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I saw it. Yeah, yeah, the girlfriend wanted to see it. It wasn't bad though, had kinda a dark overtone to it with the way people acted, I thought.

What are the odds of any NFL coach calling a pass play on 3rd and 2 even though you are averaging 7 yards a rush? In _any_ sitation that is a bad play call, but especially so when you can use up the other team's last timeout with under 2 minutes to play.

Who are you people? Yes, yesterday's game was sweet. But don't kid yourselves....we ain't making the playoffs this year.

Yeah, I liked it....it seemed to kind of catch the flavor of buffalo, to "Go Bills" sign on the house, the gray weather, the salt guy wearing Bills gear. Some old footage of a snowy Bills-Dolphins game on a TV somewhere would have made it ever sweeter. Too bad they didn't show the Dolphins going home with their tails between their legs.

The fact of the matter is, the _ONLY_ reason that worked is because houston tried a pass on 3rd down, and it went incomplete. I'm willing to bet that TMQ will call out houston for that play...as he always says, sometimes running up the middle for no gain is the best thing to do. Houston didn't do that, and they lost. If Houston didn't have a moronic coaching staff, Jauron would have looked like a fool for punting.

I didn't see the game, but read somewhere that Williams was lined up against Pennington, not Peters. So it might have been their other DE.

Yeah, I think Jauron really blew it by punting there in the 4th quarter. He just got super, super lucky that the Texans coaching staff is dumber than he is, and threw the ball.

Every real cop wants that. Its been my experience though, that university cops go out looking for something to happen when nothing really exists. No, not all of them, but quite a lot of them have a huge inferiority complex and they want to exercise their power whether they should or not.

Well, it sounds like you read similar stuff to me...I just finished Anansi Boys as well, and I love the Martin series. Do you read any Neal Stephenson? I just finished Zodiac, and thought it was one his best books outside of the Baroque Cycle, which were also fantastic books. I'm also currently reading "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer. Its non-fiction about fundamentalist Mormons, but its really fascinating and isn't dry like a lot of non-fiction...I can't put it down.

I don't know that the cable companies would offer any better customer service, but there are literally millions of people who can't watch our favorite NFL teams at home because of the deal with directv. I'd happily spend the money on it (i spend way more going to sports bars), but i live in an apartment. IMHO, I'm in a major demographic that the NFL should really be going after....mid 20's, not married, no kids, disposable income and time on my hands to watch/go to football games. I'm willing to bet that a large majority of that demographic lives in urban areas in apartments where directv is not an option.

The first two Carolina goals were really jokes. The first one, the Canes player clearly just ran Marty, and the puck went in of the skater's arm, which should have been disallowed but wasn't. The second goal was set up by a blatant interference on the defenseman by cole, which went un-called. So, the canes got some momentum on those....but when it came down to crunch time, the better team showed up.

Yes, they do. They are not allowed to wear a suit, they must wear team apparel. So, coaches are in fact encouraged by the league to look like fat slobs.

For those of us who didn't see it....what did they do?

I think they were just messing with Philly, because its fun. Pretend like those thugs can hang with us, then rip their guts right out of them when it comes time to play real hockey.

That one isn't bad.

Thats not true....the space shuttle's computer systems have been upgraded as time goes on. However, being a former-ipod-current-white-paperweight owner myself, I wouldn't trust the technology in an ipod for one minute to get me into space. There is a big difference between commodity hardware and mission-critical hardware/software. The latter has far, far more quality control and is much harder and more expensive to produce. Off the shelf solutions would never get anyone into space. "old" technology to NASA is "proven" technology, and they aren't going to switch to some x86 processor because it can chug though 40x the instructions per second, all while consuming 10x the power and running so hot that the shuttle's head shield can't even handle it. NASA knows what it is doing, they are just taking every necessary precaution here, because people's lives depend on it.

I thought possibly the funnies part of the movie was when the horse fell down right at the end of the anthem scene. You only saw it for like half a second, but it was just hilarious. Apparently, that wasn't staged...the horse somehow got upset at all the booing, but it just worked out so perfectly. That half a second scene, and the bear head in the fridge were just hilarious.

There was nobody at my polling place in CT when I went, however it may just have been early... (around 7:30am). I expected more of a line, because there are 2 rather contentious races, Leiberman/Lamont and Shays/Farrell. I heard from some other people that there was something of a line. We haven't got Maccaca, but we do have a sore loser in Lieberman....get out and vote people!

Is he the Maccaca guy? At least he provides entertainment.

Shouldn't you be a little more concerned about Indiana? I mean, Michigan _should_ beat them, but the Hoosiers have had some big wins already this season. I hope not, but this thread could be premature.

Broke his leg too....even though I think JoePa should give it up and retire, you gotta admire the fact that he didn't even want to leave with a broken leg.

Didn't one of the british princes wear a hitler costume last year?

DJ Gallo was quick to call out Weis: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=gallo/061025 Honestly, complaining about the polls is the most childish, classless thing Weiss could do. He should be thinking about preparing his team to win the games they are "supposed" to win (which is basically all of them against their mickey mouse schedule). He just has to face the music....his team isn't as good as the media built them up to be before the season.

I think they are pretty funny. Way, way better than the Chevy commercials with "this is our country". That song is driving me freakin nuts, and its because those commercials are on every 5 minutes.

Geno's and Pat's are right next to each other. I'm not going to recommend one or the other. I'm going to recommend that you be a man, and eat at both, one right after the other. Then you'll know for sure. Just make sure to have several beers beforehand.