Get well soon and Happy Thanksgiving to you.

to Doug and all the guys at MHR, and all the great Broncos fans here, too, who make the season more fun, or at least bearable (hah hah).

I hope to give thanks for a win later (though I will be watching the game on Tivo late tonight so there will be a delayed reaction).

Have a great holiday, all!

They probably could have done 10 and included:

1. Okoye hit vs. KC
2) The Green Bay Blizzard Game
3) Montana v. Elway (that was a tough one)
4) 1998 AFC Championship down 10-0 in the 3rd quarter, to win 23-10
5) The Champ Bailey end zone pick in the 2005 divisional game

And I’m probably missing 5 others.

It did get me all emotional, however, to see the Rod Smith play and the TD play. The part that stuck out was how TD’s teammates were as happy for his as he was. Good lessons for today.

Horse Tracks is definitely among the top things I am grateful for this year… not sure how I ever managed before you embarked on this charitable enterprise. Thank you for your efforts, your consistency, and your passion.

Bummed to see Harris is out again, but remaining hopeful! GO BRONCOS!

After months and months of calling him on the carpet for his behavior, almost sensationalizing it, she appears to have mended fences and offers us a really wonderful ride-along piece on Marshall and his cousin. Kudos!

Concluding remarks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/sports/football/26concussions.html?_r=2&ref=football

Here’s a little closure on the issue.

…the N.F.L. and its committee on concussions vehemently fought suggestions that their approach to the injury was at all improper.

The debate did not end on Tuesday, when the league announced several measures that most onlookers called long overdue. The embattled co-chairmen of the league committee resigned — "graciously," Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a leaguewide memo, suggesting that they would have been fired otherwise.

Casson and Viano’s leaving is a positive step, and Pellman’s leaving, which happened earlier, was also a positive step. However, there’s still indications that the NFL is better at ’talking the talk" than looking out for the welfare of its players. I take a dim view of putting business (or money) above serious health considerations.

This continued a pattern of the league requesting credit for improving conditions without accepting its role in preserving the conditions that required improvement. For example, when the N.F.L. decided in 2007 that players who were knocked unconscious during games could no longer return the same day, the league did not address how published research by its own committee doctors had declared the practice safe. And on the day that Goodell held a leaguewide concussion summit in June 2007 to show how serious the league was on the issue, he fought the suggestion that a player found with brain damage similar to Waters’s had developed it through football.

Goodell insisted that the player "may have had a concussion swimming," adding, "A concussion happens in a variety of different activities."

Industries with $8 billion in revenue generally do not court lawsuits, so few onlookers expected the N.F.L. to embrace the suggestion that its past or current practices were subpar. (For example, a player who was cleared to play after being knocked unconscious could attempt to prove he was knowingly mistreated.) But the league took a serious public-relations hit in the meantime, according to Marina Ein, a crisis management specialist based in Washington.

"They were dragged kicking and screaming, when we’re talking about people dying young and losing their cognitive lives," Ein said. "The resistance to the problem and the cover-up always leads to tragedy and a crisis that ought never to happen. How many players have been submitted to potentially life-altering injuries in the last three years, since the issue was really raised prominently?"

Incongruously, a study that the league commissioned — but immediately discredited — led directly to Tuesday’s events.

A segue on ‘proof’ — performing an adequate study can be — when it’s part of an unethical strategy — a tactic for proclaiming links to brain injury “unproved.” Unproved is not the same thing as disproved. It’s possible that the NFL, or its representatives, performed an inadequate study in order to disingenuously claim the evidence was mixed (still unproved), and this is a typical stalling tactic that allows an organization to present itself as addressing a problem while concomitantly preventing a solution.

I just found out I don’t get NFLN where I am. Please help me watch the game tonite online!