UConn James

Then came late last year when the NFL threatened to fine 69ers coach Mike Nolan if he wore a suit on the sideline. It's a league-mandated thing that coaches dress in polo shirts, team-logo sweatshirts, windbreakers, etc., and look like casual-casual-casual Friday.

I put it in yellow, which has been the MO for posting spoilers since these threads were started. That's something I saw on ET, which goes to show how much of a 'secret' it was. And yes, for everyone posting spoilers, please do use yellow. And if you don't want to know about the spoilers, you should know better than to go highlighting something that was obviously intended to be obscured. See, that just seems like a waste of bandwidth and board space to me. As before, if this is the set-up you like, I'd suggest the TelevisionWithOutPity forum. I'd generally consider this as a place to ask little questions, did you notice this/that and post some light, non-FFS-length theories w/o getting all hardcore. We've been lucky to have this space; why do you want to infringe on this kindness of being invited in someone else's house by spreading your underwear all over the living room and eating the last of the Fla-Vor-Ice on a 100* day?

Right. I would add Hurley; and I think his is a big reason why they are there. Boone and Shannon have basically been revealed. I would imagine they have some material that was filmed in the airport/plane with Boone in it, but IS's contract is over, I believe. I think the backstories of Sawyer, Sun & Jin, Sayid and Charlie have been covered pretty fully. It's just the main, main characters that are left. Do you suppose if this goes for a few more seasons they will run out of backstory material? I'm bummed about that, b/c that's a crucial part of what makes the show so interesting. Shannon sees Walt.

I'm claiming the 3-4 p.m. hour in the betting pool. But that's only b/c the Communist Mods are busy eating donuts and oogling hot ladies in the OT Forum.

Some more thoughts on Locke: Anyone notice how he called Hurley "Hugo" when they were setting the dynamite? I don't think anyone else on the island knew that as Hurley never used it b/c he didn't like it, (and he may have associated it with his mental health facility time --- didn't he use it when he talked to Lenny/Leonard?). And I'm wondering what Jack meant by saying that "If we survive tonight, we're going to have a Locke problem." I think that was due to the survivors' lack of any social order. Seeing the hatch and that it'd been kept a secret, Jack realized that Locke (or anyone) could do anything w/o recourse. Sayid, after he tortured Sawyer put himself into exile before returning after meeting Danielle; not everyone can be counted on to have a conscience to keep them in check. There's no courts or jails on the island to provide a detterent to all of the fights and bleeding/injuries for which Jack is running out of medical supplies. I think it was more of a thinking that something needs to be done to instill order amid the chaos that is the island. Which aligns with how the writers have said there will be more of a direction this season toward setting up a society of sorts.

I think that was the last time someone actually deserved their Oscar win.

You've got a lot to learn about the Crash and Burn threads. But I do commend you if you've never partaken. It's usually a frenzy of posts before the mark finally gets po'ed enough when their stupidity is pointed out and said mark goes into ~~~MELTDOWN~~~ saying something that I'm not able to publish here without a lot of %$#^'s in those words' place. Either that or everyone puts them on Ignore and they take their schitzo freak show elsewhere.

Hey! That prediction would have been correct last year, and it would have been <Three Stooges voice> coy-tains </Three Stooges voice> for anyone who dared get in JP's way.... when he was less experienced and still getting through his broken leg. We are talking to the person who knows the most about the Bills. Funny enough, I'm picturing bh's temperment something like Otto in "A Fish Called Wanda"....

They become extremist religious-right Republicans.

Where did you get the four years figure? I watched the whole season through on DVD and I don't remember hearing anything about it. Was it in that same episode? If so, then the hypothesis is dead. B/c Locke was a young man when he met and was used by his father. They tried to make this obvious with how Locke kept calling him "sir" and other mannerisms. I still think there's some kind of connection b/w Locke's paralysis and Jack's father (and Jack's) specializing in spinal surgery. It's too close of a linkage to be unrelated. I'm recently becoming enthralled with Locke's "Don't tell me what I can't do!!" line, b/c I'm running into a lot of people like that myself. People who simultaneously think I'm underqualified and overqualified for an office job and basically asking "Why is someone w/ your education applying here?" (Answer: To have a steady job and to make some money to be able to survive). People who don't think I can do a good job in making some craft look good when I've shown time and again that I can.... I don't know if this is making me a little sympathetic to Locke. But in a certain way, I don't know if Locke is entirely aware that he's being used by the island. I think the island saw his past and decided he may have been the most gullible, even tho he's probably the most capable. I don't think he even learned from the situation with his father, b/c he was falling into the same kind of situations in his job with his boss, and the phone sex(?) girl who he was talking to for 8 months as if he knew and loved her, even tho she was always like, "Ohh, well... *sigh* that's nice John...." the whole time on the phone.

Hogboy. Spiked Lemonade. JP-Era. BF. You know what these posters all have in common? They all started off in the Chicken Little phase, moved into the STFU phase, then moved into the Banned phase. Just a heads up, and I'm not trying to be a richard here, but go work it off at the gym.

And you could say the same thing about Holcomb in his prior experience w/ the Browns. In the wild card playoff game against Pittsburgh... 2 years ago?... he was put in late in the game and threw two picks, both on ill-advised sideline-to-sideline passes. But we can continue to lionize KH as the savior of the this franchise. Don't believe the coaches. They want us to lose. In fact, they sent Gruden a playbook on Friday night at the Marriott. MM was going to have dinner to share the scripted gameplan, but he saw Ralph at the bar screaming out "WTF?!!?!?" to some kid. KTFABD, you talk about how JP will have bad plays, bad series, bad halves, bad games.... I'll go further than that. Jim Kelly had bad games in his prime. Brett Favre had the worst performance of his career last week. Tom Brady threw up a stinker on Sunday. I guess they needed to be benched too, according to bh.

