Rubes

Well played, sir.

Whoever was playing the Patriots. I also wanted the Raiders to beat the Bucs, mostly because I didn't want to see a franchise like the friggin Bucs win a Super Bowl before us.

If he's off of the Jets, that's good for us.

If only he played for Norway...

Jesus. This thread is like reading a Yahoo news story comments section.

Hmm...so how was it that we finished with the #6 rushing offense last year if everybody figured it out? Good grief, are people here so tightly wound they can't just have a decent discussion without crapping all over the OP? I never got the impression he was trying to say "Fitz is great!", just that he was trying to compare his Bills tenure with Bledsoe's tenure, neither of which were stellar. Yes, Fitz and Bledsoe were about equal in their Bills performances. Neither did much to get the Bills over the hump, despite their supporting casts. Bledsoe won a little more, Fitz had slightly better stats. Neither one got us to the playoffs. But I think it's at least interesting to consider that Fitz, whom we all think of as an "average" to "below average" QB, was about as good as a Bledsoe in decline. That's something I hadn't considered. Not that it means anything, but it's an interesting thought.

There's a little irony for you.

Here's Ed's tweet: Ed Werder ‏@Edwerderespn NFL will review Tom Brady play for possible discipline for appearing as though he tried to defend himself by kicking at Ed Reed

Ed Reed is most definitely not a 300 lb monster. He's the guy Marcia was targeting.

Maybe the $130 million will go towards having both at the same time. Why settle?

Uh, sure. You been drinking tonight?

Doubtful he even thinks of trying it.

It looked to me like he was clearly trying to kick Ed Reed, as it turns out right in the knee. If he had made better contact, he might have caused some real damage. It was very unsportsmanlike. In fact, you might call it unsportsmanlike conduct. 15 yards. Personally, I call it a puss move. I wanted Baltimore to b!tch slap Brady so badly after that, and they came through. What a great day. Sabers beat the Flyers, and the Pats* get slapped out of the playoffs at home. Then I get to have dinner and see a movie with my wife. Could that be scripted any better?

I've been trying to pay attention to which football games other than the Bills that I watch during the season. As it turns out, I often will have the Sunday/Monday/Thursday Night Football games on, and I occasionally will watch whatever games are being shown on CBS/FOX on Sundays. But I hardly ever watch any non-Bills games with DirecTV. So I guess the question is -- with respect to football, are we talking all football games, even those on CBS/FOX and on Sunday/Monday/Thursday Night Football, only being available by pay-per-view? Or would the same games be available on CBS/FOX/NFLN/ESPN, and this ala carte model only being applied to the games not otherwise available on those channels? I would probably prefer the ala carte model if games were still shown on CBS/FOX/NFLN/ESPN.

Hopefully we'll get a few.

I wasn't looking forward to Whis or Lovie, so in that respect I'm happy with Marrone. I just don't know enough about him yet. I like the Pettine hire, but the rest of the staff is a bunch of question marks. Time will tell, for sure. I just hope these guys can put together an NFL-caliber offense.

Hell, I used to chat with chicks online back when I was using The Source and the early CompuServe, back in the early '80s, with 300 baud modems and crap. Never met any of them, but I remember one of them sent me a picture of herself.

Some interesting perspectives from the 'Catfish' creators. They seem to think Te'o was a victim in this story and that the story goes much deeper... 'Catfish' Creators Reel at Manti Te'o Hoax

:lol: You are really knocking them out of the park in this thread.

Not sure if posted before, but here is an article on SI.com from the guy who interviewed him back in October. Interesting stuff. The amount of detail is staggering. Manti Te'o in his own words He says he knew her for four years, but that they dated formally since the prior October, so for a year. Could a hoax like this really be perpetrated for four years, including one as intimate friends? Who in the world has the stamina to stay on the phone with him for hours at a time, every day?

It certainly does happen. From the story: "In yet another now-deleted tweet, Tei herself reached out to Nev Schulman, star of the 2010 film Catfish and executive producer of the MTV program of the same title. Schulman's movie and show are about romantic deception through fake online personas." There is no question that Manti was in on this in some way. I think it's almost a given that the story will eventually come out that he is gay, and this was a way of deflecting people from his relationship with the Tuiasosopo guy. At least, that would be the least sociopathic explanation for this. It's possible it's not, and he was duped from the beginning by this guy, but the duration of it would just be too hard to believe. Wow. Just wow.

Why do people keep saying Carrington? I didn't see him on the original list.

Yeah, doesn't look good for him, unfortunately.

Right. Nobody really cares at this point about the PED use or the fact that everyone did it, it's about how aggressively and nastily he went after anyone who dared suggest he was using PEDs. Here's an interesting summary of the nastiness.

Of course, it partly depends on what your definition of "the worst" is. One of the threads on OTW a while back asked for the worst movie of all time. My answer was the first of the three Star Wars prequels (Episode I). Not because it had the worst acting of all time, or the worst plot of all time, or had the worst box office performance of all time -- but because it had so much to work with (money, actors, marketing, special effects, creative license) and ended up being just so colossally disappointing overall. It may have been a success at the box office, but it sucked horribly. Not as bad as some really terrible flicks, but it was the massive difference between potential and realization that made it the worst. So there are some truly horrible coaches that didn't have a lot to work with and accomplished nothing (Hank Bullough), and then there are those who had considerable talent to work with and severely underperformed (Chan). Who was worse? I'm tempted to say Chan...although Hank was truly a trainwreck of a coach.