TheCockSportif

Meat on smoker, rosary touching, a rubber chicken that I will swing over my head.

I remember when, pre Tom Brady, Bill Belichick was a laughing matter. He had worn out his welcome in Cleveland after having benched Bernie K for Testaverde. Then there was my summer of glee -- I think that it was either 1999 or 2000, a handful of years after I moved to Boston for a tech job -- where he had ideations of starting Michael Bishop at QB. And that was after he wrote his resignation to the Jets on a cocktail napkin, before holding a terse presser. I thought that I could further watch this loathsome figure destroy the Pats, but no. But freaking no. Tom freaking Brady. (I don't have a calendar in front of me, so maybe it was 2000. It is all a blur for me sometimes.) He proceeded to go sub-.500 in his first year as HC of the Pats. Then, ugh. Just, ugh. Tom freaking Brady. Everything after that was classic BB, and look at the results (gleeful). What I'm getting at is that it seems over for BB, as well it should. While I would like the Bills to move on from McD, at the same time I'd be non-plussed if BB is his replacement.

Linux/FreeBSD changed the way I thought about software and development -- and changed my focus in college from pre-law to computer science.

... and for this year? I liked him as coach here, don't get me wrong, but I'd much prefer someone like Berube.

Easy question. They gave Grannato an extension and yet the team underachieved, like bigly. The Sabres aren't terrible. As I wrote earlier in this thread, we've seen terrible with the Sabres in recent years. They gave the coach an extension with zero reason(s) to do so. In that light I am surprised about the change in course.

I can't believe that they fired the coach. I mean, yes, I can, but I thought that he would be here forever. So long as they don't hire Ted Nolan or the ghost of Lindy Ruff, I would hope for better results next year.

I was definitely around during the trial, both in WNY (finishing up at UB) and watching it with a perverse curiosity. I loved watching OJ play football. He was a great PR guy and a pretty funny fall guy in the Naked Gun. I couldn't help but watch. It wasn't just the glove didn't fit, given my recollection; it was the look on OJ's face and his mannerisms that totally sold that moment. Around the jury, I'm wondering if the previous LA riots played a role in their decision, but admittedly this is just conjecture on my part.

I think of it in simple(r) terms, and the docu series kinda broke it down in the same way; it came down to the shriveled glove.

During the machinations of OJ's criminal trial, I was dating a wildly inappropriate woman -- which tracks, because at the time I was also wildly inappropriate. Everybody hated everybody so there was parity. I happened to snark on dinner night (one night, with her family) that OJ would have his charges reduced to a noisy muffler infraction, and a short time later, there we were. I was wrong in premise, but I was also right that literally zero would happen to him in that criminal trial. The judge was an attention seeker, the lead detective an avowed racist, the assistant DA a (former?) stripper (that was real, right?), Kato, useless witnesses, a circus of a trial, a glove did not fit, and jeez, like so many others I came to understand that OJ had literally gotten away with not one, but two -- TWO! -- murders.

Correct, and in my view it happened for a reason. I don't care about tweets or twits or whatever (I haven't been on social media for ages), but that move was clear in its implications.

Huge dead cap money, but where there's smoke...

He will be finely tuned, and if he starts missing again next season then I will blame you for your first go-round with him. HAHA

I look forward to seeing you play the inconsistent Bills' kicker at your next gig.

What's funny about DD is that it's super regionally based. I talked about Dyngus Day with a (Polish in ancestry) ex-girlfriend's family, in Syracuse, decades ago, and they looked at me like I was a hydra. (I probably was a hydra.) And yet, over the years I've found folks in Cleveland and in other places who embrace this very sacred day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śmigus-dyngus

On the edge of my seat til April 2nd. My father-in-law has this saying: vanilla water. It's his sarcastic barb for anything that isn't deemed worthy of conversation. So I asked him, last Christmas, how to explain Vanilla Ice. He boggled. So I explained, flatly, that, "Vanilla Ice is what happens to vanilla water when it gets extremely cold."