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yeah it was frightening he didn't know what a quarter was and howie and mel b couldn't figure it out. howie's been here long enough to know better.

 

American coins look the same. Heck you find some up here in change and it's treated the same as ours. Down where you are it likely wouldn't fly as the value is less lol.

 

wasn't it 4 quarters and 2 nickels and 2 pennies? i know ours dimes are alike but didn't know our quarters were. im just saying for a non-visitor of Canada, I wouldn't know their currency, but here's been here a very long time. shouldn't he know the difference? im sure he's gotten a lot of US change in his lifetime and used it. he seemed dumbfounded on that video...

 

So true - and I didn't realize that. I thought pretty much anything less than a dollar would be accepted. It used to be that way back in the day.

I was trying to pay for parking at the train station, and the machine wouldn't take one of my quarters. I finally realized it was a Canadian twenty-five cent piece. Looks and feels about the same. Took it inside to give to the ticket taker, and she flat-out refused. Told me SEPTA would take it out of her pay.

 

And, just as an aside, how funny is it that NONE of the four judges on "America's Got Talent" are American.

 

Please. Cards were 11-3 with their #1 (Carson Palmer, 6-0), and #2 (Drew Stanton, 5-3). They had a playoff spot ALREADY clinched. As soon as their #3 took the field, they didn't win another game.

Season over.

 

The thicknesses of the coins are ever so different so machines can make the distinction, if so programmed. In Canada they aren't.

 

I was gonna bring this up earlier. Axe I agree completely. Cards got screwed. In playoffs became the underdog to a team with a losing record.

 

That must have been the case with the machine in the parking lot. Because the coins are so similar I must have put the Canadian coin in 4-5 times before I finally looked at it.

What killed me was the woman in the ticket office. Okay, she can't "officially" give me a US quarter - but damn, reach in your purse and give me an American quarter, I'll give you the Canadian. You go to any supermarket and give that to the cashier when you pay for your food and they're not even gonna blink. Heck, supermarket cashiers are either 17 years old or 80 - they're not gonna notice at all.

 

Cowboys sign Jerrod Johnson before final game

With a fourth preseason game that likely won't include Dak Prescott still to play, Dallas added another quarterback to its roster Thursday.

The Cowboys signed Jerrod Johnson hours before their preseason finale against the Houston Texans. Johnson, 28, played quarterback at Texas A&M, where he once targeted a wide receiver who later became a first-round draft pick at quarterback named Ryan Tannehill.

Johnson was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2011 and has spent time with the Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears and Baltimore Ravens, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the now-defunct United Football League. Johnson spent most of the 2016 preseason with the Ravens before being cut on Aug. 29.

 

Less than a week after saying he is protesting the treatment of African-Amercians and other minorities in the United States by not standing during the playing of the national anthem before games, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is at the center of another controversy.

Photos of Kaepernick wearing socks in practice that appear to depict policemen as cartoon pigs came to light Thursday. According to multiple reports, the quarterback wore the socks during multiple offseason practices.


Kaepernick released a statement Thursday on his Instagram account explaining why he wore the socks:

"I wore these socks, in the past, because the rogue cops that are allowed to hold positions in police departments, not only put the community in danger, but also put the cops that have the right intentions in danger by creating an environment of tension and mistrust. I have two uncles and friends who are police officers and work to protect and serve ALL people. So before these socks, which were worn before I took my public stance, are used to distract from the real issues, I wanted to address this immediately."

 

I Love the spin he is trying to put on it and the fact he think people will use this as a distraction to his message (which his sitting the national anthem actually is a bigger distraction to his message).

 

He'll play tonight, then pack his bags while Dallas looks for another vet.

 

How fun would it be if the O-line just stood up, time and time again, and let the Defense just smash the Colin? Kind of like in Adam Sandler's "The Longest Yard".

I think it's sad to pull a few examples out of a history of doing great things. I come from an ALL WHITE family with military backgrounds. My family helps anyone! Pulls over to help people change tires, or shovel snow. We open doors for people, not just ladies, and not just white ladies. We also say thank you when someone opens a door for us. Hell, I tell the pit boss at the craps table thank you when I win a few bucks on a good roll.

So to paint Our Anthem as one of oppression, is the same as painting all schools as garbage just because a few here and there might not be so good. I could come up with a hundred scenarios of why it's wrong.

I will NEVER accept what he's doing or trying to do. I think there are ways to go about it, and this isn't it. I know part of what I'm saying is wrong, just based on the fact that his actions are drawing a lot of attention to the issue, which is okay... but it's not okay.

My family has died so this Jack can sit. Maybe he should think about that.

 

Preseason is over ! Here are the finals...

 

This is the actual headline from AP Sports - "Brady plays 1st half vs. Giants in tuneup for suspension" ... I thought that was a funny/strange way to state things. Maybe he should have sat in a lawn chair or held a clipboard?

 

This is actually pretty funny, and weird, I agree.

 

Eagles finish 4-0. that means a 1-2 september for starters. hahaha

 

I really dont see a clear-cut runaway in that Division. Beat your Division rivals and anything can happen.

 

That's EXACTLY right. People have died so others DO have the freedom to protest - civilly - as they see fit.

That said, I think his approach is terribly misguided.