SinceThe70s

BADOL: Totally appreciate your point of view even though I'm on the other side of the coin. Love that you trust and respect OP's handling of HIS young twins at a young age...but I'm with most, yikes...good luck with that! The badge of honor later on is cool too. I always wanted my kids to remember their first game, not be told about it and just have a photo memory, but that may be prejudiced by my own experience. For the record my boys (11 and 14) will be attending their first Bills game in September. Timing WRT school finally worked. Wifey wanted to do a pre-season game, but that was laughable to me. Anyway, whatever you do Ship, best to you and your boys!

What the Bruce trade tells me is that the Mets don't view Conforto as a center fielder. I don't either. Ideally Conforto is in LF and Cespedes in RF but that ain't happening. Sigh With that said, dumping Bruce for salary is a bad look, no doubt. BTW, I am LI_Bills...password issues. Let's go Mets!

Saw the early reports on this local story this morning that there was a critical injury during a high school football practice. Hoped for the best outcome but was surprised/disappointed when I saw the outcome reported nationally: http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/20305333/high-schooler-dies-log-falls-football-drill Can't imagine what the parents are going through.

I consider raising my kids Bills, Mets and Islanders fans as borderline child abuse.

i was a Flutie guy. The only thing that stuck out to me was the autism comment. Classless. The other comments didn't bother me at all and appear to be on point. With that said, this may be more interesting than the Tyrod, Anybody But Tyrod QB controversy.

I love Umphreys!!! Almost posted the Funk 49/Sweet Emotion mash up. Totally agree on the monster drum kit comment. I have a Zappa Plays Zappa show on DVD. Joe Travers was the bands drummer and had a very basic setup. Terry Bozio was a guest and came out with this ridiculously huge setup. IMO Travers was the better drummer( or maybe the one I liked more, I get your point). As for cred, you got me there. I took lessons and played drums in my formative years (through HS)...but honestly I was nothing special.

Not picking a fight, but who do you like more? I always thought he approached the drums as more of a musician than others and that was only based on seeing him once....but from the third row.

Specially NOFX

Nice. Had a Creedence vibe to it.

Saw Rush once many many years ago. For the most part I fixated on Neil Peart, Always thought he blew away every other drummer I ever saw live. By far. Nobody came close until I saw Gavin Harrison play with Porcupine Tree a few years ago.. Not sure if this does him justice:

Enemkpali "took a swing at Cyrus Kouandjio" ...before fellow offensive lineman Ryan Groy stepped in to make it a "two-on-one situation." Sadly I can't add to the humor value of previous posts (which were awesome), but In a case of cross-thread pollination minutes ago I questioned why nobody on the Jets had Geno's back.

'Hey, this is not my fault. I'm the victim here, and this guy should be going to jail.' Instead, I manned up. I owned it. I took responsibility for whatever actions I had in that altercation, and I chose to let that fuel me to become a better man and a better player." Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but this sounds like agent-speak that Geno wasn't quite on board with: My actions vs. whatever actions I had...and make sure that anyone listening knows that IK should have gone to jail. I'm not defending IK, but what always stuck with me was nobody on the Jets had the starting QB's back after he got sucker-punched by a backup.

Just saw this, did a quick check and didn't see a similar post so here it is: http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/jets/brandon-marshall-puts-ryan-fitzpatrick-in-elite-company-1.12125274

Hmmm..is that an anti-TT comment or a pro-Hogan comment...and what would Schultz say (Sgt our Kurt)? Cuz they have Brady. Deion Branch looked like a world beater until he went to Seattle

OK so I got past my complacency issues and read the article. Perhaps I obsess too much, but: "Yet he repeatedly burns NFL cornerbacks on deep passes," Has that really happened? If so, did I miss the outrage on this board when we let him go?

You could be right...we get caught up in parsing words and attacking sometimes we miss the big picture. I'm gonna read the article past the word complacent and my guess is my reaction will be: decent guy, but your a Patriot now so f off

Fair enough, I couldn't get past the complacency quote. To me complacency in the NFL = early forced retirement

I stopped reading the article after "I was complacent". Apart from the fact that since he is a Patriot and as such I wish him a slow and painful death, I have nothing against the guy...but what did he he ever accomplish to make him complacent as a Bill?

+1 +2

Well played!

...and he'd rip his chin-strap off with fury!

I hate the Jets as much (or more) as anyone, but hats off to Ferguson for a great career. Those Iron Man stats are off the charts. He's everything you expect from a top-5 drafted tackle.

When I was growing up I had a board game called NFL Pro Draft. You had to build a team thru the draft and players were rated either "A" or "B". "A" players were rated something like 0-30 or 70-100 and B players were from 30-70, but you didn't know their actual rating until you drafted the player. It was a pretty simplistic model of the real draft and you weren't winning unless you hit on your A picks. These days the draft gets analyzed to death even though by and large draft picks amount to educated guesses and/or filling a need. What would be interesting to me is to look at the top 10% of players in the league and see the distribution of which round they were drafted in. My guess is that unless you have a great roster you should take your best shot with your first rounder.

Your game recaps were must-read material for me and became part of my Sunday night routine. Thanks and be well!

It made a non-competitive, inconsequential play meaningful so I'm on board.