Albany,n.y.

I'm proud of him for not crashing his piano on the way to midfield, but his singing sucked.

I was too busy thinking how bad he was singing to notice if he missed a line. That was the worst Super Bowl national anthem ever. Billy, I was there when Whitney Houston sang, I heard Whitney Houston. Billy, You're no Whitney Houston.

I think that was the late Howard Cossell.

Pyrite: I think you give Bledsoe much too much credit for thec Pats 1st SB win. Publically he played the good soldier, privately he was very bitter and went to Kraft demanding a trade rather than sit behind Brady. He's only been a team player when he is playing. Kordell Stewart contributed more to the Patriots winning the game when Bledsoe replaced Brady than Bledsoe did. Just because he slightly outplayed Stewart when put in the game, doesn't mean Bledsoe was an essential player that season. Chances are if Damon Huard had been put into the game instead of Bledsoe, the results would have been the same. Sure Bledsoe was an upgrade in both Buffalo & Dallas, but as I said in the followup sentence to the one you quoted, he was the guy you are always looking to find someone better to replace him with. Bledsoe made the Pro Bowl in his 1st Bills season based on his 1st half of the season play. He faded badly in the 2nd half. He was lousy in Bills season 2 and adequate in his final Bills season-Hardly HOF like credentials. In Dallas, it took only 1.5 years for him to get benched. I don't think it matters if some guy pulls out tapes of some of his better performances in the HOF voting room or if there is a gap in time when the last QB was inducted. The poster above who compared Drew to Boomer Esiason was dead on. The fact is that in 11 years as his team's primary starter, Drew's teams only made the playoffs 4 times and the two years he was benched his team made the playoffs after the guy who replaced him upgraded the position will not be foregotten among the HOF voters. In fact the only time his team made the playoffs in the last 8 years was with him on the bench.

Super Bowl I, I watched it on NBC because I liked the AFL better. I also remember watching the AFC Championship game that was played in the Rockpile on TV & seeing a sign that said "Bills in Super Bowl, Chiefs in soup bowl" Years later when I heard the revisionist history myth that the 1st Super Bowl wasn't called the Super Bowl I knew it was a lie because of the sign at the Rockpile. I looked it up in the library & sure enough, the papers were saying that the Chiefs had just earned a trip to the Super Bowl. All anyone has to do is go to a library & look up a paper on microfilm from 1967 & see everyone referring to the game as the Super Bowl.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070204/1024548.asp As for the quarterback position itself, not until 1978 when Tampa Bay drafted Doug Williams of Grambling in the first round was the game's most important position opened to blacks. Like any young quarterback, Williams struggled. It was at the time Iranian radicals captured the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the joke around Tampa was "They ought to send Williams to Iran; he's the only one who could overthrow the Ayatollah." Williams' unhappy time with Tampa Bay ended with his release and for three seasons he played no football. Washington's patient Joe Gibbs, seeking a reliable backup, brought him back into the NFL. Three years later in Super Bowl XXII against Denver and John Elway, Williams had the greatest 15-minute stretch, the second quarter, in Super Bowl annals. He threw four touchdown passes, including bombs of 80 and 50 yards, in a 42-10 rout. Felser is so far off the mark, I don't know where to begin but... 1)Williams may have struggled early, but by his 2nd year he had the Tampa Bay Bucs in the NFC championship game and Tampa went from laughingstock to playoff contender during his 5 seasons in Tampa Bay. In fact, Williams' last year, 1982, they went 5-4 and without Williams in 1983 fell to 2-14. 2) Williams was not released, he was a free agent & when he felt disrespected by Tampa's offers, signed with the USFL in August 1983. Therefore he missed the 1983 season, just like Jim Kelly did. In addition, not only wasn't he released, but in August 1986 he re-signed with Tampa & was traded for a 1987 5th. 3)Larry, "for three seasons he played no football", get real-he played 1984 & 1985 for the USFL and while he didn't see action in 1986 except for one attempt with the Redskins, he only missed 1 year-1983-due to the spring USFL seasons. 4)"Three yeats later..." Again a mistake. Williams was brought back to the NFL by Gibbs in August 1986 (right after the USFL gave up its hold on their players) and 17 months later had the great Super Bowl. I'm usually one of Felser's biggest supporters around here, but I don't think it's too much to ask that he get his facts straight when he has only one column to prepare each week (and sometimes he takes weeks off).

Bledsoe will never get elected to the Hall of Fame. The voters have seen him play on the field & will have tapes of him throughout his playing years. He may have some decent stats, but over the last 7 years he's been a liability instead of an asset to the team he was on. He was the guy you are always looking to find someone better to replace him with. Phil Simms is a better candidate for the HOF than Bledsoe and he's never come close to getting elected. Vinny Testaverde has better stats than Bledsoe because he's played for almost 20 years & nobody is thinking of him as a HOF QB. The only way Bledsoe is getting in is if he finds another career path in the NFL after his retirement and excels in it for the next decade or more. I give the HOF voters more credit than just looking at a stat book on a QB who rarely, if ever, carried his team to heights that another QB couldn't have done with the same team. Just look at the guy's win % instead of yards passed for & he's a lock to be in the HOF only when he buys an admission ticket at the door. I have nothing against Drew,like some of his haters do, he's just not HOF material, it's that simple.

