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Well, I'm 25 and I'm not a big football fan, but it seems like the Bengals team from last year and this year is way better than the Browns have ever been during my lifetime. Someone go do the 05 Bengals vs the 86 Browns on Madden. I'd say the Browns pull it out.

Nice hit on the KC QB. :roll:

And Adam is continuing what a Canadian, PKirby, used to post on MTR for a handful of years.

Thanks. Though I thought that was a fairly average remark by me.

And everyone here knows you're the man to provide both to C-bus. :-D

Stockholm?

I'll chime in. You can see the WTC sticking out on the left. I was straining to get the Veranzo Straits bridge in focus with the south tip of Manhattan My understanding is that this doesn't exist anymore. :cry: Both photos were taken at the end of February/begining of March in 2001. I do have several other tourist/bad angle shots of the WTC, but evidently they are not online anymore (I sent them to someone handful of years ago, and thought they were online still)

From April, 1998 in the Dispatch... George: While visiting the Columbus area during Easter weekend, I read pen pal Brent Bair's slam on the Cleveland Browns and their extensive fan base. As one who grew up in north-central Ohio and has lived in the Cincinnati area for the last 14 yeas, I've experienced Ohio football from several angles. Let me assure Mr. Bair that the Browns do have the No. 1 fan base in Ohio - if not the country. Northern Ohio and central Ohio is football country, pure and simple. The Browns and the Buckeyes are legendary teams deserving of their fans' support. Cincinnati is a nice enough city, but it is most definitely not football country. Heck, the fair-weather fans there have enough trouble supporting the Reds, let alone the Bengals. As for the Steelers having a significant fan base in Ohio, gimme a break. Pete Kurtz Maineville, Ohio Pete: You second what our annual readership surveys show. George: Will transplanted Steelers fans ever realize they are living in Columbus and not in Pittsburgh? It is beyond comprehension that this small contingent of Steelers fans continues to expect local television coverage of the Steelers over what the majority of central Ohioans prefer to watch on Sundays, the immensely popular Browns in 1999 or the perpetually dormant Bengals. Besides, and unfortunately, recent Steelers games themselves have become secondary to the television overexposure of coach Bill Cowher's childlike sideline behavior. Remember Bubby Brister's mom? So, Steelers fans, stop crying. If you're that unhappy, be reminded that I-70 east to Pittsburgh is still open. Lon R. Patton, Grove City Lon: You speak for thousands.

Then see my prison remark above. Besides, you meant Senegal. :-)

Also the fact there was no Browns football for half a decade also threw state loyalties for a loop. (see my post above)

Uh...no. In Columbus, you have native Columbusites (who yes, are typically more Bengals fans) and Northeast Ohio transplants (or people with NEO family backgrounds) who are the Browns fans. The media outlets of Columbus are essentially ex-Clevelanders who moved to Columbus via Ohio State only to have Indians/Browns coverage. Thanks God for NBC4 (though the news sucks). How soon we forget. Columbus was always a Reds/Browns town. Only one season did anyone pick up Indians TV coverage (while WCMH, which was originally own by the Crowsley Family and then WWTE always had the Reds broadcast). And even when both teams were good, in the 80s, when polled, Browns fans always outnumbered Bengals fans. It was only in the mid 90s, when the Browns went on sabatical, that the loyalties towards the other Cs teams went topsy turvy. That's when Mike Brown, instead of trying to make the whole state Bengals Nation with a good team, tried to move the Bengals to Cleveland. (Of course the current crop of Cincy posters here weren't old enough (or lived elsewhere in the nation) to think to follow such city events) So no, I don't believe that there are more "die-hard" Bengal fans than Browns fans in Columbus. Just more "fair-weather" fans who used to follow the Browns before Modell committed financial suicide.

Sure you were. Only thing Bengal fans were rooting for in the 1990s was for Paul Brown to rise from his grave and take the Bengals from his family and put in the care of someone who would make them a winner. They're still the cheepest franchise in the AFC, if not all the NFL. Mike Brown didn't discovered some long lost book from his dad to turn this team into winners overnight.

Boy, I can feel like I'm back in C-bus. Browns on one station, Bengals on another. I can have a running commentary with my dad and brothers Sunday. :lol:

You guys can have Doug Johnson back. Doug Johnson played for the Browns?

You're new here. You missed our -tucky discussion from several months back. Every Ohio city has a community that gets "glossed" with -tucky (Strongsville=Strongstucky near Cleveland; Groveport=Grovetucky near Columbus; Kentucky=Kentucky near Cincinnati).

Um, you meant New Orleans. Country Blues started at Angola State Prison. I got plenty of text over at the LSU archive to back me on that. :-P

^ There should be a thread floating around here about that film. I do remember us having a discussion about it.

Cornhole busted out in Baton Rouge with the advent this football season. Last year I might have seen 2 cornhole games...all year, last week I saw 6 cornhole games within a 200 yds walk amongst LSU tailgaters.

Since Cleveland is hosting the Saints, I know which game the Baton Rouge Fox affliate is showing down here. :-D FWIW, The Saints should have a good offense with Drew Brees at QB, Duece McCallister at RB, Joe Horn at WR and Reggie Bush doing punt/kick returns (Bush should get more time on special teams than on offense). However, the Saints defense might be able to stop St. Igancius, but even that is questionable. The impression I've been given of the Brownies is the opposite of the Saints. Good Defense, but too many question marks on offense (because they have no offensive line). Who knows, by the end of the season both teams could finish with a same 6-10 mark. P.S. Be prepared for at least one Katrina remark per possession (for both sides of the ball)

Fostoria’s family center set to open Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune, 8/15/06 All aboard for the Community Early Childhood and Family Center in Fostoria. The facility resembles a train depot with the large centralized area similar to Grand Central Station. Flooring was provided by Roppe Corporation, and an inlaid railroad track winds its way around a field of green. All the bordering WSOS color-coded classrooms depict a train depot. Each is decorated with light colors and ground-level windows allow tots to view happenings in the adjoining room. Seneca County’s early intervention program has its own space, and Fostoria pediatrician Carolyn Garcia is to open an office.

Somewhere (was it this forum?) someone was arguing that owning a sports franchise was financially fool-hardy. Maybe buying a team today would be, but other than the Vikes, I'm pretty sure everyone else on that list has made a hefty sum if they would cash in their chips and sell their team now.

Memo to rich people: "We know where you live." And in Delaware County it's Concord, Liberty, and Genoa Twps. (along with the NW corner of Delaware proper)

I've only been to Juergens once before, but it was pretty good. It's actually a restaurant with a Konditerei attached. The woman who was working the pastry shop when I went (not sure if she was the owner) was very friendly... und auch Deutsche! I thought she was Hungarian. Then again, I haven't been to Juergens in 5 or 6 years.

In the blues world, they're called "Brats with Strats."

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