That's all I ask. Encourage him to follow the path *he* chooses. Guide him down the college route if yo so choose (and I would encourage it) but should he choose to combine the too or show a talent for football and want to go play for Army, don't actively discourage him or tell him no.

And in another 12 years, who knows what our government will be like...

And as an example of how things change: I was in the service during Ronald Reagan's time in office. It was a time *Very* different from our own, unlike the intro to A Tale of Two Cities.

And I also served part of Reagan and part Bush and I think even Clinton a bit. lol

Clinton? Gulf War? Troops started coming home in March of 91. Clinton wasn't elected until November 92 and didn't take office until January 93.

"...but should he choose to combine the too or show a talent for football and want to go play for Army..."

If he's talented, why would he want to play for Army?

(That's *play for* Army, not serve in the army. I know there are lots of talented in the army. I was just taking a cheap shot at the Black Knights' recent football record.)

Ouch! OK, maybe he wants to play for the Navy or the Air Force. There's Annapolis and Colorado Springs...

And I don't think anybody took it worng. We knew you were taking a jab at Army football.

Yeah, I just wanted to make sure somebody didn't come in and read it wrong. Just a little CYA. But yeah, Navy's much better than Army in recent years.

Not being a college football fan, I wouldn't know.

HECKS GO TO YOUR ROOM

Army > Navy. Don't care about recent record. Just is.

Scoreboard don't lie.

You're right. The Knicks totally shouldn't have beaten the Pacers in game 7 in '95. No way.

Basketball references are lost on me. I live in Maine. Could you put that in terms of hockey?

Not quite, but I'll give it a shot... do you think the '06 Oilers were actually better than the Red Wings or that they just won?

With Manny Legace in goal for Detroit for the playoffs, I think the Oilers were the better team.

Disagree, but whatever. How about Belarus over Sweden? Was Belarus really better?

Basketball references are lost on me. I live in Maine. We watch hockey instead.

(Oops... I don't know why that reposted. -1 to me.)

Basketball references are lost on me. I live in Maine. We watch hockey instead. Go Black Bears.

What kind of copy and paste rampage are you going on?

Dammit! Chrome crashed while I was trying to post. Somehow I'm now spamming the thread.

@Hecks: As a wings fan I disagree, wings had a lot of injuries and Edmonton had a few players on a hot streak. Play that same series a month later or a month earlier, and Detriot would destroy Edmonton.

The better team doesn't always win, proof of that is no team ever goes undefeated in a season and very rarely are play off series 4-0. If a series goes into 7 games, it means the better team has lost 3 of the last 6 games, that alone should be proof that the better team doesn't always win.

Oh, no doubt the Wings had a lot of talent. But the Oilers had Ales Hemsky, Ryan Smith, Shawn Horcoff, Jarret Stoll, plus a killer defensive grouping, with Marc-Andre Bergeron, Chris Pronger, Steve Staios, and Jaroslav Spacek. That defesive group was why Roloson, despite having a save percentage just over 90%, had a relatively low GAA at 2.42.

Were talking about the team that won the presidents trophy and 2 years later would win the Stanley cup (albeit with a better GT, but I would hardly call Osgoode as talented GT)

Datsyk, Zetterberg, Franzen, Holmstrom were better then Hemsky, Stoll, Smith and Horcoff, and on defense we had the norris winner Lidstrom.

This was the team that won the presidents trophy and had more talent then any other team that year. The better team doesn't always win though.

So his GAA was 2.42 yet Edmonton allowed 3.17 goals per game in the series. Does that really suggest that brilliant defense was the reason Edmonton won it?

Well, I wouldn't say the Oilers were a *lot* better than the Wings. We could continue the debate, but we're diverging increasingly from the example I mentioned of Army vs. Navy, where I'm talking about their respective records over the last ten years, not a single series.
And we're diverging even more from the intial topic of the thread.

drau, I meant i was serving under Clinton, not the gulf war, I know when the troops came home.