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Brady was the guy who walked the walk without talking about it (winning). Rodgers is the guy who talks the talk but can't be bothered to walk the walk. Maybe that's the reason why Brady has so many rings and Rodgers has only one.

To paraphrase Mike Florio, if Rodgers had a good reason for missing mandatory minicamp, we'd already heard what it was. Rodgers is just re-confirming his status as one of the great turds in NFL history.

Sort of like juggling 9 or 12 balls instead of just 3.

I gave Beane an A. I didn't like him much when he was hired (I didn't like McDermott either) but he has proven himself. My two biggest points are: Picking the right QB is priceless, especially in a supposedly "great QB class" with 5 first round picks. Working closely with his HC to bring in the coaches and players that fit the the team. IOW, the GM and HC are pulling in the same direction rather than in separate ones.

I lover Merlin!!! I have it on my Samsung Galaxy. The microphone is really a great feature.

I think it was much easier in the past, say before WW II, when our society was much more insular and people lived in much smaller places with their "worlds" literally bound by their small towns or by their local neighborhoods. It wasn't until after WW II that Americans began to see the world as a much larger place, probably because of television and the automobile. My grandfather and three of his brothers immigrated to the US prior to WW I. One of the brothers -- Tony -- who lived in Lackawana was a truck driver who disappeared while on a job that had him driving between Buffalo and Rochester. This was in the late 1920s (his son was born in 1925 and his daughter in 1927 IIRC). His wife and children assumed he was dead. My grandfather died in 1959. No strangers came to visit him while he was sick and/or attended his funeral. My grandfather (who hadn't driven since an accident prior to WW II) never attended a funeral for anybody not known to the rest of his immediate family. It was very common then for women who had been abandoned by their husbands or divorced to claim to be widows, but Tony's children never had any contact with their father after he left on his last route. If their mother knew her husband was alive, she never told anyone -- unless it was on her death bed or something. Fast forward to 2016 when I was doing genealogy of my grandfather's family. I was trying to find my grandfather's two other brothers who disappeared from the US census records after 1920. I went on a genealogy message board and asked for some help, and low and behold, somebody searched the Lackawana city directories and found the supposedly deceased Tony living about 10 or 15 blocks from his supposed widow and children in the late 1930s. (The other two brothers had returned to Poland after WW I when Poland became an independent nation.) I never told Tony's son about my discovery because at that time he was 90+ years old, and it would have served no purpose.

Why would you think that the Negr0 Leagues' history would be "erased"? There are 37 members of the Negr0 Leagues in the Baseball HOF, only three of them having played in National or American Leagues, so the Negr0 Leagues are considered on a level with the "major leagues" during the Jim Crow era. There is also the Negr0 Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.

That's why the Jests are #1. They've had some decent teams over the years but they've always been unhappy because they've always known they're "second stringers". They've played in another team's real home stadium since the early 90s. They've suffered not being good enough to the Bills in the 1990s. They've suffered not being good enough to the Pats in the 2000s ... and now they know they're not good enough to take on the Bills again. Maybe their 41-year-old QB can get them a playoff berth this year. Maybe. Guess which camp was right?

Not necessarily. The wheel as a tool was unknown in the Western Hemisphere although the Aztecs and maybe some other groups used wheels in toys. The most likely explanation is that the people who migrated into the Americas left before the use of the wheel as a tool had spread to their area of Eurasia. I think that people today take good health for granted so they don't even think about how important preventing and/or combating infectious diseases has been. The first successful vaccine was Jenner's smallpox vaccine in 1796 but Pasteur didn't prove that germs spread disease until 1861 ... which led to other improvements in dealing with infectious diseases. The 600,000+ deaths during the Civil War is more than all the other American deaths in all the other American wars, but most of those deaths came from disease not combat. ^^^ Okay, maybe Tiberius should have said "comfortable life in cities possible". Civilization has progressed pretty far without anybody figuring out the purpose of the Antikythera Mechanism or how it worked or was used.

Tomorrow, June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. World leaders, including the POTUS, will gather in France for the ceremonies. There will be numerous television programs to remember the battle, including a program on WIVB in Buffalo (Channel 4) at 7pm tonight with a local slant (according to the ads for it). It's likely that most TSW members had fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and/or other relatives who served in WW II. My father, two uncles, and at least 3 of my mother's cousins served in Europe and the Pacific, including the Japanese invasion of some isolated islands in the Aleutians.

I have had some new "regulars" to my yard this spring ... nesting robins, mourning doves, grackles, and a pair of goldfinches that must be considering nesting nearby since they visit several times a day (goldfinches nest later in the summer than many birds). I added two new tube feeders and a bin feeder plus I added white millet and a "finch mix" from Runnings to my usual offerings of black oil sunflower seed and peanuts. Of course, one of the best ways to attract birds to your yard in summer is to provide fresh water for drinking and bathing, especially when the weather is dry. I have a pond with a waterfall that the birds enjoy using for bathing and drinking plus a couple of bird baths. You should change your bird bath water daily if it becomes popular with the neighborhood birds.

