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Yeah, if that’s true the Titans are fools for not taking it. Fans should be lighting torches and marching on Titans headquarters.
“But I can hear you screaming at your screen. That offensive line! You’re probably right – it looks horrible on paper. The Rams worst case scenario happened tonight. Flowers and Scherff were gone. La’el Collins? In the middle of a murder investigation. With the top pass rushers, quarterbacks and wide receivers gone, the Rams wouldn’t have found a team wanting to trade up because there wasn’t a player worth trading up for.
So they stood their ground and picked the best player on their board:…”
What are the causes of their violence? Are these rioters not a product of a system? Did they grow up in a vacuum?
Is there a correlation between poverty and crime, poverty and suffering, poverty and violence, poverty and withdrawal, etc.?
I say, of course.
I know the looters are wrong. But, the outcry against the looting usually ignores the underlying causes that lead to this type of situation. Not every injustice leads to a riot. That only happens when it’s a “last straw” on straw mountain.
It’s interesting to me that white america seems to be more focused on the looting than on what the ultimate cause of the looting is…systematic racism. We live in a society where being black means you are 21 times more likely to be shot by a cop than if you’re white even though whites commit the most crimes.
MLK said rioting is the language of the unheard. Blacks riot because they are marginalized. They riot because they don’t have a voice.
Whites, on the other hand, riot when their favorite team loses a national championship.
In a weird post-modern-way
itz better to be a Nomad.w
vIndeed. Using algebraic equations too complicated for the human mind to grasp, I was able to determine that being a nomad is better than being a non-nomad by a factor of 8.63.
Here’s the hierarchy of “things to be” listed in descending order from best to worst, in case you’re interested…
Nomad
Non-nomad
Banana slug
West Virginian
Slime MoldGood news, wv…West Virginian has moved up the list!
WR: 5 (3 different players: Cooper, White, Perriman)
OL: 4 (Scherff each time)
CB: 2 (Waynes)I hope they take Scherff. Cause that way, we can post about how there’s a new Scherff in town.
Plus it would help with the OL.
But Cooper is the best sheriff.
I’ve read Hyperion, Drood and The Terror. I loved all three, especially Drood and The Terror but I agree with PA that they do tend to drag on…
What I like about Collins is how well he transports you to the period in which his novels take place. The Terror and Drood both take place in the 19th century and when you are finished you will truly believe you know what it’s like to live in Victorian England or sail on a mid-19th century icebreaker. He is incredibly thorough with his descriptions but at the same time you won’t feel bogged down with useless details. I was completely engaged the entire time however I have an affection for Victorian England anyway and like PA said, the story continues on perhaps longer than it needs to.
A losing season in 2016.
IMO, SK considered Fisher’s experience with the Houston/Tennessee transition as part of his value when he hired him.
Yeah, not long ago I would have said Fisher needed to make the playoffs in this his 4th season to keep his job but now I’m inclined to believe that his job is safe through 2016 – no matter what.
I am betting Cleveland.
Well the Browns even asked ME to work out.
Have they asked you yet?
Graham, Sipe, Kosar, Neruda…
There’s a big envelope in the mail on its way to you, but you don’t have to worry about anthrax or anything crazy like that.
I and the other mods just want to remind posters that if one poster openly causes the death of another, it can lead to a 2 week ban and the revoking of all cake privileges…for months.
If anyone needs a reminder on that rule, just go to the rules document and look under the Always Make It Look Like an Accident section.
zn the mother hen. Don’t worry, an anthrax CD is fairly innocuous. They’re loud but I don’t think they ever killed anybody…
Jim – When the Oakland Raiders move here after all the dust has settled (I know – unlikely) would it be with Davis as owner or do you think NFL would guide the franchise here to a St. Louis based owner? And, if so, could St. Louis rebrand the franchise as the Stallions?
by EJ Junior 2:30 PMCall me crazy. Call both of us crazy. I’ve actually thought about that. Rebranding the Raiders franchise as the Stallions in St. Louis. For those of you who may not remember, Stallions was supposed to be the name of the expansion team here in the early ’90s. Overall, as I mentioned before, I’m not ruling out anything when it comes to franchise free agency.
by jthomas 2:33 PMWould the league go for rebranding such a storied franchise as the Raiders (and can they stop it if they wanted to)? The Oilers were rebranded but they didn’t have a legacy like the Raiders and the original Browns were rebranded when they went to Baltimore but that was contingent on Cleveland’s new team retaining the Browns name and history. If the Raiders leave Oakland, will Oakland be awarded another franchise to call the Raiders? Seems unlikely to me.
Hard to imagine an NFL without the Raiders.
St. Louis Stallions is appealing to the ear but hasn’t the horse genre been done to death? Broncos, Colts, Chargers…
Besides, isn’t it a little sexist? Why not the St. Louis Mares?
