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Their rationale will be something along the lines of March Madness, which is all held at neutral sites. Wherever they can hold up the locals for the most money.

Probably because they originally did play in NYC. If they had originated in Jersey, I don't think they could have gotten away with calling themselves New York teams. I wish I'd still been living in Southern Connecticut the years the Giants had to play in the Yale Bowl. Even though the team totally sucked, as it did throughout the 70s.

Well, we won't talk about the "New York" Giants and Jets...

Well, the Rams were in LA for many, many years before they went to St. Louis and then came back again. The Chargers, oh golly, I still automatically think of them as San Diego and probably most everyone else does, too. But my understanding is that LA, despite its size, isn't really a football town, and thus, supporting two franchises makes zero sense. I assumed @merylinkid was referring to teams in the playoffs when she said only the Chargers wouldn't benefit by playing at home. It was, but it was Jason Sudeikis, not Eli, who carried that skit.

That United Way sketch never fails to make me laugh out loud, and I have no sense of humor. Peyton did an amazing job.

Damar Hamlin has been discharged from the hospital in Buffalo. 😁

And all three are favored to fall flat on their faces. Jacksonville could surprise, of course. Normally I would be fervently anti-TB 12, but there's no power on earth that can make me root for Dall-ass. Go GOAT! Just this once! It would have been pretty miraculous to go from cardiac arrest and vented for several days to home in a week, even for a young athlete. Most people don't realize just how debilitating the whole process can be.

The NFL record for most kickoff returns for TD by the same player is 2, held by 10 players before today. First one in 1966, last time in 2010.

Everyone has been talking about how Damar's watching the Bills game from his hospital bed. I hope they set up a feed for him, because they're showing the Ravens-Bengals game in Cincinnati. I didn't catch who it was, but some jerk on that team stood there scowling with his hands behind his back, while all his teammates were applauding. I only caught the end of it, but the Fox pregame had a skit with Gronk as Bob Ross painting the playoff picture. I hope I can find that on YouTube.

I have no problem with them being low-key. I have a problem with them being low-prepared for even the simplest Jeopardy board. (I was going to say 'low intellect,' but figured that might be too mean.) Is it that hard to find people who draw large paychecks yet have a reasonably broad base of knowledge? Nobody expects to find the next Amy Schneider among D-list celebrities, but getting picked for the show should require slightly more than having somebody's agent beg for the gig. I know who Michael Cera is, but never heard of the other two. Likely never will again. I vaguely remember watching that Ginny & Georgia for ten minutes before turning it off, forever. Mayim continues to bug. That little pause before she rules; is she waiting for a producer in her ear to tell her the response was correct?

And even if someone hires him, who's going to want to engage in contact with him? They'd all be terrified of being the one who sets him off again, even if that is medically astronomical odds. Maybe if the Bills are winning at the end of a game, they can let him take the snap in the victory formation. Even if that means leaving someone off the active roster for that game. If that child is killed while playing a major sport on national television, then something would happen. But it's not a zero sum game. You can care about both.

I saw *Terry Bradshaw's* entire career.

Do the team or league physicians have the authority to deny a player the right to play? Given that the amount was light years beyond what was requested, I hope that they spread the wealth around a little bit to other deserving causes. Like cardiac research and funding for community emergency resources like AEDs.

But an "average" going to include the whole range, from players who washed out in their first season to Tom Brady. I know football is a hard job, but man, the minimum rookie salary is over $700,000. That's not much less than I made in my entire 40+ year working lifetime combined. Somebody should have been telling them not to blow their whole wad the first year.

When I worked in ICU, if the patient was unable to give consent for anything and had no health care proxy, be it medical procedures, release of information, DNR status, whatever, it was always the next of kin who had control. If they said nobody could receive medical information, then nobody could receive it. Sometimes the question of who gets to make decisions when next of kin disagree comes up, but we always erred on the side of caution. Hospitals push HIPAA training so much you'd think they cared more about that than your medical training. Awake, alert and oriented, if all present, would be a huge, huge step, even if he's still on the ventilator. That means he can actively cooperate with weaning and hopefully get off the vent. This ordeal has undoubtedly taken a lot out of him, even as a well-conditioned athlete, so it is still important to be patient with his progress and not expect too much too fast.

I watched that segment. Rattner went on about New York millionaires relocating to Florida to avoid taxes, and Joe didn't bat an eye or show a shred of self-awareness. He asked what New York could do about it, and neither one of them gave a decent answer. No, they don't have to live in Manhattan. They have to live in Queens or Brooklyn or the Bronx or Staten Island or New Jersey. Taxi drivers and nurses and waitresses and janitors can't telecommute from their mansion in Florida.

I actually watched this morning, since that's usually a remedy for me when I can't sleep, but even Joe and Mika couldn't put me to sleep. Just switched to CNN, though, at the sight of the odious Chris Matthews. Why is MJ the go-to rehab stop for careers that should have stayed permanently dead?

Nobody's doing palliative care on a previously healthy 24-year-old less than 48 hours after an acute incident. The lack of information could be as simple as the family declining to give permission under HIPAA.

I suspect it could be more as something he did to manage his emotions, the way someone might scrub their kitchen floor when they're under severe stress.

NBC reporting that Troy Vincent said the story about having five minutes to warm up and go back out there was not true. Not that I necessarily believe anything the league says when it's trying not to look bad.

That's the thing they're going to have to explain. The NFL's been getting tragedy wrong for sixty years, since they made the teams play on Sunday after JFK's assassination.

I was thinking about him and wondering if he was blaming himself. No doubt he thinks it's his fault, but it isn't, really. Now they're saying no news conference tonight.

CNN says there's going to be a news conference at the hospital.

Probably because they had no other programming scheduled. I give Joe Buck props for mentioning the possible scheduling options -- and then saying, "Who cares?"