SageAgainstTheMachine

Oh, right...brain fart. Hard to remember that a 9-7 team got a home game.

I think the whole loyalty thing boils down to options. If you're a Giants fan and the team is performing poorly, there are several other teams to which you can pay attention. Yankees, Jets, Knicks, Mets, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, Nets...usually 1 or 2 of them are fielding potential champions at any given point in time. If this multiplicity existed in Buffalo, you'd see fewer die hard Bills fans.

This is so true. How many people wanted to just give the Packers the Lombardi Trophy halfway through this season? '06 Steelers, '07 Giants, '10 Packers, '11 Giants...all wild card teams. Almost makes you wonder if earning the bye week is overblown, despite the obvious benefit.

Football: It's very serious.

Was I moaning? You pointed out that the winning team makes fewer mistakes. Usually the case, yes, but the end result isn't a tally sheet of credits and debits. Luck plays a larger role than most people are willing to admit.

It shouldn't go unmentioned that the Giants committed 3 ghastly fumbles. They fell on two of them and the other was negated by a Pats penalty.

The one cool thing about the halftime show...the dude breakdance bouncing on that elastic cord.

The approximation of a conversation that I had with a work-friend in 2009... Friend: We're gonna catch a movie later on today, you in? Me: What're you seeing? Friend: 500 Days of Summer Me: (thinking it's a sci-fi flick based on the title) Hmmm, what's that? Friend: It's like, some hipster guy and he's obsessed with this quirky girl. Me: Haha. Ok, I think I'll pass. Thanks, though. Do you know who's in it? Friend: Yeah, it's Joseph Gordon Leavitt and that girl from Almost Famous? Me: Kate Hudson? Friend: No, the sister. (Zooey Deschanel) Me: When are we leaving?

I've always been impressed by NBC's Richard Engel.

Relevant question... Is the drastic upward change in the velocity of information proliferation rendering the "fourth estate", and thus its objectivity, moot? How many of us, honestly, depend on journalists to stay current?

The entire thing was never anything but conjecture. Stories like this won't quiet the conspiracy theorists, but any rational person can understand that there's been absolutely no evidence of a potential move, outside of "well, it seems like something that might happen."

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Not just Southeast Louisiana, the whole deep south! Apparently the OP never read Faulkner.

Jules Verne was my favorite author when I was a kid. I'm trying to pay as little attention as possible while his greatest stories are being raped.

Are people actually more easily offended today, or is that a truism? Off the top of my head, dueling is no longer an acceptable response to a perceived offense. Let's face it...humans are social animals that tend to get emotional. That's past, present and future.

I'm going to see if I can install one of those next to the dorsal fin of my laser shark.

You shouldn't take anybody's advice.

So what then? Is there some magical machine that turns their animal noises into human voices?

Every All Star game is dumb. I'd much prefer to see an advanced skills competition.

Be careful what you wish for...

Homer: 1898 House? Ugggh, too late to save Lincoln. Too early to save Kennedy. Lisa: You could save McKinley! Homer: Its not a time machine, Lisa! EDIT - whoops, that'd be Moe not Lisa.

This is one of the best 1st posts ever. Your nephew is a better writer than most adults.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/are-bugs-mad-at-us,27189/

You're correct in that it can't be dismissed. Having said that, I'm still waiting for somebody to provide something other than anecdotal evidence surrounding this supposed conspiracy. My suspicion: Everybody is on super high alert when one of the "golden boy" teams (Dallas, NE, NYJ) gets a favorable call that our perception is that it happens more often. What's the reality?

To play devil's advocate here, what IS the appropriate time period on this sort of thing? Roberto Clemente died tragically while providing aid to earthquake relief in Nicaragua. Would somebody be a creep for selling Clemente memorabilia? As for the $3.2 million...he's living in a fantasy world.