AAAAAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!

The worst part of the game was the feeling I kept getting throughout it. The feeling that sometime before the game started, the zombie corpse of Al Davis entered in L2-L1-circle-square-L2-R2-X. If you watched it, this seemed to make perfect sense. It was like the defense was automatically giving all the Raiders recievers two yards around them to make every catch. Very annoying. The less said about the game the better. Bye week this week. I'm concerned, but not as much as I probably should be. We've seen bad starts by the Steelers before, but this one should rattle us to the bones, as it's basically taking our best aspect, run defense, and rendering it of null value. Eeek. And memo to the offense, hold on to the ball, or Bill will unhinge his jaw, and swallow you alive like a python. We've seen it happen before, notice how we haven't seen Norm Johnson around. Just FYI.

Other football news, got to test out Sunday Ticket while waiting for Sunday Dinner. A more perfect timesink has not been invented.
Attention Seattle Seahawks, next time you choose a color, please take it out on the field before you sign off on it. The combination of the glossy helmet finish, the nearly invisible solid greenish-blue unis, and wearing the same color for helmet, jersey, and pants made it look like the Cardinals were playing numbered versions of Mark Knopfler's glowing headband from the Money for Nothing video. The really bad thing is, if they weren't playing on grass, the uniforms would probably look fine. Either that or we put them on the blue turf in Boise.

Attention NFL, way to either play favorites, or cause a stink. Because he asked, Peyton Manning wasn't allowed to wear the black hi-tops, but because he didn't bother to ask, and because no one wanted to watch Ravens-Bucs, Chris Redman was allowed to. Let us not throw a bone to Art Modell, and let him steal Baltimore's history. Johnny Unitas was a Colt, not a Raven.
(Incidentally, seeing the caption under Peyton Manning's name "was not allowed to wear black hi-tops during game" was easily the high point of ridiculous ESPN captioning.)

Minor Fantasy Football update: tied entering tonight, however I have 2 RB's in the game, while my opponent has nothing. Okay, now, everyone root for both guys to get only 9 yards, just to jinx me.

Still the Pirates: I ask you folks, how do you manage to lose a game in 10 innings, 1-0, ON A FIELDER'S CHOICE?!?!?

Light Reading: Why Bulgaria don't need no steenkin' navy. They have umbrellas.

No relation to quizbowl: This just is frickin' amazing.

A couple years back I put together a set of 100 websites useful for writing questions. Today begins my attempt to update that. The original idea was to give a new writer a choice of each of five locations every day for 20 weekdays, and then they could build up to 2 of the five for the four weeks afterward and so on. Up to you what path you follow.

Day 1.
1A. U.S. Historical Documents
1B. Links to Board Game Replacement Rules
1C. xrefer (previously mentioned here)
1D. Encyclopedia of the Orient (guys, get this place a better name)
1E. ArtDaily