The Senator

Have you ever been experienced? Heroin, for sure. Probably also the guitar Talkbox.

So long as he doesn't marry his cousin... (Killer still a thriller)

In round one of the 2011 NFL draft the Bills will be taking Gabe Carimi

Let's not forget, Wade also has a lovely daughter... Aside from that, a quick note to the original poster of this thread... This song's for you

Based on his one year (8-4) of playing college football at powerhouse Stanford U? No way Luck declares for the 2011 draft. (But lets say, just for the sake of argument, that Stanford students are really stupid and Luck does declare for the NFL draft in his junior year with just 2 years of playing experience for a mediocre Stanford team - no chance that Buddy Nix picks him. Absolutely none.)

Senator Davey Lee is 39 and holdin' baby, still rockin' my life away....

As long as he didn't touch the football...hopefully he ate up a few defensive linemen. (Seriously though, I didn't see the game - how'd he look?)

Gabe played football on Yom Kippur????

Problems with Mallett becoming a Bill: 1) First and foremost, if Arkansas beats 'bama next week, Mallett is probably the leading candidate for the Heisman; 2) The Bills will have to finish either dead last, or all the teams that finish with worse records than Buffalo pass on Mallett because they already have a star QB; 3) If #1 & #2 hold true (Mallett wins the Heisman AND Buffalo has the #1 overall pick), will Ralph pony up for an $80M contract with $50M+ guaranteed??? A more likely scenario is Gabe Carimi in round one and Jake Locker in round 2 (or maybe someone like Taylor Potts in round 4).

You tell 'im, my Coax Queen!!!! Link - Bills tailgater will not have to relocate

Why in the world would the Bills draft a QB that throws 40-yard game-winning TD passes with 15 seconds left in the game??? Why would we want a QB with a rating of 192.6 that's thrown for 9 TDs and nearly 1100 yards in his first 3 games??? (Seriously though - for the Bills to win the Ryan Mallett pool, they're probably going to need to finish dead last this season.)

Don't know that Mallet will go #1 overall, but he will definitely be the top QB taken in the 2011 draft. (He'd sure look good in a Bills uniform!)

Quite!

One of The Senator's very favorite cities, I always thought of ChiTown as a great American city every bit as 'cosmopolitan' as NYC - but with nicer, more wholesome Midwestern people (many of whom 'just happen to be' beautiful Polish girls)... The Senator's' Chicago: First, put this tune on 'continuous loop' - Now, if you guys are in to dressing it up a bit ('smart casual'), head right to the Ambassador East hotel for Happy Hour at The Pump Room Then, do what The Senator does - go have yourself a 40-oz. porterhouse at Morton's (The Original) Afterwards, depending on his mood, The Senator would head to either... Excalibur or Blue Chicago ...but if, at that point, you just want to stay in the neighborhood and enjoy some 'pub-crawlin' and blues on Chicago's 'Gold Coast', head to Rush and Division No matter what, when it's time to go home and your trip is just memories, every time you think of Chicago you're gonna say it's... My Kind of Town (and you can bet Frank 'did' every one of those chorus girls! )

Absolutely! In fact, you could almost describe him as 'Clinton-esque'... link

Me neither... GO BILLSSS!!!! 18 and 1 baby!!!!!

