CodeMonkey

Cancel culture what it is in the US these days, the claims might not even need to be true.

The Giants and Jets did the right thing and got their stadium without government funding I believe. Blackmail does seem to run rampant in the NFL, I agree. And politicians in fear for their jobs don't want to be blamed for teams relocating out of a city so in many cases it works.

I have never tried to sell a Bills ticket. But the stadium sure looked full during the "fair weather" games. Even in the Kelly/Thurman years the winter weather games were a bit of a hard sell. Didn't look like "nobody wanted to go" to me from my couch watching on my HD TV (technology I'm sure did have a impact on ticket sales).

A GoFundme page for a new Bills stadium is a good idea though. Allow the hardworking people that want to, contribute to the billionaires stadium that the millionaires play 8 regular season games in a year. I wonder how embarrassed the Pegulas would be to have a GoFundMe page setup for them. This fact seems to elude far too many people. They all should be funded that way IMO.

He might be trying to pay for his Bills habit that way. I used to do the same with the Sabres, you know, waaaaaay back when they looked like a NHL team. Living 1+ hours from the stadium I'd sell a lot of weekday games and go with friends or my kids on weekends and the occasional weekday game. I'd always sell for more than my cost, particularly habs and leafs games. Selling those games paid for the games I went to. Granted with only 8 home games, its much harder to do that for the NFL.

Nonsensical leap there. I want the NFL and the billionaire owners to pay for their stadiums. If they feel the need, stick it to fans with PSL's. But what I don't want is people who could not care less about a team, Bills or otherwise, to pay for a billionaires stadium that multimillionaires play 8 games a year in.

Absolutely not. NFL betting is a small fraction of bets. Particularly when you look at a year, not just NFL playoffs and superbowl time. The NFL, it's teams, and it's fans should fund stadiums, full stop. The NFL and teams in particular certainly can afford it. I keep hearing this nonsense. 8 days a year in general you are talking about. Maybe a few concerts if it was domed. "fuels the economy", for gods sake.

So in your opinion, soccer ticket prices are too high and it is over commercialized to the point you have reduced interest in the game. But those things are not true for tackle football???

There won't be many. And for those that do, there will be others to buy them up. Particularly seats like yours. The team playing well after a long suck period, and the border open. Bills fans in general will pay whatever is asked. Look at how many kept paying even during the decade of suck to "support their team". It pisses a lot of people off that the state will throw money at it, myself included. It should all be paid for by the team, the NFL, and the fans that go to the games.

Political opinions aside, that is really at the heart of the matter IMO. A 4 hour TV broadcast for about 20 minutes of actual action. Even with my solution of no commercials and skipping halftime, I still have all the dead time between plays, clock stoppages and so on which brings my time per game up to 90 - 120 minutes.

I watch only the Bills, conference championships and the superbowl. And even the Bills games I record and have my system automatically skip commercials on playback to reduce the time spent watching significantly. I have been steadily losing interest in the NFL for years. I think a combination of having a family and therefore better things to do, and the over commercialization and over saturation of the NFL. Sunday, sunday monday and thursday nights, really? Maybe I'm actually finally growing up <gasp>

That ended up being my favorite.

Syracuse entity doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds them. But could the Bills look attractive to some top but aging talent looking for a ring ... perhaps.

Look at Vic suddenly with his finger on the pulse of the entire NFL. Or ball washing his golden goose, you make the call Either way, only time will tell. Josh is likely happy, so there's that! McCoach is a defensive guy who makes questionable in game decisions so Dorsey will need to be able to stand on his own two feet.

This, I would like to see Stafford get one after wallowing in Detroit for so many years.

Yeah that could be I suppose. But at the same time you would think better defenses as well (sundays game notwithstanding )

I wonder why the percentages of playoff teams who win the coin toss winning the game are so different than regular season (19.4% opening drive, 52.7% win). Maybe just as simple as a significantly smaller sample size? If it truly was 89% overall with the entire sample size I would have expected teams and fans would have been up in arms already. For me 89% is a epic fail and would require a change to the rule. But a small sample size producing that result wouldn't lead me to a rule change.

Agreed, Bills win the toss and the game in the same way and this thread does not exist.

The team that gets the first possession and wins outright like last night happens 19.4% of the time. The team that gets the first possession wins overall 52.6% of the time. Not allowing the other team a possession when a FG was scored was broken as kicking 50+ yard FGs has become almost commonplace, particularly indoors. Yeah it stings that the Bills D sucked so bad last night, but it is meant to be sudden death, not lingering death. It ain't broke IMO, so don't "fix" it.

Need running back(s) for sure. Running Allen as much as they need to now is going to bite them in the ass down the road.

I've heard this from local talking heads as well but I disagree. The choices as I see them were: 1) Squib or kick it high and short to force a return in theory to burn some clock. The problem with this is you put the ball in the hands of Hill with some open field in front of him. Hill is the fastest and shiftiest player in the NFL and had been giving the Bills a thorough screwing all game. Not a great option IMO. 2) Kick away and make Mahomes go 75 yards in just over a minute and 3 timeouts. The way the Bills D played all game also not a wonderful option, but not difficult to believe your #1 rated defense in several categories could pull their heads out of their butts for a few seconds of game time and close out the game. I have said for some time I don't believe McCoach makes good in game decisions. Too much with his heart and not enough with his head. But I don't have any problem with that decision at all.

Nice to see a positive thread tonight. A nice change from "fire everyone". The Rochester talking heads after the game were calling it the best game in playoff history. I disagree. Neither defense played worth a crap and should be incredibly embarrassed. Craziest last few minutes, absolutely.

Yup, post game tailgate. Of course you'll need to make sure everything doesn't freeze during the game

And couches more comfortable.

That's for sure.