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Yeah, and I feel that the way the league is currently aligned is perfect, so I would be wary of any proposed changes. It becomes difficult to develop meaningful divisional rivlaries when you're moving teams around every 8-10 years.

No, it should stay the same. If you can have Miami in the AFC East and Dallas in the NFC East, I see no reason why L.A. couldn't be in the AFC South.

I guess that the best situation is for Jacksonville to move. They have very little fan support, they haven't been there long enough to establish any kind of tradition, and there are two other in-state teams to cushion the blow.

Just replace mysteryposter with me. I think that ship has sailed.

Names currently being bandied about include Jacksonville, Minnesota, San Diego, Oakland, St. Louis, and Buffalo.

I think he made four Pro Bowls, was co-MVP one year, and also had 3,000+ rushing yards in his career. I don't think he's a HOF guy, though. The overall picture with the numbers isn't great, and there was a very narrow (like 2-3 years, if that) window in his career where you could reasonably argue that he was one of the five best at his position in the league.

That leopard-print skirt/tassled boots combo is absurdist, disgusting, pointless, reactionary and abstract. That's the real outrage here.

Along with Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots were really foreshadowing what mainstream rock music was to become in the next decade and beyond. If you listen to 99.5 "The Hog" or Rock 101 sometime, it seems like every band sounds like a sludgier, angrier, and less tuneful version of Stone Temple Pilots.

But with McNair retiring, I would guess that Ryan probably wouldn't drop any further than Baltimore at #8. There's been some chatter that the Jets like him at #6, but that seems like bullshit to get other teams that want either him or possibly McFadden to trade up.

Except that you can't seem to find two scouts who actually agree that Ryan is the best QB of the bunch this year. It generally comes down to some combination of Ryan, Brohm, Henne, and Flacco. Atlanta obviously needs a QB, but Ryan is probably a reach at #3 when you consider that one of the two Longs, Dorsey, Gholston, etc. will still be available. I'd look for Atlanta to take a QB in the 2nd round and still be able to choose from at least two of those quarterbacks I named above.

I think Cheap Trick might be my favorite of the bands mentioned in this thread. Heaven Tonight is a really solid album.

Oddly enough, I've never really cared for Big Star. It seems like something I would like and I know there are a lot of otherwise reasonable people who really like those first two albums, but they just don't do much for me. In fact, I think I like the song "Alex Chilton" better than anything its namesake ever wrote. The first Weezer album is nice enough, but it puzzles me how it's endured as a staple on the playlist with people around my age. I find the second Weezer album pretty nauseating now, but I really enjoyed it in high school. Also strange how that record seems to have been the catalyst for the wave of awful emo bands that emerged this decade. Everything of their's I've heard since Pinkerton has been really terrible. I liked the first Fountains of Wayne album a lot in high school, but it doesn't hold up well for me. Utopia Parkway was a crushing disappointment to me when it came out and it hasn't improved with age. There's "Denise" and "It Must Be Summer" and "The Senator's Daughter." I don't think I like anything else on there, although it's admittedly been years since I've listened to it.

If anything, you should be ashamed of suppressing your tears. Crying is good for you. It cleanses the soul.

If you had everything you wanted, you would eventually want for something else. You would realize that even those things you had longed for could not make you happy, and that life is just a one-way trip to Miserabletown with no relief to be found anywhere. It's all a lie, man. It's all just a bunch of bullshit.

