Offside Number 76

Troy Smith, Matt Leinart, Jason White, Eric Crouch, Chris Weinke, Danny Wuerffel, Charlie Ward, Ty Detmer, Andre Ware, and Vinny Testaverde all recommend against that. And with the others, it's too soon to tell.

It's a $710,000 house and you think $15,000 in taxes is highway robbery? It's a pretty common configuration for a townhouse. It's a great location. It definitely is not a gated community, but I do believe that there is more than one unit in that building.

I would reverse the decision to fire Bill Polian.

Good move locking out Floyd. I think that's going to make the next CMD considerably more credible.

No, it isn't.

Warde Manuel to Connecticut. I'm not sure whether this is good or bad. I'm betting on NYS to put some politico in there instead of a real AD. On the other hand, I don't think too much of Manuel.

Consider the first sentence: "The NFL, which is trying to maintain its TV blackout of home games that don't sell out, missed an opportunity 40 years ago to preserve an even more restrictive policy when it rebuffed an effort by President Richard Nixon to lift the hometown blackout just for playoff games." I think the writer misses this point: Had the NFL not moved to the less-restrictive policy that it has now (blackouts only for home games that don't sell out, as opposed to blackouts for all home games), it never would have become the league that it is today. Television made the NFL.

And now they've booked a game at Ohio State. This won't be interesting.

Good news and please do keep us posted. Is there a league website? I could follow French football during the offseason.

Ack. Another "name the last time the Bills did this... but your answer doesn't count because..." thread.

I've had a relationship ruined by it, although I will say that it does not appear to be ruining her life.

Cute, but it didn't really turn up much in the way of answers, did it?

According to the article, it isn't crack. It's the far less deadly version. Still, hope the kid gets some help.

There's an easy St. Joe's joke in there somewhere, but Blitzer graduated from Ken West. He's pretty seriously Jewish (not that St. Joe's hasn't had Jewish students over the years; I'm sure that it has).

So let's rephrase: Has anyone seen a local paper saying that the local team should make a play for Stevie?

Hey Olivier--this sounds like an awesome opportunity for a kid who is right out of school. Have you considered direct emails to D3 coaches?

I don't really want the whole team doing backflips and round-offs when they're announced at the beginning of games.

The dive he pulled on Florence is still fresh in my mind.

Whoa, whoa. You are DEFINITELY wrong on a lot of levels. First, the restaurants here are incredible. Better than NYC and Chicago? No. As good as or better than any other city in North America that I've been to? Yes. Second, within the last two years, the city has received rave reviews from architecture tourists, garden tourists (yeah, there's such a thing, apparently), and the travel sections of two leading (and by leading, I mean international: the Toronto Star and the New York Times) newspapers. And I'm not being defensive about Buffalo: I'm one of the people admitting that Brady was right about the hotels. Please, by all means, stay in Seattle or wherever.

I've stayed in all three. The Mansion is the only one that comes close to a "five-star" hotel, and it isn't one. The Embassy Suites is nice because it's new, but as above, it's got a horrible restaurant. (There are good ones within walking distance, though.) But it's not a five-star hotel, either. And the Hyatt is a dump.

Except there was no link to Chinese counterfeiters. There were links to new designs and one guy's remark, a few posts later, about Chinese counterfeiters. If there were a link to Chinese counterfeiters, Scott would be wise to remove it and reprimand/expel the poster. That's not what happened here, and I don't think the NFL's suits are going to give a **** that someone made a remark. They're powerful, sure, but they're too busy for this nonsense.

No, it really isn't. Our hotels are far from great. The Mansion is wonderful, but small and unknown; the Embassy Suites is nice but has bad food; the rest of the downtown hotels are average at best. I've never been to the Millenium, but I know that the Marriott out in Amherst is a POS. The guy is right; our hotels aren't that great. We can live with that.

Counterfeit jerseys made by ten-year-olds in China is a big issue with me, too, but that's not what anyone in this thread linked to, is it?

It's an unpopular opinion, but I agree with you. Lots of touchbacks from Moorman.

Maybe so. NHL also sells an audio-only version of Center Ice for mobile devices for $9.99, but that league may be more focused on growing its fanbase and therefore more tolerant of local radio stations streaming the games. IIRC, that was the first league to have all games streamed for free over the Internet--and that was in the dialup era.