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@JR. We need an audio signal to tell us to get a beer and head to our seats.

I'm with Nucci. As long as they are not doing anything disrespectful who cares. The media covering (and us discussing it) seems like a waste of time over a non story. And to Nuccis point: out of the 65,000 fans in RWS on any Sunday I would say about 12,500 are either talking, wearing a hat, or sitting. Should we start berating them?

Thanks for all the help guys. Regarding LittleFinger, I don't think he would even have the guts to fight Arya. However, maybe he could've named someone to fight for him. I don't know who that would be as he doesn't have many friends.

Alright, after hiding from the Internet and world since Sunday, I finally got around to watching the season finale. I have read through this thread and there are a few plotlines I haven't seen many comments on: 1). What is Jaime going to end up doing? 2). When LittleFinger was being accused, I thought for a moment he was going to demand a trial by combat. For a nano moment I thought it was even going to be him vs Ariya. Any think this? 3). When they had the meeting in the beginning of the episode, couldn't one of the dragons just have fried Cersei and all Lannister leadership? I know this wouldnt accomplish their goals of fighting the army of the dead. But once Cersei said no deal why not fry them then? 4). After the Tyrion/ Cersei discussion and the decision to work together, why separate your teams and make separate plans? At that point it would've made sense to consolidate armies and plan a strategy together? 5). How did Cersei and Euron have the plan for him to go get the mercenaries? He stormed off only after seeing the whitewalker. Did they know that thing was coming? Might have some more thoughts after some rest. Thanks for the help.

Sorry I am in a rush so I didn't read the whole thread but as mentioned many teams have/charter planes. Specifically, I remember the Dolphins plane in Miami. It was painted with Dolphins logos. Maybe it was only for coaches and staff.

Go to guy should be McCoy. Both handing the ball off and short passes to him.

My Random thoughts on the most recent episode, DragonStone: SPOILERS!!!! (P.S. What do you click to hide spoilers? I never figured out how to do that.) I highlighted some of the names and subjects if you don't want to read all of my rant. What's with all the new black leathery outfits? It seems like everyone has them now. Cersei, Jaime, Arya, Sansa, John, Daeneryus, Tyrion etc. I get some of this is due to characters becoming more evil but seems like overkill. Arya's scene is the beginning is the best. One question, I never thought of is she able to transform her body as well as her face? It seems she is just wearing a mask, so how can people not notice her change in size? Maybe it is just because Walder Fray is a smaller decrepit man. However, I think Walder would be at least 5 inches taller than Arya. Also, seems like a bunch of wino's considering everyone in the hall drinks the poison. The Ed Sheeran appearance is brutal. Why even add him as a "cameo?" This just seems to distract from the overall atmosphere. I also can't remember any other pop celebrities being thrown in in the past. Cool that the army of the dead has giants. Jon Snow is truly noble like his dad in forgiving the traitors. However, this seems a little odd as he knows how hard it is for people to forgive after having their kings/lords/families taken away. (See Ollie) I like Sansa putting LittleFinger in his place. Euron acts just like a savage sailor. However, I don't agree Cersei is the most beautiful lady in all the land. Obviously he wants to marry her for power/alliance reasons. The scene with Samwell Tarly cleaning up the chamber pots seems unnecessary and just thrown in for shock value. I get they want to show he is low on the totem pole and the job is tedious, but just throwing in all this *poop to disgust people is silly. Sam's quest to find where dragon glass can found seems to be an easy one. Just sneaks in and finds the right book. I have a feeling he is going to get busted and booted from the Citadel. I am pretty sure everyone caught it but the arm the reaches out for Samwell is obviously Jorah Mormont. Dany's homecoming was too dramatic for me. It is supposed to be a powerful scene of her finally completing her quest to make it home with an army and take back the 7 kingdoms. Just was a little too long for me. Also, are there no remaining people there from when Stannis held the keep? No women and children? It seems like any castle is valuable and someone should be residing there. Overall, the episode was a lot of setup for events later in the season. If you somehow never watched the show before and watched this episode I don't think you would buy into the series. Even being a fan and having watched the shows and read the books this episode was a bit of a drag for me. Maybe I am too critical or was just in a bad mood when I watched last night. Seems like others loved it. (See the Forbes review) Curious to hear others thoughts.

