You probably think I'm going to take this opportunity to say "Happy Birthday" to a man who apparently has found a magic helmet that instantly makes him look 15 years younger when he puts it on.
But this isn't about Brett Favre's 40th birthday. Today is also the anniversary of the birth of my wife, who puts up with a hell of a lot as I continue to let this tiger whose tail landed in my grasp drag me across the floor of the jungle.
At the risk of sounding like Jon Gruden and other coaches who wear their supposedly endless work hours as a badge of honor, I really do pretty much work all the time.
And she realizes it, she accepts it, and she fully supports it. So I'm taking some time off later today as we celebrate her birthday, and as I try to find a gift that properly reflects everything she does for me and for our son.
The only problem is that there's nothing at any store that can even come remotely close.
So happy birthday, Jill. And thanks for putting up with the fact that 3 million members of PFT Planet get a lot more of my time and attention on a day-to-day basis.
A special birthday wish
Posted by Mike Florio on October 10, 2009 10:29 AM ET
Happy Birth Day Jill
Be careful, Florio. She may be seeing Rush Limbaugh, Brett Favre, Tony Romo, and Channing Crowder on the side.
I think i speak for the other 2,999,999 when i say....
...show us some pictures of her boobs :)
In all seriousness, best wishes to Jill.
Wow, first class Florio! That should earn you some brownie points.
happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Jill. I don't know how you tolerate that guy.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Florio!
You must be a very patient woman, Mrs. Florio. Raising two boys by yourself isn't easy, especially when the older one is a bit slow. Happy birthday!
Just get her the football phone: http://www.bigfootsden.com/store.items/wilson.football.doritios.phone.rare.jpg.
Happy Birthday Jill, Mike also gets more attention from me than my wife, thanks for putting up with him
Thats the only reason she keeps you around. You pay the bills and she doesnt have to talk to you often.
What a deal :)
There's always a good woman behind some shiester ambulance chasing rumor mongering Hillbilly...
"You were born, long ago, long ago long ago long ago, lllllllloooooooonnnnggggggggggg aaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggoooooooooooo!!!"
Happy Birthday Mrs. Florio!
Oh, and a giant middle finger to the idiots who are inevitably gonna criticize Florio for posting about his family on HIS blog.
Mike--thanks for all of the hard work. Your site is the only NFL site I really care about (except my fantasy league site).
Jill--thanks so much for being a wonderful wife.
You're more of a vagina then I thought Florio.
Mike , I wish your wife a happy birthday as well as blessings for you family ...however , was that last sentence truly neccesary ? It was like twisting the knife, Florio, Call Phil McGaw and see if he has any slots open for the coming season - "Wife despises husband's occupation" ...THINK OF THE EXPOSURE !
The only problem is that there's nothing at any store that can even come remotely close.
I don't think she'll be buying that one, Mike.
If she's like any other wife in the world you better come up with something...something good too.
Hope you both have a great day.
Happy Birthday Jill!! Thanks for letting us borrow your husband, if it wasn't for this site I would have to do something productive with my time. And we can't have that.
:)
Get her a Tony Romo Fathead, that'll make her happy. I guarantee it.
Happy B'Bay. 29 again. She must be an angel.
Happy Birtday Mrs. Florio. Don't let him take you for granted.
LOL 3 million? You're on crack.
Happy Birthday Jill. Just don't blow it Florio by accidently singing"Happy birthday dear Brett" later!
Happy Birthday, Mrs. F!!!
Happy Birthday Jill.
Why not buy her a nice Glock and some hollow points?
She'll know what to do with it.
Happy Birthday Jill. Florio, be glad she doesn't go all Brenda Warner on us all for some of the criticism you get.
Happy Birthday Jill!
This certainly tops anything I could have thought of for my wife...
Where's the link to that football phone again?
Hopefully you decked out your house with half blown up balloons and a banner on white paper stating "It is your Birthday."
Question is, will she take an hour of TV or an hour of sleep.
hey, if you work all the time Florio, that means your out of the house right?
just saying.
