The Big Cat

My bad. Somebody must be blamed. It must be one guy's fault.

As someone who actually lives in Chicago, I must interject: The Westside of Chicago is a DMZ, was during Bush/Daley, continued during Obama/Daley, and persists during Obama/Emanuel--it's not the mayor's fault. To profess so is utterly absurd.

Love it! Thanks for the recap.

If I'm following this thread correctly--and I have no reason to believe I'm not--the REAL story here is that in the epic showdown between our man (Russ) and their* man (Gronk), it was the good guys who reigned victorious. Sounds like a big !@#$ing win for Bills Nation to me!!

Sounds like somebody's cranky because Russ was invited and she wasn't...

All of your criticisms of the show (particularly the bolded section) can be distilled to one fact: it's written by Aaron Sorkin. For a newsies critique, check this out: http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2012/07/sorkins_newsroom_who_what_when.html

That's great advice, billsfan89. I graduated in 06, took a non-career job right out of the gate (b2b telecom sales), decided to get my act together, floundered for a year or two, hit a couple home runs in graduate school, and started my "career" about a year and a half ago. Meanwhile, I have four post-college friends who started the career grind IMMEDIATELY after college and hit a wall before they each turned 28. Two of them went back to business school (what a raging farce that is, even though one of them went to Booth (U of Chicago), the other Kellogg (Northwestern.)Now the Booth grad is knee deep in a job search, while the Kellogg guy has another year, though he's since accepted the reality of having to relocate from Chicago to the Twin Cities for work once he's finished. Another one of my buddies quit his job to play online poker professionally, which worked out well until the Feds clamped down the website and he lost every penny he invested/won/lost in the process, so he now sinks his money into a blog that he runs with friend number four, who quit his job a little over a year go and is now going through a full-on quarter life crisis (white guy problems, yes, but he's a mess). All these guys had their eyes on the prize when they were 22, and have since found their veritable forks in the road. Some of the older posters here will scoff when I say this because they know much more profoundly than I do--but you'll be amazed at home much life you have to live between now and 30. Things get A LOT different when your annual calendar isn't segmented into 9 month increments that refresh every September.

You graduated in May and you're worried your career hasn't started yet?

nope

In the 30+ years my alma mater high school has had a varsity water polo program, only one guy scored more goals than me (and he and I graduated together). During that time, we won the state championship--the first team state championship in my high school's then 48 year history. In the eleven years since, there have been several team championships, but we were and will always be the first.

A constipated mathematician came to me looking for relief. I gave him a pencil and told him to work it out.

"I see," said the blind carpenter. Then he picked up his hammer and saw. "Ah yes," said the lumber jack peeing into the wind. "It's all coming back to me." Two peanuts were walking down the street, one was assaulted.

The more I say it, the more folks around here have begun to understand it--so I'll say it again: For the first seven or eight games last year we HAD a pass rush. We weren't getting sacks, granted. BUT we were getting a **** load of interceptions. Once Williams and Merriman bit the dust, so did our turnover generation. Now that we've amped up the front line AND the backfield, our defense--if healthy--will be a turnover machine, mark my words. On third and long, opposing quarterbacks will have two options: the turf or a turnover. POW

Always pretty, never popular, never knew how pretty they were/are, suddenly the 'popular kid' who never had the time of day is fawning all over them and--to your point--since there is a veritable absence of self esteem, POW, scandal.

Fourth Row, corner end zone 2005 SATURDAY night game against Denver. Couldn't see a damn thing--ALL action at the opposite end of the field!

Happy Birthday! I"m heading to a lake house next weekend for my birthday. And my buddies just sent around ye-olde logistics email asking if I had any special requests for liquor, etc. I promptly forwarded the link!

Also wanted to add: the best part of this team is that our season doesn't rest in the balance of these unproven commodities...first time in a LONG time that's been the case.

They're definitely very very high on the unproven-players-who-stand-to-make-a-significant-impact list.

Hahaha, this post made me LOL at work.

?? So all scientific resources, spanning all scientific disciplines should go to...cancer?

Very cool!!

1956, 1967, 1978--so number four should be somebody born in 1989, which includes--you guessed it--Daniel Radcliffe. Surely you looked this up ahead of time.

Can you imagine trying to explain to a guy from 1986, that in the not-so-distant future there would be a very real possibility of Tom Cruise and John Travolta becoming an item...

Well said. My head almost exploded during the first scene of Social Network. It was FAR too much Sorkin for me to handle. I've also heard some tepid reviews of Newsroom. But between WW and Sports Night, one doesn't need to see much Sorkin to have seen it all. This has been making its rounds, and it's sickening:

Nope. There was virtually no fallout in Baltimore after Billick left, and Gruden, for as young as he is, and for as much success as he found so early, is still employed...as a broadcaster.