Chalkie Gerzowski

its twin brother is Dan Coulter.

The Vicar of Dibley.

...glad to know I'm not the only one who tired of these "18 hour days"...oh noez... as if they are in a Malaysian sweat shop with a gun pointed at their head. 18 hour days...so they can set up a wildcrap offense of their own...and learn how to defer the kickoff... NFL...get over yourself.

Just like pro hockey in the Russian league.

The NFL...we cornered the market in "Jumping the Shark".

New Freedom, Pennsylvania, LOL.

it has been a marketing success.

Not a whole lot I can add, but I agree with pretty much everything you have typed. I have slowly weaned myself away from the NFL. It's a style over substance league. I do like when Chuck Bednarik rips the NFL for being a "pansy" league when running backs or receivers run out of bounds in dainty fashion instead of going for more yards if the opportunity presents itself...I'd go further with it, but I don't want to offend anyone...it's kind of a sissy league. the mascots should be different, maybe Strawberry Shortcake should be on the side of a football helmet.

Not that I had to read Ryan's comments in the paper today... does anyone think Jauron is McFly and Rex Ryan will be the bully? LOL.... they almost look the same too.

Jets 41-9

Rams attendance was dropping some in LA, if I remember right. Anaheim Stadium was a dump for football. However, I think the Rams should have stayed in LA. They had a better connection to LA then the Rental Raiders did at the Memorial Coliseum. Raiders should have always stayed in Oakland, Rams should have always stayed in LA... St. Louis should just have year-round baseball.

she got her team, moved em to St. Louis, won the Super Bowl... and kicked it?

at least Jerry Jones could do some lines while Limbaugh pops some oxycotin (sp). Kraft could whine about going to Hartford, Al could keep drooling and lil Danny can remain lil.

we should try and lure Mark Mangino here as well.

we will need one In and Out Burger franchise here.

thought I mentioned Georgia Frontiere maybe had a hand in it...

we need a play on the field with Jauron involved and we call it the "Tricky D1ck"... he basically holds the ball up in the air with the palm of his hand and stares at the defense...they glare back, become catatonic, foam at the mouth and all 11 of them collapse on the field...Lynch takes the ball from Jauron and high steps all the way to the end zone with the ball in one hand and Gregg Williams' megaphone in the other yelling over and over "BEESMODE BEESMODE BEESMODE BEESMODE BEESMODE BEESMODE."

pow, enjoy the veal...

The Baltimore tv stations were hush-hush about anything with Modell...he was on tv very infrequently... they used to show his fat head and his high maintenance wife on tv a lot when he owned the Browns. You look at some of these NFL owners and you just shake your head. They seem to get ahead through various means...Wilson getting inheritance from daddy...Al Davis by being a career chisler... Modell, I think he actually earned his money in his younger days in Manhattan...television or something, I don't know the specifics... Irsay, how did he make his money? Never saw such a dingy looking drunk run an NFL team, outside of him that is.

I am the Walrus.

I like the idea of a California native at QB who has less interest in the NFL than Trent Edwards. Leinart is Ryan Leaf, albeit lacking the outbursts.

Baltimore media didn't report much on Modell's somewhat shaky ownership of the Ravens. It was glossed over...he wanted to move the team out of Cleveland cause he couldn't secure a stadium for years...the Indians got one and the Cavs had a somewhat newer facility as well. It wasn't long into the Ravens' existence that Modell was looking to sell or looking for a minority owner to eventually take the whole team. You think about it, there are some dumbassssssses that own NFL teams.

I guess that's what it says...it says Irsay briefly owned the Rams and then the Colts...so the trade was reverse of what I thought? Eventually Rosenbloom drowned at the hands of Georgia Frontiere and the rest is history. From WackyPedia In January 1984, an unsteady Robert Irsay appeared before the Baltimore media and exclaimed, "This is my Goddamn team!". He reiterated that, despite the problems, the rumors that he was moving the team were untrue.[2] However with negotiations over improvements to Memorial Stadium at an impasse, one of the chambers of the Maryland state legislature passed a law on March 27, 1984 allowing the city of Baltimore to seize the Baltimore Colts under eminent domain, which city and county officials had previously threatened to do. Irsay later claimed the city promised him a new football stadium, something they later denied, citing the team's poor attendance. The next day, Irsay, fearing a dawn raid on the team's Owings Mills headquarters, quickly accepted a deal offered by the city of Indianapolis, Indiana; Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut then contacted his good friend, John B. Smith, at that time the CEO of the Mayflower Transit Company, and arranged for fifteen trucks to hurriedly pack the team's property and transport it to Indianapolis in the early hours of the morning of March 29. Thus, many Baltimore Colts fans were stunned to learn that they no longer had a football team. Robert Irsay was further excoriated by Colts fans, former players, and the Baltimore press. However, Irsay's attorney, Michael Chernoff, defended his client and what became colloquially known as "The Move." "They (the state legislature and the city of Baltimore) not only threw down the gauntlet, but they put a gun to his head and cocked it and asked, 'want to see if it's loaded?,'" Michael Chernoff, the team's general counsel, said after the move. "They forced him to make a decision that day." [3] An ecstatic crowd in Indianapolis greeted the arrival of their new NFL team, and the team received 143,000 season ticket requests in just two weeks. However, the Colts' first game in the RCA Dome, then called the HoosierDome, was a 21-14 loss to the New York Jets on September 2, 1984.

Bob Irsay wanted to get the hell out of Baltimore for years...I think he wanted to trade franchises with Rams' owner Rosenbloom at some point in the late 70s or early 80s... eventually Irsay did what he could to force a move...the Colts went to hell and attendance lagged... in Orchard Park the former has certainly happened...the latter hasn't...yet.

having lived there (Baltimore), people were slow to warm to the Ravens. I think now they've pretty much turned the page on the Colts, but it a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time...even with the Ravens in town.