buckeyemike

When these writers write, they seem to act as if there is some sort of secret conspiracy afoot. It makes them sound silly, but that's just my opinion.

Bread, yes. It does last longer. Chips, no.

Mustard and ketchup should be in the fridge after opening. Ketchup won't spoil if you leave it out, but I just think it tastes better. OTOH, at one of the courts I practice in, one of the back rooms has the same 12 bottles of salad dressing out on top of the refrigerator all the time. And most of the dressings are milk-based, like ranch and blue cheese. That's just wrong and I'm not touching them.

It's a Samsung from Sprint. And I don't know how to text and don't wanna learn, either. But it is a very good phone. It's three years old and was top of the line in 2005.

Somebody forgot to tell ESPN that Brady basically ended the Super Bowl on his back.

Some said they felt it here in Cleveland. We're 500 miles from the epicenter. I did not...I was still asleep at the time. The one I remember was in January 1986. I was in the lunch room at school and I asked my friend to stop shaking the table. He wasn't. I remember the cafeteria fell silent b/c everyone looked over and saw the plastic covers on the vending machines swaying. I guess the overhead lights were doing the same thing too. 5.0 quake that day, near the Perry nuclear plant, 40 miles east of Cleveland (I was 50 miles west of the epicenter). I remember asking my mom if she felt the quake when I got home that day. She looked at me and said, "So that's what that was." She'd never felt one before.

A while back I rented The Great Dictator and realized how provacative it was for 1940...remember, Hitler was beginning his takeover of continental Europe and it was still a year before we became involved in World War II. This was truly a great time for film...between Chaplin's performance here and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, these were two movies that are among the greatest ever, but certainly were not recognized as such at the time.

WOW!! The Browns have five prime-time appearances, including the Bills Monday nighter! Three at home, two away. Sept 14 vs. Steelers (Sunday Night Football...NBC) Oct 13 vs. Giants (Monday Night...ESPN) Nov. 6 vs Broncos (Thursday Night...NFL Network kickoff) Nov 17 at Bills (Monday Night...ESPN) Dec 15 at Eagles (Monday Night...ESPN) More prime-time games this year than in the last five years combined. WOO-HOO!!

Apparently, the Indonesian government thinks so! This has to do with young ladies who work in massage parlors. "No happy ending for you!"

One can also include Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and the New England Patriots to that argument.

You don't want to know how I feel about that.

No...I meant that Cleveland will host the Thanksgiving night game this year, but I don't know who it would be against. Another rumor is that the Browns will open at home against the Cowboys in a 4:15 FOX nationwide game on September 7. My prediction for the Buffalo-Cleveland game is it could be the Toronto contest.

I would not be surprised to see the Toronto game against the Browns. The rumor I hear is that the Browns will get the home game Thanksgiving night.

About time for the schedule.

He pretty much nails this one. Caliendo grew up in suburban Milwaukee, so this is why he knows Packer culture so well. EDIT: Actually, this one's even better. You close your eyes, and he sounds like his subject.

No, I don't think that needs to be done.

Hey guys. Have a happy day.

How's this for a theory? I posed this to a friend just today. Brett Favre will be groomed to replace John Madden in the broadcast booth, once Madden reaches, say, his 75th birthday (Madden turned 72 last week). He could start out on Football Night in America. NBC has the Super Bowl this coming season, so the anticipation would be high. I could see Brett Favre turning into the new Madden quite easily...and considering the former's worship of the now-retired QB, wouldn't that be something to see? If you've ever listened to Favre in his weekly pressers with the Packers as I have, you realize he would make an excellent color commentator. He knows the game and most football fans have a high opinion of Favre, so you know his Q rating would be off the charts.

Ah, the Rocky Balboa theory...makes some sense. And how does Beyonce keep getting work? Are you blind? Doesn't matter how her acting skills are.

You're missing the bigger point here... a FOURTH Austin Powers film?

Yes. Terrific food. So good I wrote the restaurant a letter complementing them. I love great Italian food...it's better than anything else.

I'm sure that, once again, South Park will show us the way by providing a new unit of measurement.

Wow...I can finally fix that rip in the back of my tuxedo pants!

This is gonna be unpopular here, but my favorite broadcast team is the same duo, Michaels and Madden. John Madden may be a caricature of himself, but he hasn't lost his knowledge of the game. And Michaels is simply the best play-by-play man I've ever heard...in ANY sport. The only guy that even comes close is Pat Summerall (and Summerall and Madden were the best team ever). I wish I could have heard Al Michaels do Cincinnati Reds games during the Big Red Machine years. Football announcing is not brain surgery or rocket science. We're supposed to have fun watching the game and not overanalyze the announcers. True, some are bad (the appalling Joe Theismann comes to mind), but it seems that we criticize everything in our society today...and some things simply do not need to be criticized.