I’m watching the Pittsburgh Penguins beat up on Carolina, 5-2 with 6 to go in the third period.

Which they badly needed to do after the Rangers fiasco game the night before.

Sabu! Sabu! Sabu!

Unfortunately due to the nature of the NFL it is not feasible to jumble games around to different days (and Fox and CBS probably wouldn’t be too happy about having 3 instead of one top games poached a week) so Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football are stuck with the games they select before the season.

In any case to say that the NFL is a bad product right now is delusional. They remain the biggest draw in professional sports in the US right now. While it may be that your particular team is not competing this year and thus it’s a bad season for you in total this season has been very exciting up to this point. There have been multiple exciting, tight games virtually every Sunday and the playoffs are still wide open at the wildcard level. About half of the division titles are still up for grabs depending how you look at it.

I already have digital cable, which you have to have to get HDTV channels.

The Sports Package is only $5.00 a month extra. And since sports is 90% of what I watch anyway, I’m happy with it. Besides the NFL Network, I also get Fox Sports channels across the country which have some great College Games.

I just wish I could figure out a way to block all of the crappy news channels on cable. A la carte should be an option.

Bread and circuses.

Go Giants!

By Geoff Dyer in Beijing

Published: December 4 2008 04:32 | Last updated: December 4 2008 19:10

The US was lectured about its economic fragilities on Thursday as senior Chinese officials urged the administration to stabilise its economy, boost its savings rate and protect Chinese investments.

The message went to Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, in Beijing for the strategic economic dialogue he helped launch to discuss long-term issues between the two countries.

Heck, how long before we have to bailout the oil industry?

Oil could drop to $25 a barrel.

It’s how Obama chooses his cabinet, why not do the same in pro sports?

WE WERE ROBBED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pullingmyhairout on December 4, 2008 at 11:49 PM

WE?? what position do you play?

The two main reasons why our economy is doomed for failure are:
1) America (and Americans) consumes more than it produces.
2) America (and Americans) borrows more than it saves.

Under these conditions, the American standard of living can only be sustained by selling off assets that we have accumulated in the past, and/or borrowing money with a promise to repay it in the future. Obviously this can not go on indefinitely, there will come a day of reckoning. This day may be postponed slightly with government bailouts. But bailouts will only exacerbate the problem because they will undermine the foundation of our capitalist system. Also, the demand for continuing government bailouts will become insatiable. Bailouts will lead to the eventual insolvency of the federal government.

Two Concise Reasons Why We Face Certain Economic Doom

I remember him too. That was sad :( Steroids, not wise to mess with. 92 was still a great time in Football.

“But in 1992, seven years after playing in his last regular-season game, Alzado died from brain lymphoma, a rare form of cancer. He was 43. Although there is no medical link between steroids and brain lymphoma, Alzado was certain the drugs were responsible for his cancer. He became a symbol of the dangers of steroid abuse.”

Rest in Peace Lyle…………. Rest in Peace……… I hated you as a bad ass mother fu$$er who beat my Chargers, but you are and will always be one heck of a football player….

………. with respect to your family, you are missed.

PS: It meant something different back then. And it’s sad those days have passed.

wccawa on December 4, 2008 at 9:24 PM

You can say that again. Roman Gabriel, Joe Namath, Rosie Grier. Ahhhhhh, That was when they stomped tail! No fooling around. They didn’t get much money. Now, it is different. Gets boring.

Maybe we’ll see a 6-6 tie.

Pretty optimistic isn’t that Ed? I remember back in the day when Married With Children would mock Fox for the crappy stations they were stuck with. The NFL could be just as easily mocked. One lone guy with a beer helmet standing outside an electronics store watching the game through the store window might tell that story. Cable subscribers by and large won’t “see” any of the game.

They have the Oakland Raiders squaring off against the San Diego Chargers, two teams that between them have seven wins all season and no hope of competing for a playoff spot.

Not that I am at all expecting this to happen, or happy at all about the prospect of an 8-8 Charger playoff team, but facts are facts.

Thanks to the Broncos, the Chargers are not yet eliminated from playoff contention. *knock on wood*

“No hope” is an opinion, not a fact, Ed. ;-)

The type of buzz these Thursday night games generate? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

………… the Raider’s fans look extra stupid in those costumes when they loose, but we are all still Americans, aren’t we?

This is just a football game, right……….?

To the American Armed Forces, who didn’t have a chance to watch the game tonight……….. God Bless You All!!!

wccawa on December 4, 2008 at 9:24 PM

I was at a game where Marlon Briscoe played QB. Not quite vertical-striped socks, but still quite back there.