smokinandjokin

"What's his 40 time?" Bush Bad sucks, and the Honda Fit has become rediculous.

That bastard!!! I remember hearing a stand up comedian say, "I got into a fight once with a handicapped person. It was in the parking lot of the grocery store. I caught the sonofabitch trying to park in one of OUR spots!"

A 15-year tenant on rental assistance? Mmmmmmm mmmmmmmm! I'd hit it. You can talk South Buffalo chicks into anything....

I have to thoroughly disagree. I consider myself a soccer fan, as I know most of the good players and the club teams they play on. I follow the EPL and the Champs League. I thought this World Cup was pretty lame. The juicy games didn't live up to the hype, and the majority of big-name players were disappointing. The aspect that was pathetic was the reliance on free kicks, and the amount of times players dive to set them up. I understand soccer and I understand that diving is part of the game. It was over the top in this WC. The coverage has expanded to the point now where there are camera angles all over the field, and it becomes painfully obvious during the replays that the guy who is rolling on the ground writhing in pain was not touched at all. I also realize that goal-scoring is not the whole shabang in soccer. Chances are usually at a premium and that is why there is such pandemonium when a goal is scored. However, this was the 2nd-lowest scoring WC, behind only 1990. The games averaged just over 2 goals per game. The lack of offensive imagination (and even just the lack of shooting) coupled with the rediculous diving and poor refereeing made this a very disapointing WC for me. I think the people who enjoyed watching the game before the WC will still enjoy it, but I don't think the last month did anything to recruit "fringe" fans into the game. I feel slightly driven away, and it was the players themselves who did it. Their rediculous antics gave all players a bad name. I understand how physical the game is, and that these guys are prime athletes. But they really came off looking like pussies.

Act now, because the first 10 callers will also receive a Travis Roy figurine replicating the exact moment his head hit the boards in his first Boston U game. This NCAA-licensed product comes complete with an autographed fused vertabrae from Travis Roy himself!

Neither is coke...

And free alcohol and prostitution.

My concentration really seems to struggle in places with potentially large cash payouts, free alcohol, and readily available prostitution. My mind tends to wander...

I think if UBuffalo can squeak out wins at Auburn ( ), at Wisconsin ( ), and at Boston College ( ) this year, they will have a shot at a BCS bid. Seriously, who made their schedule? They will be lucky to hold Auburn under 70.

The Blackbearded Clams

CTM, you are losing your touch. How could you not post a meazza reference when the thread is asking about allowing 12 year olds to ride in the front seat? CTM of ~2 months ago would not have let that opportunity pass. However, you seem to be allowing the Honda Fit to distract you from your meazza-bashing...You still could work in one of those Fit posts here.

I don't know anything about hunting animals in the woods, but I have slayed several females with my pork sword.

Adequate player but easily replaceable IMO. Not shedding a tear over the departure of stone hands. He seemed like a classy guy and was well-respected, but with a glut of forwards on the team, he can walk.

I bet the broad he was with was just nagging him like crazy- "This water's too cold," "Why'd we go this way?" "Steve never made me wade across a pond," that he just said "Eff it!" and drowned himself.

I'm pretty sure Hardy was referring to Maradona's other goal in that game- the 75-yard dribbling display that Maradona put on before juking the keeper and slotting in the greatest World Cup goal ever.

Ha! You are a !@#$!!!

That is clam-tastic!

I'm with you Bart. It has been one great move after another. Let's just be thankful that we have one more year to watch him pace the sidelines wondering what kind of idiot would put that squad together. Then he'll stop and think, "Oh yeah, I did." Over/under time: 22.5 wins for the Knicks, over or under? I'll go under, 20-62.

I could probably do a little research here to find this out, but I'd rather take that surfing time to go look at some nude girls on the Web, so I'll ask here. Does anyone know the BCS Championship game setup, now that they've added an additional game? Is it still #1 plays #2 in the final BCS rankings that come out after the regular season/conference championship games have been played? Or do they play the 4 BCS bowl games, and then have the 'extra' game the following week, after they have re-ranked the teams? (The assumption here is that they would pick the two highest rated teams who won their BCS bowl game.) I orginally thought the second scenario was the way it was going to be, but it did occur to me that occasionally I can be an idiot. I doubt the execs managing the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, and Orange would like their games reduced to a quasi semifinal. And all that setup would do is create even more bitching from the other two teams who won their BCS bowl and were left out of the title game. Now that I think about it, it has to be the same setup as it is today, only now there are two more teams who get to play a big-money game. Anyone know how they will rotate the #1 vs. #2 game? Will it remain among the current 4 mentioned above, or will they rotate every 5 years to include the added bowl?

Very well done both. I chose the blue one. How come all of my pictures just end up being of my drunk friends yelling in a bar and photos of random girls' cleavedge? I can't seem to figure that out.

