GottaRun
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I deleted the email, but the Bills sent an email today saying there will be a practice at New Era on June 15th*
Great chance for people to bring their kids to the stadium and check things out. I like the idea of bringing a practice (maybe a few of them) back to Buffalo.*If someone else could post the email that would be great
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Something that gives me brutal food poisoning, so I'm begging them to kill me the next day.
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Starts with one - quickly turns into a number 2
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Individuals go on sale for season ticket holders tomorrow- at least for me. I am a 10 year holder and can buy at 9 AM tomorrow, May 2nd. Is this the first opportunity or are some of you with greater seniority able to buy earlier? What about folks with less? Do you have the same window? Just curious.
14 years - same time as you
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That is 7 seasons. How many years was Whaley GM?
I mean, personally, I'm in favor of letting McWrestler bring in his man. Out with the divided roles and evaded responsibility. Let McWrestler have plenty of rope and succeed or fall having been given all that he wants.
But c'mon folks, if the man has 4 years as GM, give him 4 years, and his record has to sum to 64 games (16 x 4) this isn't Hidden Figures Rocket Science. And even there, you pretty much have to give the guy his first year as belonging to his predecessor.
I like giving him the reigns too. There's an idea that he hasn't proven himself enough to rule the land - but are guys who are proven available to teams like Buffalo? I don't know enough to know, but my gut tells me proven winners aren't coming here. We need to take a flyer on someone.
Random thought here - I wonder what a guy like Tim Lieweke could do with an NFL franchise like the Bills? Tim seems to right bad clubs then leave them just before they shine.
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I'm fine in huge crowds - 60,000 people = no problem. Put me in a room with 12 people and I'm doomed..
No, I do not.
I know you're all shocked by this news. Try to get over it.
Are you invited to parties?
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Great article - thanks for posting it
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I had two single seats to the Hamilton, Ont show last year. The venue ended up letting me swap them the day before the show for 2 seats together on the floor by the sound booth. The setup for the show is a big deal and they don't know how many extra seats they can squeeze in by the booth until the last minute.
Also, there were better seats going on sale the week and 2 - 3 weeks after the show went on sale on Ticketmaster than there were the day the seats went on sale. So if you're into tickets for this show keep checking. -
My plan is:
1. Google whoever we draft after we draft them
2. Post my well researched opinion
3. Get told I'm an idiot
4. Enjoy the summer
5. See if last years draft picks can actually play this September
6. Get pumped up, convince myself we are headed to the Superbowl
7. Drink away my sorrows
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Maybe the NFL thinks Brady will retire after this season and they want him to bow out with the AFC East, last 2 at home.
NE schedule
Nov 26 home to the Dolphins
Dec 3 at the Bills
Dec 11 at the Dolphins
Dec 17 at the Steelers
Dec 24 home to the Bills
Dec 31 home to the Jets
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We could have had an extra home game in Sept, or Oct, or two games in Nov, but they gave us 3 fuc**** home games in a row in December. Stupid friggin schedule
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I'm tired of the NFL disrespecting Buffalo football fans. All of our home games are Bills games. In a 16 game schedule you think they could at least give us one game that involves two teams with something to play for? Clevelanders must really be pissed.
Some city could get a massive snowstorm and need to move their home game to New Era (ala Bills Jets in Detroit) Just think - we may get a Browns home game some year!
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The weathers never any good in October, November, December!!! All of our games should have been in September!!!
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Hey, here's a fun little factoid: the Russians consider thermobaric weapons to be "chemical weapons." And most of the world considers the MOAB to be thermobaric (incorrectly, I may add. It's just a big-ass conventional bomb).
So if we dropped a MOAB, I expect the Russians will very shortly accuse us of using chemical weapons in Afghanistan. And everyone will assume that their definition of "chemical weapon" is identical to our definition, and then wig out over it.
I'll wig out now if it helps.
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No, they're not entirely true. You have to remember that news reports are condensed and usually senationalized sound bytes for mass consumption. And to the masses, "destroy" just as well covers "suffocate everyone out of the cave" as it does "collapse the entire cavern and bury everyone in it." It's never a particularly good idea to assume details in the broad brush-strokes of news stories, particularly in this sensationalist age when they misuse or abuse words so frequently.
