UConn James

Dude, that was a looong time ago. The rivalry has really cooled sans Marino/Kelly. See, something needs to happen and keep happening (i.e. close, contested, critical wins&losses; idiot players pissing off fans with personal slights, etc.) for it to be a sustained rivalry. What's left is people grasping at straws trying to pump themselves into a frenzy over something that now has little draw. And to think we stayed in the AFC East (vice North) for this.

What's up w/ the fascination for 'continuity' as if it's some kind of magic bullet? Sticking w/ average players, not replacing guys until they're 35 or having an insurance policy for injury... That's the ticket to prime time, baby! Newsflash: the average NFL career is less than 2 years. Turnover happens. It's a fact in the NFL and people who don't operate in recognition of this get steamrolled. Wake up from your dream world. The current FO is trying to put things together (and is doing a pretty good job of it, I think) but at this time of year fans have nothing better to do than pee in the corn flakes.

This is a family that thinks nothing of telling blatant, bald-faced lies to the American people. And no matter how many times the lies are exposed in the Youtube/blogging world, they keep coming up with more. If I were any less cynical about human intelligence, it would boggle my mind how anyone could vote for this lying c--t. Headlines next week: "Hillary: I founded the NRA!" "Bill sent me to Afghanistan to kill Osama bin Laden in 1999. He was in my sights ready to be pulverized by my 50-cal.... until John McCain blew my cover and let him get away!!"

They all are. ADHD to the severest degree. The "Guys, check out this draft!" ... (wait 10 minutes) "Guys, check out this draft!" ... (wait 7 minutes) "Guys, check out this draft!" ... (wait 3 minutes) "No, no! Guys, check out this draft!" nature of these threads comes off as someone who's 1) desperate for attention 2) way too emotionally invested in something akin to the lottery w/in the parameters of a sport where grown men wearing plastic hit each other 3) Someone who needs to be 'right' even if it takes making up 300 of these damn things, just to be able to link back on April 26 and say, "Dude, I called it!!" Pretty sure I recognize the writing style as someone who's been banned from here before, and keeps coming back w/ different screen names. Looks like my ignore list adds a member today.

END TIMES!!!

Michaels' pairing with Madden has worked wonderfully. What Madden lacked for a while was someone to keep him 'on message' so to speak. I think Michaels realized how well they work together and followed Madden to NBC a short time later.

I was referencing his vocalization regarding the move of the Browns. On his, like, 5 prime time shows that he had at the time he kept Cleveland in the spotlight; didn't let people/NFL forget the loyalty of the city to the team. He always had a Browns collectible item in the background of his main show. By no means am I saying that DC acted alone in getting a replacement franchise, but not allowing the story to die in the public consciousness was important. I've seen the other side, too, when the Whalers left Hartford. Nobody of note said anything and 10 years on, that team is a distant memory. Buffalo doesn't really have anyone to fight for the city in the national spotlight.

They'd have to switch the broadcast over to the soft-core porn channels on cable.

Guess which version E$PN will be running with, and which will be quoted ad nauseum in every future story on Toronto-move-speculation. The journos are setting up the pieces to fill their agenda of having something poignant to write about in ~ 5 years. Too bad Buffalo doesn't have a Drew Carey.

And as tax revenues decrease, look for this and other methods like artificially/arbitrarily lowering speed limits to be on the rise. (I've seen this happening already. One well-traveled road near me now has a 15 mph (15 ing miles per hour!!!) speed limit down from 35 w/ no causation or explanation. Wouldn't want rural communities to be left out of the moneygrab, wouldya?) A little birdie told me that the state of CT and municipality police departments are getting funding for a new strain of radar systems. If they can't wring any more blood from the corporate stone, govt will get the money somehow.

Round 2

So, people should be rewarded for 5-fingering something that isn't theirs, putting it in their shopping cart and wheeling away? Oftentimes, people forget things in places and come back a few minutes later when they realize this; if she had just left it there this never sees ink. She may indeed be crazy, and like I said, I hope she accepts whatever help that many organizations provide if you just ask, but I don't think her conduct should be set as a public example that deserves a $ reward for honesty. If the circumstances were just a tiny bit different --- if a cop had found her with the violin rather than an average citizen --- do you think she would get or deserve the reward $?

I think he'd be an intriguing G prospect for us (he's projected round 3-4), but I don't know if he could do a switch to C... not ruling it out tho. He was moved around a lot in his time at my alma mater; DT-> general OL -> TE -> LG -> RG. From what I've seen, I think it'd be good to get him settled at one position.

