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Where did you get the four years figure? I watched the whole season through on DVD and I don't remember hearing anything about it. Was it in that same episode? If so, then the hypothesis is dead. B/c Locke was a young man when he met and was used by his father. They tried to make this obvious with how Locke kept calling him "sir" and other mannerisms. I still think there's some kind of connection b/w Locke's paralysis and Jack's father (and Jack's) specializing in spinal surgery. It's too close of a linkage to be unrelated. I'm recently becoming enthralled with Locke's "Don't tell me what I can't do!!" line, b/c I'm running into a lot of people like that myself. People who simultaneously think I'm underqualified and overqualified for an office job and basically asking "Why is someone w/ your education applying here?" (Answer: To have a steady job and to make some money to be able to survive). People who don't think I can do a good job in making some craft look good when I've shown time and again that I can.... I don't know if this is making me a little sympathetic to Locke. But in a certain way, I don't know if Locke is entirely aware that he's being used by the island. I think the island saw his past and decided he may have been the most gullible, even tho he's probably the most capable. I don't think he even learned from the situation with his father, b/c he was falling into the same kind of situations in his job with his boss, and the phone sex(?) girl who he was talking to for 8 months as if he knew and loved her, even tho she was always like, "Ohh, well... *sigh* that's nice John...." the whole time on the phone.

Hogboy. Spiked Lemonade. JP-Era. BF. You know what these posters all have in common? They all started off in the Chicken Little phase, moved into the STFU phase, then moved into the Banned phase. Just a heads up, and I'm not trying to be a richard here, but go work it off at the gym.

And you could say the same thing about Holcomb in his prior experience w/ the Browns. In the wild card playoff game against Pittsburgh... 2 years ago?... he was put in late in the game and threw two picks, both on ill-advised sideline-to-sideline passes. But we can continue to lionize KH as the savior of the this franchise. Don't believe the coaches. They want us to lose. In fact, they sent Gruden a playbook on Friday night at the Marriott. MM was going to have dinner to share the scripted gameplan, but he saw Ralph at the bar screaming out "WTF?!!?!?" to some kid. KTFABD, you talk about how JP will have bad plays, bad series, bad halves, bad games.... I'll go further than that. Jim Kelly had bad games in his prime. Brett Favre had the worst performance of his career last week. Tom Brady threw up a stinker on Sunday. I guess they needed to be benched too, according to bh.

Get 17 monkeys in a room and one of them will be correct, too. Guessing the W-L total makes you the Bills Genius? Keep your pins and needles away from this guy's head, guys.... POP!!!

Maybe if bh had brought a folder with names of people he wanted to hire as his assistants, TD might have hired him to be the HC. Seriously dude, go to the gym or something.

No, no, no! We must not give him time to acclimate himself. He needs to be perfect right out of the gate. bh, go find a hobby, please.

Hey that's my copy! Plaigarism!

It's tradition that teams wear dark at home and white on the road. But the home team has first choice of which color jersey they will wear, and sometimes they don't stick to that unwritten code. Hence, why the Cowboys wore white for just about every game in the '90s. The Bills had no say, but there's nothing really unfair about it. As for not wearing the jerseys again this year, Ralph may elect to just have the team wear the throwbacks, and pay a league fine every game (I think it's the $10,000 variety). He seems to be the kind of guy who would do that just to make a point, especially to a league that encroaches so much on individual owners' ability to run their own franchises. It'd be nice to get the NFL to amend their sometime inane/needlessly strict uniform policies, but....

Where does he get off with all of this reducing gas consumption and making better cars here in America? Damned capitalist! What a chump.

scribo, if you could add a line in the thread "Please print & send to NFL" that'd be nice. Feel free to print this out and add your own comments. ---------- 19 September 2005 National Football League 280 Park Ave Frnt 1 New York, NY 10017 Dear Commissioner Tagliabue, As a lifelong viewer of the NFL and diehard Buffalo Bills fan, I have experienced the ups and downs of watching my favorite team on the football field. I enjoy the history and tradition of the game, and it is in that vein that I write to you about making a slight change in the NFL’s uniform requirements. When the Bills redesigned their uniforms before the 2002 season, it was a time of dynamic change for the franchise with the signing of Drew Bledsoe and the ushering-in of a new era. If you gather three Bills fans in one room, you’ll get seven different opinions on the new navy blue uniforms, but the overriding consensus among the fans and those in the media (including Gregg Easterbrook in his excellent “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” column on the NFL.com website) is that they divert too far from the traditions of the Buffalo Bills. This year has again introduced incredible change and excitement for the future of the Bills, and the throwback uniforms of the 1965 championship season have been received with an almost unanimous positive fanfare that wasn’t able to be gauged among the fans, players, and the team’s front office before they were debuted earlier this year. I’m disappointed in the strictness of the league’s uniform policies allowing only two games in which to wear an alternate jersey, as that allotment has now been used. The policy is understandable, in that you do not want a team to suddenly change their uniforms. There needs to be a constant uniform for team identification and branding, and it is also unfair to fans who have bought the older style jerseys. I would request that the league allow a team to use throwback uniforms in special anniversary years, such as the Bills’ ‘Celebration of Champions’ for the 2005 season. Another proposal would be to increase the number of games a team can wear an alternate jersey. I would add that the rules have been bent slightly in the past when the New York Jets were allowed to wear their classic-styled uniforms that evoked memories of great seasons of their past. Also, the San Francisco 49ers were allowed to wear their popular black-trimmed uniforms for the remainder of the season and in the Super Bowl in 1995. Now, Tom Donahoe, the President of the Bills, is requesting that the fans write to the league office to request some flexibility to be able to wear these classy throwback uniforms that proudly show off the red, white and blue. I hope you will be willing to oblige that request. Thank you kindly for your time and consideration. Sincerely,

Snail mail is so last decade, Campy! But barring any specific person to contact, I guess that's it. The only individuals are with specific teams. It's as if no one works in the league's front office, and if they are there, they're anthrophobic. How do reporters get contact information? Or is getting a sitdown with Tags conducted like an bin Laden interview? I could see why they'd be so secluded; would you want 200 million rabid football fans calling or emailing you? I'll work on a form letter and post it later.

