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Fire McD and Hire Belichek after we lose AGAIN in the playoffs
TheCockSportif replied to JPL7's topic in The Stadium Wall
On the mattress? -
12/8/24 Game 14 GAMEDAY! Bills vs Rams 2nd half game Thread
TheCockSportif replied to BuffaloBill's topic in The Stadium Wall
Von, I thought that you were gone. -
12/8/24 Game 14 GAMEDAY! Bills vs Rams 2nd half game Thread
TheCockSportif replied to BuffaloBill's topic in The Stadium Wall
I'm RH right now around Josh's play. -
I started playing the "trade in" game a few years ago. Story 1. I had a 4dr Jeep Wrangler w hard/soft tops, mint condition, less than 15k miles (though I'd owned it for four years!) due to lots of work travel where I'd fly instead of drive. The vehicle was no longer practical because the new Sales Engineering gig I got had me working out of Boston a lot, and the Jeep would get 20mpg on a good day. Dealer A wouldn't negotiate the price of a new vehicle and offered me $12,500 for a trade in. I thanked them for their time and took the offer sheet to Dealer B, who basically said, "sure, we'll match the price and we'll give you $15k for your trade." Plus I qualified for near-zero financing, which was a boon. I *hate* financing vehicles as it just feels like wasted money. Near-zero financing was music to my ears. I'm actually shocked that they went for it... how did they actually make money off of me? Regardless, Dealer B and I remain close friends. 😉 Story 2. The *same* Dealer A nearly got a boot up their ass (courtesy of me). Two weeks before this happened we stopped in to test drive this car and we were trading in two older (but maintained to book) cars. They wrote us a respectable offer sheet for the trades, and as we mulled our options two weeks passed. Back then my wife worked about 2 miles away, and I was still working in an office, so I was about 15 miles away. In other words, it's not like we put hundreds of miles on the cars over the course of two weeks, got in accidents, or anything that should impact their trade-in values. But when we arrived to sign the paperwork for the new car, Dealer A cut the trade-in offer by *half*. They just kept playing this shell game with us, disappearing into this office for 15 minutes at a time, and returning with a less-lame trade-in offer. 90 minutes into this, I stood up during the *last* disappearing act. My wife was all like, "wait, what are you doing?!" I grabbed our car keys from the table, thanked them for their time, and apologized that things didn't work out. I proceeded to start walking out of the place, my wife still incredulous about what I was doing. The sales guy and sales manager practically chased us down. "Wait, what do you want? How can we make this right?" I told them that they were wasting our time and that we'd just go to Dealer B. We exited with a brand new car and they even gave us an additional $1000 for our trades. My only regret is that I let this go one for 90 minutes. So, to the spirit of this thread, shopping around is the only sane way to get what you want and at the price you want to pay. That's been my experience at least.
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Ha, yes. On Indeed, Adams could find a job at a call center in Beijing. There should be more Super Bowl commercials about this very topic.
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So, here's my own "where I'm (at)" thing regarding the Sabres. The Bills have always been my team, and that's non-negotiable. The Sabres? Stallions? Braves? Just kinda there. The Sabres had three major periods in their lifecycle, or at least in my life (yeah, I guess that they had their moments in the early 1970s, but I was still enjoying teet at that time), and those were: - early 1980s - mid to late 1990s - early to mid 2000s Along that time you got Rigas and Knox and Golisano and so on. Not one of these people could (or would) right the ship. Outside of that, the Sabres have been a non factor. Sell the team, and move it.
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Indeed...
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What Sports have you lost interest in?
TheCockSportif replied to BillsPride12's topic in Off the Wall
Honestly? The Sabres. I'm also kinda done with the Buffalo Stallions. -
What are your favorite Christmas songs?
TheCockSportif replied to BillsPride12's topic in Off the Wall
Bing Crosby was allegedly a cantankerous SOB, but my god, his voice and all of his Christmas songs... Also, Frank Sinatra and his stuff is iconic to me. Plus I laugh because he recorded one of the songs twice (I forget which one off the top of my head now -- but soon my wife will saturate me with Christmas music until Dec 24), but the second version of said song was dour AF. I admit that I hear the second version of the song, multiple times, annually, and I kinda chuckle to myself about how Sinatra was cynical, sad, and likely sippin' on lots of booze during it's remake. -
True that, but sadly it's been this way for over a decade now. Hmm, where did I hear this story before? Oh yeah, it used to be the Bills. Hopefully the Sabres can right the ship too, but it doesn't look like it will be this year.
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Lindy's gonna fix it, they said.
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THE ROCKPILE REVIEW - Coach of the Year
TheCockSportif replied to Shaw66's topic in The Stadium Wall
I agree with most (if not all) of this, @Shaw66. I kinda felt that the Bills would be rough this year, perhaps missing the playoffs, and I'm more than happy to be wrong. While not a fan of McD, I've also noted that I don't think that he's a clown, that he's built a great culture, and that players actually want to come to Buffalo for a change. This season has been a refreshing surprise, but McD needs to get over the hump in the playoffs. The 2019 and 2020 exits were expected, and it was (comparatively) not that big of a deal: The Bills were on the rise for a change. Everything 2021 and after just guts you -- the subsequent regular season gaffes just seem to reinforce the notion that this team hasn't been good enough -- and you kind of look at McD and wonder if there are better options. As others have stated, CoY is kind of a consolation prize, so let's not do that. Let's just win the SB. -
12/1/2024 Bills vs. 49’ers post game thread
TheCockSportif replied to BuffaloBill's topic in The Stadium Wall
Heckuva game, and watched it with my cousin (we are both WNY natives, but now live elsewhere) on his 50th birthday. It's always fun to watch these games with someone who "gets" everything Bills, and this game was particularly great. Unrelated, my wife (who stopped watching football probably 6 years ago) asked who the color guy was, and I said, "Chris Collinsworth." Her face got all contorted and she said, "he sucks. Like he *absolutely* sucks." So there you have it. -
I'm picking Steven Seagal, and Steven Seagal alone. His ponytail is/was fabulous, and what that man can do with a cue ball in a towel is just spectacular!
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True. All true. Still, something is different here this year. Maybe other teams have regressed and the Bills are just playing solidly and hanging in (it's a distinct possibility). I'm not predicting a SB win, and I think that we all know better. While I was more in the camp of "the Bills have no depth" heading into this season, I think that they actually... have depth. And that's why they're in it.