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By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  September 15th, 2010 at 01:59 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

There is no “I” in team. The primaries are done…some of us like how things turned out, some of us don’t. In the end, we’re here for one thing; to WIN.

We’re allowed to fight it out during the playoffs, bet for or against depending on our individual proclivities…but the Super Bowl has been set now, and it’s time to get in line behind the rogue’s gallery we’ve assembled. Gimme your hand and we’ll give you a leg up – it’s time to line up. If you don’t, we’ll be unhappy.

Any questions?

Consider this an “anything but the primary results” Open Thread…for example…Randy Moss isn’t pleased with his lack of a contract…discuss!

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  • Tbone

    that the Patriots haven’t offered me a contract for next year but you don’t see me on TV whining about it.

    • Dave_in_Fla

      They offered me one, was for $12.5M, but I turned it down. I’ve got a better gig.

      I thought they were offering them to everyone?

  • Dave_in_Fla

    My personal bout of negativity is coming over the FL governor polls. Scott is down about 7 points, and I REALLY despise Alex Sink.

    I’m not sure what the Scott strategy is for the general, but I hope he starts showing it soon. I’m getting nervous. Yeah, I love Rubio, and feel like I was able to personally contribute to his inevitable victory, but dang it, I have to live here.

    • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

      where are you on the Dolphins this year?

      [that's my gentle reminder that this is our thread to NOT discuss politics!!]

      • Dave_in_Fla

        My football euphoria has been reached early this year…

        Dolphins? Who?
        Jaguars? Who?
        Bucs? Put them back in the ugly orange uniforms and I might care again ;)

        Heh, sorry I misread that this was a “primary free” thread, not a “politics free” one ;)

        • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

          Born and raised in DC…despite the places I have lived since…have made me bleed maroon. I cried a little when I saw the Skins take the Boys in game one.

          Of course, I had to get over McNabb wearing my uniform, but hey-a win is a win.

          • Richard Mullins

            at least trying to keep up with the Texans. I think the D-Line is ready for next Sunday and the deadskins are going to have their work cut out for them.

          • Dave_in_Fla

            Texans? Who cares? They beat the Cowboys on opening night, they can go 1-15 from here on out and we won’t care. ;)

            I just wish I still had my old admin who had the stuffed Cowboys bear she named Emitt. I would have loved to rub that last play into her face *gleeful laugh*

            The best picture of the game was Joe Gibbs up in one of the sky boxes watching and cheering for the Skins.

          • Richard Mullins

            the Colts in a convincing way. I hope the Deadskins are ready for that because Donavon McNabb is going to have to run a lot since throwing the ball is going to be hard.

          • Tbone

            The Cowboys will still be playing in January, the Redskins, nope.

          • Dave_in_Fla

            It won’t bother me in the least. Besides, I get perverse pleasure in watching the Boys screw up their “inevitable march to the Super Bowl” every year. Most overrated dynasty since the 5th Duke of Marlborough.

          • Dave_in_Fla

            I kept looking at him and remembering this one incredible play he beat the Skins with about 15 years ago, I think in his 2 year.

            It was 3rd and goal on the 7 yard line. McNabb takes the snap and rolls right. Protection breaks down and the Skin’s linebacker hits McNabb square in the chest, then rolls under his legs. McNabb holds onto the ball and falls to the ground, but catches himself. Only his feet and one hand are touching the ground, nothing else. He pushes himself up off the ground with his one hand, back onto his feet and throws the ball into the endzone for a touchdown.

            It was the start of a long and painful relationship.

        • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

          They more or less won by default, While both teams looked weak and uninspired, the Cowboys also played like idiots.

          • Richard Mullins

            and it wasn’t all that hard to beat them, they kind of handed the game over to the deadskins. I think I’ll be singing “Hail to the deadskins” on Sunday while the Texans line does a number on them. If they can do that against the Colts than it should be easy to do it to the Deadskins.

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      I’m not worried about #FLgov yet.

