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Been away last year.Congrats Giant fans.You deserved the superbowl.My pats and brady got spanked.See you in the fall.Bob :))
Absolutely Bob!!! I'll be at a party with about 25 or so folks there, mostly our volleyball crowd! Looking forward to the game and fun!! tuna
TTTTUUUNNAA I love the Superbowl.Even if my Pats are not in it we had a good year.I have two friends that are big Bears Fans.Can we say PARTY sunday.lol Bob :)))
Cool post Trops!!! Thanks for that and best of luck to Chicago...should be a very good game imho as I'm going to guess it will be a tight finish or at least hope so!! tuna
In honor of the Chicago Bears going to Super Bowl 41. Here are 41 things
> that have changed from the last time the Chicago Bears played in the
> Super Bowl (which was Super Bowl 20 in 1986):
>
> 1. Brian Urlacher was in 2nd grade. Rex Grossman was in
> kindergarten.
> 2. Peyton Manning was 10 years old. Eli Manning was 5 years old.
> Their dad, Archie, had just retired from the NFL two years earlier.
> 3. Lovie Smith was in his first college coaching job at University
> of Tulsa.
> 4. Ronald Reagan was the President, and Harold Washington was the
> Mayor. James R. Thompson was the Governor running for re-election and
> his office was in the new State of Illinois Center, which is now called
> the James R. Thompson Center.
> 5. George W. Bush was 39 years old and still drinking. His father
> would run for President two years later.
> 6. Rod Blagojevich was just out of law school and was a low-level
> prosecutor working for the Cook County State's Attorney, Richard M.
> Daley.
> 7. Barack Obama had just moved to Illinois, and Osama bin Laden was
> fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
> 8. Red Grange and Sid Luckman were still alive.
> 9. The Colts had just moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore and were
> the doormat of the AFC EAST. The Bears were the champions of the NFC
> CENTRAL.
> 10. Property in Wicker Park and Bucktown was cheap because they were
> really bad neighborhoods.
> 11. CD players, cellular phones and fax machines were expensive,
> cutting edge technology and only a few people used them.
> 12. "Surfing the net" meant a volleyball game at the beach, and
> virtually no one used the "@" key on their TYPEWRITER.
> 13. Sam Walton was still alive and was wealthier than Bill Gates.
> Windows were panes of glass...not a computer operating system that was a
> pain in something that rhymes with glass.
> 14. The Soviet Union was our main enemy, and Saddam Hussein was our
> ally.
> 15. There were no lights at Wrigley Field, and the oldest park in
> baseball belonged to the White Sox.
> 16. Michael Jordan and Ozzie Guillen had just finished their "Rookie
> of the Year" seasons. Jordan's coach was Stan Albeck and Guillen's
> manager was Tony LaRussa. (Three out of four of those guys are now
> wearing championship rings, but what ever happened to Stan Albeck???)
> 17. Soldier Field had AstroTu rf. The Houston Oilers played in the
> AstroDome.
> 18. The Fox TV Network didn't exist, and ESPN had yet to air a
> single live pro football, baseball, or basketball game.
> 19. MTV played music and so did some AM radio stations.
> 20. Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff weren't born yet; Jackie Gleason
> and Richard Nixon were still alive.
> 21. Hillary Clinton had dark hair and was the First Lady......of
> Arkansas!
> 22. "The Love Boat" and "Diff'rent Strokes" were still on network TV
> every week.
> 23. Martin Luther King Day was about to be celebrated as a National
> Holiday for the first time. "9-11" was a phone number many cities were
> just adopting for emergency calls - not a date of terror.
> 24. I-88 was called "Illinois Rt. 5" and I-355 hadn't been built
> yet.
> 25. Wha t the CTA now calls "The Blue Line" had just been extended to
> O'Hare, and the Orange Line to Midway hadn't been built yet.
> 26. Q101 played adult contemporary music and most teenagers listened
> to WLS. Music from the 70s and 80s wasn't "retro" yet.
> 27. Tiger Woods hadn't won an amateur golf tournament yet.
> 28. Most people knew Seattle just as a city in the Northwest U.S. -
> not the home of grunge or Starbucks.
