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The trophy case in the Bills' offices?

If only four of them are different, then we have two sets of identical Williams twins on the roster: http://www.buffalobills.com/team/roster.html

Ouch!

There's a lot we (or at least I) don't know about Antarctica: http://ufodigest.com/article/wiki-leaks-alleges-secret-war-ufos-antarctica Not that the rest of the story isn't weird enough, but Guadalajara? And we've apparently been using the wrong terminology for underwater UFOs:

Life's been unusually hectic, so I am less up to speed than usual on recent developments in the sale process. But here's some food for thought (even if nobody eats it): 1. Unless something has recently changed, this is very much a 2 step process. The eventual winning bidder has to make a first round bid high enough to survive the first cut, and then needs to beat out a few other survivors with his final second round bid. 2. If the second round is conducted like the first round, then Morgan Stanley can seek amendments or increases to second round bids before a winner is chosen. But what if second round bids are a 1 shot deal - - seems unlikely because that doesn't maximize sales price for the trust - - but what if? 3. In that scenario, optimal strategy would be to bid just high enough to survive the first round, which would mask your true intention to bid much higher in round 2. If I was a billionaire (or a multi-millionaire leader of a group), I would sure try to make Pegula underestimate how high he might have to go to beat my final bid. 4. I don't know how high Golisano could go, but I wonder if he purposely waited to see what the minimum required bid would be to get to round two. 5. If Morgan Stanley can conduct a true auction among second round bidders by repeatedly asking them for more until only one bidder is left standing, then there isn't much point in low-balling the first round bid. But if round 2 is a 1 shot deal, I put absolutely zero faith in the idea that somebody who barely survived the round 1 cut can't be the high bidder in round 2. Assuming Pegula has the deepest pockets (not stating that as a fact, just assuming), a lot could depend on how he evaluates what the other round 1 survivors are likely to bid. 6. I'm wary of the round 1 survivors who let it be known that they don't think they can bid high enough to win round 2, or seem glum about their prospects. That may just be intended to mask how high they will ultimately go (again, assuming round 2 is a 1 shot bid deal rather than an ongoing auction).

Listen up, Jaio! If you can't even tell if I'm a male or a female panda cub, maybe we need to put somebody with a d*ck in charge of the breeding program.

Ralph wanted to get tight ends that don't get injured several years ago - - maybe he should have meddled more: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7380965/buffalo-bills-ralph-wilson-says-team-open-renewing-toronto-series-games

Your hypothetical assumes that Ralph owned the Bills in his individual capacity. In fact, Ralph owned shares of the corporation that owns the Bills, and the corporation is the entity that signed the lease with the state/county. The corporation survives even when Ralph dies, so the corporation remains obligated to comply with the terms of the lease both before and after the guy who owned the corporation's shares dies. Apart from the fact that the corporation that owns the Bills is closely held rather than publicly traded with thousands of shareholders, the situation is similar to what would happen if Exxon's CEO had a heart attack and died. Exxon would still be obligated to comply with the terms of any contract that CEO signed, even after that CEO died.

I think most rookie LBs who aren't high draft picks have a tendency to over-pursue. Think about it - - you're new to the league, you've spent a few months with your nose in the playbook trying to figure out what's what, and all of a sudden you're chasing a hard-nosed speed merchant like Antoine Peterson. You know the guy is probably faster than you, so you run as hard as you can to beat him to the corner. Leaves you set up for the cutback. Until a rookie like Preston Brown realizes that nobody can rub his nose in it, and he really does have the talent and speed to get to the edge, he's gonna go flat out to avoid getting' embarrassed. A guy who nose he has the speed to avoid getting beat to the edge is less likely to over pursue, because he will be more under control as he heads toward the sideline. Makes change of direction easier if the RB cuts back.

There's nothing in the lease that prevents the team from being sold to someone who has even explicitly stated that he intends to eventually move the team, so long as the move under discussion would not take place until after the lease expires. If you read the AP article carefully, it is consistent with this view: We don't know what, if anything, the trust says about disqualifying bidders who have expressed an intent of moving the team in the future. And there are very logical arguments you can make about why the NFL would not want to have several years of uproar in Buffalo about a possible future move if the Bon Jovi Toronto group buys the team. But if the Toronto group is excluded from being the winning bidder, it won't be because of the lease (unless one of the rich Toronto guys or Bon Jovi stupidly states that he intends to move the team before, rather than after, the lease expires).

We should get Dareus to have the new medical procedure and switch to snuff - - at least it's legal in both NY and Alabama.

Bradham is certainly athletic, but is he instinctive enough? Once he figures out where to go, he snuffs things, but does he sniff them out quickly enough? I'm not convinced he has a nose for the ball, but maybe with more experience he'll get better.

Holocene Epoch (came after the Pleistocene Epoch, commonly known as the "Ice Age"): http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001822.html

Question is, did the players know the run defense was putrid so that they could work on the necessary skills and conditioning in the off-season, or were they unable to smell the putridity?

Thanks - - thought maybe I had missed something.

Hope you're right, 'cause it wrecks lives of entire families. I don't follow progress in this area closely, though. I was under the impression (just from memory, didn't do the google thing on it) that recent breakthroughs have generally involved finding markers for early stages of the disease, so that it will be easier to try various experimental treatments that might eventually slow the progress of the disease if it can be detected early enough. Are you aware of any breakthroughs in treatment that go beyond early detection (which is an important first step, but still leaves us a long way from slowing progression of the disease, much less curing or entirely preventing it)?

With the breakthrough described in the article, Spikes could even play "nose tackle" (if we ever switch things up and play a 3-4 in certain down and distance situations), and still be a great run defender. And do that despite being outweighed by the other team's center by a wide margin. Being more instinctive at sniffing out the run can make up for a lack of size. If Spikes underwent the new procedure, it would almost be like he had eyes in the back of his head. You could never surprise him.

OK, so our run defense has been pretty bad for several years now. And Kiko's hurt. So we need somebody else to sniff out running plays and shut 'em down. How are we gonna do that with the talent at hand? Preston Brown's a rookie - - so he's likely to over-pursue and leave cutback lanes. If Aaron Williams is taking Byrd's FS spot, he's gonna be preoccupied with the pass. True, we got several other Williams on the team - - but they ain't Kiko. Marcel Dareus - - well, don't get me started on Marcel's shortcomings. But we are in luck. Advances in stem cell research can now give our weaker players the opportunity to sniff out the run, even if some road-grading OL or smash mouth FB gets them completely turned around at the line of scrimmage. Don't believe me? Read this article - - this breakthrough could have made John DiGiorgio a star: http://www.popsci.com/article/science/woman-grows-nose-her-spine-after-stem-cell-experiment?src=related&con=outbrain&obref=obinsite

Glad they didn't name the band "Alian Invaders"

Maybe we should just send a fake message from Mary Wilson to Bon Jovi inviting him to Mary's house in Grosse Pointe to discuss terms of the sale, and have Jon Cusack meet him in her driveway when he arrives:

It's almost like the tax system creates distortions!

Well, at least the airline finally found my luggage.

Thanks - - figured it was a long shot.

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