Archives for January 18, 2012

‘Despite one administration budget document claiming the state was setting aside money in an $84 million pot to help keep the Buffalo Bills in Western New York, it turns out the money — $2.94 million — is merely the final year of a state funding pledge made in 1998 by former Gov. George E. Pataki when the team renovated its stadium. The budget contains no indication as to whether the state will commit any new money to keeping the team in Buffalo when the stadium lease expires in July 2013.’

‘”Our rookie class we’re real tight,” said top pick Marcell Dareus. “It’s not just us, but we kind of put it on ourselves to help turn this team around. The best way to do that is to stick together and just grind it out and make sure you’re right there with a veteran doing what you’re supposed to do.”‘

‘Who decides to become a novelist at age 86? "I don’t feel a day older than 83," he says, and if you ask him if someone wanted him to coach again, he’d be on the way."’