[How did Von Miller look?]

Only time I saw him today was the Progressive commercial with Steph and the gold suits.

 

We’re saving Von for the playoffs but we’re not gonna *make* the playoffs.

 

May not be THE worst ever signing by the team but should definitely be involved in the discussion.

[All white (uniforms) in Foxboro]

Pats* are wearing their silver / gray (Nike doesn’t do pants with metallic sheen 👎) tomorrow. They’ve worn them once since the slight uni change, which was a loss to Chicago last season.

[Week 6, NJ Giants v. Bills, 10/15/2023 - GAME BALLS]

[Around the NFL]

Hussey’s crew:

 

[Another OTA TV thread]

I’ve done a lot of antenna stuff for myself and family / friends who cord-cut and went to streamers & OTA for locals.

 

Pointing between the towers doesn’t do it, especially if it’s labeled as a yagi, that typically have a quite narrow beam, like 2-3*… at least for my much bigger XG91 yagi that I use to pull in Boston at ~58 miles away which is near the maximum for antennas due to earth’s curvature… besides the odd & brief times when tropospheric ducting does weird things.

 

I like the Antennas Direct db_e series, with the blank being either the 2, 4, or 8 bay “bow-ties”. Great signal strength in every case I used ‘em with a beam of about 15* and a solid build unlike most of the cheapo antennas. In your situation Jack, the db2e would likely be fine. If going to multiple tvs in your place once coax enters the house, use a powered distribution amplifier rather than a splitter which roughly halves your signal strength.

[One Less Bills Fan Today]

Deepest condolences, Chef.

[Ohtani- make your predictions now]

According to some reports I saw his Angels teammates smashed something he left behind. Like a cup or a mug iirc? 

[OT…Have sports debate shows run their course?]

16 hours ago, Augie said:

I don’t watch any ESPN unless they have a game I want to see. A bunch of guys all talking/yelling over each other at the same time has ZERO appeal to me. 

 

I find Dan Patrick to be the best option in terms of that type of entertainment. He didn’t do the same flawed formula, and I appreciate that. 

I don’t even watch pre-game shows anymore. It’s just a waste of time.

[Bernard, Torrence and Benford all officially starters]

Can I just ask… what the heck is with Torrence stabbing / tomahawk chopping the air a second before the snap? That is incredibly annoying to see on-screen and had me worried about false starts through the game… but… it’s allowed? Didn’t notice that in the preseason games. It kinda gives away the snap count.

[Happy 54th Birthday to SDS!]

Merry Natal Anniversary, Scott!

[Barkley To IR]

1 minute ago, Limeaid said:

 

IR does not mean done for year.  There is short term and long term IR.

Short term requires the guy to have made the final 53 on paper, after which the team IRs him and can sign someone else. IRing him before means he’s out for the season or if given an injury settlement he can sign with another team but not the Bills.

[ESPN.com - “Play of the preseason?”]

Like Christian Wade, the English rugby player we received an additional spot for during preseason a couple-few years ago. He had some really great runs… and then… never heard from again during the season.

[Hurricane Hilary in LA]

Wow. It helps the historic drought situation of the last decade+ I imagine but it happening feast-or-famine is always terrible.

[Yuck]

7 hours ago, boyst said:

The case in point was a politically targeted attack against the PA dude it is argued. It was a really messed up situation 

 

The video is on the Internet if anyone wants to see it. There is also video of a newswoman using a pistol to the temple live on the news during broadcast.

Just looked it up… Bill Dwyer was in the Penn. State House and had been found guilty a few months prior of a bunch of racketeering, bribery, perjury, conspiracy charges about taking money to award a contract to an auditing firm in California. He was to be sentenced the next day.
 

Some say that the hounding of the press drove him to it, but 🤷🏻‍♂️. That was a lengthy sentence coming his way and his life was basically over so he probably would’ve have done it anyway, but maybe in a different, private way. News can’t / shouldn’t let a guy off easy there’s a chance of whatever. But if it hadn’t happened how he did so publicly, I imagine the coverage would have been quite different.

[Yuck]

In J-school, the ethics of reporting on it was that public suicides like this are fair game for coverage… bc quite a lot of people saw it. The case study then was the government official accused of embezzlement in Philly iirc who called a news conference and shot himself in the head on air at the podium. To not mention it at all is a whitewash to something that happened so publicly. That they published graphic description and so many photos including a lot of the sheet-draped remains? Yeah, that is *quite* tough to defend… but I’m also betting the story got a lot of clicks for the same reason people slow down and look over at accident scenes #rubbernecking.

 

Suicide where it was done privately is generally not reported unless the person was a public figure, and even then is not accompanied by scene photos… but for some true rags like NYP it may have less to do with decency and more that they don’t have access to the scene.

[Do you think that we will ever be so advanced that we create eternal life?]

You do know they’re printing organs in labs *now*, right? It’s going to take time before it’s a routine thing to replace a heart but surely not 50K years. Maybe 100, and that’s with massive-profit insurance companies & the slowness of public health guideline changes blocking the way.

