LOL PI. I don't watch football anymore.
I think that I did too, Bov.Morning everyone! I think I logged in to Comedy Central![]()
Good morning, Fran, Bov and most of the peeps on here.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.
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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.

(you got that right, 5c...lousy call that first flag)
Oh my...
Trots off to find some pants..................................![]()
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LOL PI. I don't watch football anymore.
2 Down.... 2 To Go !!!
We're comin' for ya 5er
... and thanks Tracy


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

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![]()