> 29. Only Southerners went to NASCAR races and only Northerners went
> to NHL games.
> 30. The Chicago area had no Wal-Marts, Targets or Home Depots, and
> Walgreen's was only in the Midwest.
> 31. Depending on your bank, your ATM card was good at only "Cash
> Station" machines or only at "Money Network" machines, but there were no
> fees.
> 32. "The Phone Company" was Illinois Bell.
> 33. They still sold leaded gasoline and you couldn't pay for your
> gas at the pump.
> 34. Discover Card hadn't been discovered yet, and Miller Genuine
> Draft hadn't been brewed yet.
> 35. Stereo TVs were the rage that HDTVs are now. 8-track tapes were
> still being made.
> 36. All of the Blockbuster Video stores that are now closing hadn't
> opened yet. Betamax was still competing with VHS.
> 37. You paid cash for your groceries and fast food, and you used a
> travel agent to book airline flights.
> 38. Bowl games didn't have corporate sponsors, and if the #1 ranked
> team was in a conference that played in one bowl game and the #2 ranked
> team was in a conference that played in another bowl game, then so be
> it! They let the sportswriters vote on the national champion. (and no
> college football games were played after New Year's Day)
> 39. The Baltimore Ravens were the Cleveland Browns. The Tennessee
> Titans were the Houston Oilers. The Oakland Raiders were the Los Angeles
> Raiders that had just left Oakland. The Arizona Cardinals (the former
> Phoenix Cardinals) were the St. Louis Cardinals, and the St. Louis Rams
> were the Los Angeles Rams. The Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers,
> Houston Texans, and the Cleveland Browns (not to be confused with the
> Cleveland Browns that are now the Baltimore Ravens) didn't exist. The
> Seattle Seahawks (last year's NFC Champions) played in the AFC.
> 40. Number 9 on the Bears was their Punky QB...not their perky field
> goal kicker.
> 41. There were no iPods - just Sony Walkmen - so if you said
> something about a "shuffle" on your Walkman, they assumed you were
> listening to "The Super Bowl Shuffle"
>
> ;
> and one thing that will be the same from the Chicago Bears last Super
> Bowl appearance.....
> THEY WILL WIN!!!! GO BEARS!!!!!!
Government waste of our money imo:Industry in distress: How did it come to this?
By Joe MacDonald
Wed, Jan 31, 2007
It took a decade of legal manipulating, some short-sighted and conflicting government policies, dirty politicking, a perfect storm of Congressional ineptitude, and a heaping helping of righteous indignation, but the government is finally getting some results in its war against online gaming.
On January 16, 2007, the Department of Justice announced that it was charging two founders of Neteller, Stephen Lawrence and John Lefebvre, with laundering billions of dollars of Internet gambling proceeds.
Neteller is a company that was founded in Canada, a sovereign country, in 1999. Neteller later moved to the Isle of Man, and is publicly traded in the United Kingdom. Both are Canadian citizens. These two gentlemen no longer even work for Neteller.
Lawrence and Lefebvre are both charged with conspiring to transfer funds with the intent to promote illegal gambling. If convicted, both defendants face a maximum sentence of 20 years` imprisonment. I am not making this up. That information is all contained in the press release provided by the DOJ.
Twenty years in jail. Twenty years.
These are all facts that I don`t even think the DOJ could refute:
∙ Neteller is a legal company in the Isle of Man, publicly traded in the UK, and operates in a manner consistent with the laws of its jurisdiction.
∙ Neteller is operating within the stringent rules necessary for publicly traded UK corporations.
∙ Neteller provides services to willing customers.
However, one of the services that Neteller provides is that it enables willing Americans to gamble with their own money online.
And for that, the DOJ feels it needs to make an example of these two men. They need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. A law that doesn`t even really exist, at least not yet. The Unlawful Internet Gambling and Enforcement Act (UIGEA), passed without reading or debate as part of the Safe Ports Act last September, doesn`t even take effect until July of 2007.
Whatever happens to those poor guys, and under what statutes they will be tried, doesn`t seem to matter. It`s too late for them, they will have to spend a fortune defending themselves, and they still might get thrown in jail for 20 years.
