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[Jon Finkel📚💪 @Jon_Finkel]

A Hard Knocks Manifesto: The Real Reason Dudes Love It

For 17 seasons HBO has picked a random team to follow during training camp.

The games don't matter. Your favorite team is rarely featured. The stars of the show are often not the stars on the team.

And you're watching practice, which most of us would never bother to do in person or otherwise. BUT...

Hard Knocks gives us ex-high school or college or pick-up dudes something we secretly crave:

To be back in a locker room every day with our buddies.

Yeah, the football on Hard Knocks is cool and maybe if you're a huge dork or fantasy guy you'll spot something... And yeah, Liev Schreiber's voice is legendary...

And yeah, we get a glimpse of a rookie who might be good or a QB on a new team (Aaron Rogers) or a coach who makes you want to head butt a cinder block (Dan Campbell) but what we REALLY love...

Are the dudes screwing around on the field and in the locker room. The shit talking. The jokes. The pranks. The stupid conversations... The great conversations... Time with our boys...

It's the oldest cliche in sports journalism, but ask a retired pro athlete what he misses most about playing and 99.9999% of the time he's going to say "the guys in the locker room".

Dudes who thrived in that environment and then get stuck in an HR-dominated corporate world feel like they're suffocating.

Entire hit shows (The Office) and movies (Office Space) hammer home how soul sucking and brain draining and deadening most offices can be - they're the total opposite of being on a sports team:

The weight room. The workouts. The motivation. The constant physical and mental competition to be better.

Hard Knocks gives a lot of cubicle dudes and desk guys and work-from-home zoom zombies a glimpse into the time of their lives when they may have had the most pure fun.

Family, fatherhood, friends, it's all awesome as you get older... But deep down we'd all like to recaptures those team times as well.

Some find it with BJJ, others CrossFit or Iron Mans or golf or whatever else fills that void...

But nothing beats that feeling of fighting for greatness with your squad. Of testing yourself daily against your peers. Of ball busting and ripping on dudes you'd go to battle for...

That's what Hard Knocks really delivers.

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[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Ep. 3 America's principles are at stake

[Indiana State Football @IndStFB]

Congratulations to our guys receiving their diplomas today with #Classof2022 #Sycamores22 #IndState

#MarchOn | #LeaveNoDoubt

[Tyler Jenkins @Talk2Tyy]

They’re not even trying to lie about it now.

Careful what you consume.

[HSE Strength @HSEStrength]

Sound familiar Royals? Surround yourself with 5 successful people and you'll soon be the 6th. Surround yourself with 5 💩 and you'll soon be the 6th 💩. @HSEFootball

[Hoosier Daddy Classic @HoosierDaddyC]

Sir @JimIrsay, on behalf of the most prestigious Indiana based amateur golf tournament, I strongly encourage you to select this man as the recipient of your generous offer. We know no bigger Bengals fan and no truer heart than Mr Hiott.

Best Regards,

The Gentlemen of the HDC

[Frostburg State Athletics @frostburgsports]

Frostburg State would like to introduce our 14th Head Football Coach in program history Eric Wagoner. Congratulations coach! #bobcatpride #gobobcats @FrostburgFBALL

[Kira @Kiradavis]

Three COVID shots and still wearing a mask. Gee, I wonder why so many ppl think the shot is pointless.

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

So do the vaccines not work then?

[HiXTAPE @hixtape]

This what y’all have been waiting for??

[Gump Cathcart @bubbagumpino]

Football is so BACK

[Kenny Wallace @Kenny_Wallace]

Before you ever again complain about America. Remember. This horrific scene will remind you that there are people ALL over the world that will do anything take your place. America 🇺🇸

[Tennessee Football @Vol_Football]

Powerful message from a Volunteer icon. 🗣

[Eric Thorvaldsson @SkolSithLord]

Y’all need to think like this more…

[Hoosier Daddy Classic @HoosierDaddyC]

July 24th, 2021

11:45 a.m.

Hoosier Daddy Classic 2021 is over

Sources say it was rain, others claim cancel culture

It’s an upsetting day as all 24 players have come from far and wide

Players were given a voucher good for next year … in Gaylord, MI

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

20 Things I've Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The 'Pandemic' (THREAD):

1/ Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right.

[UIndy Football @UIndyFB]

We are devastated by the sudden loss of our brother, Matt Ripp. Matt’s impact within our program was immense and can still be felt today. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and former teammates @UIndyFB @HSEFootball

[Gabriel Gruber 𝚵 @GabrielGruber]

7 productivity recommendations by @elonmusk:

1) Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience in which case keep them very short.

[Jackson Long @jacksonlong44]

Fort Wayne needs a Waffle House