Oh the shame of it all

The Patriots have been found guilty of CHEATING!  Full official story here:  http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d80251b7e&template=with-video&confirm=true

I say official story because I'm sure that all sorts of newspapers and fan sites will have their own variations of the official story along with mass speculation and reasons why Bill Belichick got off light and how terrible it is that he was *only* hit with the maximum allowable penalty.

Don't get me wrong.  What he did was totally wrong and inexcusable.  He deserves that full penalty, much as it pains me to hear that the Patriots will lose either a first round draft pick or if they don't make the playoffs, a second and third round draft pick.  That's the real penalty.  The $750,000 is incidental, IMO.

What's worse, I don't see why he *needed* to do it and if he was going to, why he was so stupid as to do it in the blatant manner he did.  It's a sad day for the Patriots' reputation.  Here's hoping they continue on in spite of it all to prove they're still the best team in the NFL.

Wildlands West

Wildlands West, the 4th Wildlands campaign, running in KY, has opened the campaign up to transfers of characters from the other Wildlands campaigns, including the original Wildlands North, run by our very own Rob Ciccolini.  If you're interested, this becomes availalble for their Oathbreakers event November 2 - 4.  If you want to attend but have no recollection of where your character was at, what its stats was, what history it had, etc, send me a private email at rgpierce at earthlink dot net.  I don't have the final character database, but I have a copy from updates done on Feb 28, 2006 and I have all the histories (that were turned it), so I will happily forward you back any of this.

If any of you remember Rich Murray (Xymox, the green elf), he has been playing the game and is very enthused with it.  He recommends it highly.