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And the Comissioner wants to play 18 regular season games!

The Bengals deserved all of those penalties and actually some more at the end. Besides Pac Man's nonsense Burflict pushed the Steeler trainer and multiple Bengals pushed Joey Porter. The NFL needs to flag any contact to the ball carriers head and get some guys under 70 reffing these games. The game is way to fast and the complexity of the rules are to much for the part time geezers they have out there.

He should have been tossed for that hit.

Fumble!

So the guy who threw a punch on the previous play makes a pick.

Tomlin going for 2 earlier might cost them the game.

That hit was legal under the rules.Also how's it home cooking when the refs blew the fumble call, it should have been a TD.

Except the stuff from Kurosawa, Riefenstahl, Joseph Campbell, ... Don't forget Edgar Rice Burroughs and the John Carter of Mars books.

After looking it up Memorial Stadium is a football stadium owned by the city that holds 21,000, the Charlotte Hornets of the WFL played there in the 70's. The minor league baseball stadium the Crockett's owned held only 5,000. Had there been more stadiums that size in JCP's Carolina/Virginia hot towns the Bash tour could have been a success.

As someone born and raised in the Steel City but hasn't lived their for 20some years, I say it's a punishment. A reward would have been fried fish sandwiches from Wholey's those things should be the famous Pittsburgh sandwich.

How is it a success? Their venue in Philly held around 12,000 and they were averging around 10,000 for shows there. They spent way more money on rent at the Vet and drew what they always draw in the city.

If I remember the story right Dusty sold Crockett on the idea that they'd do big houses at all of them which really didn't happen. They sold out at traditional JCP venues like the Scope in Norfolk or the Greensboro Coliseum but drew small crowds to the stadium shows. From histroryofwwe.com Philadelphia, PA - Veterans Stadium - July 1, 1986 (10,900) - Featured a concert by Joe Ely and Delbert McClinton - that's around what they drew at the Civic Center. Washington DC - RFK Stadium - July 3, 1986 (6,300) Featured a concert by Joe Ely and Delbert McClinton Memphis, TN - Liberty Bowl - July 4, 1986 (1,900) Featured a concert by Waylon Jennings - I think this was the show that had the Jerry Lawler and Friends free softball game running in opposition. Charlotte, NC - Memorial Stadium - July 5, 1986 (23,000) Featured a concert by Waylon Jennings - I think this was a sell out since it was a Minor League stadium. Cincinnati, OH - Riverfront Stadium - July 9, 1986 (3,900 paid) Featured a concert by George Jones - Their normal venue held over 10,000. Jacksonville, FL - Gator Bowl - July 12, 1986 (10,000) Included a concert from Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter - 82,000 seat venue. Atlanta, GA - Fulton County Stadium - August 2, 1986 (12,000) The end of the Great American Bash tour - all kids tickets bought that day were $5; the Road Warriors, Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson signed autographs before the show; included a concert by Joe Ely, Delbert McClinton, and Ricky Morton - The Omni held 16,000.

Expand it to 8 teams and take the bowls out of the mix.

Can someone explain why Iowa is even playing in this game? Sure they won their division but that side of the Big 10 sucked and they got a easy draw on the crossover games against the East. Their biggest wins this year were what Pitt and Northwestern?

The College Football Playoff Committee(the power 5 conferences) wouldn't budge, ESPN begged them to move the semi's to the 2nd this year but the Committee is dead set on the triple headers on the 31st and 1st. It's the same b.s. from the BCS days. The conferences and bowls are looking out for their best interest and not that of the fans even if that costs then money in the long run. What's going to happen in a few years when they expand the playoff to 8 teams and play on Christmas Eve and Day.

It's actually the Sugar Bowl that's causing the problem. When the SEC and Big 12 decided to create the "Champions Bowl" which was pretty much a take over of the Sugar Bowl they got locked into the Jan. 1 8:30pm kickoff during the tv rights negotiations with ESPN. Had the Sugar Bowl been able to be moved to the 31st or 2nd both of the semi's would have been played on the 1st at 1pm and 8:30pm with the Rose Bowl in the middle. Same thing will happen next year with the Fiesta and Peach bowl hosting the semi's on the 31st and the Rose and Sugar being played on the 2nd due to the 1st falling on a Sunday(the traditional New Years Day games are aways played on the 2nd when the 1st is a Sunday). But less people will be working during the 4pm semi next year due to the 31st being a Saturday.

Did you not see Phantom Menace? Isn't it more like, Disney is out of/scared to try original ideas and it's easier to buy and repackage established products, which has been their business model for a while now. Disney outside of Mickey and his friends has always been about repackaging established products, it was a lot cheaper in the 1930's and 40's when doing it with public domain fairy tales. Lucas having sellers remorse shouldn't surprise anyone, besides the whole "not what I would have done" thing I bet he's kicking himself for not getting 5 or 6 billion for it. Besides the box office numbers Disney is raking it in with all of the tie in's with companies I don't think Lucas would have ever thought of hooking up with(Chrysler and Cover Girl) and the cash the Star Wars Lands at the US parks will bring Disney when they open in a few years.

Bradshaw was a "game manager" in the first two Super Bowl's but they could have easily lost SBIX to the Vikings 6-2 if it wasn't for the two touchdown drives he pulled off and he had a great game in SBX even though his stats don't show it. Noll really messed with his head by pulling him in and out of so many games in 73/74 that it really didn't take until the playoffs for him to have any confidence.

Pitt getting thumped by Navy in the Military Industrial Complex Bowl makes me ask the question. Why did we fire Wanstache five years ago? Narduzzi seems like a ok coach but I can't stand that rah rah in your face b.s. he does plus Pitt's history of Italian-American defensive coordinators moving up to head coach hasn't been that stellar.

The prequels and not being a big Abrams fan had me really expecting the worst but they really hit this one out of the park for me. I'm really hoping Rey isn't a Skywalker, if they want to connect her to someone from the past make her a Kenobi, Antilles or even a Porkins.

Code for 'expensive shit that goes beyond what we're supposed to give the players.' There's a max of $550 worth of stuff so maybe the Cotton Bowl is giving out crappy gifts.

There's tons of Pitt fans screaming about it on the message boards, mainly because they think it makes Pitt look bad but I have no idea how playing a ranked team on a better date makes them look bad. The only bowls within driving distance of Pittsburgh are the Military, Quick Lane and Pinstripe, no one wants to goto Detroit for a bowl game and the Pinstripe and Military are only appealing because of the match up and the Military had a better one this year.

Maybe they'll try and trick people into thinking it's a basketball game... This is the first time their ACC/Big Ten affliation blew up in their face. Normally they have someone very local (or two in fact) to help fill the stadium (Syracuse, Rutgers. Last year was Penn State.) They would have killed for Pittsburgh and I guess they felt they needed to take Duke over Virginia Tech (though Tech travels well in the East) God the Big Ten sucks. I am guessing they are wishing now that Nebraska had won one more game. Word on the Pitt message boards is that they voluntarily moved down to an ACC Tier 2 bowl so they could play @ Navy in the Military Industrial Complex Bowl. Apparently the new AD thinks they'll bring more fans to Annapolis on the 28th compared to the Bronx on the 26th.

That's a bummer! Shatner's doc on the creation and first three seasons of TNG was pretty good.

The post fight was amazing! Fury dropped more J-Bombs than a Baptist preacher and sang I Don't Want to Miss a Thing!