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Mel "Helmet Hair" Kiper. Climb back into your hole until next April you POS. Reach. Everyone is a reach. Hell, Reggie Bush could be a bust. Nobody knows until they play the games. Remember when the Chargers took Ryan Leaf over Peyton Manning? Draft Grades the day after the draft. The most useless thing ever.

As of right now, I give Marv a B for this draft. More than half of the 1st round picks will be busts. At least 75% of the players drafted will not even be in the NFL 5 years from now. It could turn out to be a great A+ draft or it could be 2000 revisited. Only time will tell. At least, Marv didn't grab a shiny, new but unnecessary toy like Matt Leinhart to appease the fans. Bills had a plan and went with it. Defense. Smart players. Hard hitters. Value in later rounds. Unheralded OL even later. If they had been drafting like that for the last 5 years, they'd be a Super Bowl contender by now.

Two solid players with good character at positions of need. What the F is wrong with that? Beacuse Mel "Hair Product" Kiper said so? It's a disaster because they didn't take Bunckley, Leinhart or Justice? There's a reason those guys fell in the draft. Leinhart in Buffalo weather would be an utter disaster. Bills didn't need a QB anyways. Buckley & Justice have serious character issues. All the Bills did is give up one extra third round pick and took two players they wanted and needed. At the very least, it's better than taking another WR, TE or trading away the first rounder again. Holy Crap. Drafting high character players at positions of need and it's a disaster. Unreal. The last 5 years were a disaster. Maybe people got used to that.

"Good Character. Hard Working." That's all anyone needs to know. It was a position of need for the Bills as well. I like the pick. They gave up an extra third round pick to get him. Big deal. Marv knows what he is doing. There is a reason a player like Winston Justice fell to 40th.

ESPN has full coverage of the draft ALONG with the NFL Network. The NFL Network gets to interview all the even numbered selections in the first round and ESPN the odd numbered selections. So after Berman makes his Bills prediction, turn it to the NFL Network to see the interview.

Bills trade Nate Clements to Oakland for the 7th overall pick. They then take Bunkley at # 7, Jay Cutler at #8, then trade JP Losman to Minnesota for the 17th pick and take CB Jason Allen. C Nick Mangold falls to # 42 and the Bills take him. In the third round the Bills take WR Maurice Stovall and then trade Roscoe Parrish for an extra third round pick. With their other two third round picks, they take a LB and a G. Day Two will see a Kicker and a couple more linemen added. All of the 2006 draft picks end up as a Hall of Fame players. The Buffalo Bills win 4 straight Super Bowls from 2008-2011. Marv retires in 2012 and in 2017 at age 91 is re-elected to the HOF as a GM and 98 year old Ralph Wilson contemplates moving the team once again.

If he is there at # 8, trade the pick. Someone will be desperate for him and give up too much. How does Oakland not take him at # 7 though?

I don't hate it. I don't love it. It's a wait-and-see signing. Does Philadelphia EVER offer enough to make a trade? How many teams do they try and rip off. "Uh, we'll give you a 6th round pick for your 1st" Get bent. I hate Philadelphia.

I think they look like the Seahawks uniforms but in purple. I wonder if the purple helmets finally match the purple jerseys & pants. They never did before. Only so much you can do with purple. The more you type purple the funnier it sounds.

CLEAN HIT. It doesn't matter how many times they showed it or how loud Sabres fans cheered. They were cheering the hit, not the fact that the douchebag from the Flyers was skating with his head down and got hurt. The garbage the Flyers pulled in game two was much worse than Campbell's hit in Game One. There's a big difference between tough hockey and dirty hockey. Flyers are a dirty team. Sabres were lucky that nobody was hurt in Game Two from the numerous cheap shots. Face it, the Flyers are way too slow and way too stupid to beat the Sabres. They may win a game or two if they can suddenly get faster and smarter. With Fat Bastard as their coach, I seriously doubt it.

That's actually a pretty frickin good idea. Rope off some regular seats, jack up the price 500%, call them open-air luxury boxes and keep all the revenue. That's just brilliant. Add waiter service with $20 beers and $12 chicken wings, make people pay $75 for valet parking, bolt a TV to the back of one of the seats and the money would just roll in. Don't let Jerry Jones or Dan Snyder get ahold of this. I guarantee they would try it and get away with it.

