Jim Phaserman
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Talking to Julie, she says that more than likely, a second stroke wouldn't kill him, if it were like the first one, BUT, it would leave him in a much worse physical condition, and certainly unable to play Ball again. However, if the doctors believe he can play without risk, and he is up to par...well, I guess let him play. He's an adult, and can make an educated decision. if he wants to risk it, let him risk it.
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By the way, Game 3 ended at something like 1:30 AM Wednesday, Game 4 ended by 11:15 Wednesday...first time in World Series History that a team has won 2 games in the series during 1 Calender Day.
Also, I wish I could find my digital Camera...We are flying a Broom from the flagpole, in honor of the sweep. This comes from an old Naval Tradition that when a ship scores perfect or nearly so on it's builder's trials, they fly a broom from the main mast, indicating a "Clean Sweep"
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Those are great, absolutely. Has me ROFLMFAO right now...
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Krissy uncorked the wine....She went nuts when the game ended, too.
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Alright, put yourself in Bill Belichek's shoes. Your defense is suffering from a rash of Injuries, and now your all-Pro Inside Linebacker Tedy Bruschi, supposedly sitting out this season after suffering a stroke earlier this year, says he's cleared to play. Assuming, of course, that he is able to practice at his normal level, and still looks sharp, would you play him? Consider the risks of possibly having another stroke (a second would probably end his career), or of him just not being able to play. Also consider that he is probably the best all around Middle Linebacker in the NFL. he's better than Urlacher, Better than Derrick Brooks, and could if nothing else lend an emotional burst to a battered Patriots Defense. It's a tough call. What would you do?
I, personally, would check with the Team Doctors and Bruschi's physicians, evaluate the medical risks of him playing, then make my decision based on their advice. I wouldn't go with what happens during Contact practices because the hits in practice generally aren't as fierce as those in a game situation. if the Docs say he is good to go, and he looks good, I'd play him.
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Cool thing about where you live, AE, is that on Christmas Morning you can get up, eat breakfast, go skying, have lunch, and then go to the beach. I remember doing that a few times when I was a kid living in Southern Cali.
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I just set it to Klingon....This is great. Now if I can teach it to speak Valderan. My phone does, when I turn it on, it says "Jukaghta Rich, Jim"
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Wellington Mara, NFL's senior owner, dies at 89By DAVE GOLDBERG, AP Football Writer
October 25, 2005
AP - Oct 25, 12:02 pm EDT
Mara, Left, owner of the NY Giants, at his hall of fame induction in 1997.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Every NFL fan owes a huge debt to Wellington Mara, who died Tuesday at 89.
So does every owner, executive and player.
Mara, who joined the New York Giants as a ballboy the day his father purchased the team 80 years ago and became co-owner as a teenager, was the face of the franchise for more than a half century.
But he also was the patriarch of the NFL, a man who was willing for more than 40 years to split the millions in television revenues he could have made in the nation's largest market with the Green Bays and Pittsburghs of the league.
It put the NFL at the top of America's sports hierarchy.
``He shaped nearly every rule and philosophy we have in our league today,'' said Ernie Accorsi, the Giants general manager. ``Most of all, he was the moral conscience of the National Football League. He now joins the pantheon of incredible men who made this league what it has become.''
Said commissioner Paul Tagliabue: ``Wellington Mara represented the heart and soul of the National Football League. He was a man of deep conviction who stood as a beacon of integrity. When Well Mara stood to speak at a league meeting, the room would become silent with anticipation because all of us knew we were going to hear profound insights born of eight decades of league experience.''
The last of the NFL's founding generation, Mara, elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997, died of cancer at his home in Rye, the team said.
One of Mara's greatest contributions came in the early 1960s when he and brother Jack agreed to share television revenue on a league wide basis soon after Pete Rozelle became commissioner. That deal allowed the NFL to thrive and remains in place today.
``Wellington Mara was a true pioneer who understood what it took to make the National Football League great,'' said Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association. ``History will show that his vision, integrity and willingness to share with small market clubs paved the way for economic success.''
In 1989, Mara and group of older owners wanted Rozelle's successor to be Jim Finks, then the New Orleans general manager, rather than Tagliabue, then a league lawyer. Mara thought the league should be run by a football man.
