Spaceman Spiff

To be fair, the idea behind getting Feeley was to do Jay Fiedler w/ a stronger arm (i.e. don't make mistakes to lose games). They had no idea Ricky was going to bail on them. Had Ricky not lost his smile, the move wouldn't have looked so bad. They did make some moves (and tried to do some others) to upgrade the offense, but they haven't worked out: -David Boston - hurt in training camp -drafted Vernon Carey (o-line) - didn't make the lineup -signed Jeno James (started 16 games for Panthers at Guard) - got hurt -they had interest in Todd Steussie & Damien Woody (both o-line), but they couldn't sign them. But, hey, whatever. I wrote them off once Ricky left. It'll definitely be an interesting off-season.

Preferably, I'd like to see HBO pick it up, but that probably won't happen. They'd have to clean up the language for it to air on Sci-Fi, and I can't imagine Mason or George without the swearing. Season 2 finale: -Supposedly the dead can be seen as their true selves on Halloween. Daisy is sceptical, but then an older guy recognizes her from when she was alive. Also, Roxy dresses up (as a princess), which prompts Daisy to get dressed up (as a cop). -George & Mason stop by Happy Time (George needs her sneakers). Crystal is also there dressed as the Grim Reaper (hmm...), unbeknownst to G & M. Crystal may/may not have seen George before George his her face. Behind Crystal a computer screen showed a map of the area, w/ ghost icons on certain locations (hmm...). Mason thinks the map may be prime candy locations. G & M leave, and Crystal does a search in the company database for "Georgia Lass" (hmm...). -There's a couple flashbacks to George trick-or-treating as a kid. At 1 house, the guy left the candy outside. George yells that she knows he's home, and the guy peeks out of his curtains as they walk away. -There's a serial killer loose in town, who kills at :59 past the hour. Everyone has a reap to get, each of which is a victim, each of which were home alone. George accompanies Mason for his reap, which turns out to be a child. George has the last reap, which turns out to be the killer. The killer is also revealed to be the creepy guy from the flashbacks. They both recognize each other. -They tried to hint at maybe Reggie being a victim of the killer. Joy & Reggie were invited to a neighbor's Halloween party. Reggie didn't want to go, and said she'd stay home alone to hand out candy. Joy went to the party w/out her. I wasn't buying the tease, though. -Reggie & Joy stay overnight by George's grave. George shows up the next morning & leaves some candy for the 2 of them, who were sleeping. George starts walking away, and Reggie wakes up & sees her. The last shot is George looking back @ Reggie, and then George walking off.

Loss - are you thinking of HWA? I don't recall hearing about Knoble going to Wildside.

Hey, what else is between your mattresses?

THANK YOU. You've got to have matching possessions, there's no other fair way. The team that lost the toss has a chance to score, and if they can't score more points than the other team did, or get intercepted, or whatever, it's over. Maybe even kill the game clock and just run off the play clock. I dunno. This system is terribly flawed. "We want the ball\, we're gonna score!" ARRRRRRRGH!!!!! GRRRRRR! DAMN YOU HASSELBECK I'm perfectly fine w/ the current OT rules. Kicking & defense are part of the game. You lost the coin toss? Play defense and get the ball back.

With that offensive line, Williams would have been lucky to even get 1000 yards. Dave Wannstedt's terrible coaching, the lack of solid QB play, and having noone to catch the ball outside of an inconsistent Marty Booker and a Randy McMichael that's constantly getting doubled had just as much to do with it. The horrendous QB play is a direct result of Ricky's departure. Opposing defenses can basically ignore the run game, plus it forces the QB's to throw a lot more than they would normally. Ricky's presence alone makes the offense better. I agree Wannstedt was a bad coach (and am glad to see him go), but he still coached himself to 10 wins the last 2 years. Considering that 8-6 puts a team in the AFC wild card hunt, it's not out of the realm of possibility that Miami could be in the playoff hunt had Ricky not bailed.