      • acat

        Looks to me like most Brady voters will vote for Kirk – but I know at least one Kirk supporter who doesn’t like Brady …

        Mew

        • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

          Blago basically handed us that seat, and it may swing the Senate race as well.

  • markvol

    Maybe old Buford will swing that stick at some RINO’s that
    are coming up, next time around. Right now he’s got Sarah’s back,
    along with all the new blood infusing the tree of liberty

    • The_Rebel

      Saw it on the big screen back in the early 70′s. We need someone like him to smash Nancy Pelosi’s gavel into splinters. :)

      • uselogic

        you’re within 50 miles of the Buford T. Pusser “Walking Tall” Museum. Seriously!! Was in a wedding in Corinth, MS and we had pre-wedding lunch at the “Catfish Hotel” nearby. It’s very close to the Shiloh National Battlefield in Adamsville, TN.

        Even a theme park brat like me (from Orlando) enjoyed it. Was kitschy cool, in a nostaglic, roadside attraction sort of way.

  • Crowe

    Peyton Hillis, that is.

    Our league has so many reserves, Hillis was literally the best available FA RB.

    ‘course, I have Arian Foster, Beanie Well, Felix Jones, DeAngelo Williams, and Kareem Huggins to pick from also.

    • deano64

      Oh well. Such is life in the NFL. Go Broncos!

      • Darin_H

        I never got the love for him, he was alright for a few games in 2008, but he crapped the bed every time he got into a game in 2009. And he just cost the Browns that game with his 2 fumbles. He’s got some talent, but I’ve seen smarter tree stumps.

        I have more affection for Ron Dayne when it comes to scrub Broncos HBs, that T-Day he had against the Cowboys was awesome.

        Too bad they lost last week, it was a fun game to go to. Our parking lot was full of orange jerseys tailgating with us! Hotter than heck until that storm came through – almost chilly once it passed. I have the Sunday Ticket fired up for this week for the Seahawks game.

        Go Broncos!

        • Crowe

          Like I said, he was the *best available* RB. I prolly shoulda gone with a WR (and may yet) to fill that roster spot, but the WRs are slim pickins too.

        • deano64

          you know. :) I had Sunday ticket last year and of course loved it. It was annoying though that in my market-Phoenix all except about 3 or 4 Broncos games were on free TV down here. Oh well. Didn’t do Sunday ticket this year due to being on a tight budget but hoepfully next year. Go Broncos!

  • http://thecorruptworld.blogspot.com/ wayneinnh

    we get discounted beers at CJ’s. This at least gives me a reason to watch the Sox until the end of the season. Gimme a Sam Adams Octoberfest, some beef nachos with a side of death sauce, and wait ’til next year.

    • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

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  • Achance

    It doesn’t happen very often. Usually, sometime in August the rain becomes pretty much constant and it rains until it starts snowing sometime in early September to early October. But some years and this is one, the jet stream is well South and the Pacific storms stay to the South of us. We have beautiful clear skies and there is still enough sun to make it warm in most of the State, at least as warm is defined here. High temp in Juneau today is predicted to be 71, which is warm here in any month, but really warm for mid-September. Lows are in the high-30s to mid-40s depending on where in town you live, 39 at my house this am. It’s now up to a balmy 47 and when it gets above fifty I have to get off this computer and go back to my trim painting project.

    The sky is brilliant blue for now the fifth straight day, though it is starting to look a little whiteish at the horizon and the distant mountains are starting to look bigger. The cottonwoods, willows, and alders are sharply turning yellow and contrast starkly against the dark green fir, spruce, and hemlock. Here in Juneau we have good numbers of various maples though they’re not native here to give some bright red for contrast too. Further North, where there are immense birch forests, it is bright yellow from horizon to horizon. There has already been frost on the mountains so they’re a patchwork of green, gold, red, and purple

    • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

      ..

