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I say N'awlins. They've been down for so long as a franchise.... And it'd be a great thing for that region.

Hooray for the nightclub culture of professional athletes! I'm truly sorry for his family, but how many times does this have to happen before someone thinks staying out at all hours in these places might be a bad idea? They tend not to attract people of high manners. When you're an athlete making millions, you have a target on your back for all manner of people --- women who see $$ and men who think they need to show how tough they are. It may be a party-poop, but you need to not put yourself in those situations. Which makes me all the more happy that Marv likes 'character' guys who keep out of this stuff. Nothing good happens after 1 a.m.

Postgame comments Willis, if you think you did your part by getting 23 yards, you have a serious misunderstanding of what a RB needs to do. I hope you and Rosenh-ass do hold out. And I hope we draft a kid who actually wants to play football, who doesn't dance behind the line, gets 1,500 yards, and Marv sends you an email with a CC: to DR simply saying, " YOU."

Speechless why? Name one RB who didn't lose time to injury this year. 'Well, if that play didn't get called back Willis would have....' And if my uncle wore a wig, he'd be my aunt. It's all a bunch of excuses. He got what he got and did what he did, and he will be judged on that by the people whose opinions matter. Six TDs on the year may put stars in your eyes, but it doesn't impress me, and based on his comments, I doubt it impresses Marv. He signed that first contract, did he not? TD didn't put a gun to his head, did he? If he wants more scratch, he needs to STFU and make more plays.

990 yards 3.8 yards/carry + 6 TDs -------------------- #23 rusher in NFL Come on, Rosenass. Make a stink about Willis needing to be paid more. I guess one line of argument might be that, in addition to being the starting RB, he was an on-field member of the Buffalo Bills dance team.

CNN says it's done.

I dunno. It's a former president --- someone who has worn that heavy crown, as Shakespeare wrote --- of his own party that's finally allowing his view to be aired. To me, either he should have said this publicly back then or he shouldn't have allowed it to be aired. To be critical of the Current Occupant's decisions only after he has the burden of defending his views removed is a bit of a cheap shot. And it's also in stark contrast to what GHWB said a couple of months back that I read in Time magazine when I was at the dentist. This was about the same time as he got all weepy at the speech for Jeb (and you could so tell he was also referencing GWB in it too). The article said he was getting weepy talking about No. 43's decisions and then the man spent about three column inches saying that he wouldn't speak about what he thinks of Iraq, and that it wouldn't be good for his son, and that, no, by gum, I'm not going to tell you how I would have done things differently b/c it wouldn't be good for him.... That whole thing was very odd. "Pugnacious" is even-handed? Cheney developed a "fever" about terrorism and Iraq? In that entire piece, Ford first said how great the guy was, then proceeded with a swift jab. Ford was a man who knew and practiced great decorum, and keeping what you really felt very close to the vest. He almost cut the "long national nightmare" line b/c he thought it was too strong.

That's not stopping Ford himself from bad-mouthing certain goofball presidents. Ford disagreed with Bush on invading Iraq

You're actually using the word "serious" when describing WND? And, you really only need one brush to paint the national parties. If the GOP actually wanted to be taken seriously rather than play to their Crazy-Baptist-Minister base, they would have come up with something better than the output of the 109th Congress. That this comes from the state where George Allen thought he could get some chuckles and pick up votes by being for macaca before he was against it doesn't surprise me. Virgil's crap has been floating for a couple of weeks now, and the right is dead silent. Not what I heard.... And so what? The very-same Bible most Congresscritters take their oaths on has a passage that mandates they must kill any person who works on Sunday, among other niceities.

I, too, call bull on this. Let's look at the list of improvements by losing to get a higher draft pick: A) Get a guy at #10 who has just as much chance to bust as a guy at #24. B) Pay $15M more in guaranteed salary-cap-hit money for the privilege. C) More difficult to sign --> late to camp --> behind the 8-ball --> lose an entire year. I will continue 'til my dying day describing how this philosophy sucks.

and the invading Muslim horde. Freedom of religion (as long as you're a Christian). Could someone remind Virgil that Ellison was, in fact, democratically elected? And that taking the oath has no formal rules for hand placement on inanimate objects, biblical or no? This is a sorry state of affairs for the GOP and what they've become and how the national party left me behind about 10 years ago. Flag-burning, gay-baiting and Grade-A bigotry is about all they have left.

