21.   Almost two months have elapsed since these players became free agents, and there are a few who must be wondering, as the saying goes, whazzup?

22.   And a few are.

23.   And passengers boarded all at once, rather than by row, because there were so few of them.

24.   And of those one-story dwellings, very few are the classic ranch house, built on the site by a crew of carpenters, plasterboarders and plumbers.

25.   And there are precious few of them.

26.   And there might be a few more as he watches the NFC Championship Game today while thinking of a season gone bad.

27.   And then there are a few who take it one step higher.

28.   And there are a few who have become estranged from those they left behind.

29.   And there are a few.

30.   And those few were pretty sanguine.