I just couldn't resist pointing out this contradiction in gp's letter.

"Like many of you I think that athletes are way overpaid"

"This is America - if you generate more income you'll get paid more."

Based on the amount of income they generate, I am confident that athletes are underpaid, especially the ones who aren't paid anything.

These Red sox fans writing in are just a bunch of world class whiners, unlike several that I know who are taking the Sox implosion in stride and realizing it's part of the deal with the devil they made to break the curse in the first place. what we are seeing from these idiots is the bitterness of people who thought everything would be glorious after winning the world series. Instead, they now have to deal with the fact that their team is no longer special, just another high-salary team worthy of resentment.

There are few things in sports more enjoyable to watch than an old fashioned implosion, and this is a doozy. And please, cut it out with the nonsense about Big Papi, one thing has nothing to do with the other.

I've always thought a touchdown should be reviewable even after the xtra point. If you're gonna have replay a touchdown is too important to let a stupid extra point get in the way. Without my amendmen to the rules however, I guess it's kinda like when the referree fails to acknowledge a timeout prior to running the play. Too bad for the Dolphins

It was a good game except for the fact that my team lost, and lost in one of those all to excruciating ways, with a horrendous call costing them a chance at the end. Anyway, did anyone notice that the time spent on commercials seemed to be at an all-time high. if anyone has the know how and the time it would be great to figure out how many minutes of commercials there were during the telecast. I would wager that during the game, not counting pre-game, there was in excess of an hour of commercials in a three hour telecast. I noticed it more since my team was playing and I was actually paying attention.

By the way, does anyone really think King didn't know the final score? Are there people out there just waiting to write in corrections for things like that

Where did this consipiracy crap come from. You're the first and probably last person to bring it up. It was a horrendous call. You might have a little more credibility if you called it that instead of your euphemistic "highly questionable" language. the call sucked. Is that so hard to say? And wasn't it just a few years ago that people like you were whining to no end about the Patriots getting all the calls.

It's great to have King back to inject a little sanity into what has become a sea of craziness. Before replay was used there were bad calls all the time in football, several every game, often huge calls possibly turning wins into losses. Testaverde being called accross the goal line against Seattle, Rob Lytle being called down by contact in an Oakland-Denver playoff game, Mike Renfro being denied a touchdown in the AFC championship. This used to happen all the time, fans of the losing team would be incensed for a few days, and then you would settle down into your perpetual state of bitterness about the loss and the game would become part of sports lore.

As King points out with the advent of the replay review system we expect every call to be perfect and accept no error. But what the Oklahoma people have completely forgotten is that without replay the outcome of the game would have been the same. They have no reason to be more outraged than any other fan whose team was robbed by a bad call. And anyone who has watched sports long enough has had their team robbed at least a few times. This was garden variety stuff. Please calm down and shut up!

Bush taking money to play college ball did not give him an advatage on the field. I just don't consider this cheating since no one was hurt. You can't use the "what if everyone did it argument" since if everyone did it, it would make no difference to the game. it's only cheating in the sense that the NCAA rules say he can't do it, but the violation of those rules hurts no one. so I say go ahead and take the money and let everyone else do it too.

I get the impression, perhaps mistaken, that some people think what Bush and/or the people who game him money did is actually against the law. It's not. It's against NCAA rules, which are arcane. So I just don't have a problem with it.

Also, as an analogy, in law school I learned that there are two kinds of illegal acts. Some acts are illegal because society considers them morally wrong: murder, robbery, assault, things like that. then there are some acts that are illegal because they simply fall on the wrong side of an arbitrary line: going over the speed limit, excessive toxic emissions from a factory, too many people in a room in violation of the fire code. These things are only illegal because society needs to draw a line somewhere, not because these things are necessarily immoral. What Bush did falls into this catagory.

It's a disgrace that the ref went out of his way to explain to the coach the effect of his decision. That is not the proper role of an official, but at least the ref knew the rule, which is a little surprising in and of itself.