buckeyemike

Mormonism: America's home-grown religion. It's also one of the fastest-growing. The LDS Church is the second-richest denomination in America. It's also one of the largest private landowners in the USA. There's still a temple in Kirtland, east of Cleveland (where the Mormons first stopped after leaving WNY), but it belongs to the Community of Christ, which used to be called the Reorganized LDS Church.

This is a terrible story. It was in the Cleveland Plain Dealer this morning too. RIP...he gave his life for his kids.

dev/null's poop stinks.

Steely, what denomination was your dad in, if I may ask? That makes a lot of difference. It also can be the part of the country you're in. I guess Nebraska's part of the Bible belt. I've never been to the Cornhusker State, so I have no idea. An example: The United Methodists can be liberal...or conservative. Again, it depends on where you are. The appalling Donald Wildmon (founder of the AFA, an organization that I've had some exposure to) is a United Methodist minister from Tupelo, Mississippi, which of course is the Bible belt. But the hierarchy of the UMC allows gay clergy. Go figure. I am a devout Christian, as I've said here several times. I've been guilty of saying some things that evangelicals probably shouldn't say. My faith, however, is strong. It is a part of who I am, and believe me, I ask for forgiveness all the time. Some of the activities of my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ embarass me to no end. All I can do is live my faith and go forward.

I do remember that. It was one of the earliest division clinches in history. I remember seeing the video of the fans rushing the field and tearing down the goalposts. That's something you don't see in the NFL anymore. College, yes. But not the NFL...the last time I remember fans partying on the field was when the Arizona Cardinals beat the San Diego Chargers on a last-second 50+ yard field goal to earn a playoff spot in 1998. In the immortal words of Bob Seger, from the song "Like a Rock", recorded in 1986: Twenty years now, where'd they go? Twenty years, I don't know. I sit and I wonder sometimes, Where they've gone.

Heather Locklear wasn't bad without makeup. It was a bad picture...looked like she was being goosed. What happened to Lisa Kudrow?!?

I'm not a huge Star Trek fan, but I honestly got chills watching that trailer when you see the words "USS Enterprise".

Shredder. I bought a ShredStick a while back at Office Max. Best $24.95 I ever spent.

Nope. I am not here to gloat. That was a painful loss. I'm starting to get real down on the NFL these days. I'm watching much more college football now.

I thought you'd blame me for that.

Just saying that you need the body parts to wear such things. I am a man. I do not have such parts. Today? Too? How is today any different, O Ball of Beer?

Correct. San Diego in 1978, then to LA in '84.

Only if they fit.

Slippers. I'm not sure I've ever heard the term "house shoes". In fact, I wear slippers in my recliner when my feet are cold. If I fall asleep in my slippers, so what? At least, my feet will be warm.

So President-Elect Obama wants a playoff system for college football. Hey, before I was married, I wanted Jennifer Aniston, and that didn't happen either.

For the first time in years today, I heard "Saved by Zero" by The Fixx on Sirius 80s on 8. Like many of you, I decry the fact that an overused and overblown advertising campaign has taken a perfectly good song and completely rammed it into the ground. Unlike "This is Our Country", which is a horrible song to begin with and deserves to be shot and put out of its misery. Thoughts? I'm boycotting Toyota, but then again, I just bought a Dodge, so they're not getting my business anyway.

Both of the ESPN guys in their latest predictions have Buffalo in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl. One has them playing Hawaii, the other Nevada. If Hawaii is bowl-eligible (they need to win two of their last three, out of Idaho, Washington State, and Cincinnati, all of which are at Aloha Stadium), Hawaii gets an automatic berth to the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl. It's in the bowl's contract with the WAC. It's also why you usually see Hawaii play at home in a bowl game. The notable exception, of course, is last year, when Hawaii cracked the BCS and got rototilled by Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.

I haven't seen the board like this since the last Super Bowl. Still the best night I've seen in the six years I've been here.

Well, well. I was getting ready to shut down and that happens. Still a ball game at 23-20.

Five, five, five doll-ar foot-looooong... I'm getting punchy. I'm going home now and listening to the Bills broadcast on Sirius on the way home. Bye-bye for now...oops, Jerome Harrison just broke off a long run for a TD.

16-10. Still anybody's game.

BTW, I'm still at the office. From my fifth floor perch I've been watching the traffic on the road just north of me. I've counted six cars in the last 20 minutes. Just about everybody's home tonight watching the game.

See? Right back in it.

Touchdown Cribbs. 13-0.

...hey, wait a minute...