Yippee! Jets get Lofton

CBS GIVES us the very underrated, understated and darn good listen, James Lofton on Sunday’s Eagles-Jets game. He’s one of those guys you’d like to be seated next to.

➤ Reader Douglas McBroom suggests that MLB management should keep changing negotiators until it comes up with one to blow the negotiations.

➤ The Alabama-Auburn game last Saturday was loaded with transfers from here, there, everywhere. At one point CBS’s Brad Nessler noted the play of “a sixthyear-senior.” Like the old gag: “I went to college for two terms: Eisenhower’s and Kennedy’s.”

➤ The advertisements for LeBron James’ next kids movie will show him dancing abound on an NBA court while grabbing his crotch and shouting expletives toward the stands. To think this guy lectures America on right over wrong.

➤ As the Bears prepare to abandon Soldier Field for a new stadium, thousands of PSL suckers face the likelihood of losing thousands of dollars for their one-way financial devotion. But Roger Goodell wouldn’t allow that, would he? Not after his claim that PSLs are “good investments.”

➤ What difference does it make who WFAN hires to be heard between its sports gambling comeons?

➤ This is our first winter without both Doc Emrick and Marv Albert. Now that’s climate change!

➤ Not that anyone on TV on NFL Sundays will choose to debunk stats they’ve cited for years as significant, but among the top five red zone TD-scoring percentages are: No. 1 the Niners (6-5), No. 2 the Saints (5-7) and No 5. the Seahawks (3-8). The Patriots (8-4) are 24th; the Packers (9-3) are 25th.

➤ There’s still plenty of time for Rob Manfred, MLB team owners and the MLBPA to read up on the stock market crash of 1929. Remember: In the history of world, there has never been a line on an earnings graph that has pointed straight up.

➤ New LSU coach Brian Kelly faking a Southern accent? Nonsense; he’d just arrived from South Bend!