UConn James

David Muir on ABC says the Superdome isn't holding up very well. Roof is leaking like a seive -- waterfalls -- and people are being moved to the endzones where there is some protection via the overhead seating in case the roof caves. There's still several hours before it moves through. Not good.

Kind of late in the day in cutting him loose to be sounding so magnanimous in a press release. If they weren't going to sign him, the honorable thing to do would have been to release him in June/July. He's pretty behind the curve signing with a new team now.

Maybe we were just spoiled having Sam Gash for those few years. With Shelton's age, FB should be a position TD thinks about in the '06 draft. I'm hearing good things about Matt Bernstein out of Wisconsin. Really in the mold of what this team has always looked for in a FB.

Step back everyone! This could get ugly!

I respected JMac until he put LS at LG to start last season. Kudos for him for having 86ed Pucillo, and kudos again to yanking LS. But he really needs to get some stones and admit to TD that he, in fact, can't make bricks without clay. They're asking him to do too much with too little, thinking it can be done via technique rather than having the physical tools and mentality to grade the road.

My guess is that when they didn't read "Here's my $200 donation to your worthy cause" within the first two sentences, it went to the Trash Bin. Good people, these evangelicals.

I think it's 'severely looked down upon' if not a finable offense for coaches to blow off a sideline reporter asking a question during the run to the tunnel. The NFL gets how many billions of dollars from the networks? I too think they're always stupid questions that are met with stupid answers (Yeah, of course the coach is going to tell the national audience what's working in his offense and what's not!). But what Lola wants to fill her airtime, Lola gets.

Pat Robertson's minions got their marching orders. PPP in five, four, three, two....

What always floors me is how the Patriots and other teams can plug in rookies (two more this year, Mankins at guard, and the new RT) and NOT. SKIP. A. FUGGIN. BEAT. I think a lot of the people at 1BD do not want to start a rookie on the OL, just b/c, and with JP in there, moreso b/c he's essentially a rookie too. Which is false logic. But they will sign and start players that other teams have cut outright. Forgive me if I question Jim "God" McNally, but I am. And TD's recent track record here at picking up other team's waiverwire castoffs isn't good. Marcus Jones, Lawrence Smith.... (BTW, Bill, I remember a few threads worded like "I don't one iota." An iota means "an infinitesimal amount; the least bit." It needs to be "I don't give one iota" or somesuch.)

Peyton isn't looking very good against Denver's defense, a defense he smoked for over 40 points twice (count 'em TWICE) last season. Per that Gatorade commercial, they must not have kept him hydrated. Just a backhanded way of saying "Chill out." Defenses have the advantage this early in the going. That JP has struggled a bit isn't enough to get your panties in a bunch, yet.

Who knows, if JohnnyB gets a sex change and the position is vacant, he might have a shot.

Either the play-calling itself, or the QBs execution of it, seemed pretty conservative last night. Lots of short passes and running the ball. Whether this is a case of MM/TC not wanting to tip their hands, similar to what Gray is doing with the rather vanilla defenses... I don't know. I wouldn't blame them. It's preseason. Twenty-plus guys who won't be on the team two weeks from now shouldn't be shown the little man at the controls.

Let me guess. You're one of those people who think Abner Louima is now going around sporting an NYPD hat and an I ♥ NY T-shirt? There's quite a few people in AG who were abused even worse than the photos that were released. Gen. Myers a couple of weeks ago said that if the new photos and videos they had were released, there would be massive rioting and violence much worse than after that Newsweek incident. The admission of this, that they are that bad and the fact that in many cases, that admission alone would be enough for them to riot, had me wondering at the dearth of "Richard Myers !@#$s America" threads.

Wow, you're really going out on a limb there! And, all the cool kids call it the Big11Ten.

Name one person who doesn't have a setback now and then. Short of JP and Willis retiring b/c they had a no-so-good game, progress will continue. That's the definition of progress. The coaches understood this going in. A lot of people here said they did, too, but their whining shows they didn't get it.

