Toledo Bill

Hired right out college (1979) in the JC Penney management program. I was a cocky kid with great grades and was ready to be a management "professional". My first year I was instructed to clean someone's vomit of the floor, unplug a toilet and work the switchboard during my evening shift. All due to cutbacks... management did every duty the lay-offs would have done. Learned to hate weekends and holidays (because you always work them in retail) and even had to miss an occassional Bill's game!!!!!! Worked in the program for 4 years and got out of retail forever! I must say though, that they had an excellent training program for new management. I have carried many of the ideals they taught (not counting bathroom, switchboard, etc.) into my business career. It is amazing how few companies teach you the basic fundamentals you need to be a successful manager. Take the good with the bad and use your initial management experience as a learning tool. God, I hate retail!

Kicked it at 34 (14 years ago)... Made me realize how lucky we all are and how important supporting cancer patients is.

An applicable question for some of the posters here... How can there be self-help groups?

Clarence, NY... 48... Sylvania,OH

Whoa!!!! The complacency of the older fan base?? I have been going to Bills games sice the mid-sixties and I can assure you... no complacency here! Us older fans have gone through periods you would not even dream of. The Harvey Johnson, Kay Stephenson, Hank Bullough, etc. years. If anything, it is the "fans" who started following the Bills due to their Super Bowl run who should be "brought to task"... not the fans who suffered through years of being the worst team in the NFL. I actually agree with several points from your initial post, but your "complacent older fan base" comment is way off. No one, I repeat no one, wants or deserves a Buffalo Bills Super Bowl champion more than the "older" fans!

Well... that kind of covers both of my criteria...

"Courage"... an overused, misapplied word. Lately, I reserve that word for the armed forces and people battling serious illnesses.

I realize they are guesses at best... but I am extremely disappointed in his lack of action regarding the offensive line.

We have cap room and are not aggressively doing anything. I know everyone will say be patient, but we seem to be missing the boat. Does anyone have a guess what his plans might be?

Buffalo, with the top pick in the draft... Tom Cousinueao (sp)

If they want to move there, all I can say is "Goodbye and good riddance".

Many "brilliant", "high IQ'd" individuals have many problems to deal with. Whether it involves being antisocial, insecure, pompous, etc... brilliant individuals rarely have a combination of intelligence and common sense. They occassionaly turn to drugs, alcohol, or other ways to help themselves better deal with their situations. I think you make an excellent point. However, I would not call these people "smart"... I cannot define any drug using, hard partying individual as "smart"... but I will call an individual with these qualities and a tremendous IQ as "brilliant". I would call someone with a high IQ that decides to avoid illegal drugs and has a good portion of common sense as "smart".

Brial Griese

I'm a little younger than George, but every single person I knew in college at least tried smoking pot. He remains an honest, noble man, unlike Slick Willie. Names can be great. The top urologist in Toledo (everyone seems to end up at this guys office for a vascectomy)... his name is actually Dr. Richard Tapper. I didn't believe it when I first moved here but it's true.

Hillary Clinton and hopefully I would get airsick...

No problem, I appreciate the reply. I didn't understand the mystery and quite frankly have never read any rules and regulations. I figured that fairly polite comments without cursing, etc were all you needed to know. I will review the regulations.

Sorry... guess I am on Double Secret Probation now. Geeeeeez...

What is the double secret probation reason that ICE was bounced? Several times the topic has come up only for the mysterious requests to close it.

Yeah, but in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure... he wasn't acting...

We had the same type of thing happen at work. I guy brought in a violin player, dozens of flowers and spread the word that he would be doing this in the outside entrance. About 200 people watched the except same scenario. How dense can someone be, if there is any doubt, why propose at all... let alone in front of an audience. One can only think that they hoped an audience would help sway the decision. It takes all kinds...

Good... lt's see how Carroll does on his own. USC will be a .500 team within three years.

Happy Birthday to a very entertaining poster...

I sure hope you are being sarcastic. He is a big game player that epitomizes a "team concept". That does not make him a "scheme success".

Nice comment on the National Anthem... sung the way it should be!

I forget who it was (I think it was a Ram's QB) that got insulted on a talk show and knocked over chairs and almost went after the host. I would love to see Jimbo put one of these guys up against a wall...