Get 17 monkeys in a room and one of them will be correct, too. Guessing the W-L total makes you the Bills Genius? Keep your pins and needles away from this guy's head, guys.... POP!!!

Maybe if bh had brought a folder with names of people he wanted to hire as his assistants, TD might have hired him to be the HC. Seriously dude, go to the gym or something.

No, no, no! We must not give him time to acclimate himself. He needs to be perfect right out of the gate. bh, go find a hobby, please.

Hey that's my copy! Plaigarism!

It's tradition that teams wear dark at home and white on the road. But the home team has first choice of which color jersey they will wear, and sometimes they don't stick to that unwritten code. Hence, why the Cowboys wore white for just about every game in the '90s. The Bills had no say, but there's nothing really unfair about it. As for not wearing the jerseys again this year, Ralph may elect to just have the team wear the throwbacks, and pay a league fine every game (I think it's the $10,000 variety). He seems to be the kind of guy who would do that just to make a point, especially to a league that encroaches so much on individual owners' ability to run their own franchises. It'd be nice to get the NFL to amend their sometime inane/needlessly strict uniform policies, but....

Where does he get off with all of this reducing gas consumption and making better cars here in America? Damned capitalist! What a chump.

scribo, if you could add a line in the thread "Please print & send to NFL" that'd be nice. Feel free to print this out and add your own comments. ---------- 19 September 2005 National Football League 280 Park Ave Frnt 1 New York, NY 10017 Dear Commissioner Tagliabue, As a lifelong viewer of the NFL and diehard Buffalo Bills fan, I have experienced the ups and downs of watching my favorite team on the football field. I enjoy the history and tradition of the game, and it is in that vein that I write to you about making a slight change in the NFL’s uniform requirements. When the Bills redesigned their uniforms before the 2002 season, it was a time of dynamic change for the franchise with the signing of Drew Bledsoe and the ushering-in of a new era. If you gather three Bills fans in one room, you’ll get seven different opinions on the new navy blue uniforms, but the overriding consensus among the fans and those in the media (including Gregg Easterbrook in his excellent “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” column on the NFL.com website) is that they divert too far from the traditions of the Buffalo Bills. This year has again introduced incredible change and excitement for the future of the Bills, and the throwback uniforms of the 1965 championship season have been received with an almost unanimous positive fanfare that wasn’t able to be gauged among the fans, players, and the team’s front office before they were debuted earlier this year. I’m disappointed in the strictness of the league’s uniform policies allowing only two games in which to wear an alternate jersey, as that allotment has now been used. The policy is understandable, in that you do not want a team to suddenly change their uniforms. There needs to be a constant uniform for team identification and branding, and it is also unfair to fans who have bought the older style jerseys. I would request that the league allow a team to use throwback uniforms in special anniversary years, such as the Bills’ ‘Celebration of Champions’ for the 2005 season. Another proposal would be to increase the number of games a team can wear an alternate jersey. I would add that the rules have been bent slightly in the past when the New York Jets were allowed to wear their classic-styled uniforms that evoked memories of great seasons of their past. Also, the San Francisco 49ers were allowed to wear their popular black-trimmed uniforms for the remainder of the season and in the Super Bowl in 1995. Now, Tom Donahoe, the President of the Bills, is requesting that the fans write to the league office to request some flexibility to be able to wear these classy throwback uniforms that proudly show off the red, white and blue. I hope you will be willing to oblige that request. Thank you kindly for your time and consideration. Sincerely,

Snail mail is so last decade, Campy! But barring any specific person to contact, I guess that's it. The only individuals are with specific teams. It's as if no one works in the league's front office, and if they are there, they're anthrophobic. How do reporters get contact information? Or is getting a sitdown with Tags conducted like an bin Laden interview? I could see why they'd be so secluded; would you want 200 million rabid football fans calling or emailing you? I'll work on a form letter and post it later.

Well, she's not a full-time anchor, but I have seen her on the weekend shift time to time.... Alison Bologna. That hairstyle is a little old, it's now parted more toward the middle, but would you imagine toussled? Every time she files her report, I stop and say "O-ooooh!"

I've done some prelim searching for an address to write in to with no luck. No Contacts/employee listing on the NFL.com site. No one to direct this kind of thing to. I think this guy sums it up pretty well....

What worked for JetBlue's work uniform just hasn't worked for the Bills, as they hired that designer as a consultant. The emphasis in the redesign was to introduce a darker, navy blue. I don't think anyone really questioned what the practical implications were for wearing an almost black jersey in a venue like TB, Miami, Arizona, SD, etc (or hell, even Buffalo sometimes!) in the early season. I work outdoors at a physical job and I'll tell you, there is a difference. I think TD's realizing his mistake in rubber-stamping them b/c they "showed up well" on television, as well as the need for a change from the Drew-associated uniforms. I give him credit; a lot of people in high visibility positions are too proud to admit mistakes. His answer to that question told you everything you need to know. Quite a turnaround from "Save the postage."

From "Ask Him Yourself" Where would one send that email? And can anyone do a general form letter?

I'd say the Miami-Clemson was pretty good, too.