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I know I'm overposting, but how about the WORST places you've ever seen a game? This is my list: BASEBALL: The MetroDome, Minnesota. Clearly designed for football, and there's the big baggie in rightfield and the plexiglass fence in leftfield. Plus the fake grass. And the roof, which in my view makes it edge out the old Exhibition Stadium in Toronto as the worst baseball park I've ever been to. FOOTBALL: The Meadowlands. For a Jets game. There is exactly one exit for the parking lots and it takes four friggin hours before your car starts to move, let alone gets on I-95. Close second: Texas Stadium. The hole in the roof is stupid and the "jumbotrons" are actually two little TVs kitty-corner from each other in the upper deck. I can't really speak to basketball or hockey except to say that every arena built post-1990 is like every other arena. I have been to HSBC, the Bell Centre in Montreal, Gund Arena in Cleveland, the Ice Palace in Tampa, whatever the place is called in Phoenix now, and probably a couple of others that slip my mind, and I swear unless you looked at the scoreboard you wouldn't know what city you were in.

Oh but the best place to see a game, bar none? The Palestra in Philadelphia. There is nothing like a Princeton-Penn or a Big Five game there. Lynah Rink in Ithaca is another great, great collegiate venue.

Jeesh Texas Stadium? I've been there and that place is a DUMP. I have been to games at Yankee Stadium (after the renovation, though), Wrigley Field (before they put lights up), Tiger Stadium (sat in the rightfield overhang), Madison Square Garden (for hockey), and Boston Garden (also hockey). All were semi-religious experiences. Fenway is the one remaining place on my must-see list. Whenever I'm in Boston, it's either the offseason or the Sox are out of town.

Besides that, I thought we already got rid of the guy who was the reason Buffalo missed the playoffs. Looks like we got our new whipping boy already and it's not even April.

Didja see this part of the article?

If I was a player and my agent had a crappy site like that made for me, I'd fire my agent. One can only assume that Travis has never seen the website...

Best post I've read in this thread.

My dad grew up in Sioux City, IA, and to him South Dakota (and Nebraska, both right across the river) was where he and his buddies went to drink. (Iowa had a 21 drinking age even back then but SD and NE were both at 18.) Actually, I've been to all these places as well. Custer State Park is breathtaking and a fun drive as well. Can't believe no one -- not even sodak -- has mentioned the Corn Palace in Mitchell! Or the Sturgis motorcyle rally.

Hey, then we're neighbors. I'm on the other side of Fisher from you and I cut through Alpine Drive to get to camp. Does Thong Girl live anywhere near us?

Isn't that the truth.

Is dis a full-size Ditka, or a mini-Ditka?

Why does this all remind me of a "Da Bears" skit?

Obviously Bunning didn't have the big cue cards in front of him like he did during last year's campaign debate.

When are they going to stop stroking Senator Bunning's um ego?

Ah. Video

Is there a video link?

That's it, we're doooomed!

Are there any websites other than "internet websites"? Incidentally, I did that too for a while. It was fun, but it didn't pay nearly enough (nor give me enough exposure) for me to quit my day job. Also worked in SID in college. If someone came along and offered me a decent living to do it full time? I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Pick up a copy of his book (aptly titled Flutie) and give it a read. The thing only sold in Boston and Canada for several years, and then at the end of the 1998 season it was "updated!" to include a chapter on his just-concluded Bills season. I read it that off-season and was struck by how many times Flutie said "I won" and "we lost" and "I threw a touchdown" and "we fumbled" and so on. I mean, there are scores of examples of that kind of credit-taking and buck-passing throughout the book. So I decided to pay closer attention to his press clippings in 1999 and damned if they didn't follow the same pattern, right down to the time that HE fumbled at a crucial point in one game and afterward said "WE fumbled the ball." Rob Johnson was no damn prize either, but Flutie was one of the most egotistical and selfish players I have ever seen come through Buffalo.

Bob Corkum. Our greatest trade deadline pickup ever. Me? I'd go with Chris Drury.

They'll be blueliners forever. Just like lefthanders will always be southpaws even though ballparks don't face due east anymore.

They also have to contend with the 86-year-old guy in front of them wearing a hat and driving an Oldsmobile at 30 mph on the highway. Give them a break.

I'm sure this will attract as many new fans as the Glowing Puck did.

They'll probably get Harvard's Ryan Fitzpatrick, then.

They already have Sage Rosen Fels.