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That's the way football goes, sadly. They either sacrifice some of their salary for more guaranteed money, or they take more money for less guaranteed. On a side-note, he was also arrested for marijuana possession just a couple of months ago, which didn't help his chances of staying on the roster...and it won't help his chances of getting signed elsewhere, seeing as he'll be suspended for at least a couple of games. He also has never played a full season during his 7-year long career...it's not like they got rid of him as soon as he was injured. At least this gives him a lot of time to try to catch on to a different team if he's truly determined about it...which I hope he isn't, for his own sake.

In recent news, the Packers have released Sam Shields, our once Pro Bowl-quality CB who's basically been out for the last two seasons because of concussions. He's basically the Wes Welker of CBs at this point with as many head injuries as he had...and like Wes Welker, he has indicated that he wants to continue to play against all given medical advice. I just hope that he's able to remember whom he is by the time he's 40. P.S. My first ever thread after having been registered here for nearly ten years - neato! ...Aaand it's about stupid football...

That's pretty sweet, actually!

The only thing more silly than sports? Sports games.

The new content from the EEs are pretty bad, so I personally opt for the originals. However, in general, the EEs will look better and be easier to play if you don't want to mod, so if you combine that with not minding overpaying for the EEs, then they're O.K. Personally, they're not for me whatsoever, though, and I'd rather just mod out any issues I have personally rather than accepting Beamdog's hamfisted "enhanced" version of the game.

Sorry, I don't catch the meaning. People thinking the same for Bush? ...Course, others thought the same for Obama, and others still thought and even planned worse than that still for both of them, and I'm sure the same will be true for Trump.

Trump seems like a pretty contemptible person, but wishing for his death seems a bit harsh.

Hm. I didn't really get "desperate" or "defeated" out of it...at least, not by the end of it. Yeah, you kind of get that feeling in the first half, but by the end, it starts to really pick itself up and sound the opposite to me.

Another musical masterpiece by Neil Cicierega.

Your own activity feed, too. Although you should hopefully not have friends that would make use of such an exploit...

That's neat, I guess. I've always thought the HUDs in Zelda games have been a bit too over the top - I know what A and B do at this point, guys, don't need to have those icons permanently there for me to see - so I'd probably use that if I ever play that.

You're thinking of the Comeback. It was actually a wild card game, where Buffalo was *down* 32 points against the Titans (probably still called the Oilers at this time)...and ended up coming back to win it in overtime. Largest comeback in NFL history (playoffs and regular season). This one ties for 5th biggest comeback in NFL history, I think, and the 3rd biggest in the playoffs. Blew out the biggest comeback in the Super Bowl, that's for sure - 2.5x times it. Yeah, Falcons really gave this game away very badly. The Super Bowl is not the place to be making such a myriad of unforced errors and to phone it in so bad in the middle of the 3rd quarter.

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.

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.

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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

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.