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Wally has told Paul McCallum that the Lions plan to use Sean Whyte next year as their kicker. McCallum isn't ready to retire, so Wally will have to decide whether to cut him or trade him or keep him around. McCallum was the team's nominee for Most Outstanding Player last year. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=349644 ***** Eskimos LB Mark Restelli has signed with Miami. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=349838

This is why I don't like playoffs. I've always disliked them most of all with baseball. I think the regular season should determine who the two best teams are, and then the championship game should be between the two best teams. With playoffs, the championship is awarded to the team that is hot at the end, on a winning streak, no matter how many teams were better over the course of the previous four months. When the Steelers won the Super Bowl a few years ago, weren't they the last-seeded team? That's kind of funny coming from such a CFL fan. Yes, I've come to terms with the fact that the two Canadian leagues (the CFL and the NHL) let almost everybody into the playoffs. What redeems the CFL situation to me is that the Eastern and Western Divisions are older than the league itself. I believe they (the IRFU and the WIFU) used to have playoffs before they began competing against each other. By the way, speaking of old age, the first year I collected Canadian league bubble gum cards (1959), the Eastern and Western teams didn't play each other until the Grey Cup game. I think that started in 1961.

Does that SD card work with the Sansa Clip+ player? That would be plenty of exta memory for me. I'll probably wait a while until the need arises before I buy more memory. six string, I have no personal experience with these items, but I got the link from Amazon's "Customers who bought this also bought that..."

I think that Mark Murphy was from Buffalo. Upstate New York for sure. Maybe he spent the night with his family.

I remember that also. Does anyone remember when it was class to score a touchdown and turn and give the ball to the ref?? or just lay the ball on the ground and trot back to your team?? Uhhh I guess that is old too...... Bruce, I noticed that in the Army-Navy game last month. Class.

Just for the record, I never said anything implying my age. That said, I was born in '58 and do remember 1967. Forgive me FFA, I thought you were my age!

I didn't realize that I should have defined my term when I used the word "playoffs". A championship game is not a playoff. Playoffs are when teams other than the two first place teams are added into the mix. I believe that this concept was created by Shaughnessey of the baseball International League, and they were called the Shaughnessey Playoffs. The idea was to keep more people interested in minor league baseball by increasing the number of teams that had a chance to win the championship (and thus sell more tickets as the season wound down). Ca. 1975 I attended the Soccer Bowl in Washington, which was the championship game of the NASL between the New York Cosmos and the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers. The game was a mismatch, and I was so angry I dashed off a letter to the commissioner. I received a response from one of his assistants explaining that the purpose of the playoffs is to ensure that the championship game is contested by two teams on a roll. The thinking was that they did not want a championship game to be contested by one team which was hot early but was on a losing streak at the end. Jim, I remember when the NFL disregarded ties when determining the standings. The standings were determined by the percentage considering only wins and losses. As I recall, in 1962 ( or maybe '63) the Steelers tied a lot of games, and if they had won the last game of the season, they would have played in the championship game. But they lost it.

What I had in mind was the NFL having two conferences, and each team would play every other team in the conference one time. Then there would be something like three interconference games to make the schedule 18 games like they want it. The important thing is that you only play a team once, so that the tiebreaker would be simply who beat whom.

Old enough to remember the Chicago Cardinals, the New York Titans, the Dallas Texans and the Los Angeles Chargers!

There are couple of items at Amazon that I have my eye on. Sansa Clip+ 2 gig - $24.95 http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Sansa-Player-Packaging-Refurbished/dp/B004CN518W/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I333CT9O2Q3GIX&colid=RVSBV717YT9 Combine that with a Sandisk 16 gig micro SD card - $19.45 http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDHC-Memory-SDSDQ-016G-Packaging/dp/B001L1H0SC/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I32KQIIO1R6EN0&colid=RVSBV717YT9

FFA, well, how did they do it when we were kids, before there were playoffs? I would have each conference with one table, and have each team play another team only once. Then, if two teams were tied for first at the end of the year, I would award first place to the team that beat the other. I suppose it might get complicated if three or four teams tied for first, but using a tiebreaker formula makes more sense to me than having a sixth-seeded team play in the Super Bowl.

Prechae Rodriguez has signed with the Als. http://www.cfl.ca/article/prechae-rodriguez-signs-with-als

Happy Birthday vajerzy!

aloc, ditch the cartridge blades! We'll talk you into going back to the safety razor and double edge blades!

This is why I don't like playoffs. I've always disliked them most of all with baseball. I think the regular season should determine who the two best teams are, and then the championship game should be between the two best teams. With playoffs, the championship is awarded to the team that is hot at the end, on a winning streak, no matter how many teams were better over the course of the previous four months. When the Steelers won the Super Bowl a few years ago, weren't they the last-seeded team?

Happy Birthday S-A-R!

Brasil '66 was my favorite group my last two years of high school. I still love their first three albums with the original lineup, but for me the later albums with the second lineup don't pass the test of time. I think that the first group swung a lot more.

I'm sorry to hear this. She was not particularly popular in the US, but I always liked her, and thought that she was one of the most beautiful women in the world.

OK, I'll try reddit. I miss Digg, and I gathered that many Diggers moved over to there. aloc, we'll get you started on traditional wetshaving if you're not already there!

reading: http://www.mobileread.com/ shaving: http://www.shavemyface.com/forum/ I used to enjoy Digg very much, but they changed it, and it has collapsed.

Congrats to you too, jlh!

Happy Birthday 2011 hbj!

Congrats Ron!

Newbury did not respond to my Monday (Jan 10) request for a refund, so this evening I filed a claim with Amazon. Amazon says that the matter should be resolved by Jan 28 (in two weeks).

The Stampeders have traded Mike Labinjo to the Als for future considerations. He has been injured the last couple of seasons, and apparently John Hufnagel gave up on him. I can't remember the last time a player in either league was traded for future considerations. That used to be standard procedure when I was a kid. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Montreal/2011/01/12/16862621.html