The tide has turned
The feds are winning the war on online gambling in America.
Just like they finally figured out how to put Al Capone in jail using tax laws, the DOJ is finally figuring out ways to curb online gambling in America.
Gambling needs liquid currency to survive, and they can freeze that liquidity. They are freezing the banks. They are freezing the middlemen. They are freezing the casino owners. They can`t freeze every drop, but they can get most of the juice.
Will they ever stop gambling? No, of course not. And they don`t want to, anyway. Gambling has become a major form of business and entertainment, and a huge tax base in America. Online gambling doesn`t really happen in America, though you`ll never hear a prosecutor admit that.
Will they completely stop online gambling by Americans? I really doubt it. But they can make it very difficult for most of us to gamble online. They can make it a chore. They can suck the fun out it. And for most of the customers, and most of the online casinos, that`s bad enough.
Sure, there are a lot of you out there who`ve been around for a long time. You might remember a time when you had to go to the dankest local pub and find the guy sitting next to the payphone if you wanted to place a bet. He smoked unfiltered Marlboros and his name was usually something simple and monosyllabic, like Jack or Nick.
But you know what? You are in the minority now.
There is a whole generation of poker players who never met Jack, and they don`t ever want to meet him. Hell, I don`t even know why I`m directing this column at you. I should be directing it at them.
They are pure recreational players. They bet $10-20 a game, $50 max. They want to be able to sign up online, give their credit card number, and start playing within 10 minutes.
The only credit they want is on a credit card. They are used to owing money to Citibank. They don`t want to owe money to some guy in a bar.
Who wants to run to the bank for some cash and then run to Western Union to wire it to some numbered company in another country, and then wait 24 hours just to actually sign up for an online account?
That wasn`t part of the deal.
They want - no, expect - convenience. If it`s going to be that hard to place a bet, they`ll just go back to playing fantasy sports, thanks.
And while you, yourself, might be willing to jump through those hoops, I can tell you that you are in a small enough minority that the industry simply can`t survive on you and your likeminded friends. Not in its current state.
Sure, the Internet will keep evolving, and new payment methods will keep popping up. And the feds will just keep plugging those holes.
That`s the funniest argument - that the government can`t keep up with evolving technology. They don`t have to. At least not right now. There`s no technology out there they have to worry about, is there?
Right now in America, there are only a few ways people can transfer money: cash, Interac, plastic, checks, money orders and bank-to-bank transfers. Unless there is some new super-magical ecommerce money transferring application looming on the horizon, the government can just bide its time and wait because they`ve already staunched a lot of the flow.
Consolidation looming
Even if there was some super application about to be unveiled, it would have to roll-out and be accepted even faster than the iPod to make a difference within the next two years. And while that`s happening, the government will just write another law to make that illegal too. Along the way, they`ll keep finding other smaller loopholes and figure out how to close them as well.
Sooner or later, unless people are willing to send hundreds of dollars in cash through the mail to another country, it only leaves wiring money and money orders as real options. And both of those are very inconvenient for newbies, not to mention also technically illegal.
Frankly, no matter what a lot of people are saying, it looks bad out there for American online gamblers. Don`t get me wrong. The sky isn`t falling, but it`s raining pretty hard outside.
This is nothing new, as many of you know.
The difference is that we have reached a sort-of milestone. This time, the industry has officially stopped growing, and will be forced to contract and consolidate. We`ve already seen the publicly-traded companies run and hide from the American market, and consolidation will begin happening shortly after the Super Bowl or March Madness. What`s going to be left are a few strong-willed and resourceful companies, willing to operate "outside the law", to continue servicing American customers.
They presumably have already put in the time and effort in building out their own proprietary card processing systems. They will survive because there are enough Americans out there to support a few resourceful books, but not 50 of them.
The rest, which is the vast majority, of the books will look around and say, "Wow, there are 6.3 billion people in the world, and only 0.3 billion actually live in America. Why not sell our product to countries that actually welcome us?"
That`s the smart decision, and that`s what`s happening right now.
So, how did it come to this?
Well, it took a decade of legal manipulating, some short-sighted and conflicting government policies, dirty politicking, a perfect storm of Congressional ineptitude, and a heaping helping of righteous indignation.
