Football Home Game
Sat, August 30, 2025
Sat, August 30, 2025
Basketball Home Game (FS1)
Tue, February 11, 2025 @ 9:00 pm
Tue, February 11, 2025 @ 9:00 pm
A Slow Night in Sports
-
- Posts: 12029
- Joined: November 14th, 2010, 11:56 pm
- Has thanked: 384 times
- Been thanked: 3618 times
A Slow Night in Sports
I was watching a little of the Notre Dame - Indiana game and was looking at the channel guide on the YouTube TV. I saw that CBSSports was television the 2024 Plumbing National Championship. Thinking this had to be a weird name of a golf tournament or auto race of some sort, I switched over to CBS Sports Network.
Sure enough, there are plumbers in a room tuning PEX pipe to water heaters and what-not. It is then I realized that I watch far too much TV. I don't know what is more pathetic - watching 18 and 19 year-old kids getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars on top of free schooling to play a sport, or watching plumbers compete at an organized competition - both have the same bearing on my life.
Sure enough, there are plumbers in a room tuning PEX pipe to water heaters and what-not. It is then I realized that I watch far too much TV. I don't know what is more pathetic - watching 18 and 19 year-old kids getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars on top of free schooling to play a sport, or watching plumbers compete at an organized competition - both have the same bearing on my life.
- These users thanked the author Yossarian for the post (total 4):
- EngineeringAggie • AgTime • BustaMcNutt • Zaggie07
Eutaw St. Aggie
-
- Posts: 12029
- Joined: November 14th, 2010, 11:56 pm
- Has thanked: 384 times
- Been thanked: 3618 times
Re: A Slow Night in Sports
As an update, Craig Childress chose the PEX and finished ahead of runner-up Tyler Eddleman, who chose copper tubing to win his fourth National Championship.
Exciting stuff.
Exciting stuff.
- These users thanked the author Yossarian for the post (total 3):
- EngineeringAggie • aggies22 • trevordude
Eutaw St. Aggie
-
- Posts: 959
- Joined: April 25th, 2022, 4:15 pm
- Has thanked: 2596 times
- Been thanked: 974 times
Re: A Slow Night in Sports
For some reason I wish I had watched the plumbing championship. This playoff game got boring as soon as Shane Gillis was no longer on tv.
- These users thanked the author EngineeringAggie for the post:
- flying_scotsman2.0
- AGinNEIowa
- Pick'em Champ - '15, '16, '17 WTHCG
- Posts: 8637
- Joined: January 10th, 2003, 12:00 am
- Location: northeast Iowa
- Has thanked: 3068 times
- Been thanked: 1415 times
Re: A Slow Night in Sports
I must have watched the same channel after you did -
I saw the final few minutes of the Ideal Electrician National Championship. Link below says it was on at 8pm EST yesterday so I must have watched the replay that ended around 11pm local
They had a little "room" and had to run wire from an air exchanger and water heater to a breaker box -which they also had to install -in 90 minutes. None of the 5 finalists completed the job, so the judges looked over their work and made a decision on who had done the best job.
Tom Kennedy of Big Bend, WI was crowned last night -his second title(2022)
https://www.electriciannationals.com/
I saw the final few minutes of the Ideal Electrician National Championship. Link below says it was on at 8pm EST yesterday so I must have watched the replay that ended around 11pm local
They had a little "room" and had to run wire from an air exchanger and water heater to a breaker box -which they also had to install -in 90 minutes. None of the 5 finalists completed the job, so the judges looked over their work and made a decision on who had done the best job.
Tom Kennedy of Big Bend, WI was crowned last night -his second title(2022)
https://www.electriciannationals.com/
- These users thanked the author AGinNEIowa for the post (total 2):
- Yossarian • trevordude
BOWL PICK'EM Entry Form First Game is 12/14 starting at 7pm
WEEKLY PICK'EM and WTHCG Final Standings - Weekly winner -QuackAttackAggie, WTHCG winner NHAggie
KICKOFF PICK'EM Standings & Summary - Winner -Lugenstein
WEEKLY PICK'EM and WTHCG Final Standings - Weekly winner -QuackAttackAggie, WTHCG winner NHAggie
KICKOFF PICK'EM Standings & Summary - Winner -Lugenstein
-
- SJSU Ultimate Loser Award Winner - Given to someone that should probably give up but won't.
- Posts: 25095
- Joined: November 3rd, 2010, 8:09 am
- Location: Where the sagebrush grows!
- Has thanked: 1503 times
- Been thanked: 3835 times