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My favorite Ro-ment was when Dak threw the pick to Lotulelei. Under his breath, almost whispering, he says, "Oh no. Say it isn't so."

While acknowledging everything else, the predominant view I had of this game was the difference in Josh's passing. He usually throws high, and often high and outside, especially early in every game. Receivers have had to break stride, adjust to the high ball, catch it and re-accelerate, usually unsuccessfully. This game he hit guys in the numbers, ins stride resulting in much better runs after catch. Looked completely different, and extremely effective.

I saw it. I'm kind of a student of that battle. There are a number of story lines about individual people and the things they did, and its kind of like a checklist approach to getting those in, one by one. I thought the special effects were good, and far more realistic than Dunkirk, ie., no dancing around with each other air to air combat. Quick, violent encounters-the way it really is. The biggest thing I thought was silly was the constant NY accents of various people, which weren't reality at all.

I am not skipping over anything. The Vietnam war was after the assassination, and didn't get to be the divisive event until well after that. There was no shortage of disagreements, but that wasn't one of them at its start. The point is that Congress worked in those days legislative warfare was not waged, as it is now. State Houses weren't fought over like they are now either, nor were Supreme Court nominations the starting gun for incredible sleaze.

It is absolutely nothing like today. Of course the civil rights things was contentious, but you had nothing like what is going on today. If anybody from either party was doing what JFK was doing in the White House under everyone's nose, or a current Attorney General was setting up assassinations of foreign leaders like Bobby Kennedy was, or the Director of the FBI running his own little company wire tapping everyone he didn't like or a host of other things, the hatred of the opposition would assure it was front page every day.

Can't compare it to today. It was the shock of the end of innocence. Regardless of political view, people generally didn't hate the other side, and couldn't believe a sitting president could be so boldly assassinated.

My daughter was recruited by them and during her due diligence effort, received very bad reviews from folks, so she declined. Not sure if there have been changes.

Mike Stratton hitting Keith Lincoln. 1964 AFL Championship game. Blue on white.

He's a bit of an enigma to me. He is grossly inaccurate coming out of the locker room. I always hope we get through the first two possessions alive, then he seems to settle down and do OK. He missed grossly on that fourth down slant early in the game. I mentioned to the people I was with that we need an Allen run on our last possession to get a field goal, and we didn't get it.

Having read the link, it isn't quite what the headline suggests. His complaint was that the Navy has not provided detailed information on the threat such things might pose. Nobody knows what they could do, since nobody knows their potential capability, so how do you respond to such a request? No story here.

Not possible. You are never going to get to JFK in an hour from Buffalo and then connect to a Heathrow flight which includes the connection, per your post, under seven hours. Simply not possible. Flight to JFK, hour and half minimum. Connection..an hour minimum. Flight to Heathrow about 7 hours scheduled. Customs/Immigration add on. And it's longer coming west.

Maybe I should have made it clearer. If it isn't a charter, you aren't getting a flight from Buffalo to London without a connection somewhere. The the ten hours.

It isn't a six hour flight. Its much closer to eight, and without a charter, much closer to 10 minimum.

Go Hoos. Better, Go New Hoos.

The point wasn't that it can't be done. Of course it an be done. The military does it frequently. The point is that those times carry significant restrictions on route and altitude, and result in more expensive, time consuming operating costs. The airspace that is closed off to those flights is 300-400 miles wide, varies daily, is the most efficient routing, and includes any altitude from 29,000-41,000', avoids most weather, which is not all that frequent in the North Atlantic, but is much more difficult to get clearance around. That is a very significant corridor. The sweet spot for airliners, and the same exists on the way back, but at late afternoon and early evening hours.

The food in London is fantastic. The grocery store deli sections have great options as well.

It truly is, but it isn't just a question of living in London. It is a question of living there while having to work in the US, which would take up a good portion of your away game's week, and have quite an impact on your body. In addition, the demographic that would rightly judge London as a great place to live is not the same as NFL free agents. I did a (then) New Jersey Nets charter there, and they didn't like going there to play at all.

We stayed in South Kensington, my favorite district. I would fly the trip to London, wife in the back, have my wife stay in our hotel on the companies dime, then drop her off at the VRBO townhouse, leave her there while I flew my trip back to the US, get on the next flight to London as a passenger, a mere two hours later, and spend the next three days there..... Commute back to the US four days later, work back to London, and then fly my wife back to the US. Plenty of great places on VRBO there.

I've done it my entire career, including doing the "reverse commute," getting an VRBO townhouse in London for a month and commuting back and forth once a week for work while staying there, and the work was doing trips to London. London is the least of the problem, but still, I would never do it for any length of time, and I was "done" when I got there, not having to work during the time off. I know all the tricks of staying on top of it. Living somewhere is completely different for the individual and his family than shift work in the same time zone. Just a very bad idea.

Not possible. There is simply no way to keep a London residence with any reasonable family life on a US body clock for months at a time. This has been tried by US airline people. Living in London and commuting back for work, once per week. Unhealthy and not realistic. Did it.

I understand what you are claiming, but London's support of a team is just one issue in the calculus, and the easiest. Filling out a London based roster would present a huge disadvantage. Travel problems are very significant. The current system neutralizes that to a large extent, but that wouldn't be the case with a London based team. There is so much that goes into building a competitive league, and this would be beyond a reasonable challenge.

It doesn't matter. When you have two teams play at an off site, and you neutralize the impact to both, which is the status quo, there is no significant problem. If you based a team there, it would be a completely different issue. They would be significantly disadvantaged for reasons of player and staff desirability to live there, immense travel issues for the London based team, potential tax issues, and a significant free agent problem. It isn't London or its' fans, it's just a bad idea.

It's longer than six hours , closer to 7.5 or 8, depending on which leg, eastbound or westbound, and time of year. Eastbound leg gets shorter the further into the fall you get, and the return leg gets longer. Additionally, the system is set up as basically one way. The flights departing the US mainland do so late in the afternoon into the evening, and the flights departing Europe leave in the morning. The routes change every day based on winds. Since returning teams would probably want to do that a few hours after their game, it would put them head on with all the traffic heading east, resulting in much worse route and altitude choices, further adding to flight times. It is done, but going against that system results in significant disadvantages and route restrictions. A London team with the requirement to play teams much further west would be greatly disadvantaged. I imagine it would have free agent issues as well.

One of the things I'll not forget in my career was a similar story. Flew the last leg of the day from Chicago to Providence, a 727. I'm at the door saying goodbye, and at the very end of the passengers is this really tiny Mexican guy, about 5'2". He has a little carry on bag in his hand and hes says: "Mexico Ceety?" We got him a hotel and got him out the next day. One gate over.

Yes he did. Absolutely drilled both. I was at that game and my fondest memory was after Lindell hit those two filed goals, I was watching Greg Williams, the then defensive coordinator of the redskins, standing on the sidelines, with nobody within 25 yards of him, pouting like a ten year old, having just given up the game winning drive, with a crucial pass from Trent Edwards to Josh Reed. Greg Williams is the single individual I despise the most in the NFL, and I loved watching him pouting, alone.