Perhaps even more disappointing and damaging is the fact that it also took a decade of industry hubris, mismanagement and terrible public relations blunders that really allowed the government to succeed. Not to mention a frank lack of balls on the part of every American online gambler who wants to gamble online but was afraid to make a public issue of it.
We can blame the government for pursuing this issue, but we did absolutely nothing to stop them. In fact, we did less than nothing. We didn`t even bother to prepare for this day.
Just look at us. We`re scrambling around, telling each other that everything is fine, which is exactly what we`ve been doing for the last 10 years. We said technology will always find a way to keep the industry thriving.
Where is that technology now? Maybe we should have been funding some of those ideas rather than lining our pockets during the good years.
Instead...
∙ We giggled when BetOnSports placed a motor home in front of a Tampa Bay Buccaneers game, flaunting the law to the authorities.
∙ We smirked when we heard sportsbooks being advertised on Howard Stern.
∙ We gave a knowing grin when Golden Palace started tattooing every boxer and streaker in the world.
∙ We were admittedly a little shocked when we started seeing dozens of sportsbooks advertising in every magazine on the stand.
∙ We were kind of surprised when online gambling companies started sponsoring televised poker shows, and anything else they could get their logos on.
∙ We were no longer surprised when Calvin Ayre got listed in Forbes among the world`s richest men, and laughed out loud (sorry, Calvin) when People Magazine listed him in their Hottest Bachelors issue.
Basically, we`ve been thumbing our nose at the authorities for years, daring them to stop us.
This reminds me of the crowd that used to hack their DirecTV receivers a few years ago. Damn, that was cool, wasn`t it? Free sports. Free pay-per-view. Every time DirecTV shut it off, the hackers would open it right up again within minutes. The techies would always win! You can`t stop it!
Oops. When was the last time you got those free movies?
That`s right, DirecTV used technology to close the loopholes. It works both ways, and it happens a lot faster when there are millions or billions of dollars at stake.
Likewise, we online gamblers enjoyed the naughtiness of the situation a little too much.
We didn`t try to negotiate a long-term solution. We didn`t hold rallies. We didn`t petition Congress or the Senate. We didn`t seriously lobby politicians. We didn`t offer valid concessions or alternatives. We didn`t go on Meet the Press, O`Reilly, or even Letterman.
Sure, we got on 60 Minutes once or twice, but even those segments had the angle, "We’re getting so rich and you can`t stop us. So why don`t you just deal with it and make it legal? That way we all can get richer."
That`s not a negotiation. That`s extortion.
They can`t go into business with the same criminals who have been humiliating them at every turn. Maybe that works with some people, but it`s definitely not the right way to deal with City Hall. Any novice gangster will tell you that the worst thing you can do is piss off The Man and back Him into a corner.
You want to piss off a cop or a prosecutor? Make crime pay.
You want to piss off a politician? Make him look powerless. Once you make it personal, it becomes a crusade for them.
Most cops, prosecutors, and even most politicians don`t care about online gambling. In fact, if you asked them their personal opinion, 95 percent would probably tell you they think it should be legal, regulated, and taxed. And besides, the law says it`s illegal, so it`s black-and-white for them.
These guys are nothing if not passionate about the public`s perception of their power. They have laws to enforce, and if they don`t enforce them, they fear they will look weak in the public eye.
Now, they might be inclined to turn a blind eye to something that`s not only not hurting anybody, but is off the public`s radar. But once it starts to hit the mainstream, it begins to undermine their authority. They start to worry about whether the public will see them as "soft on crime".
And when society starts glorifying these "criminals" and turning them into minor celebrities, complete with TV shows and sponsorships, then it`s simply gone too far for them to stomach. They have to stop it. There`s no backing down at that point. It`s too late for negotiation.
It`s war.
And that`s what happened.
This crackdown has nothing to do with terrorism, protecting children, right vs. wrong, or even lost tax revenue. It has everything to do with authorities being tired of having a criminal industry continually undermine their authority and make them look impotent in front of the public.