Well, she's not a full-time anchor, but I have seen her on the weekend shift time to time.... Alison Bologna. That hairstyle is a little old, it's now parted more toward the middle, but would you imagine toussled? Every time she files her report, I stop and say "O-ooooh!"

I've done some prelim searching for an address to write in to with no luck. No Contacts/employee listing on the NFL.com site. No one to direct this kind of thing to. I think this guy sums it up pretty well....

What worked for JetBlue's work uniform just hasn't worked for the Bills, as they hired that designer as a consultant. The emphasis in the redesign was to introduce a darker, navy blue. I don't think anyone really questioned what the practical implications were for wearing an almost black jersey in a venue like TB, Miami, Arizona, SD, etc (or hell, even Buffalo sometimes!) in the early season. I work outdoors at a physical job and I'll tell you, there is a difference. I think TD's realizing his mistake in rubber-stamping them b/c they "showed up well" on television, as well as the need for a change from the Drew-associated uniforms. I give him credit; a lot of people in high visibility positions are too proud to admit mistakes. His answer to that question told you everything you need to know. Quite a turnaround from "Save the postage."

From "Ask Him Yourself" Where would one send that email? And can anyone do a general form letter?

I'd say the Miami-Clemson was pretty good, too.

Laughed my butt off when I read this b/c I was thinking about my area the whole time. We get the occassional storms and all, but it's rare that anything serious ever hits. Link

I think you'd like Steve Laffey, who's running for in a Senate primary against Linc Chaffee (R(-INO)) in R.I. I can live with Republicans, and I might even vote for them again, if they govern rather than load up on pork and preach morals. I've watched him over the years and I mostly find myself saying "%$^& YEAH!" whenever he's on TV. He's the mayor in one of the bigger cities, took over when they were in the red by so much it wasn't even funny; cleaned it up and pissed off a lot of people b/c he cut off the gravy train and did things that made fiscal sense. The city is the better for it and they're getting back on track. It was really telling when the Bush-buddy RNC refused to support Laffey even when he was mulling running for Jack Reed's seat, so he figured, wtf. Proof positive that the two sides don't want things to change. Defecit finance and running in the red is great, don't you know?

Note 2 -- One should purchase one of these and some of these beforehand, and clear all public appearances from the schedule the day after. Tried the Biscuits with LA's Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes last week. Good eats.

Locke lived in California, I know, and it didn't seem like he went too, too far out of his way to see his father. Jack & father were at a hospital in LA. Would be a simple explanation that his injuries were so severe they brought him there.... I would think, tho, that Jack would know and remember a guy who almost killed his wife. Plus, that happened when Locke was a relatively young man -- Sarah would've been like 2, which would make Jack the youngest surgeon ever . There'd be criminal charges associated with it, too, and I don't see that in Locke.

Aaron Rodgers, out of Cal. I say Tice. The scandal. Not producing despite bringing in talent.

I think it works much better for the character of Sawyer/James Ford the way they ended up writing him. The murder-suicide as the end result of a scam and that he witnessed it adds so much depth and hypocracy to him. It also allowed us to see that glimpse of when he realized that he was doing the same thing with that family. And about the sh--hole part.... What, you want him to lie? Fair enough. It just means I won't be watching the TeeVee as much. I like that LOST isn't all about Sci-fi, it's about telling the stories of all of these characters and then it challenges the viewer to piece it together, and we do even tho 80% of the puzzle is missing. It is heavy on drama, comedic with Hurley (as a kind of neo-Falstaff) and Charlie, mysterious.... Having seen the Locke-loses-a-kidney episode again... as he's driving in his red VW Beetle (read: Nazi Wheelbarrow ) it cut short of what happened. He was just pounding his fist on the roof and panel. Anyone think that Locke tried to kill himself? I was thinking of that ep and how it paralleled Boone being "sacrificed" but the end result for Locke was a black screen, a rimshot and "LOST." Wouldn't surprise me if the linkage was that Christian Shepard did the surgery that rendered Locke a parapalegic. But it also would explain Locke's belief in God/Fate/Whatever, as those facing those circumstances often look to something outside of themselves. Like Sawyer's character, that kind of revelation would give you an instant re-thinking of Locke the person. So, welcome to the new digs in the OT Forum. The season starts Wednesday.

Using the 50/50 method, it comes out to 0.0000152587890625. But that is fine-tuned by knowledge of the personnel and coaching, weather, predictive skill, balls-to-the-wall-guessing, etc. So yeah, LA isn't really going out on the limb. More like he's holding on to the tree trunk at the base. Don't call him a tree-hugger, tho!

I really don't understand that unless something was tweaked whereby a week of rest would have him at 100% and playing would have made the situation decidedly worse. Would those precautions include getting cheap-shotted by Frank Middleton? We've now lost our MLB in the last two games at TB.

I'm still in it. I just didn't see us going to TB and being able to overcome their D. Historically, the Bills don't play well in heat and humidity. Good thing is, I've got us down for three straight wins. Hmm.... Steak or lobster?