The NFL won't dare eliminate that goofy sideline timeout coaches can call to ice a kicker as he is kicking the football . . . Timeout? Hell, yes. Ice the kicker? By all means. It's the American way. But calling it a split second before the snap, the ball in the air before the zebra blows the whistle? Do these Rules Committee foofs actually sit around their meetings each year and brainstorm ways to screw up their game? That said, do we really want to be deprived of the exquisite tension of Cowboys rookie thunder-leg Nick Folk, who is now a genuine Folk Hero in Jonestown, booming a game-winning, 53-yarder that was waved off, then doing it again? What an impossible ending to a flawed but frantic "MNF" game that the Bills kept winning right up until the final second, when they lost it on two long-distance field goals . . .
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Final word to Barry Bonds: Your BALCO buddy Marion Jones finally womaned up. Time for you to man up, Sluggo . . .
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