The closest would actually be the Daisy Cutters the USAF dropped in Vietnam (to create helicopter landing zones in the jungle by knocking down trees in a couple-hundred-yard radius). The MOAB is actually the Daisy Cutter's replacement. The biggest difference between the largest British bombs and the Daisy Cutter/MOAB is that the latter are "high capacity," while the former were penetrators (practically armor-piercing). Which means that the MOAB is something like 80% explosives by weight, whereas a Grand Slam was only about 40%, which makes for significant differences in usage and target effect.
The cookie was actually widely used. It was part of the standard load of the Lancaster bomber during World War 2 - one 4000 lb HC and a boatload (2-5 tons) of 4-lb incendiaries. The cookie would break windows and knock tiles off roofs of buildings to facilitate the fires the incendiaries started. It's actually similar to the "aerial mines" the Germans dropped on London (literally, an air-delivered naval mine modified to detonate as a bomb) your father-in-law would have seen. The larger Tallboy and Grand Slam weren't widely used - again, very specialized weapons.
Interesting. I think I heard that the aerial mines were meant to explode on a delay. Basically land mines from the sky that could sit in waiting. So you would re-enter your home thinking you were safe, then find out you weren't.
My father in law saw a lot. He was in the first group of kids shipped out of London when the British thought the blitz was coming. After being in Oxford for several weeks his family figured it was safe to bring him home. He arrived back in London the day the blitz started. Tells me about spending the first night in a shelter and after seeing the damage the next day, realizing that the shelter wasn't going to do anything for him. He spent the rest of the blitz in the street watching the bombs fall and the fighter planes buzzing around. He told me that once you got over the fear of dying it was the most fascinating thing a 14 year old kid could see. He was a good artist and filled a sketch book with various planes that crashed near him.
Thanks for the info.
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1) No one bombs caves to collapse them. You bomb them to empty them of air (it's why napalm was the most effective weapon against Japanese field fortifications late in World War 2 - a 16-inch HC shell with a weight of some 2800 lbs might not damage a Japanese cave, but a thousand pounds of napalm in front of it burns all the oxygen out of the cave.) The idea that bombing a cave is ineffective if the cave isn't destroyed is counter-factual, since that is rarely the point of bombing a cave.
2) "Similar" British bombs weren't all that similar. Both the Tallboy and Grand Slam were MC penetrators that were actually designed to take out hardened (e.g. submarine pens at Brest or Lorient) or underground targets (e.g. some rail tunnels). The MOAB's more similar to a 4000 lb HC "cookie" in being a giant air-dropped demolition charge, but the two are intended for vastly different purposes (the MOAB's a big-ass precision munition, the 4000 lb HC was an area weapon intended to facilitate incendiary raids.)
Pretty much.
So any news report I read about this being to destroy the caves/tunnels is not entirely true? Is it meant to suffocate the people inside?
The British bombs are the closest I can find that were actually detonated to what the Americans dropped today. Was the "cookie" actually dropped in anger?
I'm generally not into combat/war, I'm going off of my memory from news footage on CNN and stories from my dad and father in law during WWII*
* neither were in WWII but my father in law was a 14 year old living in London during the blitz and my Dad was a 6 year old living in Brighton. Dad talks of American soldiers constantly giving him chocolate. Father in law talks of bombs and planes crashing all around him and has the scariest sketch book I've ever seen.
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You don't know what you're talking about.
Probably, care to elaborate.
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I seem to remember the Americans dropping bunker busting bombs in the mountains after 911. If my memory is right the US soldiers said the bombs weren't any good at collapsing mountain caves and tunnels + there were so many tunnels and caves that the enemy just moved to another route. I wonder why the Americans think this bomb will be more effective?
Similar British bomb from WWII effective against railways and viaducts. The British planned on using it for underground factories but the war ended so it wasn't tested
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Sandwich or no sandwich, hotdogs are disgusting.
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Sounds like he's angry, needs to keep stirring up **** to keep himself focused, and he self medicates all day long. He needs a doctor to sort himself out. He probably knows he's got a problem (he fits so many spectrums with those 3 points I'm not guessing which problem he has) , but he's not going to be sharing that with you anytime.
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Random Google search info, not sure if it's accurate The NFL schedule for 2017-2018 will be released April 13th 2017 at 8 PM EST with the schedule release show on NFL Network.
Can we please have a nice home, away, home, away schedule this year and not some crap 4 or 5 weeks away from home stretch. -
A bowl of Froot Loops and a pint of Stiegl Radler Grapefruit beer. Don't knock it til' you try it.
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Aaaaaand my brackets ruined.
Practice at New Era field June 15th (?)
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Can't remember. I knew I was at night school that night so I deleted it.