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Navy Seals Recruit Gopher Wrestlers (U of M)
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Posted on 12/08/2006 4:33:18 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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"I can teach them how to swim"
....and more than that.....
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Wrestlers are really good at hand-to-hand combat as well. Probably better than a lot of people think. The moves a top wrestler can potentially pull on someone are lethal and fast.
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posted on
12/08/2006 4:51:31 PM PST
by
allen08gop
(America -- The Arsenal For Humanity)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
12/08/2006 4:53:33 PM PST
by
najida
(If it wasn't for fast food, I'd have no food at all.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Let me be the first to say that I would never attempt to wrestle a gopher much less teach the little varmint to swim.
What's next - cat juggling?
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posted on
12/08/2006 4:53:36 PM PST
by
The Lumster
(USA - where the innocent have nothing to fear!)
To: najida
Yep...and #3 beat the alleged #1......
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posted on
12/08/2006 4:57:51 PM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Send Lawyers, Guns And Money *Not Necessarily In That Order*)
To: The Lumster
When I was a kid I shot a gopher in the butt with my little spring loaded Daisy 1873 lever action BB gun.
Gophers don't like that. Good thing he didn't catch me or my dog because I didn't realize they were such good wrestlers.
Seriously though, the SEALs are looking in the right placed if they want strong, motivated people.
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posted on
12/08/2006 5:04:27 PM PST
by
navyguy
(We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I could have been a Navy Seal if I were a little tougher and not afraid to get hit in the nose.
That and being afraid of the deep end....
To: allen08gop
The wrestler will beat the striker in a MMA match.
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posted on
12/08/2006 6:12:26 PM PST
by
John Will
To: najida
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posted on
12/08/2006 6:44:42 PM PST
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ButThreeLeftsDo
(Send Lawyers, Guns And Money *Not Necessarily In That Order*)
To: navyguy
Gophers don't like that. Good thing he didn't catch me or my dog because I didn't realize they were such good wrestlers.
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And if they head but you while wearing that little mining helmet with the light on it you could get a broken nose!
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posted on
12/08/2006 6:49:29 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Last year Minnesota beat Oklahoma State twice in duals. But who won the NCAA wrestling championsiop last year? Thats right, OSU and it was no contest.
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posted on
12/08/2006 7:10:13 PM PST
by
SVTCobra03
(You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I was over at Mariucci this afternoon, there was a sign on the door announcing a "Seal Challenge" at the Aquatic Center December 10th. Some kind of recruiting thing, I'd guess.
For those of you who don't know J. Robinson, he's one of the leading critics of Title IX and against the way it discriminates against Mens non-revenue sports.
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posted on
12/08/2006 7:16:00 PM PST
by
cryptical
(Wretched excess is just barely enough.)
To: SVTCobra03
I didn't see anything in the article about the SEALS recruiting COWGIRLS.
:-)
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posted on
12/08/2006 7:23:16 PM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Send Lawyers, Guns And Money *Not Necessarily In That Order*)
To: cryptical
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posted on
12/08/2006 7:23:45 PM PST
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ButThreeLeftsDo
(Send Lawyers, Guns And Money *Not Necessarily In That Order*)
To: najida
OOOOOH, YEAH, BROTHERRRRR!! WWF HERE I COME!!
To: allen08gop
A friend of mine was a really good wrassler before he took a shotgun blast that impaired his left arm and leg. I watched him take down and disable a guy that wanted to fight him. Don't screw around with boxers, wrestlers or hockey players.
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posted on
12/08/2006 8:07:44 PM PST
by
VanShuyten
("By the simple exercise of our will, we can exert a power for good practically unbounded, etc, etc.")
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Wrestling is the toughest sport. Wrestlers undergo the toughest conditioning, endurance training, weight control,and strength training in combination. JR's wrestling camp is probably the toughest in the country. (Wrestlers have to climb stairs with a wrestler on their back)
Gee, I wonder why the Seals would want Division I athletes with that kind of background?? Duh!
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
12/08/2006 8:20:52 PM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Send Lawyers, Guns And Money *Not Necessarily In That Order*)
To: Nonstatist
Gee...the SEALS might learn a thing or two!
Ok, maybe not......
;-)
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posted on
12/08/2006 8:22:57 PM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Send Lawyers, Guns And Money *Not Necessarily In That Order*)
To: allen08gop
When I was 18, I had won golden gloves 2x and was a brown belt. A wrestler who regularly attended the Iowa summer camp who was also the Illinois champ for his weight class joined our karate classes.
We became good friends, but I soon found out, that with all my skills, this guy could take me down, lock me up, and choke the breath out of me in a heartbeat.
My respect for wrestlers grew infinitely at that point.
He was more of an athlete than I could ever hope to be. Incidentally, he DID go off to join the SEALS, that was back in the mid 80's and was a gentleman through and through.
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