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He was *just* - and I really do mean just - beginning the forward motion when the defender knocked it out of his hands, way, way before he completes a clean release. No referee is ever going to call that anything but a fumble on the field...and no-one would ever overturn it...or at least, they shouldn't, especially based on precedent of how these are usually called. A closer look: It's already leaving his hands at this point while still being way behind him: there's no way that would ever be called anything but a fumble, especially when you look at the trajectory of the ball as its leaving his hands. Yeah, technically, they may have been just the slightest forward motion...but c'mon. Another angle...way out of hands in this one and his hand is still way behind him and he hasn't gotten even close to completing the motion or a proper release yet. Easy call for the officials. (e): Looking at it more, what it basically looks like is that his elbow just started to go forward...but his forearm had not really begun the motion of the pass (i.e. his forearm hadn't really begun to snap forward in an arc yet). I'm not clear on the exact rules, but I would think the forearm would be more important for determining this than the elbow simply moving forward, especially because some QBs will hold it higher than others and you could argue that their natural body movements (their elbows moving forward and back as they're moving around in the pocket) could therefore technically constitute as the beginnings of a forward pass motion. Think it's the forearm that matters most. Either way, the call is perfectly consistent with the way I've seen these called over the years.

then they should've shut the heck up, they weren't even letting her do her bit before they started laughing about nothing,

Huh. Well I know humor can be subjective, but I'm a bit surprised that wasn't worth at least a chuckle for you. I mean, they nailed the makeup, CNN is wearing a diaper, she pulls out a super soaker. Honestly I thought it was pretty spot on. It might have been somewhat better if it wasn't for the idiotic laugh track that was utterly ruining her delivery. ...And I didn't much like her delivery or this style of humor to begin with.

Where once was light, Now darkness falls. Where once was love, Love is no more. Don't say goodbye, Don't say I didn't try. These tears we cry, Are falling rain, For all the lies you told us, The hurt, the blame. And we will weep, To be so alone, We are lost, We can never go home. So in the end, I will be what I will be. No loyal friend, Was ever there for me. Now we say goodbye, We say you didn't try. These tears you cry, Have come too late. Take back the lies, The hurt, the blame. And you will weep, When you face the end alone, You are lost, You can never go home. You are lost, You can never go home.

rip

well, I guess patriots are going to win the good news is, people are probably going to forget about the packers' embarrassing NFCCG collapse if the patriots win here, because this one blows all other ones out of the water

If by "killed it", you mean she was the same as any other craptime show, I suppose so.

gosh dang what a crappy postseason at least the patriots will probably lose

I can't imagine how bad Baldwin Trump must've been if this was the good one...

Yeah, a friend I discussed with it had the same idea, haha. So basically, I need to find somebody who actually lives there and wants to help me...That might prove a little difficult.

I tried an American method of payment, but it would not accept it. Seems like the way they do billing over there is different than in the U.S. - they didn't ask for billing address or anything, but they did ask for social security number, and I put a dummy one in. So...yeah. Additionally, there's no option for PayPal or anything.

Is anybody on these forums Icelandic? Trying to buy from gosh danged music from one of your online music services because it's the only place to have what I'm looking for, but alas, can't freaking do it because, go figure, you have to be from Iceland to do so!

I used to really like Modesitt's work, but I guess it was about the 10th novel or so of his that I realized that every single book felt like it read exactly the same way. A main character that is a little stubborn at times, but not too stubborn that you'd call them stupid or unable to adapt, who's always mildly to moderately more intelligent than seemingly most everyone else (but no more than that), who makes all sorts of superficial mistakes and has similarly superficial character flaws, but who never really truly fails at anything or has any sort of real (and never mind fatal) flaws, who always ends up seemingly stronger than most everyone else by the end of the book or series. It plays out the same way, series after series, standalone novel after standalone novel. I like his writing, but I can't stomach reading the same basic narrative over and over like that. In Modesitt's quest for steady, logical, and realistic character and narrative progression, his books start to feel very hollow and unrealistic when it's the same story, again and again. It would be very difficult for me to differentiate between the main characters of his different series, besides very on-the-surface stuff like...whether they're a man or a woman, what kind of things do they like to drink, do they like music, whether they came from humble beginnings or whether they were born into their position, etc. These are not real character differences, Mr. Modesitt: they're just silly superficial details. I want a protagonist that doesn't actually act exactly the same way as every single one of your other protagonists acts like. Gwar. Thanks for the link, though.

49ers hire John Lynch for GM.

Anybody else thinks the new aliens look like they were designed by Akira Toriyama? I mean, that guy's even got a power level scouter. I understand BoiWare has some new, young blood, but they should send out a memo to the art team not to ripoff too blatantly from DBZ. Actually, that's really pretty fitting.

I think this is the worst postseason in the history of the NFL literally only one exciting game so far, aaaaaaaaaaaand now it's time for the super bowl

rikity rekt

Well, you're not a princess, are you? you're not my real dad!

i'm scurred (for about the fourth week in a row)

accidental post

why does this zelda character have a better speaker setup than I do sure, they're non-standard and clearly aren't set up correctly, but you can't ignore size

It's probably because my resolution is slightly substandard (1600x900)...combined with the font having scaling problems (even with a sub-HD resolution, it shouldn't really be having this issue). At least, I wouldn't expect the newest version of Firefox (or thereabouts) to have an issue with such.

someone needs to take a look at that font, yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQO-fKDMLVc

Thank you. Better luck next year, truly. I'm not sure if I have ever screamed so much like a little girl as at the end of that game.