stuckincincy

The 5 yard penalty for spiking or throwing the ball after a play should get a lot of usage... Perhaps a flag for pitching the ball, but spiking? Seems like a plain 'ole human reaction to me. But now, one may feel free to launch a missile at the OL of your choice. Meetings end with approval of minor rules But OT kickoff issue saved for later BY MARK CURNUTTE Cincinnati Enquirer 03/29/07 "PHOENIX - The NFL annual league meeting ended Wednesday with owners adopting several new, minor rules but tabling the proposal to move the kickoff to the 35-yard line at the start of overtime. The 35-yard line kickoff was not voted on. Owners want to examine a two-possession rule in overtime that is used in NFL Europe. The goal, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said, is to continue to encourage teams to try to win the game in regulation and not play for overtime. Owners also voted down, 17-15, a Chicago Bears proposal to expand the number of active players on game day from 45 to 47. There were concerns about each team having the same number of healthy players, NFL Competition Committee co-chair Rich McKay said. In votes, owners approved proposals to: Delete the crowd-noise procedure from playing rules, when the quarterback informs a game official that he cannot hear; Create a 5-yard penalty for spiking or throwing the ball at the end of a play on the field of play; Make permanent the replay review of down-by-contact plays, first used in 2006. There were 17 reviews of down-by-contact decisions during the 2006 season, and five of them were reversed on replay; and Eliminate the penalty when a thrown pass unintentionally hits an offensive lineman, though it does not affect intentional grounding penalties. On Monday, owners voted 30-2 to make instant replay permanent. " http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art.../703290380/1066

Very good DB coverage?

All Hail the Flying Duckpins !!!!!

And here I thought they were just limited to fingernails...

My personal favorite Penguin player...Gary Rissling! What a mug of a face he had. Fun to watch... http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/Legend...sp?player=14129

March 29, 2007 Dear Mr. Starr, I use the BiC round stic, medium ball, in black. They have been reliable, and I haven't suffered any leaks. A bag of 15 or so costs about 2 dollars. My pencil is a BiC Velocity Pencil #2, with 0.9mm lead. I break the thinner leads...I'm left-handed. The two-pack, including 6 replacement erasers and 8 additional leads, was also about 2 dollars. I was disappointed with a 10-pack of Papermate-branded wood #2 pencils I purchased a couple of years ago. They were manufactured by Sanford LP, which is a division of Newell Rubbermaid. The cladding was of low quality, with the lead breaking out upon most every sharpening. Also, the erasers were hard and would smear the erasure. They were inexpensive, though...75 cents or so. I hope you find this information useful. Yours Truly, stuckincincy

Well, I think the long snapper is a necessity. Unreliable snaps can have disasterous results. Punt blocks or fumbles, missed fgs and xps, lousy field position. One of the old guard...Seifert, Gibbs, I forget exactly who, once said that the punter is the most important player - and that implies a good LS. It sure would be nice if Whittle can long snap, but he would have to be proven reliably better then Schneck, IMO.

...and John Y. Brown thought the world of him.

In the 1999 draft, Ditka dangled that fistfull of picks to the B'gals, so he could get his beloved Ricky. Then-HC Bruce Coslet was chomping at the bit, but owner Mike Brown insisted on drafting Akili. Now, Akili was no QB - IIRC he played 1 year at Oregon - but he was a tough kid - who got repeatedly beat senseless on those lousy Cincy clubs. Apparently, Brown forgot what happened to David Klingler in 1992. The heartwarming part of the saga is that after he was cut, Brown had to cough up several million Smith was owed.

John Hummer.

