UConn James

Roethlisberger will find out just how rare this kind of season was. Some guys go their whole careers and never make it to the playoffs. Buh-bye!

What if it was a Make-A-Wish thing?

In this most desperate of enterprises, they were pouring ice water on his thumb near the end of the half. Never say never....

I think the Bills can do better than this. In fact, they have better guys than George on the roster right now. Let go of the Name, and realize there's a reason why he got next to zero PT in Dallas.

How about a Catholic that makes a boy suck on his penis, and the leadership's refusal to accept any semblance of resonsibility for shuffling pedophiles below the radar of police involvement and directly leading to that boy's suicide 20 years later? Implicit here is that no religion is peaceful. It establishes a group of believers who form a looooooong list of grievances in their text. They can then feel morally superior when they have run-ins with the Other.

I was talking about non-stutterers who stutter-sing, by drawing out a syllable and breaking their voice in between short segments for 20 seconds. If what you say is true, why couldn't Ken sing out 'Cathcart Towers Hotel' in "A Fish Called Wanda"?

I think it was something that a player had to actually get an Rx to be allowed to wear a tinted visor. Like if they get headaches from bright sun or somesuch. IIRC, it was instituted so fans could see/"connect" with the players. Even tho they introduced a penalty if a player takes his helmet off on the field.... Then again, this is the NFL we're discussing, where a fumble is a fumble. Unless it's not.

Mmm. Why are people so impressed with stutter-singing? And the land of the <awkward pause> Braay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-a-a--ay-ay-ay-a-a-a-ave. Started with Whitney Houston in the '91 Super Bowl and now they all sing in a way that calls attention to themselves rather than the lyric. Moved into regular music too. I hate it. Carry the note ala Jeff Buckley or cut it off. No offense to the girl, she's just mimicing all the others who have nice voices but have no connection with what they're singing.

Make-a-Wish? I don't see what the complaining is about. If it were Alicia Keys singing that badly and you were paying her to do so, you'd have bitching rights, but this sounds like another one of our sorry-ass little First World problems.

Mazel Tov! Start saving for tuition.

Yet another example of why it needs to be sung in the Key of G. Fully 96 percent of people just can't get their voices to hit those high notes. At least he didn't have all that fluff, draw-out stutter-style crap that most 'singers' now use. I hate that. It was meant to be a simple anthem.

That look! A cross b/w Innocent choirboy, "Hey, you said it!" and "I hope the censors don't axe us." Gumbo. We're the Fucawi! --- The funniest thing was the screen just went black a second after he said it. All it took in any show after that was him raising his hand to his brow. The NBC censors made that joke into so much more than it ever would have been otherwise. You were the best, Johnny.

The Senior Bowl is next week, don't forget.

This was probably a big part of the reason the blog feature was added. And which few people have paid any mind to. The main Bills board is a lot like Grapenuts sometimes, to borrow from Seinfeld. The BB forum is categorized/compartmentalized better in this regard. PPP here is a nice example of how to divide things up in their own place.

Umm... ESPN was not created to cover UConn. Even back when it was really about showing sports rather than opinions on pro sports and highlights of Kobe they had such things as bowling, darts, and get this, the national spelling bee (which I think they still have). BTW, UConn bball didn't really start getting dominant until the late 80s/early 90s.

They're now saying 15-24" here with wind chill temps in the negative double digits. Bah. We get one or two of these things a year. Stay inside and feed the wood stove if you're smart enough to have one. For afterwards, a 4x4 Jeep. But yes, that's good advice to stay safe and drive carefully if you have to. People here pretty much know how to drive in it. Until you get some schmuck with N.C. license plates. In '78, when I was a gleam in my pop's eye, the snow was actually over the roofline. There's pictures to prove it. I'll still take a little snow any day over hurricanes, floods, and mudslides.

The phrase "biting the hand that feeds them" doesn't wholely apply to canines. 'Desertion' mentality is a powerful motivator toward desperate acts. With Americans' 15-minute attention span to critical problems, it's unwise for us to get involved in other countries' affairs. That's what got us where we are today.

They'd apparently been on the island for 16 days on this week's show. I don't know about you guys, and maybe it's just my bird diet, but it'll take more time until they start losing mad weight. The folks on Survivor lose about 10-15 pounds in 43 days (except for Dirk, the Bible-thumper in the first or second season; he was a twig in the third week) and that's with a lot of physical exertion in challenges etc., which you don't really see them doing in Lost. I don't know, I kind of like Hurley for some of his comic relief on the show (and per above in real life). Can't wait for his backstory. Still have some ?s about him.

Have you listened to anything Dean spoke except "YAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" (BTW--His Yahoo! commercial was funny as all get out)? I watched him on Charlie Rose a while back and thought, Is this the guy they said was the ultra-liberal? A-rating from the NRA is a good starting point with me. Follow that up with his message of going grass-roots for donations and then backing it up with how his campaign raised $. Kick out the special interests who buy access and make it about what the people want. It'd be a good thing for him to get the DNC chair.

I'm looking around for a brown suit for the time coming when I have to get a respectable (read: desk) job. Neckties are an important part. Still have to bone up on the Full Windsor (Half-Windsor looks like crap!). I might get a purple tie, or a nice blue-red mesh just to give Falwell the bird. For all his airs, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he's got a boyfriend on the side. Men's clothing isn't entirely boring. I've got some awesome high-brown Snake boots from Cabela's a while ago, almost to the knees. People laugh if you wear them in the summer, but break 'em out in the winter and then see who's laughing!

C'mon, JSP, you couldn't just wait for your fix? JC's is one of the best I've read.

I wouldn't get so worked up about Fate, man. It's not like everyone else has a clean slate in their lives. The plane crash just happened to these people. And it's not necessarily an "end point" for them.

I don't know. There's things that work differently with any complexion. I actually don't think that ensemble would look half bad, even on a white boy. Would probably go better with dark hair as a balance with the dark shirt. Why might you get fired for wearing that tho? And it all depends on how you wear it, and who you are. Clothes do not, contrary to what Shakespeare's Polonius says, make the man. And then there's the away jerseys, which white guys, black guys, green guys, red guys or blue guys look bad in. Racist? Jebus Flubbing Krist! Watching the inauguration today, I've seen quite a few. And lots of people mixing vivid blues and reds. Baraba Bush, the elder, for example. When exactly did purple become an un-manly color?

I realize this more than you know. Advertisers want to see that the program could possibly be watched by 8 million people at any given time. Whew, that alone is gonna sell your products.... Advertising/marketing people always left me with the impression that they should be digging ditches somewhere. I don't think it would survive as a 24/7 network like Empire. No, absolutely not. (Doubt the 'Boys or 'Skins channels will either). And it can't be over-reaching. If the NFL Network produced, what, a 1- or 2-hour segment/day for local providers in a team's area, that would probably work.

Really? I predict I'll wear blue jeans next week. Opposing values wasn't a foresight back then and it ain't a new concept to the 2000s either. It's a book of fiction, history, rebel politics, love, war, archaeology, big-issue morality, rape, murder, prostitution, death, death, death, death, death. Part of the Islamics' problem is that they have a really good system, via religion, of bringing up past time-out-of-mind political abuses against themselves.