This band dominated my pre-teen, tween, and teen years. Here's an overview: Hell-O-Shoddy in quality. Band had not yet found their voice. Song about fucking dog was good. As was "Rock and Roll Partytown," which still pops into my head to this day. "Rock and fucking roll uh huh uh huh YEAH." Accompanying video, the name of which escapes me, was ultimately unsatisying. Scumdogs of the Universe-Fucking metal. The phrase " motherfucking suckadickadickalog" sometimes occurs to me. Had the game show song. Also "Sick of You." Accompanying video "Tour De Scum" may have had more impact on my still-developing brain than any other artwork in any medium. Perhaps the greatest of all Gwar albums. America Must Be Destroyed-Something of a letdown after previous album. Few moments of brilliance, such as "Have You Seen Me?" Accompanying video "Phallus in Wonderland" was not as good as its title would suggest. The Road Behind EP-Mostly worthless, save for the unbelievably brilliant title track. Which is also available on the LP mentioned above. This Toilet Earth-Fucking loved this album. Cool horns on first song. Run of thoroughly listenable songs to begin the 2nd half. Hilarious liner notes. I used to know all the words to the "Skulhedface" song. Speaking of which, another dud on the video front. Ragnarok- Total garbage. Amusing liner notes. Album was some kind of pussified nonsense. "Think You Oughta Know This" introduced me to the word "halitosis." Accompanying video taught me the correct spelling of the word "rendezvous" but little else. Carnival of Chaos- Purchased as I was beginning to branch out into faggoty snob rock. Was perfect in that sense because it's their least metal album. I remember liking this one a bunch. "Penguin Attack." Something about a scallop boat. If there's an accompanying video, I never saw it. I haven't heard anything beyond that.

This is why I'm hot. This is why I'm hot. I'm hot cuz I'm fly. You ain't cuz you not. This is why. This is why. This is why I'm hot. That one's for you, Byron.

Oh, it's not easy to resist temptation, walking around looking like a figment of somebody else's imagination. Taking every word she says just like an open invitation, but the power of persuasion is no match for ANTICIPA-SHUN! Like a finger...runnning dowwwwwn a seam. From a whisper to a scream! So I whisper and I scheme, but don't get me wrong. Please don't leave me waiting too long. Waiting too long. Waiting too long. Waiting too long. Oh, if the customers like it, then they'll keep on paying. If they keep on drinking, then they'll end up staying. I heard someone say "Where have we met before?" but the one over the eight seems less like one and more like four. (The fuck does that mean?) Like a finger...running dowwwwn a seam. From a whisper...to a scream! So I whisper and I scheme, but don't get me wrong. Please don't leave me waiting too long. Waiting too long. Waiting too long. Waiting too long. And so on.

Franchise Rper (Raper?) 4 Life turns 23 today. Cheers, mate! Should we have a OaO Such and Such is Celebrating a Birthday Today thread?

Yeah, I vomited up much of that pasta salad. We're just a couple of peas in a pod, King of All Blacks.

Frankly, and not that anyone asked, but this Trust album is probably my 2nd favorite Costello record, right behind Get Happy!

This was my mistake, as well. I had some pasta salad somewhere in there, but nothing else. Luckily, I was just drinking beer. If I had ventured into hard liquor, there's no telling how shitty I would feel today.

You need protection from the physical part of conversation. Though the pen is mightier than the lip, it adds the aggrava-shun! I got the password. I got persuasion! A proposition for invasion of your privacy. Give yourself away and find the fake in me. YOU'LL NEVER BE A MAN! No matter how many foreign bodies you can take. You'll never be a man. When you're half a woman and you're half-awake, with a face full of tears and a chemical shake, given half a chance that I can take. Are you so superior, are you in such pain? ARE YOU MADE OUT OF PORCELAIN? When they made you, they broke the cast. Don't want to be first, I just want to last. You strike a profile on the low side of my imagina-shun. My eyes climbed down to find the point of possible satura-shun!! I got the password! I got persuasion! A proposition for invasion of your privacy. Give yourself away and find the fake in me. YOU'LL NEVER BE A MAN! And so on.

No shit. I should smoke some weed. I found out yesterday that very few people in my life are familiar with the phrase "hair of the dog." But I was undeterred. I just kept on saying it.

A few things: *As Spiff mentioned, two defensive players who will not be on the field at the same time will now have radio communication with the sideline. *No more force-out rule. *No more five yard facemask calls. Whether this results in there being less facemask calls or just more 15 yarders remains to be seen. *The proposal to ban long hair seems to have died.

I'm not sure how to categorize today's hangover. Yesterday was something of a non-day; I woke up drunk, drank all day, and eventually fell asleep drunk. I feel terrible. I should eat some McDonald's, right?