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Although this article apparently is a few years old, I was not familiar with the topic, and found the article very thought-provoking: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/make-mars-great-again?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I wonder what the record is for being on the most different teams' practice squads without ever being promoted to the final 53 anywhere?

Well if the ball doesn't drag the medium with it, why would the earth drag the medium? Isn't the earth just a scaled up and much larger version of the ball? Right now, there is no air out in space 50,000 miles down range on the earth's current path, but by the time the earth gets there, there will be. The air will be there not because some sort of frictional forces "drag" the air along, but because the earth's gravitational field continuously pulls the air and the earth towards each other no matter what path the earth follows. If you kept the same ratio of earth berm height/earth diameter as baseball seam height/baseball diameter, won't they both act in much the same way as they are spinning? The ball doesn't know or care that the air through which it is spinning was at the ball's location before the ball got there. Why should the earth care whether or not the air through which the earth is spinning was at the earth's location before the earth got there? What matters is that the air IS there when the spinning sphere is there, not whether the air got there in advance. In both situations, isn't it the pressure difference right at the surface of the spinning sphere that causes the curved movement, regardless of how the air at that location got there?

Coach: "We're gonna need a bigger arm!" BTW, I find it interesting that the label over his left collar bone looks like it reads "Baptist Health." Maybe they're trying to speed up the emergency room admissions process.

It doesn't matter if there's air elsewhere in space. I'm not suggesting curving the path of the asteroid, which has no atmosphere. As for the earth, what is it you think you're breathing? Roll tide!

There's an aspect to this that NASA is missing. Everybody's talking about deflecting the path of the asteroid to make it miss earth. Nobody's talking about deflecting the path of the earth to make it miss the asteroid. Y'all know why a curveball pitch, curves, right? It's caused by the spinning seams of the ball, that jut out a bit outside the otherwise spherical surface of the ball. So let's build some seam-like giant berms on earth, increase the earth's spin, and curve the earth's path to an orbit that's slightly more distant from the sun than the present one. End result: 1. Earth's path changes to miss the oncoming asteroid without having to shoot anything into space or blow anything up; 2. The more distant and therefore colder earth orbit also solves global warming (a symbidiotic effect); and 3. I win the Nobel prize for simultaneously saving the world and curing global warming in one fell swoosh.

Terminator: Dark Fate I used to have a high stress job with long hours and would sometimes go to a nearby $1 cinema at 10 pm to unwind and see whatever happened to be showing. Walked in one night and saw the original Terminator and was blown away by how good it was even though I had never heard of it. Some of the sequels since then have been so-so, but James Cameron is involved with this one, so I'm hopeful.

San Diego Bay 2012. Plan was four separate barges designed to set off choreographed fireworks to music and supposed to be one of the biggest displays in the western US. I'm on a hotel rooftop deck with a clear view about a half mile inland. Computer glitch sends ALL the fireworks from one of the barges up at once shortly before the show was supposed to start. Some people said that was a huge fail. No F'n way. I felt lucky to be there. That was the best fireworks display anybody will ever see, because you could never get permission to do it that way on purpose. The concussion from everything going off at once set off tons of car alarms on the streets around the hotel, a good half mile from the barge that went off. Check out the video at the top of this link (taken from a vantage point much closer than I was). Note how one woman is literally jumping up and down at how great this thing wound up being. https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/an-oral-history-of-the-great-san-diego-fireworks-fail-of-2012 Crouch: When that thing went off like that, it scared the crap out of me. You have to imagine this barge: 135 feet long, 45 feet wide. It’s heavy. The barge probably jumped a good six inches. The tug jumped. I ducked. Everything shook. Frailey: This was like every grand finale you’ve ever heard, in the room with you. Absolute cacophony. Crouch: It reminded me of Vietnam. It was a lot of gun powder and sulfur. Roy: Somehow people were not running away. People were cheering really loudly at the end. They were looking at each other like, That was amazing! I can’t even imagine what’s happening next.

Well if it's angel dust, wouldn't it smell like angels?

How is it that we could put a man on the moon in 1969 but 50 years later there is still no way to check if the light inside the refrigerator actually goes off when you shut the door?

If the aliens caught re-runs of WWII movies, and learned that fighter planes were harder to detect when attacking with the sun behind them, that could explain this: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/astronomers-search-for-tunguska-like-asteroids-in-taurid-meteoroid-swarm Dense meteor clusters approaching from the direction of the sun, so that we can't see them until after they (hopefully) fly right by us? Maybe. But you may want to wear a helmet in late June just in case.

Boston Globe 2017 article for a little perspective about Caserio's role with the Pats***: https://www.bostonherald.com/2017/01/05/patriots-cant-afford-to-let-personnel-czar-nick-caserio-go-elsewhere/

<<The only position along the OL not able to report as eligible is center, and that's because he snaps the ball.>> Not sure if the rule is the same in the NFL, but in high school and college, if the center snaps the ball from one end or the other of the 7 players required to be on the line of scrimmage at the start of a play, the "center" (in this instance called the "center" only because he snaps the ball, not because of where he lines up) can BOTH snap the ball and catch a forward pass on the same play if he wears a number other than 50-79. Mind blown? From https://wilson.engr.wisc.edu/rsfc/intro/johnson.shtml "If you are a football coach or player (any level) and have a question about the rules, send your question to Curt Johnson at cmajohnson AT charter DOT net. Curt Johnson is a high school and college football official. Please specify NCAA (college) or NFHS (high school) rules in your question. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Question: If I put all my linemen on one side of the center so that he's now on the end of the line, is he an eligible receiver? Answer: If he's wearing a number other than 50-79, then yes, he's eligible to catch a forward pass."

