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tired
Without paying extra for it?
I'm watching an exhibition game of Cincinnati and the Patriots from, I'm assuming, last week, and my TV is not setting on fire and there's no knock at the door from either Comcast or the NFL.
Ooooooooooooooo!
- Location:United States, New Jersey, Princeton Junction
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hopeful
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nauseated
McNabb, Eagles beat Giants, reach NFC title game
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)—Donovan McNabb and his Philadelphia Eagles get another week to keep chasing that elusive Super Bowl crown. Eli Manning and the New York Giants get a whole offseason to wonder what went wrong.McNabb made all the big plays that Manning did not, and the Eagles eliminated the Super Bowl champions 23-11 Sunday to reach the NFC title game for the fifth time in eight seasons.
Throw in Philadelphia’s hard-hitting, ball-hawking defense, and these NFL playoffs are now for the Birds—the underdog Eagles, Cardinals and Ravens all won on the road this weekend.
McNabb lunged for one touchdown, threw for another and converted several key third downs to move the sixth-seeded Eagles (11-6-1) into next Sunday’s title game at Arizona (11-7). Philadelphia beat the Cardinals 48-20 on Thanksgiving night.
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excited
They go on to the divisional playoffs next weekend, against... the Giants.
Ulp.
That's gonna be a toughie, but promises to be a hard-fought game. Be there! Aloha!
- Mood: excited
I'm happy my dinner experiment worked out not too badly.
I'm happy KO isn't sick and is on F'nIA tonight!
I'm happy I did this meme. I should try to think of something happy-making every day. It's good for me!
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contemplative
Article from the NY Times about the rise in dogfighting in Texas. Will someone explain the appeal of dogfighting? Where is the fun in watching two half-starved animals rip each other to pieces? Sure, boxing is brutal too, but there's an element of strategy to it, and the boxers get into the ring VOLUNTARILY.
From Lifehacker: Top 10 Things You Forgot Gmail Can Do. Well, nine you may have forgotten and one that was just released maybe three weeks ago. But it's very handy! Boy, I loves me some Gmail.
Oh, and shocker of shockers, the Iggles beat the Giants today. Giants' first loss at home, and first loss in their conference. So THERE! They're [ed. -- Oops, they = Eagles here] still last in the division though, so they'll have to play their guts out every week and hope all the other teams lose their minds.
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lunaris1013 for pointing it out! It features a lovely picture of Our Boys, Keith and Dan. The glee! They haz it!
But I do agree with the article on a couple of points. The main point: there are too many cooks in the kitchen, and the show is choppy and doesn't flow very well. I don't know that I'm crazy about the Players' Room -- not as fun as the name might lead you to believe -- where Collinsworth, Tiki Barber, and Jerome "Bus" Bettis discuss really picky stuff based on their experience with playing the game. I know I'm not allowed to call Tiki "articulate," but he can speak about pretty much any topic they throw at him with a lot of intelligence and passion. (And having his twin brother Ronde on speed dial is very helpful when talking about Tampa Bay.) Collinsworth really seems to know his stuff. Bus is energetic, but not nearly as polished as the other two. I love the Bus, I really do, but if they're looking to prune folks, I think Bettis has to be the first name on the list.Geez, maybe the show needs to be even a touch longer. Keith and Dan sound like they're killing themselves to get through all the highlights asquicklyaspossibleOMG!
And I also agree here:
Hiring Patrick to reunite with Olbermann, his former “SportsCenter” anchormate, sounded like a perfect idea. Olbermann gave the program a needed bolt of energy last year, with his talent for highlight narration and bristling, funny commentary....True that.
Bringing Patrick and Olbermann together presents a bit of an issue because Olbermann has redefined himself as a solo political broadcaster on MSNBC. Whatever you think of his clear leanings in the presidential race, he is a fascinating, dangerous showman whose expressive face needs to be seen more often than highlight narration allows.
And Patrick, redefined as a radio host who is new to NBC’s ways, is still revving up his pace to match Olbermann’s preternaturally rapid one.Also true. Dan sounds stumbly and slow next to Keith. Of course Keith gets loads of practice during the week narrating goofy Oddball crap. And let's face it, all Keith has to do is his "Cincinnati, hello!" a la Larry King, and I'm giggling so hard I stop paying attention to the content anyway.
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pleased
Next week is Monday Night Football against Dallas. Brrrrrrr.
Very sad about Tom Brady and his knee. Here's hoping he's not facing surgery or anything.
Ooh, they're on, they're on! How cute is it that Bob is there to introduce them again, just like the foreword of the book. This brings me happiness.
"Rutgers rookie Ray Rice." Ouch!
Kevin Everett, bless. Walking out onto the field after BREAKING HIS NECK last year. I agree with DP: name the award after him!
Dan taking the book away from Bob in the background there, HEE!
Time for the players' room... and I often have no idea what they're talking about here.
Is it me, or is DP a little slow on the uptake tonight?
Yes, Keith, McNabb DID put the biscuit in the Baskett! w00t!
Thanks, Tiki, for trying to give Donovan his props, before Bus cut you off!
How come Cris and Costas got to do the Jets/Miami game highlights? Where did KO & DP go?
Oh, there they are. :)
Will Peyton Manning's knee hold up tonight? If he and Brady are both out, the season could be wide open!
"Jessica Simpson, reportedly alarmed." OH KEEF.
The Little Big Show! <3 <3 <3
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Is it sexist of me to think this parody of a Foreign Affairs magazine cover is hilarious?
Hey, as long as Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter is OK, who cares if anyone else's does all right... Governor Palin slashed funding for shelters for teenage mothers.
...Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor....
From TalkingPointsMemo: Oh, those pesky open mics...
