BRH

I have been to away games at the Meadowlands, FedEx Field (or whatever they call the 'Skins' place now), and Texas Stadium. Also an away preseason game at Arrowhead when I happened to be in KC at the same time. I was spit on at the Meadowlands. In fairness, I invited it. That was the game in '91 when Thurman scored on the last play of the game to win it. I stood up, turned around, and raised my fists in the air, proudly displaying my Bills shirt. I sat down and my buddy (a Jets fan) was sitting there with his head in his hands mumbling "I can't believe you turned around." That's when the saliva arrived, and my poor buddy got some of it too. The Redsucks game was the one where Flutie had a great game and we stomped them 34-17 or something. There were Bills fans everywhere. Bills fans in front of us. Bills fans behind us. Bills fans on either side. We high-fived throughout the game and by the fourth quarter, only Bills fans were left. It felt like a home game. The Cowboys game was that horrible debacle a couple of years ago. All I have to say is that Texas Stadium is a dump. Arrowhead, in '95, was actually filled to capacity in a PRE-SEASON game (maybe that's the same one LewPort went to). 75,000 people wearing red. As my wife and I walked through the parking lot, a heavyset middle-aged woman in Chiefs garb saw my Bills shirt and flipped me the bird. I wanted to lie on the ground holding my head and say "Hey, who am I? I'm Joe Montana. Get it?"

Is that your wife's car in the driveway?

True. Comerica Park isn't up in Detroit yet, for example, but that means Tiger Stadium still is. Go take a look there.

Hopefully it stays free. I'm having fun finding stadiums and airports around the country freehand (without looking them up). If you go to Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta and head for the international terminal you can see a big 747 taxiing and almost make out the name on the fuselage. Amazing.

Nope, it hasn't bumped me off yet. It's an old (pre-new turf) pic of the Ralph. Pretty cool though. If you go up to the Falls you can see the Maid of the Mist right in front of the Horseshoe Falls. I can see the basketball net in my backyard. Pretty cool... but also kind of creepy. I can also see Jay and Rockpile walking into Nick's!

good lord. my day is shot.

Be safe, Nick and the rest of the British TBD contingent. We'll say a prayer for you and yours.

That's probably true about the broken noses, but I still stand by my contention that you're more likely to have your career ended by an implement of baseball than by one of soccer.

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You mean like the Frontier "roof" is being built in phases?

I don't have any problem with people singing along to it as long as they get the frickin' words right. I have no problem with Hendrix either or most other renditions (altho I hated Whitney Houston's thirty-minute rendition before SB XXVIII). I tell you what I DO have a problem with though. People who don't take their hats off for the anthem, and people who carry on a conversation throughout it, and people who start yelling and screaming and carrying on when the singer gets to the next-to-last line instead of waiting until it's over. Like one of the Hanson brothers famously said: "I'M LISTENIN' TO THE !@#$IN' SONG!!!" Is it too much to expect people to show some frickin' respect for their country for four minutes out of the day?

What high school are they building that for? That was supposed to be a 20,000-seat arena. Then again, Frontier Field was supposed to have a fuggin roof...

And that's only because he thinks #9 is providing him with adequate coverage.

Agreed. And what would you rather get hit with, a fat inflated soccer ball on a free kick or a hard-as-a-rock baseball hit by a guy in an obvious bunting situation who decides to swing away when you're twenty feet from home plate? Maybe I'm wrong but I've yet to hear about how someone's soccer career was ended because he got hit by a ball. Herb Score and Tony Conigliaro would have had longer careers as soccer players, I submit.

Unfortunately FKNAWSM is already taken in NYS. I always figured on using that one. Sound it out.

Can you imagine what "E=mc2" would look like if FFS set it forth?

Excuse me. I'm looking for the kinder, gentler TBD. Can anyone direct me to it?

I got 'em all right because I answered "who cares" to every question.

Tip a couple bucks more next time and see how much faster you get your pizza the time after that.

As someone who used to deliver (for one place that charged a delivery fee outside a certain radius and another that didn't charge no matter how far the drive was) I can tell you that I didn't see the delivery fees. Those went to the restaurant on the theory that if I was delivering a pizza out in butt!@#$, I wasn't delivering as many pizzas as I could if the stops were close by, and therefore the place was losing money (and trying to recoup some of it with the delivery charge). Maybe other places do it differently and give the fees to the drivers. [The place that neither charged a fee nor limited its delivery radius, those guys were bastards. It was basically a front for some wiseguy Carlo Rossi-type wannabes, who shall remain nameless but one of them owns Penfield Hots now. His wife is the sister of Georgia Durante, who was a runner for Sammy "What Happened To My Legs? They Were Here Just A Second Ago" Gingello and his gang back in the old days... just some trivia for those of you from Rochester.] Another observation: the richer the customer, the smaller the tip. Almost without fail, I'd get stiffed on deliveries to Pittsford and get a five-dollar tip from somebody in the Country Club Circle in East Rochester or the Pines of Perinton. As a result, these days when I order pizza I always tip well. And I don't subtract the delivery charge.

Young MC

Al B. Sure!

Or at least on the inside of his right temporal lobe.

Or eat at whatever restaurant that was where Bruce took his fiancee out to dinner. I mean, if they were going to say it was in Buffalo, the least they could have done was mention street names that actually EXISTED in Buffalo. Wasn't there one address that was like "55th Street" or something?