1. When you get done laughing because of your superior knowledge about the absurdity of using a "receiving eligible" player on the offensive line, educate yourself by reading this: https://www.businessinsider.com/patriots-lineman-formation-2015-1 An excerpt for those who won't bother to click on the link: ". . . the player lined up in the traditional left-tackle position, Michael Hoomanawanui, was actually an eligible receiver. He is the guy who eventually caught the ball: NBC 3. When the ball is snapped, Hoomanawanui just leaks down the field, and no one guards him because he appeared to be an offensive lineman: NBC 4. Vereen, meanwhile, stands around because as an ineligible player, he is not allowed to run downfield: NBC The Patriots ran the play three times, and they got a first down every time. In short, conventional wisdom is a lot more conventional than it is wise. Free your mind.

The "L" stands for Leterrius (not kidding). Feel a bit better?

Why no, Mr. Kelly, I did NOT know that you wore Frank Reich's jersey during the "greatest comeback" game to trick the Oilers.

I'm no expert, but it seems to me like if you cut off your right foot the only place you'll be going quickly is the emergency room, and not under your own power. Maybe Zay misunderstood his coach's instructions when he encountered that high rise window in Vegas.

The Pats*** must think the Colts will be good this year.

My brother Darryl points out that despite the supposedly greater worth ethic and supposedly greater talent of the Pats*** players, those players, taken as a whole, get paid the same amount as the players on consistently seller-dwelling teams like the Browns and Cardinals. Like every other team in the NFL, the Pats*** are an example of "unionized" enterprise, not "free" enterprise. You get that, right?

Try thinking about this from the players' perspective for a minute. Right now, the unionized players collectively get a bargained-for percentage of the NFL revenues based on a collective bargaining agreement between their union and the league. The assistant coaches aren't unionized, and don't collectively get a specified percentage of NFL revenues - - instead each assistant coach negotiates with team ownership to get the best salary he can out of the money each team has left over after the players get their bargained for cut. Why do you think the players unionized in the first place? It was because they realized that collectively as a group they had more negotiating leverage than any single player individually. Well don't you think that if they included all of the NFL's assistant coaches in the group of people who could threaten to go on strike if their salary demands weren't met, they would have even MORE leverage over the team's owners? I don't recall the exact numbers, but hypothetically, let's assume that currently (1) the players get 50% of annual NFL revenues, and (2) although not currently guaranteed like the players' cut, the assistant coaches combined salaries, although individually negotiated by each coach, take another 5% of those same annual NFL revenues. By banding together, the players and assistant coaches collectively would have even more leverage than the players alone do now. So hypothetically, they could tell the owners during the next round of collective bargaining, pay us 58% of all NFL revenues next year (not 55%), or we ALL go on strike. With more leverage, they can ask for a bigger piece of the revenue pie, just like the players union already can ask for a bigger piece of the revenue pie than individual players could. Net result, by adding the assistant coaches to their side of the bargaining table, their side of the table gets 3% more $ than they did when acting separately. The extra 3% could be split between the coaches and the players any way they negotiated for at the bargaining table with the owners. So the players would probably get MORE money under Fergy's proposal, not less. The ability to have more employees (i.e., not just players, but assistant coaches, too) go on strike means more bargaining power, which directly translates to getting a bigger piece of the revenue pie. It's really not that complicated, if you stop and actually think about it.

Santa's auctioning off his lead reindeer? That's awful. Wait, what?

If you think Fergy's take on this is off the wall, you should do what my brother Darryl did - - spend a little time on the google to educate yourself about the issue. Here's an article Darryl found showing that the prospect of a salary cap for coaches is real: http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=5188986 As the article points out, the NFL used to have a required league-wide pension plan for the assistant coaches of all NFL teams. But the league changed its rules, and allowed individual teams to withdraw from the league-wide pension plan and to instead offer their own, team-specific pension plans for assistant coaches. Roughly a third of the NFL teams withdrew and began offering their own, stingier pension plans. I don't know what the Bills did, but Indy is one of the teams that took advantage of the opportunity to reduce pension benefits for its assistant coaches. As a result, veteran Indy assistant coach Howard Mudd, a former Pro Bowl guard for the 49ers, retired in protest and took a lump sum retirement payout (although he did later return to the team as a "consultant"). Here's what Mudd had to say about the matter: ". . . the owners are going to keep stripping away more and more. To me, the potential is there for a salary cap for coaches . . ." So folks, don't act like uneducated Pats*** fans and ridicule Fergy's idea. It may take years for the sweeping breadth of his proposal to be realized (Mudd did not forecast a salary cap for all team employees, just assistant coaches), but the future is moving in Fergy's direction, even if it's not for competitive balance reasons.

Rookie salaries are slotted based on where they are picked, right? My brother Darryl thinks maybe he figures he should have the option of getting paid the combined salaries of the 2 fourth round picks we used to trade up to select him. Seems logical - - would it be more money?

Ed "Mongo" Oliver comes to town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpypcLbbIE

Mongo only pawn in game of football!