Captain_Curmudgeon

Every year lately, the owners propose to cut two preseason games and make the regular season 18 games. Every year, they back out. I've got a compromise. Make the preseason three games and you can make the regular season 18 games just by eliminating that stupid dead week before the Super Bowl. But the game Friday was so boring that I was watching a highschool game on SLC channel 14 and it was a blowout.

Two words that will make sense to old-time Boston (anything) fans. Johnny Most.No one has surpassed him for sheer lunacy. ("Havlicek steals the ball.")

Sink the Bismarck! Sunk!

Someone should buy Bret a bowling ball and we can hope for the best.The real problem is that football doesn't have a good minor league system nor a Seniors Tour where over-the-hill players who want to continue can go. Favre can and will sell tickets -- he's a colorful and likable guy -- but his playing on at GB cost them. He was losing late-season games all by himself (fumbles and interceptions) and his staying on kept the team from rebuilding. (OTOH, it was probably good for Aaron Rodgers to ride the bench and not get the beating Alex Smith was taking at the Niners.) The Vikes won the division last year. Look for the Bears (or maybe even GBay) this year.

Told my neighbor (another GB fan) that there was no way Favre would play for the Vikes this season. And here he is. Shows how much I know. On the other hand, I think his playing for the Vikes is good for the Bears and the Packers. Look what he did for the Jets last season: kept them out of the playoffs. Look for those late-season interceptions to be game-deciders.

Any comment on Vick joining the Eagles? Is he the something extra they need to get back to the Super Bowl? Is he going to be in the QB rotation or is he going to be (ironically) the Wild Cat? I almost wish the old football term "Red Dog" had stayed around.

Think of it as the best 100 posts of your life. After that, it's all down hill.

According to Madden NFL 10, this season's division winners will be: AFC: New England Pittsburgh Tennessee San Diego ----- Indianapolis Baltimore as wild cards. NFC: Philadelphia Arizona Atlanta Chicago ---- NY Giants Carolina You heard it here first!

Did you ever notice that when a team does a major re-design of their Unis, they have a better season?

Yes. You have until a week from tomorrow to get your first pick in. This thread is support for the NFL-addicted until then.

First NFL "game" is tomorrow night, 6pm MDT, on NBC. This is the Hall of Fame Game played (where else) in Canton, OH, to start it all off. This year, Buffalo and Tennessee. Problem is that it's still a pre-season game, although neither team wants to be shown up too much. So, will TO start his stretch with the Bills by taking a 15-yard excessive celebration in his very first game? Or will he wait until it can really hurt them -- like in the playoffs? Teams that get TO do better in his first and maybe second season and then sink like a stone -- ask Dallas. Picks? I like Tennessee a little more than Buffalo but neither team will be going all out. P.S. Thanks, Doc.

I don't know about that. Borders on unrighteous dominion to make our thread stick to the top of all the sports pages.

Look up "other."

I didn't say people, GL, but you're right, too. We don't have enough people thinking deeply enough about this.

I'm not a bishop (although I sort of look like one from the early days of the church), but if I were, I'd say "Do what you think is right. Our HF isn't some sort of accountant. He's some sort of parent. If you feel good or satisfied about it, it's perfectly OK."

Such feeling are natural and I suspect you can think of many additonal things you could have done. But I can't see how any of them could have led to any other result. In my opinion, I can't see how you failed. I just can't see that. I think you need to forgive yourself, even though you don't need to, and move on. (I've had to pledge to give only theoretical opinions here but) I can't imagine any kind of a hereafter that doesn't manage some of this.It's hard. Hang on.

I could be wrong, but I think you're going to really love bicycle touring.Dang! Hope to hear from you before, during, and after the trip.

We took Jamestown, VA, to Reedsport, OR, in 1976. I've since biked from Portland to Astoria and that's a nice ride, too. Averaged something like 115 miles per day for the first five days and that was a lot of mountain roads. Over Logan canyon to start. In fact, the whole route was plenty of up and down. Crossed the continental divide three or four times, over the Cascades, and the Oregon coast is just one damn cape after another to climb.Didn't ride every day. Liked to stay at good places. Spent more than five days at Jerry Johnsons hot spring in ID over the Fourth of July weekend. Didn't ride a stroke or wear a stitch the whole time. When I got to the Oregon Coast (they had hiker / biker camping there for a buck a night, shower included), I decided to take as much time as I could. I stopped at every wide spot in the road, loafed around every State Beach Park, stopped to have breakfast in a local cafe and meet the people every morning, stopped at bookshops and libraries and museums (I'm a big Lewis and Clark fan and a lot of my routes intersected theirs). Biking was still rare enough then that people liked to talk with me -- even more so during Bikecentennial. Read a lot. Carried plenty of books and liked to read during the afternoons -- shading up until the sun got down from the zenith -- and before going to sleep at night. Wrote a lot. Spent some time finding places to camp (illegally, most of the time). Ran into people who traveled with me a few times, so talked a lot and even played chess. Hot springs. Talked with tons of people. Don't rush. The idea is to have the most fun per mile, not get the most miles per day.

Tell that loser this way or the highway.

I can think of two signs that the Last Days are still far off. Jesus said that before the Last Days the Temple at Jerusalem would be destroyed so that no stone would remain upon another. The Western Wall is still left, with thousands of stones still upon one another.When Temples in Salt Lake Valley are 7 miles apart, I don't think we'll be leaving them for Missouri any time soon.

Interesting to me that Sen Hatch does not oppose embryonic stem cell research. This put him in opposition to some of his right-wing buddies. But a baby does not die to provide these cells. Mormons believe in a pre-existence and that souls are sent from there and do not originate when a sperm combines with an egg. As I used to say, Mormons believe in a God that can tell a womb from a petri dish and other "Christians" don't.

Gospel Way? Whatever happened to the Cowboy Way?

How did I miss this poll? I have plenty of guns (including a collection from a friend of mine who can't have them anymore -- felony conviction) and always have. Plenty of ammo, too. Gave half of it to a friend (in fact, the guy whose guns I now have) and still had enough to classed as a terrorist organization. For home protection, I'd prefer a shotgun, particularly if I'm using it under low- or no-light situations. Street-Sweeper comes to mind but is probably over-kill. Actually, for no-knock warrants, I'd like to get a couple of claymore mines for the front door. For preparedness? I don't really think other people will be much of a threat. But the simplest hand gun or .22 will get you plenty of protein. Stray and former pet canines. Preferred eating in much of the world today and certainly in Pre-Colombian America.

Bikecentennial in 1976 and it was one of the best things I've ever done. Good maps and info are still available from the organization that grew out of it.In 1982, I threw a tent, sleeping bag, etc. (enough to be totally self-reliant) on the bike and rode 3,000 miles in 60 days. Utah, ID, WY, ID, MT, ID, BC up the chain of parks to Jasper, AL, down the west side of the Rockies to central WA, over the Cascades and out to the Olympic Peninsula, and down the coast to California (which was just too weird for me). Do it!

Maybe because He was naked.