EasternOHBillsFan

No, it is not misplaced, because the players in the past signed deals to play football and they knew the risks involved.... the NFL didn't HAVE to help, but they chose to after a successful lobby and ponied up the money. The players act as if they were oblivious to the risks, but when you are young you tend to think of yourself as invincible. They signed the dotted line and accepted the deals, no questions asked, and played. After that, suddenly $80 million is 'peanuts'? Give me a break! The owners have to engage in revenue sharing to keep the league balanced and thriving, and teams don't fake it like the Pirates or Marlins in MLB. The greed is on the shoulders of the players, who want more and more while the percentage of players that are guilty of misconduct rises and rises. Unions have been increasingly irrelevant, and only have power through the courts. This was NEVER about taking care of veterans' health issues... it is about pure greed, because even if the NFL offered $800 million to health care, they STILL would decertify! Demaurice Smith is an absolute joke... just like Donald Fehr before him with the MLBPA.

I am 100% behind the owners in this one- they have lived up to their end by trying to guarantee veterans who have been injured are taken care of, and yet all of this comes down to money according to the union. The union went through this charade just to force the NFL into opening their books, as if they are investors or from the SEC. I am sick to death of players wanting millions of dollars a year in contracts, only to bilk owners out of their money later by engaging in off the field conduct and forcing them to recoup the money they paid out. More and more players are doing this, and even the ones who don't get into trouble are getting more and more lucrative contracts. To summarize, screw the trade union of the NFLPA under Demaurice Smith and their greed. The current system keeps ALL NFL franchises above water and enables the players to make all the money they do. When the NFL reached out and supported the veterans with regards to health care, that to me was the final move the owners had to make. Now, Mr. Smith, you and your lawyers have ruined a perfectly good situation.

While millions of Americans die due to the effects of cancer and other wretched diseases, some of the most intelligent minds in America are writing algorithms for computers intended to replace human beings, passing tests on Jeopardy. I am most certainly NOT amused... no wonder we've lost our edge to other developed countries.

The Bills are using Motorola? huh? I say we first learn how to use Webster's before trying to find a new MOTTO.

Jefferson and Coates... the game in which Ralph went ballistic and I went ballistic. To this day, that is the worst NFL hack job I have ever seen, and it is only is surpassed by Hull's NO GOAL and the backward-that-was-forward pass by Wycheck. Does anyone else recall also that in that season, they gave the Jests a touchdown because the official admitted he thought their helmet was a football? #!@#@!#!@ I hate Walt Coleman for not owning up to his mistake, A BIG PART of being a leader, you #!@#!#.

I'm a historian who has been tortured by literary academia for years and years- upon discovering Chicago, I have never looked back and scoff at English professors

MLA and APA SUCK! Turabian/Chicago is THE best format to cite sources- who wants to read a great paper, only to have the flow of the composition ruined by authors and page numbers in parentheses? With Turabian, you get nice reference numbers in superscript that lead you directly to the source without cluttering the paper with a neverending set of (Author, 111)s!!!! My .02!

Another, fine: Rex Grossman (29 score, 30 starts, 61% completion) This is too easy.

Matt Leinart PASSES all three of these tests, and yet he is an NFL bust, right? (35 score, 38 starts, 64.5% completion) Sorry, but I don't buy it.

What is up with these stupid animated puppet-like people? That's one with Eminem and another with some guy and a phone... blecch.

Doritos #2 with the cheese fingers/chip crumbs on pants was disgusting and not hilarious. Chevy is by far the worst advertiser so far. BMW commercial was boring. Motorola with the 1984 creepy office- you're NOT Apple!!! All of the other commercials have been pretty good or better- maybe because they are so damn expensive?

What sucks is leaking @!%#ing announcements before they are made... absolute crap,

HE MADE IT TO THE TEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY WR left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No TIM BROWN NO CRIS CARTER This looks like the year! OMG I will be there in August... like I was for Thurman in 2007. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's in this year- no doubt about it. Enjoy the announcement... we'll be celebrating here!! (Don't forget- ESPN has a vested interest in seeing Cris Carter get in, so don't let them try and downplay Andre)

Harry Carson, who should have NEVER been selected over Thurman Thomas, if at all!!! If he can get in, then they had better put Cornelius Bennett in. It was by far the worst HOF selection I have seen.

Teams like the Patriots, Steelers, and Colts T.C.O.B. and they act like machines rather than members of a zoo. That is what separates them as champions from teams like the Jets and Ravens who want to turn the week into a circus sideshow. If the Colts weren't so banged up this year, then the Jets would have NEVER gotten past them in the first place.

Hell NO... what good is a coach that talks all of this @!# but can't even get to the Super Bowl? See Schottenheimer, Marty. Chan Gailey has the same number of rings as a HC... ZERO. I like Gailey, and I wouldn't trade him in for that blowhard. You earn victories not by bluster, but by EXECUTION!

DITTO!!!

The Jests were so hyped up for that game that they expended all of their energy. This is a great thing for the Stillers, and to save us from endless Jests bulls***, the Stillers have to win next weekend, and they will.

Albert Haynesworth, Donovan McNabb, Larry Johnson, Philip Buchanon, Willie Parker... How 'bout them Redskins? Umm, yeah, you were saying about free agents/spending cash?? LOL

+1. That's what we all think here, obviously.

I'm glad someone else is paying attention, and it is not just one or two games with Mallett, but a body of work that shows his tendency to lose big games. I am NOT blaming him for the dropped passes, but when his team did make all of the plays such as in the Alabama game, he threw the worst pass you could throw in a "win the game" situation after blowing a big lead. This is his MO, like it or not, and I'm glad you were paying attention!

Did anyone else see this? Bruce Campbell: Davis unhappy about Campbell, McFadden This is very insightful.

If you watched Mallett play against Alabama, then you know what to expect at the end of an important game- he is incapable of closing the deal. Last night, he did the same exact thing... when his team needed him to make the throws required to win the game, he inexplicably falls flat on his face. Forget all the talk of mobility and reading defenses- if you cannot win the big game and fail consistently, then you won't make it in the NFL where most teams are built from the same schools like Alabama, Auburn, Ohio State, etc. I have been wrong sometimes in the past regarding some draftees, but he is anti-clutch.

F as in FAIL. I as in INGRATE. R as in RECTUM. S as in SORRY. T as in TERRIBLE. N as in NASTY. G as in GHASTLY. O as in OINK. A as in A!@. L as in LOBOTOMY. 'nuff said... E-B-E-N-E-Z-E-R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!