The Real Buffalo Joe

Exactly. Our whole future is built around Allen's potential. Why throw him to the wolves if we're in no hurry to start him and risk injury. I truly feel that EJ Manuel would have panned out if St. Doug didn't rush him.

As mentioned earlier, it gets you exposure for scouts. The more exposure for those guys the better.

The only problem I'd see with that (and this isn't my problem, so much as the owners), is if the stars aren't playing, they can't charge full price for game tickets like they do now and attendance would be even worse for preseason than it is now.

When I lived in Buffalo, I was an Indians fan because I was a huge Bisons fan. So I actually loved watching Spring Training games because by the 4th or 5th inning, it was mostly guys that would end up in Buffalo. And the first few preseason hockey games can be fun. There seem to be more fights because as long as they don't cause serious injury, there's no real consequences. But Football definitely sucks. The first game I enjoy, just because football is finally back, even if it means nothing. But by the 4th game its just kinda pointless.

Well next year there will be the new Alliance of American Football, and the year after that, we'll have the XFL, which could be good if they learned from their last mistake. Not NFL, but it'll get us through the offseason.

Log off TBD, and don't come back until you've watched both of these. @Canadian Bills Fan, please give him a two day ban for his own good.

When asked what their political views were. "We hate conservatives. But we REALLY !@#$ing hate liberals."

Not really a basketball fan. But I'm really big into Houston football, and huge into UH Baseball. Still upset that ya'll ruined our perfect 2015 season. Then beat us in the conference baseball championship last year.

I'd settle for that. I don't know how it would work, but I'd like to see something like MLB does with their interleague play. We have three crosstown rivals (for now) if we include the Bay Area. Four if we include Washington and Baltimore. But they only play each other once every four years. Cross state teams like Texans/Cowboys, Steelers/Eagles, Dolphins/Bucs. It'd be cool if they can make something like that work out.

I watched an interview with Gene, and he was asked what his favorite KISS song was. His reply was "Which one is my favorite, or which one do I like the best? Because my favorite is Rock and Roll All Nite. It's in movies, TV shows, and makes me the most money." Just read about Vinnie. He denies it, but also showed up at a convention in what mos would consider a woman's pantsuit, and blue eye shadow.

Jeff !@#$ing Tuel. Can't stand that guy.

I saw a Doors tribute at the bar Ace plays at, about a month after Robby Krieger played there. I've also seen a KISS Tribute shortly after Ace was there. I've read somewhere that Gene and Paul want the band to go on forever. And that when they retire, they'll have auditions for new guys to be "The Demon" and "Starchild." Then the two would just be "CEOs" of the KISS brand and collect money.

I don't think you'll get a full evaluation of them from practice or even scrimmages. Plus you know the teams aren't gonna give up the money they make from the preseason games.

A reunion, or a free ticket is the only thing that would get me to go. Ace brings his solo show to Houston about once a year. Tickets are expensive, but it's always at this relatively small bar in a shopping center.

That's really all I listen to. They write some catchy songs, just nothing groundbreaking, like The Beatles/Zeppelin/etc. Very good at what they did. I also should have stated that Ace is the outlier there. I love their stage show. I've never seen them live, but seen plenty of footage, and some impressive tribute bands that recreate it as best as they can. I go back and forth on whether or not I want to pay to see KISS now. Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer are better musicians than many people give them credit for. I just don't like that they're basically Ace and Peter impersonators. With their make-up, and even singing Beth. As someone who leans to the right on many issues, do you say the same thing when Ted Nugent, Toby Keith, etc. put political messages in their work?

Punt on first down.

My mother in law watches them all the time. I think its just the wholesomeness that's just not on TV anymore that draws people in. Despite the cheesiness and low budget of it all.

Just googled him. Forgot about the whole State University of New York Buffalo. I literally stopped rooting for them for a while because of that.

Too bad the cuts all happen at once this year, or I'd say pick up some Ravens castoff, ala the great Jordan Palmer. Who as @BringBackFergy can tell you, threw a mean spiral at practice.

Nah. But repeats are in syndication on Lifetime or Oxygen or one of those channels.

I've always thought three was a fair number. Swap having two home games one year, and one the next.

I remember distinctly going to the Stop and Gas in South Buffalo at the corner of Hopkins and Tifft when I was about seven. My dad asked if they still had his brand of cigarettes on a buy one, get one free sale. The guy went back and after a few minutes came back and said "I couldn't find any buy one get ones, but they have two for one. Do you want those?" My dad says fine, and when he goes back to get the cigarettes, just looks at me and says "Stay in school, Joe. Please."

What I've read is that his last few tours have been quite boring and unremarkable. I know this is a troll post, but literally their weakest album. Still great.

What is your guilty pleasure when it comes to music/movies/TV etc? I listen to KISS, unironically probably more than I should. I know they suck as musicians, and songwriters, and Gene Simmons is a terrible human being, and their stage show is childish. But there's something about them that I enjoy, and I can't even tell you why. Also, I can't deny that I've sat and watched a 4 hour marathon of Wife Swap. Watching some straight laced, uptight, straight Republican ticket voter, swap lives with a long haired, vegan, tree hugging hippie. They're usually all terrible people, and I can't help but watch.

This is part of my point though. A good team, such as the Bills of the early 90s, doesn't have any reason to keep their better players on the field than a bad team such as the 2017 Browns.