For those of you who do not know, I am a die-hard Buffalo Bills fan. However, it has become increasingly difficult to enjoy the product that Ralph Wilson has put on the field over the last decade. Because of this, the off season has become more interesting since every year, hope exists the Bills can make the right combination of free agent, draft, and coaching moves.
Free agency began today at 12:01 AM meaning that anyone not under contract or "franchised" by his team is free to negotiate with any other team in the league. Each year the price for free agents keeps going up and every year a team jettisons poor free agent choices. This year it was Jacksonville and Oakland cutting ties with over-priced, underachieving players.
There are three noteworthy stories that I feel compelled to comment on:
Albert Haynesworth
A $100 million deal for a defensive tackle who has never played a full season and not made more than 2 Pro Bowls. I expect nothing less from Daniel Snyder who is probably still paying Hugh Douglas a portion of his signing bonus.
Fred Taylor
The headline here says it all. The Bills have put themselves in this position where we will have to offer at least twice as much as a winning team would to land a worthwhile free agent. Buffalo is just not attractive to players, especially players who are looking for one last attempt at a Super Bowl championship.
SAGE....ROSENFELS
Last year Sage single-handedly lost the Colts game for the Texans and played pretty bad in several others and he gets a $9 million extension. There is no way that I could negotiate a worse deal than that. Give me a job in the football world negotiating deals like this. Please.
Friday, February 27, 2009
First off...a little history about this blog's URL
It has been nearly a decade since Mystery Science Theater 3000 ended its adventure through the stars. Is is hard to believe it has been so long since so many of the incredibly humorous moments still resonate so well with me. In episode #820, the crew of the Satellite of Love were forced (as we were) to watch "Space Mutiny." Horrible but unintentionally hilarious for so many reasons, there was one running joke that topped it all. The "star" of the movie was Reb Brown, "famous" for playing Captain America in the 1970's. Long story short, he was given a series of macho, strong-man names one of which was Bolt Vanderhuge. Of course, vanderhuge.blogspot.com was taken so I had to settle for the second best name Gristle McThornbody. So welcome to the inaugural post of mcthornbody.blogspot.com where I will ocassionally post about video games, the football world, movies and TV, as well as anything else that may be of interest to very few.
On a final note, someone on YouTube was kind enough to collect every scene with Mike and the Robots calling out the names so if you can't watch the whole MST3K episode, at least watch this:
On a final note, someone on YouTube was kind enough to collect every scene with Mike and the Robots calling out the names so if you can't watch the whole MST3K episode, at least watch this:
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