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Some fun Purples Posts - After the Dead Period! Especially the Mr. Football Camp! Really great to see Fant and Carothers giving back to the community. Post Dead Period: HA! Purples Football - Summer Practice is upon us. Then the Greenwood 7v7 on the 17th and 18th. Let's GO Purples!!!

This had to be a real gut punch to a guy like Christian Horner. It sounds like this came out of left field for him. If not, I don't think he speaks the way he did above. This is also a great speech for a guy just taking the biggest demotion he will likely ever take. BUT all things come to an end sooner or later and in the business of F1 seldom do you ride off into the sunset. Most of the time you are knocked off the horse and shot! Such is life, but I am a big Christian Horner fan. He really pushed the envelope in the late 2018's to 2023 anyway to create a powerhouse team. But in F1 if you don't win or both cars competing at the top of the grid, you won't last long. This has played out to one of the most recognized people in the business. Makes the last part of the season more intriguing to me.

Those first two games are really important for O. They don't have to win them, but they need to compete in them. If O just scheduled 2 easy games at the beginning of the season, I don't see that helping them if you want to win in November and December. This is the team Owensboro has been building for some time for. You don't get many Evan Hamptons - this is his last run! The time is now O fans!

Great Hulkenburg post @theguru! BIG NEWS! Christian Horner, the CEO for Red Bull, has been let go "with immediate effect". That is a HUGE decision! Horner was at the helm when Red Bull came on line in 2005. He directed them from a team that just got points into a team that competed and won Championships including one of the most dominant seasons in F1 History in 2022 when Max Verstappen won an incredible 15 times during the season. Current (at least of yesterday anyway) Racing Bulls (Red Bull Little Brother Team) CEO Laurent Mekies (great hair! Mekies is on the right and the new Racing Bulls CEO is Alan Permane on the left): These are really experienced guys, but this is a HUGE shakeup and you have to think it directly stems to Max Verstappen and Red Bulls desire to keep the World Champion with the Milton Keynes based team. I suppose they had to make this change if they wanted to keep Verstappen as I think Mercedes has gone all in on trying to sign Max. Going to be interesting!

Anyone know when the Jeffersontown 7v7 on July 11 or this Atherton 7v7 on the 12th starts or who has signed up to participate?

Whenever you add poor weather to F1 racing, it creates complete chaos on most occasions and todays British Grand Prix was not exception. But first for Qualifying on Saturday saw Max Verstappen, the reigning World Champion for Red Bull with rumors flying around all over of his possible move to Mercedes Racing, wait until the very last moment to come out of his garage and still make his final flying lap in Q3 to stun the orange McLaren Cars who both made mistakes in their final laps to see the reigning champ take a much needed pole position! The McLaren's were next with Piastri in 2nd and Norris in 3rd. Russell the lead Mercedes was 4th then both Ferrari's and Russell's teammate Antonelli next. Pierre Gasly ran a great qualifying just getting out of P1 and P2 at the last possible instant. His best run of the year. It wasn't raining when the race started but the track wasn't dry either. Verstappen held the lead at the start, but Piastri was all over him and on Lap 11 the Australian passed the World Champion. And then the rains came with multiple cars off the track. I had to feel for rookie Isaac Hadjar who simply ran into the back of Antonelli when he simply couldn't see him. On a restart about half way through the race Verstappen came roaring around a curve but Piastri was checked up and Verstappen passed the leader under yellow which is a no-no. But Piastri was given a 10 second penalty for going too slow behind the pace car. I think that is a harsh penalty in my assessment. 5 seconds perhaps, but 10 was excessive in my opinion. Then Verstappen spun on that restart and fell back to around 10th, but give him credit for fighting back to 5th. With the 10 second penalty on Piastri basically handed the race to Norris, who took the checkered flag for the second race in a row and cut his teammates lead to 8 points in the Championship Race. Piastri took second. BUT a GREAT story and really the best story IMO was Niko Hulkenburg, the verteran Kick Sauber racer had never in 239 races gotten on the Podium (1st, 2nd or 3rd), which is crazy to me. The guy is a terrific racer who is typically with a car lacking from the front. And such was the case today, but Hulkenburg put it all together and achieved a career best 3rd Place! Simply OUTSTANDING! Lewis Hamilton, the Legend, drove a great race today and I thought he was going to take the last Podium spot as he got on Hulkenburg's gear box, but burned up his tires doing it and couldn't pass the German. He took a very solid 4th. Verstappen climbed back up to 5th with an epic Pierre Gasly performance to pass Lance Stroll on the last lap and finish 6th in an Alpine sled most would do well to bring home 16th!. Stroll also drove a great race today and got the best out of his car coming home in 7th. Alex Albon in 8th. Fernando Alonso in 9th and George Russell recovers to the last points spot in 10th. Very eventful race. And the F1 Summer Brake is now upon us with a 3 Week Break. We are halfway though the season now if you can believe it! They come back at the end of July with my Favorite Track/Grand Prix - The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa! Always a top stop on the tour!

