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5cardstud

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No, it's not just you. It's getting longer. Why? The answer means stealing a sentence from the film All the President's Men: "Follow the money."

Free agency was making things rough on the team owners. Some were threatened with second-homelessness, of slicing their Filet Mignon using gold-plated knives as opposed to the solid variety.

You know those ASPCA commercials in which abused, underfed cats and dogs stare into your soul, pleading for help?

That was the state of things a decade or two ago, if you can mentally replace the mugs of Lassie and Spot with those of bald, overfed, Cuban cigar-puffing NFL tycoons.

The NFL didn't actually do an emotion-evoking advertising blitz over it (I suspect someone with common sense tapped a silk-suited shoulder and whispered that it might fall flat with Green Bay denizens shivering over their tailgate party sausages), but they decided on another strategy: extend the season. Break up the divisions into progressively smaller parts. Throw in wild card teams. Add a few very, very lucrative weeks to the product they're selling.

Make those physical oddities on the field earn their weekly shipments of steroids and Coca Cola (wink, nod).

Hence, we're into January and still waiting for the Super Bowl. And I'm not cynical at all. Not at all.



That mig

I see ECF is working at it's norm today.

Once again if they can keep the refs out of it the game should be a good one.
 
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Pokeygizmo

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Oh my...:blink:
I care now.

Go PI Panthers!

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Trots off to find some pants..................................
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(you got that right, 5c...lousy call that first flag)
 

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LOL PI. I don't watch football anymore.

If the Refs don't quit taking money to throw games I'm going to be doing the same Fran.

2 Down.... 2 To Go !!!


We're comin' for ya 5er






... and thanks Tracy

Wharf I don't see how you could lose. The Seahawks don't have the Ref Money the 49ers do. LOL We're just a bunch of Po Folk lookin fo some fun. :laugh:
If I was coming down there I would wear my best.

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If the Refs don't quit taking money to throw games I'm going to be doing the same Fran.


The world turns thru greased palms...... why should football be any different.




Wharf I don't see how you could lose. The Seahawks don't have the Ref Money the 49ers do. LOL We're just a bunch of Po Folk lookin fo some fun. :laugh:


Seriously, that cracks me up. Your 'backs more fouls that don't get called than any team in memory, not that I'm complaining !!!









Crap... I think I just did :facepalm:





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    Fran, your SIL amazes me too...he's had a great attitude right from the beginning! I hope you had a great time at the family party :)

    Oh the fun I miss when I nap during football :blush:

    I did have a good time,Bov. Thanks:) Oh and the State of NH gave Wayne a machine that has tracks,remote control,a seat with seatbelts on a lift. It will put him right up in his skidder or other machine, NH ain't all bad.
     

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    I recall with great clarity that morning I sat at my PC, booted up ECF and saw the thread FranC had started about her son-in-law's accident.

    And I recall thinking that an electronic cigarette forum was an odd place to vent emotions of that magnitude.

    Then I noticed who was responding: Bov, 5-card, Pokey, Wharf, El Dee, et al. Too many to remember them all. Friends of mine, doing their level best to soothe the pain felt by one of their own, a member of their family.

    I recall my recognition of the fact that our bonds here—electronic, physically and geographically disparate—are very, very real.
     
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    El Dee

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    Fran it's good to hear Wayne is doing well....

    New England and Denver...Is it possible they both could lose?????

    I should have never said those bad things about the Panthers...dang PI won the prize.....Curses....Foiled again!!!!!!!!!!!

    Last week I noticed Mom's toilet leaking from the wax gasket...I was under it in the basement getting the ladder out...She had a local company install tile over the hardwoods a few years back...The house was built mid-50s and has cast iron drain pipe....My thinking was a wax ring should last way longer than this one did....I need too be at the beach working on that floor so I went too Mom's after today's first game...One bolt was spinning after loosening only a little...Rutt Rohh Shaggy!!!!!!! I removed the toilet and found half the cast iron flange gone...Obviously this was done when the tile was installed as I've had this toilet out for repairs previously....Couple that with the fact the wax ring was barely making contact due too the increased thickness of the tile....Hey they make a ring that clearly states "thicker for tiled floors"...I got one!!!!!!! Now I got to either replace the flange and pipe or gamble with a repair kit...If 5 were here I'd grease his palm and having him sitting outside the tile shop in the am....I ain't got time to fool with 'em....Seems anymore all I do is home repairs...but when I do it's for the duration....

    I was on the FB earlier and there is def a tear in the Panther beer...I had the game on but wasn't following closely....It's a definite possibility the refs made some bad calls but I can't vouch for that...I do know that all teams scoring over 20 beat the Panthers this year...Great defense and a lack luster offense....I'll be riding with the winner of the Hawks/9ers....
     
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