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Tears of joy baby! Crying with a smile… like a sunshower.

Well by all means the NFL should adopt it as their standard helmet.

I thought so because I remembered your "handle." Always thought it was kinda funny.

I wasn't suggesting blowing things up but I would say that it's pretty agreed that Nix has built a very nice roster. If Gailey can't make the parts work, the logical easiest thing to do (non-blowing up) would be to find a new Head Coach to coach the same players… within that model of GMs who run things and believe that HC's can be swapped out.

Apparently you're gonna have to speak louder.

Also a candidate in the other thread for worst song ever.

This one is a contender in some category… hokiest bad song?

You ROCK CGF!!! Despite having your primary NFC team, I'm very happy to have you as a Bills fan. You've earned your stripes!

There's always cleaning out your belly button!

Agree. Jumping to conclusions before training camp even starts.

The NFL is a results-oriented business and expectations for the Bills are high. You can't make statements like there is or isn't or will or won't be pressure. The actual question is at what point (team record) is there pressure for Nix to fire Gailey? Obviously Nix would have to fire Gailey if the Bills started 0-8. Just as obviously, 3-5 would be a grey area. There would be some pressure. If the Bills opened 5-3 there would be zero pressure… except to make the playoffs and win a postseason game. Pressure on the Bills is like a stock. It'll go up and down depending on their performance. If they stumble out of the gate, the pressure will mount. If they come out like gangbusters there will be no pressure, until which time they start losing games in sequence.

Is ….lybob an abbreviation for Sillybob? I know what you're saying but do you truly believe that going back to leather helmets (which didn't have face guards) would make the game safer? "The 1920s marked the first time in the sport of football that the idea of protection and a helmet started to be used. These helmets were made of leather and had padding and cushioning on the inside. Although better than no helmet at all, the helmets used in this time were almost completely useless. These particular “Leather Lids” absorbed a lot of heat making it very uncomfortable to wear.[1] The helmet barely protected the player from a full contact hit because there was not enough padding. The huge problem with this early helmet was that it had no face mask at all. Players had their full face exposed at all times while being tackled at full speed, making injuries very prevalent. 1917 marked the first time that helmets raised above the head to try and direct blows away from the top of the head. This technique started to be used because too many players got critically hurt because the padding used was not thick enough to protect from the devastating blows. Ear flaps also had their downfall as they were not created for ventilation and manufacturers realized the problem with communication on the field[1] One of the biggest innovations of this early 1900 period came in the form of hardened leather." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_helmet#Development

I was one of those in Niagara Square when we all "forgave" Scotty. The thing is, that team was so ridiculously talented at the time that I believe that most Bills fans really believed we'd go back and win one. Probably a significant percentage of the people who forgave Scotty at that moment have changed their minds on that account. On the other hand many of us know that there were no less than 5 plays in that game that would have made the difference in our favor… and that Levy/Marchibroda/Kelly bear a lot of the blame for going pass happy… and that the Giants owned the ball for about 21 minutes of the game between the end of the first half and the start of the second half… so I'm one of those who don't blame Scotty. It was truly a team loss. Sorry for the tangent. But yeah, if they beat up Booth for missing a field goal in the regular season in a game we tied, imagine what those same fans would have done to Scotty.

RIP, Macho Man.

Especially when you factor in those of us who endured the 4 consecutive Super Bowl defeats. I seriously doubt that I'll be underwhelmed when the great moment arrives this coming January.

Former Bills, London Fletcher, etc.

The Buffalo Bills Yearbook 2012 is gonna be much better. That's the next yearbook program I plan on watching.

