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Let me be the first to say: OH HELL YEAH!

Ask and ye shall receive, Dean.... Mastodon's chops, as it were: I really like Captain Beyond. Their drummer is the man, time signatures are his B word, the guitarist's solo is nasty. Good prog. good stuff.

Porcupine Tree!!!! they are awesome. more prog/art rock than metal but definitely have metal elements. kinda like tool but less hard. highly recommended.

I would recommend:

That's why I said older news anchor, my man. I put it in perspective. Certainly not the hottest. That Melissa chick pretty much has this thread all wrapped up in a bow. But you gotta respect the Couric, imo. And besides, all the ol' timers 'round here need to ogle someone roughly their own age, and by roughly i mean no more than a quarter century younger than them

I'd like to vote for Katie Couric in the older news anchor hottie category. She is damn sexy for her age, imo.

MILLEN BAD! WAYNE FONTES GOOD!

This thread needs more of this guy

I don't think even Millen can pass up Quinn. I don't think Quinn is the second coming, but he is about as polished a player as exists out there in terms of NFL preparation and without a franchise QB Detroit can't hope to ever be anything than the place they play a Thanksgiving game. Every time I see a Lions highlight, it magically seems like Wayne Fontes is still coaching them. That's how irrelevant they are.

Yes, "win now" and "in the future" are not mutually exclusive. Ask the Patriots. Of course, easier said than done, but you can't "win now" by just buying ever FA on the market ala the Redskins, nor can you exclusively win "in the future" by not signing any FA's and just going with a bunch of rookie draft picks. The Patriots seem to realize the latter this year, if their FA spending spree is any indication.

I just remembered this, fwiw: The Colts got a 2nd and 5th round draft pick, iirc, for Faulk from the Rams. A 2nd and 5th for a HOF player. Good deal, imo.

yes, exactly. i can't understand watching stupid people on even more braindead shows. i understand very well turning off your brain and just watching something to relax but watching the crap that parades around on TV is not what i call relaxing my brain. i don't even get pleasure mocking them because it's too easy; it just make me angry that people are so stupid and uncomfortable that someone would submit themselves to such ridicule on TV.

NO DAMNIT YOU'RE WRONG!!! j/k no i obviously see your point. it is a tough one. i'm completely biased, i admit, and i'm too lazy at the moment to put more effort into a more in-depth argument. hopefully someone else will

couldn't have said it better myself....

As much as I dislike Theismann for his general "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" general display of obnoxious dumbassness, I think he hits the nail on the head on this one: Thurman was the cog of the whole Bills engine. He was the offense and the main reason we had our SB run and without him we would never been so consistent. Faulk is no doubt a great player but he is the 1b, imo.

Eric Allen obviously has his head up his ass.

Well said

Because you don't want the young people to realize there actually is no money backing up the Federal Reserve and that our whole economic system is based on abstraction? I'm being much nicer recently, i think, for some reason, I must confess..

Are you actually saying that random numbers that measure arbitrary statistics don't have very much practical application to how a player performs on the field during a game? No one will believe you!

I actually had to look that up! First time for everything!

Now you're gettin it! If the Bills won the Super Bowl, I would cry like a little girl and I would love it. It would be every cathartic emotional moment in my life released at a single time. Talk about therapy! So until then, my posts will continue to be all repressed and stuff

hmmmmmm.......

Exhibit one in the general "rose colored glasses about the past" trend that dominates these days is the bizarre notion that people are more stupid today than in the past. That is obviously untrue. People have been stupid since day one and are just as mentally stunted now as they have ever been. It is just that the 20th century has brought us ways to exploit our stupidity in more profitable and mass-viewable fashion. That's what the rest of us idiots do when a very small minority of people came up with things like TV and the Internets. We will never in general become an intelligent species until we learn to do something well other than kill and phuck.

Obviously the Dolphins. No contest. /thread