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I don't know what pretense has to do with enjoying great food, but whatever. Maybe you are referring to Salvatore's Italian garden, perhaps? ...also Newton's Laws of Motion don't work near massive entities, and there is no "force of gravity" or "centrifugal force", much to our dismay. Summing up: Everything we know is wrong.

Buffalo: An easy day trip to the Bergen Swamp and the Holland Bog, two small yet wonderful natural wonders that I surely hope have not been paved over to make a parking lot for a Circle-K. Ditto Letchworth and the Genesee County Museum.

It's supremely easy to find bad and mediocre restaurants in The City, San Fran (especially for tourists) or any other place, including Buffalo and Ft. Erie. However, if you're savvy, and especially if you have connections, you can get the best meals on Earth on a given night in The City and San Francisco. That's a real stretch of a case to make for places like Buffalo or Ft. Erie. Maybe someone like Thomas Keller might possibly decide to open a French Laundry annex in Buffalo. I don't know for a fact that he won't. Personally, I have never eaten any Chung King, but I do use hyperbole when debating a point. I resort to use of hyperbole because I'm not phenomenally intelligent, as previously remarked.

Frankly, I'm looking at the Cassel deal thinking that the Chiefs kind of took it in the shorts. I agree that, and it would be stupid to deny that Matt made out just great. He got franchise tag $, which theoretically means that someone thought he's somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd best QB in the League. It also makes me wonder about a Patriots-Scioli-Chiefs triangle.

The first time I took my kid (a native AZ) to visit Buffalo, I took him for a walk through a field where I used to play as a kid. It was late summer, and the weeds were taller than his eyes. He freaked out being surrounded by all that vegetation.

Wait. Play out the two scenarios: 1. The Patriots do not franchise Cassel, because they are confident that Brady is OK to go (which turns out true). So Matt goes UFA. How high does the bidding go for Cassel? 2. The Patriots franchise Cassel (they're really going to pay two QBs $15 million each?), then trade him to team X, who must negotiate a new contract. At the time of the trade to the Chiefs, no contract had been agreed upon. The contract came about two days ago. Not to mention the 34th draft pick that went to the Patriots. Which way get's Cassel a better contract, or doesn't it make any difference?

Right, he had two years remaining on his contract. So, Peters and Gene did exceeded franchise tag $ by malingering his way out of finishing his contract. Bad precedent. Makes you wonder about "tying up" players with long term contracts. Hypothetically for instance, what about Lee Evans? Now Owens is here, so Evans puts up some crazy numbers and makes headlines throughout the League. Let's even throw in a little tampering by some other team under the table. I'm not saying Evans is that kind of person, and I don't know anything about his agent, but...

Maybe Nate Clements in 2004: 6 INTs (one returned for TD), a punt return TD, 5 forced fumbles, 59 tackles and 14 passes deflected. Pro- Bowl.

Knowing first hand that the Chinese restaurants in The City have "chef wars" comparable to bidding for free agents in the NFL, I personally just can't see Ft. Erie measuring up to NYC/San Fran as a magnet for great chefs. Certainly, tastes in food/eating differ tremendously between individuals, so it's not a matter of right /wrong.

1. What's the basis of Thug Mode's appeal? 2. How would you like to be the Vikings sweating out the rulings regarding Pat and Kevin Williams on the funny skittles charges?

The Cardinals tagged Karlos Dansby for the 2nd straight year. That means they pay him the average of last year's 5 top players at the position. For Dansby at DE, it's $9.7 million. Dansby's salary Did the Eagles give Peters average top 5 money, or more or less? The reason is, if players/agents can beat franchise tag money, this obnoxious holdout/malingering strategy (years ahead of the expiration of the current contract) will become commonplace. Not that the contracts mean much anyway. Belichick really helped out Matt Cassel. The Chiefs paid him $15 million. If the Patriots hadn't franchised him, would any team have paid $15 million for Cassel as a free agent? The Patriots tag gave Cassel lots of bargaining chips. It was kind of ballsy, since if no one wanted to pick up Cassel for that money, the Patriots would have had $30 million tied up in two QBs, and zero cap space. You have to wonder about Pioli's role in this.

Bryce made the Pro Bowl in '94 as a Packer, then came to the Bills in '95 and made 1st team All Pro (a much higher honor).

Yeah, he had a big year, but kind of died on the vine. He had a pseudo-breakout year: broke out - then broke down.

Price had a year that got him a big contract, but he didn't become the talk of the League by any means. The Fat Eagle must of sort of broke out to go from UDFA to Pro Bowl, but it wasn't very dramatic, somehow.

Who was the last Bill to have Andre Johnson-esque BREAKOUT year?

Did you really steal the avatar?

I mean the Texans Andre Johnson had a BREAKOUT year, and the Steelers James Harrison, too ...but I don't think the Bills had anything at all like that.

The Lakeview Smorgasbord. The ultimate battle between the extreme hangover and the lust for food. smorgasbord 1978

Fred Jackson and maybe Bryan Scott is all I can think of that even come anywhere close. Stroud came out from the Jaguars doghouse, but that's not really in the "breakout" category. Did I miss someone?

Well Flbillsfan#1, you can be the one to hold up that sign in public:

Trust me I've lived in The City for many years, know the GOOD Chinese restaurants in NYC, San Fran, Monterrey Park in LA, etc. I'm glad you like Ft. Erie. Maybe try Barry, Ontario for something even better.

Too bad Caesar Chavez is dead...

Actually, the Bills are going to convert Maybin to a LT.

6. Doctors thaw the liquid nitrogen frozen carcass of Ralph Wilson, and he re-fires Bill Polian, busts Bernie Madoff out of jail to become the Bills Cheap Opportunity Officer, and schedules two Bills home games for Ashtabula Ohio and one in Erie, PA. Buffalonians rejoice knowing they can buy ersatz fireworks after the games. the thawing proccess revealed

Yeah, but I said GOOD Chinese food...Ft. Erie Chinese is a small notch above Chung King crap in a can...trust me. Whenever I wanted good steak and kidney pie, I drove over to the Oban Inn in Ontario of the Lake.