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Sunshine Pumper

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watch

About Me

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The Love of My Week: Lady Liberty
Past Loves of My Week:
21JUNE2007: Erin Andrews
14JUNE2007: Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm
07JUNE2007: Danica Patrick
31MAY2007: Chyler Leigh
24MAY2007: Rachel Nichols
17MAY2007: Jen Walters-Jameson
10MAY2007: Cheryl Burke
03MAY2007: Suzy Kolber
26APR2007: Ashley Tisdale
19APR2007: Elisha Cuthbert
12APR2007: Avril Lavigne
05APR2007: Haley Scarnato
29MAR2007: Gina Glocksen
22MAR2007: Jessica and Jaz Adair
15MAR2007: Sandra Bullock
08MAR2007: Sarah Chalke
01MAR2007: Rachel Ray
22FEB2007: Katie Heigl
15FEB2007: Fergie
08FEB2007: Evangeline Lilly
01FEB2007: Allison Mack
The Quotation of My Week: "This land of ours may have seen some hard times, and maybe it hasn't always lived up to the promise of the founding fathers...but America at its best has always stood for the rights of man, and against the rule of tyrants! And if America needs a man to stand for her principles, to battle the forces of tyrany--then God as my witness, I shall be that man!"
~Captain America (Captain America #255, 40th Anniversary Issue)
Past Quotations of My Week:
21JUNE2007:"I love me some me."
~Terrell Owens 14JUNE2007:"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed."
~Eleanor Roosevelt
07JUNE2007:"You are no longer just representing yourselves and your city, you are representing the Eastern Conference, and so I'm going to end by saying: Make me proud."
~Bill Russell to LeBron James
31MAY2007:"She's worth a bash if you're half-cooked I suppose."
~Ben Allen
24MAY2007:"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."
~Vince Lombardi
17MAY2007: "So what you're saying is you have a problem that is totally your problem, but you'd like to find a way to make that problem my problem. But here's the problem, Newbie: it ain't my problem."
~Dr. Cox
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My Interests

I love sports. I have coached four sports and played minor league football for the Nebraska B.E.A.R.S. and Cass County Renegades. I have coached football for five years and an assortment of sports for eight years. I Love movies, music, comedy.

I'd like to meet:

The Alpha Dog of My Week: Steve Rogers, representing all those who have served the greatest nation the world has ever known

Past Alpha Dogs of My Week:
21JUNE2007: Bully (the Mississippi State mascot)
14JUNE2007: Adam Herold
07JUNE2007: Ted Neely
31MAY2007: Dario Franchitti
24MAY2007: Joe Paterno
17MAY2007: Sean O'Hair
10MAY2007: Dick Morfeld
03MAY2007: Billy Joel
26APR2007: Arthur Fonzarelli
19APR2007: Roland Deschain
12APR2007: Jackie Robinson
05APR2007: Jack Bauer

The Number of My Week: 56 (in honor of the number of men who signed the Declaration of Independence)

Past Numbers of My Week:
21JUNE2007: 2 (for the number of games Mississippi State played in the College World Series. They will be back.)
14JUNE2007: 8 (for the number of teams in the College World Series)
07JUNE2007: 30 (for the weight, in pounds, I have to lose to get into the Air Force)
31MAY2007: 84 (for the money I lost at the track on gambling [8] and on beer [4])
24MAY2007: 12 (for the point differential in a 15-3 win by my English cousin Ben and me in his first shuffleboard match ever)
17MAY2007: 1 (for how many episodes of "Heroes" there are left this season)
10MAY2007: 69 (for how many years Grampa was alive)
03MAY2007: 23 (for the age I just turned)
26APR2007:4 (for the four-consecutive home runs the Red Sox hit en route to beating the Yankees)
19APR2007:42 (in honor of Jackie Robinson)

Music:

The Song of My Week: "All Mixed Up" by 311
"The Star Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix

Past Songs of My Week:
21JUNE2007: "Back Home in Omaha" by Todd Thibaud 14JUNE2007: "Stars and Stripes Forever" by The Bostton Pops
07JUNE2007: "King Without A Crown" by Matisyahu
31MAY2007: "The Weekend" by Anchondo
24MAY2007: "Three Lions" by The Lightning Seeds
17MAY2007: "The Final" by Dir En Grey

I like pretty much everything. As long as I can understand the words and it's got a good beat, it's good. I'm a fan of country, but I also love hip hop. Some of the favorites are Billy Joel, AnchondO (without a doubt, the best!), AC/DC, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Michael Jackon, Young Jeezy (he's got some great stuff), Kanye West, Poison, Motley Crue, and much much more!.. START YOUTHINK.COM QUIZ RESULTS --
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My Life
I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright. I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home. I don't need you to worry for me, this is MY life. Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone.