But Mara and several other ``old-guard'' owners finally agreed to break a stalemate of four months by throwing their votes to Tagliabue. Mara became one of the new commissioner's staunchest supporters, a man Tagliabue often leaned on for advice.
Mara became a Giants' ballboy at age 9 on Oct. 18, 1925 after his father, Timothy J. Mara, bought the team. He stayed fully involved in New York's operation for almost 80 years, except for the three years he served in the Navy during World War II. Until he became ill last spring, he attended most practices and every game.
In 1930, at 14, his father made him co-owner with older brother Jack.
He ran the club until several years ago, when his son John took over day-to-day operations. But from 1979 on, while the team was run by general managers George Young and Accorsi, Mara had final say on football decisions. He was the one who decided to fire Jim Fassel after the 2003 season and replace him with Tom Coughlin.
Coughlin remembered Mara as an owner who stayed away from the coaches -- except when he was needed.
``I'll never forget when I was here as an assistant in 1988,'' he said. ``We lost the last game of the year to the New York Jets and didn't go into the playoffs. The next day he was in the coaches' meeting room, and he went from coach to coach, shaking everybody's hand. In 1989 we were in the playoffs and the next year we won the Super Bowl. We never saw him at that time. He didn't have to be there. He was there when he was needed. He always said and did the right thing.''
Before last Sunday's game against Denver, Coughlin told his players of Mara's condition. The Giants won on a touchdown pass from Eli Manning to Amani Toomer with 5 seconds left. In the locker room after the game, the players chanted ``Duke, Duke, Duke,'' Mara's nickname.
Manning later said he had been told by one of Mara's grandsons that the owner awakened in time to see the winning play, then smiled and went back to sleep.
Two other Giants stars, Tiki Barber and Jeremy Shockey, went to Mara's home on Monday. ``We were able to say a prayer and say goodbye, and that meant a lot to me,'' Barber said.
Mara always repaid his players -- once a Giant, you were a Giant for life.
When former players became ill, Mara would find them doctors, pay their medical expenses and arrange help for their families. Many old-timers were on the payroll as scouts or advisers. Even in this era of sophisticated scouting, it wasn't unusual for Young or Accorsi to get a call from a former player recommending the Giants look at some prospect.
The team was almost always well aware of the prospect, but Mara never dropped any of those old ``scouts'' from the payroll.
Mara always considered himself a football man first, running the on-field operations through the 1950s until 1979 while Jack and then Jack's son Tim ran the business end. The team was successful during the '50s and early '60s with such stars as Frank Gifford, Y.A. Tittle, Sam Huff and Roosevelt Brown and a coaching staff that included Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi as assistants.
But after losing to Chicago in the 1963 NFL championship game, the Giants began a long slide, failing to make the playoffs again until 1981 as Wellington and Tim, by then the co-owner, feuded.
In 1979, on the commissioner's recommendation, the Maras agreed to hire Young as general manager and the team again became a power.
It won Super Bowls in 1986 and 1990 with Bill Parcells coaching a team that starred Lawrence Taylor and Phil Simms and stout defenses. The 1990 team featured one of the best coaching staffs assembled: future head coaches Coughlin, Bill Belichick, Al Groh, Charlie Weis, Romeo Crennel and Ray Handley.
Parcells left after that season and the Giants slipped into the middle of the pack.
They made the Super Bowl again after the 2000 season, losing to the Baltimore Ravens, owned by Art Modell, Mara's close friend and longtime partner in league matters. Mara never openly criticized Modell's move from Cleveland and they celebrated getting to the Super Bowl together.
In 1991, Tim Mara and his family sold their share of the team to Robert Tisch. Tisch and Wellington Mara were officially co-owners and Tisch ran much of the business affairs. But it was always clear this was Wellington's team.
Still, he was never an authoritarian. He would greet players after every game -- win or lose -- flashing a shy smile at stars and scrubs alike.
``My wife said it best when we talked about Mr. Mara,'' said Simms, the quarterback on the Giants Super Bowl teams and now a television analyst. ``She said, 'There are so few icons left.' That's what Mr. Mara was. He was from an era where there were certain men who handled themselves differently than everybody else. I don't know if you can be that person anymore in this day and age. I don't know if society would let you be like him.''
Mara is survived by wife Ann, 11 children and 40 grandchildren. The funeral Mass will be Friday morning at St. Patricks Cathedral in New York.