Yeah, It's definitely different brand of racing. I think most of those patrons were there as much for the fights as they were for the racing.

When NASCAR gets to be as entertaining as the following link; you let me know!!! Make sure you watch till the end!

I was a Freshman and went to this game at Glasgow. Never forget they made the kicker take every football players lunch tray back to the cafeteria for a whole week after the game. He missed the extra point.

The Austrian Grand Prix is a really good track and always puts on a good show. And the 2025 version was a good race as well. It started on Saturday with the McLaren's the lead team by a considerable margin IMO. BUT give Ferrari credit. They appeared to be the distant 4th team after a bad outing in Montreal the race before. And Charles LeClerc posted a great qualifying lap and split the McLarens with Norris on Pole and Piastri pushed down to 3rd. Hamilton with a nice effort for 4th and Russell in 5th for Mercedes. And the World Champion was down in 7th. At the start of the race was a lot of action. LeClerc got a great jump off the line, so Norris was forced to move over and block him, which he did. This allowed Piastri to zoom around the outside and take 2nd place. Going into Turn 3 the leaders converged and as Verstappen was going through Antonelli, the rookie Mercedes driver, made his first real Rookie move of the season, by coming in "hot" to the curve, locking up his breaks and colliding with Verstappens rear right wheel taking both out of the race! This was clearly Antonelli's fault and the only positive for the World Champion is that now 2 penalty points come off his License, so the likelihood he is suspended a race presently seems unlikely. Over the course of the race, Piastri would keep Norris honest and even pass his teammate once but give Norris credit as he used momentum and DRS to retake the lead and never gave it up. Bringing home another McLaren 1-2 finish. Ferrari has to be ecstatic with this finish as they come home 3rd and 4th. Russell came home 5th. A couple other notes of interest: 1. Fred Vasser the Ferrari head man; But is he now? He was not at the race today and was "away on personal matters". A lot of pressure on the Red team, BUT they rose to the occasion this week. Well done to them! But I see more turmoil ahead and while I think they stay near the front; I'm not sure who you will see on the active team. 2. Kick Sauber, a team typically thought of as the very last team on the grid, has really turned things around and made some solid race weekends here of late. Nico Hulkenburg has always gotten more out of the car than it really should have IMO (VERY underrated driver) and today his teammate Gabriel Bortoletto turned in his best weekend; got to Q3 in Qualifying and finished a really respectable 8 and 9 with Bortoletto's first points of the season! Well Done! 3. Williams was a dumper fire today. Carlos Sainz never saw the green flag as his brakes caught fire and retired before the race. His teammate Alex Albon was doing better but after his first pit stop had brake problems too and was soon retired. Really tough for them. 4. Poor Yuki Tsunoda. The second Red Bull has just been on a slippery slope from the moment he was called up mid-season to the lead Red Bull Team and I feel tensions are incredibly high now. Today he ran into Lance Stroll, who had a really good car. He then ran into Franco Colipinto, who was just holding his line. I think the pressure is getting to Tsunoda and this bad storm isn't going away for Red Bull. On to a GREAT Track at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone!!!! Going to be fun!!!