So take her to one of them fancy city folks restaurants where dey eat off plates that arent made of paper and buy her some purty flowers.
A very happy birthday to Mrs Florio!
In honor of your wife's birthday, maybe Florio could finally fix this #$&*ing login error...
hey florio its simple.. buy her "Quarterback of the Future....
Pointless Florio.
No way someone as nice as you say would waste one minute of their time reading the drivel on this site.
All she wants for her birthday Mike is, for you to bring back the ratings system.
Damn, and the one I wanted to give a 5 to, you already removed.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Florio!
3 million? Congrats on that Nobel peace prize too, Mike.
way cool mike,
happy b'day jill, now you can drink legally .... you know .... now that your 21 ..... i hope all your wants and wishes come true for you and your son
again mike this is really cool of you (and you got all the facts right lol) and pay no attention to guys like mikequick ..... you know ya can't stop the helmet wearing little bus takers from posting, jerry sends his kids money and they buy laptops
have a happy day
phred
Get her a night with Favre and his wranglers....
Perhaps you could give her $182 in cash and a nice card that might say: "To a wonderful girl, a great pal, and more."
Put it in front page headlines at least.
I know you don't think highly of a lot of people who post, but there can't be that many with negative comments about this.
Taking a day off is probably the best thing you could do by the way. Just remind Rosenthal to feed the hamsters.
Happy B-day Mrs. Florio!
At my computer doing homework most of today.
Question is if I add 100+ comments will actually post them?
This needs to hit the PFT most commented block.
At minimum it needs to top Channing Crowder wants to beat me up which sits at 129 comments.
Would be a god start if you published on front page headlines. ^_^
Happy Birthday to a very special women. Thank you Jill for letting Mike sit on the computer all day everyday and sharing with all of us his football knowledge and stories. We do appreciate most of it. Thank You for sharing him. Have a very happy B-day Jill.
Ya got something on your lip, giantphan
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Florio. :)
@bigstuff . . .
I tried that last year, but then my hipster doofus neighbor came in with a wooden bench and a card that said, "Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such a friend."
Happy Birthday Mrs. Jill Florio!
Oh and Jill dont forget to wish us a happy birthday and a big thank you for getting mike out of your hair all day everyday.LOL
Happy Birthday Mrs. Florio
Happy Birthday Mrs. Florio!
Pardon me for adding this in.
Please don't compare yourself to Gruden, I have serious doubts about him after Monday night. Plenty of other coaches put in 16+ hour days.
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At the risk of sounding like Jon Gruden and other coaches who wear their supposedly endless work hours as a badge of honor, I really do pretty much work all the time.
Happy birthday, Jill. Some day you'll find those pictures Mike has on you. Or did you lose a bet and marry him?
Translation: "I didn't buy my wife anything from a store" (which exlcudes all products but crack and Mary Jane.) Florio intends to score points by mentioning her on this post (which she doesn't care about, and actually hates.) Florio, you are kinda smart, but really dumb.
So where does Florio sit this game? Third and 17 from his own 8. Florio -- take the day off. Listen to your wife. Relax and have a beer. Us listeners will survive. You may not.
Happy Birthday Jill.
vox needs to make a comment that somehow ties jerry jones into all of this. i'm waiting for it.
happy birthday! she should be canonized a saint immediately upon death, i'm just gonna say it.
You make me want to cry.... Not.
Next you'll tell us she really reads this stuff...
She must be a Saint.
Happy Birthday to the lady that supported Mike from the beginning of PFT to what it has become! It is extremely important to have support as you follow your goals in life.
Phew, for a minute there I was thinking, "When is Florio gonna post something usefull?" And then this insightful piece of journalism pops up.
I'm sure the mexican gardener is very happy
Seriously though, take a day off and take her to a spa a breakfast thru dinner affair.