And see, that's where I TOTALLY DISAGREE. Just this week Emmitt Smith and Troy Polamalu admitted to hiding their concussions so that they could re-enter games. Good luck to each of these players in attempting to join this lawsuit. They've admitted a large amount of responsibility for future loss of brain function. Now keep in mind Smith played from 1990 to 2004 while Troy started his career in 2003. This is what I mean by them being in different classes… the level of disclosure and acknowledgement of head injuries by the NFL was very different for each of these players. Then you probably have hundreds of players in this lawsuit who have zero amount of brain damage who are trying to cash in. Then you have hundreds of players who were misled by the NFL and are right now suffering from substantial loss of brain function. Remember former NFL Concussion Czar Elliott Pellman?: "The NFL did not formally begin to investigate the issue until 1994, when the league formed its Committee on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Heading the group? Former New York Jets team doctor Elliot Pellman. Not a neurologist. A rheumatologist. A man who claimed in his biographical material that he had a medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, when in fact he reportedly attended medical school in Guadalajara, Mexico. A man who shared the following moment with concussed Jets receiver Wayne Chrebet during a 2003 game against the New York Giants, later detailed by ESPN writer Peter Keating in a chilling magazine article: "There's going to be some controversy about you going back to play." Elliot Pellman looks Wayne Chrebet in the eye in the fourth quarter of a tight game ... A knee to the back of the head knocked Chrebet stone-cold unconscious a quarter earlier, and now the Jets' team doctor is putting the wideout through a series of mental tests. Pellman knows Chrebet has suffered a concussion, but the player is performing adequately on standard memory exercises. "This is very important for you," the portly physician tells the local hero, as was later reported in the New York Daily News. "This is very important for your career." Then he asks, "Are you okay?" When Chrebet replies, "I'm fine," Pellman sends him back in. Appearing on HBO's "Inside the NFL" that same year (2003), Pellman flatly dismissed a study linking multiple concussions with depression among former players. Months later, Pellman and his colleagues produced a paper stating that there was "no evidence" that concussions produced "permanent or cumulative" damage; in 2006, they published a summary of their work to date, declaring "mild traumatic brain injuries" -- read: concussions -- "in professional football are not serious injuries." Don't paint them all with one brush, Nanker.

I know it sounds kinda stupid for a guy who can't go (me) to exhort other to go… especially in an NFL road game. But it would be great if you guys represented our team.

I was expecting to see the story that some of my older Bills buddies have told me about… of Booth being physically beaten up by fans outside the Rockpile after that loss to San Diego. RIP Booth.

I can see some of the perennial powers taking a step back in 2012… just yesterday I made the case that The Cheatriots**** on offense are a team in decline and that their drafting from 2006-2009 was dreadful. The difference between the Patsies**** and the Ravens and Steelers is that the latter two teams draft well and have continued to draft well. Both teams have not drafted for need as much as they've gone for the most talented players available. It's the emphasis of the best player available philosophy that has allowed the Ravens to draft guys like Terrence Cody, Courtney Upshaw, Tommy Streeter, Sergio Kindle, Torrey Smith and Jimmy Smith as very strong values. Same with Pittsburgh and David DeCastro, Maurkice Pouncey, Cam Heyward, and others. Pittsburgh and Baltimore have mastered the practice of plucking good players in their late value slots while the Cheating Bastards***** still tend to reach for need. I look for Baltimore and Pittsburgh to remain strong but I do expect New England to step backwards a notch. Which leads to my second point: Nine wins in 2012 would be a huge disappointment for me personally even though I know in our recent poll that 9 wins seems to be the popular consensus. The Bills had 4 significant injuries at wide receiver, 2 significant injuries at left tackle, a significant injury to Fitz, the loss of Fred Jackson, the loss of Eric Wood and a completely horrible defense. They still won 6 games. The depth is way improved as discussed in another current topic… many of the young players who got valuable playing time last year will be contributors this year… not just fill-ins. While I semi-seriously predict 15 wins for this team I would personally be very disappointed with less than 11 wins.

That's why I asked…

Sounds about right. I too think I'd feel compelled to be at the game… and then to go back to Buffalo for the epic celebration. We would all go back down to Niagara Square and Scott Norwood would be there and we'd all forgive him (again) and the community healing would be incredible. After that there would be parties in the streets and you'd never want it to end. You'd be pinching yourself continuously and slapping high fives and hugging total strangers. Maybe even the girls would take their clothes off… just a thought.