Trevor joins a long list of highly anticipated collegiate QBs who have underwhelmed in the NFL. I think Andrew Luck came the closest to actually being the "savior" he was predicted to be. I think "lose out for Luck" might have been the slogan, and certainly Indy was accused by some fans of tanking the 2011 season in order to get Luck. Unfortunately, injuries short-circuited his career, so he didn't really work out long term. If you look at the careers of the QBs taken #1 overall since 2000 -- Michael Vick, David Carr, Carson Palmer, Eli Manning, Alex Smith, JaMarcus Russell, Matthew Stafford, Sam Bradford, Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, Jameis Winston, Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, and Bryce Young -- most have been underwhelming as NFL QBs compared to what was expected of them.

Like others, I was born into Bills fandom. Both my parents were Bills fans. We lived on a farm in rural Cattaraugus County back in the day when families had 1 TV (usually a large console model in the living room). Our tv would always go "on the fritz" some time in May, and my Dad would never be able to get it "fixed" until the first Bills TV game. In reality, we probably would have been too busy to watch tv anyway since we raised fruits and vegetables for sale at our farm stand, and we kids not only had to help with growing and harvesting but we also manned the stand.

I don't think that fans assuming that celebrities, especially professional athletes, to be "exemplary" outside of their professions/careers is particularly limited to the present day. Hero-worship of famous people of the day in the US goes back at least to the founding of the nation where George Washington is immortalized on the ceiling of the US Capitol in the form of a fresco as well as Parson Weems' tale of Washington and the cherry tree. I would say that's probably the sentiment of 99% of the fans of any sports team vis-a-vis any or all of the players on their divisional rivals. My hatred of Tom Brady declined significantly when he left to play for the Bucs.

Really? IIRC, there were some Bills fans who harassed HC Gregg Williams' family because the Bills weren't playing well. Nobody here's said more than "F Rodgers". On a scale of "terrible people", they don't even rank a positive number.

Sad but true.

When you think about it, it's long overdue since the reason the ***** Leaguess existed only was because African Americans were barred from MLB. The best players in the ***** Leagues were every bit as good as the best players in the National and American Leagues.

Opposing bigotry is not a "political philosophy" but an ethical stance. The United States in 2024 is a large country with a diverse population. All American citizens have equal rights regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion or national origin. In the past -- and well into the 1960s -- that idea was given lip service as too many people in power on local, state and national levels looked the other way when Blacks, Hispanics and/or Asians were lynched or when Irish Catholics and/or other immigrants were denied jobs or when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps or when even wealthy Jews were barred from prestigious schools and colleges or when women were barred from numerous careers and job opportunities by prejudice and by law. Butker expressed views on women and LGBTQ people that might have been respectable for many in 1924 or 1954 but are not in 2024. He used religion to justify those bigoted views although his views don't conform to the Church's teachings. Butker is certainly free to express his views, but I also have the right to call him out for what he revealed he is: a reactionary bigot hiding behind religion. If your "political philosophy" embraces bigotry and/or the acceptance of bigotry, then you need to examine your own political beliefs -- and your moral compass.

Oh, it worked just fine if you were a white male Christian who wasn't known to be a homosexual. Not so fine for everybody else.

We have a pair nesting around our camp in northern Cattaraugus County, NY. I saw a male in the big black locust tree near our cabin several times when I was out there last week. The locust tree was just leafing out so he was easy to see hunting . I think he was hunting insects, as locusts are often afflicted with aphids. He always came and left in the same direction, so I think the nest was in one of the taller maples surrounded by a thicket of smaller trees about 50 or 60 yards away. I think you mean a Great Blue Heron, which look more gray than blue. They are big (4' or 5' foot tall), nasty birds. They usually hunt in ponds or quiet pools in creeks or rivers, but they're not shy about their prey, especially in nesting season. I expect he/she will regurgitate the bunny for the young when it gets to its nest.

If everyone was a "purist", we as a species would probably still be wandering naked on the plains of Africa grubbing and living on fruit, nuts, roots, grubs, insects, and the occasional not too overripe animal carcass. Maybe I misunderstood or misread the article, but I thought that the tech would depend upon a sensor in the ball that would record precisely where the ball landed as well as an electronic line-to-gain. That would be similar to what they use in tennis matches. I think a horn signaling the clock expiration is a really such a simple fix that it's surprising that it doesn't come up every time there's one of those controversial plays.

No electronic scoreboards or instant replay then. Should we also go back to leather helmets???

The biggest difference between Kaepernick and Butker is that Kaepernick protested against the numerous and well documented instances of police brutality against African American men while Butker ranted against aspects of American society/culture that he personally doesn't like.

I voted better. I think that the Bills plan a more balanced offense this season which, hopefully, will take the pressure off Allen to play "hero ball" -- and make fewer mistakes. I don't think "making receivers better than they are" causes pressure on a QB like Allen (or Mahomes); they do that automatically even with great receivers.

Do you also "appreciate" that some neo-Nazis and KKKers aren't afraid to "mention" their views?