What used to be true about Chicago Bears players (and still is for some) is that they might have come from different parts of the country before they started playing here, but a lot of them stuck around after they retired and became city residents.

I think what you're doing is confusing what the modern era of sports has become since the advent of free agency. Before that, it was very common for players to spend the majority, if not the entirety of their careers with the same team, which accorded them almost hometown status. Or at the very least, a proprietary sense amongst the fans.

Yeah, I guess even if you weren't from the city to begin with, if you play with a team for long enough, you might as well be from it. I totally get rooting for a team because of a particular player or players.

I still maintain that it's odd to compare teams from different eras that have no team members in common.

Laughing my ass off at Ellen on the cover of O (Oprah) magazine: [link]

I have big team loyalty even when I hate star players and owners. And I get people hating the Cowboys, I just don't, and I will take the mocking and harassment when they are losing and will taunt like a giant taunter when they are winning. It's not like they are the most dominant sports team in American sports history.

this is why I like the Olympics, where the players on the team you root for are at least usually from that place

There's too much training abroad and wangling citizenship in a country with a smaller talent pool I like to root for Jamaicans in general, but I have a softer spot for Jamaicans that live and train in Jamaica (uh, says the woman who hasn't lived there in a gazillion years).

On the flip side, I have to admit, I was claiming Ben Johnson for a while. But I'd have tossed him if he'd been running under my flag anyway.

Jamaicans will claim their own far and wide. We're grabby like that. But Usain Bolt will be closer to the nation's heart.

I'm listening to an MP3 of Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock." I love this poem so much.

In the room, the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo.

I hear the mermaids singing, each to each
I do not think that they will sing for me

Aw, I adore Prufrock. It's gorgeous, and so much fun to pick apart.

Star Trekkin' across the universe / On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk / Star Trekkin' across the universe / Only going forward, still can't find reverse.

That's what's in my head.

Quick poll:

URL: earl, or ewe-arr-ell? If the latter, how wrong is the former?

ewe-arr-ell

If the latter, how wrong is the former?

In my head, "earl" is wrong. So wrong, I was truly confused by it for a few seconds trying to decipher the meaning.