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Man, this sucks. My wife's uncle lost both his best friend and his godson. Her niece lost 2 friends from school. Just crazy.

Why would you have any flight pattern that came within miles of the by the book landing path of all commercial flights into a major airport?

Probably because the initial landing instructions for the flight was for the north/south runway, the glide path for which goes along the western shore of the Potomac. The flight was switched over to the SE/NW runway, where the glide path goes across the Potomac. If the helicopter was staying to the eastern shore of the Potomac, it would have been clear of the former. Some communication must've been missed in the switchover.

Matt Brown of Extra Points (the most knowledgable person around the business of CFB IMO) had a piece on this that was really good. Some excerps:

While the ACC has made tweaks around the edges of their model, from hiring outside help to pursue more sponsorship dollars to distributing more money to schools that actually win things, it's hard to imagine feasible changes that would actually bring the league into financial parity with the Big Two.

But that isn't necessarily the point. If the league presidents are willing to give more money to the schools that provide the most brand cache and the schools that win the most on the field, and once everybody learned how messy, expensive and complicated these lawsuits are, well, now you have a path towards potentially keeping everybody together...at least for a little while.

the chatter I had regularly heard from ADs and the consultant class was that neither the SEC or the Big Ten were especially excited to try to grab either Clemson or Florida State.

It isn't because those are bad programs or anything, but without another massive cash infusion from FOX, it's difficult to make the math continue to math for a 20+ team conference without some schools making less money than they did before.

I'm not shocked the outside institutional money cannon wasn't ready to make all of Florida State and Clemson's problems go away yet.

I say yet, because we're a long, long way from 2036. Via the ESPN reporting:

As part of the settlement, Clemson and Florida State are asking the ACC to agree to reduce penalties for exiting the grant of rights after 2031, when TV contracts for the Big Ten, SEC and Big 12 are set to expire

Passed several people through this morning. Assuming you were one of them, right?

So APR was so dominant that the other team quit and he enjoyed a lot of the 2nd half on the sideline because he put so much fear into them in the 1st quarter

Back in the late 80's and early 90's I flew Navy Sea King helicopters from Norfolk to the Pentagon pad and then flew over to Andrews AFB where we parked the bird until 4pm when we would fly back to the Pentagon pad and pick up the Admirals to fly back to Norfolk. Air Traffic Control at Reagan (National back then) would demand we fly below 200 feet AGL and stay well clear of the approach and departure zones for the active runway when we were flying in and out of the Pentagon. I hate to implicate fellow helicopter pilots but landing traffic always has the right-of-way and that H-60 should never have been near the approach end of the active runway at Reagan. Unless the jet was off course (extremely unlikely) then the helicopter was at fault almost without a doubt.

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APR and the East won 25-0. It's the first shutout in 55 years in this game. Couldn't find stats on the game. Only saw APR on a handful of plays.

My experience also.
Lynchburg or Roanoke to Philly and DC.

It's much better by motorcycle.

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The refs blew it open in the second half like I was afraid they would after the Hokies played better than expected in the first. I went in expecting to lose but keep it close. The refs were not going to let that happen. It was one of the worst officiated games I have ever seen and I was at the infamous "bullshit" game when Buzz was coach.