CodeMonkey

Geez she is 16 and looks like she is 12 you pedophiles!

I agree with you. In my opinion TE is a OK backup. Now all we need is a starter.

I'd guess it is due to process of elimination. People probably figure that have seen TE and they have seen Fitz. Neither is a NFL starter, so they are hoping against hope that lightning will strike with Brohm.

I also thought TO behaved well while in Buffalo. I don't see anything wrong with calling out a starter who is playing like a big bag of ****. It should happen more often and maybe light a fire under some of these guys. DJ sure as !@#$ wasn't going to do it. I suspect that Chan, being old school, won't hesitate to call someone out either ... albeit privately.

He would have to be an idiot not to play to win and take chances. If he wins games this season he is a genius, if he loses it was to be expected because it is a rebuild year. He is in a win/win situation. Being the first game it is possible the fins will believe what they read about the Bills sucking and come in over confident. That plus being at the Ralph makes it a reasonable thing to hope for.

How about Howard? I also disagree that we have a lot of very good players. I think we have 1 terrific player (Howard), 2 good players (Dempsey and Donovan) and that's about it really. Outside of a couple good runs Altidore showed nothing (but he is young and has potential). There were zero goals from USA strikers which is a telling stat. If you want to see a team with a lot of very good players have a look down Argentina's roster The group the USA was in ended up being very weak. Both teams that managed to make it through lost in their first knockout round games. When it comes to world football, we have a LONG way to go. But the good news is that every year we continue to improve. And once the current 10 year olds grow up I think we will start to be able to challenge some of the better teams.

That has always been the one constant about Buffalo Bills football. It's about time! I can't believe it took 2 pages to see this from someone!

Easy. Listening to people talk about how we are going to make it to the playoffs before anyone has put a pad on just because of "positive hope" is just as lame as someone thinking we are going to go winless. There is no basis in fact for either of those 2 extremes ... at least not yet. It is very easy to get sick of either one. And in fact, based on the last ten years I'd also say that of the two, the negative person is closer to being the realist.

That actually is the key point to the whole situation.

Living in Rochester, I obviously disagree

And sadly, you probably never will.

At a party no. In a bar yes, once many years ago. And I live (and the bar was) in "white america".

PigBen was never arrested or charged with anything either. Yet King Roger did not let that whole silly innocent until proven guilty thing stop him then and he probably won't now either.

It's not complicated at all. Raise the price of tickets etc. such that the team can stay put without welfare. That way the people that enjoy the Bills (or whatever sports team) can fund them without burdening the rest of the state. The last thing we need is more freaking laws, just a little common sense and good old fashioned capitalism is all that is needed here. But common sense is probably too much to ask. Bottom line, there is absolutely no reason on Gods green earth that NYS should be giving welfare to Ralph Wilson. Period. I understand what you are saying and I know that it has become "the cost of doing business", but it sure as !@#$ should not be.

Going to see a Bills game is free? Not the last time I checked. The game would be on TV with or without government welfare to Ralph. That happens because of a huge TV contract that Ralph shares in. That is not a parallel at all. The Bills are a privately held corporation. It is my opinion that if any sports franchise (or corporation) cannot be self sufficient and requires government welfare to stay in business, they do not deserve to be in business.

Trust me, find a few drunken aholes and watch them stumble around trying to sing and dance. Funny as hell. If you are lucky they will puke or piss themselves. You will want to keep that song forever.

I agree with the general point you are trying to make. But using the fact that the NYS legislature is fiscally irresponsible for spending too much money as an argument for spending 3 million dollars frivolously on a sports team at the same time the state is laying off teachers smacks of something a Albany politician would say and makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Is the Ralph still standing?

That link is to the USGS site:

Earthquake baby! 5.5 even.

It's actually only $60 ($53 if you still go get breakfast somewhere) a week you are saving assuming you will still go out after the Bills game.

I actually want to keep the song. The few times that the Bills score you get to watch the inebriated uncoordinated overweight fans attempt to dance to that outdated ridiculous song. Classic.

As bad off as the NYS budget is, there are many many better places for that money. Not firing as many teachers comes to mind immediately. Would Albany use the money wisely? Doubtful, they would probably give each other raises with it.

Even if it was the full 3.8 mil NYS would receive (which it probably is not ... see my previous post), if you read the title of this thread, NYS just gave the Bills 3 million. So in one fell swoop the vast majority of that "massive windfall for NYS" is gone. And that is just one thing the government is paying for.

And he will get it ... until the first time he checks down or misses an open receiver. Then it will be time for the boo birds to sing.