Mr. 82

Did I say anything about cheating or tuck rule or whatever? I was just talking about the ridiculous run of owning the AFC East for the last 20 years. I grew up in the Orange Bowl watching the Dolphins in Miami every Sunday, back when the Patriots were a doormat and an easy two victories for the Dolphins every year. Now that Brady is gone, and we've settled the debate over who was more responsible for the Patriots dynasty, I can enjoy watching that insufferable prick Belichick go 7-9 every year, and be mediocre like he was in Cleveland when he didn't have a HOF QB bailing him out all the time. Remember, NE was struggling with Bledsoe as QB before Brady accidentally got his chance due to injury and the rest being history. And I honestly hope Buffalo spends the next 5-6 years pounding on New England twice a year. I hope Josh Allen is the next Tom Brady and that Buffalo goes on a mammoth run to make New England a doormat and as much of a joke as the Jets have been. I'm hopeful that the Dolphins have their QB in Tua and that they make the AFC East competitive again. Hell, I hope the Jets figure something out and become a competitive threat. Frankly, I hope the Bills, Dolphins and Jets are all destroying the rest of the NFL every year and 3 losses won't win you that division between the 3 of them. Because if that happens I'll be happy knowing that New England will be lucky to win 4 games a year. That would be the only satisfactory outcome for me for the next 10-20 years. You had 20 years of ridiculous success. Now it's time to pay the piper and spend some time in the cellar in the fetal position every Sunday night after another embarrassing loss.

That would be my comeback, if I were an Eagles player and I saw the Giants players complaining about Philly tanking the last game. YOU WON 6 GAMES GIANTS FANS! YOU SUCK JUST AS BAD AS THE REST OF YOUR CRAPPY DIVISION RIVALS!!!

where's the largest sarcastic eye roll emoticon I can find. New England and the Patriots can miss the playoffs for the next 20 years and go 0-16 every year from now on, and it still wouldn't satisfy me. Belichick and the Patriots are one of the reasons I really lost interest in the NFL - LACK OF PARITY. I'm glad you are happy for the Bills though. Between them and Cleveland, I hope one of them goes to the Super Bowl.

Beyond the USPS being slow through the holidays, etc, I'm thoroughly convinced that 75% of the working population takes at least 1 week off in the last two weeks of December. And 50% probably take both weeks. It's like Christmas music on the radio when I was growing up. First it was just on Christmas Eve, then it played the week before Christmas. Now we aren't even done with Halloween and they are airing Christmas movies on Hallmark, and then they play them again to have "Christmas in July." The same with vacations and days off. I imagine we'll just get to the point where we'll only have a 4 day work week, and just shut the country down from December 20th through the end of the year.

As always, follow the money.

I'm reminded of the golfer who took a bucket list trip to an unnamed resort course that cost mega bucks to play, that required you to use a caddie. This golfer had never played with a caddie before, so he was a bit uncomfortable on the first tee, and wasn't sure how to interact with his caddie. After the usual pleasantries and the caddie sort of explaining how it works, they commence at teeing off. Bucket list golfer tees off and him being nervous, tops his tee shot about 75 yards in front of him. His caddie, without missing a beat says, "Not enough loft." Bucket list golfer continues to struggle throughout the round, and after every bad shot the caddie would say the same thing, "not enough loft." The bucket list golfer really didn't understand, but because he didn't know the proper etiquette, he kept playing, and struggled home to a miserable 108. As they were walking off the 18th green the bucket list golfer finally gets up enough courage to ask his caddie, "I am curious, you kept saying 'not enough loft' throughout the round, but I am pretty sure I was hitting the right club most of the time. What am I missing here?" Without missing a beat, the caddie goes, "Not enough loft, as in "LACK OF F'ING TALENT."

That second guy is a PRO!!!