It'll be nice to go into next season and not have finding the QB be THE main concern for the coaches. I wouldn't give Peters up for the #1 pick. A) Conjuring Donald Rumsfeld here, after two seasons where he's shown his mettle, JP is a known known. You go drafting a kid (who is it, Joe Thomas?), even at #1, and it's an unknown known (or is that a known unknown?). B) A #1 pick costs about $30M in guaranteed money before he's played a snap. Peters' contract is a veritable steal. As a close example of the past two subpoints, see: Robert Gallery. Don't apologize for that, Bill. Three daughters?!? You poor man! I'm not either. We all figured this was going to be a nothing year, and it turned out that the team learned a lot and found answers to lots of the holes, especially through the draft and UDFAs. Teams that have good drafts see it really, really pay off about 3-4 years later. Have a few good drafts and you're a SB contender. Let's all hope that Marv and Modrak keep up the good work, and that DJ gets better at managing the clock and making smart choices on 4th downs.

What Hammer doesn't know is that Buddy came from the same litter as the Bush's Baked Beans dog.... DUUUUKEE!!

Even more mental that if we played in the NFC, we would be playing for ~ a #3 seed.

Whose underpants? If it's Catherine Zeta-Jones or Sarah Karges, I'm in.

That is correct. 10 percent of the population is responsible for 90 percent of the crime. But if we actually kept the 10 percent in jail where they belong, there wouldn't be a need for so many judges and lawyers. Parole, plea bargains and sentence leniency is job security. What I would do to these two sh--heels.... And I would not feel one iota of guilt.

I wouldn't be so fast to make a statement like that. As a general rule of thumb, the judiciary in this country gives the wifey the mine, and the hubby the shaft. Also, Pooj, it was documented that BB would send limos to this woman's house since back when he was coaching for the Giants.

In that case, I think you need to see your ophthalmologist, Bill. And it's waaaay too early to start calling the nominations. A year is an eternity in politics.

I count Boomer Esiason and Pat Kirwan among those. Kirwan's crap in the offseason bordered on racism in his "Please win the starting job, Kelly!" interview/story. Lucas is still sore at the Bills for making him cry. Admittedly, I was a 'doubter' as well before the bye week, but I always (OK... except on those Sunday evenings) thought that JP should be given the whole season. The doubting was not w/o reason. That he turned on/around his game deserves a big . After 10+ years wandering in the wilderness, we now have a QB.

Puntfest.

The "War on Christmas" posse will be at your house @ 8 p.m. to correct you in your usage of the "holiday" word. To me, what certain groups in this country want is akin to 5 people co-writing a book, and one person wanting only his name on the cover. "Happy Holidays" is cognizant of all of the different celebrations w/o singling one out as being 'more equal' than the rest. This is made much more an issue in the do-nothing-and-repeat-yourself media and on political soapboxes to instigate a 'wedge issue' than it is on Main Street. That will never happen again b/c those BIG, BAD stores don't want to spend 5x their budget just to make bags and put up decorations for every persuasion. Let's get them, those damn CAPITALISTS!

I'll be eating non-dolphin-safe tuna fish sandwiches for lunch today.

http://www.gribblenation.net/nflmaps/ I recommend bookmarking this site; he's been doing this for a couple of years now. EII, the FAQs explaination of why an area might have a weird game sceduled for that region: "One of two reasons: Sometimes a popular player is from a certain area, so the local station there likes to show as many games of his team as possible. This is especially true in college towns." and the other reason no longer applies. I don't know who any such player might be for Oregon but they don't play for us. Or maybe that affiliate thinks Miami-Buffalo will be the most exciting game of the day. ... Or perhaps CBS just wants to lure Lana into watching their Big Brother double-sided televisions so they can see what she's wearing.