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I didn’t need good news back in 1974, guess I just had that dog in me.

Lakewood, Utica, and Northridge.

Granville. And I recall you went to either Watkins or LH, I can’t recall for certain which.

You mean they won’t be ready because of seeing Damar get CPR and shocked? Listen up, the year is 1974, I’m on the bus going to our 7th grade basketball game against Licking Valley. Ron Mathias, our starting center, (dude went through puberty in like 4th grade), barfs all over the place, mostly the aisle, really. The smell, the noise, all a complete shit show. Like a champion I am unaffected, went and balled out (4 points and fouled out in the 3rd quarter), we won by 8 points. If required, I will tell that story of epic mental toughness to the Bengals in person.

Jay Morrison is like a detective.

That field at Paycor is racking up some injuries. Tua got a brain injury there this year, I think I recall him getting carted off. Ryan Shazier received a pretty serious injury to his spine there, glad he recovered enough to walk. Now this youngster has a heart event that almost ended his life. Maybe every nfl field has this macabre history, I don’t pay attention to the other fields enough to know.

Ok so we’re on to the Ravens.

The league would probably love to seize another weekend of tv. Imagine the profits. I wonder though if the union will let them. My belief is the union will not allow the players to play in a rescheduled game. The game is likely gone for good, they’ll have to come up with some artificial fix that is as fair as they can make it, then just move forward with the schedule as is.

The league should have made a decision last night. They were too busy seizing the moral high ground, didn’t want to appear callous, cold hearted, or greedy. All this “all we care about now is this young man’s health,” bullshit from the league does not change the reality that this 18 billion dollar industry absolutely wrecks the bodies and neurological health of its young employees.

That sure looks like it fits. I wonder if they needed a defibrillator. Probably had one in the ambulance.

But it also means we can’t pas the chiefs to get home field.

If they call this game a tie, we’ve got the division.

I love Suzie Kolber, Booger, and Schefty. But they were so woefully inadequate trying to fill time. Great at delivering prepared remarks, but having to create dialogue, deliver off the cuff remarks - no. Not an easy situation.

I don’t think they’ll award a win. I would have guessed they’ll come back and finish it tomorrow. But the sentiment in here makes me wonder if they’ll do that. Probably have to move next week’s games for the bengals and bills to Monday if they finish it tomorrow.

From my son’s high school basketball team (in college now) group text: ”RIP Hamlin prop bets.”

Who’s Jordan Rooney? I’ll google him.

Just want them to be competitive to the end, have a chance to win it. That game on Halloween against the Browns was an unwelcome, Marvin-like, prime time fail. Put that stuff in the rear view mirror.

Dolphins in the first round. We can only hope to be that lucky.

Collinsworth could call a Steelers game every week and he’d be fine with that.

Serious question: If Collinsworth gets divorced, we all know he will very quickly enter into a new romance. But will that romance be with Mike Tomlinson, or will it be with TJ Watt?

Been there. I hope you have a much better 2023.

Denver trying to act like they care, but I’m not fooled.

Man, that is a dark place for Browns fans right now.

I can’t believe we just lost that game. We had it in our hands. Those plays after Stroud’s run put us in long FG range cost us that game. Don’t like the run call, then we ran a hurry up play to catch GA off guard and it backfired.

Stetson Bennett throws that football more accurately than he throws my morning newspaper, half of them end up in the bushes.