What the baglady did amounts to theft, whether it be legal or moral. Under 'Finders Keepers' you should first make an honest attempt to return the merchandise. If she'd done that, then she would have gotten the reward $. Instead, the fact remains that she then sold the violin to some random guy on the street who claimed that he knew who it belonged to. If your intentions are entirely honorable in picking up something that someone mistakenly left behind and you pick up under the guise of 'safe keeping,' you don't hand it off to anyone but the owner, lost/found at the train station or the police. The guy tracked the violin down and obtained it from someone who had no intention of returning it, therefore he deserves the reward. Her intentions were not honorable and she doesn't deserve anything for her actions in this case. But like all those in her conditions, I do hope she is persuaded to get some help to get off the street, food, employment, mental help, etc.

^-- Any inside info, tgreg?

Apparently you don't interact much with the world at large.

Bill, all due respect, and I agree with your sentiments, but at this point with Stroud and Johnson, Mitchell, and Poz coming back from injury, Bills brass may think they've tweaked the D enough along the front 7 to more effectively stop the run. I'd say the most serious ? on the DL is Kelsay, and right now he has one more year to show us he can be a solid DE. As for making 1st downs, the OL doesn't really look like the problem, minus Fowler rating a little lower than we might want at C (given the givens, not much to be done there, tho). Right now, WR, TE and possibly even CB are where we need to spend the prime resources in the draft. Having some solidity at positions so we can concentrate on ones that just need shoring up is a luxury I didn't think we'd have, if you'd told me 2 years ago with Marv's rebuilding. We've been rebuilding for so long... but now it may be time to grab a couple of your hated 'hands/specialty people' as long as we draft in later rounds for depth and FA eventualities at the areas you're pointing out (DT, DE, LB, G, C). All in all, tho, it's not a bad problem to have.

From the St.Louis P-D... Looks like they were looking for a special dispensation and got shot down for whatever reasons. The one-year notification is probably not w/o reason... such as the league has to have that info with that forewarning for print materials, website layouts etc. that would incur cost to change. I'm a little disappointed; I thought the Rams re-do to gold was a over the French's mustard yellow. But the individual teams can do what they want re: uniforms as long as they follow the time rules. Well on Mr. Rosenbloom for involving the fans rather than an ad-hoc of fruity designers who put in (and whose ad copy bent over backwards to try to justify) 24 colors and a control freak Pres/GM to approve them. The Sabres did much the same. The best thing TD did in his tenure here was to introduce the throwbacks. Simple. Traditional. For the life of me, I don't get why Russ Brandon hasn't made a switch, as this was under his purview as marketing director (Marv said he fielded the most questions about the unis and his answer was always 'I just work on football here.') and now he can just very simply tell someone to get it done. It's not that hard; the team owns all the copyrights/trademarks already. Life imprisonment, perhaps?

Are you going to be one of those dudes who incessantly posts about this crap until the draft and then after the draft, when virtually nothing (besides maybe an obvious 1st round pick) of what you've posted pans out, makes some vague threat regarding your support for the team because they passed on Duvaughn Flagler, who you've developed a hard-on for based on a highlight video (newsflash here: highlight videos are full of highlights; lowlights are conveniently omitted) of his play against crappy competition and then a week later either creates a new screenname or saunters back as if nothing happened? (whew). Dude, don't be that guy.

Many of those were the days where you could get a solid player deep in the draft that no one else knew jack sh-- about. Success depended on how good your gumshoe scouts were.

As an amicus curia in this case, I do not see any exposed nipple-age, but there is definitely some aureole.

I'd just be interested, how many of those who watched the film have had trouble wrt sleeping and such? I remember at the time of the Daniel Pearl murder, I saw a picture and had kafka dreams for a few weeks including some where it was me. Then again, I realize that some people here are pretty hardened against stuff like this and have seen worse in real life. As I wrote upthread, I have no intention of watching the film. I have read about many of the like things and that is enough for me to base an opinion. A picture/video can't be unseen and isn't just a mass of black text once its viewed. It forces you to look at it, forces you to feel a certain way, and with that comes the power of the image.

Seconded. I've had no problems with Ma Bell. Fracking unbelievable how companies have been forced to write their fine print/packaging copy for the lowest common denominator (i.e. McDonald's coffee "Caution: Contents are HOT!") because of lawsuits from stupid people and the judges/juries who buy into the mentality that people should be protected from their own stupidity.

They did. This was a broadcast on TalkUSA, iirc. Same guy is the owner. Basically... Air America Part Duh.

Well, thing is.... if Ralph goes to the gridiron in the sky, those subordinates will be replaced in short order by whoever buys the team with his/her own loyal people. <shrug>