We made it personal, and the authorities made a point. They declared war on the industry. And they flattened 90 percent of our industry inside of six months. Complete annihilation. In sports terms, we had our butts handed to us.
We missed a huge opportunity to do it right, and now we`ll suffer the consequences for a while to come.
What Now?
It`s not too late. Believe it or not, we are only at an impasse.
The industry isn`t dead, and it`s never going to completely die. Those who really want to gamble online, can. But if we keep working at complete odds to the authorities, the industry is never going to be legalized either. On the other side, the authorities have saved face by proving they still have power. But they also know they`ll never be able to completely end online gaming, and that means they are missing out on a huge financial opportunity for taxation.
A good ole Mexican Standoff, if I`m still allowed to use that term.
We once tried to use the big stick to force the government to legalize, and the government responded by making a power play. Now we are negotiating on a more level footing.
Let`s talk.
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Hey Trotts My Pats blew it.Who do you like in the SUPERBOWL.Da Bears for me.Bob :))
LOL!!! Right!!! tuna
another TO, that is what the NFL needs...>LOL!! RJ
Right on him RJ! tuna
I agree with you...that is the image that has stuck with me!! I do NOT like someone that is not a TEAM player..and he is NOT that!! RJ
Yes I watched him on the sidelines after throwing an interception in their Micigan game and acted like a baby...tuna
weeeeeeeeeee sounds good to me RJ
good luck today in all that you do!! and may our Giants came back around this week...when the UPSET the Carolina boys!! RJ
nah I'll stick with them. It's tradition. Have a good one today.
I do NOT want to see Troy Smith suceed...I am NOT a fan of him!! he reminds me of TO way too much about ME ME ME ME!!
Yes...hope he has a great career too! tuna
and it continues on the NEXT level...I am with you!! he is going to go MANY places!!
and another player I am looking forward to playing is Patrick Willis...he is the Ole Miss linebacker...
I am anxious to see him make the adjustment!! RJ
Yeah, my main enjoyment of NFL games is getting to see recent college players I enjoyed in college and he was one of the most dominant at his position it seemed to me...tuna
I know what you mean Tuna...V. Young has a BRIGHT future, and he looked great a couple of weeks ago against my Giants and he will just continue to get better ...RJ
Yeah, a lot of folks are stuck in just writing on stocks. I noticed that Vince Young had a pretty good game again and Tennessee knocked off Indianapolis...Young doesn't throw for many yards but seems to run for 60-80 yards per game on 7-8 carries per game lately...I enjoyed watching him in college a bunch! Even the Cardinals won this past weekend! Wow! tuna
I am with you Hop...maybe we should change teams?? LOL...some fine day for sure!! RJ
like I said... lol
getting TOUGHEr and tougher to get excited about NEXT year...not good...RJ
no strahan too darn
LOL...lets hope that is the case..>BUT no ticki is NOT a good thingg!! Rj
Giants fans have eternal hope. Next season we go lol
I want this board to get back up and going...but NO ONE is wanting to post here!! These football boards are NOT very lively?? RJ
wishing they would have done that against Dallas yesterday?? But they did not...they are struggling right now...RJ
the saints are doing great so far this season...lets hope the LUCK continues!! RJ
TO is a joke...that is about all one can say about him...RJ
NEVER COUNT A PATRIOT OUT:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVI
I Believe T.O. is becoming the Mike Tyson of football.http://sports.aol.com/nfl/story/_a/mcnabb-steals-tos-spotlight-in-eagles/20061008194809990001
Opportunistic Patriots hold off Dolphins
NFL.com wire reports
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (Oct. 8, 2006) -- Joey Harrington didn't fare much better than the quarterback he replaced. It just didn't hurt as much.
Asante Samuel intercepted two passes by the substitute starter after 21 sacks in four games sidelined Daunte Culpepper with a bruised shoulder and the New England Patriots beat the Miami Dolphins 20-10 Sunday.
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"We've been going for too many games here at the start of the season without any turnovers," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "Those turnovers are huge. It puts us on a short field."
The Patriots (4-1) had just one takeaway in the first three games and three for the season before coming up with three Sunday. Harrington, playing for the first time this season, may have been rusty but was sacked just once as he delivered the ball quickly.
