buckeyemike

Good luck, Rock. What happened to him is the major reason why I'm self-employed. Law firms in this area have also been downsizing recently.

And my stepbrother's cousin's father's former roommate saw Rex Grossman sticking pins into the right hand of a Peyton Manning voodoo doll.

AAAAIIIEEEE!!!

Bluefire congratulated Ohio State after they beat Texas this year.

Why must you put yourselves through that torture? I don't watch The Drive or The Fumble. I've put that behind me. Of course, I lost my formerly beloved Browns too, so that's a big reason.

Hmmm...I wonder if that is an actual commercial. If so, it would never air in the United States...kinda gross, but funny.

Columbus really supports the Blue Jackets. People there were so starved for a professional team that they have taken to the Blue Jackets like pickle juice to retatta. BTW, Winnipeg should have a team. Is there a chance the Penguins would move there? There had been some noise about Cleveland getting an NHL team, but that wouldn't work. The market is stretched with three teams now. But for the diehards, I give you our new AHL team, the Avalanche's top farm team beginning next year... The Lake Erie Monsters.

That was before we knew George Michael was gay. Interestingly, Denis Leary had a great line about that. He said after watching George Michael dance around in the first 15 seconds of the "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" video, we should have figured out he was gay then.

Last month we talked about this kid. I still feel the same way.

Good point, but the difference is that the Raiders are a joke. They have nothing to lose by naming Kiffin as their HC. The Cowboys are still the NFL's most popular team. That job is probably the hardest in football, with JJ looking over your shoulder. I think that JJ would name himself HC if he could get away with it. Dallas can be a contender for the next few years...if they name the right coach. Also, I would think they want a big-name coach before they move into their new palace of a stadium in the next couple of years.

Jason Garrett is from Cleveland. He's a Class of 1987 kid from University School, which is a prep school for the snobby rich kids from places like Beachwood and Pepper Pike on the East Side. (There's an old joke here in Cleveland that, in the waning moments of a hockey game where University School lost to Shaker Heights, the kids on the US side started chanting, "It's alright, it's OK, you'll all work for us someday.") Garrett matriculated at Princeton, which means either his dad is a legacy or he's got some smarts. He was being talked about as a candidate for the Browns' OC job, but apparently turned them down. Probably a smart move. If he is named the Cowboys' HC, I say more power to him. He is well liked by the fans there and has the intelligence to be successful...but is he too young at 37? Wait and see.

Another Class of '87 person here. My 20 year HS reunion is in October. IMO, The Joshua Tree is the best album of the '80s. Nothing else is even close, except for maybe Paul Simon's Graceland (RTDB, is that the album you worked on?). My tastes were a little more "poppy" than many of those on this board. I was really into Chicago at that time (Chicago 18, the first album with Jason Scheff as lead singer, went gold in '87. Scheff's been lead singer longer than Peter Cetera was). Also, and you can make fun of me all you want, I was into Stryper then. "To Hell With The Devil" went double platinum in '87, and "Honestly" was a Top 30 power ballad for the boys in Yellow and Black. Whitesnake and Bon Jovi made hair bands big starting in 1987. All in all, it may not have been the best time in music...but it was a LOT of fun.

Um, where can I buy them?

Oh, you're mean. But also very funny.

Boy, I wanna make a retatta joke here so bad...

I will be rooting for Indianapolis. Without question. I've been a Packers fan, and Packers fans just don't root for da Bears!

I forgot to say, all of Wisconsin will be rooting for the Colts as well. Like Packers fans would root for the Bears.

Thanks in part to the actions of the Genesee Conference of the Free Methodist Church. When I read this article, what the hospitals did infuriated me. I consider myself an evangelical Christian, as many of you know, and what these hospitals were doing is flat-out wrong. I'm glad to see the NYS assembly took some action, but only after articles in both the Buffalo News and the Wall Street Journal made the story public. Mods, if this belongs on the PPP board, please transfer it there. Thank you.

And I've got one that everyone will agree is worse than Showgirls. A little turd called Exit to Eden. Rosie O'Donnell as an undercover cop dressed as a dominatrix, played for comedy. Excuse me, I have to go barf now.

My dad got lost on a family trip to Chicago in 1988 and we wound up driving through the southern part of Gary. I remember being a bit scared...

OK, I'll give you Gary. The sad thing is, that town's been dying for decades.

That happened in the Super Bowl nine years ago when the Packers conceded the TD to the Broncos...remember? I was rooting wholeheartedly for the Packers and never forgave Mike Holmgren for that.

And I don't care!! Everyone between St. Louis and Cleveland will. I firmly believe the Midwest, next to the Appalachians, is the most looked-down and put-upon region of the country. I get very tired of the East Coast bias we see in sports media (ESPN, you know who you are). Chicago's the third largest market, and while Indianapolis is fairly small, you have to count the entire Hoosier state rooting for the Colts in two weeks, and that's over six million people. Problem is, it's Indiana. To the East Coasters, it might as well be India. Notice that the Fox studio hosts were in Chicago, but CBS did not send their crew to Indianapolis. Were the honchos at CBS afraid that Sterling/Shannon Sharpe would get into some sort of trouble? That the Colt diehards would be after Dan Marino's scalp? As for the game, this is a good matchup, although I rooted for the Saints today. I think the Bears will keep it close for a while, but expect Manning & Co. to pull away in the second half. Colts 42, Bears 24.

Funny stuff...quick, someone call the Indianapolis Zoo! The quoted line had me laughing for a while and I missed Peyton's remarks after the game.

Now you know what I went through for five years. By the way, that was one hell of a football game, wasn't it? Super Bowl pick? Colts 42, Bears 24.