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Naked Man Walks Into Chicago McDonald’s, Chaos Ensues http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/02/12/naked-man-walks-into-chicago-mcdonalds-chaos-ensues/ CHICAGO (CBS) — In a bizarre scene caught on tape, a man walked into McDonald’s in Chicago–completely naked. The video was posted on Live Leak three days ago. It shows the man parading around the restaurant for about two minutes before police arrive.

I'm in Atlanta for work right now and the city is absolutely dead. Everything is closed. I went to Subway for lunch and had to wait 20 minutes in line because it was the only place that was open.

Haha, I changed email addresses a few months ago and wanted to put my new email address on the Redskins email list. I couldn't see a link for that on the website so I just added myself (again) to the season ticket list with the expectation it'd also add me to their regular "Redskins News" mailings. Lo and behold, 2 months later I'd magically traversed 250,000 names on the list and received a call about a once in a lifetime opportunity to finally get Redskins season tickets.

The almost-blackout for the Packers was a little bit of a perfect storm with regards to what happened. 1) The team sent out the initial order forms when Rodgers was hurt and the team was in their 6-game losing streak. 2) The team changed its playoff refund policy. They used to offer refunds for unplayed games and they instead changed it so any unplayed game money would go towards the STH's tickets the following year. They didn't think this would be a big deal but a lot of STHs didn't want to lock up money for something that looked fairly unlikely at the time. 3) The team clinched the division 7 days before the game was played. So all of a sudden they had 40,000 unsold tickets and only a few days to sell them. 4) The game was one of the coldest in Lambeau's history. Even if you could sit outside for that much time, it's not even safe to be driving from all over Wisconsin to Green Bay, and the Packers rely heavily on fans in Milwaukee, all over Wisconsin, and even Chicago to fill the stadium. 5) This year's Packers are one of the least competitive Packer teams in recent year. That said, given the fact that this happened to the Packers, the NFL and its teams should be paying close attention to their ticketing policies.

They said his arm was still moving backwards when initial contact was made with the ball. It was funny to me because a Bear player was the first to touch it, and you know if the refs had blown it dead, people would be up in arms because that Bear totally would've recovered it if it wasn't for the whistle. Instead... no whistle and the Bear player just boots it.

Considering how often we see guys run back an obviously dead ball for 20+ yards before stopping there was NO excuse for that.

haha, OK. I'm definitely not the expert on that matter. Point taken.

I always get a kick out of the 'War on Christmas' because the original 'War on Christmas' involved Puritans pushing against any public display of Christmas spirit to avoid commercialization of what is the holiest of Christian holidays. Today we openly attack each other for $30 DVD players but get upset about how the newscaster signs off. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/15/newser-war-on-christmas/4031287/

He really likes playing baseball.

It wasn't all bad, here is them during happier times:

Geez dude show some respect. It's bad enough he got killed, but then he died from it too.

Based on the cut-off part of the picture, I'm guessing "Welsh Lady" is a brand name, and that they make some sort of offering of "Assorted Fudge," which was unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), shortened.

In fairness with the picture from FedEx Field, someone on a non-Redskins board I visit pointed out that there is almost nobody on the sidelines, so calling it the 'start of the 3rd Quarter' is a bit of a stretch when it was still more like the end of halftime. That said, they showed a clip of Philly near the start of the 3rd and it didn't look much fuller -- and that was a generally close game with two teams fighting for the playoffs.

Fake radio call of the end of the Alabama-Auburn game (some bleeped out language) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsLNtp8DFQM

True story: I was at my sister's over Thanksgiving and my niece wrote a letter to Santa saying, "Dear Santa, I already told you what I wanted in the other letter I sent you from school." -- my sister asked my niece what that was, and she said she doesn't remember.

Haha, I was there work in late fall or early winter once and it was just like that. I got up early (since I was jet-lagged) and I had the local news turned on in my room just for background noise. The newscaster was going on and on about severe winter weather and when I finally paid attention I learned it had rained for the first time in 6 weeks and people were going crazy.

A Bills fan yesterday decided to try to ride the upper deck railing and ended up falling off down to the second deck. The whole story: http://fansided.com/2013/11/17/bills-fan-falls-upper-deck-middle-deck-gif/

The Illinois student section (my alma mater) against Ohio State yesterday:

That BMX video actually ended way less horribly than I thought it would.

When I found out it was in Chicago, I had to google it. Apparently the SUV was a stolen vehicle, which explains why the driver freaked out. http://articles.redeyechicago.com/2013-11-06/news/43739743_1_cab-driver-suv-driver-city-service-taxi

Andy Reid is the Kool-Aid man:

Fox had an issue with this earlier in the season. The stat bar on the bottom of the screen renamed every player in the league 'Griffin' in week 1. I didn't realize it was still happening. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1774832-fox-ticker-suffers-glitch-everyone-player-in-nfl-named-griffin

haha, I was about to ask... "What exactly are these people putting in their fridges?"

If you're young, healthy and don't have kids, getting your own policy is massively cheaper than employer insurance. I thought about it many times in my 20s but was always afraid of the rare circumstance where I had a legitimate big-ticket medical problem and the insurance company pulled out the 'pre-existing condition' maneuver because I forgot to disclose stubbing my toe when I was 12 on my application. I'm not an expert on ACA but my inclination is that the pre-existing condition rules would prevent these shenanigans and I'd probably look at a private policy much more closely. And if enough younger, healthier people go this route, this is precisely what will make the marketplace work.