My last car lasted 13 years and over 170,000 miles doing this & the engine was in great shape when I retired it-due mainly to rusting. The cost ia about $80/year extra. Anyone who has to save $80 extra a year probably is in a pretty good struggle to keep their car. I paid over 30k for the car over 6 years ago and since I may never be able to afford a car that expensive again (I bought it before I owned a house) I figure a little extra maintenance may help & certainly can't hurt.

Only personal experiences are driving rentals on the job & my answer is hell no! I've driven these cars on bumpy dirt roads and I've seen a change oil warning light go on as I pulled out of the parking area when I rented the car. People who buy into the idea that these cars are maintained better than owned ones are kidding themselves. They might be maintained better than the real lazy drivers do, but that's about it. My owner's manual says change the oil every 10,000 miles, I go 3,000-4,000 between oil changes-I doubt the rental agencies, where everything is bottom line, do any unrecommended maintenance. Under our contract, I can get a compact car for around $32 with unlimited mileage-I put about 200-300 miles on per day when I rent-the bottom line is too close to the edge for owner type maintenance. So, if you want a poorly (by my standards) maintained car driven by a lot of different people who could care less about the car they are driving, go ahead & buy a rental.

The big difference is that JP PLAYED an entire season. This was something Rob could never do. He even got hurt mopping up in the 3rd game of the 1999 season & was out for weeks. Rob had to be the most injury prone QB I've ever seen. In his NFL career he must have injured every body part.

It was Polian's fault. All he had to do was draft Steve Christie in the 11th round (we traded the 12th rounder) in 1990 instead of Al Edwards & the kick would have been good.

The city that those planes hit the buildings in didn't panic. The blame rests squarely on the people who decided to shut down a city due to their incompetence. When you're the only one of 10 who reacts hysterically, it's you who has the problem, not the other nine. Arresting the guys who put them up is ridiculous. I'm sure this will show up on Boston Legal sooner or later with Alan Shore saying how insane the panic is while Denny Crane sides with the mayor.

The Giants were kicking the ball off the line of scrimage to slow down the no-huddle. Marv didn't do enough complaining to the refs demanding delay of game penalties on the Giants & the refs let it go all game.

I didn't read the attachments in the other answers, which may include the answer you seek, but here goes without any attachment. They thought they could save the fractured leg. However, within the process, his other legs, specifically his feet, went bad due to laminitis (described above). Maybe if they had cut the leg off to begin with, he might have had a shot, but I doubt it. Chances are the horses you saw were a different breed that were much more docile than a thoroughbred. Thoroughbreds are wound really tight & do not have the demeanor that some more docile breeds have. Chances are almost 100% that it would be impossible to keep a thoroughbred happy & healthy with an artificial leg. Edit: I opened your attachment & noticed the horse with the artificial leg was a filly. Barbaro is a male with a full set. Male thoroughbreds are often so out of control that they have to be gelded just to calm them down enough to race them. Generally, if an owner thinks that a horse has little to no future stud value, they geld him to calm him down. A complete male thoroughbred is one of the toughest horses to keep calm. Putting an artificial leg on one would probably require a prior gelding-defeating the purpose they tried so hard to keep Barbaro alive.

Q: Why is Okoye only 19? A: Because he was born 6/10/87, making him 19 until he turns 20 later this year. The real reason is (from NFL Draft Scout) "Born in Nigeria, Okoye was tested into the ninth grade as a 12-year-old when his family moved to Huntsville, Alabama. Okoye signed with Louisville and was playing at defensive tackle at only 16 years old, making him the youngest player in the country."

I just watched the Senior Bowl game from there, thanks for the link.

One of the more interesting things about the law was that if the kids had intercourse, the penalty was much less severe. So, the reason he's been sentenced so long is because they did an act that the original law was put in place in order to punish homosexual acts more harshly. That's the only reason that anti-sodomy laws, which include oral sex, are on the books with harsher penalties than the same two people having intercourse. There are plenty of places that still have laws where a husband & wife could be arrested for the same activity that this kid is in jail for-but imagine if a prosecuter wanted some couple to "take their medicine" and plead out an oral sex arrest. It still is the DA's job to prosecute cases fairly & not press every case that some obscure law can be used if you wish to raise your conviction win %.

The frightening part about the Dobler interview was the part where he cryptically said that when things get worse he's going to kill himself.

He's under contract & they have to pay him. So rather than give him a few million $ over the next 2 years, they are 1-Making him work for his salary & 2-Saving $ on another assistant they don't have to hire.

His sister will be too old to ban him from living with her, that's what will happen if he's released after serving 10 years. With all this publicity, he'll be out shortly & the sex offender status will be stricken-only a matter of time.

If Bill Clinton was there the kid would have been pardoned & Clinton would have brought him in for a chat to compare experiences. Since Bush rose to power demonizing the immorality of Clinton's actions, a pardon would never go over with his base.

A Georgia Republican prosecutor persecuting a black kid, what a surprise.

If they haven't changed their uniforms in 5 years, I say keep them-they may cause an opposing QB to faint at the smell & they'll get an easy sack. Maybe that's why Schobel's sack total was enough to get him to the Pro Bowl. Imagine how many sacks he'll get this year wearing that uniform with one more year of sweat.

Pro Football Weekly has PW going #9 to Miami. They have us taking CB Leon Hall.

He's feeling like Nate Clements will feel a year from now.