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U.S.C. Trojan Football Greets Nebraska’s Cornhuskers!

Trojans Meet Cornhuskers!

 

Saturday, September 16th, the Cornhuskers from Nebraska come to Los Angeles to meet the Trojans of U.S.C.

We have family from Nebraska (Omaha)and graduates from UN. My grandfather (Harold Hjersted) and his brother lived in a little town called “Rulo” population 32 about 70 miles from Lincoln or ‘Cornhusker Central’. Rulo was actually a big town before they moved the railroad across the Mississippi in the late 1800’s… then it dried up.

Hard to fnid places to eat in Rulo

I was a bit surprised to find this picture of one of the few places to eat in the area of Rulo, Nebraska. I haven’t been there since around 1990 or so… but I do remember that they’re next to the river and serve up great fried catfish! YUM!

Notice the flag streamers atop the restaurant?… in common language, when folks put these on their business (gas stations, etc.) it usually means, “I’m dying here! Buy something quick…. before I close!” Sorry to say, Rulo population 32 old folks is not long for this world. It’s a quiet and beautiful place.

Anyway, we’ll be heading to the game this Saturday dressed in the obligatory cardinal and gold! It’s going to be especially fun bringing a wife who loves football.

In any event, it looks like the faithful from all sides are beating the drums:

Nebraska’s BULLhorns:

Nebraska Team Briming with confidence
Real Football 365
NCAA football — Nebraska

Trojan Faithfull:

Recruiting Catch-up
How Nebraska Stacks Up
Tribute to Troy

Others:

Week 3 Picks
Chuck’s Top 25
IRISH-TROJAN Blog (what the hell is that?)
Kevins Picks

FIGHT ON! TROJANS!

Roger Freberg

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Happy 34th Wedding Anniversary, Sweetheart……. Fight on!

 

Laura in Trojan Suit and Happy    

Now, most men will recognize that Laura (my wife) is NOT wearing a soccer uniform… which, of course, makes her look all the more facinating, alluring and provocative.

What she is wearing is a USC Trojan Football Uniform and sipping a diet Pepsi at Federico’s in Buelton, California. We were returning home from a USC-UCLA game a couple of year’s ago. Trojans won.

How could you not love a woman who loves football? I think back to our first date… I was being recruited and recieved tickets to a previous rivalry game (1969) and ,since I had no money, asking a girl to a footall game served many purposes… especially financial. Little did I know it was the ‘perfect’ date for her.

Today we have been married 34 years with three adult children in whom we are proud…. and we go to football games together… what could be better?

So, boys, want to be happy for the rest of your life… find a girl who loves football…

Happy anniversary ,hun.

 

Roger Freberg

Others celebrating anniversaries:

9th Wedding Anniversary
1st Anniversary
a Military anniversary
Remembering their 8th anniverasary despite work
another 8th anniversary alone
a day late… but 7 years!
Tinkerbelle’s annoyed with wedding… but marriage is good
19 years and all is well?
sooooon to be married
2 years and happy

UPDATE: My bride has sweetly blogged about me… unbeknownst to me!

 

 

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September 11th… never forget and never forgive

Never Forgive... Never Forget
Tomorrow will be about speeches and posturing… but hopefully we’ll hear more. Where do we go from here… what will we be doing September 12th?

Part of the challenge we face is the natural reserve we have in the west to facing a proven enemy. Many of our past presidents from Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Clinton were not immune to the revulsion of the use of force, except in some cases on Americans. Here’s a quote that sums up our internal challenge in dealing effectively with terrorism:

 President John F. Kennedy is quoted as saying: “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”  This is a nice sentiment…. except for the forgiveness part.

As Tucumseh Sherman once said, “war is hell.” We can’t expect to fight terrorism without getting our hands dirty. Our success in beating back the threat is recognizing from where it evolves and taking effective action. We do speak of this in our culture…. in surprising ways.

There’s a line in ‘Pirates of the Carribbean’ that goes to the heart of decisive action and it’s goes something like this…” Jack, this is how you lost the ‘Pearl’ in the first place. People are easier to search when they are dead.” I would add: Dead Terrorists tell no tales.    

