RochesterRob

Yep, 50M plus in dead cap is too much to overcome despite feelings to the contrary by quite a number of posters here. That could amount to 5 above average starters at various positions on a team. Easily several key contributors.

Sometimes I wonder if people are happier if the possibility is there to criticize versus enjoying an achievement. I honestly believe that there are people here that would be happier if the team was failing next year versus succeeding.

People on message boards have a burning desire to show that they are smarter than everybody else so the need to belittle and to proclaim will always be there (here). If people really had an ability to assess information and lead people they would not be found on a message board all hours of the day seven days a week. These same people are most likely thankful that their profiles that they give of having six figure paychecks, large expensive homes, and hot wives/girlfriends can not be readily challenged by their fellow board members due to the buffer zone given of the net versus the man cave where these keyboard GM's and coaches reside.

Ivory tower is to do with academics versus economics. I think that the term you are looking for is penthouse. Not to be confused with the skin magazine before the internet era.

That TZ with Art Carney always gets to me.

Regardless if the alcohol or MJ thread we could name successful alcoholics (outside of the entertainment world) or potheads but the number of failures in each category greatly dwarfs the successes. Either way I would guess the chance of failure in terms of not managing your consumption is far greater than being a success.

I have no problem with that but that is another outlier in terms of overall numbers of users just like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk. What about the guy who can't face rush hour traffic with out puffing? The guy who can't stock shelves without a puff?

I feel sorry for your mom having to clean up your "emissions" when you fantasize about Trump out in the open. You do have a pressable keyboard cover? Yes?

Being called a pothead is very judgmental in my mind and is not complimentary. MJ may not be physically addictive but in my mind it can be mentally addictive. I know plenty of people who are easily aggravated when they can't indulge pot when they want to. Ask yourself if you can face life w/o pot? I would bet there are quite a number of people who would say no.

Don't know that his options would have been slim. Good backups willing to mentor and help mold a starter are not growing on trees.

Will there be any posts saying "this is terrible, we need to sign a true number 1?" I'm guessing that the chances of this are greater than zero. Anyways, a wise move and congrats to Matt being here for a couple more years.

Don't really remember but probably by age 7. I knew Christmas was a very big deal for my mother so I did not want to spoil it. Why would you want to spoil it? Waiting for the guy to say he was 1 or 2 as always when these conversations pop up. I do remember kids in school saying that there was no Santa around when I was 5 or 6 but those households were entirely dysfunctional complete with no presents of any kind. They were already on the road to a hard life and very few saw a detour to make things better.

I would agree with this in that a master plan appears as such in hindsight. Just not enough hits in the draft and free agency to think that a master plan always bears fruit.

Oh, I think the NFL cares what the Feds think as they are vulnerable to the machinations of the government. Right now the NFL has a the perfect excuse to abandon testing for MJ as so many states including ones where players live or play have legalized it so the NFL will say it is too complicated to enforce. All the old guard owners are gone that formed their opinions from watching the 1960's television show Dragnet so I don't see anybody from that position having a problem washing their hands of pot testing.

I think that the NFL is tied to whatever the federal government's policy is at the time. I don't think that the NFL has balls so big to go against the Feds. The best a pro MJ advocate in the NFL can hope for is that the NFL will announce that it will not test for pot but will not openly endorse it or tie it to player health issues.

Just for perspective I would like to know your top 10.

While true that if you had no record of existing in the East you could make a clean exit I don't know if that was in play for my example. The Soviets wanted any German so long as that German could be of use to the Soviet state. That a German had intellectual capability or material assets to "contribute" was what primarily mattered even if the nature was not initially consensual. If you were more than a peasant you most likely had value to the Soviets even if they otherwise despised you. How a person worked their way out of the East amounted to more than a single approach. Some probably had assets to buy their way out while others could work the sympathy of the Allies with possibly faking their identities in the process. I've heard different stories as to how restrictive or non-restrictive the Allies were to allow open movement from the East to West but it seems consistent that the Soviets wanted to keep anyone of value to them.

The only way to put some science to it would be to have a census of every village affected prior to the war to establish a starting point. But even that gets murky as not every casualty gets tied to a census figure. Going back to to my grandmother's family I have little doubt that the ties to Eastern Europe were lost in the late days of the war and what came after. Did not matter if you were a German who opposed the Nazi's Germans were treated very poorly at the conclusion of the war. It was advantageous to abandon old identities in order to move to the West even into North America. Some of my grandmother's family emigrated to Canada after the war but I don't have a timeline to know how it unfolded. I think that they were so afraid of being trapped in Soviet occupied territory that I suspect some of their names today would be considered casualties of the war versus survivors if the records were checked.

I don't see how they get verified myself. At least in the sense of a true audit. Also, people with an agenda are going to over-state or understate any numbers to serve their respective purposes. Add to that the nuts at the top of the Third Reich who pulled desires out of their ass and underlings trying to satisfy them so no doubt there was "just put a high enough number on the paperwork to keep the nuts in Berlin happy" fudging of the numbers. Still horrendous regardless if over estimated or under estimated to the true count.

Hopefully, I can explain this clearly and accurately but it is all extremely complex. Yes, you are correct that the Final Solution was recognized Reich-wide after Wannsee but there were high placed officials such as Himmler who had adopted it in mind without conference ahead of Wannsee. This comes into play with Operation Barbarossa and the plan to deal with 800,000 people who would be considered enemies of the new state. The executions were in the field versus being hauled to a camp. Yes, the incident with my ancestors would have been in the East but not where my grandmother was from. Her family prior to WWI was spread around Germany from roughly Berlin east into the Polish frontier with perhaps more going further east and some down into Austria so I could not tell you exactly where this took place. I was told one time as a kid approximately when but don't remember anymore. I'm thinking after the war was turning against the Nazi' when more and more people were considered enemies of the state than just Jews and Gypsies.

As far as the Final Solution goes that started around mid-1941 and only stopped as the Allies closed in during 1944-45. There were no doubt pre-Final Solution losses and no doubt that they were tabulated to some degree. How much documentation was destroyed as Berlin was falling and the high ranking Nazi's were contemplating being brought up on charges of being war criminals is hard to say. A number of losses were in the field versus the camps and who knows how well that was documented. I heard stories from my grandmother who got her information from her family in Europe about Nazi's gunning down dozens of people in a village versus taking them away. A couple of her (mine) relatives died in this manner. I'm guessing that this was a standing order when transportation to the camps was not practical for some reason. Not that I want to think about 1900 people dying everyday but there were a number of camps and I am sure that the "hours" were long. Sad to think about. I did some reading after this post was made earlier tonight. The Final Solution was far more complex in its operation than I had previously been aware of but that is just a matter of finding the right sources to get information. Still a sad and tragic chapter in history. Too bad the deportations although unfair did not happen as it would have spared many lives.

Most of the stuff shown at school assemblies were not documentaries so I am not sure as to your point on this.

NYS Section 5 (Western Finger Lakes) fans will remember RB Tony Collins who played for the Pats during the 1980's.

Come on, now. You are not happy if you have not tangled with a few right leaning posters every day. Admit it.

Umh, I hate to say it but if you are in NY like a lot of Bills fans then it is still not legal for recreational use as of today. Cuomo still has to get state assembly and state senate aboard to formally get the process going. I'm guessing that even if it is approved early next year the opening "date" will be much later to work out details. I have a feeling that this "debate" could out live us all on a national level if a lot of unintended things happen in states that legalize it. Could be the mirror opposite of alcohol in terms of legal, illegal, and then legal again. Time will tell. And once your shift is done at the Soros cubicle farm you can toke all the weed/cow manure you want.