If I'm the Browns I would be making a lot of calls and queries into the health of Chris McAlister, who was released Monday by the Ravens. The guy plays corner the way it should be played, and if his surgically repaired knee is healthy he'd be a strong addition to a defense that lacks a top corner. McAlister can show attitude, yes, but the corner position is so vital I'd be making a lot of queries into seeing whether McAlister will listen to a coach. The Browns need a corner … the Ravens cut one. Methingks McALister would love to join an AFC North team and stick it to his old one.
Interesting story here on the Steelers former Super Bowl championship teams and steroid use among their offensive linemen.
Finally, could Buffalo become the next Cleveland — an NFL city that loses its team? The Toronto Bills?
And … a personal note to Alan: Chrissie Hynde did come back and help Akron. She opened a restaurant downtown called Vegiterranean, and it gets pretty good reviews.
I think alan already mocked the restaurant.
Alan mocks everything.
I think our young corners are fine.They could use a little help from the guys up front as well as a healthy Sean Jones [2007 version].We could use some depth so I'm all for adding a vet and hoping Holly can be in the mix as well.
Pat, a veggie restaurant? Come on, she can do better than that for Akron. Really. I mean, have you taken a look at 99.999% of the people in and around Akron? I mean, *really* looked? That cook will have to stuff a Twinkie with caramel tofu and organic beer to prevent that restaurant from closing within the year. There are only so many hippies, homosexuals and lesbians in Akron to go around. Otherwise, start serving Big Macs and the Colonel's chicken in there.
Seriously, if she really wants to make a difference, donate some money for a community center. Akron is a cesspool, and it's only a matter of time before a gang member puts a cap in your ass, Pat. Give them something to do. It's terrific that's she's such a fan of healthy food and a supporter of radical crazies like PETA, but especially in a recession, nobody wants to pay 15 times more than what that stuff is actually worth.
And Pat. Chris McAlister? Please. That dude already has 10 years of professional wear and tear behind him, and a leg with the consistency of chocolate pudding. Bill Cosby oughta come back to television, if, for no other reason, than to do a new Jell-O commercial about that guy's knee.
Hey, here's a thought: Instead of pursuing crippled retreads, why not do what the Ravens did after Art Modell and Al Lerner graciously bussed them out of Cleveland? How about hiring some very keen and some very shrewd college scouts who don't have pimples for brains when draft day comes around? Or would that take some actual intelligence and the capacity for excellent judgment as opposed to doing it the easy way, using has-been free agents and the salary cap as the basis for your roster?
And larry d., you mocked "The Adultress" when I was giving it a big thumbs-up. If she had made more rockers, she'd get an overall big thumbs-up from me. That's what girlllllll power is supposed to be all about. That baby she had in 1983 ruined everything. Rocker mothers instantly mellow. There should be a law, punishable by death, against female rockers having kids.
Tell me again this "sucks," larry d. You're nuts. Besides, you know she was once a badass chick rocker, given the fact that both the guy to her left and the guy to her right separately killed themselves with drugs about three seconds after the taping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PETOwS5-EtA
Pat, since you seem to be bedazzled by Hynde, I thought I'd post this here, since it's Hynde-related, hope you don't mind … I remembered seeing that original "Fridays" episode, but I had completely forgotten how totally unprepared Hynde was for Andy Kaufman's aborted intro. She had no clue what the hell was going on. Nobody did, including the show's producers. That guy took comedy to a level nobody will ever see again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxc8TZyzFE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWo8ar5VNa4&feature=related
Pat, since you seem to be bedazzled by Hynde, I thought I'd post this here, since it's Hynde-related, hope you don't mind … I remembered seeing that original "Fridays" episode, but I had completely forgotten how totally unprepared Hynde was for Andy Kaufman's aborted intro. That guy took comedy to a level nobody will ever see again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxc8TZyzFE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWo8ar5VNa4&feature=related
Who cares about a stupid restaraunt.This is the same chrissie hynde that wished our young troops DEAD when we invaded iraq.I'm against the war but I would never want one thing to happen to a G.I. grow up boys!
Allan,
I loved your comments. Let me recap it for a second: twinkies, tofu, hippies, homo's of all stripes PETA. NFL, girlll power and suicide. Man, that was intense. This Mcmannon is just a big brown floater in the the cesspool. I hope you can take all that attitude and do something constructive with it. The Screaming Urinal [Beacon Journal] should have you do a column because its ten minute later and I'm still chucklin' after reading your comments. Go get ' em.
Bubba, technically I don't think it was "suicide" if it was accidental. At least I think that's the way suicide works. Honestly, I don't know, I've never committed it.