I went a few years ago in Clewiston FL. They advertise the longest free fall in FL. It was a little over a minute of free falling. Here are my comments on the overall experience: 1) You take a mini 30 minute course about how everything works. Since it was my first time you have to go tandem. According to this place, if you take a day course and jump three times then you can go on your own. I wanted to go tandem as I didn't want the responsibility of possibly killing myself. In the pre jump course, they instruct you to fall face-forward with your arms crossed. They also instruct you to check your altimeter every 15 seconds or so. 2) On the way up in the plane you are strapped to your instructor. His crotch right up to your ass. Then as you are approaching the jump altitude, he pulls you even closer so you are literally full body contact. Around this point I asked the guy if he was happy with his life and family. I was worried he had problems at home and may want to end it all. 3) As we are about to jump the instructor asks me how I want to jump out the plane. Choices were face-forward, backward, or sideways. I said whatever you think is best. He told me backward is best because as you are falling out you can see the plane flying away. So I fell out backwards. Honestly, I don't remember seeing the plane. I had my eyes closed the first few seconds. 4) The fall down was awesome. But after you pull your parachute, it is eerily silent. I felt like I had to say something so I started talking to the instructor about why your ears pop. (I have a medical background). 5) I didn't pay the extra money to get the video made. I don't regret this either. In my opinion not many people don't want to watch a video of someone else skydiving. As long as you have the memory and experience it is all good. I would recommend it to everyone. From Google, "According to the United States Parachuting Association, there are an estimated 3 million jumps per year, and the fatality count is only 21 (for 2010). That's a 0.0007%chance of dying from a skydive, compared to a 0.0167% chance of dying in a car accident (based on driving 10,000 miles)."

Although I don't think that Judge was going to be beaten, I think the format stinks. If you are going to have 3 rounds just base them off of total HR's. The head to head thing is stupid with guys advancing with 11 HR's and guys getting eliminated with 22 HR's.

Living in Puerto Rico games can be tough to get to. Normally, I go to the home opener and then to the @Miami game. This year I am stepping it up. Here is my tentative agenda thus far: Week #1- Flying up for the opener then back to PR. Week #2- Flying up to Carolina then back to PR. Have family in the Carolinas so this is easy. Week #3- Flying to Pittsburgh for a family party Saturday night, driving to Buffalo early Sunday morning for the DEN game. Fly back to PR. Week #4- Flying to Atlanta for @ Atlanta. After these first four weeks, I will make a determination on the second portion of the season. However, due to friends, family, and proximity, I am considering: Week #16- @NE Week #17- @Miami

I guess this is a good thing but.... I can't help but be a little skeptical that this group is comprised of so many father/son pairings and groups of brothers.

DC Tom and KoKo78 you guys nailed it. I knew the board wouldn't let me down.

Hi All, Haven't seen it on here yet but Powers Boothe passed away a couple days ago. Seems to have had a pretty solid career despite not every being a major star. If you are unaware of who he was check out his IMDB page. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000959/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t5 I loved him as Curly Bill in Tombstone. I would quote one of his best lines from that movie but it probably isn't appropriate given the situation. R.I.P.

I saw the fins also cut Mario Williams. I am surprised he isn't being roasted here.

Update- I didn't even splurge on the Mighty Taco or Long John's, I ordered Chinese food delivery. I guess if I was being generous I should have ordered extra and just dropped it off at a random neighbors.

This exactly. Half the NHL makes the playoffs every year.

Sounds like a good idea. However...... I understand the Bills are still considering New Era their home for several more years. The writing is on the wall though that at some point they will build a new stadium and move there. Whenever that time comes the old Ralph will essentially become useless. At some point the renovations they are going through now and planning for the near future are pointless as the stadium will become obsolete. I guess part of it is a return on investment. Does the cost savings out weigh the cost of install if they move in 5 years? Also, unfortunately the Bills stink and the vast majority of home games are in the day. Even in the bleak winter games I have never thought lighting was an issue. If the 5 year ROI isn't there, I pass and use the money on other upgrades.

