Metal Man

Haven't noticed if anyone has posted this recently, so here it is. http://the506.com/sports/?p=458 Great tool to use during the season to see what games will be televised by Fox and CBS in all the different markets in the country. The guy who runs it makes improvements on the site every year and in the 5 years since I have been using it I have never found his info to be wrong.

I have been to a lot of openers too, but I don't think I have ever left the stadium happier than I was after that 31-0 beat down of the Pats*. Sure in retrospect it didn't mean much seeing they returned the favor on the last game of the year, but listening to a few sections sing the goodbye song to the large groups of Pats* fans as they exited early is one of my fondest stadium memories.

This ^^^^ seems like the best advice. Also I don't understand why people complain about all the things we didn't address in the offseason. It is going to take more than one draft for Buddy and Chan to build their team so lets see how the OL and QBs look this season and at least give them another offseason before declaring anything a mistake.

I don't even see how this is debatable. Maybe it isn't the norm for most, but I thought you watch the games to root for your team to win. Plus since when does drafting top 10 guarantee you a franchise QB?

Cox is hard to forget about so he is way up there on the hate list. Bruschi tops this list for me though. That comeback game against the Bills was such a joke. His stats at the end of that game were nothing special but somehow he was still touted in all of the national media like he was some kind of super hero that single handily destroyed Buffalo. I can't stomach him on ESPN either. As soon as he begins speaking I have to immediately change the channel.

They should be allowed to take the name MTV since they actually have music programming on all the time.

I would much rather be in the position of the Bills where everyone thinks they will be the worst in the league than someone like the Jets that everyone is expecting a deep playoff run from. The sports media guys are almost always wrong which means Buffalo will be better than a lot of people think where as the Jets are almost certainly being set up to disappoint people.

Thanks for sharing the info. That is perfect.

I thought the best part of Goodell's plan was that they wanted to push the Superbowl back to President's Day weekend. For a lot of us that would mean a built in day off to celebrate the Superbowl correctly.

Has anyone found anything about a taped replay of the game being broadcast in the Syracuse area? Yes, I know about the NFL network replays but I am talking Time Warner so that doesn't apply.

Here you go. Time passed since 20000108

If only we could get Jim Brinson back.

+1 The changed ending to Jedi is terrible. Adding something I could have lived with but completely changing ruined the whole thing for me, even if the ewok song was kind of corny.

Anyone get someone from Time Warner on the phone yet? I'm trying to get through.

Anyone in the Syracuse or Liverpool area not seeing the game on 5? I have Time Warner without a digital box, the co-ax is just plugged directly to my TV. The channel that scrolls whats on is showing Bills game on WTVH 5, just like all posts on here have been saying all day, but I am seeing Jeopardy right now?!

Your mistake is assuming that Nix was thinking he could fix the Bills in one off-season. It is going to take more than one draft to clean up the previous regime's mess and get a winner assembled.

I thought Canada had some kind of weird law about drinking outside of a bar or residence that would make tailgating illegal whether they had the space or not?

One Microsoft point is equal to 1.25 cents. So 800 points is actually 10$. Not trying to nitpick you, just an FYI for you or anyone who reads this.

I don't understand why Jauron sucked so bad at that. If he would have just played a couple of games of Madden he would have instantly had a better understanding of the basics of it.

The Clayton quote posted above makes some good points. Despite that I still think the offense will be improved only because Gailey has shown he can get decent results out of very little. He should be able to find a way to make the couple bright spots we have productive while hiding the weaknesses and no matter what he has to be better than Jauron. However the defense will likely struggle, especially the first half of the season. It is hard to argue that all the players switching positions will be able to do so easily enough to really make a difference early on. So one step forward for the offense but two steps back for the defense means around 5-6 wins to me. That being said I guess I still agree with the OP because that probably is still better than most people think.

Got presale tix for the Buffalo show this morning. Can't wait, this show is going to be awesome.

Me and a friend of mine have been debating if whether a championship for the Buffalo Bills in a season played with all replacement players would truly count or not and I am curious to what the general consensus is. He is of the mind the a Lombardi in Buffalo's possession would be awesome regardless. I however think that to be world champions they would have to actually compete against the best in the world, and if Peyton Manning and the rest of the current perennial pro-bowlers are sitting out then that really wouldn't be the case. Obviously this is a purely hypothetical situation so don't bother debating how likely or unlikely it happening is.

I don't like being around smoking at all either, but it seems a little excessive to not allow people to smoke outside of the stadium anywhere at all.

That brings up a good point Lori. A lot of those guys back then were far from angels, but we only got an occasional local news story about possible shennanigans. I can't even imagine what kind of media insanity and league troubles could have spun out of control over Bruce and some of his alleged off-field activities assuming any of it somehow ended up on TMZ.