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The third man? Or Mr. Umphus?

I thought it was Savio Vega. And can anybody clear up the Mr. Umphus thing for the good of the community? As far as I know, it was a little something a-like a-this: Dusty: Nice spinebuster there! Tony: I believe that's a sidewalk slam, Dusty. Dusty: Well, excuuuuuuuuusse ME, Mr. Umphus! Tony: ...

I didn't know Eric Bischoff possessed five members, let alone four. If this is the case, why stop with Linda? You can take the whole McMahon family. At once. Even Rod. Ha-ha. I said "rod."

I think Dusty's greatest achievement was "Well excuuuuuuuuuuse ME, Mr. Umphus!"

It's the fact that he's eccentric (If he wasn't wealthy, he'd be crazy) Crazy old rich people are cool. Yeah, the SportsCentury on Steinbrenner talked about his acts of philantrophy, or things like catching a kid spraying graffiti on Yankee Stadium and "making" the guy pay his debt by working as batboy for the Yankees for a night.

Yeah, it'd be cool, the name plate would have to go like across your arms, like that KGB guy on the Packers, or Jamie Langenbrunner.

Thanks for the feedback. I like the format just how it is. But every year, the owners make noise about expanding to 14 and 16 to get more postseason games on TV which equal more ad money. Seeing as it's gone from 8 to 10 to 12 over the years, it's inevitable that the current format only has five years left at the most.

I'd mark out for you if you had "THE MIGHTY DAMARAMU" on your name plate. That makes any sort of hijinks the XFL attempted with names look like a pile of puke.

What a year. I have to choose as to whether I'd rather have the Packers or Vikings take the last spot. I don't think I could handle the Packers making it in, and the Vikings I hate almost as much.

Since the owners keep talking about wanting to expand from 12 to 16 teams in the near future, here's an idea I had. Round 1. Take the division leaders and second-place teams from all eight divisions. Each second-place team plays at its division leader's home field for the first game. Winners of these games are crowned their division's champion. Round 2. The eight teams that advance are re-seeded within their conferences based on their record in the last 17 games. The four winners of these games advance to the conference championships. No title is awarded for winning the second round. Round 3. The two NFC divisional champions that advanced play each other, and likewise, the two AFC champions. The winners of these games are crowned NFC champion or AFC champion. Round 4. Super Bowl, AFC champ versus NFC champ as always. Home field advantage alternates every year as always. Thoughts, ideas, comments, complaints, suggestions?

*raises hand* Canada, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Minnesota...really, what's the difference?

And here I thought the huge update would be they picked a crappy Limp Bizkit (oh excuse me, "limpbizkit") song to be the theme.

The crowd would shit all over an Orton win. It should be a high-profile wrestler, but not one you'd expect to win it all. Sort of lke Michaels in '95.

Debatable. -Patrick Okay let's debate. Curt Hennig's revival of popularity which spiraled into recurring drug and alcohol problems, loss of his job, and eventual death. Mike Hegstrand had cleaned up his life and done everything he could to atone for his messy past in order to live a happy existence with his family, only to die anyway. Stu Hart, responsible for so many of the wrestlers of the last fifteen years, and the patriarch of not just the Hart family, but also the wrestling industry with the loss of Lou Thesz. Plus, chalk up another tragedy for the Harts to deal with. Mike Lockwood's sudden death after his brief revival in NWA, which was possibly the most left-field death all year.

I don't think he should win the most popular match in the WWF.

I think the staggering number of deaths in the industry this year is a bigger disappointment than anything related to HHH.

Don Frye, didn't he have some famous promo that was like: I'm going to beat you. I'll beat the living shit shit out of you. You will lose and I will win. You're going to die. I'm going to beat the fucking hell out of you.

In a perfect world all three greater New York teams would miss the playoffs. I think I hate them all. The Devils I just despise for very clear reasons, the Rangers isn't so much hate but just a burning desire to see them finish 9th with their inflated payroll. And the Islanders, something about that team bugs me too, probably the whole Long Island thing. Anyway all three suck. Go Canadian teams in the east.

Yeah I love Raisin In The Sun. I saw a video of a performance with Danny Glover as Walter. He was very good. Also the white guy was played by the man who did the voice of Piglet.

Well that's really odd that such a concept would even be...conceptualized. It would be bizarre if the Stanley Cup MVP was awarded a scale model of a grocery store in Toronto. What is Maple Leaf Gardens now that the Leafs moved out? As I understood, it's the rink but with fewer seats, plus some Leafs memorabilia and a few stores.

Someone find that Steelers jersey from 1994. That was something hideous.

That Jeremy Roenick might play there? That the powder blue-sporting Nords would come back? What? What's so awful?

I hate the Yankees, and even I think there's something cool about the guy.

How can you like the new Sabres sweaters? All three suck, really, but the alternate logo with the crossed swords should be the actual logo on navy and old-gold sweaters. There's my idea.

Good alternates: Toronto, classic logo Montreal, white with the stripe New York, Statue of Liberty Columbus, Ohio state flag all crazy-like Chicago, black Well there's one hand's worth of tolerable thirds.