Something occurred to me the other day…that sounded very ‘unWestern’ of me… but we are in a new era and a new kind of war. I’ve noticed that none of the families of the terrorists have ever paid a price. No fear, shame or embarrassment… they even get a payoff! When a bomb goes off by a suicide bomber… the families of the terrorists always get a handsome ‘payout’ from their terrorist masters… somehow, this ‘incentive’ needs to be taken away. It is clear that families of terrorists need to live under the same fear as their family member’s victims. This will take some changes in thinking…. or we could face the problems of ‘Eurabia’ or ‘Canadistan’.

One can go after the source of money… but something more immediate and direct needs to happen. Any ideas?

Roger Freberg

I have included some blogs that I have found interesting… not all I agree with … but I presented them for your amusement. To me, the important message of nine eleven is that we still have the freedom to speak and to be heard… but if we don’t meet the challanges ahead… we will lose even that.

other Blogs:

Five Years Ago the World Stopped
MySpace Providing an outlet for Terrorism
Good Coming from war on Terrorism
compassionate words from a liberal
Abu Ghraib … not a nice place anymore
the Reality Show

Nutty Blogs:

The Tao Of Politics
Drinkin’ too much Brandy
Disappointment

Nutty Theologians

what do you think our response to 9/11 should be?

 

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Want to be ‘Dead Sexy?’ ……Watch what you eat!

I'm dead sexy....

 An interesting study was done to see if men who do or do not eat red meat are more attractive to women….  here’s a brief ‘top line’:

“… showed that the odor of donors when on the nonmeat diet was judged as significantly more attractive, more pleasant, and less intense.”

Now that our man on the left is on a carbo or the zone diet and off red meat… I guess this means he’s now more attractive to women? I guess… he probably smells great!

There’s a tale that before soldiers would go into the jungle… they would go off meat or fish for a couple of days to avoid being ‘detectable.’ That’s the only thing I have ever heard remotely connected to this study.

So, what do you think?

Now, from where I sit, this doesn’t mean becoming a vegetarian… and what we really don’t know is whether eating or not eating red meat is all that important in the grand scheme of things. My guess is that there are far greater issues that influence attraction.

But I do wonder sometimes…. when my wife leans over and says,’ you smell really nice.’ I never can remember what I did? What kind of soap did I use? It leaves me totally confused and searching for answers… but then, maybe that’s the plan….

Roger Freberg

Here’s a few blogs on what women like or don’t:

ITALIAN MEN
LonelyGirl15FanClub
ParisHiltonPUNKED
With DixieChicks on her mind (viva T.K.)

 

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Sports: it’s a guy thing!

A true fanatic... but NOT a cute guy... sorry ladiesWell, we’re talking about ‘sports’ again… so you gals can head out to the mall. heh heh

Not that any of us guys didn’t know this… but guys like sports and many women don’t. There really is a science behind male fanatic behavior.  Ah ha! you say…. that means SOME women like sports? Yep, the women who like sports are just about the most beautiful creatures that God has ever placed on this earth…. I know… I married one and produced daughters who love sports too… especially football.

If you don’t believe me that women who love sports are a RARE commodity… I have PROOF! This past weekend, while my daughters and my wife and I were all watching football (down boys… only two of those females are single), we watched an ad for eharmony.com.

A Football Loving Couple brought too you by eharmony.comWhat was so unusual about the ad you ask? Well, this is kind of an ‘advanced dating’ site that delves deep into your personality and looks to see if you can share the housework and if she can watch football while giving you a sensual backrub.

 The eharmony man said that he was looking for a woman who liked to watch football… and the only thing they now apparently fight about is the fact that she is a Brown fan and he is a Steeler. Holy , drop the remote, Batman! I could just see millions of guys logging on to eharmony…. while their girlfriends/whatever were out at the mall.

Go get a good one this time, guys! The guy pictured on the left FOUND his football loving fiance’! Continue reading “Sports: it’s a guy thing!”