The trash talk that contains the likes of "Nice putt Nancy," only take place amonst all male groups. I played with a young college girl the other week, and I had to remind myself not to make gender specific comments (towards myself) while playing golf with her. And in the immortal words of Sergeant Hulka from the movie, "Stripes,"

I've been banking electronically and online for many many years, and I have yet to have an issue. But I guess if you get hit with enough late charges, and have to spend too much of your time on the phone arguing with people who don't really care about you, you'll decide to switch to an electronic and automated means of bill payment. Frankly, I trust the USPS less with delivering a payment then I would with sending it electronically over the internet.

You lose enough of those "cash" gift cards in the mail, and you'll discover EFTs and Paypal/Venmo, whatever. My grandfather used to send me $20 in cash every birthday and Christmas. He died in 2005, and that's about the time everyone should have stopped doing that.

The whole NFC Least is a dumpster fire.

So because our course was closed because of a ridiculous amount of rain on Saturday, I spent Sunday afternoon at my friend's house hitting on his simulator. I drive home last night and these two babies were sitting in the garage, delivered by Fedex. I wasn't aware Fedex delivered on Sundays, and these arrived two days earlier than scheduled. All this talk about the USPS sucking, and Fedex exceeds expectations. I've got a big tournament this weekend, so this was perfect timing for me to take these babies out after work today and dial them in. I'm super stoked!

Well, when you are even par through 10 holes, and then bogey 6 of the next 7 holes, it's definitely staggering home.

PING G400 Driver Callaway XR 4 wood Mizuno Fli Hi 21 degree utility iron PING G Series 5-9 irons Titleist Vokey SM7 46, 50, 54 and 58 wedges Taylor Made Spider putter The 46 and 50 wedges will be here Tuesday. I'm gonna see how long I can go without changing anything. I swapped out a ton of stuff in 2020, and sold off a bunch of used stuff. Hopefully what I have above will work for quite some time.

When you're walking 18 holes on New Years Day, in shorts [because it's 77 degrees], and that golf shirt your daughter got you for Christmas, and your buddy snaps a pic of you walking the fairway without you knowing it. Good times. And has anyone ever come up with the idea of shooting a lower score than the temperature outside? Not a tough ask in the heat of summer, but in fall, winter and spring, this might present a unique challenge. (And no, I was not able to accomplish it yesterday, as I staggered home to a depressing 78).

7 1/2 years later and still fresh and relevant. I missed this originally because I wasn't on MGS in 2013. Heck, I wasn't even playing golf in 2013.

Another pace of play thread. Ah well, new year and all that, sure why not. Or you could just join a course where the members all think a 4 hour round is ridiculously slow, even for a fivesome.

Honestly, it's kinda stupid to play range balls on the course during an actual round, as most range balls are "limited flight" and won't go as far as a regular ball.

Anyone else sick of AT&T commercials?

Yep. Buy a dozen ProV1 and commence at blowing through them in a handful of rounds. One crappy ball you find in the woods - play it until the cover comes off 5 rounds later.

No argument from me. Alabama could probably put an L on the Jacksonville Jaguars or NY Jets.

Cincinnati.

I may piss off the ND fans here with this comment, but seriously, that first half was a joke. It's sad that ND's strategy in this game is to try and run the clock out and shorten the game, mostly because they have ZERO chance of stopping the Alabama offense. If this was a fight, they would have stopped it already. ND had no business being in this game, after that whopping Clemson put on them in the ACC Championship. That goes for Ohio State too. Whether or not it's their fault, just 5 games is a joke. This whole season and year of college football is honestly such a waste. Well, I guess it helped Trevor Lawrence and Mack Jones' draft stock. Beyond that, I've got nothing.

If I showed up at the golf course and discovered I had no balls in the bag, I'd open up the hidden compartment in my car, above the spare tire, and put the emergency dozen balls I keep there into the bag. Those balls are always there, and are there for exactly that reason. I played a round a few weeks ago and got down to 2 balls in my bag after losing 2 on the 2nd hole. I think that's the closest I've ever been to DQ'ing myself from a round of golf. But I get it, it's a (unrealistic) hypothetical, I'd probably buy a sleeve of Titleist AVX in yellow and head to the first tee. I doubt I'd need more than 2 balls to complete a round anyway.