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Once he learns to “play within himself,” he can “play with intensity” as long as he “takes one play at a time” and “one game at a time” but if he “tries to do too much with the ball,” he’ll soon find himself “playing out the string” and be stuck “trying to play the spoiler” while the other team “continues their march to the playoffs.”

My buddy and I have turned the Niagara Falls and chicken wing shots into a drinking game..

Peters is a clase second, but watching Lamonica go was like watxhing AFL champions and SB contenders slip into also-rans for twenty years. The other guys were just “lamonica-ed” away. I’m not sure Bradh belongs on the list, but Robert Woods might belong if he can remain productive for a few more years.

Not a football story but here goes. A couple friends and I went to a practice round at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio in 1992. Sometime in mid-afternoon, a thunderstorm rolled through, and everyone got off the course. I ended up spending some time with Rocco Mediate—a whole other story—while my buddies took cover. Most of the fans left. We decided to wait to see if practice would resume. And it did! About 4:30 or so, the skies cleared up, and Tom Watson came out to “get nine holes in,” as he told us and the few other people still there. What a cool guy! We pretty much left him alone, but whenever he was near us behind the ropes—which wasn’t often—he acknowledged the few fans there. On some green—I wanna say the par five that clears the little creek but don’t recall which hole—he came to the rough behind the green six or eight feet from where we were standing and started dropping balls. It was straight downhill, and try as he might, he couldn’t stop the ball within about ten feet of the cup. We assimed he was weighing the risk of going for the green in two and ending up over the green vs. laying up. Anyway, after about a dozen balls, I leaned to my buddy and said within earshot of Watson, “I think I could get within six feet or so.” Watson stopped, looked down, slowly turned to me, and smiled: ”Yep. That would be why you’re on that side of the rooes.”

I thought the kerning on the "BILLS" text in the end zones was a little too tight, but overall, the Detroit folks did a great job. Ralph would be proud.

There you go again, demeaning his argument just because you don't agree! He's clearly talking about a more sophisticated organization.

The trouble is that Marcel's smack down of Ivory at the Jets two yard line was priceless.

A pretty big one.

Fred Jackson represents . . . always. He makes me proud to be a fan.

I always have a hard time listening to the FOX crews because I am fixated on how much I hate that robot.

Thank you for this.

. . . and on the Habersham County, Georgia Development Authority. http://www.habershamga.com/files/Meeting408_MINUTES%2005192014.pdf (page 5)

Robey was rubbed out and burnt on San Diego's first drive for 50+ yards. I didn't see much of him after that.

RU Kidding me?!

RIP. He had a great couple years. If memory serves, he had a game-winner at the Ralph during Tennessee's fondly-recalled Vince Young era.

I think you took that post for granite.

Whoa there! I'm still deciding whether or not to be a Clippers fan.

Good call: an oft overlooked game that began a winning streak for a playoff spot. I seem to recall Hooks making a spectacular diving catch to get the Bills in position for that Hail Mary.

I'll see your Al Cowlings with. Perry Tuttle.

I said CJ's run put the ball inside the 35, and I was wrong. I was angry about the first and second down calls after that run and let my anger blind me. My bad.

I'll need to check the depth chart, but I hope Smith is the fourth string QB.

If your running back rips off 15+ yards to get inside the 35 and call three passes, you punt and hope no one notices.

The Metrodome?

Nix thought we had New Orleans on the road this Sunday.

I couldn't agree more. Fitz can't throw deep with any consistency and the entire NFL knows it; our "playoff-quality" defense is not very good when it needs to be. Teams win and lose games like today, not players.