Peggy Noonan: Yeah.
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
PN: It's over.
Balloon Juice compares and contrasts a heartfelt spontaneous Obama speech with tonight's Palin (or insert Veep Here) speech:
There was a flutter of attention when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told a group of Post reporters and editors yesterday that his team was having to rework the vice presidential acceptance speech because the original draft, prepared before Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen, was too “masculine.” While we all wondered to ourselves what might make a speech masculine or feminine, no one batted an eye at the underlying revelation: that the campaign was writing the nominee’s speech before knowing who the nominee would be.
And finally to clear our palate from all the political stuff: Dan and Keith, together again, talking about F'nIA!
Dan Patrick describes his reunion with Keith Olbermann on NBC’s “Football Night in America,” which precedes the network’s Sunday night games, as his career restoration. It is a strong term given that since leaving ESPN Radio last year, Patrick started his own syndicated radio show and became a columnist/personality for Sports Illustrated....
....Patrick and Olbermann prefer not to overanalyze the chemistry that last got an on-air workout during Olbermann’s regular appearances on Patrick’s ESPN Radio show.
“I don’t think we’ve ever turned it off,” Patrick said. “There isn’t a switch when you say, ‘Now we get along, now I like you.’ I don’t even have to talk to Keith before we go on the air, and it will just flow. I have no idea why. That’s the way it is.”
Olbermann said, “On the radio show, I literally could walk in at 2 p.m., talk to him for 30 seconds about where he wanted to go in terms of topics, and we’d do our best work.”
He added, “The only true effort is opening our mouths.”...
- Mood: pleased
THIS makes me happy.
- Mood: ecstatic
lunaris1013 for hipping me to this one!KO plus DP! Together again! I can't stand it!!!Patrick joins NBC, reunites with Olbermann
Two former SportsCenter icons will co-host Football Night in America
Dan Patrick has been named a co-host of NBC's "Football Night in America" studio show, reuniting him with Keith Olbermann. The two redefined sports highlights during their time together on ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1992-97.
Patrick, who will handle highlight duties with Olbermann, joins host Bob Costas and co-hosts Cris Collinsworth and Olbermann, along with analysts Jerome Bettis and Tiki Barber and reporter Peter King.
"We are proud to reunite one of the greatest teams in the history of sports broadcasting. Dan and Keith were more than successful together, they defined the way that sports highlights are now delivered. Their unique delivery has been sorely missed and now they’ll be able to take their act to a primetime network television audience each Sunday night in the fall,” said Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Universal Sports & Olympics.
Olbermann said: “I’m delighted to be reunited with my tag team partner. I can’t stop Dan Patrick from working with me again, I can only hope to contain him.”
I can haz football time now plz??????
*bounce bounce bounce*
- Mood: ecstatic
I really wanted him to go out with a Super Bowl ring, but it was not to be. However, he can console himself with one or two records.
Godspeed, sir.
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sad
Phew, what a game!
And congrats to
autumnluv, mistressjennfer, and helpimarock for picking right in my football poll!- Mood:
amazed
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Is it 4:30 yet?
Moving the cats to my parents' house went OK. We purposely didn't feed them any dinner, because we didn't want them pooping in the carriers in the car. So when Hubby went up to his office, they naturally followed him. The carriers were already in there. Tulum apparently tried to run for it, but quickly realized there were no avenues of escape. So he allowed himself to be put inside.My parents have a small back bedroom on the second level of the house, so we put them and all their food, litter box, toys, etc. in there. Hubby opened up the carriers, and Fido actually rushed out and squeezed himself into Tulum's carrier! We've never seen them do that! Poor things must have been petrified.
We all went downstairs for a while to let them settle in. After an hour, Hubby and I went back up to see if they were OK. They weren't in the carriers, they weren't behind anything else in the room. The door had been closed, so they couldn't have gotten out... I finally looked in the closet, and they had wedged themselves into the smallest corner of the closet alllll the way in the back. Trust them to find the best hiding place in the room. We reached in and petted them for a while. I cried, again, because I'm a wimp. We left them enough food and water for the night, but based on past experience they probably won't eat for a while.
We finished watching the Packers/Giants game with my dad. I was really wanting Brett Favre to go to the Super Bowl, but I have to say I'm glad that Tynes kid made that final field goal in OT, after messing up the other two. He must have been like, "SUCK IT, COACH!" Now I can root for New England unreservedly in the Super Bowl.
Anyway, I know the kitties are stressed out, but they are safe and out of harm's way around here. I'm sure by tonight or tomorrow they will be more relaxed. It would be a nonstop horror movie around here for them if they stayed here: locked in a room 24/7, all that noise, all that dirt, people clomping in and out of the house.
We have just a few odds and ends to pack up today. I cleared out everything from the powder room. Hubby has made room in the corner for the refrigerator. Later this afternoon we'll each make another big batch of chili and another pan of lasagna to freeze for dinners.
I hope the kitties will forgive us. I hope they will remember us and not run away when we go visit them.
- they beat Dallas, which made them sad, like I wanted
- they go on to play Green Bay next Sunday in Wisconsin. If it snows again, Green Bay will decimate them
- Which means it will be Green Bay and probably New England in the Super Bowl, so Green Bay will hopefully beat New England, and Brett Favre can cap off his amazing year with a new Super Bowl ring and thus retire
- Mood: pleased
Re the AFC game: Whoa!!! I had fallen asleep and missed the last 10 minutes. Thank Gods I recorded it. I'm watching it now. San Diego actually won?!?! That's kind of exciting actually. I had just assumed the Colts were inevitable. Well done, Chargers! Chargers v New England next week should be hawesome.
- Mood: sleepy
- Location:on the couch in front of the TV
- Mood:
amused
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