Hello All, I hope you are enjoying the most commercialized and semi-sexist holiday of the year. All you guys out there be sure to buy your significant others a bunch of crap while receiving nothing in return. First, a random thought to put everyone in a good mood: I just was listening to Bill Burr's podcast and he was naming all time great teams. He mentioned the 2016/17 Patriots half jokingly. Either way, it got me thinking the Bills were one of only two teams to beat them this year. At least we have that. As years go by, hopefully everyone forgets they were decimated by injuries and were playing their injured 3rd string QB. On a second note, anyone have any good/funny Valentines day stories? I'll start. And sorry it's not that funny but I thought it was cool never the less. When I was a high school senior (2000) I took my current girlfriend out for v-day to a Macaroni Grill. (At the time, this was the classist and most romantic place I knew.) Being a broke student, I was hoping to get out of there paying less that $50. As the meal was going down the waiter kept bringing us dishes we didn't ask for. Extra appetizers, a bottle of wine (even though we were clearly underage) and deserts. I was crapping my pants thinking about the bill. However, when we had finished I asked for the check and the waiter told me, "Don't worry about the check. Another table has taken care of it for you." I was at first confused and asked what was going on. The waiter then proceeded to tell me there was an older couple who goes out for Valentines day ever year and picks up the check of a young couples table. Upon hearing this, I asked who the couple was so I could go over and thank them. The waiter said they wanted to remain anonymous and wouldn't tell me. Not knowing what to do, I just stood up and waived and mouthed thank you to the restaurant. Despite my loathing of Valentines day I thought this was a cool idea and swore when I got older I would do the same thing every year. With that in mind I am taking my girlfriend out tonight and will be picking up one younger couples checks at some place classy. I was thinking of Mighty Taco or Long John Silvers. Happy Valentines Day.

It may be buried in the 30 pages of this thread, but I would like to know his stats as a DC. Specifically, PPG every year and rank. And YPG every year and rank.

34. Normally I am where I live in Puerto Rico and we go to a house party and shoot guns in the air when midnight hits. This year I am in south Florida. The girlfriend and I (and another couple) are going to see Billy Joel in concert. I like Billy Joel however am not crazy about him. We got cheap tickets off StubHub for $100 each which is around the same price you pay to go to any private restaurant or club party these days so I am kinda excited.

I was thinking about this earlier. I don't remember the last time there was a Sunday Christmas Day and therefore don't remember how they scheduled the games. From the other posts it sounds like they moved them all to Christmas Eve in years past. I don't know what the attendance is in Dallas and Detroit for the annual Thanksgiving games but it seems popular. I guess it is a tradition if you live in those parts to go to the games. The rest of the leagues problem is Christams only falls on a Sunday every 7 years. For me, this Saturday may get a little dicey. I am going to my Girlfriends families house for Noche Burna aka Christmas Eve for Cubans and other hispanics. They are all dolphins fans. What gets interesting is the Christmas Eve party is at 6:30. I am going to show up early to watch the game and help roast a pig. By the time everyone shows up I will most likely be hammered and either happy with a win or miserable with a loss.

Welcome Back Flip, I read the board several times a day. I think the negativity comes from the drought. Too many years without playoffs leads everyone to want to fire everyone prematurely. Although I am frustrated with the downgrade within Rex's defenses and sick of the excuses (injuries, quarterback, one player away) I truly believe we are the only franchise who would fire a coach after an 8-8 first season and then a 8-8 (most likely) or 9-7 second season. Lastly, I know if we get a couple breaks here or there we could've made the playoffs this year however still couldn't make a deep run but I'm not ready to blow it up just yet. As much as 8-8 and missing the playoffs sucks, it still beats those less than 6 win seasons.

Not sure if anyone is watching tonight. I wouldn't be with the exceptions of my fantasy playoff implications. If anyone caught the national anthem it was performed by Montell Jordan. This is how we do it.

I would trying calling JetBlue again and explaining the situation. Getting a new person may be more helpful than your previous report you claimed. Also, I don't know how the Microsoft Surface works, but maybe it has a function like an iPhone or iPad where you can find your device. Lastly, there are plenty of JB flights from JFK to Puerto Rico. If it shows up here, I'll pick it up and ship it to you.

Anybody watch the latest episode? Alot of things in there to discuss. I don't know how to do they spoiler text here so I won't say much.