From what I've read on that board, it's pretty much a done decision. "It cost too much" is the reason that was given. But, hey, they've "Fat Actress" (w/ Kirstey Alley) and some other show called "Weeds" (or something like that, about some woman needing to sell weed) to take it's place To quote Tony Schiavone, "yeah, that'll put asses in the seats". DLM was getting good ratings, and I doubt these other shows will be able to make up for the loss of DLM viewers who will not watch out of spite. These other shows (Huff, Fat Actress, Weeds) are "in-house" developed programs, while DLM was not, so that's probably another factor in the decision. The least they could have done was order 1 more season, tell them to wrap it up, and advertise the hell out of their other shows, since DLM seems to be the only "draw" for the network (aside from movies). For what it's worth here's an online petition (yeah, yeah, they very rarely work, but what could it hurt to sign it?): Online Petition

Can you take them w/ food? If so, munch on some food, and pop in the meds when you're about to swallow.

Pat Tillman gave the Cards plenty of notice he was leaving. IIRC, Robert Smith did the same for the Vikings (I could be wrong, though). Ricky made his decision after the draft and very close to the opening of training camp after other free agent RB's were already signed. The Dolphins were stuck scrounging the scrap pile for a RB. *That's* why he deserves the load of shit everyone gives him. He wants to retire? Fine, let the team know w/ enough advance notice that they can plan to replace him. He's the reason the Dolphins are as bad as they are this year.

Article on Yahoo Yeah, I can't see this going on for too much longer.

Tazz has a bum neck. Add that on top of not being an active wrestler in years, and I doubt we'll see him in a match (at least nothing past doing a suplex or 2).

Would anyone have taken him seriously as an upper-card heel? He's was too small for what he was supposed to be (a dominating presence), on top of not being any good, not having confidence on the mic, and being a rip-off of a popular guy already on the roster. No big loss as far as I'm concerned.

They could be doing that to make Brock sweat, or to possibly make Brock think about offering to take less money in order to come back.

1) The guy wasn't very good. 2) He was basically a 2nd-rate Undertaker. Why do that when you have the real Undertaker on the same show?

True, but from his matches I did see on Velocity, I could see people in the crowd reacting to him. Granted, he wasn't SUPERMADOVER, but he was coming along pretty good. Plus, he was showing flashes of charisma. He probably would have made a decent midcard heel had they stuck w/ the gimmick, as opposed to now where nobody cares about him.

Jindrak was actually getting over w/ the Narcissist gimmick on Velocity. Gimme "Tom Arnold, Pro Wrestler".

In keeping w/ the Lance Storm theme, Dupree could name himself the French Undisputed Championship King. Maybe move Rosey over to SD and the 2 of them could feud. Oh, the comedy. Or something.

I didn't think they were anything special, but then again, I never read the books, either. Guess you have to be fans of the books to really enjoy the movies.

Says the guy married to the owner's daughter. Excuse me while my head explodes.

He was great on Futurama parodying himself.

Miami - 20 (10.5) Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants (4.5) Washington at San Francisco Carolina at Atlanta (3.5) (1.5) Buffalo at Cincinnati Dallas at Philadelphia (12.5) Houston at Chicago (1.5) Jacksonville at Green Bay (3.5) (3.5) Minnesota at Detroit (10.5) San Diego at Cleveland Seattle at N.Y. Jets (6.5) New Orleans at Tampa Bay (7.5) (2.5) St. Louis at Arizona (1.5) Denver at Kansas City Tennessee at Oakland (2.5) Baltimore at Indianapolis (7.5) (10.5) New England at Miami

That sounds more like Bob Barron.

People need to let this go, too. That was 4 years & 1 broken neck ago. The guy throws Lita-level punches. The only thing the guy has going for him is the Worm. I don't know why he hasn't been let go yet, especially considering he hasn't seen TV action in, like, 4 months.

But nobody's calling for the cruisers to completely take over the ME scene. I think everyone would be pretty happy seeing them be a consistant part of the midcard, where they can put on entertaining matches and keep the crowd into the show. The midcard isn't expected to draw (that's the job of the guys on top), so you're not really sacrificing anything by putting them on the show, and they just might end up stumbling across the next HBK (hey, who thought scrawny Midnight Rocker Shawn Michaels would end up being 1 of the biggest names in the sport?).

Now that Charlie Weis went to ND, I guess I'd be willing to give Saban a shot.