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Love the Beatles, but I have to agree...awful thought. Glad Zak is not interested. He has actually carved out a pretty good career for himself...could this possibly be a late April Fools joke?

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I have always hated Olberman. Even when he was just on ESPN. To me, he is one of those folks who you don't want on "your side" of any issue... Laurence Odonnell, his replacement, is only marginally more bearable.

I dunno, Nike makes me nervous...some of the college uniforms they have designed have been absolutely hideous. I don't see any real major changes to the Bills uniforms happening this year (except the blue pants, which I am all for!), but I could see them making wholesale changes to all the league uniforms, which may not be so great. If you have ever been to the NFL hall of fame, one of the coolest things there (IMO) is the old uniforms...the simpler the better, as far as I am concerned.

Only thing is, January Jones is thin as a pin again...so she took off the baby weight. The scene where she is sitting on the lawn, with her family, holding the youngest son was about as sympathetic a shot we have seen of her in sometime. Like "The Sopranos" one thing I love about this show is their willingness to take points of view on a situation that are so obvious, but, are rarely taken in television. Megan, 14 years younger than Don, complains that he has all the energy to go to the Rolling Stones show the night before, but none to hang out with her and her friends at the beach.

No...ultimate douche-bag!

It's funny, I know that Matt Weiner has said over and over again, that characters may come and go, and I just assumed Betty would be one of them...honestly, I thought she would either kill herself, or get cancer...so, it looks like she escaped cancer...didn't it seem like they were trying to soften her character (and I don't mean the weight gain) up a little last night...when the show first started, I used to feel sorry for her character (as many probably did) but then she just became more and more unlikeable. But last night, she just seemed more empathetic. I know January Jones was very pregnant during the filming of this season...almost seems to me, if they were intending to keep her around on the show, they would have written her pregnancy (and weight gain) into the show. It felt like that character was coming to a conclusion last night. Okay, that makes sense...cuz the minute Roger left the room, he called Betty's house, and talked to Henry Francis...sometimes, I am so afraid I am missing something, that I read too much into small things like that!

Okay, so my one question about last night's episode...when Don tells Roger about Betty's condition, Roger says "you want me to make a call?" Don says, "I have to be the one to make the call" or something like that. Who were they talking about calling? What did I miss there? Anyway, seems like Roger and Pete are headed for a showdown...Heniz may be on Roger's side, but time is not!

Back in day, before the players had their own personal intros, I remember Don Meredith used to just make up schools for players. One time we were watching a MNF game, and I remember my dad getting a good laugh when Meredith said that one player (can't remember who) was "out of Texaco State".

It will all come down to money. It doesn't matter how much NFL caliber talent is developed in an alternate league, if nobody watches, or goes to games, it won't last.

Okay, I listened...how was "liberalism destroyed"?

Yeah, sure... Holy ****, I agree with you on something...big John Hiatt fan...

Funny, I heard Leaf on Colin Cowherd (I think, or was it Rome? They both suck!), right around the Super Bowl. He had just put a book out, about his bumpy road traveled, before "turning it all around". He wanted to mentor young NFL QB's, on how not to make the same mistakes he made...I actually felt kind of sorry for him, while listening...but it sounds like it was all BS. Art Schlister pulled the same stuff...I believe Schlister is back in jail, and Ryan appears headed there. Sounds like maybe Tebow could mentor him...

I would so buy that jersey!

I love Elway, but I think even he would admit, neither he or Shanahan would have a ring, without Terrell Davis...

I think Stroud was a good player, but the Bills just got him at the wrong time. Good luck to him. If he hadn't already been a Bill, he would be the kind of guy that would be a low-risk, high reward for a team needig DL depth. btw- could have sworn I heard Anthony Hargrove was one of the players most likely to be suspended, if indeed players are punished, for his role in the bounty controversy in New Orleans.

Jamie Lee was pretty hot back then...but that is a terrible movie...

I realize you are probably joking, but, in fact, he did mention T.O. I was waiting for him to say Lance Alworth!

I just saw that on NFL32...and I saw it yesterday. I don't watch that show every day, but do they just re-run it? I thought it was new every day...crazy...

Had the pleasure of seeing Earl Scruggs, years ago, at Lincoln Center...he was mesmerizing. Cool guy too. This country has always been so polorized...Scruggs was kind of black-balled in the late 60's and early 70's for taking an anti-war stance...almost unheard of, at that time, for people in his social circles. Really sad to hear of his passing. If you ever get a chance, there was a great documentary made about him in the mid to late 70's called "Banjoman". I saw it on Bravo years ago...might be on Netfix? EDIT: Youtube to the rescue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A51yM6fjnAE

J-Lo gets my pole vote too!

It is a good sign that they came out and played, maybe, one of their most complete games, in a high stakes road game. I will admit, when they lost that roady to Winnipeg a few weeks ago, I started tempering my enthusiasm a bit...glad I was wrong, again! Erhoff has been great...I think he was erratic during the bad period...some nights, he looked really good, others, awful...such is the was the way for almost all of the Sabres defensemen at that time. Stafford is never going to be great defensively, but really seems to have found his game, paired with Ennis and Foligno. To me, Tyler Ennis has played a pretty big role in this turn around...I love watching that kid play hockey. I think he could be a superstar in the making...he showed a lot down the stretch, last season too. Mike Foligno is probably my favorite Sabre of all time (behind Gilbert, of course), so if Marcus turns out to be half the player, the Sabres have a lot to look forward to. Just gotta keep it going. btw- I don't think I was ever as down on the Sabres (ever) as I was in December...even early in this turnaround, they were as lucky as they were good...but the last 10 games or so, they look like an elite hockey team, IMO. I wasn't at the game...I will take your word for it...though I am kind of surprised to hear that Sabre fans were that bad...I have only seem Sabres road games in New York, Tampa Bay, Dallas, and Atlanta. Other than the Rangers games, the Sabres fan seem to outnumber, or at least match, the home-town team in numbers...no incidents that I remember. Was this one group of Sabre fans, or a large number? I went to the Bills/Giants game this past season, in New York. My experience was, most of the Giants fans were pretty cool (always a dick or two in every crowd), but when I came here to report how much I respected Giants fans, and their stadium, it seemed there were a lot that had very bad experiences at that game, with Giant fans. One or two fans don't represent all the fans...from the broadcast, it looked like there were a lot of Sabre fans there.

Jeez, the Sabres look damn good right now...hard to believe that this is the same team (albeit healthy) as the one that was playing from about November 1st to January 20th... Miller has been playing out of his mind, but it isn't all that. Defensively, they have made an almost 100% improvement. I don't want to count the proverbial chickens before they are hatched, but this team could be dangerous in the playoffs, should they make it.

Personally, living in Cowboys/Texans country, I love it when either team is on national tv...it makes the chance of the Bills being on Sunday afternoon all the greater...got to watch 4 Sunday afternoon Bills games, this past season, all from the comfort of my own living room...of course, one of them happened to be that beatdown from the Cowboys!

One of my all-time favorite scenes in the show, from the first season...Don, in his business suit, at his bohemian mistresses house...she, Don, and a couple of her beatnik friends are all stoned. They have all been giving Don **** for being part of the establishment. When they hear cops in the apartment building, Don gets up to leave...one of them says "there's cops out there, you can't go out there"....Don straightens up his tie and says "you can't" and waltzes out into the night..."the universe is indifferent".