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A superstar? Sure. Until he gets Drew Brees killed and then he'll be run out of New Orleans faster than the British.

This thread really needs a poll because there are some great names on here already. My votes for consideration: Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake (Came up with Hogan, Dream Teamer with Valentine, the spectacle of cutting people's hair with garden shears) Demolition (Hold the record for the longest title reign for a tag team)

I always wondered when it comes to making a great decision on a draft pick, who gets more credit for the ability to see the talent and accurately project it at the NFL level - Whaley or the scouts?

As a Pirates fan, it was huge to throw the playoff drought monkey into the river. Set the stage for future success. Playoffs all the way.

McCoy and Jackson will be the 2nd 1,100 yard (a piece) rushing duo.

The entire coaching staff. From Ryan to Roman to all the Jets coaches - can they all bounce back from a crap filled 2014 to mold the Bills into a winner?

+1. I think it was a bad idea for both Cleveland and Blatt to assume 1) the jump to the NBA would be workable and 2) double down on trying to coach a LeBron James who's on a mission to prove that moving on from Miami wasn't a mistake, along with "personalities" like J.R. Smith and Shumpert. I think a big shortcoming of his IMO was the inability to work Kevin Love into *any* offense whatsoever. Kept banging away at trying to make him a Stretch 4 which he never was. I see Van Gundy or Jackson there next year regardless of the Finals outcome. I don't think Thibodeau or a D'Antoni would be a good fit.

$100 per month. $27 of that is for the HTC M8 rental, $11 for insurance and $62 for an unlimited talk/text/data plan through Sprint.

The stars are aligned for the Warriors this year. Dodged the Spurs, came up against a tired Clips team and exposed the sloppy "What's defense?" Rockets. Very surprised they've made it this far. I think Cleveland's chances depend on what version of J.R. Smith shows up.

I've bought both. Years ago went with an electric (1,800 PSI) for a lot of the same reasons you guys have stated. Then purchased a gas-powered one. (3,100 PSI) The big difference is what's creating the pressure. Motor vs. engine. Motors on these inexpensive pieces of equipment are mostly plastic. Use it rigorously and it just wears out and as time goes on the pressure will begin to fluctuate. Engines, properly maintained (non-ethanol gas (no crappy additives) and the aforementioned pump starter) will last much longer and provide consistent pressure year in and year out. It's like anything - what you're comfortable with in that up front investment. I will tell you this - the world's strongest pressure washer remains no match for the artillery fungus. Not even sure a laser would get that stuff off a piece of siding.

I'd suggest The Shield if you already haven't watched it.

This reminds me of the heyday of daytime talk shows where you could run Phil Donahue, Jerry Springer, Sally Jesse Raphael, Geraldo, Jenny Jones, Ricki Lake, Maury Povich and Montel Williams for literally eight hours a day. If you count Carnie Wilson and her show, you're now working overtime.

Letterman was a comedian for the boomers when in their prime pre-Internet. Now that most don't even stay up past 11pm and the Internet over-saturates us with celebrity news, there's just no market for it anymore other than nostalgia.

This never happened on Sons of Anarchy. Perhaps Charming was not fond of chain restaurants and there were few places to eat and then brawl.

Spikes is a linebacker built for a different NFL era, stopping Christian Okoye/Jerome Bettis types from running all over the field. If this were the late 80s/early 90s, Spikes would be a full time starter with 100+ tackles every year. But it's not like that today. Ironically, he's the type of linebacker suited for stopping the the 2015-2016 Bills offense. If we don't bring him back, I see a team we play this season signing him. If our run forever offense does well, teams are going to need Spikes-like linebackers to stop it.

You'd think a $14 million/2 year deal would be awesome, but I'm sure that after doing the job for 27 years, you probably think you're due for a raise. He's not getting a raise for the last two years of the contract. In 2008, the actors were making $400K an episode. In 2011, Fox wanted to pay $250,000. Actors agreed to $300,000. And that's where it's been. No raises since 2011. Actors don't get any royalties on the back end. Never did. I know Mr. Burns said it's not about money but about the opportunity to pursue other work. Well it's often about the money.

A sign of the end of the show. Production wants to go cheap on talent in the waning days of the show. I see this more like when the producers of Dukes of Hazzard tried replacing Tom Wopat and John Schneider with their generic cousins during a royalties dispute. I'm sure they will find a new voice for all his characters but audiences will know the difference. Talent has a price tag. Good talent is X price. Lesser talent is Y price.

Reminds me of the scene from the 1993 movie "The Professional" where Gary Oldman tells his guy to bring "everyone".... You wonder if the modern NFL defense, designed to defend the pass, could stop the Rolling Thunder formation. (7OL/2FB/1RB)

I collect: Handguns and knives from each country I've visited or have otherwise spent time in. Odd rocks I've found abroad. Patches. Probably 5-6,000 at this point. Most interesting ones are retail and commercial establishments no longer around. I've started giving complete sets (like Apollo space program) to family members as gifts. I inherited it from my dad when I was a kid, and I've built on top of his sets over the years.

A year long suspension for both coach and player. I don't see this any less of an offense than what happened in New Orleans.

Tip of the hat to the Clips. To be the man, you've got to beat the man. And they did. That game (Game 7) was one of the greatest NBA games I've ever watched. It was a prize fight to the very end. Came down to who threw the very last punch.

Two Marmalades and a Tuxedo.

That's a macroeconomic and demographic question and answer. The baby boom fueled a lot of the retail spending. Lots of boomers, lots of money, especially in the high times of the early 1970s and 1990s. A lot of it was financed through debt like mortgages, loans, credit cards, etc. Now that boomers are retiring, they aren't (shouldn't be) buying the houses, cars, boats, televisions, vacations, etc. at the clip they used to during their prime earning years. Instead of spend it on retail goodies, it's going towards healthcare. Healthcare is a determined, consistent, hungry little monster of consumption spending and overall portion of GDP. And it only goes up in the future. Another factor to consider - jobs "back in the day" were "better" than they are now. Current generations, already smaller than boomers in number, are faced with stagnant or declining wages....on top of unprecedented amounts of credit card and college debt. Makes it very hard to buy a house and first time homebuyers are incredible generators of retail spending. In short, people aren't spending because they are forced to. They either have to save for other things or simply tapped out due to debt load.

Way too much emphasis on retirement investments and not nearly enough emphasis on lifelong debt management. I get a kick out of baby boomer couples who "want" to retire but still have the mortgages (sometimes multiple, sometimes upside down), HELOCs, multiple car loans, credit card debt and kiddo college debt. There is no way they can retire and be financially secure. They do it anyway and find out they need to go back to work at an X rate because they are hemorrhaging cash or they run into some very expensive healthcare. They think they can maintain the very same lifestyle with their income restrained (retirement is like a parent with a strict allowance for 30 years) when they were making good money. Too many people say "well my parents retired when they were 62!" Well your parents probably had their house and cars paid off and the credit card spent most of its time in a drawer. And they didn't have the life expectancy and the expensive non-employer subsidized healthcare you're going to have to navigate. They may have retired during much better economic times than the present. My advice is consider debt first, retirement second because if you have a lot of the first thing, there is no way you're going to do the second thing.

No alcohol sales inside the stadium once the game starts. Contract the league by two franchises and discard the idea of a team in London, Mexico City, etc.