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Joey Porter has been fined $7,500 for "verbally abusing" the Patriots. Awesome. I was assuming the headline was a joke, but it actually happened.

Seeing the Pitt-West Virginia college game reminds me; why aren't the Steelers and Patriots playing in Pittsburgh this year? They played at New England last year too. This would be the perfect week for a home game at Heinz Field since they had the 4 high school championship games, had to resod the field, and now have Pitt-West Virginia out there. We could have been treated to another game like the Steelers-Dolphins game last year.

Now that the last 2 weeks have established that fighting is perfectly acceptable in Goodell's NFL I think we should start having a showdown every week. My suggestion this week would be returning champion Matt Light taking on James "The Hitman" Harrison. I guess Light wouldn't be able to use his trademark hair pull in that fight, though, and would have to look out for the suplex:

An extra point would have broken the Saints record for points in a game, now they've only tied it. I'd say they can score again though. 3 plays -1 yard punt 1:35 1 play 70 yards TD 0:22 4 plays 41 yards TD 2:33 9 plays 76 yards TD 5:24 6 plays 20 yards FG because the half was ending 1:42 13 plays 80 yards TD 6:26 2 plays 3 yards TD 0:08 2 plays 6 yards INT on a trick play 0:41 3 plays 73 yards TD 1:28 5 plays 42 yards TD 2:58 Well hey, at least the Packers are dominating Time of Possession

Things really turned around in a hurry in this game. It went from 3 to 24 in about 5 minutes.

Big time free agent signing: The Pirates apparently signed 2 19 year old pitchers from India who won some sort of nation-wide contest by being able to pitch in the upper 80s-low 90s. They went on to get training by USC's pitching coach and then worked out for major league scouts. The best part? They've never pitched to a batter. Ever. Interesting strategy. Maybe the Detroit Lions can start signing kids away from Punt-Pass-Kick contests. I guess there isn't really a downside, now they've got a billion people to try to sell jerseys to.

Awesome defense by the Packers tonight. After that opening pair of 3 and outs I was afraid the game wouldn't be the shootout everyone was hoping for. Brees could use a 500 yard game tonight if he's hoping to break the record.

4th and 37 Ravens. What a drive. And they follow it up with a 26 yard punt. When you go 3 and out you usually hope to at least get a punt that lands somewhere beyond the original line of scrimmage.

I was trying to figure out how Minnesota jumped out 14-0 so quick, so I checked NFL.com's play by play. I think they described the first TD perfectly. (14:55) (Shotgun) 9-D.Garrard Aborted. 63-B.Meester FUMBLES at JAC 27, RECOVERED by MIN-99-N.Harris at JAC 27. 99-N.Harris for 27 yards, TOUCHDOWN.

At this point you're lucky if you even get to the part where you enter your information. The site's basically unusable. I don't think anyone's getting a free drink anymore.

Yesterday I saw a commercial for the Huckabee show and they said they were going to have Sarah Palin reveal who were favorite Baldwin Brother was. I hope it's Billy, but if I were a betting man I'd say it's Stephen.

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Almost a great moment in Cincinnati on the last play. The fans had already come out and pulled down the goal post with time left on the clock, then they started storming the filed during the last play while Pitt were still lateraling the ball around. Unfortunately no one broke away and the game ended. At one point the announcers thought a flag was thrown but it turns out it was just an orange from one of the fans. How do they allow that to happen during a play?

I just looked at the distribution maps and it looks like I managed to get the best game out of every group. Jets-Titans, Eagles-Ravens, Giants-Cardinals. I'm shocked we didn't end up with the Cowboys this week. I think this is the first time all season. I guess it's because Baltimore's in the division and the divisional games tend to get preference, but we did luck out and dodge the Cleveland game this week on CBS.

I don't think that's correct. WVU still only have 1 BE loss and Cincinnati still have to play Syracuse next week, so they could still technically lose a second game.

Today's a big day in the Big East. Later 4-1 Cincinnati play 3-1 Pittsburgh and right now 3-1 West Virginia play 1-4 Louisville. West Virginia just had a 2nd and goal from the 1 with about a minute left in the half and ran 3 times and didn't score as time expired to go to the half 7-7. Cincinnati can just about take the conference with a win tonight, but a loss makes the Pitt-WVU rivalry game next week huge.

I'm really not a fan of the Thursday night football thing. The other highlight of last night's game came after the game when Mike Tomlin basically cut the punter during his post game interview. On 5 punts he averaged 28.4 yards with a long of 34. I don't think any of them were even caught because the returners were standing too deep.

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I'm going to go ahead and declare this album easily better than either of the UYI albums. I may change my mind later, but it doesn't seem likely.

As if you guys weren't excited enough for the big NFL Network showdown tonight the Bengals, in addition to 3 offensive linemen and a starting QB out with injuries, have suspended our old pal Ocho Cinco for violating team rules. In more shocking news, the Bengals have team rules.

Mike Pereira, the NFL VP of Officiating, was just on NFL Network. He tried to explain the whole Polamalu TD call thing and didn't really say anything, but he did say that in the future to correct situations like this officials will now have paper to write down important information about the play during a review. Awesome.

GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY: PACMAN JONES IS BACK!!! He's not expected to play until December 7 at Pittsburgh, but I guess he's officially allowed to play right now. The Personal Conduct Policy works so well, I'm sure this will last this time.

What is it that leads him to believe it would be about Adler rather than anyone else? Well, whoever it's directed to, Axl destroyed them on that song. Now that I've listened a couple times I'd say it's probably the highlight of the album.

Since the rematch is tomorrow all the talk about Hines Ward's hit on Keith Rivers has popped back up this week. Marvin Lewis, who is on the competition committee, said he's "sure there will be a rule change next year" because of it. What rule are they going to change? The one that lets receivers block? Even if that play is "dirty" I don't see any way you would word a rule that won't leave it open to ridiculous interpretations that could happen on almost every play where someone gains a few yards in the open field.

I have no idea how Grady Sizemore didn't fare better in the voting. If you ignore batting average Sizemore and Pedroia had pretty comparable years, with Sizemore putting up the better power and speed numbers. No problem with Pedroia winning the award, but Sizemore definitely should have placed higher than 10th and gotten better than 6th place as his best vote, not that anything other than first place really counts for much.