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Well, well well. It certainly seems claims that the 49'ers knew what the Bills were doing are absolutely true.

His resume? If this continues, he will add to his "resume" by being the defensive coordinator on two 0-16 teams, and there will have only been three. Bountygate....By far the most obnoxious, blowhard individual to ever appear on "Hard Knocks," and a history of coaching cheap shot defenses that seem to delight in injuring people. Some resume.

Keep giving the ball to Frank Gore on second down with no motion or misdirection plays. That will save both their careers. At this stage of his career, the worst Gore since Al.

Generally, cell phone reception doesn't work in flight. GPS obviously does, but not by cell phone. Inside information: Emirates Airline flight attendants used to be known for this, in the early days.

Two Bills related injuries. First was when I was in Buffalo. Near the end of Oct., and my mother told me I had to get the "storm windows" cleaned on that Sunday so they could be installed the next day. Tried to do it at halftime of the normal Van Miller radio call of a home game. Rushing, I accidently put my knee through the bottom panel of one of them. Bleeding like crazy, spent the second half in the Mercy Hospital emergency room getting a few stitches. Fast forward many years. Super Bowl 28 against the Cowboys. Sitting on my couch, Nate Odoms gets the pick. I slam my right hand against the couch, screaming "go" during his return. There was a price of wood trim on the couch that I hit. Hurt, but didn't think it was that much. Next night, I'm playing basketball with a bunch of church friends. Came off a screen and took the pass for the guaranteed jumper bucket in that same right hand. Felt like an electrical charge went through my hand. Serious pain. Got it X-rayed the next day and I had fractured a bone in the right hand cheering Nate on. Thankfully, nothing since.

As a fan since the 60's, there are two things that are diminishing this league. One is the increasing incidence of injuries effecting teams. I'm not going to judge that, but it has an ever increasing effect on teams. The other is the bizarre increase in judgement calls that are game changing, and would never have been called in years past. Way more ref influence in games. Too much, and not consistent. Today's Bills game was horribly officiated.

How about a really simple concept. There are two ways that a ball carrier or escaping quarterback can go. One is called "inside," and the other is called "outside." This Bills' defense gives up the outside nearly every single play. Every inside move is bit on. Countless plays today, including the hail mary were made by the Cardinals getting outside. We are simply incapable on setting the edge or in any way defending the outside, and the inside isn't that great either.

His name is actually H. Preston Ridelhuber. A look at me post, but personal experience. The week the Bills played the Pats that year, for some reason that I can't recall, they needed a place to practice for the week. It was a well kept secret, but for some reason they chose Houghton Park. Not my neighborhood, but within a long walk. We heard a rumor about it, and went there, and sure enough they sowed up with big trucks and eventually players. There was about four of us and Eddie Abramoski asked us if we would file field goat attempts and get the balls back. Of course we said we would. We showed up every day and got promoted to passing out tape and other consumables before practice, and I got to be the guy who spotted the ball for the offense before every play. Ridelhuber was the only player we didn't recognize. Anyway, it says on Wiki that the play was drawn in the dirt on gameday, but I can tell you they practiced it at least three times. They "paid" us with standing room tickets for the Pats game, and we saw the play and the touchdown. For what its worth.

I would love it if we have a home playoff game and somebody does that drawing with appropriate (large) scale for stadium exposure. Always proud to be a Bills fan, and proud that my kids, who were born in San Francisco during the 49ers run, are as well.

And almost completely dark for three months of the year.

Good spot. He's now on my double ignore list.

On a serious note, my career involved foreign travel for twenty five years, evenly spent between Europe and South/Central America. I've thought of this option often, and taken my wife along a few times for credibility. I am quoting this post because I spent a lot of time in Paraguay, to include starting a business there, which exported to the US, but that's a different subject. Knowing what I know, and knowing people that I know who have done this, there are two places I would consider other than Europe, which is quite expensive. Medellin Colombia would be tied with Uruguay, within striking distance of Montevideo, for the first choice.

I don't eat any of that stuff, so my single contribution is to thank the gods that nobody mentioned Pringles. The single worst product designed for human consumption that was ever invented.

Forecast calls for significant wind on Sunday. If forecast hold, it will definitely impact the game.

This is my favorite thread ever.

This game is literally gum on the shoe. Can't wait for it to be over.

Goodness that was ugly. Theisman's as well. glad I never saw that one. Another horrible one was the recently deceased Gale Sayers, the injury that ended his career. The story was that when they got him to the sideline and some teamates saw the injury, a number of them vomited.

Kind of an odd encounter, but I saw some from the hangar deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier. We were heading towards Guam to operate in those waters. Ship had a day off prior to spooling up operations. We were over the Mariana Trench, and the ship's captain authorized a swim for any fifty sailors that wanted to, I guess for bragging purposes that they had swam in the deepest part of the Pacific. They set up a rope ladder from one of the elevators on the hangar deck, and about thirty or so guys went down and in the the water. Evidently, someone had been throwing trash off an aft sponson on the ship, and somebody reported sharks. Captain gets on the ships internal com and yells not tp throw anything off. Sharks had moved closer to the swimming sailors. Fortunately, they had a few Marines from the Marine security force that all carriers have aboard and they had their weapons and kept the sharks at bay while the frightened sailors scurried up the rope ladder. We watched the thing from from the hangar deck. Only time I ever saw any swimming from an aircraft carrier.

I do a charter to the Gulfstream with my boys every other year or so. Yellowfin is the preferred target. Would love to catch a wahoo, but it's a completely different tackle setup because of their teeth. I do a fair amount of fly fishing in the Blue Ridge streams every year, and it is a lot of work. Trees, wind....Just lots of things that make it challenging. Sure enjoy bagging those trout though.

Cheer up. SAR 1 claims you're 4-0.

That would make him really old. The mound was at 50'. Changed in 1893. After Gibsons 1.12 ERA in '68, it was changed from 15" high to 10".

1968. 1.12 ERA resulting in mound change. 13 shutouts. When you are so good that they change the field dimensions because of you, you are noteworthy.

I think he's one of those classic inferiority complex guys who tries to over compensate by trying to be a tough guy. I could not stand him when he was a Bill, but the nail in the coffin for me occurred when the Bills beat the Redskins in DC in 2007. Some will recall. It was the week after Sean Taylor was killed. The Bills beat the then Redskins on an end of game field goal. I was at that game. Near the end, when Trent Edwards hit Josh Reed for a first down against Gregg's defense, I started watching him. When Lindell hit the game winner, he took his headset off and walked with undeniable "look at me" drama away from the 'Skin bench. He stopped alone, about 20 yards away from anybody on the team with clear look of disgust on his face. During stints with the Rams and Browns, where his preseason "work" was put on display, I became truly disgusted. Biggest ass in the league.

Favorite story about Gibson: His catcher, Tim McCarver goes to the mound to talk to him. Gibson told him to go back to the plate but said: "The only thing you know about pitching is that you can't hit it."

Agree or not, MLB would take care of this.