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I still think its hilarious how Cecil Roberts and the Unions are crying about losing their jobs and how unfair the federal government is being.  A ton of these union guys supported Obama in 2008 and Richard Trumpka was standing beside that POS on the campaign trail even after he told the S.F. Chronical that he was going to bankrupt the coal fired power plants.  Hell, the process was already rolling against them in 2012 and they still DID NOT support Mitt Romney who said he would come to their aid.  It just dumbfounds me they could be that stupid.
 
And the training programs the federal government talks about to re-train these out of work miners, what are they going to re-train them to do??  Answer phones at a call center that doesn't exist?

Liberalism is the height of hypocrisy.
 
Request tolerance, yet viciously stamp out any ideas that run counter to tolerance. Put women's rights on a pedestal by murdering 700,000 babies per year. Care more about the animals and the trees than the people who are the stewards over them. Provide welfare for the poor by keeping them beholden to the government teat. Respond to shootings by blaming the weapon and not the person or class of people firing it.
 
Liberalism is a disease of intellect, and I for one value myself too greatly to be subjected to the horror of legitimately believing in it.

So you mean American liberals are getting all worked up over something that is none of their business and isn't significant anyway?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
 
Winston-Salem, N.C. — MY mind was absorbed by the biochemistry of gene editing when the text messages and Facebook posts distracted me.
 
So sorry about Cecil.
 
Did Cecil live near your place in Zimbabwe?
 
Cecil who? I wondered. When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered: One lion fewer to menace families like mine.
 
My excitement was doused when I realized that the lion killer was being painted as the villain. I faced the starkest cultural contradiction I’d experienced during my five years studying in the United States.
 
Did all those Americans signing petitions understand that lions actually kill people?  That all the talk about Cecil being “beloved†or a “local favorite†was media hype? Did Jimmy Kimmel choke up because Cecil was murdered or because he confused him with Simba from “The Lion Kingâ€?
 
In my village in Zimbabwe, surrounded by wildlife conservation areas, no lion has ever been beloved, or granted an affectionate nickname.  They are objects of terror.
 
When I was 9 years old, a solitary lion prowled villages near my home.  After it killed a few chickens, some goats and finally a cow, we were warned to walk to school in groups and stop playing outside.  My sisters no longer went alone to the river to collect water or wash dishes; my mother waited for my father and older brothers, armed with machetes, axes and spears, to escort her into the bush to collect firewood.
 
A week later, my mother gathered me with nine of my siblings to explain that her uncle had been attacked but escaped with nothing more than an injured leg.  The lion sucked the life out of the village: No one socialized by fires at night; no one dared stroll over to a neighbor’s homestead.
 
When the lion was finally killed, no one cared whether its murderer was a local person or a white trophy hunter, whether it was poached or killed legally. We danced and sang about the vanquishing of the fearsome beast and our escape from serious harm.
 
Recently, a 14-year-old boy in a village not far from mine wasn’t so lucky.  Sleeping in his family’s fields, as villagers do to protect crops from the hippos, buffalo and elephants that trample them, he was mauled by a lion and died.
 
The killing of Cecil hasn’t garnered much more sympathy from urban Zimbabweans, although they live with no such danger.  Few have ever seen a lion, since game drives are a luxury residents of a country with an average monthly income below $150 cannot afford.
 
Don’t misunderstand me: For Zimbabweans, wild animals have near-mystical significance. We belong to clans, and each clan claims an animal totem as its mythological ancestor.  Mine is Nzou, elephant, and by tradition, I can’t eat elephant meat; it would be akin to eating a relative’s flesh.  But our respect for these animals has never kept us from hunting them or allowing them to be hunted. (I’m familiar with dangerous animals; I lost my right leg to a snakebite when I was 11.)
 
The American tendency to romanticize animals that have been given actual names and to jump onto a hashtag train has turned an ordinary situation — there were 800 lions legally killed over a decade by well-heeled foreigners who shelled out serious money to prove their prowess — into what seems to my Zimbabwean eyes an absurdist circus.
 
PETA is calling for the hunter to be hanged.  Zimbabwean politicians are accusing the United States of staging Cecil’s killing as a “ploy†to make our country look bad.  And Americans who can’t find Zimbabwe on a map are applauding the nation’s demand for the extradition of the dentist, unaware that a baby elephant was reportedly slaughtered for our president’s most recent birthday banquet.
 
We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.
 
Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.
 
And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.

2003 loss to Tazewell still haunts me to this day. 
 
And 2004 to Salem is a close second. 

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Post of the year contender.

There's a couple I could list for my time at grundy. Every Richlands game for starters lol. But one I hate the most was the last game I played. 2003 regional championship against Graham. Was tied 7-7 at half if I'm not mistaken, then went downhill from there. It's a little harder of a loss when it's the last game you'll ever play.

The Cliff definately makes the unique list but idk about top 5. Between it always being cold in Hurley(traditional late season game for Haysi) and the mudhole they call a visitor sideline its something. The walk up the steps to the field was always cool. Walking up the steps, seeing the lights then the fans and walking right by the home stands just to arrive in 4 inches of sloppy mud. Its special, thats for sure. If Hurley was good that would be the best playoff home field advantage in 1A West

Gotta put the Cliff on there somewhere, a unique place to see a game for sure. 

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I thought this was a Top 5...

Roger Rife, coached Garden to their only state-championship appearance and is the Godfather when it comes to coaching in Buchanan County. I'm almost certain that he coached at every high school in the county as well except for maybe Council at some point. 

CLASSIC!
 
I got excited trublue and couldnt wait on you to post it

I agree!  I saw that pic and was like "damn, those unis look nice"!

Quite obvious that you never watched very much Graham football and this shows your lack of knowledge in regards to Coach Carlock. I guarantee he played 2nd teamers more than just about any other coach in this area during his days at Graham. I'm pretty sure you are confusing him with Fred Simon, Bluefield's head coach, who has to put 50+ on a team before he starts bringing in the backups.

So that's what that blood is all about...

I feel like Trump will eventually say enough stupidity that will run on a 24-hour news cycle loop to take himself out of contention.  Someone with a heartbeat will eventually come along and the Democrats will drop Clinton on her ass.  
 
That is not to imply anyone else from either party would be a better alternative.

2003 loss to Tazewell still haunts me to this day. 
 
And 2004 to Salem is a close second. 

Gate City leads the series with Richlands 23-22-1. I'd say that's a pretty dang good rivalry.

And the fact that they were about a week late....
 
Imagine how bad it would have been had they put it out the day after the announcement...