And then there is Mike Brown, B'gals owner, who voted NO! Too much isn't enough for Brown BY PAUL DAUGHERTY Cincy Enquirer Here is something you might not have known: It is difficult to be one of 32 monopolists in the most successful, highly profitable league in the history of American sports. It is hard making ends meet in a free stadium that is absolutely filled every time it opens for an NFL game. You think it's easy, scraping by on the proceeds from $8 bottles of beer? While owners of 30 of the NFL's 32 teams on Monday agreed to share even more money among themselves, Bengals owner Mike Brown voted against it. (The other no vote came from Jacksonville's Wayne Weaver.) It isn't that the Bengals aren't profiting from revenue-sharing; it's that they aren't profiting enough. The Cincinnati Bengals' logo should not be a tiger; it should be an outstretched hand, palm upturned. Understand: This was a "supplemental" plan for revenue-sharing. This was sharing on top of sharing. Karl Marx's league just became more generous. The Bengals don't even know yet how much extra money they'll get on top of the money they already get. All they know is, it's not enough. With the Bengals, it never is. Because I am not an economist, a capologist or an expert on socialist corporations, maybe I'm not qualified to comment on the Bengals' ongoing cries of poverty. But here's what I do know about our starving little football team: They sell every seat for every game. They sell every luxury box, and they keep all the money. They sell lots of $8 beers, and they keep most of the money. They're the proud possessors of a Manhattan-for-beads lease that makes them lords of Cincinnati's central riverfront. The public built them a $600 million stadium our children will be paying for. And, oh yeah, they've had one winning season in 17 years. Imagine another business in the free world complaining about this arrangement. The Bengals' argument boils down to this: The salary cap is based on a fixed percentage of what the NFL calls gross designated revenues. They come from the national TV contract, ticket and merchandise sales and local sources such as stadium naming rights and advertising. Because the Bengals are in the bottom third of revenues in the league, every time a Washington, New England or New York increases its revenues, the cap rises and the Bengals have to spend a greater portion of their revenues on salaries. No one should fault Brown for getting the best deal he can. He has to answer to shareholders, even if most of them are related to him. He also feels he has legitimate issues about the long-term financial health of his team. But consider this: The Bengals are privately owned. They don't show us their books. They say they're lagging financially and we have to take their word for it. The list of people sharing in their "poverty" is very short. If you choose to own a team in a place like Cincinnati, don't expect to make the kind of cash you would in New York. Some owners aren't as wealthy as others, if only because they're located in smaller places and/or they don't work as hard. So it is that Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, whose team plays in a relatively new stadium that was not publicly funded, gives some of his revenues to an owner like Mike Brown, who has a free stadium. So it is that Jerry Jones, who worked hard to revive the Dallas Cowboys brand, shares equally his merchandise revenues with Brown, who works not at all selling his. So it is that on Monday, the 15 biggest revenue producers voted to give even more money to the 17 smallest revenue producers. Everyone but Brown and Weaver was fine with that. Again: Fifteen owners agreed to write checks, and two owners said the checks won't be big enough. Even if I agreed with the Bengals' position that they're heading toward the financial rocks, their constant more-more-more-ing after so much public generosity, faith and good will - and in an industry subsidized like few others, even if you stink - makes me want to lie down in a cool place. The Reds don't receive nearly the shared revenues the Bengals do. I don't hear Bob Castellini complaining."

Cincinnati. That should keep me from drafting OL's.

Happy Birthday(s)!

I believe he will be residing at the Greybar Hotel...the idiot is out on probation in three States. "In the NFL Henry faces a discipline hearing next Tuesday with commissioner Roger Goodell under the league's tougher personal conduct penalty. Henry could be suspended for one year. In Ohio Henry avoided a possible drunken-driving conviction in January in Clermont County that could have resulted in an NFL suspension. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of reckless operation of a car in Clermont County and avoided serving any of a 30-day sentence by agreeing to several behavioral clauses - including two years of probation and not consuming alcohol or illegal drugs. In Kentucky If Henry is convicted of any crime in Hamilton County, the Kenton County Attorney's Office would seek to revoke his probation in Kentucky, chief prosecutor Ken Easterling said Tuesday. Henry could have to serve the remaining 88 days of his 90-day sentence for providing alcohol to underage females. In Florida He is under probation. Henry avoided jail time by pleading guilty in Florida to a concealed weapons charge in September. He received two years' probation and 100 hours of community service." http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...SPT02/703280352

There is one here in Cincy, not far from me. We went there once. Observations: - Rude and snotty kids all over the place. - Theoretical parental units of same that made me understand why there was rude and snotty kids all over the place. - So-called adults swearing up a storm.

And nobody of Marv's age...or mine, would go eat at a chicken wing joint. Willing though the spirit may be, the plumbing has definitely seen better days.

The Bills are a race?

Your power to appreciate concepts also seems to lack. And when one has to resort to gratuitous insult, it's time to regroup. It's "alley", not "ally", BTW. Even us stupid people know that...

Kumbaya!, as our coastal Gullahs said.

Again...the reading comprehension thing...'twas Lenin's words. I don't know where you work, but I hope you are not at a place where your inability will hurt innocent folk.

For US Federal contracts, it's called a Section 8A set-aside. Basically, you set up your corporation with a woman or a Federally-recognized minority, and the rules of treating potential contractors on an equal basis get tossed into the trash can. Taxpayers getting value for their money means nothing compared to politicians wooing votes. It's often the case with State and municipal contracts, too.

Could I wish to be the Aurora Borealis? I've read, that worldwide, the ban on DDT and its' crop protection and killing of human pestilence resulted in something like 30 million deaths.

Spending a King's ransom on FA OLs gets noticed.