ExWNYer

Naw...it's regular font.

"I'm gonna put this Vulcan nerve pinch on you and drop your sorry arse like a sack of potatoes!"

Thank you, Nanker.

mitchmurraydowntown started this thread and has the ability to close it at any time. He should do the right thing and close it. He can start a new one, if so desired. If nothing else, it's annoying to see a thread titled, 'Byrd Skipping mandatory mini-camp' well into training camp and a mere week from the first pre-season game.

"10 on 11 drill...we scored without a left guard! Woo-hoo!!"

Nicely done! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-g2i_AlqBA

"Biggest bills fan in the world." No, I am. "Lurk like crazy." Perfectly acceptable. "Never post anything." You have at least 11 times prior to this thread. "Base everything I know off this site." Scary. "Thank you." You're welcome. Maybe lucky post number 13 will be in the not too distant future...

Too much coffee tonight? What an asinine, broad brush picture you've painted for an entire group of people, all of whom play fantasy football for various reasons. Some for money, some for fun, some to have a diversion from their lousy team. I've been involved with it since 1987, before it was even popular...before fantasy magazines and websites littered the landscape. In all that time, I've never pulled for one of my teams or players over the Bills. Never. Ever. I rarely play anyone against the Bills and, when I do, it's somebody like Aaron Rodgers who's going to get his points no matter how much I cheer for or against him or because I have no other options to play at a certain position. I'm perfectly fine with getting no points against the Bills. In fact, I'd prefer it, that's why I try to avoid playing anyone against them. As far as gambling goes, all of my teams are in free Yahoo! leagues with nothing but bragging rights at stake except for one...that's the league my brother & I have had with some local friends since '87 and the money involved is basically enough to cover the cost of running the league and paying for the website. Knowing little about the game? There are plenty of non-fantasy players who fall into that category, as well. I love football and have been following it and the NFL long before I ever played fantasy football and probably long before you were crapping in your diapers. BTW, I've never understood the hatred for Brad Smith and am fine with him on the team. In fact, that's my preference. As Kelly said, up thread, Smith is experienced, brings versatility to the table, and the Bills are better with him. Maybe your next diatribe can be against XBox/PS3/Madden enthusiasts. Surely, none of them know as much about football as you either. Perhaps decaf in the future?

Zanzibree from Zanzibar?

I always enjoyed his work and he's a Buffalo guy. It's a shame that the Bills didn't step up to the plate and get him in a similar role. Vic being with Cleveland just seems wrong. It's like your wife leaving you for your brother...which is only acceptable if you can't stand your wife...or your brother.

Whoa, whoa whoa. It's Chaste Rosegarden. C'mon guys...I expected much better from veteran posters such as yourselves. Sheesh.

Now you've done it, flappy. The "cut Brad Smith" crowd will be at OBD with blood in their eyes, wielding torches and pitchforks.

Ha! I knew I could count on you to clarify. Thanks, Bob. That made my head hurt! :lol:

Not as often as I could and more often than I should. Interesting. I think I tend to post more in the off-season and "check"/read/lurk more during the season for some reason. Some of that may have to do with the fact that I'm involved in several fantasy football leagues and my younger son plays football so I'm at his practices M-F in August, then a couple times a week once the season starts plus games on Saturdays. Also, I need time to "decompress" after a Bills loss. Often times there's just too much vitriol on the board after a loss and it does nothing to help my mood. Although their thirteen years of futility has left me numb and emotionless following a loss, I just don't feel like talking Bills for a while. I just want to forget about them, if only for a while. I get that being here can be therapeutic for some and that's cool, too.

Ahhhhh. Although factually incorrect, I appreciate your attempt to clarify the OP's thought process, oh complement-to-peanut butterHead. Perhaps he does believe that Kolb was a 4th Round draft pick. Or maybe he thought the Bills traded Kolb's #4 jersey? Or maybe he thought they actually just traded Kolb himself on the eve of training camp and shouldn't have? The world may never know...

"The Bills should have never traded #4 Kolb" Ummmmm...WTF does this mean???

Dennis' Shaw-shank Redemption Jim Braxton Hicks Contractions If Nordberg Did It Darryl's Tall(e)y-Ho Kelly's Heroes The Skin Fluties Brady's Beotches You'll Wreck-It Ralph Marrone's Minions

If there's any justice, the other would be the Cowboys. Hey, Jerruh...if it's so damn important to you, move your own friggin' team and stop treating the rest of the smaller market teams like they're your personal beotches, existing only to maximize YOUR profit.

Says the guy using the socially unacceptable "retard" and sporting a 'Sucky Charms' avatar. Brilliant.

But there is one Johnson on this team. Cue the Stevie haters in five...four...three...two...

Way to paint everyone with a broad brush. What a stupid comment. I'm a white male who's lived in the suburbs his whole life and will be 50 later this year. I have absolutely no problem with Stevie Johnson. In fact, he's one of my favorite players currently on the team. Has he made some choices that can be viewed as immature? Sure. But I don't view anything that he's ever done as overly egregious either. He has the right to express himself like anyone else, famous or not...from his clothing to his choice in music to his choice to "ink" himself. Live and let live, I say. This isn't hurting the team and anyone who thinks that it is is making a mountain out of a mole hill. It's a complete non-issue, IMO. He loves Buffalo, has never thrown a team mate under the bus, and re-signed when he easily could have walked. He hasn't killed, raped, or robbed anyone to my knowledge. This is much ado about nothing...another space-filling, off season TBD thread to pass the time until training camp starts. Gawwwwwwd, Sunday cannot get here fast enough... This. People love singling him out but there are plenty of culprits who have scuttled this team over the last 13 years including Fred "Fumbles" Jackson and C.J. Spiller, both of whom have coughed it up at the goal line in crucial situations. That's football, it happens. Ask Cowboy fans about Jackie Smith or Raven fans about Lee Evans. Two instances where the stakes were way higher than any drop Stevie ever had. Like most Bills fans, I was pissed about the drop against the Steelers at the time but, in the grand scheme of things, a catch would've done nothing but given the Bills a worse draft position. I was pissed like I am anytime any Bills player makes a mistake in a game and there have been plenty to go around. Like him or not, Stevie Johnson is not what's wrong with this team, plain and simple.

Like you, I'm a diehard Sabres fan. The Sabres have always been immensely popular in WNY but it's still a football town first and foremost. The reason for the disproportionate number of people wearing Sabres gear versus Bills gear, IMO, is due mainly to the fact that the Sabres have actually been good at various times during the last 13 years whereas the Bills have not. The Sabres have been a chic choice for a lot of casual Buffalo sports fans. The Bills, on the other hand, have done everything in their power to erode an entire generation of potential fans.

And without a link, I can't verify that you actually coached on Tuesday either.

Last time I checked, the Canadian and Arena football leagues were still hiring...

'Idiot Kicker' was actually the working title of the movie but, after Peyton Manning backed out, Hoffman insisted that they change the title to 'Footsie'. Thanks for the thread, OP...can't wait for football season. GO BILLS!!!