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What game were they watching? There was plenty of hitting, I thought. At least there was enough to satisfy most fans. What there WASN'T was clutching, grabbing and hooking. At least now when a guy goes down it's because someone put a body on him, not because someone hooked him or hauled him down by his jersey. Speedy skaters, hard workers, and fundamentally skilled players will thrive in this new game. Slow-footed skaters, lazy players, and bad puckhandlers are getting exposed all over the league, and I love it.

Tell you what, it was fun to watch the Bills and Sabres both win the last couple of days while listening to announcers who clearly wanted the other team to win -- Randy Cross because he hates the Bills and the OLN crew because of Crosby. Pens have Crosby, Mario, LeClair, Recchi, Palffy... and no damn D at all. Gonchar is their best blueliner and he's basically a fourth forward. Unless Fleury stands on his head for the rest of the season like he did tonight, that team isn't making the playoffs... and that will kill the folks at OLN.

Whooooo hoooooooooooo! Hecht with the winner with 20 seconds left in OT! Man the OLN announcers are crying in their beers after genuflecting before Mario, Sid, Fleury et. al. all game. A big :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: to those announcers and I'm glad we don't have to listen to them but four times this year. Pens 0-4. Life is good.

We had 6'10" Mike Rockwood for awhile. He couldn't block kicks, and he couldn't play tackle either.

Odelein just picked up a penalty; Sabres have a 5 on 3 now. I'll never forget when Barnaby called Odelein "Cornelius" from Planet of the Apes. That was hilarious.

You know, the annoying thing is that at the Hall they have a display -- or at least they did the last time I was there -- for each NFL team listing the HOFers who played for them. It sticks in my craw that when Thurman gets to the HOF, he's going to be listed on the Miami board as well as on ours.

Props to P-Diddy for coming here and taking his lumps. Of course, if Ramius didn't know where he lives, I'm not sure we'd have heard from him yet.

What time are you picking me up tomorrow morning, Rock? Have a good time!

That's all I needed to know. Thanks!

Amen. Carlin does a routine in one of his recent albums about how you'll be in a crowded place like a bus or something and you've just got to rip one. "So you let out a little test fart... about five to ten percent of the actual fart. And it turns out to be a fart that could strip the paint off a footlocker."

One thing I realize that I've really missed is hearing Jeanneret on NSA while driving around at night in Rochester. If I had to make a Wegmans run or whatever during a game, I knew I wouldn't miss much. Now they're on WGR, which you can't get in Rochester at night. Anyone know if there are any plans to broadcast the Sabres here on the radio? (I know you can get the broadcasts at Sabres.com. Doesn't really help me in the car.)

Jesus Chalkie did some Ducks fan ACTUALLY propose the trade in your sig?

"Parden"? "sieze"?

Amen. Nice to see a professional sports team back in Buffalo finally.

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What does that make Sunday then?

That sounds an awful lot like his old boss, Greggo.

Duke Jupiter. Carroll's. Batting cages with Iron Mikes instead of JUGS machines. Don & Bob's. Roseland Park. J.M. Fields. Electronic store maps at Wegmans. Three dollar general admission seats at Silver Stadium. The stage at the south end of the War Memorial. The Rochester Zeniths at the Dome Arena. Glenn Hagan. The Rock-a-Plane at Seabreeze. Midnight "Rocky Horror" at Panorama Plaza.

To me there's just something about Rita Cosby, again in that MILF-y sort of way that was referenced earlier. I've noticed that whenever she stands next to an interviewee, she stands with her side to the camera, facing the interviewee, and arches her back... to great effect.

Exactly! Especially the part where you say "I was never a Bills fan because they were always a joke" and only AFTER the SB run do you start referring to the Bills as "we."

Burroughs took the penalty in the 1988 AFC title game against Cincy. That's also the game where Bruce got that BS roughing the passer flag on the first series, saving the Bengals' drive. 1981 is where Fergy forgot how to tell time.

The best part about all this is I know you'll be back next Monday to eat your crow. Ramius will make sure of it.

Beautiful game, beautiful memories. Fergy went for 419 yards if I recall right. Here's an article about the game -- from a shocked Florida writer at that! I love this part:

This is exactly what I saw too. I'm pretty sure JP let the ball go before EM rounded off his route, but he should have read the safety and seen the same thing EM did. Now I'm starting to think that Josh Reed was right in the Texans game when JP was reaming him out.

Of course we do. One of them took a penalty that negated Freddie Smith's punt return and, since that wasn't enough, fell down in front of McGee and tripped him up at the end of his big kickoff return. That was the sum total of Mark Campbell's contributions yesterday, folks.