      • Achance

        for another week or so. There were five ships in Juneau yesterday, but this time a year, they’re not full and the tourists are cheap and complain a lot about prices. All the cute college girls are back in school so the wait staff in the downtown watering holes is back to same old, same old, emphasis on old. Some of the gold and diamond shops are already boarded up, but most of the tourist stuff is still open for another week or so. But pretty soon it will get real quiet around here; no flightseeing, no whale boats, not charter fishing, though we hardcore locals fish on for awhile. The real limit is that the days get too short to go out comfortably. I have radar, GPS and all that stuff, but I look at that as things to get me back home safely if the weather goes bad on me; I don’t go out when I need that stuff to get me out.

        I’m going to miss this place! Getting the house ready to sell. Already have the boat listed and a guy contracted to take care of it over the winter; it ain’t likely to sell in winter. SWMBO is already living in Anchorage and as soon as we find a place we like up there, I’m moving cats and furniture up there. A big U-Haul over the AlCan from Haines to ANC in October should be an adventure. Then I’ll come back here to finish up and close up the house and wait for the real estate agent to call.

        • Dave_in_Fla

          Taking a cruise out of Vancouver, not sure if it stops in Juneau or not, though.

          • Achance

            Juneau house and boat are on the block. SWMBO has a fancy job in ANC, so we’re pulling the pin. I’m going to miss Juneau, and especially the boating here, horribly. I mean, things between SWMBO and I haven’t been exactly happy over this, but I’d expect her to follow me if I took off for some new opportunity.

            That said, she’s just being manipulative; she really just wanted to go to ANC to be grandma but she knew I’d never go along with that – retired people don’t move North. So, she goes and gets this fancy job in ANC; it really is a form of blackmail.

            You’re leaving out of Vancouver because of the Jones Act. If it went from an American port it would have to be an American bottom and an American crew. The unions really leaned on Comrade Obama to determine that a ship leaving from Vancouver could only call on one Alaska port but they failed – so far.

          • Jack_Savage

            He has asked some mutual friends and I to come up and fish off his float plane. I may do it next year.

          • Dave_in_Fla

            The boat we will be on normally sails out of either Port Canaveral or Los Angeles. In the case of Port Canaveral is stops in Key West and sometimes Puerto Rico in addition to other countries.

          • Achance

            It is also the reason that foreign resources weren’t available to respond to the BP spill in the Gulf. You cannot ply between two American ports on a foreign bottom or with a foreign crew. When they leave out of Pt. Canaveral, they go to a foreign port(s) and return to an American port. From LA, they go to Mexico and then return to LA. Puerto Rico probably has some special exemption just like we do between Alaska ports. In the strictest reading of the law, a foreign bottom sailing from Vancouver could go to Ketchikan or Juneau, but would have to return directly to Vancouver. At least until the Comrade changes it, they can call on all the Alaska ports before they return to the foreign port, Vancouver.

            The ships work a circuit of the Caribean, Mexican Riviera, and Alaska. The ships that are ending their season in Alaska right now will go to either the Carribean or to the CA – Mexico trade. When I go to Puerto Vallarta this winter, I’ll see the same ships in the harbor there that I see in the harbor in Juneau today.

          • Dave_in_Fla

            The ship is registered in the Bahamas. Leaves Port Canveral and the first port is Key West.

  • ceili_dancer

    Check out the hand dancers. They are former world champions and danced lead roles in Riverdance.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iANRO3I30nM
    enjoy.

  • Bill S
    • Richard Mullins

      There is always next year.

      • Bill S
        • Richard Mullins

          but seemed to go downhill later on. I think that a full year with J.A. Haap is going to make the Astros better. They have been playing gutter baseball for all the years after 2005 but this year seemed to have had the Cards number. I think you hate having the Cards lose so much to the Astros this year and the ‘Stros aren’t even good. It’s like losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

    • Darin_H

      Philly is just unbelievable come late August/September. Maybe we can get it right and get in via the wild card, but not with the way they’re playing lately.

    • Mark D

      the Cy Young. Right now, if the season ended, it’s between him and Roy Halladay (disclosure: I’m a Phillies fan). But if the Phils are in the playoffs, and the Cards not, that would tip the voters towards Halladay. If the Rockies make it, that would bring Jimenez back into the discussion, all though his ERA and WHIP put him, at best, third behind Halladay and Wainwright.

