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."

Honestly? For the Sabres it's when they had an amazing season with Drury and Briere then promptly pooped the bed in the playoffs. Or the 1998-1999 season for that matter. Or the 2000-2001 season with Hasek and the ghost of Dougie Gilmore. For the Bills, name the year. It's all a bucket of suck to date, but at the same time I watch every game like a lunatic because of deep roots in the area -- and how of all the people here, I literally got a chance to watch OJ knife through defenses before he

There's this show on YouTube where the "celebrity" faces a gauntlet of spicy wings (no ranch, not unless they bring it). Maybe he should appear to clear this all up?

I hate sweet stuff as an adult. I admit it. I like salty, and in particular spicy, like really, really spicy. Having written that, I was such a fan of the chocolate-on-chocolate Pop-Tart. Can't eat such things anymore, as while I'm 6'6", I also hit 300lbs during the height of the pandemic. Still, fond memories...

If the Bills didn't have JA17, this would be a trash heap of a sports empire like all the rest. Both teams need a new HC, but the Sabres more desperately so. However, I don't think that's the game being played here. Certainly, and over the past decade, I've seen worse Sabres' teams. We all have. But this one, or at least on some level, is more brutal -- because they should be a LOT better, and yet they aren't.

When I first heard this -- it was midday yesterday and I was eating a sandwich -- I laughed because all I read was that a former Jaguars' employee was sentenced to prison for hacking servers and creating disturbances on the scoreboard during games or somesuch. Was this a Turk 182 thing? By checking news at the end of my day, it became apparent that this was worse, like much, much worse. It's incredible to me that people like these are able to walk freely in our society, and for lengthy of a period of time.

Honestly, the Bills should've gotten this out of the way during the drought. I'd have watched a Marrone / bowling event / Hard Knocks or another Sexy Rexy Hard Knocks.

I should really check. I'm a tech guy and used to write these programs to harvest the personals and index them in a database -- because they were hilarious. Maybe I'll restore the database someday and see if I can find the term. A friend of mine and I once wrote a spoof (20+ years ago) of the dating site eHarmony, but instead of seeding it with the sauce that eHarmony put into their matching system, we used the data from Craigs', and to hilarious (if not unexpected) results. Top Craigs' keywords from personals ads, if I recall: - beach - hands - cats - BBW - signs

There was a time before I was married, you know. HAHA

On Craigslist, it seems like every sold item comes with a free massage.

I wasn't born 'til 71, but Electric Ladyland remains a favorite. Some say that it's an album that was born of a days-long party in the studio, and I kinda believe it. Still, I hear something new each time I listen to it.