News: Cowboys DT Amobi Okoye: 'I'm pretty much a walking miracle'; Q&A w/audio Post #13

[Idgit]

I think guys like him and Fred that are way above average intelligence probably have to learn to act like just one of the dudes.

That is something we struggle with.

 

[xwalker]

Considering his condition and recovery, there is probably a collectively bargained waiting period or some other policy in place as to how he must be listed for a specific period of time.

Yes. I had just assumed that it would be like the PUP where if you practice for 1 snap, then you can't be on it anymore.

I guess it's more the the back-end of the PUP where they get to practice for a few weeks before the team decides if they are going to activate them or put them on IR.

 

[Kaiser]

It seems ironic that it happened to a guy that was super intelligent. He had an offer to attend Harvard and he was in college at age 16.

I used to work with some guys that went to the Naval Academy with David Robinson of the Spurs. They said he was a legit genius also. He was in the hardest major there and on the basketball team and still had a GPA close to 4.0, which no one ever did before.

One guy said they all used to take one car to a grocery store and load up on snacks, coffee, etc. He said Robinson would push a shopping cart full of stuff to the counter and count out exact change before they rang it up because he kept a running count in his head (with tax) while they were all goofing around the store. They thought it was some practical joke and started tossing new things in his cart - and would count out the extra amount to the penny. He said Robinson was totally cool but frighteningly smart.

 

[CCBoy]

I used to work with some guys that went to the Naval Academy with David Robinson of the Spurs. They said he was a legit genius also. He was in the hardest major there and on the basketball team and still had a GPA close to 4.0, which no one ever did before.

One guy said they all used to take one car to a grocery store and load up on snacks, coffee, etc. He said Robinson would push a shopping cart full of stuff to the counter and count out exact change before they rang it up because he kept a running count in his head (with tax) while they were all goofing around the store. They thought it was some practical joke and started tossing new things in his cart - and would count out the extra amount to the penny. He said Robinson was totally cool but frighteningly smart.

Good share...I got it down to a dollar, just running quick figures and an estimate of taxes for all of our Christmas shopping and meals at one time...9 years in a row. My wife watches things like that...and we added quite a bit at the ends as well.

It's a grown discipline as are most mental processes.

 

[Idgit]

I used to work with some guys that went to the Naval Academy with David Robinson of the Spurs. They said he was a legit genius also. He was in the hardest major there and on the basketball team and still had a GPA close to 4.0, which no one ever did before.

One guy said they all used to take one car to a grocery store and load up on snacks, coffee, etc. He said Robinson would push a shopping cart full of stuff to the counter and count out exact change before they rang it up because he kept a running count in his head (with tax) while they were all goofing around the store. They thought it was some practical joke and started tossing new things in his cart - and would count out the extra amount to the penny. He said Robinson was totally cool but frighteningly smart.

Sounds like a real-life superhero.

 

[BigStar]

I think guys like him and Fred that are way above average intelligence probably have to learn to act like just one of the dudes.

Or both come naturally. Smart meatheads were just like the rest of us back in the day and they didn't have to learn jack (crazy dudes...no this is MY case of byob) The OL were/are always the smartest guys on the team. Big nerds (in a good way of course). You are correct though that many would be engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc. otherwise.

 

[xwalker]

I used to work with some guys that went to the Naval Academy with David Robinson of the Spurs. They said he was a legit genius also. He was in the hardest major there and on the basketball team and still had a GPA close to 4.0, which no one ever did before.

One guy said they all used to take one car to a grocery store and load up on snacks, coffee, etc. He said Robinson would push a shopping cart full of stuff to the counter and count out exact change before they rang it up because he kept a running count in his head (with tax) while they were all goofing around the store. They thought it was some practical joke and started tossing new things in his cart - and would count out the extra amount to the penny. He said Robinson was totally cool but frighteningly smart.

I've worked with a lot of Genius level people. I'm an Electrical Engineer and design electronics. One of my jobs was designing control systems for Rockets, so I literally worked with people that were rocket scientists. Some of them could barely function socially or some just had no common sense. I remember back in the late eighties when cell phones were rare and a call was really expensive. I passed by the vending machine and one of these guys was calling the vending machine company on his cell phone because it took his 50 cents. The call probably cost him several dollars.

 

[Kaiser]

I've worked with a lot of Genius level people. I'm an Electrical Engineer and design electronics. One of my jobs was designing control systems for Rockets, so I literally worked with people that were rocket scientists. Some of them could barely function socially or some just had no common sense. I remember back in the late eighties when cell phones were rare and a call was really expensive. I passed by the vending machine and one of these guys was calling the vending machine company on his cell phone because it took his 50 cents. The call probably cost him several dollars.

I hear you, I know those Annapolis grads when I was a software guy at The Aerospace Corp. It was my first job after my undergrad and my standing joke was that I was 30 years old before I realized that I was NOT a complete moron.

