Dan Gross

It's the British spelling...they spell everything goofy over there...

So, does the prospect of a new CBA lead us to believe that any of these players will be recalled?

Don't everyone kill this idea before you hear it out, but I think we can pull off this trade: we send SOPRANO to bb.com for Chris Brown, straight up trade. I know you think it may not work but I tried it in Madden IPB 2006 and it went off without a hitch!

But have you seen the coaching staff he's put together? What a bunch of jokers! I mean, come on, R. Rich has never been a global mod at the NFL message board level! I'll grant you Simon is good at being offensive, and daninator isn't bad at being defensive, but look at those clowns in the assistant coordinator roles! I can describe this coaching staff in two words: Pa Thetic.

I like the dig about contracts being "your word" and only being honored on "one side" in the NFL (meaning, obviously, management). last I checked, if a player decides his contract is not good enough, he has the opportunity to "sit out" to "demand" a renegotiation/trade/whatever. Doesn't happen often...maybe it has something to do with the fact that the players are well-compensated to begin with...

He claims he has a "Candy-Gram" but he's speaking in a Turk[/i]ish accent...

Before anyone says anything, I know the Undertaker is a free agent, and some have some weird sort of nostalgic memories of him that forget how much of a locker room cancer he was when he was here, and I'm sure many here will be clamoring to bring him back to take TSW back to the "glory days." Don't do it, Sarama.

Read BGiM again. The other way you can look at the extension is that they arrogantly thought that it would get done so they refused to deal with "Plan B" (the $94.5 million cap) until it was too late to try to get things done before tomorrow...

Imagine the player who gets the phone call: "Remember when we said we cut you? Just kidding..."

Live and learn? I think the players released yesterday would likely have been released regardless of the deadline. I think there is a "second tier" of cuts that will happen based on when this is "finalized" (buzzer-beaters, as it were).

THE START OF FREE AGENCY HAS BEEN DELAYED UNTIL MONDAY. Are you deaf of something? FOxSports mentions it in that article. I'm sure even with an extension some of these teams would have to purge to get down to whatever the "new" figure would be...

article's from yesterday, based on talks Monday...

I certainly can't imagine trying to conceal one... Oh, what's that....? Nevermind. He may not be the FAT-man any more, but I'd go with Nick's advice on this. Also go with the advice to document every conversation, including what was (and wasn't) said. Makes it easier when you take it up the food chain.

J-Mac will be on Jim Rome today at 1:00 ET.

Per that "Classic Squares" website (in the faq): Q. That list of zingers that gets emailed all over the place claims they were ad-libbed and unscripted. Is that true? A. No, ad-libs were the exception, not the rule. Most of the "zingers" were written by Bill Armstrong, Jay Redack, Les Anderson and Merrill Heatter (they also wrote a lot of the straight questions). There were a few ad-libs here and there by Abby Dalton and Wally Cox especially, and somewhere on this site there's at least one from Charley Weaver and even an apparent one from Big Bird. I believe Joey Bishop's line about the librarian contestant having to return all of her Secret Square prizes inside of two weeks was an ad-lib. Jonathan Winters liked to improvise, which is why his funny answers seem to meander a bit. There were likely a few ad-libs in the now-classic "Beaverface" nighttime show, including the "topper" line by George Gobel (known for being the best ad-libber on the show). But most of those funny answers were written in advance, including, very likely, all of the ones on the famous email list. Q. Really? They were written in advance? Even Paul Lynde's? A. Especially Paul Lynde's. Q. So how did the stars get these if they weren't supposed to see the questions in advance? A. They were pitched backstage as "something funny you might say," like a comedian being given punch lines without the rest of the joke, then getting on stage and hearing the straight man deliver the setups.

They were credentialing press at the first playoff game. The coach was saved from a tough decision by the rules. J-Mac is ineligible to play in the playoffs because you have to play a minimum of 6 games during the season. A guy I work with has a son on the team, so he was taking pictures at the game (one of his is in the Rochester paper). He got a call from People today asking about his pictures...

What, that he wasn't able to use his considerable leverage to get the community to build one for him? Why is an inability to lobby on his part a problem for everyone else to deal with?

We set it to TIVO tonight just to see what the fuss was about...of course going to the site I see it's just a "single person gambling game..." Looks like a yawner so maybe we'll try your method.

Now you've done it!

You sound jealous that he ended up with the extra finger...

Plenty more here, scroll down and you'll find pages of Lynde responses...

The same people who can make 419 scammers millionaires in just months...

Yeah, I still remember how that guy from East Virginia voted against you in the last contest...

Let's put this another way: how is it that the Steelers had more turnovers than the Seahawks yet they still won the Super Bowl...?

Good thing they put the big "OL" on the jerseys or they might be mistaken for wide receivers.