Local tie ins- Mighty Taco- "Super Mighty Stadium" Sundowner- "Totally Naked Canadian Strippers Stadium" Genesee Beer- "Genny Screamer Stadium" Duffs- "Suicide Wings Stadium" Actually, New Era Cap Co. is renovating a building in Downtown Buffalo and opening a bigger factory along with a museum & store. They want advertising, buy the naming rights to the Ralph. New Era Stadium. It would fit if the Bills stay.

Bills fans are way down the list of people to blame (if blame must be tossed around) NFL is first, Dan Snyder & Jerry Jones are 2nd & 3rd. Ralph Wilson is 4th. Put all the politicians in WNY next on the list. NFLPA is after that. Bills fans are around 347th on the list. It comes down to this in this area. Do I put gas in my tank this week or buy Bills tickets? (Gas is $2.95 a gallon today) The majority of people in WNY just do not have the money to spend on things like Bills tickets yet they do. Every game is sold out and the team has sucked for 5 years. Where is the breaking point for Bills fans in WNY? It's very close now. PSL's, $100 tickets and $35 dollar parking is way beyond the average Bills fan. I should know. I live here and am one of the average fans (with season tickets- for now) There were a whole bunch of people who boght Sabres Playoff tickets this spring (maybe instead of Bills Tickets or in addition to Bills tickets). All three Sabres first round games are sold out. Sabres will be over 10,000 season tickets next season and they are much more expensive than Bills tickets. The point is this: IT'S NOT THE FANS FAULT. How much more can the fans give?

Matt Leinhart falls to the Bills at #8. He would be right at home with the Los Angeles Bills when he is ready to start in 2008.

April 14, 1996. Last game in the Aud. Sabres vs Hartford Whalers. April 14,1988. Pilot Field- new Home of the Buffalo Bisons opened before a sellout crowd of 20,500. Talk about the good old days.

They are just trying to get elected. I watched the news and they are all candidates for Governor of New York State. Any politician that wants to get elected will say anything to get a vote. They will promise you no taxes, legal pot, tons of jobs, lots of money, keep the Bills in Buffalo, free hookers- whatever and it's all just lies. Speaking of politicians, at the Bisons opener tonight, the new Mayor was standing in front of the section I was sitting in talking, on his cell phone and everybody started yelling at him to get off the phone and sit down. I walked right by him and had no clue who it was. He had one security guy watching his back. I don't think anyone knew who he was.

I heard the same thing is happening in Pittsburgh as well. The average fan is being priced out of the game. Does the NFL want every game to be like the Super Bowl where only the privliged members of corporate America get to attend? Seems like it to me. How many people would buy Bills season tickets if the cheap seats were $210 per ticket, per game and the only way to buy them would be to use a Bills Credit Card? How many people would buy 1 ticket to one game? Not very many. There would be 70,000 empty seats per game.

I have the article in front of me right now. All it does is give general numbers with nothing to back it up. This team treasurer guy Littmann looks like Dan Snyder. A total slimeball. Littmann says the Bills profit last year was "between $12 and $18 miilion". I read somwhere that it was $15 million Why not just say that it was $15 million a-hole? Back up the numbers with facts. Without facts, in my opinion, they are just flat out liars. Let's assume RW made $15 million last year and by some strange accounting tricks they lose $8 million in 2006. RW is still up $7 million over two years. I don't understand why the hell RW will not sell the naming rights to the stadium. Even if it was for $1 million a year, that's better than nothing. They claim it's not worth it. How the hell is an extra $1 million per year not worth it if profits are down? The kick in the sack are these two paragraphs: "Selling the team, under the proposed wording of the new revenue sharing plan, could wipe out the revenue sharing potential for a new owner" Read: Team wouldn't need revenue sharing in a big market like LA. "The proposed revenue sharing plan also would penalize teams like the Bills that can't generate 80 perecnt of the average NFL team's ticket revenue." Read: Bills would have to raise ticket prices high enough to meet the average but then wouldn't sell out in Buffalo because prices are too high. Screwed either way. Selling the team to a local owner wouldn't help. A new stadium wouldn't help. Raising ticket prices wouldn't help. Selling out every game now doesn't help. Giant amounts of cash from TV & Merchandise revenue doesn't help. The Bills are totally F-ed. They are gone.