And mike, I don't think Hynde ever said she wanted troops dead. I think you're exaggerating a bit there. Anyway, go listen to the new links I posted in Pat's "Saturday Entertainment" post. I actually admire her balls, in a matter of speaking.
But seriously, what was the deal with two young guys who separately died from drugs within an eight-month span? But yet you have rocker fossils who are even older than those two guys would be now, let alone older than God himself, and are still ticking like a healthy Timex? They've done everything under the sun, and even done things that don't even exist. "Bleach, turpentine, LSD, Crisco and Jim Beam? OK, stick it all into my vein, sounds good, mate!" How is it humanly possible that a guy like Keith Richards is still very much alive and kicking, but Hynde's two original guitarists, let alone 98% of Akron, will never make it to his age? It sure isn't because of Hynde's healthy veggies made with the freshest organic manure in town.
Rather than being totally talentless stiffs by the time they finally get to the Browns, why couldn't a guy like Willie McGinest, as one of many examples in the last 10 years, take whatever Keith Richards has been taking for the last 1,000 years? That, in a convoluted nutshell, is why I think Chris McAlister will be a very, very bad idea.
Is it a manner of speaking or a matter of speaking? I think it's a manner of speaking. Oh, who cares.
o.k., who's actually eaten at this vegan restaurant?
terje, in answer to your question, I'm guessing approximately the same number of people who ate at Dywane Wade's two restaurants before they abruptly closed up shop. But at least she's not like Dywane Wade and lending her name simply to front some random eatery to satisfy a massive ego. Although she lives in London, she sincerely believes in the underlying philosophy of both herself and some Akronites consuming and ingesting humane natural food products. Also, unlike Dywane Wade, the public isn't forced to read about Hynde screwing every human being on the face of Mother Earth, and then giving his soon-to-be-ex-wife his herpes for the rest of her natural life.
Herpes. The Valentine's Day gift that keeps on giving.
I *would* have a bite at her veggie restaurant if the chef takes my brilliant menu suggestion, and stuffs a Twinkie with caramel tofu and organic beer. Seriously. Add this health food to the permanent menu, and I would travel and become a monthly regular. Heck, I would even order a dozen shipped by FedEx to me every week, and keep them in my freezer for whenever I get the munchies. I mean, who in their right mind wouldn't? I would, you would, everybody would. Anything involving a Twinkie, you can't go wrong. Even during these tough economic times, her caramel tofu and organic beer Twinkie would become a national phenomenon, the Applebee's ribs of veggie fare.
Pathological liar A-Rod continues to lie and continues to be old news, Michael Phelps is no news, there is nothing going on with the Browns, there is nothing going on with the Indians, there is nothing going on with the Buckeyes, there is nothing going on with the Zips, it is iffy if there will be much of anything going on with the Cavaliers. All that's left to talk about is Conan O'Brien's final week of doing edgy humor before he and his writers will have to fill the 11:30 PM time-slot with light chuckles so as not to offend. Therefore, I want to read Pat's informed opinion as to this highly controversial dining issue. Any guy who drinks green beer in March is certainly qualified to have a strong opinion as to a rock star's veggie menu featuring a healthy Twinkie.
Only if he's healthy and for a one year deal.Angry and hungry.Pay back,sounds good to me.
alant look it up.she said DEAD! DONT ARGUE IF YOU DONT KNOW THE FACTS
I'm not going to look it up, mike. You show me the actual quote, and don't show me a source from some drunk blogging site. If she actually said it, and the source is reliable, then she obviously she was way, way out of line.
I'm not going to look it up, mike. You show me the actual quote, and don't show me a source from some drunk blogging site. If she actually said it, and the source is reliable, then she obviously was way, way out of line.
Chrissie said from a stage in San Fran 3 months before we went to war with Iraq "Bring it on….if we go to war we deserve to be bombed"…she did not call for death to the troops you morons…she is a "peacnik" not a warmonger…..it was taken out of context. She was a Kent state in late 60's and witnessed the shootings while students were demonstrating against the vietnam war…..blah blah blah….never in my life have I heard more people rant against Hynde. I am convinced they are bitter because she has expressed her views loudly for 30 years and still she survives in a male dominated world, surfacing every 4 years. I say this is strong evidence that having true talent and not giving a flying f*** about what people think of her has only made her stronger.
mark vs. rock in I.Q. test,me pick rock
Great stuff. Nice to read some well written posts that have some relevancy !
Not that I'm totally impressed, but this is a lot more than I expected for when I found a link on Digg telling that the info is quite decent. Thanks.