[driverless car gets stuck in concrete]

4 hours ago, Fleezoid said:

I can't wait for the first guy that dies because he purposely took a nap on a road trip. 

 

1 hour ago, Gregg said:

 

This is a reason why I don't understand how someone would want to ride in a driverless car. I get that people get into accidents and there are a lot of bad drivers, but I still prefer someone behind the wheel. IMHO.

There was a guy whose autopilot Tesla got into an accident because he went to sleep. He thought the car would be able to do everything. I don’t remember if he died.

 

The thing with this technology is that it is / will be there as the basis / primary system but it still requires & will likely always require a human to be behind the wheel supervising it and making corrections and decisions that AI isn’t / might not be quite programmed to do. Detour, road washed out, debris, accidents, animals in the road, etc. It’s a long way off from what they call the “Level 5” self-driving.

[Any Howard Stern fans?]

My uncle (a Marine ‘Nam vet) hanged Stern out of a window by his shirt collar when he was in Hartford in the ‘80s(?). It was at an office party or something, my aunt worked at the station and Stern said something to really p— him off.

[The Bipolar thread]

Bipolar runs in the family a bit on my mum’s side, and my mum was in and out of treatment for it when I was very young, and my oldest brother and, from the sounds of it, his son (11) have it. (Autism — which I have) & schizophrenia also are cluster diagnoses that run alongside with bipolar in heredity.) He hit on good drug treatment for it and they’re looking into for my nephew with aggression and a lot of sleep issues. Thanks for some insight.

 

BTW, diabetes also runs on my mum’s side, and my brother’s numbers were up, and he started Ozempic awhile back and it’s been terrific for him. A1c is down into the 5s, and he’s lost 50 pounds so far; doc says he’s the poster person for it.

[Kevin Brown - Baltimore Orioles announcer]

On the FB page of Bobby Trosset:

Quote

 

Former #Orioles play-by-play broadcaster Jon Miller (pictured left, next to the late Chuck Thompson) opened up to The Athletic's Andrew Baggarly about this week's Kevin Brown debacle and even reflected on his own similar dealings with Peter Angelos that ultimately led to his 1996 exit after a 15-year run in Baltimore's booth.

Miller now views getting run out of town as “the best thing that ever happened, and I was too dumb at the time to realize it.”

Jon Miller is a legendary figure in the industry and a Hall of Famer in his 27th (!) season calling games for the San Francisco Giants. 

If not for the Angelos Way, maybe he'd still be with the O's: 

“I wanted to stay in Baltimore because I always thought, well, Ernie Harwell, Jack Buck, Vin Scully, they were in one place for a long time,” Miller said. “They were totally identified with those teams. That’s what you strive for as a baseball broadcaster. I thought Baltimore could be that place for me.”

After not renewing his contract and communicating to his agent that he preferred a broadcaster who would “bleed more orange and black," Peter Angelos publicly denied that he wanted Miller out. 

Still, to this day, Jon Miller hasn't forgotten: 

"It hit me wrong, how he lied about all of that."

Nearly 27 years later, all of this feels eerily similar to how John Angelos is mistreating Kevin Brown, and it wouldn't surprise me if it runs one of the up-and-coming talented voices out of town, too. 

 

Full piece: https://tinyurl.com/2s44vrt7

 

That was back pre-Internet and 24/7 media with space to fill. Hopefully Angelos continues to feel the heat on his BS.

[Kevin Brown - Baltimore Orioles announcer]

I believe I saw a headline that said a Yankees announcer also laid in on O’s front office.

Broadcasters have to stick up for their own lest other or their own ownership tries to put the screws to them and the job just becomes happy-face jingoism or else you’re canned.

[Ron Raccucia out as EVP/COO]

5 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

I think if he wasn't quickly sedated a Buffalo 2032 Summer Olympic Games proposal paragraph was coming next.

A paragraph on that?

 

Fake Fat Sunny and his long string of aliases who all go on and on in a free association tangent and say the same thing twenty times… is back / has changed names yet again.

[Bills red helmet throwbacks incoming? 2023 NFL throwback uniform news]

So Josh came out to practice today with a blue helmet. Same as last season’s red one, it had the same center vinyl decal as the white helmets which throws things off.

 

I just think it’s a huge tease for the marketing dept to be doing this stuff. Give us a red helmet & throwbacks or get off the pot! Also, a blue helmet simply makes the unis way to close to the NYG.

 

[Happy 98th birthday Marv]

I share his birthday. This is number 43 for me.
 

It’s also Martin Sheen’s.

[Bills backers clubs in Southern Connecticut and Canton Ohio]

46 minutes ago, Lafromboise said:

I live in enfield ct

There is one in Manchester CT, at Shea’s per a thread last year looking for a BB bar in CT. I did not get there last year as I had access to a Sunday Ticket, but maybe will catch a couple there this season.