MrRain422

That's not how point spreads work. The spread has nothing to do with who the bookies think will win or by how much. It is based on what number will have about 50% of betters betting on each team. If the favored team is getting all the bets, then they raise the point spread. If the underdog is getting all of them, they lower it. It is completely based on the bets that are already being placed.

Both cities are incredibly crooked. The difference, though, is that the corruption in Detroit's government is completely self-serving by those involved, whereas in Chicago, while everyone is still working in their own self-interest, they at least realize that it is in their interest to keep the city functioning on at least a basic level. In order to get it's shit together, the people of Detroit need to: a) Diversify it's economy bee) Finally find a way to get past remaining racial tensions c) Re-structure the city council into a ward system so that more than 3 neighborhoods will be represen

Not really. The reason they split time wasn't because of baseball. Henson was a freshman when Brady was a junior. Normally he wouldn't get much playing time at all, but due to the crazy high expectations they had for him, they wanted to get him some playing time right away. If he'd quit baseball, he still would have been backing up Brady. And yeah, I was also going to dispute that "defense wins championships" thing but I guess that's already been covered.

Anyway, the point seems to be that, yeah, having a great quarterback helps a lot, but playing in the Super Bowl is more of a reflection of the overall quality of the team and the level of competition they faced in the playoffs than it is a personal reflection on the quarterback. Lots of teams have been lead to glory by great QBs but there have been just as many or more who have stumbled there with a mediocre to shitty QB because the rest of the team was good enough, and also some great quarterbacks whose teams never did anything. The fact that Eli is playing in the Super Bowl does say someth

Other all-time great Super Bowl QBs: Rex Grossman Jake Delhomme Rich Gannon Trent Dilfer Chris Chandler Drew Bledsoe Neil O'Donnell Stan Humphries etc etc

Yeah, same here. I used to listen to them online every morning while getting ready for work, but I sort of stopped shortly after Drew went on leave.

Yeah, but I still don't want something called "Co-Ed Magazine" in my cache. It just looks bad if anyone is paying any sort of attention.

I'm not going to look at that at work, but is Brian Griese on there or what?

Yes, although to be fair to Gil Hill, his role in Beverly Hills Cop was not his only qualification.

Archer didn't seem too crooked.

I just think it was sort of obnoxious how he made so many demands before anyone even drafted him, was able to decide what team he was going to end up on, and then turned out to be nothing special so far.

Don't autopsies usually take longer than that?

I'll be there too.

It's the original band. Billy Zoom is back in all his creepy leering glory. I saw them at the House of Blues in '06 and they were awesome.

I hate everyone playing for either team other than Amani Toomer and Charles Woodson so I don't really care who wins. It's just a contest for who gets to lose to the Patriots anyway. I guess I hate Eli Manning a little bit more than I hate Brett Favre.

Kucinich - 69% Edwards - 63% Clinton - 56% Obama - 52% Gravel - 45% McCain - 18% Paul - 12% Giuliani - 11% Thompson - 4% Keyes - 4% Hunter - 4% Cox - 4% Huckabee - 2%

Not the Billy Ficca thread I was expecting.

Oh shit, that reminded me that I was going to ask you if you wanted to see X at the Metro. March 19th, $25.

He did some VU classics on some live albums, but John Cale has as well. And he re-did some stuff that the Velvets had demoed, but he never re-recorded any songs that were on original Velvet Underground albums.

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Depends. I was Lou Reed obsessive for a long time and I've burned myself out on him for a while. I've gone through some pretty intense Cale phases too though. At the moment I guess I'd rather listen to John Cale. And for no particular reason, top 5 for both: Lou Reed 1. Berlin 2. The Blue Mask 3. New York 4. The Bells 5. Street Hassle John Cale 1. Sabotage 2. Fear 3. Helen of Troy 4. Paris 1919 5. Music for a New Society

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WTF is this?

I don't know think Kerry's endorsement particularly helps Obama in the polls, but it doesn't hurt him either. The huge mailing list of people that donated money to Kerry's campaign in '04 that he may now give to Obama could be very helpful though.

Every time Alan Keyes on TV, I think about his batshit claim and laugh, so that was the first thing I thought of when I heard this story.