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I don't have a problem w/ retaining Shaud. Capable enough backup w/ experience in the system. If Marv&Dick blow up the entire backfield by dealing Willis, it might be prudent to have someone in the RB/FB meetings who isn't learning it all for the first time and can teach the other guys. Then again, he may not even make the cut in camp. Just, if Joe Burns is signed again, it will prove he has nekkid pictures (possibly involving a goat, bovine or equine) of someone important. I've been saying it for a couple of years now that Shelton has outlasted his usefulness. I think he was originally a stop-gap (he'd spent an entire season watching football on his couch), and then come offseason it just became a deal of 'We have badder fish to fry' and staying with a known-commodity slightly-below-average player than cutting him and having to sign someone else.

Way too much player movement in sports (and in hockey, WAY too much) and the risk of career-ending injury to be plunking down $250 just to have an authentic jersey w/ a 40 percent chance of being irrelevant w/in a year, and near 95 percent w/in 5 years. If you're going to go the full monty for any sport's jersey, for Pete sakes, put your name and favorite number or go with a revered retired player. It will always be relevant, barring jersey changes (and even at that, old jerseys retain their character), episodes of amnesia, or if you're a team-swapping whore like T-Bone.

It is silly and I don't know what exactly it would accomplish. If Dems want to do something about the war, they should do it with more than a token. Instead, they're tiptoeing around the edges and afraid they're going to be accused of 'not supporting the troops.' Always astride the horse, and never riding, but to be honest, I'd rather have that than people who actively start stupid crap then whistle past the graveyard. At this point, it's been drilled into her so much that Condi actually believes and will further try to defend what she said. I think she needs to go to bed and sleep for about two months.

So, on a FOXSNOOZE Sunday morning show, she says the rumblings of revoking/revising the authorization of force in Iraq "would be like saying that after Adolf Hitler was overthrown, we needed to change then, the resolution that allowed the United States to do that, so that we could deal with creating a stable environment in Europe after he was overthrown." Nevermind that the sentence structure makes my head hurt.... But WTF? 1) Germany's diplomats walked into the State Department and said 'Hey, we're at war with you.' 2) There was a change in the resolution to deal with the post-war environment. It was called the Marshall Plan. Condi, please get a refund for your B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees in Poli-Sci. And stop using analogies to link the current bullsh-- to the nostalgic epic heroism of WWII.

It's time for a lot of people to realize that the Bible is filled with allegory, and was never meant to be wholly taken as literal truth. Perhaps 'rose from the dead' meant that his message was picked up and carried on (kind of how Walt Whitman wrote in "Leaves of Grass" that anyone who touches that book, touches him) by his followers. Or perhaps that he 'rose from the dead' by his lineage continuing by offspring (as Shakespeare's sonnet 18 makes note that we live on through them), as claimed to be found. It's like in 24, we've never seen Jack Bauer on the toilet. Lots of things are left out when you tell a story about someone. Did Jesus shake after he peed and wipe after he pooped or did an angel come down from heaven with a roll of Bounty? He was a minister who preached that we need to be the change we want to see. He angered the wrong people. After he was killed, he was deified and the entire control of his message went into a lot of different hands, over a lot of generations, each with their own agenda. Why is it so hard for Christians to accept the possibility that Jesus was just a man with a world-changing message? The rub comes that church leaders wanted something that couldn't be explained, so it couldn't be questioned.

The same Pat Kirwin who during training camp, went just short of getting down on his hands and knees begging that Kelly Holcomb "had(!) to" win the starting job. 1) He was there as a purported 'journalist' for NFL.com. 2) What was wrong with JP at the point? That he was young, that he was green, or was Pat in "No-good Mexican halfbreed" frame of mind? I think JP's development and success this season was enough to have me disregard most anything Kirwin thinks he thinks. Buffalo/WNY/Canada region can support the franchise; it would help if they won and the league didn't schedule so many home late-season games. Buffalo can and is starting to rebound economically, albeit slowly. I'd rather root for Bailey Savings and Loan than Old Man Potter.

