GaryPinC

Okay, this is your truth and that's fine. You take the longer and more cerebral approach. Just watch from home if it bothers you too much. But those annoying fans also set a louder, more fun atmosphere IMO. I'd rather have those than the fans who sit on their hands the entire game only cheering for touchdowns or those 4-5 plays.

Yes, it's difficult when you refuse to understand that people have their own truths. I was at a handful of Bills games, University of Michigan and MSU games during the 90's. There was significant periods of standing at all of them depending on the section. Including entire games. Is long term standing more prevalent today? I think so. I certainly stand for big plays and won't stand for long if everyone in front/around me is sitting, but I understand many feel more engaged in the game by doing it and have certainly felt that way also at times.

Good sir, I am very sorry to hear of your physical limitations impacting your ability to see the game. Having to deal with the pain must be very frustrating and I can understand how much easier it would be for you if everyone sat. Being a long time season ticket holder, you have to realize that long periods if not entire games of fans standing is just the reality of the stadium. It happens at many pro and college stadiums. Myself, I go with the flow and would like to point a few things out to you about my truths which differ from yours. Myself and family are composed of men over 6 feet in height, with decent shoulder width. In sold out games, surrounded by other good sized people, it is impossible to sit in our seats with shoulders square unless leaning forward at various angles which becomes uncomfortable and compromises the view. Standing usually requires angling shoulders, but becomes more comfortable than sitting as it strains my back less. Also, jumping up to only cheer for a big play involves having to wiggle and negotiate to sit down properly again without infringing on others. And in a big or good game, there is lots to cheer for so it naturally becomes easier just to stay standing and sit at breaks. I'm 52 and if standing an entire game (if needed) becomes too much, I either won't go or will pay for bigger/more comfortable seats. As a STH, why not talk to the Bills about your problem and consider switching seats (clubs) or asking them make a section(s) sit-only? Or do like others in a similar situation and watch from the comfort of home? You are the one with the impediment yet you demand all others conform to your needs? Stop calling other fans uncaring, selfish, rude, etc. It starts with you.

Pittsburgh's stadium also hosts the Panthers and High School football playoffs (or used to) during rainy November. Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. That's a lot of use for a soaked grass field. Probably the biggest reason it looks so bad in December.

I don't disagree with your emphasis on our defensive failures but to believe Belichick deserves no special credit for that game plan is extremely ignorant. Our offense was breathtakingly successful and efficient back then, especially that year. Let's cut through the crap and focus on this: our amazing offense got the ball on the 10 with 2:16 on the clock and could only provide Norwood a 47 yard opportunity. That was plenty of time for our well-oiled machine to score 7 under most circumstances. How is that on our defensive failures and why does Belichick deserve no credit for this and throwing us off our game in the first half?

Between Detroit and Cleveland, we have no claim on being the hardest-luck fans.

Yeah, Hackett clung to Marrone for too many years and picked up his bad habits.

Watching that game on Thursday, the feelings from the 90's came back: our offense is nearly impossible to stop on a consistent basis and our defense is more than good enough to shut any team down. That's how it felt at the end of last year except for those blundered 13 seconds. We've picked right back up in 2022 and added a Von Miller. I think our consistency and camaraderie on both sides of the ball supersedes those explosive 90's teams. Our D-line is already frightening even as it is still developing, our rookie DB's are adequate and growing, then we get our lockdown corner back. F being afraid of anybody. I'm mostly curious as to who will beat us and how? So flexible on offense and strong on defense with years of playing together in the same systems. We'll have plenty of tests, it'll be fun. I hope they set a goal in the locker room to go undefeated through the super bowl, just for added focus against shooting ourselves in the foot. All those turnovers Thursday didn't faze us one bit. That was the scary part (for the rest of the league).

Oh. Are you sure? I thought his name was pronounced Tru-a Dungo'highflow-a

So is Singletary. Josh is essentially taking some of his carries and coaches need to get Josh to execute his ambitions more carefully.

