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So I’m watching the Oregon-Washington game, and earlier in the first half, following a sack and a holding penalty, the Ducks were left with second and 36.  Which got me wondering: what’s the longest yardage a team has ever had to make a first down?  3rd and 50?  4th and 75?  Anyone happen to know the record in this category?

I’m watching the game on my new “free” hi-def TV.  And the TV itself really was free.  But of course it didn’t fit in our current TV cabinet thingy, so we had to buy a new one.  And what’s the point of a hi-def TV unless you call up the cable company and order hi-def service?  And hey, as long as I’m at it, why not get a few more channels too?  And maybe I need a Blu-Ray player too.  All told, my “free” TV will probably cost a couple grand just in its first year.  Sheesh.  I’m an idiot.

Plus I now have an old TV and TV cabinet to somehow get rid of.  The cabinet is just a bear.  It doesn’t seem that big — maybe five feet wide and as high as my chin — but it weighs a ton.  I can barely move the thing.  I suppose this probably means it’s well built, but at this point I sort of wish it were a little flimsier.

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