Ned Flanders

I really like Steve Rushin...I think he's the best part of SI...and everytime I start to think of letting the subscription run out, they do a photo spread like a couple of weeks ago, when they did a two-pager on the pond hockey tournament...I musta gawked at that pic for a good twenty minutes. Sporting News I let run out when they started to feature NASCAR. If NASCAR's a sport, so is driving to work.

Haven't seen the clip yet, but you know there will be some Leon Lett comparisons...

Local food critic Tom Sietsema in the Washington Post always raves about Jimmy Cantler’s Riverside Inn in Annapolis...never been there, but Sietsema is usually dead-on in his reviews.

Well, don't you think it's a "political" message? (I know, I know....EVERYTHING these clowns do is a political message) I think it's clear, no matter how well-disguised, this type of message belongs on the DCCC site...not the Member's official web page.

Don't know what Lonsberry's beef was, but Slaughter's rant seems very political in nature and thus, in violation of the House rules. If this was on her campaign site, so what...but it's on the taxpayer-funded .gov official site. Content The content of a Member’s Web site: 1. May not include personal, political, or campaign information. 2. May not be directly linked or refer to Web sites created or operated by a campaign or any campaign related entity including political parties and campaign committees. 3. May not include grassroots lobbying or solicit support for a Member’s position. 4. May not generate, circulate, solicit, or encourage signing petitions. 5. May not include any advertisement for any private individual, firm, or corporation, or imply in any manner that the government endorses or favors any specific commercial product, commodity, Link

Snyder is not tall enough for any of the rides, so he decided to buy the place.

I'm partial to Eagle fans...they talk a big game and strut like they've actually won something, but the only thing they got going for them is Mama McNabb. They are the worst in all of sport.

Lobby firms and trade associations. Any decent firm or organization in this town, and there are alot of them, doesn't think twice about coughing up this amount for tix. BUT, if some of the new lobby rules go into effect, i.e. no entertainment for congressional members and staff, you will soon see these tickets go unsold...it would not be worth it for the big firms to buy season tickets anymore.

"...Dick Jauron's nowhere-to-go-but-up Bills." Cripes, I guess that's one way of looking at it...

Anyways, FWIW, here's my top five reasons you can't blame Scott Norwood for losing Super Bowl XXV: 5. The Bills abandoned the running game. Thurman was running wild, should have been the MVP, and should have been featured earlier in the game. 4. Lost chances. Due to Giant hits, Andre Reed suddenly afraid of going over the middle. Bruce does not swat the ball out of Hostetler’s paw in the end zone, resulting in a safety not a TD. 3. Mark Ingram’s (sp?) catch on third and forever. Kept a Giant TD drive alive as Ingram broke several tackles (most notably Shane Conlon). EDIT 2/6/06: I've since learned it was Talley and Odomes that whiffed on Ingram. 2. Marv Levy. Marv never had control of his troops when they invaded a Super Bowl city. Bills players have recently boasted of the partying in Tampa during the short Super Bowl week. 1. It was a loooooong FG attempt. On grass. 47 yards. Never known for a strong leg, the chances of Norwood making the kick were no more than 30 percent before the ball was even snapped. TSW link

OK, I know "senior people" too...and I'm not going to get into a pi$$ing match as to who knows more senior people...but I am told quite the opposite. Does this guy come off as an Einstein? No. But this whole "Bush is an idiot" thing is getting a little out of hand...

Looking like the Skins at the Cowboys will be the Thanksgiving night game. A number of media outlets are reporting the Cowboys and Redskins will play the first regular season game telecast on the two-year-old NFL Network. The game will be one of three played on Thanksgiving Day and will air in prime time, as an additional game is added to the holiday lineup. The game begins a new eight-game package that will air on NFL Network on Thursday and Saturday nights starting this fall. Link

And it wasn't even close to being sold out...I believe it was even blacked out in the LA area.

No, it's the "world premier." Yeah, I saw the poll too

Don't forget Feb 2 on Classic, the Top Five Reasons You Can't Blame Scott Norwood... Link

That was Supe XXVII...how could that not have motivated the Bills in Supe XXVIII?!?!?! Pork-Faced Satan: "That morning, I knew we were going to win, I just didn't know by how much." What the F$%^*#...I guess it merely motivated the Bills for the first half...

Not quite, Bills scored first and LA followed up with the FG. What I remember was listening to the radio the night before, waiting for the war dispatches from Iraq...for some reason, I thought something catostraphic was going to happen over there and I thought the game was going to be postponed...felt they way the whole drive up from DC on the Friday before the game, and the whole way to the stadium on Sunday. Other than the football, I remember the USMA band marching off toward the tunnel end zone after the National Anthem...chills ran down my spine.

Skins getting 9 points is awfully tempting...I'm saying they cover the spread and lose by four. Being in DC, maybe the over-blown hype has tainted the mind, but the Skins are peaking at exactly the right time...I look for them to give the SeaBags all they can handle.

I've said it before, the Monk issue is big here in DC and if the Skins had not gotten so far in the playoffs, it would be numero uno... King has said time and again that he works to keep Monk outta the HOF as much as others work to get him in. His favorite story comes from when he was a beat writer at Newsday and all the Giants told him they feared Gary Clark more than Monk....hence he feels the 'second-best' receiver on a team shouldn't be the one going to Canton.

God, just to win something this year would be uplifting...

This box score has it at 41 yards. 41 yarder

A man can die but once, but don't try to tell that to Bills fans, who've died 1,000 deaths. How do you lose a playoff game on a contested backward lateral kickoff return. Just after your kicker boots a 51-yard field goal that apparently has won the game with 16 seconds left? Only Bills fans know. I don't remember Christie's kick being 51 yards...I believe it was much closer than that.

Remember the Blue-Gray game? I think it was played in Montgomery, AL on Christmas Day... The only thing I remember from those games was the 'southern belles' that use to patrol the sidelines.

Wrote in a post yesterday...there is nothing equal in American sport to losing four Super Bowls in a row. The rest be damned...were the most miserable...by far.

My heart bleeds purple pi$$ for him... I'm sorry, but there is no other feeling in American sport that rivals losing four Super Bowls in a row...no Red Sox (until recently), Cubs, Browns, Jets, or Philly fan can match it, no matter what the national media portrays.