Augie

The bold is the key. The first half of my working life I worked in a regular office/banking environment. It was fine….but it was “just a job”. The second half I followed a passion and was self-employed. I felt like the luckiest guy in the world and I loved almost every day (hey, nothing is perfect!). Life and 2008 happened, and we ended up moving to Atlanta for my wife’s work leaving my old life behind. I tried some things here, but nothing I loved and I retired in my mid-50’s. The people who had “just a job” like I had early would be jealous. The people who LOVE what they do would understand the sense of loss. It wasn’t until my wife started working at home due to Covid that I realized how much she LOVES what she does. I hear her all day long, and I’m happy for her. All this time I thought she was “working” and sacrificing for the family, but it truly makes her happy. Her job that she loves pays far, FAR more than my job that I loved. Case closed. I’m stuck in Atlanta for now, but one day when our son and grandkids move away, we’ll be able to follow them and nobody will be able to tell us we can’t. The wife is in wealth management. There are numerous studies and real life cases where people sell their business for huge sums, like $100 million or more. They think they “won” and hit the big time. It doesn’t take long before many of them wake up wondering why they sold their baby. What is the reason for getting up every day? You can only golf or travel so much. One guy went back out, bought an undervalued company and did it again……he sold a second business making another $100 million. Best of both worlds! Obviously long-winded here because it strikes a nerve. Maybe it’s not strictly unpopular, but I’d rather be happy than rich.

The dome is going downtown, with the stadium in OP. It was a compromise. 🤷‍♂️

That’s been it for years….the way I remember the place. Complete with snow fences separating the players from the fans. I seem to vaguely recall a softball event consisting of Bills players and beer was involved. That may have been my father, the Bills or both. My how times have changed! I have a lot of very fond memories from those early days. I’ve long since lost the programs and cards I collected, but the memories remain. It was a dump, but it was OUR dump and it was bigger than life to me! I went by a few years ago to see the gates still standing, and realized it wasn’t quite the Roman Colosseum I thought it was!

I was sure it was the left half, but I couldn’t decide if that was looking at you from the front or from behind.

They are retractable, silly. It’s 2022! That was a rare nap between workouts.

I remember being on the field for a concert in the ‘70’s or ‘80s and realizing that standing on one sideline you could see the other guys waist, but maybe not his knees. The pitch is HUGE!

That will not sell me that the rich professional athlete did not exert some form of coercion. We might never agree on this, so I won’t go down that wormhole. But yes, the NFL may have pulled a Jags here and tanked. At the very least it seems they played it smart and covered themselves. Highest profile case ever where they don’t want to be the face of it. Ray Rice was simple compared to this mess!

No threat or force, but I think it was ALL about the coercion. We’ll never know, so I won’t argue it. I posted to say you raise an interesting point: this was a very convenient way for the league to be absolved of any backlash. .

The Atlanta Braves new(ish) stadium has a section of the concourse with a little museum built into it. The concourse is just a little wider with a ramp and you can just bypass it if your not interested, or you can just use it as a wider path if you don’t want to stop and look. I’m not a Braves historian by any means, but something like that in a new Bills stadium is something I would definitely seek out at least once.

We certainly have not come far enough, and there is a lot more to do, but I’m pleased that we’ve come as far as we have. I think sports has been a part of that shift to some degree. People just want to see their team win, and can “overlook” silly things and get behind anybody who gets you to the promised land. I hate that I just typed that, but I think there’s a lot of truth in it.

Do you brag about how “efficient” you are in pick-up bars? “I’m your guy! I can save you so much time!” 😂 EDIT: I kid, but here’s another life %$#&ed up by addiction. She would not have been there if she had stayed sober, I have to believe. That part sucks. Still, I was 14 once, so…..

There is a pill for that, but he might rather cut it off than go thru with it!

Well, he’s 14, and she’s hot (no that that matters, because he’s 14) so it might be less than a minute total. 🤷‍♂️

Pretty soon it will be the Big 10, the SEC and then the Slippery Rocks and Lehigh's of the world. All in the name of money, of course!

There is ZERO question that the contract was a terrible precedent to set and a very Brownsie thing to do, even by their standards. Stick to messing up the Browns and leave the rest of the league out of it!

Those sharp little puppy teeth must hurt like the devil!!! 😱 My wife’s family was from rural SC and they burned a cross in her grandfather’s front yard. It didn’t help that they were Catholic, too. He scared them off with his shotgun, put out the fire and took the perfectly good wood to the barn. .

My wife’s Lebanese nieces have traveled the world for their Irish Dancing. I’m Irish, and I never knew there was such a thing. 🤷‍♂️ OK, I’ll try again…….the Fulton County Badminton Invitational? .

Irish Dancing? ….this could take a while….. .

I want to thank you for describing me as “elderly”. There are so many words that could make that feel worse…….and probably be far more accurate!

I suspect it just goes to show what a serious football fan she is. She can sit on a cheap metal bleacher seat and take in a game without too much discomfort. That has to be it…….otherwise…..well that would just be weird.

Nah, not with a fine citizen like Haslam In charge. He’s never do anything underhanded like that. Wait……what I meant was he’d never miss an opportunity to do something underhanded. N/M

He will need to make a MOUNTAIN of license plates to pay the IRS in full. He’s 55 now, and he won’t serve his entire 30 years. If he was sentenced to more than the prosecution was asking for, then thank you to the Judge on that one! Hopefully the additional pending charges will keep him locked up for the rest of his life. He never deserves to be free again.

Excuse me, do you need directions to the Unpopular Opinions thread? I kid! I kid!!! I don’t see Kim as being part of the celebrity culture. She’s no Kardashian! She didn’t seek attention, it just comes with her high profile. I don’t classify people based upon how well known they are, or how wealthy they are. A soul is a soul, and we all have families and loved ones. Kim is special to me because she played a large role in keeping the Bills in WNY. That matters to me. What matters more is that in assuming her current role, we all got to know her a little bit. She seems to be an incredibly likable person. My heart was broken for all the families and friends affected by the Tops shooting. Completely! But I knew nothing of them before that awful day. That takes NOTHING away from their importance, but Kim is different. Not better or worse, just different. I hope that came out the way I felt it in my mind.

A) I do not enjoy corned beef OR pastrami. B) If a Reuben is not greasy, is it still a Reuben?

I’d have a hard time finding Idaho.