three-dot lounge welcomes M.Lewis

I've been out for a week, at the Adams County homestead, thinking profound thoughts. A few:

The best a pro coach/manager can do in the age of big money is set a tone and a level of expectations. Marvin Lewis did well at that for 3 years. He has missed badly this year. The great coaches don't allow the team-splitting shenanigans the Bengals have offered this season, in between Sundays. We don't hear it in New England, Denver, Indy or Pittsburgh...

It's time to take the Ravens and Bears seriously. The former finally have an offensive leader (McNair), the latter are as resourceful as any club in the league...

Saw Flags of Our Fathers, the Eastwood movie about the "heroes'' of Iwo Jima. Liked most about it, except the obviously sound-staged scenes on Iwo. Unlike Saving Private Ryan, the war shots looked phony and plagiarized...

Speaking of the Ravens, anyone read the SI piece on Ray Lewis? Anyone else find it amazingly egotistical? Lewis has decided a higher power put him on the planet to show us how to be better people. I thought that's what Dan Aykroyd did in The Blues Brothers...

Did you see Jeff Ruby's letter to the editor Saturday? Priceless. The restaurateur went off on downtown development. He said we'll see a Hofbrauhaus in Jerusalem before we see development at The Banks. Ruby needs to run for something...

Seattle-ites just voted to end public funding for pro sports facilities. They decided their city's booming economy and vibrant arts didnt require the "prestige'' of having the SuperSonics in town. The name of the group that lobbied that way: Citizens for More Important Things. A tip of the Keystone Light to them, from those of us here at the Three-Dot...

In between timeouts of Giants-Bears, watched Cool Hand Luke on AMC Sunday night, for about the 12th time. An all-timer. What we have here is a failure to communicate...

Live big, Strother Martin.