Kind of disappointed that you would do cheap shots at LA. Not that we don't deserve it, but you are usually more clever than resorting to the obvious "Dude" humor every bad comedian uses when making fun of LA. You let you San Fran roots show a little too much. And to let you know, there are plenty of people here who want an NFL team. But we aren't willing to pay for a new stadium. We have enough here, and real estate is too expensive to build another one.

I grew up in Texas, but didn't go to A&M. I did, however, visit the campus a few times, and let me tells you, there is no other school I've seen that is so hardcore into traditions.

There is a plot of ground on the campus that if you walk on it, you will either be picked up and carried off it, or beaten the crap out of for walking on it (to be fair, it is a dedication to the alumni who have fallen in line of duty, so that is a bit understandable).

Their yell practices are the closest thing I've ever seen to a Nazi rally in this country. Not that I've been to one in this country or any other, but the amount of fervor, obsession with tradition, and amount of hate (and racism) for an enemy I've never even seen at anti-abortion rallies.

Sitting at a football game is not an option. Again, a violent response is almost guaranteed for anyone sitting down.

On the bit about the "12th Man," I always knew that was an Aggie tradition, although I was aware that it seems a little generic and used by others.

Small ironic story: "Gig 'Em," another Aggie phrase, was actually stolen from another school, Texas Christian, back around the time they first claimed the "12th Man". "Gigging" was a slang term for an action done by Horned Toads when they shoot blood out of their eyes (TCU are the Horned Frogs, but there is no such thing, actually). Doesn't really make sense of Aggies doing that.

And finally, true Aggie story (been confirmed to me by Aggies themselves). There is a library on the A&M campus that is 3 stories high, but it originally was designed to be 10 stories high. The architect, an A&M alum, had to shorten it because he forgot to factor in the weight of the books. You can't make this stuff up.

While I'm hardly defending his tirade, if you'd ever seen a stand-up go horribly wrong, and the stand-up knows it (nothing can be done if the comic thinks he's hysterical even when he's not), it can get ugly. Turning on the audience is the last resort, when the comic thinks if they can turn the audience's hate toward someone else, it won't be as bad for him. The racist thing - there's a fine line between comedy and offense. Don Rickles has been using racial slurs for 40 years, but no one really wants to ride him out of town. You get the feeling Rickles was doing it only to get a rise, not to jump off the Titanic that was his act. Of course, if you've ever met any stand-up or sketch comedians, you know those are the most needy, insecure, unbalanced performers - and that's saying something.

Then again, maybe Richards was trying to emulate Larry David's early stand-up where he would verbally attack every member of the audience.

And a couple of corrections from the previous letters- Michael Richards had been toiling in obscurity for years before Seinfeld, so his success didn't "come early" as someone pointed out.

And the bit on "Fridays" with Andy Kaufman, Richards simply grabbed the cur cards and threw them in front of Kaufman, as if to say "just do the lines, and save the performance art for your club act." The person who charged Kaufman was a producer.

Johnny Lydon (nee Rotten) was on Steve Jones' radio show yesterday, and he mentioned that he was denied filming there for his old TV show on VH1. Seems that he had issue with a piece of paper on display there in which it was claimed he wrote all the lyrics to "Anarchy in the UK." He said no such a piece of paper exists, therefore this display was a phony. The response from the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame: "Our source is irrefutable" and they refused to take it down.

Um... more irrefutable than the guy who piece of paper it's supposed to be?

You know it was in trouble once they chose Cleveland for the site.

Hmmmm... maybe ESPN will change their soft stance when The Big Lead sues them. Denial of Service Attacks are illegal, and rarely can you find it so easily to trace the source.

Basically Cowherd used the airwaves for an illegal act. Maybe the FCC should look into that.

First of all, Joan, well said. It disgusts me that they used this man's death to drum up support for an already trumped-up war.

Second, Pat Tillman played safety for the Cardinals, not quarterback. Don't give the right any reason to harp on useless mistakes that they can use to distract from the issue. I can hear O'Reilly now: "Clearly she doesn't know what she's talking about - she didn't even know what position he played."