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You don't need to understand that to watch football, LOTB. But, being a coach, I need to know that stuff.
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I'll disagree on one thing, VBG. They can't afford to bench Favre. I don't think that you can write this season off for the Packers, not with them being in the NFC North, where EVERYONE sucks. The problem isn't Favre. The problem is the supporting cast, and honestly, Brett Favre is all that's holding this offense together.
This is Brett Favre's Stats for 2005, according to Yahoo! Sports...
QB rtg 87.6 Comp 120 att. 186 % 64.5 Ydg 1256 ypg 251.2 ypg 6.8 td 12 int 8
In case you were wondering...
Brett Favre is 4 points above the League Average for Quarterback Rating, and leads the league in Touchdowns thrown. He is 7th on the overall list for Yardage.
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I've seen that picture before, it's the US Army's planned Infantry Combat Uniform 21 or something like that. Put a camo pattern on it and it will look perfect
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Rednecks are anyone who is white, Christian, and racist/homophobic. That pretty much encompasses the whole of the South and a fair bite of the North.
Wow, Validus, I'm really starting to measure how open your mind is in milimeters...
Yes it is. You should be ashamed and you should be looked down upon if you think being a "Redneck" is the least bit cool...because it isn't.
that's YOUR opinion, Validus, and please, read above for what I think about you're opinions...
Rednecks are anyone who is white, Christian, and racist/homophobic. That pretty much encompasses the whole of the South and a fair bite of the North.
I live in the South and I know for a fact not everyone in the South is racist, nor are they what I define as redneck (a definition upon which not everyone agrees). Nor, from my experience is everyone anti/gay-rights - not to say prejudice doesn't exist. However, I also spent some time living in the West and as one person pointed out to me while I was there - there are racial prejudices there as well - just aimed at different races and I'm sure the same can be said for all regions of the country.
Rednecks in my observation are usually less educated, not big on the Emily Post book of etiquette, and they like hunting, dogs, beer, trucks, country music, beer, NASCAR, beer, cowboy boots, and wrestling and any kind of vehicle that makes a lot of noise. I know for a fact such people exist outside of the South.
Hmm...Check my avatar...I have a black cowboy hat, I'm drinking some MGD, I own TWO hunting rifles and am planning a trip up north when hunting season comes...Not a big wrestling fan...oh, and I LOVE me some country music.
YEEE_HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Your images aren't showing up, Psy.
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I wouldn't think those were Marines, then. Why have a Marine Corps that's going to do the same job as the Starfleet Line Officers? I'd think the Marines would be trained for ground combat, and probably have a different uniform....
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Winless no more in Titletown! Someone, somewhere, in the NFL is probably watching the Packers/Saints gamefilm and going "What the hell...?" The Packers dominated the Saints, who are a decent team, all day long. The Packers gave up a field goal early, but then began to heap it on. 7 touchdowns, 5 offensively, 2 defensively, and 1 field goal contributed to the Packers win. The Packers' much maligned Defense came up with 3 Interceptions (Al Harris had 2, including 1 TD, and Nick Barnett had 1, which he ran back 95 yards for paydirt). Green Bay did not turn the ball over at all, and Brett Favre came up big with 3 touchdown passes. The Saints gave up a total of 5 turnovers. After the first quarter, Duece McCallister basically was a non-player, and with Joe Horn out, the Packers' pass defense had an easy job. Final Score: Green Bay 52, New Orleans 3.
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the grey-blue really stands out, though. By the way, for those wondering, YES, the color pattern for the uniform I posted IS from the new Marine Corps Digi-Camo. I actually had a really huge file with the pattern on it, and shrunk it down to about 1% of it's original size and then repeated it, rotating it, and cutting it oddly to get the pattern you see.
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In the sim I am in, we have a division of Marines. I keep thinking, there is no way Marines would go into combat without some sort of Camo uniform. Obviously, a winter-type situation would be easy---white. But what about a forest area? Or a desert? I have an idea for a forest pattern combat uniform, tell me what you guys think...
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It kinda reminds me of ships I design, I tend to take alot of inspiration from the Soveriegn class. I like the design.
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Tom came up with the idea, I just did the design work.
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I think alot of people still apply the term to Country Music Fans. and we don't complain. the terms "Hick", "Hillbilly" and "Redneck" are embraced by country music fans the way terms like Trekkie and Trekker are embraced by Star Trek Fans.And Jim, Where'd you put my Gretchen Wilson CD?
