Wouldn’t it be cool if football players were allowed to switch teams right up to the last weeks or days or minutes before the Super Bowl?

Among other things, it would make it a hell of a lot easier to figure out which group of overpaid athletes would most likely wind up sporting gaudy commemorative rings.

Just a thought.

In unrelated news, the Manchester Union-Leader reports that Brian Bernys, Rich Tarrant’s northwest coordinator, has decided to leave the campaign just six weeks before Election Day in order to accept a position with Johnny Mac, whose own election won’t go down for, like, two years.

[A serious hat-tip to VDB-reader Miguel.]

And speaking of McCain and the whole CIA/torture media-kabuki — okay, you let us look like strong idealists for a week, and we’ll let you waterboard detainees indefinitely — here’s Danziger to point out just exactly who worked who.