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Every time I see something about Sid Vicious, I think how'd the Sex Pistols guy break his leg..

It wasn't my first thought, but then I was like how did it break from that? I remember Sam Bouie's breaking in somewhat the same fashion, though not quite as gruesome. And, he definitely had brittle bones, because he broke them many times. And, Sam was way taller so his thin legs had much more weight on them.

I'm not kidding myself. I know how it works. Or, like you said, how it's supposed to work.

I really wish that there were no tax breaks and incentives given by the government to any teams, or really to any businesses. If there was some federal law that somehow stopped any of that, I'd be fine with that...........But, if this is how the game is played, then I'm much happier them spending my money on the Bills, instead of the usual govt. waste.

Haha - it hasn't happened as much as I'd like in my life, so I have to take my victories when I can!

At Bona, there was no football team, so the futbol players thought they were the kings of the campus........I thought it was just a Bona thing, and then I read one of Bill Simmons' mailbags where a guy brought up that no matter how much Bill is pushing soccer, he can't get into it because of the douchebag soccer players in college. Simmons said he thinks that's it took until he was 40 to start liking the game - because his memory has now faded of what dbags they were. (I think some major nudging from espn also persuaded him). So, I'm waiting in line with my nephew at PNC Park for a Pirates-Sox game a few years ago - waiting for the park to open. And, I get talking to the guy next to me. Turns out he played soccer for Oklahoma. He had been an all star athlete in several sports, but stuck with soccer because it was his best, despite the fact that "it's played by a bunch of aholes." I couldn't believe he said it with no prompting. Well, anyway, the sweetest thing was my senior year, I lived in a house about 5 houses from a bunch of soccer players, all of whom were after the girl who became my girlfriend......She had dated a few of them, but never put out. And, then she would say they must be going nuts seeing me sleep over here every night. This was after one of them told me point blank that she would never go out with me. She wants one of them!

So, Gringo Starr was starter of this thread. And, he used a term that you guys don't even know - now that really is pretentious! You guys are obviously good guys, and I don't think played soccer in college. Because probably my biggest problem with the sport is that it's a known fact that the biggest douchebags on every campus across the country were the players on the soccer team.

Man, tough crowd.

It's some term to let people know that are a pretentious soccer fan. Other examples are pitch, nil-nil (the score of the vast majority of ties or matches - not games), friendlies, having many of your best players named Ronaldo with no last name, etc.

I know he has bow hunted with his dad in the past, because they got a deer maybe five years ago, when he was 12 or so. I'll find out if he still does it. Thanks. Somebody said that the Final Four is impossible because of hotel rooms. Would all the hotel rooms in Niagara Falls - both sides - help in this regard? I do know that Buffalo supports the NCAA subregionals the best of any city. If you saw some of the games this weekend, there were a lot of empty seats.

I wish I could get into it, because I'm sure it's a great stress reliever. The odd thing with my nephew is that his great-grandfather, grandfather and father all loved to hunt. But, the fishing gene skipped a generation every time. His father hates it, so his grandfather taught him, because he loved, even though his father didn't!

0-0 draw. I'm shocked. Shocked! From Bill Simmons, who has been pushing soccer at the behest of espn for years now: Bill Simmons ‏@BillSimmons 3h Remember that time the U.S. almost got off a shot?

Well, my 17 year old nephew lives within a mile of there, and I saw him tweet tonight (he has no school tomorrow) "Who wants to go fishing in the morning?"..........I don't get it, but he loves it. A friend of mine also used to live right in that area. He loves living in Atlanta now, but I'm pretty sure the ONLY thing he misses besides us friends and family is Lake Erie fishing. When he comes home, he's obsessed with it.

The one that empties into Erie in the town of Evans. Steelhead sounds right!

Oddly, I never even knew about the Niagara County one. I googled the Erie County one and it doesn't say anything about dioxins. I know nothing about fishing, but I have a number of friends and my nephew who love it, and the mouth of 18 mile is supposed to be some of the best X fishing in the world. Don't ask me what fish the X is, though, because I forget! But my googling came up an interesting fact. I always thought that the creek was 18 miles long, but both of them are named for how far they are from the Niagara River, going into Lakes Erie and Ontario, respectively.

Good point. He really did seem like Welker in the short time we got to see him. However, it could be that we were high octane enough on offense, esp. 90-91, and the balance of having GREAT special teams was worth it.........Now if he could have turned into Ted Washington and taken Jeff Wright's place as a run stuffer, I think that would have been the move to put us over the top.

You sure you're not thinking of the one in Niagara County?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteen_Mile_Creek_%28Niagara_County%29

What's that about? I thought 18 Mile Creek had some of the best fishing in the world?

Is there even a chance at a Fabio sighting? This is a great post!!

That is the reasoning that I heard, too. Marv did put so much emphasis on ST that I believe it. I met Tasker a year after he retired and just simply could not believe that a guy this small could take on these monsters on that field.

I'd probably be better equipped to answer that if I knew who the !@#$ Daniel Burnham is

I've got to make sure my DVR knows about this, esp. the two hour premiere.

The highlights are amazing and the skill level is amazing. The bicycle kicks, the bending like Beckham kicks, etc....................However, where baseball highlights are amazing are not the home runs, but the fielding. Those can be equally amazing as soccer's. You bring up another tweek I would make to make this a game that makes more sense. Make it sudden death overtime forgodsake!! Goals are so few and far between, if somebody scores one in OT, the game should be over. 99% of the time if the other team scores, you are going to another OT, and probably penalty kicks. WAY fairer to decide it on sudden death, than penalty kicks. If ESPN has their way and really does force soccer down on our throats like they are trying to, you will get all the same stupid questions about it, that both you and I hate about American sports - faux arguments about the stupidest things. I was born in '62, and when I was ten years old or so, everybody said soccer is the game of the future. Pele on the Cosmos, etc. It still hasn't happened in 40 years and I think alot of it are the changes that I would makes to the game that I've outlined.

I recently read something about waterfront access downstate, I believe on Long Island. It turns our Robert Moses didn't just screw us. He screwed his own people down there, too.

Holy crap - so they were playing in three leagues at once?!? Plus, they probably had guys do national team stuff at the same time....................The whole thing runs counter to the way my brain works - one team - one goal. Stop the clock after a goal instead of letting it run while one guy runs half a mile with the rest of the chasing him, takes off his shirt and then gets mobbed (and the clock keeps going) injury time that is ALWAYS 3 minutes. Every game I've ever watched...........But, nobody knows when it really ends except for the ref with his secret clock. It drove me crazy going to my niece's games that part of the strategy is letting balls go into the parking lot or whatever and be in no hurry to get it if you are in the lead. The goal is 50 yards wide and yet balls go it in about once or twice a game. But, then it gets settled on the flukiest of tiebreakers. Goalies guessing which way to jump. I could take that game, make about ten changes to it, and it would be a sport that Americans could be in synch with. It has potential!