The Chargers have several LMJO candidates: Merriman, Rivers, Tomlinson....

While Tomlinson may not be as LMJO-ish as some of his teammates, I remember him calling out Belichick after the Chargers' divisional round loss to NE last year. I am not a Belichick or Pats fan by any stretch of the imagination, but NFL protocol seems to discourage a player insulting an opposing team's coach. To do so is classless.

to anyone who uses fan forums and sports message boards as a measure of a fanbase's classiness, loyalty, intelligence, etc.

Are you kidding me? Everyone knows that people on those things represent the lunatic fringe of sports fans. All those folks are doing is talking to each other (or to rival teams' trolls), so they have to outdo each other in idiocy, bravado, and errors in spelling, grammar, and/or common sense.

Every team has its frontrunners, assholes, and blowhards.

New England happens to have many of all three types, and they are well represented on their message boards, on rival teams' message boards, and on local radio and TV.

Yes, I think that is the answer. Otherwise, Kelly Macdonald should have been nominated for her performance in No Country --she more than held her own among the performances of the men in that film.

Norbit was nominated for Best Makeup. Are you %$^%ing kidding me? How can a racist, sexist, steaming pile of garbageg like that be considered even a consideration for any award other than a Razzie.

The film was a bit annoying for only the first few minutes--the scene in the drugstore between the title character and Dwight the clerk was actually a bit unbearable. I was hoping that the rest of the film would not be like that--self-consciously ironic and hip. But after that scene the film seems to "settle down" and allow the actors to act rather than just rattle off one-liners. The cast is uniformly great, even if the storyline is pretty conventional.

I'll take films like Juno any day over recycled stuff like 27 Dresses and plotless, witless wonders like Meet the Spartans. And we aren't even talking about remakes and sequels.

for the bottom of my heart, thank you one billion times over, for the best Super Bowl I've ever seen and for beating the Pats.

Some random thoughts:

Pats fans relish the "Everyone is jealous of us and hates us" mentality. Well, here you go--everyone hates you because your coach acts like NFL rules don't apply to him, striding through the middle of the field and to the locker room when there is a second left on the clock, and because your golden-boy quarterback with his fancy new haircut needs to scream like a baby when he overthrows a receiver. But no one is jealous any longer because the Pats played their worst game of the season last night. They came up smallest when they needed to come up biggest.

For everyone excoriating various sportswriters and pundits for choosing the Pats to win and win big: if you were forced to make a published, public prediction, you'd rather pick the Pats than risk being called an idiot. Don't tell me otherwise.

Randy Moss was the most gracious Patriot in postgame interviews. I never thought I would attach the adjective "gracious" to Randy Moss, but there you go.

I am feeling just a twinge of malicious glee listening to New England sports radio today. How the mighty blowhards have fallen! A minority of people are calling in to say that the Giants can't take away the Pats' undefeated regular season, they still won eighteen games in a row," etc. But most people are seeing it like it is: a huge disappointing failure.

Colts fans LOVE that those eighteen victories are bookended by losses to Manning brothers! (However, I don't think Peyton would have been able to wriggle out of a sure sack AND complete a crucial pass like Eli did last night. They are just different QBs.)

Why didn't they show the commercial for Double Stuf Oreos?!

handlebar, what is so funny about those ads? They sound pretty typical of ads found in the Globe ads, Super Bowl loss or not.

McCain, who thinks that being a POW in itself qualifies him to conduct this country's foreign policy (am I the only one who sees the problem here?), will have us fighting an endless holy war, while Romney is but an empty suit. And as an earlier poster noted, Massachusetts residents, Democrats and Republicans alike, all dislike Romney.

I was in my first year of graduate school at Indiana University when Bob Knight was fired. The way that the alumni community STILL has a hard-on for the guy as recently as last year, when I finished, is nothing but pathetic. The program has still not moved on from the indelible images of the Knight regime, and those images include a few highlights and many more acts of immaturity and peevishness.

Good riddance? Amen. There is a line between molding players into men and belittling them into into submission, and Bob Knight consistently crossed it. Is it any wonder that we heard more about Bob Knight's questionable actions as he became less relevant?

if Rombot had donned cowboy boots and adopted a Texas accent, he could have been more successful.

Mitt's as much of an empty suit as they come, but the GOP's general perception of what qualifies as "authentic" sure hurt him with the general public. McCain's Straight Talk Express (shudder) is much more akin to how Bush campaigned vis-a-vis Kerry.