I know it wasn't under Marv, but TD brought in the farm league mentality i.e. Washington, Winfield, Rueben, Pat.... He had some name-signings but what we lost and what we got in place have us where we are today. A number of older, expensive UFAs who are gone or not much longer for this team, and we're weak vs. the run. Marv was absolutely right that you have to build through the draft, but the add-on is you need to keep them on your team (try the utmost, but not always possible). Marv not being able/not choosing to re-sign our own core is just a continuation of the farm phenomenon. Like above, I would classify it as losing our core, not our "league stars." Say, over a few seasons, teams can lure away 5-10 of our better players which are better than their starters; what we will be able to plug in won't be much. Development will not coincide at every spot, so you get holes. You don't have to lose 'stars' (and I would argue that a team can lose a star and recover); losing several of your 'above average' core over several years can break your team.

Oh, I wasn't so much talking about that re: this past game, where it was simple revenge stuff --- just as we go forward and the guys start growing their beards, if they have to change style wily-nily (and clubs getting an inclination that targeting certain players and lots of fighting disrupts said style)... that would make me uncomfortable if I'm Lindy.

Peters put in that good righter early, but McGratten got the best of him there. Those stealth ones he put in right at the end after pretending to be bracing himself against the wall --- that seemed a little cheap, but then again if it were Peters, I'd pro'ly cheer. The Mair-Neil fight last night... Neil, I guess, wants a reputation as a goon. But he then took it to Mair. I agree that it's good to put everyone on notice that the Sabres will not be afraid to fight and protect our stars. OTOH, can't let other teams dictate the style of play, away from what's gotten our guys to 85 points thus far.

Look forward to us being the football equivalent of MLB's Royals and Brewers. As soon as our young players develop, they hit FA, sign with other teams, and we bring in more young players to repeat the process and hold on to the hope that we can spin gold out of straw.

He was playing at his brother's charity game (his brother had a heart transplant not long ago). In situations like this coming w/o warning when someone had just been doing something physical beforehand, it often seems to be heart-related.... The Broncos organization has been hit hard. Look at the Vikings with Korey Stringer's death --- it really collapsed what had been a team most people thought would compete for the SB. So sad.

Nice video is being streamed online at Comcast. They'll probably have more of the fight highlights in postgame.

You mean a 7 on 3, don't you? ing refs.

Wow. How 'bout that? Thought Lindy was going to bogart the Sens coach.

That is a dead-on analysis for their needs. Really. Except for the Maroney part, and only b/c after seeing him this season, barring injury o' course, he's going to give the rest of the league nightmares for a long time.... (dammit! )

1 - Why does anyone get beat up when they haven't really done anything? There was something about being 'marked' that made people formerly nice to him, kick his ass. I guess it goes with not quite fitting in... or by being the 'great man' others despise that. You could also look back to S1 when he was beat up in the schoolyard flashback. 2 - They weren't watching Jack. They were there for Juliet's trial and surefire execution(?). 3 - Not sure what's meant by this. I think it was Tom who said they don't like coming over to this other jail island. I would guess that most of the time, the Others live in the community that we saw in the first ep this season. That's probably what Carl meant by mentioning the backyard. 4 - Nah. To anyone threatening to quit watching.... hey, it's a free country. Anyone afflicted with the pandemic of our American impatience and who doesn't want to use the gray matter is free to watch Idol.

1) Sawyer told it to Carl exactly how I would. 'If you like the chick, get it on!' Then there was the issue b/w him and Kate... that the sex didn't really mean much/anything. 2) Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was the same woman behind the ring counter in the Desmond ep. Hair is a slightly different color.... And watching that again, I got a whole "12 Monkeys"-type flashback, if anyone saw that.... with a connection/continuation of timetravel-nudity started in the Terminator. And I haven't had time yet to look back at the Claire-centric ep from S1, but the more I think about it, the more similar her boyfriend's speech is to Desmond's breaking up with Penny. 3) Yep, she was flat on the beach, then gi-normous in the bed and flat again in the parlor. But note that this is another Lostaway's contact with a pyschic/seer/mystic. Something I did pick up on watching the re-air and this is the continuation of the 'great man' stuff. Penny's father said it about Desmond... Achura said it about Jack. And the tattoo that says, in Chinese "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us." I'm wondering about what Achura's tramp stamp says (the camera made sure to see that, but it's also in Chinese, I guess). Things changed seriously for Jack once he became a 'marked man.' Thinking about it now, was there any similarity to Juliet's 'mark' and Ben's scar? Hers was like an upside-down cross with an X through the intersection....

