SinceThe70s

Great one. Years ago I had super boring video of my sons soccer game. This was back when the kids were like a giant swarm of bees chasing the soccer ball all over the field. I sped up the video and used this as the background audio and it was hysterical.

I've noticed that about Grand Cherokees too, thought t was just me. I had one yesterday morning that came flying up with his lights flashing at me on a two-lane double yellow road when there was someone ahead of me and literally nowhere to go.

Cespedes said the shoulder was from throwing. Said he doesn't throw in the off-season. As someone who played softball for 30 years I know exactly what he means and it's should be no big deal.

I'd have a hard time knocking Barney Miller off the top of the mountain, maybe Looney Toons. Besides the ones already mentioned, here's a few more: Happy Days Laverne And Shirley What's Happening The Monkeys Get Smart Not sure if its a theme song but the Twilight Zone opening was iconic Munsters

Yup, knew the first, not the second. I see Isaac and I'm thinking Ted Lange on Love Boat first and probably Isaac Hayes second.

It does for me. Clarification: the original with the Howard Cosell voice-over.

..and here's where I got confused. You guys are talking about Robert Guillaume in Sports Night, no? Never saw it, had to google. I thought it was still a Soap reference, which he was in. When I saw Isaac I was thinking Love Boat...which he also appeared in.

Soap was great...but what's with the asterisks? You getting that mixed up with M*A*S*H?

Within a 20 yard perimeter of me.

Eddie Robinson. I was sitting upper deck end zone and had the best/worst view possible for that.

Not sure why the Big Fig Newton won't embed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI3IL46yq4

In the early 80's there were a ton of hard rock and metal bands I listened to. Some of them hit the big time, most of them not so much. This one not so much:

Stay positive.

I love Satriani but saw him a year or two ago and it was good but not great. Was wondering what G3 was like. How was Petrucci? I work with a guy whose daughter went to high school with his son a few years ago. He'd go to the high school concerts and said Petrucci's son would tear it up.

I thought it needed more defense. Unless I'm mistaken there was one punt and one sack. I'm looking for balance. Watching two teams march up and down the field at will doesn't do it for me. And I don't agree with those that bring up Jags/Bills or the Browns/Bills games as defensive battles. More like incompetence to me. I thought the 17-14 Giants/Pats SB was riveting. But I'm also fine with shoot-outs. Just stop tilting the rules towards offense. If I wanted that I'd see if Arena football was still around.

No doubt. And as Doc Brown mentioned above Bortles would be on the street with a bunch of better QBs ahead of him.

I hear ya and don't get me wrong, I'm not starting the Cult of Bortles (or is it Cult of Blake?), I'm not convinced on Bortles either. No way would I want the Bills to bring him in and I'm not sure what team would want to start over with him. But the under current for me is whether you would want to break the bank on a guy like Cousins and impact your ability to retain more of the core talent or stick with BB. Bottom line for me is that unless you have that no-doubt QB the direction you take is a crap-shoot. Bortles showed enough to me in the post-season not to kill the Jags decision.

Like him or not he was one step away from the SB. And yeah I get that the defense was the dominant force. But he lit up the Steelers on the road and had a pretty good game against the Pats. He was well above mediocre in his two biggest games ever (albeit well below mediocre passing against the Bills). Signing him to a contract that allows the Jags to retain the core talent around him probably makes more sense than breaking the bank for Cousins or starting over. I'll be interested to see their backup plan.

On my way home from work yesterday I was listening to Bart Scott on local radio talking about how when a QB hits the jackpot it affects the teams ability to spread the money around. He was talking specifically about Eli and the Giants and making the point that after Eli got paid the offensive line disintegrated. Got me to thinking that the Packers and Saints may have suffered from that a bit as well. His point wasn't that you don't pay your elite QB, but that you expect your elite QB to be able to overcome deficiencies in the team created by the huge contract. WRT to Bortles, I thought after his putrid passing in the Bills game he was a dead man walking. Kind of strange that his worst playoff game was at home against the Bills as opposed to how he played on the road against the Steelers and Pats.

Is it possible to turn a movie thread into yet another Tyrod thread? I saw Blank Panther today. On the way out my 11 year old told me that half-way through he realized that the Black Panther looks like TT and he couldn't get it out f his head.

I just heard on the radio that Dominc Smith was scheduled to start and bat cleanup today but instead got benched for showing up late. Is it always going to be something with this guy? I hope not.

The team vs. individual dynamic is interesting as well. We all want or expect certain behaviors from the also-rans, but none of us put in the blood, sweat and tears to get where they did, whether it's individual or team. In the end, I didn't like nor would condone what she did, but I won't condemn it either. She was emotional, people are fallible, poop happens.

Just catching up now. #1, I don't see this as a Canadian/American thing. I appreciate that her competitive nature led her to do what she did. I think it's more a slap in the face to Finland and the womens teams that didn't medal. But I don't think that was her intention. I'm also an Islander fan that remembers when Billy Smith refused the post-series handshake. I always gave him credit for owning it and to some extent respected his opinion even though I still thought it was douchey. In the end I just see it as an emotional response by an intense competitor. No biggie.

As I understand it, the Bills FO has coined this the Tag and Release Program. The NFL is a copy-cat league. Nice to be ahead of the curve for a change.

I'm not sold on Strasburg either, but I have to admit he came back strong. Roark was the surprise for me. If he were a Met, you and I might have a higher opinion. Great takes on the Mets staff. A few minor quibbles: I'd put Thor ahead of deGrom but that ignores last years injury. Only comment on Harvey is that I think he lost some of the physical ability and that compounds the head case issues. But I totally agree with you that he can turn it around and we shouldn't turn our back on him. I think Lugo has a bigger upside than just an innings-eater. No better than a #3 though. So what are we celebrating first: a Lombardi for the Bills or a WS for the Mets? And for context, did you get to enjoy 1986?