No question about it... The 56th and longest-serving Buffalo mayor, James D. Griffin was as familiar a figure as the city has ever known. Griffin was elected to four terms as mayor and was given credit for a resurgence in downtown Buffalo and its waterfront, especially in the early years of his administration. Buffalo’s Griffin era began Jan. 1, 1978. “The city was $19 million in debt; the waterfront a wilderness; downtown deserted; neighborhoods were deteriorating and residents were leaving; and business and industry had no confidence in our city,” Griffin later recalled. For 16 years, love him or not, Griffin gave all his efforts to Buffalo — eradicating the debt and seeing the Buffalo Hilton (now the Adam’s Mark), townhouses and office buildings, including a new headquarters for Western New York Public Broadcasting, spring up by the waterfront. Downtown and the Theater District got the Hyatt Regency, an eight-screen General Cinema in the Market Arcade, TGI Friday’s and a Rotary Ice Rink — not to mention three bank office buildings at Fountain Plaza. Shea’s Buffalo was restored. Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park was cleaned up. New parking ramps and walkways were built, as were the HSBC Bank Atrium, City Center and the Elm-Oak high-tech corridor. A new City Mission and Cornerstone Manor were built. But the crowning glory was undoubtedly Pilot Field, now Dunn Tire Park. Griffin not only rallied community leaders to bring professional baseball back to Buffalo in 1979, but he spearheaded construction of downtown’s baseball stadium, one of the finest in the nation. At the Bisons’ season finale in 1993, the baseball club and its owners, the Rich family, presented Griffin a crystal buffalo in appreciation for his continuing support. “This job is a great job,” Griffin said earlier that year — when he decided not to seek a fifth term after polls reported he would lose badly. “We are able to help people. We help build homes, create jobs in the private sector, fill jobs, both permanent and seasonal, in city government, and also provide summer work for thousands of kids so they can earn money for school and clothes and have a few bucks for some fun times.” (Link - Forgotten Buffalo) For 16 years, between the Sedita/Makowski debacle that ushered in the demise and destruction of downtown Buffalo, and the Masiello era of aimless ineptitude, Jimmy gave his heart and soul to reviving and growing the city he loved.

Hard to say exactly what Jimmy was, but Mayor Griffin was definitely not a Democrat. Jimmy Griffin won the Buffalo mayoral election on 1977 on the Conservative line, defeating the Joe Crangle-controlled Democratic party machine and its endorsed candidate Arthur O. Eve. In 1981 there were no declared mayoral candidates and Griffin ran for re-election unopposed, endorsed by the Conservative and the Right-to-Life parties. Erie County Democratic Chairman Crangle endorsed Common Council President George K. Arthur in 1985 - Griffin received the Republican endorsement. After Griffin's victory Crangle said the election established once and for all that Jimmy Griffin was a Republican, and Griffin himself stopped by Republican election campaign headquarters on election night to address the party faithful, stating, "It's been a long time since you had a Republican who won as Mayor of the City of Buffalo!" As the incumbent mayor running for a record 4th term, Jimmy finally threw his name into the the Democratic primary 'process' for his last mayoral campaign in 1989, probably just to 'rub Crangle's nose in it'. William Hoyt had already been chosen as the Democratic-party endorsed candidate, but ended up placing a distant 3rd to Griffin and former city judge Wibur Trammell, who resigned from the bench to make a run for mayor. So finally, for his last mayoral victory, Griffin's named appeared on the ballot on the Republican, Conservative, Right-to-Life, and - yes - Democratic party lines. Hardly a 'Dem', Griffin occasionally accepted the endorsement of the Democratic party when it was given, and even ran for various offices as a Democrat when it was politically expedient to do so, but he was most definitely an independent whose rise in politics was achieved by consistently challenging incumbent Democrats. Every office he attained, he did so by running as an independent or on 3rd-party tickets against Democratic party-endorsed candidates, and he often endorsed Republican candidates. In his own words, discussing his 5 terms in the NY State Senate, Griffin stated... "I was an independent - or an a**hole, depending on your point of view. I really got along better with the Republicans than the Democrats.") RIP Jimmy - we miss you. (Damn nice ball park!) (And now that we've established that Jimmy was much more a Republican than Democrat, I'd like to point out that he presided over 4 consecutive Buffalo Bills Superbowl seasons! )

I kind of miss Bruce Smith's... "Well...on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say we played about average..."

Hey, you know what they say...'any given team on any given day'...well, the Bills are a team...and this Sunday is a day... 18 and 1 baby!!!

Loves sports, speaks her mind, and has that wholesome, fun, athletic, well-scrubbed girl-next-door look that totally belies a mouth like a trucker that used to be a sailor...I love gals like that!

It was the one where he started the game and played a significant portion with #1 receivers, rbs, and o-line - you don't remember that game?

You know it, bro! (Never even thought for a second that it was you - figured it was probably one of the Leach/Texas Tech haters out there )

Nice to see someone acknowledge that spread offenses can be effective in the NFL.

What macaroni just said. (I'd rather have someone from their offense that can tell our D what to look for - someone like maybe )