Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Whne you're prone to the ground, yes they will call you down, but when you're standing up, legs moving and pushing the ball out in front, DUMB. It works at the goal line since once you cross the goal line, they play is over, but anywhere else it's a live ball.

I had a total tear. You can walk on it, sort of. It's not like the foot is going to fall off, so if you walk back on your heel, you certainly can kind of limp along if you want, though you're not going anywhere very quickly and why even try. When I tore mine, I just sat down and they took me off in a strecher. It really isn't even painful, just a very long recovery. I was on crutches for over 3 months. I did it about 6 months after Marinot tore his and at the time he described how it felt, like someone kicked him in the back of his ankle. That was exactly what I felt.

Every year the NFL shuts down sunday Night Football against the World Series. Funny part use to be when the series started on Saturday, a potential game 7 would occur on the next Sunday. So here you have the possible biggest game of all in the Series, and that week, the NFL would have a game. NFL would bet against the series going 7 and most of the time, they were right.

It really isn't about what the odds makers think, it's what people think. If the Bills were favored by more than 1, then all the money started to go to Miami. The bookies want it balanced 50/50 so make it attractive to bet the Bills. That being said Miami and Parsells are a cozy pick. People who don't know much will bet on Miami as they think Parsells means magic so that reduces the points given by the Bill's. Admittedly, that somewhat contradicts my first point, but that is how many people view this. In the NFL home field is worth 3 points so on a neutral field that says the Bills are 4 points better. I nthe NFL you don't see many games over 6 or 7 points, so when you consider Miami beat NE and the Chargers, the spread doesn't look too bad. BTW, does anyone recall the spread for last weeks games agaisnt San Diego? I Don't recal lthe line??

Yeah, they made a mistake on the McCargo deal. However I doubt Whitner still would have been available at #29, so to have got both players, you would to have trsded up higher and therefore given up more to get both. Could they have got a better player at #29 than they got? certainly, but it wouldn't have ben Whitner. And has been stated many times, you needed someone to trade with to pull it off.

You know what, the problem is much worse than that. IMO it has NOTHING to do with being fans of a player. It has EVERYTHING to do about being able to prove that your point, whatever it was was right. If a person stated that JP was great, then to support that and look smart, they will argue every way they can to prove themselves right and cheer for the other guy to look terrible, (and likely lose the game) just to make their position look better and prove themselves correct. Conversely, if you're one that says JP sucked you'll argue every way and cheer for him to do bad again to prove you're smarter than everyone esle around here. That's the problem with the internet, (and society in general) everyone needs to prove they are the smartest person! The internet and hiding behind a handle allows that behavior to increase by a factor of 10. One of these days, you're read about a murder someplace cause someone dished somebody on a message board and they hunted them down. It's just a matter of time.

Anyone have TE's latest stas?

That's why you didn't go for 2 after the last TD, If you missed now we're only up by 8. Instead now SD needs two scores.

Yes they stop it until the reset the ball. Then it winds down again, so no big deal.

Well this is wild, TV is showing game, but audio is coming from CBS in NY Have Greg Gumbul doing the audio

SD TD, but no offensive interference, coming back

SD is short for 1st down, 3rd and lewss than 1 Got the 1st at Buf 27

Here's a link to the audio http://radiotime.com/WebTuner.aspx?StationId=31210&

It probably was Time Warner balloon planned to take out the TV feed so no one could be mad ad TWC for missing the game as now no one can see it.

So besides the clock, what power do they need to play the game? Lights aren't an issue now? Seemed like the broadcast was OK, plus they usually have their own power?? What do they need the scoreboard clock? and 40 second clock?

Sometimes it's about ten minutes after the start before you'll get the link on most of the sites As Dean stated, password not needed on Stooge, don't know anything about the Mac world.

They stop the chat? Guess I missed that as that is the biggest knock I have on using Stooge is trying to catch the links flying by. If they do stop it, must be for a very short time, like seconds. There also is a problem after it opens where it gives an error, can't recall the words, somethign about not having permission. But you just need to keep re-trying. That's where it can get hard though as the link may already be scrolled off the screen. I don't think it's the same feed as the two games I used Justin, the feed was out of a Canada station, G1 from Toronto and G2 from I think it was Kitchner or someplace near there. The two games I wached on Stooge had a US/CBS feed, though can't recall where the local commercials were from. That being said, Stooge TV is still my first choice!

Would that more benefit the teams with deep pockets as they could better afford a high paid 53rd player. Granted you still have a salary cap to work with, not sure how that would work?? Supposedly the reason for adding to 53 is to better level the playing field for teams with less money to spend, so one would then think along those lines, more is better?? But not certain of the impact?

So is Preston starting because Fowler is out hurt? or is it a combo of he's maybe not 100%; couple that with he's just not playing well, so he's being benched?

As much as I hope the Bills win, I can't disagree with their reasons. The media team's job isn't to hype the Bill's unless you're their flagship station, (which is why WGR tends to bash the Bill's to push up the Sabres) but to be objective. Prior to the start of the season, very few people thought the Bill's could win this game. The Bill's started out very well, though admittedly some of their win's are a bit suspect looking at the quality of their oponents. Couple that with each week, the Bill's playing a bit weaker themselves, makes it a scary game. And the last thing is SD has been a very up and down team. Last week they played like people expected them to play all year and looked like a potential Super Bowl team. Then other weeks they looked as bad as Seattle did against the Bill's. SD is also about in a spot where every week is becoming a must win game for them. They can't afford any more loses and desperate teams tend to play stronger if they really are a good team. So the question to me is which Buffalo team is going to show up, the team that played agaisnt Seattle or Jax, or the one that barely beat Oak and SL. With the injuries, wouldn't be shocked to see them lose, but am hoping SD plays like the typical west coast team that comes east and is thinking of London.

Here's the link in plan text as for some reason what I posted isn't right. Guess I need to take link posting 101 as this is the second time I've screwed up a link. Must be I don't knowhow to do it. http://www.justin.tv/sesame_street

Yes it was justin TV. Here's the address: Justin Personally I thought the quality of the picture is better on Stooge as you can resize the picture to whatever size you want. On Justin you have two choices, about a 3X3 which is kind of small to see very well and full size which is very grainy.

Down in NC, we're getting the Steelers game too.

What does HE look like?

In todays NFL, everyone has that look. Until you have 5 minutes left in a playoff game that you're behind by 30 points, almost all the players have that who cares look. I saw someone, may have been Lynch, laughing on the sideline. It's not like it was 40 years ago.