BRH

Vic Power.

Early Wynn.

Cowbell.

Trey Wingo.

Sal "The Barber" Maglie.

Rolf BENirschke

Alberto Salazar.

Claude Raymond.

Graig Nettles.

Billie Jean King.

Pud Galvin.

I won't denigrate the effort, time and expense it takes to become a doctor. And there's no question some people choose the lawyer track because it's the fastest (but IMHO by no means the easiest) way to get a "D" after your name. But unless you've gone to both law and medical school, you're really no position to judge whether it's 10 times more difficult to become a doctor than a lawyer. The fact that YOU know a lot of dumb lawyers and a lot of smart doctors sheds no more light on the relative difficulty of their training process than flipping a coin that comes up heads 20 times in a row does on the probability that the next flip will also come up heads.

But if he were a doctor, he would be?

Were these the ones who were prevented from practicing their love with women across the country?

I see it all the time here.

As opposed to here, where it just gets heated?

I can speak to that just from my own personal experience. I spent my first two years at UB and my last year at Cornell. I don't think I would have enjoyed my last year as much as I did if I had had to spend three years competing with that bunch of folks. (UB didn't count my Cornell grades for purposes of computing graduation honors, so I was able to select classes at Cornell without any regard for what they would do to my average, and therefore I enjoyed it more and got more out of that year.) There was stress and competition at UB, to be sure, but only among the law review types. At Cornell the stress/competition was from top to bottom. I also ended up owing Cornell more money for one year than I would have owed UB for three.

And, I would submit, with other lawyers as well.

Well if there's one thing we lawyers like to do it's yap about ourselves, so get ready for a LAMP-filled thread. I certainly didn't like a lot of things about law school, particularly most of the other students. And the strange thing is that even though people will tell you that you can do a LOT of things with a law degree, the better you do in law school, the fewer options you'll have. That's because if you do well, you'll inevitably get sucked into the track of interviewing for jobs with big law firms, since that's where the money is. I did well in law school (he said, humbly) and spent my first four years after law school working for those large firms; I almost felt it was my duty to do so since I got married right after I took the bar and we started a family right away. But if you like spending time with your wife and kids, as I do, the big-firm track isn't the place to be. So now I work in legal publishing. I make a lot less money but the job is 9-5 and I rarely if ever take work home (either mentally or physically). I don't think I've figured out yet what I want to do when I "grow up," though. Ideally I'd like to be in-house for an educational institution (school law being my area of expertise); failing that, I wouldn't mind doing something entirely non-law-related. I spent three years after college working in government/politics because I wasn't sure if law school was right for me. I have seen many people who went straight to law school out of college and regretted it because it turned out not to be what they expected and (as I said above) it limited, rather than expanded, their career options. (Remember that once you get licensed in a particular state, you're stuck there for at least five years unless you want to take another bar exam, and I would rather set myself on fire than take another bar exam.) If you're going to law school because you can't think of anything better to do, I think you're going to be wasting a lot of money and creating a lot of unnecessary stress for yourself. You can PM me if you want to hear more.

There are some NFL GMs who aren't exactly Mensa candidates.

The only thing I think is too bad is that Travis ruled himself out of Sunday's game even though we're listing him as questionable and the coach isn't saying whether he'll play or not. Thanks for helping the Niners with their game-planning, Travis.

You know, that's the most amazing thing. Someone at OBD should have done a highlight tape on Moorman and sent it around the league. The 80-yard bomb against Jacksonville. The pass for a first down against Lechler's Raiders. The run for a first down against I forget who. The two 60+ bombs he hit into the wind against St. Louis, I think it was. And on and on.

What the man said.

Roethlisberger = joke. If Hall and Randle El go over McGee, I'll be pissed. And does this mean Gardocki got it over Moorman?

Yup. TD must go!