      Go Phillies!

  • Kyle-MI

    Did you see that goal line stand against Chicago!

    Now we just need players for all the other positions. OK, if we could get a better offensive line, our RB and QB would look much better.

    • http://www.ArchitecturalShots.com mdyou

      I don’t know, maybe Lovie just doesn’t have it anymore. And it doesn’t look like Mike Martz is Mike Martz anymore, either.

  • drothgery

    and therefore my sports allegiances (resulting from moving from Ohio to Wisconsin to upstate NY in childhood, then to San Diego shortly after college) are going to cause wild mood swings. The local baseball team (that’s the Padres) seemed to be rolling to a division title, then lost ten in a row, then resumed playing decent baseball (but less dominant than they were before), so now it looks like the NL West may go down to the wire.

    My Syracuse Orange still seem to be rebuilding for football (when it gets to basketball season, we don’t rebuild, we reload), but the Packers started okay… and then lost Ryan Grant for the year.

  • reaganauh2o

    He said today that the only balls in the GOP today belong to the women. If Rove is the “architect”, why doesn’t he design a way to get the GOP’s men to grow a pair, or at least retrieve them from the metrosexual politically correct man purse.

    • reaganauh2o

      I was off on a tangent thinking about Sheriff Buford’s big stick…..GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!

      My Huskies are hosting Nebraska on Saturday. I like to keep my hopes up; but it won’t be if, but how, badly they are going to get stomped on.

    • Robert Allen Leeper

      It’s not Male vs Female. It’s Now vs Then. It’s Fight vs Compromise.

      But it’s also Family vs the Collective, and I’m not so surprised to find women on the right side of that.

      • reaganauh2o

        Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Nikki Haley, Sharon Angle, Jan Brewer, Christine O’Donnell. They have all stood rock solid on principle and not wavered, and in the face of some of the most hateful garbage I have seen thrown at any candidate. But rather than sink to their level, they smile and press on with their integrity intact.

        The Gipper would be proud!!

        • Robert Allen Leeper
  • JadedByPolitics

    …

    • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

      …

      • deano64

        memories of my childhood. I didn’t live in a real small town but my cousins did
        and on a Friday or Saturday night in the summer there really wasn’t much else to do but go the the movie at the towns 1 theater with 1 screen. Also saw a few good Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood movies at that same theater. Come to think of it the owner of that theater had really good taste. I can’t remember ever seeing a bad movie there or maybe there just weren’t many bad movies released during that time.

        • jwebb

          Saw that movie at a little theater in Tennessee as as a kid. Then got to meet the real Buford Pusser outside. Amazing man.

  • RedBeard

    No, wait… that’s next year.

    It’s always next year.

    I think I’m gonna cry.

    • Richard Mullins

      They could be better but it toke so long to a better point. At least Pittsburgh is the basement in the NL Central.

  • muffin

    My beloved Georgia Bulldogs actually LOST to the Carolina Gamecocks this past Saturday. It’s bad enough losing to the Florida Gators every year, and now THIS? Sigh.

    • Dave_in_Fla

      Georgia Tech and whoever is play Georgia this week.

      • muffin

        Those are my BIL’s two favorite teams, also.

        My favorite teams are the Dawgs and whoever is playing the Gators. :)

  • luciusacius

    Are the Raiders EVER going to get it together and bring back the glory days?

    • gekster
  • Locked and Loaded

    I know of a football team that doesn’t seem to want it. (head in hands)

    • Dave_in_Fla

      How bout that last play *still laughing my head off with glee 3 days later*

  • Blue_State_Refugee

    I’m not much of a basketball fan, but I did follow USA Basketball in the World Championship on ESPN. Uncharacteric of most NBA players today, I thought I saw a group of players conduct themselves in exemplary fashion both on and off the court while in Turkey. The significance of their win was not only being the first world championship in 16 years, but also saving the NBA from having to field a team to qualify for the Olympics. I hope when it comes times to forming the Olympic team that these players are given first shot.