While I agree that QB rating may not be the best tool for measuring QB's, a high QB rating does seem to correlate to a successful team. Last year, 7 of the top 9 rated passers led their teams to the playoffs (and 9 of the top 13.) Of the top-rated QB's whose teams missed the playoffs, Bulger and Johnson started only 8 and 9 games, respectively, and Green went 10-6 with KC while Brees was 9-7 in SD. Like CTM mentioned above, no stat is truly perfect, and there's always room for skewing and outliers. For example, Eli Manning was on a playoff team, but he was 23rd in passer rating with a 75.9. 1 Peyton Manning IND 104.1 2 Carson Palmer CIN 101.1 3 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 98.6 4 Matt Hasselbeck SEA 98.2 5 Marc Bulger STL 94.4 6 Tom Brady NE 92.3 7 Jake Plummer DEN 90.2 8 Trent Green KC 90.1 9 Byron Leftwich JAC 89.3 10 Drew Brees SD 89.2 11 Brad Johnson MIN 88.9 12 Jake Delhomme CAR 88.1 13 Mark Brunell WAS 85.9 I chose rushing yards per carry, because it doesn't seem to correlate to anything. Like it was mentioned above, 5.0 yards per carry can be the result of one 81-yd run and 19 1-yd runs, or it can be a guy dominating a game by picking up 4, 5, 6 yards every carry. There's too much ambiguity for it to be a meaningful stat. However, it has a similar outcome to passer rating with regard to playoff teams- 5 of the top 9 were on playoff teams, and 8 of the top 13, and 12 of the top 22. Here are the leaders in ypc (RB's with over 100 attempts). The columns are games, attempts, att/game, yards, long, avg, ypg, and runs of 20+. 1 Tatum Bell DEN 15 173 11.5 921 68 5.3 61.4 8 10 2 Tiki Barber NYG 16 357 22.3 1860 95 5.2 116.2 9 16 3 Larry Johnson KC 16 336 21.0 1750 49 5.2 109.4 20 15 4 Shaun Alexander SEA 16 370 23.1 1880 88 5.1 117.5 27 14 5 Warrick Dunn ATL 16 280 17.5 1416 65 5.1 88.5 3 11 6 Frank Gore SF 14 127 9.1 608 72 4.8 43.4 3 4 7 Willie Parker PIT 15 255 17.0 1202 80 4.7 80.1 4 8 8 Ronnie Brown MIA 15 207 13.8 907 65 4.4 60.5 4 5 9 Ricky Williams MIA 12 168 14.0 743 35 4.4 61.9 6 4 10Rudi Johnson CIN 16 337 21.1 1458 33 4.3 91.1 12 5 11Thomas Jones CHI 15 314 20.9 1335 42 4.3 89.0 9 12 12DeShaun Foster CAR 15 205 13.7 879 70 4.3 58.6 2 3 13Mewelde Moore MIN 16 155 9.7 662 33 4.3 41.4 1 5 14Clinton Portis WAS 16 352 22.0 1516 47 4.3 94.8 11 6 15LaDainian Tomlinson SD 16 339 21.2 1462 62 4.3 91.4 18 8 16Edgerrin James IND 15 360 24.0 1506 33 4.2 100.4 13 5 17Mike Anderson DEN 15 239 15.9 1014 44 4.2 67.6 12 4 18Chester Taylor BAL 15 117 7.8 487 52 4.2 32.5 0 2 19Domanick Davis HOU 11 230 20.9 976 44 4.2 88.7 2 3 20Samkon Gado GB 8 143 17.9 582 64 4.1 72.8 6 3 21Cadillac Williams TB 14 290 20.7 1178 71 4.1 84.1 6 7 22Steven Jackson STL 15 254 16.9 1046 51 4.1 69.7 8 6

I thought Bennie was great in 'Old School.' Especially the part during the gymnastics scene when he hit the vault...That was sweet.

YPC is the most overrated stat, IMO. It doesn't do much for me at all. Imagine a RB breaking a run off for 81 yards on his first carry of the game. Then he rushes 19 more times for 19 yards. We're supposed to say he had a good game rushing because he earned 5.0 yds per carry? He had one good play, and was shut down for the rest of the game. And what's the benchmark standard for an effective RB? Anything 4.0 ypc and above? So that means 3.8 ypc is ineffective? That difference over 20 carries in a game is four yards (80 vs. 76). If you think your team is losing because your offensive line/RB can't gain 4 more yards over the course of 20 carries, I think you need to reexamine your criteria on what is effective. I think the stat is interesting, and it's a way to measure RB's averages. But I just don't think it's that important, and is one of the most easily skewed. For example, on 3rd and 25 you run a draw play, and your RB picks up 19 yards. Nice run, and it will certainly help the ypc, but come on, the defense is giving away that yardage.

I'm an idiot. Anyways, it was just a rumor I heard. And I suppose he could actually be interested, but you wouldn't find anyone in their right mind waxing poetic about their next coaching job while their team is in the World Cup quarters. Unless Larry Brown was a soccer coach.

I heard the best candidate is Jurgen Klinsmann, the current German coach. He loves the US, lives in Southern Cal, and is reportedly interested. Obviously, as it stands, Arena is still the coach here and Klinsmann is still trying to win a World Cup in Germany, so I wouldn't expect this rumor to pick up steam for a while.