Tiburon was Hound80 on here a long, long time ago

[slicklizard]

I've went back and forth the last few  months on what to do to at least keep the memory of my friend alive on here. If it wasn't for this site I would have never known Patrick along with many more over the years. I have been half catch myself waiting to get word from him on how this or that would play out as the season has gotten ready to be kicked off.

 Tib, myself and  a core of about 20-30 people kept this site from being thrown in the trash heap of failed message boards as the years progressed through the 2000s. He butted heads with some but he was a fair person and could  let things go in order to move forward. 

Not a word from certain people has been put in recognition of him by some that have been on here as long as we were and some that haven't been here as long but have acted like they built this site. Hell oldtiger was pinned to the top and grieved there for I don't remember  how many years. I'm not lessening his presence on here either but Tib cast just as big a shadow as that. I will even be more frank I think there is a certain one that still holds a grudge against him because Tib proved him wrong in front of us all and he couldn't take it. When I tried to make the peace and get said "person" to meet him halfway to get Tib back on here they flat out refused. Tib was absent from here for a long time behind that but he finally came back at the behest of several of us and this place was better off for it. Tib always resented that situation and honestly so do I with the way it was handled. It was as wrong then as it is now.

This site has gotten less and less traffic in the last fifteen years. We are not a family anymore. I will leave everyone to come up with their own reason for why. I know why and no one will convince me otherwise. I don't know how long this will stay up because of what I said above but I really don't care.  He would have said it for me. I feel like I  could look over my shoulder right now and he would be nodding his head yes.

I miss you on this Friday old friend. I know you would be bugging me this morning about going to stand in the rain with you tonight.

[Wareaglefan1us]

I totally agree Slick. We all use to try to set up meetings with one another before games just to put faces and real names instead of screen names to each other. We all built lasting friendships doing that. I remember sitting in the Doctors office with my mom she had just found out she had lung cancer. They were doing a few things and getting ready to start treatments. Oldtiger called and I told him where I was and he asked could he talk to my mom I said sure. They talked and prayed together man things like that you never forget.

 Tib was about good guy lol he had his opinion and didn’t mind sharing it, but that’s what this site is for. If tib was wrong he would be the first to post a plate of crow and move on. He was the same every time I met him.

 Even in the WC/WJ rivalry when it was so heated I met several of those guys even tailgated with them. I remember old Sosodude he was a really good guy I believe he moved away. 
 We just don’t have that on this Site anymore. People talk crap most of the time about something they know nothing about. But there’s only a few of us originals here. Heck me and you may have never reconnected if not for this site. Come to find out we were old schoolmates small world.

 Advice to you younger guys. During all the trash talk try setting up a meeting at the concession stand, the flag pole or wherever. I promise you that it’s worth it you may make some lifelong friends that call and talk with you during some tough times. It really helped me when I lost my mom, my dad and when my wife battled cancer three times and beat it. My friends would call to check on us and talk a little football to escape what we were dealing with for just a few minutes.