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Hopefully, his last game is a loss in KC.

Short version: I was around 15, got way too drunk with some friends, and they tried carrying me home because I couldn't walk. Cops saw it and took me home. From then on, my parents referred to it as "The Incident." The footnote, which my parents never found out about, is that my friends were all tripping on acid, but I was too afraid to try it. I lost control on the legal substance, and they were fine on the illegal substance.

When the Saints' kicker missed the FG that would have made it a two score game, I wondered if Foles had a voodoo doll of opponents' kickers. Turns out he did, but Sean Payton had a voodoo doll of Alshon Jeffrey. Checkmate!

"Look! He made a home run!" "It's touchdown, Jon. Touchdown."

Alshon Jeffrey and Cody Parkey (Bears kicker) can go out for beers and sulk together this week.

"It's good to have you on our team."

I'm not sure when that'll be released, but I think it's gonna be a long long time.

I went to one, but different circumstances. The wedding of a colleague's daughter, both sides of the family are uber-religious. It was a hot, humid summer day, outdoor ceremony and reception. I would have loved a beer - or even a Budweiser.

Putting the "high" in high-tech.

When I played softball, I remember the coach always telling us never to swing on a 3-0 or 3-1 pitch; force the pitcher to throw consecutive strikes. Statistically speaking that's probably a good philosophy, as it likely results in more walks than outs. But if you never swing on those pitches, then the pitcher is just going to serve up one or two fat ones right down the middle. As a hitter, I liked to keep the pitcher honest, so my conventional wisdom is "rarely swing on a 3-0 or 3-1 pitch." (I finally convinced my coach of that when I swung on a 3-0 pitch and knocked in two runs.) Likewise, a R-R-P pattern works best when used more often than not, but sometimes you have to take advantage of the fact that they're expecting a run, and sling it on first down.

Is the bride in her second or third trimester? Any shotguns involved?

Two of my favorite sports-related scenes. 1. Followed by Jerry suggesting the possibility that she called an audible. 2.

Not just her voice:

I wasn't crazy about the Seinfeld finale. One of the best was Newhart, which kinda reveals my age.

Reminds me of this, which was aired on 97 Rock's "Norton and Stout" morning show back in the late 80s, when Jamaica fielded its first bobsled team.

According to Gregg, the Bills already offered him a position and he's weighing it against the other nineteen. ? (Note: that was satire.)

60 - 80% on both. Closer to 80% on Beane - he seems pretty shrewd. Maybe around 70% for McD. Some of his game-time decisions have been head-scratchers, but he's learning.

I like the OP's scenario with Dallas as the SB opponent. Wouldn't mind beating the Pats in Foxboro, though.

It's an omen. Rex Ryan is coming back to the AFC.

The Packers are my favorite NFC team. The only NFC teams I hate are the Cowboys and the Redskins. Hated AFC teams, in order, are the Pats, Phins, and Jets, for obvious reasons. I also root against the Steelers and Ravens, because my father was a Browns fan, as are all of my older siblings. (The Bills didn't exist when they were young.)

That mentality isn't exclusive to football. Some high-level managers are competent and confident enough that they can hire strong-minded middle-managers. Other executives hire only yes-men. I've seen both kinds, and the ones who hire yes-men tend not to be successful. The ideal is to hire a person with a similar overall vision who's also an independent thinker.