@Ibleedbrown said:
Damn, you know your stuff. Density is a thing when it comes to affixing things to other things. Aluminum is less dense than most other metals. I get it. Every deck will eventually fail because deck screws are more dense than wood.

Pictures probably not clear enough but it shows the failure, before, during, after fix.

After I did the tap to bigger bolt things I saw a YT video of someone who just removed the bottom bolts on the transmission case, drilled through, and added long through bolts that go all the way through the mount.

Woulda been better but ah well, this should last the life of the mower with how old it is

@syd said:
cool, made my pick Browns 31 jets 6

Picks are secret until game time mostly cuz if it got close at the end of the season it prevents copying other picks. Like you know if I was first place in a close race I could just copy 2nd place picks to prevent them from winning.

But it has a unique badge for getting it exactly right, and one for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place at the end of the season. Seemed like a good gamification idea to boost engagement a little

@Ibleedbrown said:
Get it fixed? What was the culprit?

It's one of these Craftsman/Husqvarna models with a common failure on the front transmission mount where the bolts strip out because the case is aluminum. So the transmission basically rotated and the belt got destroyed.

I did the redneck fix of tapping bigger holes and using bigger bolts with a boat load of loctite, seems solid But I am waiting on more parts to put the rest of it together, it needs a new transmission cooling fan too since that broke apart.

I bought this thing for like $80 5 years ago and all it needed then was a valve adjustment, ran it since then without any problems until this year... I replaced the head gasket, carbeurator, starter. Now fixing the transmission mount, new fan, new drive belt.

Hopefully it keeps going strong, I dont wanna shell out the crazy prices mowers are these days.

Rams and Ravens boo, Good job Jax though.

I was fixing my lawn mower so not watching any of it

@Orion said:
Sanders had better be prepared to win games when he gets his shot. Watson and his somewhat fragile body is overdue for his season ending injury. But by winning 3 straight to vault us into 1st place he has raised the bar for Shedeur. Sanders has to prove that he's the better option than Watson...AND that he's the better option than using draft assets to get one of the top QB's in the '27 draft.
Also on the horizon is Gabriel and his coming off of IR. I'm assuming that that decision about carrying 4 QB's is not far off.

I have no idea why people are so hopeful for Sanders. I get that people wanted him over Watson because of Watson's past and sexual assault accusations and all - but Sanders has shown absolutely nothing that should lead anything to believe that he's even a capable backup.

I'd feel a lot better if our backup QB was someone like Keenum.

Also with the trajectory and how weak our schedule is feels like top prospects in 27' are going to be out of the Browns reach.

I'm not optimistic about any of the Browns (3) QB prospects theyre carrying, although Taylen Green has the most potential albeit by far the most rough around the edges.

Narrator: they did not wake the bats

Can't believe their closer had 4 innings against us.

Hopefully just rust and they shake it off come Monday.

@calfoxwc said:
It was GREAT to see the squealers suffer a serious lack of talent, crap play-calling, offensive line struggles, and Rodgers playing like he was eh.....stoned? He has lost a lot of arm, was floating passes again and again, and missing targets all over. The squealer defense - secondary - no workee vs the Browns. Boston is a monster rookie wr, Conception gets freaking open, and Judkins got me 21.6 points in fantasy football. Squealers are last in the division already. Browns -first. If twatson can avoid pick sixes, fumbles and ints, well, GO BROWNS ! (btw, anyone ever see the squealers have so many penalties?

Rodgers ain't no Brady at this point in his career, him screaming at everybody else including the coach was fun to watch though.

They need to do some voodoo to wake the bats

I didn't have the GameDay bot create threads in the baseball and basketball forums cuz they're much less active but man I love October baseball.

CLE has the pitching and bullpen upperhand, by a lot. CWS have the batting advantage but not by a huge margin. Usually pitching reigns supreme, we'll see

@syd said:
hey when did you add the standings ? hell ya

Once the browns were at the top

@FY56 said:
What a beautiful board!…except I am able to log in but unable to post anything. Can you fix? Thanks

How'd you post this then

@AP1 said:
Watson before the fumble and Watson after the fumble were and are two completely different QBs. It's quite metaphorical for his life. When he feels like he's on fire, he is, like you said, solid. When one chink develops in his armor he falls apart. Credit to the OL as well, they did what was needed in the second half.

The miss to Fannin felt like a miscommunication more than just a plain miss. Like Watson expected him to turn up field instead of continuing towards the sideline.

See the original re-launch announcement

When Stan (@atenears), the original board's founder passed away a lot of the ability to manage the board was lost with him.

TL;DR we coordinated with Stan's surviving spouse to send relevant paperwork to invision and get everything transferred out to me. I built an entirely new platform based on NodeBB, with a lot of custom plugins and features. I migrated all of the boards history and members to this platform.

I just did it because I like the community and all of the history that exists here.

I've added a ton of features, Pick'em, much better gameday tracking and statistics. I think it's a great place again to watch and discuss Browns games - among other things.

Hopefully some inactive members and members who have left come back and give it a try. I don't think internet drama should ever be taken that seriously, just respect each other and be happy.

New Members do not need to be approved, but their first posts may need to be approved by a moderator until they earn some reputation.

I added a bunch of cooler home page features, including AFCN standings since they are nice to look at for once - and cut the reaction emojis down and added custom ones.

@Orion said:
Szmyt has been a really good kicker for us.

That kick was absolutely beautiful, perfect contact. Would have been good from 65

@syd said:
any word on his knee ?

also Hall coming back in the game amazed me after verse was thrown into his knee

He walked off the field ok, so hopefully just a sprain. Either way he'll probably miss at least a few weeks.

@Ibleedbrown said:
I just discovered l have mod powers? Thanks bb. I merged a couple threads. I’ll try to be discerning but there may be some trial and error as l figure things out.

I may make a mod forum for mods to talk about stuff and coordinate, I don't even know how to moderate this thing tbh, and I hope I don't have to anyway. I'd rather let ChatGPT moderate everything than do it myself. (ChatGPT is not currently a moderator, but if I have to start doing it and dont get enough help I'd consider handing it over to some AI)

I put the basic spam protections in place and new members with 0 rep go through a queue so that their first posts have to be approved by a moderator. But it may take some fine tuning to figure it all out.

I hope this place can make a comeback, it's a great community with a lot of great guys and gals. No matter what I'll make it the best Sports Board that exists.

I know theres Reddit (which is a whole different beast), Dawg Talkers (which is ad riddled craziness and a god awful UX). No offense to them, but I'm just willing to make things awesome and not have ads or trackers or subscriptions. I'm fully realistic in the fact that I expect nothing but hope for good life experiences. Bring back fantasy football groups, in-person tailgates/meetups, all of the general fun things.

I'm just happy I was able to take control of this place. I'll probably never ban or do any moderator actions (unless it's illegal stuff I mean, I have to act against some crazy stuff that might appear like CP or something insane - then I'll definitely go to the police). I really hope I never encounter anything like that. But this is the internet so you never know.

Besides obviously illegal content and threats against other members, I have no problems though, I won't ban or police anybody unless they reach the point where I'd actually feel obligated to report them to the police (which is a circumstance that has never happened in the history of this board afaik)

Hope we can get a group together soon for a browns tailgate.

Just goes to show ya all the browns needed for a first place AFCN record was a new browns board

The fact I didnt see a "This week in the AFCN" thread before this game is enough for a perma ban IMO.

Squealers L, disappointed I didn't get a this week in the AFCN though @zombo