He probably should have held it instead of throwing the interceptions that set up two touchdowns.
"He got me. Bill Belichick got me," Harrington said, but "we did a great job of protecting."
The Dolphins (1-4) continued to fall far short of the preseason hype that came with their acquisition of Culpepper, who missed his last nine games with Minnesota last season with a knee injury.
"He'll put his career on the line for this team. You have to admire that in the guy. So when he says he wanted to play, I know he did," Miami coach Nick Saban said. "I made that decision (to start Harrington). I don't know if it was right or not, but it was a decision we had to make."
Belichick was ready for Harrington.
"We talked about him all week as it looked like he was upping his practice time," Belichick said.
Asante Samuel's two INTs led to 14 points for the Patriots.
Concerned about Culpepper's shoulder and mobility, Saban wouldn't say when he would play again.
There was no quarterback decision to be made by Belichick. Tom Brady was just 6-4 against Miami, compared with 21-2 against the rest of the AFC East. And he completed 16 of 29 passes for a season-low 140 yards as the Patriots were outgained 283 yards to 213.
"We didn't play as well as an offense as we would have liked, but we're playing some good situational football," Brady said. "We're finishing the games when we needed to, making critical plays."
The play with about 10 minutes left really hurt -- and angered -- the Dolphins.
The Patriots had taken the ball at the Dolphins 24 after Samuel's second interception on a pass off the hands of Wes Welker, who led all receivers with nine catches.
After an incompletion and a 2-yard run by Laurence Maroney, Brady underthrew the ball to Doug Gabriel on the right side of the end zone. But Will Allen was called for defensive pass interference, putting the ball at the 1. Brady threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Heath Evans on the next play with 9:47 to go.
The officials "said I didn't look for the ball. I did look for the ball," Allen said. "He (Gabriel) grabbed me."
Saban was incensed because the ball hit Allen as Gabriel was trying to come back to it.
"If it was a good call," Saban said, "we've got bad rules."
The first turnover, a recovery by Tedy Bruschi of Ronnie Brown's fumble on Miami's third play from scrimmage, led to Stephen Gostkowski 's 35-yard field goal.
Miami's Olindo Mare had his 40-yard field-goal attempt blocked by Mike Wright before Gostkowski made it 6-0 with a 31-yard field goal on New England's second possession.
The Dolphins' third series didn't go any better. Harrington's pass on the fourth play was intercepted by Samuel, who returned it 26 yards to the Miami 10. Two plays later, Brady threw a 10-yard scoring pass down the middle to Troy Brown for a 13-0 lead midway through the second quarter.
Then Harrington outplayed Brady for the rest of the second and all of the third quarter, helping cut the lead to 13-10 on Brown's 2-yard run and Mare's 40-yard field goal.
But Mare missed a 50-yarder with 6 minutes left.
"We've got to create more turnovers," Miami linebacker Channing Crowder said. "They get three turnovers, we've got to get four or five."
Another play in the kicking game cost the Dolphins field position, if not points. With a fourth-and-5 at the Miami 36, punter Donnie Jones dropped the snap and fell on it before being tackled by Wright, giving the Patriots the ball at their 46. But New England punted the ball back.
"It's a totally different (approach) from last year," said Patriots cornerback Ellis Hobbs, who played 11 days after undergoing surgery on his broken left wrist. "We go out there with the attitude the ball is ours."
Notes: Miami WR Marty Booker had his left arm in a sling after the game and said he had an injury in the shoulder and pectoral area. "I don't know the severity of it," he said, but expected to have it checked Monday. ... Maroney rushed for 38 yards one week after
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Pats 'O' comes alive to rout Bengals 38-13
CINCINNATI (Oct. 1, 2006) -- A rookie running back helped the New England's offense play like old times.
Laurence Maroney ran for 125 yards and a pair of touchdowns, restoring balance to the Patriots' offense and setting up a 38-13 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.
New England (3-1) savored the big day by its offense, so balky a week earlier that Tom Brady uncharacteristically waved his arms in frustration during a loss to Denver. The only time he lifted his arms was to signal another Patriots touchdown.
Maroney got the biggest ones.