Fun Thread! For BG Comebacks, I'd have to say the 2012 State Semi-Finals game at John Hardin. BG scored on a pass from Hayes to Fant midway through the first quarter to close the game to 7-6 (BG missed the PAT). From there the Purples were flat as a fiddle and John Hardin outplayed them for pretty much the rest of the game. A couple key plays were: 1. BG was offsides twice on the 2nd JH TD PAT, which moved the ball to within inches of the goal line. JH decided to use the "Heavy Package" and inserted BIG DT Jason Elam (who went to UK) as lead blocker. But the refs said the ball carrier didn't get in. There are JH fans to this day that say he did get in. That was a BIG play as the score stayed at 13-6. 2. BG was threatening down 13-6 with about 5 minutes to play in the game. Devin Hayes (BGs QB) throw his second uncharacteristic INT at the JH 7 yard line and the JH DB looked like he was gone, BUT RB Blake Pillow didn't give up on the play and tracked him down in BG territory and BGs D would cause another Turnover on Downs. HUGE play. 3. BG got the ball back with about 2 minutes to play (still down 13-6), ball started at the BG 20 and got sacked on 3rd down. So, on 4th and 9 from the BG 21, BG threw the HOOK 'N LADDER to Nacarius Fant who shoveled it to Blake Pillow who took it to the house!!!! TD BG! 4. But similar to the Miracle on Ice story (where beating the Russians was only in the Semi-Final Game), BG was still down 13-12. The Purples called TO and decided to go for 2. Naracius Fant ran a short down and out and the ball was on the money from Hayes - 2 pt conversion good! Purples lead 14-13. JH would get to midfield but that was it and the game ended in one of my Top 5 ALL- Time Purples Wins!!! A second memorable BG comeback was on September 10th, 2004, where BG would have to dig deep to overcome a determined Greenwood team. BG was down at home 17-9 at half time. Greenwood had the opportunity to convert a fake punt on the first play of the 4th quarter, but simply didn't get it done. BG used that momentum, especially star RB Avery Hibbett who scored late to power the Purples to a 31-24 win over the Gators. As for Collapses, I would need to think more on that for some of the older games, but these 2 stand out to me: 1. October 18, 2024 - At Home vs South Warren - Big Rivalry game. BG has Deuce Bailey and leads South 24-14 with about 8 minutes to play. Now that is pretty much a done deal in most history books for BG but give the Spartans credit as QB Bryce Button led two late TD drives to absolutely stun BG and basically win the district title and much more favorable playoff pathway 28-24 South Warren. 2. November 10, 2010 - At Christian County - 2nd Round of the 5A Playoffs - BG had controlled the game throughout and led 10-0 with 4:33 to play in the game. The Colonels got on the board with 1:46 to play and then recovered the onside kick! They went on to drive the ball into the end zone and stun the Purples 14-10 to end their season!

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One of the coldest I recall was the 2012 State Semifinal game at John Hardin. BG outlasted a really good JH team. I had as many clothes as I could get on and was still absolutely frozen by the time I got to the car!

Forgot to post for the Canadian Grand Prix! It was a good race and salty in spots at the end. But give Mercedes credit as they are really working hard back at their factory sending upgrades to their drivers and Russell and Antonelli are both making it count. Heading into Canada, Mercedes surely were at BEST the 3rd best team (And that is Generous!) and perhaps tied for third with Ferrari. So, when George Russell overcame a challenging couple practice sessions and blew the doors off the field to take pole position at another very entertaining qualifying session. Yes, the talented British driver has really come into his own this season leading a super talented Mercedes lineup with the best rookie on the grid as his teammate (Antonelli). It really is a good setup for Merc right now with the clearly more seasoned Russell leading the rookie who will be a threat in F1 for some time to come. So, Russell led the field with Verstappen in second and the points leader Piastri (McLaren) in 3rd, Antonelli in 4th (GREAT showing) and Hamilton the lead Ferrari in 5th. Lando Norris missed the mark and qualified a disappointing 7th. The race was pretty entertaining with Russell able to hold off Verstappen and the lineup of qualifying above was the way they came home as well, but about 4 laps from the end, Lando Norris was on his teammates gear box and tried to make a move to the outside down the main straight and before he got alongside his teammate, he hit Piastri in the back; ripped his front wing off and veered him into the wall ending his day in yet another move that is less than you'd expect from Norris, who is SUPER talented, BUT he simply miscalculates at times. And at 200 mph, there is little recovery from that. So Mercedes get a HUGE shot in the arm; McLaren's head man Stella calling the McLaren conflict "unacceptable" and clearly the worst weekend for McLaren this season; RedBull fired 2 formal complaints to the FIA Stewards against Mercedes (it's much better laid out here if you wish to read it F1 Red Bull team protest against George Russell, Mercedes thrown out after Canadian Grand Prix | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines) but was ultimately thrown out - SO much to do over nothing in my book AND should NOT have been sent to the stewards. Man Up and get better Red Bull! And Ferrari just had a very poor weekend. They started out with LeClerc in the wall in practice; they had terrible tyre strategy in qualifing and Hamilton ran over some type animal in the race and damaged his floor and he still brought it home in 6th. BUT not up to their teams' lofty standards and there are rumors of people on the chopping block for the red pony team. It's hot in that Italian spotlight!!! On to the part of the F1 season I love the most, which is the old school European section with the Red Bull Ring (Austrian GP), Silverstone (British GP) and my favorite SPA (Belgian GP). It's a great time really with all major sports ending (with the exception of baseball, which I'm sad to say I find pretty boring and uninteresting). But it is a great down time as we all look forward to the start of football again!!!

I guess if Komono pants are the rage, then yeah roll with it. They look like on the bargain rack at Woolworths back in the 60s!