of Honor wall? KEA? There's not too many.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
If you are old enough to have watched his fights from the beginning, you can easily see it differently.


Mike Tyson could not handle his emotions. It is arguable that this undid him. Yes, his childhood was horrific. If "waste of talent" isn't the very best choice of words, it is not far off from what the impressions were when he was a late teen-into-early 20's superhuman phenomenon and seriously faltered. "Stupid" wasn't the very best word either.
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Stupid is the perfect word.

The man was the youngest champion and has one of the longest title defense streaks in the division.

That's not a waste of talent. Arguing otherwise lacks reason and intelligence.
 
In all due respect to that wonderful young man Andre Jackson who will grace the floors of Gampel.......
If this Mike Tyson BS continues can we shut down this thread and perhaps start another that will focus on the gem coming to UConn???
Happy Holidays all....................................................................................................
 
Walker11 said:
Mike Tyson was prescient.

“I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”

He is a super interesting guy and I am a big fan. He has an amazing collection of quotes and is much more intelligent than the random boomer realizes.
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Love Iron Mike.
 
Waquoit said:
I'm trying to think, who's was the most demonstrative player on the Huskies of Honor wall? KEA? There's not too many.
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Nothing compares to the in your face delivery from Bazz with a helpless Emmert getting posterized on national television.

“Ladies and gentlemen, you’re looking at the hungry Huskies. This is what happens when you ban us.”
 
Waquoit said:
I'm trying to think, who's was the most demonstrative player on the Huskies of Honor wall? KEA? There's not too many.
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Yeah and people constantly complained about them being soft and not "mean" enough when they played.

Calhoun kept jabbing BG during the season by calling him, "Gentle Ben" in hopes he'd be more outwardly aggressive and intensive.
 
WingU-Conn said:
Stupid is the perfect word.

The man was the youngest champion and has one of the longest title defense streaks in the division.

That's not a waste of talent. Arguing otherwise lacks reason and intelligence.
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Just curious: did you watch his career unfold live, with anticipation of each fight, and excitement as he dominated?

Up until the Buster Douglas fight, it was thrilling and extraordinary.

From that perspective, it is not implausible (though a few shades off) for someone to call his career's 'irregularities' thereafter a "waste of talent." "Stupid" is not an implausible rebuttal, but it too is a few shades off.

He's a human being: flawed, imperfect, and amazing. Even if it's unrealistic to imagine a perfection, when you get an extended glimpse of something that looks like it, it changes how you seen things, and its loss can seem like a "waste." Adopting an after-the-fact or later-in-starting larger perspective can lead to labeling something "stupid."

I'm not asking the, "Were you there from the beginning?" question to put you in your place. You may have been, which would surprise me. Or you may not have been, which would bring different understanding to me. You might be available for a different understanding as well. I am truly curious.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Just curious: did you watch his career unfold live, with anticipation of each fight, and excitement as he dominated?

Up until the Buster Douglas fight, it was thrilling and extraordinary.

From that perspective, it is not implausible (though a few shades off) for someone to call his career's 'irregularities' thereafter a "waste of talent." "Stupid" is not an implausible rebuttal, but it too is a few shades off.

He's a human being: flawed, imperfect, and amazing. Even if it's unrealistic to imagine a perfection, when you get an extended glimpse of something that looks like it, it changes how you seen things, and its loss can seem like a "waste." Adopting an after-the-fact or later-in-starting larger perspective can lead to labeling something "stupid."

I'm not asking the, "Were you there from the beginning?" question to put you in your place. You may have been, which would surprise me. Or you may not have been, which would bring different understanding to me. You might be available for a different understanding as well. I am truly curious.
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The beginning. The black shorts, no/low socks, every punch delivered with murderous intent. I remember very vividly being in shock when Douglas caught him with that uppercut.

He didn't waste his talent. It's fair to say he didn't live up to some people's expectations once he became the champ. It's also fair to say he far exceeded anyone's expectations for someone who came from where he did, and had to endure what he had to endure.

Looking at his life in totality. It is without reason or logic to say he "wasted" his talent. It's stupid.
 

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