I went to school in my backyard, which some people do look down on for the fact that you didn't go away for school. Screw them. It saves you from debt up to your neck (it's only up to your chest this way ). If this is your first year, you've been in classes what, a week? Give it some time. The start of the fall semester was always a rough time to get reacclimated. You feel like you may not be good enough or might not be doing the right thing. Doubt is endemic in the human mind. The key is to overcome it and we're often surprised at what happens when we actually get down to brass tacks. You had a goal in mind when you signed the application. Remind yourself what that was and stay the course you set. You say the main problem is with the people? Don't let other people dictate what you do. And the people who do talk like that, put them in your rearview mirror and make them get smaller. Surround yourself with the best people (this is some of the best advice I ever got. Only thing is, you need to figure out who these people are). This stupid crap is the only thing to talk about at this point. Once the work starts, it'll shirk away. I have lots of friends who I needed to just give a little encouragement to at the start of semesters who went on to do really well. Likewise, you can do it.

Never tried it, but I'm suprememly confident I could do it. My grandparents, now uncle operate a dairy farm in WNY and my mum used to work at a dairy farm down here and would get all the milk she wanted to bring home. I mean this is the thick stuff. I always get whole milk and go through it at a good clip, tho I've started drinking more water. Those % and skim ones are so disgusting they almost make me puke. And then, I'm of northern European heritage....

Good to hear Jamie Nails has found employment.

That may be a good defense mechanism. If everyone is filled with pity while simultaneously rolling on the cement laughing at you, no one will be able to pour beer over your head or shoot spitballs.

And on the other hand, prepare to see your wages/salary take a dive. I'll admit that it's sometimes difficult to get by here, and for some people it's damn near impossible. I'm trying to eek it out. But one thing I'll never do is leave this kind of climate and nature. I could maybe see myself going to Memphis or Milawakee, but I think the only reason people live in the South is because they have jobs there.

That's a lot like going to France, Germany, etc. and not wearing an Old Navy U.S. flag T-shirt b/c they might say, "Yoooour grandmother smelled of eeeelderberrrries.... I faaaart in your gennnneraaal direeeectioon...." Don't be afraid of what might befall you for expressing who you are, your beliefs, likes, etc.

I'm not sure how real of a concern that is --- look at the Afghanistan model. At this point, reducing troop levels to ~75,000-50,000 at the end of the year or next spring wouldn't be viewed as caving to AQ. Well, they can think we're caving and they probably will say we are b/c that's what they do, kind of like a family pathetically insulting the fire that just destroyed their house. We've done some major damage to their networks. The thing is, after a big pullout of Iraq, there isn't any one area that receives the majority of the focus. We'll be left to dealing with more concentrated areas. Unless Pres. Bush goes to the next entry on his list (Iran? NK?). Another large-scale operation for this admin seems out of the question at this point (barring concrete developments, b/c our credibility is shot, with the world at large and among our own people). Trust that the govt is more or less telling the truth is the thing that's been most damaged by all of this. To go with the analogy, after spending $200B for something that's broken and wasn't our fault for breaking in the first place, who wants to shop at Pottery Barn again?!

Probably the best advice so far. Since you're familiar with the Bills, make a little bit of small talk with the homers around you, "I think Losman will turn out to be a great player" "The Bills really have an advantage on ST b/c no one else respects it. MM is really smart for recognizing that" "I'm ready for a good game." blah blah blah, so on and so forth. It'll do wonders if an obnoxious/inebriated Bills fan gives you sh-- for the Bills fans sitting around you to tell him to leave you alone.

This was one of the better eps of the season. And it blows a little bit of a hole in the everyone-had-a-bad-father theory, somewhat. Jin lies about his father being dead, even to Sun, b/c he's a poor fisherman. And when he goes to see him, and says, "I was so ashamed of you" what is the father's response? Does he tell Jin to get lost? No. He hugs his son and gives him the good advice to stay in America and build a new life for him and his wife. The theory does survive if you tack on an -in-law, tho. I saw it the first time around and Hurley's "Son of a B word!!" at the end when the CD player dies had me laughing ass over teakettle. Again. I gather they're going to be showing two eps each Wed.? Will that work so they can get the whole season in before S2 starts? There were more voiceover ads last night, one with Jack, one with Locke. They're really setting up the Fate vs. It Just Happened viewpoint for some reason.

I can't say there are no obnoxious Bills fans, but Buffalo is not NYC or Miami.