Ned Flanders

Unfortunately, just another example of parents' ongoing destruction of youth sports. I feel sorry for the young girl softball players who had to witness this pathetic display. And it's happening all over the country, I see it all too often in my supposed "affluent" area of Fairfax County, Virginia. I've witnessed, not on this scale fortunately, parent misbehavior in our elementary school basketball league. It's just a damn shame.

This is outstanding! You should contact Paul or Phil over at uni-watch.com as they're always on the lookout for stories like this. REALLY cool stuff!!!!

In Rochester, we use to get a lot of Browns games also. Still a good many Browns fans in ROC. I don't remember the AFL Bills being on a lot in Rochester, as the home games were blacked out, regardless of sellout, until 1973. I started out a Raider fan, who were on TV it seemed like every Sunday, loved Daryl Lamonica, then moved to the Vikings after they lost to the hated Chiefs in Supe IV. Went to the first game at then Rich Stadium on September 30, 1973 and have been a Bills fan since. Of course, that was the year every kid in WNY had a "Miami's Got the Oranges, But Buffalo's Got the Juice" t-shirt, so it was an easy transition.

Same here.

As Ruddy's father said upon entering Notre Dame Stadium, "This is the most beautiful site these eyes have seen."

Wasn't Rick Azar the main PBP guy at that time or was it Meltzer? Ed Rutkowski was in the booth with them too.

Growing up in Rochester, I would live and die with the Red Wings and we usually had some rising stars stay in town for two full seasons. Don Baylor, Bobby Grich, Doug DeCinces, and Al Bumbry, and later Cal Ripken, were favorites and the fans really cared if the team won or lost on a given night. I use to follow the standings daily and developed a love for the Orioles that continues to this day (not so much this year, haha). Moving to the DC area over 30 years ago, going to Orioles and now Nats games, has replaced the minor league experience. Seems when I go back to Rochester, we go to a Wings game and the experience, like others have said, is night and day. Fans give an appreciative clap when the Wings make a good play but I don't sense the same passionate fervor that use to envelop the ballpark...they all seem to be just interested in getting to the next mid-inning promotion or gimmick. Don't get me wrong, there's a certain charm, and favorable price structure, associated with minor league ball, it simply can't compare to The Show.

"Akagi, smashed and sinking..."

Vanilla custard at Abbott's in Rochester, preferably the Charlotte location.

You get a good, clear look at the cheerleaders the closer you are to the field...wait...what?!?

Hope to get to Jeff Lynne in Philly in August; and some possibles at Wolf Trap in Virginia, which is one of the better venues around as you can BYOB and food. Most venues won't let you take in a toothpick.

Hmm...one common denominator with all of these whiffs, except for Rex....

Tom Ruud and Bob Nelson, two high LB picks from Nebraska in 1975...neither panned out. Tom Cousineau of course is on the list, but when we traded him to the Browns, the draft pick we got in return was used to draft Jim Kelly. Perry Tuttle also belongs on the list. Al "This is AC Damn It!" Cowlings is another. And letting Bill Polian go was a huge mistake.

Kelly white Bob Chandler blue Biscuit blue, no NOB Poyer blue Watkins blue

Nope, they had to win @NE the next week and lost, so they had to win at SF in the finale and clinch. A great season could have turned brutally south with a loss at SF. That came about a little earlier I believe, after beating OAK in game four. It was DL Dee Hardison that started that little ditty.

"?Mike-Mayer kickin'...on a Chuck Knox Super Bowl team...?" Ah, WNY Christmas songs of the early 1980s...

But what about your cooler that went missing? That's the type of hi-jinx, tomfoolery, and monkey shines that needs to end.

That's one job where you start at the bottom and stay there...

That '83 team was an enigma, wrapped in a riddle. Got off to a good start, only to drop a bomb at home against the Jets on MNF. They were 7-4 at one point but lost four our of their last five to fall out of playoff contention. All the main parts, save for coach Chuck Knox, remained from the 1980-81 playoff teams, but they just couldn't get over the hump. By the next season, they fell to 2-14 with a similar disaster to follow in 1985. By '86, their savior had arrived and things began to turn upward.

Thank you. I've been harping on this for years and it's the reason I won't get the white throwback. Either Nike, the Bills, or both, are lazy here.

Todd Rundgren here in DC Wednesday night is tempting, although the seats are in the nosebleeds. He played at the Birchmere, a much smaller venue, last year and that seems to be a better place for him. The Warner Theater, where he's at Wednesday night, looks to have about a third of the available tickets sold, if that. I looked at this concert when seats first went on sale and I think the cheapest were $65.

Sheesh, all the owners did.

This was one of the best shows on network television, ever. With Munch moving on to SVU, is his character's run longer than that of Frasier's?

On a related note, Modern Family is now unwatchable. First three seasons were "appointment television" but since then, it's become a train wreck. All of the characters, except for Jay, are boorish cads. I've tried it a couple of times this season and have had to turn it off less than five minutes in. This show can't end fast enough. End of rant.

That thread will live on in TSW lore forever.