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You said it yourself, savers get punished. It costs more to have a modest savings account open than you receive in interest. Have you gone to the grocery store lately? Real wages are down over the past decade. The stock market is down over the past decade. Housing is down, yet Potato Chips cost $8 a pound and unless you go out to the Taco bell 99 cent menu, you get punished. I think you may not respect the idea of hyperinflation which will hit when bailouts reach critical mass and people denounce all currency. They have been doing it fairly orderly now for 3 years, but as you see, the US is on the hook for the rest of the world. If you peg the dollar to gold, there is inflation creeping towards 20% since this mess started. I think that is a fairly conservative estimate to use going forward. Celebrating the modest rise you have seen so far given the macro situation is like Terry Schiavo's doctor celebrating keeping her alive. It's all artificial, and if you can tell me how to make $15 trillion in debt disappear without going into a depression or letting real goods rise at this point....I want you in Washington.

Wow...the message and images from a Penn St grad nonetheless. He's a talented guy. This is hardly a distraction for him. He could plunk that down on the keys in the time it takes to make a ham sammich.

Any minute Darcy Regier will be here clammoring for a suspension.

Nelson called for the challenge and begged Gailey to throw the flag after seeing the replay on the jumbotron. Chan trusted his guy. If it was McKelvin telling him to do it, he probably wouldn't have.

Thank You I was at the game as well. I did NOT want to support this venture at all and this was my first year going up there. I was very happy with the experience and I think the local people understand the paranoia involved on the part of Buffalonians....but I talked with about 15 different groups of people and there was a great mix of types of fans and levels of football experience, but the one thing in common was EVERY person there had a positive attitude about being at that game and were going to make the best of it. The stadium was pretty much full. Outside....sure, it wasn't like the Ralph, but at the parking lot I was in there were groups tailgating and throwing footballs around. The parking guys were getting a kick of the groups that were doing it up. The way I look at it, instead of grumbling about how sterile the place is....I took it as an opportunity to be an ambassador as both a Buffalonian, and a football fan. No question is stupid, and have a good time while meeting new people. I would say the atmosphere was more charged in the stadium than any home Sabres game this year. People were making noise on 3rd down....maybe only 40% of them, but there were plenty of educated and loyal fans in there to make a go of it. I had no problem yelling, and then singing the Shout song after scores. Even if many around me didn't join in, again, they got a kick out of it. It would be like me going to a Manchester United game. I wouldn't know the chants, but I would enjoy being in the atmosphere, know enough about the sport, and appreciate the experience. The Bills themselves treated this as an away game in a hostile environment.....at least until they started to take control. George Wilson set the tone with his comments early in the week, and the guys were in a foul mood in warmups. Only a few would even acknowledge the fans as they went back in the tunnel, and none of them came out for individual introductions. I understand where they were coming from....but maybe next year they will warm up to the idea a little more themselves and understand if they keep playing with passion, they will continue to gain some traction up there. I would absolutely go again next year......no way would I pay face value, but there were plenty of 50% offers out there, and I was shocked that I could scalp an extra ticket for what I had paid for it....and this was to a scalper by chance standing in a hotel bathroom line. I can understand the resentment of losing a home date, but the Canadians were very cordial, understand our concerns, and gave it a good go in my opinion. I don't embrace the series, but I don't look at it as a boogeyman anymore either.

Where are the f'n clydesdales?.......I WANT CLYDESDALES!!!!!

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I'm having Covington flashbacks

I hope they bring back the Whammy Weenie. They can update it with a Fitz beard this time.

cocaine is a helluva drug................

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. .......Google it!

It's is simple as this.... Risk/Reward Is it worth giving up a 3rd round pick to make sure you have a starting WR the next 3 games against solid but very beatable rivals where just going 2-1 against them puts you in a 70% position to host a home playoff game with a possible additional $12 million in revenue? Sure, he will need to get up to speed, but the learning curve for this team has fast forwarded 18 months over the past 5 weeks. It's an insurance move with upside like this that good teams make....even if there is a risk of it not helping. David Nelson needs to be in the slot, and even though Roosevelt is a gamer, he can't be a difference maker. Jones is a ? coming of the high sprain and with the amount of flowing running plays horizontal at the line this team has been using, it's only a matter of time before Freddy or Spiller get an awkward twist of their legs that keeps them out for more than a few plays. A move like this will more than likely BOOST morale as it signals they are taking a shot this year.

If Jay Cutler financed a gambling operation and killed dozens of innocent animals by drowning, electrocution, etc.......even though he was a high pick, a successful NFL quarterback with plenty of previous fanfare....there would be nowhere near the level of support given to him by the media, league, et. al. They would have run him out of the league and it would be open season on him. This comes after clandestine sexual encounters while knowingly infected, trying to bring drugs through airport security....it's not like the guy was a choirboy to begin with. It's all about the $$$$....and Boomer's along for the ride.

I don't get the people bashing the defense. Any longtime football watcher can feel the living pulse and momentum of a game. Other than early in the New England game, the Bills have never had me running scared on that front. Even the Oakland game they had some good coverage and Oakland just made plays. Cincy they let up a little but the team really did get jobbed on all those calls. Last year you felt teams would go through at will. This year, you guys are correct...it is actual gameplanning that has shaped most of the defensive flow. The biggest problem so far has been the injuries. The ENTIRE front line is dinged right now in one form or another. The bye is coming at a great time since most of them will refresh having 14 days between games. It's just a well-coached, hard working team.