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Movies:

Wow, too many to name. Sin City, Batman Begins, Napolean Dynamite, Hero (anything from Tarantino), Vision Quest, Anchor Man, Cinderella, Gattaca, Walk the Line, Keeping the Faith, King Kong, Million Dollar Baby, The Notebook, John Wayne movies, James Bond movies, The Aristocrats, Boondock Saints, Scarface, 300, etc...

Television:

Pretty much ESPN all the time, LOST, Heroes, Scrubs, The Colbert Report, The Cosby Show, The A-Team, 24 (just started season 2), American Idol, NFL Match Up, Friday Night Lights, Coach, Smallville, Grey's Anatomy, the History Channel, pretty much whatever looks good. Gotta go with Price is Right though, a must.

Books:

Biographies, The Bible, Watchmen, anything by Stephen King (on the third book of the Dark Tower series), The Harry Potter series (on the seventh book)

Heroes:


Folks I look to as coaching mentors:

Michael Ford
Julian Adair
Mike Denney
John R. Wooden
Frank Beamer
Marcus Gildersleeve
Red Blaik
Bobby Ross
Joe Paterno
Fisher DeBerry
Bill Parcells
Marv Levy
Jon Gruden
Bobby Bowden
Urban Meyer
Greg Schiano
Sean Payton
Dick Vermeil
Bill Belichick
Pat Behrns
Pete Carroll
Paul Johnson
Jim Tressel
Herm Edwards
Frank Gansz

My Blog

20 Things to do before I die

Well, the 20 traits of my perfect woman went over well, so why not a sequal? Today, I kept thinking of all sorts of cool things I wanted to do in my life. Here's a list of the 20 that made it. Origina...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:00:00 PST

Eulogy for Grampa

I gave this as a eulogy at Grampa's funeral Monday, May 8.---------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Right now, a young-looking Dick Morfeld is riding shotgun in a 1955 C...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Tue, 08 May 2007 11:11:00 PST

More than a man, more than a number

http://photobucket.com" target=_blank> More than a man, more than a number One can make an argument for the best athletes of all time. The debates are endless even within specific sports. ESPN came up...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:51:00 PST

Rules of riding Shotgun

Stolen from a facebook group.   Section I - General Rules1) The first person to yell "SHOTGUN" gets to ride in the front seat.2) The remaining back seats may be divvied up in the same manner by b...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:27:00 PST

My Hall of Fame votes

Tomorrow (Saturday) the NFL announces its 2007 Hall of Fame class. No fewer than three and no more than six will make it. The nominees in alphabetical order are.  Fred Dean - Defensive End - 1975...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:58:00 PST

For one day, let there be honor

It is September 11, 2006  now, and I can't help but reflect on some of the messages/posts I have read in the past few days. People want to protest and demonstrate and be civally disobedient on th...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:12:00 PST

Next step on the ladder to success!

BIG NEWS! I met with Central's athletic director and got the OK to start coaching freshmen football this year. I am so excited. The meeting was just after school got out, and I had the chance to meet ...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:26:00 PST

Worth the wait

While the wait for the college football season to start seemed like an eternity (glad I taped all those games last year to tide me over in the offseason), but once the season started I didn't have to ...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:34:00 PST

Putting im in his place

  This guy was a total moron on this MySpace Stephen Colbert fan group that I had to put him in his place. I went light on him not even mentioning that he misspelled "Stephen." Below his post and...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:03:00 PST

Two years later and not forgotten

Two years ago, a good friend/wrestling rival of mine, died in a kayaking accident. Here is the column I wrote about him in the UNO Gateway newspaper. I also gave it as a eulogy at his funera...
Posted by Sunshine Pumper on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:27:00 PST