Actually, it's several persons' statements versus one's (PM). He 'mooned' her in front of a small crowd of athletes who were in the training room. Why are you assuming that PM had the most to lose in this situation? The woman was/is a high-acheiving medical doctor. Do doctors not make a lot of money? When faced with the reality that even minor celebrities are not found guilty of anything in this country, she moved and started over. And then the book came out w/ PM's 'It weren't nuthin'' version, her name is in the news and she gets introduced to the second concept of American blind justice, which is Blame the Victim. What ing dream world are you living in? You read the USA Today stories and never saw mention? Did you read only the first few paragraphs? (You don't have to respond to that one; I know the answer). You read the Smoking Gun report and b/c all of the names of the people who said they saw these things happen were blanked out in the university report, they don't exist to you? You provided all of ZERO links and never said anything more than "mooning" which is just how Peyton, UT, and the NFL want it to be framed. Testament to the power of language and who gets to pick the words to describe what happened --- "mooning" now includes c*ck and b@lls --- the MSM will run with what PM says, b/c he sells their product. And they count that most people will say "Big deal" and turn the page.

I see. We're supposed to believe the lesser confession of the two versions. And the statement of Mr. Saxon is inadmissible in this court of law.... Resolved before the court of Don Quixote, then, that if someone fondles and dry-humps your sister and then says it was just good-natured wrestling, you'll be perfectly content to conclude it never happened. BTW --- way to go in not even bothering to look up the story before you post your high opinions of it; and I fully expect you'll now entrench yourself in defending that blah blah blah PM wasn't found guilty by any court. He wasn't. UT took care of that for him and mouthbreathers like yourself only care about Wikipedia Reality. I find it proper for you to now go yourself.... but only after you do your English homework.

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If by "good" you mean 'undersized and continually pushed backward toward his ultra-pressure-sensitive QB' and 'Actually stood around with his hands on his hips while members of the opposing defense pounded his QB into the turf well after the whistle (Atlanta, 2 seasons ago, now)' then yes, he was good.

Yours and PM's definition of "mooning" is pretty liberal. Also convenient how the famous person gets to frame how things happened and the mere plebian doesn't matter. In the version that isn't sanitized, he put his ass and his testicles on a trainer's face during an exam where she was bent over checking for an injury. Hence the infamous "teabag" which has been corroborated by the teammates who were there. A pressed ham, you know... that can be shrugged off as a stunt. What he did was an unlitigated lesser-degree sexual assault. And also, bear in mind that he chose to muckrake the incident in his book. It could have remained a UT locker-room lore, as the woman involved got a settlement from the U, I believe, and moved and wanted to never hear of it again. When the book came out, you can imagine what happened at her job, to all of the people who looked at her differently.... But what am I thinking of? You know it all.

Rumors that get more credence when Jimbo was disinvited to be a candidate for congress in WNY and instead they ran the guy who was basically Mark Foley's pimp? The man who would've been running as a 'family man' candidate wrt Hunter would have been shown to be a hypocrite in about 12 hours (8, if an involved party sprung for coffee at the BN). I bet the intern who did the initial vetting on him walked around with a facial expression combining for two months. Who knows about any open arrangement Jim & his wife have, but.... As for Peyton, google his name with "teabag." 'Nuff said.

Ben certainly has reasons to go after Jack, but from the looks of it Juliet is Public Enemy No. 1 on the Others' island. This would be in re: to her killing Pickett to ensure Kate & Sawyer's escape and planning a way to bump Ben off during surgery. She was being led in handcuffs during the preview.... Maybe it's her demise that they're being 'forced to watch'? Then, there's a reason why Ben wanted Jack, Kate and Sawyer specifically. To him, Rousseau is a nutjob on another island; Walt and Michael will never be back (he surmises) b/c the truth would come out that he murdered two people. The story isn't different b/c of the DUIs. Their contracts were for one season (note that they worked for a few months afterward) and were fulfilled.

The crown on the old AstroTurf at the Ralph was ~9 inches from midfield to each sideline. I don't think there's one on the new field. Drainage is done via the subsurfaces rather/more than physically directing water away from the playing area.