Our superbowl hopes and the dominance of this team depend on Josh. Our hopes for a decade or more of franchise dominance depend on Josh. He stupidly absorbed many direct hits yesterday, and many on throwaway plays like 2nd and 9 from the 40 yard line. To answer your question, it's wear-and-tear on his body that accumulates and will shorten his career, and one bad hit during an awkward body position may derail this season entirely. That said, I want Josh to run, but Diggs needs to take him aside and teach him when not to sacrifice your body for the extra yards. Diggs is one of the smartest I've seen about avoiding hard hits unless it's a critical situation. Our coaches need to stop spoiling Josh and get the ball to Singletary more on the throwaway downs and field position. Let alone when we are up big. That's his job and since last year he seems really good at it. Coaches pandered too much to Josh's running proclivities yesterday, IMO. Josh needs to play his game while also being more respectful of the long view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford–Brown I saw the recruiting focus documents from someone I know who worked here in Cleveland for Sanford Brown. They don't care about your grades, disadvantaged kids from the Cleveland school district were perfect because they want a better life and when most of them failed they left and carried on the best they could. The school expected them to fail and got as much federal money for them until they left. They executed a version of a Ponzi scheme where they had goals/quotas for new students specifically from the Cleveland district. Was that the only students that went there? No, but it was most definitely a focus. If you could open your mind and look beyond your Wight Wing Wetard, you'd realize their approach made a certain amount of sense. I would guess that's why the loans of students from these types of schools were the first to be forgiven. Many of these schools are just money making scams. Even if you get through their program, the quality of the education is poor and doesn't translate well to further education nor the workforce.

Well, the for-profits do engage in a fraud that is very hard to prove. They target inner-city and economically disadvantaged kids who don't have the education and study habits to be successful at college. But they sell them the hope of a college education and string them along for a year or two to get the max federal loans and when they inevitably flunk out, the school has our taxpayer money and the former students all the debt.

I've heard left-supporting people cry about how Bush and Congress "gave away" 700 Billion to auto, banks and housing through the TARP program so why not student loans? https://www.thebalance.com/tarp-bailout-program-3305895 "Why TARP Didn't Cost Taxpayers As of 2018, TARP didn't cost the taxpayers anything. Instead, the Treasury received $3 billion more than the $439.6 billion it disbursed. Of that, $376.4 billion was repaid by the banks, auto companies, and AIG. The U.S. Treasury made a profit of $66.2 billion from these companies because it bought shares of the companies when prices were low and sold them when prices were high. The Treasury made $5 billion on its TARP fund investment in AIG alone.8 The programs targeted to help homeowners allocated $37.4 billion. As of September 2018, they spent $27.9 billion. These funds were never meant to be repaid. The TARP program quickly turned around the banking industry. In May 2009, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said that the results of the banking system's "stress tests" were encouraging. The tests found that nine of the country's 19 largest banks did not need to raise additional capital, nor did they need to offset future write-downs of the toxic mortgage-backed securities. In fiscal year 2010, the banks paid back $110 billion and another $38 billion in FY 2011. TARP provided a surplus to the budget in those two years as banks paid back the bailout." Sadly many Dems (especially far left) will never understand the difference between giving away free money and alleviating financial burden/crisis but with accountability. They could have done so much with reducing/eliminating interest rates early in the loan then raising them every two years. Keeping the rate low for reliable payments, setting up a public service projects volunteer program that goes towards reducing ed. loan debt without having to be hired in to the sector. Empower people, you left wing idiots. Wait till DOE loan payments start again next year and the faux morons will start crying because they didn't realize interest continued to accrue during the moratorium.

That's awesome but I can't understand for the life of me why they brag about all this? Why not keep quiet and continue? Is the morale and bragging points worth the loss of deception or are they sure the Russians figured it out already?

He'll get his day in court, this was about how his situation impacts and distracts an entire organization. I also trust that the Bills took a hard, in depth look at the circumstances around that event in making the call to release him. FWIW, one of the SDSU current players allegedly involved in the gang rape has also been released from that team. You can claim more witch trials but it may also be SDSU's increased scrutiny of the situation precipitated it. Time to trial takes months or years. In high profile incidents that affect large organizations, they do their own scrutiny of the facts around the case and make their own judgment call. Possibly unfair yes, but they can't afford the PR nightmare of supporting questionable circumstances. I'm sure the Bills are confident Araiza's situation is not simply a money grab. The victim appears to have followed post-rape protocol within 24 hours so it's not like she just started bringing this up last month.

