The Dean

Let's get back to the basics here. The original question posed in this thread was. "Didn't Joe Montana win a superbowl by being a "captain checkdown". Let's excuse the lack of a question mark at the end of that obvious question to get to the real answer: No. No he did not. Montana wasn't "Captain Checkdown", nor anything close to it. The intention of the thread seems to be to compare the skills of Montana and Trent Edwards and suggest Trent, under the right circumstances, can lead the Bills to the Super Bowl. Comparing Trent to Joe was pretty freakin' stupid when Trent flashed a bit of skill early in his career. It is downright moronic now. Let's just end this particular chunk of idiocy now. What do you say?

It was the worst, for about 10 minutes.

Why can't the QB of the future be from next year, even if the Bills decide to stick with one of the current QBs for the next couple of years to avoid rebuilding? The worst possible situation, IMO, is to rush a QB into the starting role.

Oy! He was just looking out for #1.

I wonder if she likes Italian Sausage.

I love the studio tracks. Emmylou and the Staples are awesome. As a live album, though, Rock of Ages is superior, IMO. After the huge success of Frampton Comes Alive (I never owned it...honest!) there were accusations that there was some significant overdubbing. Dunno if those accusations were true, but they inspired Dave Mason to call his live album "Certified Live". It was OK, with a few great tunes. A couple of of my more musically astute friends didn't really get Little Feat's "Waiting For Columbus" when it first came out. Now they love it.

Not the Forbidden Toga?

Oops, I answered in the wrong thread. Please ignore this response.

Yup. What a country we would be!

"Coach" Sal Capaccio and Johnny Von? Wow, that's sounds bad enough to maybe check out for a laugh.

I don't think anyone will assert UConn is a first tier college football program. Kutztown, on the other hand, was a 4th or 5th tier college football program.

Was he easily signed?

Business men in the Middle East

When I heard he was in jail I thought for certain I knew the reason: Art Crimes

His nickname is "El Animal"

So now unions are responsible for the decline in quality entertainment? I think you've officially gone 'round the bend, Cincy

While I'm not sure I agree with it, that's an argument I can respect. I would like to see pro-Death Penalty activists working hard to assure Death Penalty sentences are relatively fairly applied to defendants who "deserve to die". I don't think the system is working well in that regard right now.

An asset that becomes worthless, I think, when/if the Jets go to a new stadium.

Both Quinn and Edwards can make most, if not all, of the throws. Edwards' issue really isn't arm strength, it's an unwillingness to let the damn thing go, IMO.

What's all this now?

Just horrible.

No, it really isn't. At least it probably isn't. It is fairly well accepted, based on a number of studies, that the death penalty is the most expensive option. Of course, there are some who dispute the findings of these studies and argue the death penalty is slightly more cost effective, or could be with some reform of the process (fewer appeal options, etc). As I have not been able to do a thorough examination of the studies and data, I can't comment on the findings. But for the record, the studies include the cost of internment and not just the cost of the legal process. But let's say for a moment the studies are wrong and it is a bit less expensive to put a prisoner to death than to inter them for the remainder of their life. Is that really the way to decide which is the right punishment to implement? More troubling, to me at least, are those who want to make the death penalty procedure less expensive by limiting the number of appeals (among other things). Hell, let's just eliminate the trial! That will save a bunch of $$.

We used to play a game we invented called "The Billy Boy Game". It was named after a guy named Bill, obviously. I know it involved a Frisbee, dice, booze and bongs. I really don't remember much of the game, but I do know one outcome was doing a "Bella hit" out of the bong. Bella was the girlfriend of one of the guys and she could only do small bong hits (Bella hits). I recall it was a relatively convoluted game that constantly evolved (or devolved), but I remember little else about it. I also have some vague memories of a short-lived period where we played a variation of Yahtzee that involved cocaine. But that's a story for another time.

Just having some fun, Bill. It's all good.