Lori

You're not planning on re-signing Chet Mutryn, are you?

Plus, San Diego would be a "home" game for SoCal resident Madden. He might have something to say about giving that up.

FWIW: Officials burn Bills twice on opening drive

Judging by the overall tone of the board, that's pretty much the answer I expected. Unfortunately, I'll have to watch it at some point so I can write about it for the rematch in December ... but drinking heavily beforehand sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the warning.

So, I just got home from work. Followed the score as best I could, but haven't seen a single play yet. Should I bother?

Actually, I've spent most of the last year trying to forget the gory details of that game ...

http://www.twobillsdrive.com/articles/game...me_day_preview/

I will admit, Ryan has aged since his son died under mysterious circumstances (murder? suicide?) in Pakistan while Bob was in Phoenix to cover the last Super Bowl. But looking for this reaction because his life sucks? Naw. Merely poking the hornets' nest with a stick, just for spits and giggles. Looks like it worked, too. bzzzzzzzzzzzzz .....

Way to totally misunderstand my point. Reread what you wrote -- to paraphrase, "You don't know these people (the current enlistees) like I do." That's what I'm calling bull sh-- on, because I'm pretty damn sure he does.

Started at SLB his rookie year, but should also be able to back up the middle. Put it this way -- if he's anywhere near healthy, he's better than what they currently have backing up those spots ...

per BB.com text. Meet Teddy Lehman, formerly of the Lions. Former second-round pick. Injury problems kept him out of the lineup after his rookie season. We'll see how much he has left, I guess. As for Youboty, Chris Brown reported earlier that the third-year corner has plantar fasciitis, and suggested he'd be surprised if No. 26 played again this season. Looks like he was right.

scribo certainly doesn't need my help in this debate, and I'll respect his right to privacy by not telling you precisely why you're wrong about this. But you are wrong about this.

Nice. There are so many people in the biz losing their jobs through no fault of their own -- including a friend of mine, yesterday -- that I have no sympathy for someone who sticks his foot that far down his throat.

On this: Butler is OUT, Whittle is questionable, so Chambers may well be the last man standing.

AFC East chat returns at 3 p.m. Friday Don't think I'll be around -- got enough of my own two-bit hackery to perform -- but have fun.

Woohoo! 30 threads (and counting) since October 29th. LSI stands in awe.

Digging this thread up to add Jerry Sullivan's swipe at Mort from his chat at buffnews.com on Thursday. (He said something about Mort making excuses for TD in last week's chat, and I was wondering if he'd provide a follow-up ...) Ouch.

Yup. In fact, he damn near broke down while talking about it. Wouldn't have been the brightest move, assuming it would have drawn the requisite penalty ... but it might make some people rethink the "selfish" tag.

Preseason game vs. Jim Sorgi Jared Lorenzen and Quinn Gray, and a regular-season game vs. Peyton Manning? Not all that comparable. Just sayin'. And damn, I thought that "0-for-the-'70s futility" reference sounded familiar. From the TSW preview of last November's game (sorry, no link, this one's from my personal archives): Gee. Considering they'd already gotten hammered 38-7 in the first game, way to go out on a limb with that prediction ...

That reminds me, I need to go erase this game from the DVR. Then again, I'm not sure I really need to make room for next Sunday's game.

That's approaching Buffalo's 0-for-the-'70s futility against the Fins. A couple more goodies from this week's Pats release: -Four of NE's last five victories have come by 22 points or more, and the Bills are 0-for-forever at Gillette Stadium since it opened in 2002. -The Patriots defense has held the Bills to a touchdown or less in five of the last eight games between the teams. And yeah, you'll be seeing these again.

Yeah. Um. If I were of a mind to save today's front page, newsprint would be a heckuva lot easier than framing a monitor screen, no? Bradford Times? Saw the Era, wasn't impressed. (But then again, I rarely am. Yesterday: a Page 1 story on a local man who collects campaign buttons ... without any mention whatsoever of the fact that he also happens to write for said newspaper, even though his bylined story on a different subject ran right next to the picture taken of him for the button-collecting feature. Oy.) Besides, I wasn't the one looking for them. And: damn. The Chicago Tribune ended up printing 200,000 extra copies today. Of course, Sam Zell will probably be pissed about not finding a way to double-charge for the ads ...

I drop in from time to time, but I do try to limit my exposure. At least for one day ... hey, maybe he's not such a bad guy after all!

FWIW, I think the major metros are the ones getting hit hard. Makes sense, because we already know the cities skew Democrat. Also FWIW, the person looking for these was until very recently in the print business (now at a certain sports-related TV network in Ct.), and even her connections aren't much help today.

Guess it's a good thing you got up early, then: http://gawker.com/5077359/its-a-great-day-to-be-a-newspaper For anyone interested in checking out almost 700 front pages: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/