This but a mere diversionary tactic on Mikey’s part Jill ... get the books [all of them and ignore the one that says “where I buried the money”] … call up the old college ex, who incidentally is a CPA specializing in forensic accounting nowadays [“3 million hits, heh? We’ll see about that”] and in your best Betty Boop voice ask him, “Does this look right to you?”
And oh yeah, make him buy a Land Rover for the field trips, instead of riding around in a dilapidated VW bus. A classy lady like you deserves better.
Remember to live in the moment and don’t beat yourself up from what happened 18 years ago.
Happy Birthday Jill!!!
Happy Birth Day Jill!
PS.
Juice up Florio's hamsters to get the login to work please.
Happy Birthday Jill.
The only way you can put up with that bonehead hubby of yours is he plays on the computer all the time! :)
Happy Birthday Jill. I don't know how you tolerate that guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGyFG4QFWOs
Florio you can't even say Happy Birthday to your wife without somehow involving Brett Favre....
Florio you are OBSESSED with the guy...
That was downright thoughtful Florio.
I guess we could all learn something from this. I know I could, I'm not very good at these things.
ie; Last year for my wife's birthday, she hinted she wanted something shiny, that went from 0 to 200 in under 3 seconds.
I bought her a bathroom scale.
That's when the fight started.
Tom Jones would like to wish you a Happy Birthday Jill.
If Mr. Florio ever gives you trouble just give me a call. ;)
Happy birthday, Mrs. Florio!
Happy solar return to the Missus! And many more to come.
vox needs to make a comment that somehow ties jerry jones into all of this. i'm waiting for it
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Jerry Jones has talked to Jon Gruden (who brags about working 16 hour days when he is not obsessing over Favre) and the possibility of him coming on as an adviser ala Sherm Lewis in Washington. The advisory role will relate to getting Wade Phillips to actually do some work.
When Jerry got off the phone with Jon he gave Mrs. Jill Florio a call and wished her a Happy Birthday.
He also gave Mrs. Florio a phone number to Favre Addicts Anonymous, just in case. As part of Gruden's role he will have to attend meetings on a regular basis, he has yet to admit to a problem at this time though.
Happy birthday.
Love these family moments - nice touch.
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. -Anonymous
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost
Happy Birthday!
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray (journalists) that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. -Susan B. Anthony
Happy birthday, Mrs. Florio!
Happy Birthday Jill. I don't know how you tolerate that guy.
You must be a very patient woman, Mrs. Florio. Raising two boys by yourself isn't easy, especially when the older one is a bit slow. Happy birthday!
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My thoughts exactly.
The lazy person's gift
Is cash stuck in a card
It's what a person does
Who doesn't try very hard
But I thought long and hard
I pondered day and night
Sweated that I'd get it wrong
Knowing you'd get it right
You'd pick the perfect gift for you
That's when this thought came in a flash
This is not just cash I'm giving you
It's a thoughtful person's cash
Jon Bratton c 2007
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Don't accept cash from that cheapskate Mrs. Florio!
Best wishes for your B-day.
Happy B-Day Mrs. Florio.
Happy B-day to Favre too, I hear he is a big fan of your husband.
Jon Gruden and my "supposedly" endless work hours my fu***** a**. What the fu**? While you sit on your fu**ing a** and type bullsh** about who and what fu**ing nots I am busting my fu**ing a** off to give people like you some fu**ing thing to write about. I can't believe my fu**ing eyes.
Registered just to say Happy Fu***** Birthday to Jill!
Happy birthday, Jill, and thanks for "entertaining" me when I visited West Virginia a while back, if you get my drift... always glad to be a friend to a lovely lady married to a bonehead husband who ignores her for work.
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Just kidding of course. But not about the Happy birthday wishes. All the best.
Hey Gregg. Dont forget to feed the fu**ing hamsters this time. Nothing but a g**da** fu***ng disaster last time.
Happy Birthday Jill, milk it for all it is worth.
# Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. - Unknown
# You're not getting older, you're getting better. - Unknown
Happy birthday Mrs. Florio
People who share your birthday:
Mya singer 30
Dale Earnhardt Jr. driver 35
Brett Favre some guy 40
Tanya Tucker singer 51
David Lee Roth singer 54
Ed Wood director 85
Clearly no one special in comparison.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday Jill, Mike also gets more attention from me than my wife, thanks for putting up with him.
Oh, and a giant middle finger to the idiots who are inevitably gonna criticize Florio for posting about his family on HIS blog.
Sappy for him to do so, but nice nonetheless. Takes a special woman to tolerate that hairstyle.
Happy B-Day Ma'am.
Me and my multiple personalities would like to wish you a great birthday.
Cutler for league MVP.
You heard it here first.
Happy Birthday Jill. I don't know how you tolerate that hair.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Florio.
Next you'll tell us she really reads this stuff...
She must be a Saint.
Curious if she actually does.
Please confirm/deny at some time.
Happy Birthday!
It is all downhill now that you hit 25.
Best wishes on your Birthday.
Happy Birthday, Mrs. F!!!
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
Happy Birthday!
Happy B-day Mrs. Florio
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
Cutler for MVP 09!
Happy Birthday ma'am!
"Count your life by smiles, not tears,
Count your age by friends, not years."
"A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age."
Because today's so special
it really wouldn't do,
to send one simple birthday wish
to last the whole year through...
So this wishes happy moments,
a day when dreams come true,
and a year that's filled with all the things
that mean the most to you.
Happy B-day!
Thanks for letting Mr. Florio back out to play ma'am.
Just not the same talking smack to others.
has found a magic helmet that instantly makes him look 15 years younger when he puts it on.
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Think he picked up a sponsorship from the little blue pill people.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Florio!
Girlfriend wanted to say thanks for allowing Mr. Florio to work so much and a Happy Birthday as well.
Wonders what I am doing when I get quiet at the computer for an hour here and there. Simply b****ing quietly instead of out loud.
Mike--thanks for all of the hard work. Your site is the only NFL site I really care about (except my fantasy league site).
Jill--thanks so much for letting him get away with it.
Last B-Day wish for the night ^_^.
And thanks for putting up with the fact that 3 million members of PFT Planet get a lot more of my time and attention on a day-to-day basis.
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We enjoy every minute of it too.
Happy Birthday to your wife from another 10/10er, but did the beginning of that mean we have to share a birthday with Brett Favre, booooooooooo
Happy post-Birthday day Mrs. Florio.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Florio!
And thanks for putting up with the fact that 3 million members of PFT Planet get a lot more of my time and attention on a day-to-day basis.
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We enjoy every minute of it too.
happy birthday!
Cutler for League MVP 09.
When I win it I will dedicate it to Josh McDaniels.
Happy B-day ma'am.
The only problem is that there's nothing at any store that can even come remotely close.
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2,500,000 members of your PFT nation think a haircut might be a good start.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Florio!
Happy Birthday Jill!! I
If it wasn't for this site I would have to do something productive with my time. And we can't have that.
Happy Birtday Mrs. Florio.
Hope it was a great one.
Happy belated birthday wish. Hoping it was nice.
Happy Birthday Jill!
Mike also gets more attention from me than my wife, thanks for putting up with him.
My wife doesn't seem to mind so much.
Happy Birth Day Jill
Its easy for us to put up with you when we can close the browser and walk away. Don't know how she does it.
Happy Birthday Jill.
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Florio. :)
# Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. - Unknown
# You're not getting older, you're getting better. - Unknown
Happy birthday Mrs. Florio
Happy 29th Birthday Jill!
Am still a little disturbed you had to add a Favre comment into the article.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Florio.
Happy birthday, Mrs. Florio!
Happy Birthday Mrs. Florio!
Happy Birth Day Jill
Happy B-Day Jill!!!
A special birthday wish, Happy Birthday Jill!
Happy Birthday Jilly!!!!! :)
Happy B-Day, Mrs. F
Thanks for letting Florio keep PFT planet rolling !!