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EP13: ' Say Your Deepest Prayers Ever '
Texan:
You guys are great. Why in the final run to the mat does 'Bama still have their back packs on and the other teams do not?
gingerman28:
--- Quote from: Texan_Survivor on December 06, 2006, 09:01:30 AM ---You guys are great. Why in the final run to the mat does 'Bama still have their back packs on and the other teams do not?
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Because they don't know any better. And look at the size of those packs! If you are running to win a million bucks, throw all that junk away!
gingerman28:
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on December 05, 2006, 10:55:24 PM ---Here is a RATP map of the Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel Metro Stop.
Gman! We are wrong. It is that stair well that I originally drew to.
But now, R&K are busted for either theatrics or being really blindstupid. They had to walk along the Quai Branly. And then we have footage of them going along Avenuede Suffren with its fence around the track.
I have included here a view from Pages Jaunes that one would see on Quai Branly. It really screams Eiffel tower. No way they could have missed ET along Quai Branly.
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The stairwell is the MAIN entrance (with ticket booth etc.) but the station platform stretches all the way to the corner at Avenue de Suffern with the EXIT actually facing up Avenue de Suffern and NOT Quai Branly. I know I spent a week at the hotel there in '04. And my favorite pub is at the next corner from your marked spot - No. 38. The spot you marked is the actual spot I took the photos of the Eiffel Tower. So if they cross Avenue Octave Greard and don't look to their left until after Rue Jean Rey they will never see the tower and could walk quite aways. Perhaps they even stopped at the 38 Eiffel for a quick one!!
Chateau d If:
Thanks Gman. I trust you and should trust my memory too. The RATP map must have left out the entrance. I think the lady shows R&K the Eiffel Tower at the same spot you took your pictures. How come your pub has number 38 when the numbers should start over at 1 as the street changes name from Rue Jean Rey to Avenue Octave Greard?
Brn2Wander:
--- Quote from: Texan_Survivor on December 06, 2006, 09:01:30 AM ---You guys are great. Why in the final run to the mat does 'Bama still have their back packs on and the other teams do not?
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Could be because no one is in back of them chasing them to be worried about. I rarely ever saw them RACE to the Pit stop so I don't find it unusual. Personally I believe those pictures in the clips don't suggest to me that the J/T or K/R are the winners. Every time they arrive at a pit stop they do the same thing not knowing what position they are in. So do the Winners just stand on the map waiting for the 2nd and 3rd place to come in? I rarely followed AR before so I don't know.
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