It’s hard to pass up a story like this. I had heard that Al Michaels, who has been the lead announcer on ABC’s Monday Night Football and had been expected to follow the Monday night package to ESPN next season, had jumped ship, and would be rejoining John Madden on NBC’s new Sunday night games. But what I didn’t know until I read it today was that NBC had to give something up to ABC for the right to sign Michaels to a contract. And what did they give up? They gave up the rights to Oswald the Rabbit. That was the first major animated character Walt Disney had created when he hit Hollywood, but when he found out that Universal Studios (now part of NBC) had the rights to the character, he created his own studio and came up with a new character (a little fellow called Mickey Mouse). Now, because NBC was so hot to have Al Michaels call their football games next season, Oswald will be rejoining Disney, which is part of ABC. What a great story. Al Michaels was traded for Oswald the Rabbit.

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"When you’re juggling medicine balls and somebody tosses you a raw egg, you’re gonna get splattered."

Two years ago: Defense
"Sometimes the majority is Wrong. When the majority wants to deprive a minority of the same rights enjoyed by the majority, simply because of differences real or perceived, then the majority is Wrong."

Three years ago: About Jack
"I don't think he was ever forced to question what he'd made of his life. That's too bad, because if he'd had the chance to think about it, he might have found that life had more to offer him than he realized."

Four years ago: Day Two
"It looked like something out of a Miss America pageant from the 1970s, or maybe one of those Brady Bunch variety shows. All we needed was Bert Parks or Ed Sullivan."

Five years ago: Sky Falling Down
"After thinking it over for awhile, it dawned on me that I was an idiot."

Six years ago: Struggling With the Demons
"You are prevented from being a fully vested member of society not because of anything you've done, but simply because of who you are. It would be no more fair if your rights were taken away only because you had brown eyes, or brown hair. Or brown skin."