rusty shackleford

This is some sloppy football.

What a play!

It didn’t look like the ball hit the turf. More like hit his hand and bounced up into the crook of his arm. Close either way but didn’t look obvious for the expedited review to change the call.

Yes, and so is Lethal Weapon.

Besides the obvious signs of grabbing at his head after it bounced off frozen ground, you could tell he wasn’t right from how he was playing. He had a few drops where he was wide open and something wasn’t working right with his motor skills. The announcers even made some excuses for what they saw, like he must have heard the footsteps of White behind him after giving a 15 yard cushion. Then somehow he made that one handed circus catch touchdown.

I can’t wait for the broadcast crew to act like this light snow is the blizzard of 77.

At least it wasn’t the dreaded finger gun again.

I'll pass along a travel tip for clothing that I discovered a few years ago and has worked out well. If you are traveling between a cold and hot climate (like departing Buffalo in the winter to the Caribbean) pick up a pair of casual/outdoor/athletic khakis that zip the pant legs off and become shorts. It works out great trying to shield yourself from the brutal windchills in the morning but then get off where it's 90s a humid. Especially if going to a place like Punta Cana where you deplane right on the tarmac and into a shuttle bus.

Yeah that has to be tough coming back home to a quiet house. At least getting out and going to work can keep your mind off it and busy. I have been work from home for many years and my dogs were my administrative assistants. They sat next to me in my office all day every day, so it was hard sitting home alone all day without him. The other dog didn't want to sit in the office afterwards, he would just pace through the house looking for him. I know you said money is tight, but it might help if you could talk to a professional. It can really help, especially if you can't talk about it with your family. We were really struggling with losing the dog and a few other stressful live events that all came together around the same time so we did a one time session with a counselor. It helped us quite a bit.

I went through it about a year and a half ago. It's one of the hardest things in life you end up having to do. I had a similar situation where we brought our dog in for surgery to remove a few bad teeth and remove an abscess on his gum. He took a nose dive during recovery a few days after the surgery. Turns out the abscess that the vet dismissed as a concern months earlier and again at the time of surgery as anything to worry about, was indeed cancerous. It triggered a response that fast forwarded other tumors he had internally on his liver and his kidneys shut down. He wouldn't eat, could barely walk, and couldn't make it outside. Even when we brought him back to the vet when his was struggling to eat, it was dismissed as just an older dog being tired from the stress of surgery. We brought him to the Orchard Park emergency hospital for a second opinion, got a full examination (scans and whatnot) and an overnight stay. Once we learned there was nothing we could do to help him and he would die in a few days anyways, we made the choice to do it right then. The choice to put him down wasn't that hard because we wanted to end his suffering. But I was second guessing our choices and not getting other opinions months back when we might have been able to do more for him. I was deeply depressed over it for weeks, drinking heavily, not sleeping. My other dog who was a rescue and together with him for years was at a complete loss, just pacing the house, not knowing what to do. After awhile it gets easier, but never really goes away. They are family after all. We were fortunate to have another rescue fall into our laps about two months later, which brought a lot of happiness back into the house. The other dog started acting like himself again, so we have that as a silver lining... Also switched vets to the OP clinic and have been happy with them.

His throwing hand/wrist looks like it might have taken more damage than it seemed. Fingers crossed he’s okay.

They should probably sit him this week after throwing those two INTs.

Good point. Nobody cares who he managed money for, the public wants to know his child prostitution clients. And yes, a successful criminal wouldn't incriminate themselves with a bad people only list. He most likely covered up record keeping of the illegal activity using his real business as a front, which will just make it harder to decipher it all with him being dead.