Playing on the field where teammate Corey Dillon broke the single-game rushing record for Cincinnati in 2000, Maroney stiff-armed his way through the Bengals (3-1) on touchdown runs of 11 and 25 yards that set the tone.
He made three tacklers miss on his second scoring run, which put New England up 21-13 and allowed Brady to get beyond his frustrations and do what he does best - efficiently take a defense apart. He was 15-of-26 for 188 yards and a pair of touchdowns, setting up the Patriots' highest-scoring game in two seasons.
Dillon, who was tormented by losing during his seven seasons in Cincinnati, provided the final touch. His 1-yard touchdown run with 13:53 to go put New England up 31-13 and drew another round of boos and catcalls.
Dillon then reared back and threw the ball high into the same stands where he tossed his helmet, cleats and jersey after his final game for the Bengals in 2003, bidding the city farewell.
Brady, Maroney and Dillon weren't the only ones who had a throwback day against the previously unbeaten Bengals, who couldn't sustain their momentum from a 28-20 win in Pittsburgh a week earlier. New England's patchwork defense also did a number on Carson Palmer.
Palmer was hit repeatedly, sacked four times and lost a pair of second-half fumbles that set up touchdowns and turned it into a blowout. Palmer was 20-of-35 for 245 yards in his least-productive showing since he returned from a major knee injury.
With starting cornerback Ellis Hobbs and safety Eugene Wilson sidelined by injuries, the Patriots had to improvise. Receiver Troy Brown reprised his role as nickel back, lining up on passing downs the way he did each of the last two seasons when New England was beat up.
That knack for improvisation helped the Patriots win three Super Bowls this decade. It worked again on Sunday against an offense missing one of its top receivers.
Chris Henry was inactive for the game, punishment for his latest off-field incident. Henry, one of six Bengals arrested in the last nine months, was a passenger in a sports utility vehicle stopped early Monday morning. Linebacker Odell Thurman, who was behind the wheel, was charged with drunken driving.
Hawks dominated Sunday.I see they played my old boy Branch a bit.He will help you guys get to the promised land.Bob:))
WEEK 4
Sunday, Oct. 1
GAME TIME SIRIUS Radio
AWAY HOME
Arizona at Atlanta 1:00 p.m. 130 119
Dallas at Tennessee 1:00 p.m. 181
Indianapolis at N.Y. Jets 1:00 p.m. 107 110
Miami at Houston 1:00 p.m. 143 147
Minnesota at Buffalo 1:00 p.m. 158 146
New Orleans at Carolina 1:00 p.m. 122 144
San Diego at Baltimore 1:00 p.m. 153 123
San Francisco at Kansas City 1:00 p.m. 152 125
Detroit at St. Louis 4:05 p.m. 181 130
Cleveland at Oakland 4:15 p.m. 119 117
Jacksonville at Washington 4:15 p.m. 110 123
New England at Cincinnati 4:15 p.m. 143 125
Seattle at Chicago 8:15 p.m. 125 130
Monday, Oct. 2
GAME TIME SIRIUS Radio
AWAY HOME
Green Bay at Philadelphia 8:30 p.m. 125 123
Open date: Denver, N.Y. Giants, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay
Yes Bob that is really nice!! Thanks for the article...tuna
Hats off to New Orleans tonight:http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/MusicRising/story?id=2487342&page=1
I missed the pats game and thanx for the link. I agree they got outcoached. Maybe they ought to hire Eli instead lol. Hope you had a great day Bob.
Skill,Agree 10000%.Have never seen Brady so pissed/confused/frustrated as he is now):
Trops, NE should have spent the money on Branch Period.
They will put it all together eventually.My Pats offense not looking so good.Brady is showing frustration.Have a great day.Bob:)))
once again the Giants kicked ass in the 4th under pressure but darn, not enough time lol. Also 3rd down conversions ugghhhh sucked as usual
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Yeah Bob, I was really shocked by the missed "tipped ball" on the late pass interference and the onside kick fiasco too...LOL! I think OU has a ways to go to get very good anyway, so I'm not too upset about it...wasn't that romp by Michigan over N.D. wild too!?! tuna
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