The economy in WNY is beyond garbage. The average person just can't afford a luxury like Bills Season Tickets in this area yet the stadium still sells out every game. The Bills haven't been in the playoffs since 1999 and haven't won a playoff game since 1995 and yet every game is sold out. IT'S NOT THE FANS. There aren't very many big corporations left in WNY to buy all the big money makers- the suites & club seats. Real fans fill the Ralph on weekly basis. What do they get for their money? Heartbreak. A feeling of disgust and contempt for their team. If the ticket prices go up, the stadium will stop selling out if they don't start winning. There will never be a waiting list here for season tickets. There will never be a demand for more luxury boxes & suites. The truth is people can't afford higher ticket prices here. Ralph said that himself and he is right. The reality in WNY is the majority of fans decide to pay their heating bill or buy buy a Bills ticket. Buy food for the week or buy a Bills ticket. Put gas in the car this week or buy a Bills ticket. Pay their insanely high property taxes or buy Bills season tickets and so on. The Sabres put playoff tickets on sale the other day. The prices? $50 to $120 per game. First playoff games in WNY since 2001. Tickets for all home games are still available Why? Too expensive. That's just the way it is.

Well, the new Mayor of Buffalo is pretty much nothing more than a figurehead. Someone is pulling his strings. The control board runs things. I wonder who watches the control board? If nothing else the guy is a big flop-flopper. First he envisioned a "New Waterfront Stadium" for the Buffalo Bills and then he says "We will survive if they leave". First he was all for the new Downtown Casino and yesterday he said he is not so sure it's a good idea. I think he is clueless just like the last Mayor and pretty much every politician in WNY- heck every politician everywhere.

I'm not a Bills fan. I am a Buffalo Bills fan. Team leaves and I am done with the NFL. They will both be dead to me. I live in WNY and I know it would just destroy people here. No Buffalo Bills game on Sundays in the fall is just a horriffic thought. There isn't all that much going on in WNY and the Bills are just a huge part of alot of people's lives. If RW sells the team and it moves, it would be even worse than, say, finding out your best friend has been nailing your wife, they cleaned out your bank account and the two left town after they kicked your dog and pawned your big screen TV. I'd watch college football and the NFL would just not exist in my mind anymore.

Actually, the Yankees are paying for their new Stadium. New York State is kicking in $450 million on improvements to the surrounding area. (They could spend two billion dollars and it wouldn't help) The Mets are paying $500 million for their stadium, NYS kicks in the rest. Issue with the Bills is not the stadium. Why in the world would they tear down a perfectly good baseball stadium to build a football stadium? Dunn Tire Park site isn't big enough for a football stadium anyways. The old Rockpile site isn't exactly in the best neighborhood. Frankly, it's not safe in that area during the daytime. RW said the stadium is not the problem and even if a new $600 million+ stadium were built, it wouldn't solve anything. In my opinion, it would just create more problems, the biggest being it would drive ticket prices up to an unaffordable level.

Selling tickets is irrelevant. Every game is sold out anyways. Fan support is not the issue here. Lack of revenue sharing when a new owner takes over is the issue. Unless the NFL changes that, there is nothing anyone can do.

If they move, the Bills and the NFL will be dead to me. They can name it whatever the hell they want. I sure as hell will never watch a game.

The way I understand it is this way: If RW were to sell the team to new owners, under the new CBA, the new owners would not qualify for revenue sharing. That would be a death blow to the Bills in Buffalo. If RW leaves the team to a family member(s) after he dies, they will have to pay a huge inheritance tax whether or not they sell the team. No revenue sharing for the new owners in this situation as well. Also a death blow. In the current situation, selling the naming rights to the stadium wouldn't help at all. Building a new $600 million+ stadium wouldn't help at all. The Bills are almost maxed out as far as ticket prices/attendance goes. More suites. luxury boxes, higer priced seats wouldn't sell. RW is not losing money now but the Bills can't compete with the high revenue teams for free agents. RW can't throw multi-million dollar signing bonus money around like nickels. Add it all up and you get "perfect storm" conditions for the Bills leaving town after RW dies. If he were 68, no big deal, but he is 88. Blame Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones for the current situation. If the new breed of NFL owners had their way, every stadium would be 80,000 seats consisting of nothing but luxury boxes & suites filled by people in suits.