Related joke to your post, Caltech is probably the top science University in the world. The ratio of male to female students is 10 to 1, and the saying among Female students is "The odds are good.... but the goods are odd".

Apparently that saying has been around campus since the 1950's.

 

[Idgit]

...Related joke to your post, Caltech is probably the top science University in the world. The ratio of male to female students is 10 to 1, and the saying among Female students is "The odds are good.... but the goods are odd"..

That's great.

 

[xwalker]

I hear you, I know those Annapolis grads when I was a software guy at The Aerospace Corp. It was my first job after my undergrad and my standing joke was that I was 30 years old before I realized that I was NOT a complete moron.

Related joke to your post, Caltech is probably the top science University in the world. The ratio of male to female students is 10 to 1, and the saying among Female students is "The odds are good.... but the goods are odd".

Apparently that saying has been around campus since the 1950's.

The male/female ratio was worse than 10 to 1 in all of my Engineering classes. I took some electives like economics that I didn't even need because I liked being over there where they actually had hot girls.

 

[CCBoy]

I've worked with a lot of Genius level people. I'm an Electrical Engineer and design electronics. One of my jobs was designing control systems for Rockets, so I literally worked with people that were rocket scientists. Some of them could barely function socially or some just had no common sense. I remember back in the late eighties when cell phones were rare and a call was really expensive. I passed by the vending machine and one of these guys was calling the vending machine company on his cell phone because it took his 50 cents. The call probably cost him several dollars.

X, want to hear something really funny? I was an electrical engineering major at Texas A&I, when during the Watergate Affair, I switched to Political Science. I even made it through my first year in Law School, but then joined the Army as an enlisted at the end of Viet Nam.

My hardest class was for 7.5 hours in Calculus at the Air Force Academy. It was my beginning course there...

Nice share...and on another event, I'll share the police in Webster, Tx and how it affected a whole Presidential Cavalcade to NASAU outside of Houston.

 

[Alexander]

Great story.

 

[Wishbone82]

You can't help but to root like hell for the guy, even if he wasn't on the Cowboys!

 

[Toruk_Makto]

I've worked with a lot of Genius level people. I'm an Electrical Engineer and design electronics. One of my jobs was designing control systems for Rockets, so I literally worked with people that were rocket scientists. Some of them could barely function socially or some just had no common sense. I remember back in the late eighties when cell phones were rare and a call was really expensive. I passed by the vending machine and one of these guys was calling the vending machine company on his cell phone because it took his 50 cents. The call probably cost him several dollars.

Rocket scientists are like the most overrated job title as regards to intelligence. Any bill joe bob engineer that works at Boeing could in some capacity be called one. These aren't genius level people. Those folks are deep in a hole that we don't know about. Did you work in that hole?

Having said that I got my BS in Biomedical Engineering, MBA from a top program and now work for an investment bank.

 

[xwalker]

Rocket scientists are like the most overrated job title as regards to intelligence. Any bill joe bob engineer that works at Boeing could in some capacity be called one. These aren't genius level people. Those folks are deep in a hole that we don't know about. Did you work in that hole?

I started out in the SDI program if you know what that was and the hole got deeper over the years. Really deep. If it was any deeper I would know where they stashed the Alien bodies.

 

[adbutcher]

The male/female ratio was worse than 10 to 1 in all of my Engineering classes. I took some electives like economics that I didn't even need because I liked being over there where they actually had hot girls.

Or you could have hung around the education, business, or nursing building like I did. however, I had a pass because they never saw me coming when I was in my dumb jock disguise. That was one of the only benefits of playing ball and majoring in engineering.

 

[xwalker]

Or you could have hung around the education, business, or nursing building like I did. however, I had a pass because they never saw me coming when I was in my dumb jock disguise. That was one of the only benefits of playing ball and majoring in engineering.

Yes, I did that when possible, but those buildings were on the far side of campus.

 

[CCBoy]

Yes, I did that when possible, but those buildings were on the far side of campus.

When I was at the Academy, a group of us just walked into a Dorm at Denver Women's College and told the lady at the front desk that we were Cadets and needed dates in about fifteen minutes. Lo and behold, in ten minutes, 5 attractive ladies were walking down the stairs and we had a grand night in Denver. The Gal that I was paired with, was named Candy. Her Father ran the Coors Distillery in Golden, Co. We had a pretty nice side trip as well!!

 

[xwalker]

When I was at the Academy, a group of us just walked into a Dorm at Denver Women's College and told the lady at the front desk that we were Cadets and needed dates in about fifteen minutes. Lo and behold, in ten minutes, 5 attractive ladies were walking down the stairs and we had a grand night in Denver. The Gal that I was paired with, was named Candy. Her Father ran the Coors Distillery in Golden, Co. We had a pretty nice side trip as well!!

They should use that story in recruiting.

I had a buddy that one of the less than 1% of men that attended Texas Womens University. I would go visit him when possible.