Well, the Bills have a real mess on their hands and they have hard decisions to make. Just the fact that Araiza was involved in this type of situation is a red flag. The Bills have to protect themselves and their reputation, they need answers of the evidence here. If the girl's rape test shows multiple DNA? The statuatory issue? If there isn't real clear problems with the victim's story then I won't want to support this franchise if they keep Araiza. I get your point about innocent until proven guilty, but this isn't a trial. This is a business decision based on a terrible situation with most of the worst facets involving Araiza. You can always go support the Browns. They stood up for your principles.

Certainly interest should be targeted, you can keep it very low or zero for the first year and raise it over time to encourage early principle payoffs. Penalize with higher rates for delinquent payers. A big part of this should be some required educational seminars that map out the costs should you go into default, and yearly discussion of your loan obligations relative to your future projected salary (based on expected degree). Default is so hard to get out of because they accelerate the interest that must be paid plus can tack on collection fees. Someone I know defaulted and had a $3500 collection fee added on to their loan costs, and the fee had to be paid off first before payments were applied to the original loan with interest building up the entire time. So you get back to making your loan payment, only to watch the loan amount increase each month. But yearly online update to make sure kids and family understand future monthly loan payment vs average salary for your major. The final item is that once you pay off your original loan plus interest amount and any fees, your loan should be forgiven.

For me, the fault lies almost totally with the Browns. They should have pulled him late mid season as the injuries were hampering his game too much. He couldn't throw to the right sideline unless he overrotated and his zip and accuracy were off. Living here in Cleveland, I've watched him play since day 1 and his passes were mostly uncharacteristic and a struggle last year.

There's even more with DeShaun being here now. Plenty of unhappy and conflicted fans.

Congrats on the opportunity! I don't remember knowing an Ethan, but I was at CWRU those years also. Just recently moved out of Willoughby after about 18 years to near Chagrin Falls and work in research out at Metro. I'm an outdoors guy, so feel free to PM me if any questions. The strength of that area up there is steelhead fishing the Grand, Chagrin, Conneaut and their tribs. Gorgeous shale cliff settings that are truly underappreciated and relatively unknown. Also have a pretty solid knowledge of Lake and Geauga County parks.

Honestly his footwork and body positioning are terrible, you wonder if working with Jordan Palmer could improve his game significantly. Meh, probably not.

Happy to see dishonest scientist thoroughly investigated. Any time an investigator insists on collecting or analyzing data alone is trouble. https://www.science.org/content/article/star-marine-ecologist-committed-misconduct-university-says "Several former members of Dixson’s lab supported the whistleblowers’ request for an investigation. One of them, former postdoc Zara Cowan, was the first to identify the many duplications in the data file for the now-retracted Science paper. Another, former Ph.D. student Paul Leingang, first brought accusations against Dixson to university officials in January 2020. He left the lab soon after and joined the broader group of whistleblowers. Leingang, who had been at Dixson’s lab since 2016, says he had become increasingly suspicious of her findings, in part because she usually collected her fluming data alone. In November 2019 he decided to secretly track some of Dixson’s activities. He supplied the investigation with detailed notes, chat conversations, and tweets by Dixson to show that she did not spend enough time on her fluming studies to collect the data she was jotting down in her lab notebooks."

This goes hand-in-hand with the stop-the-steal and Jan 6th. The courthouse filings were a joke, they were published but not by any right-wing news organization that I ever found. Can you own the fact that it was very wrong what Trump enabled to happen on Jan 6, and it was a shameful, disgraceful act for the nation? If it had been Antifa they would have been hunted down by right-wingers. As you seek to be dismissive, I'm just wondering if you truly look beyond the right wing lens or are a worthless hypocrite? Every American regardless of political beliefs should be ashamed of what went down that day, are you? I have no problem saying you are dead right about the laptop and the left media. And yes, it would have been much different if it had been Trump's son. It was also shameful and it would be great if legally they could be held accountable. How can we do that? That's why right and left media sources need to be considered, not just one side.

Are the they held to equal account on Fox and all the other right wing sources? Not in my opinion. Yet the right seems to feel "their" media sources speak the truth while the left sources are totally bereft and to be ignored. Total ignorance outside your echo chamber akin to the left wingers. You are both the same.