It's in the CD player of your husband's truck, Kris. as I recall, it's right where YOU left it...
Speaking of songs containing the terms redneck, 1. Read my signature, 2. John Rich actually wrote a song for a new artist named Jason Aldeen called "Hicktown" (Great Song). 3. if I recall, the music video for "Redneck Yacht Club" was filmed not in Mississippi or Kentucky or Tenessee, but in WISCONSIN! and 4. Anyone heard Brooks and Dunn's song "Hillbilly Deluxe"? or Hot Apple Pie's "Hillbillies"? Great songs both.
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I think Rednecks get a bum deal, everyone thinks that they are racist hicks who do nothing but sit around and burn crosses and sing "Dixie" all day. being a "Redneck" is something you shouldn't be ashamed of, or be looked down upon for. Gretchen Wilson is proud to be a Redneck Woman, and by god, she should be! Jeff Foxworthy was quoted earlier, but for those of you Rednecks out there, I want you to know, Keep that neck of yours' red and, if I may quote one of Jeff's buddies, Larry the Cable Guy, "GIT-R-DONE!" That's right!
By the way, being a "Redneck" ain't restricted to whitefolk. There are african american rednecks, too. Some, though, such as Country Rapper ("Hick Hop") Cowboy Troy prefere the term "Blackneck"
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Actually, it was a clever manipulation of a forward view of a Dominion Attacker...
Very true. But, would they be very good fighters? Or would they be shotty, expendable craft built for an expendable pilot? If the latter, than it would be possible that a Starfleet-built Fighter might actually be able to defend the fleet against it.
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If the Dominion had a small, one person fighter craft (Not the larger, 70+ meter attackers that were featured prominantly) what would it look like? I think it might resemble...
This ugly Duckling....
Does that look somewhat accurate?
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My brother took a class at the College of Lake County called "Sociology Through Star Trek" in Spring of 2004, the class ended 6 months before this article was written. The idea is, as you can tell, not unique to the Decatur, IL university. I guess if the teacher is crazy enough..
What are you guys opinions?
I'd Like To Dedicate This Song To......
in The Cotton Candy Factory
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I'd like to dedicate this one to my dear sister-in-law Krissy, who lived the lyrics of this song last night while celebrating a Sox Sweep with her good buddies Jose, Jack, and the Cap'n.
Artist/Band: Nichols Joe
Lyrics for Song: Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs
SHE SAID i'M GOING OUT WITH MY GIRLFRIENDS
MAGUARITAS AT THE HOLIDAY INN
OH MERCY...MY ONLY THOUGHT
WAS TEQUILA MAKES HER CLOTHES FALL OFF
I TOLD HER PUT AN EXTRA LAYER ON
I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SHE DRINKS PATRON
HER CLOSETS MISSING HALF THE THINGS SHE BOUGHT
TEQUILA MAKES HER CLOTHES FALL OFF
CHORUS
....SHE'LL START BY KICKING OUT OF HER SHOES
LOSE AN EARRING IN HER DRINK
LEAVE HER JACKET IN THE BATH ROOM STALL
DROP A CONTACT DOWN THE SINK
THEM PANTYHOSE AIN'T GONNA LAST TOO LONG
IF THE D J PUTS BON JOVI ON
SHE MIGHT COME HOME IN A TABLECLOTH
TEQUILA MAKES HER CLOTHES FALL OFF
SOLO
SHE CAN HANDLE ANY CHAMPAIGNE BRUNCH
BRIDAL SHOWER WITH BACARDI PUNCH
JELLO SHOOTERS FULL OF SMIRNOFF...
BUT TEQUILA MAKES HER CLOTHES FALL OFF
....SHE'LL START BY KICKING OUT OF HER SHOES
LOSE AN EARRING IN HER DRINK
LEAVE HER JACKET IN THE BATH ROOM STALL
DROP A CONTACT DOWN THE SINK
SHE DON'T MEAN NOTHING
SHE'S JUST HAVING FUN
TOMORROW SHE'LL SAY
OH WHAT HAVE I DONE
HER FRIENDS WILL JOKE ABOUT THE STUFF SHE LOST
CAUSE TEQUILA MAKES HER CLOTHES FALL OFF