Lori

Anyone catch this? Of course, the Bills are probably a longshot to play their way into primetime next season. (Then again, based on their recent night-game history, that's not necessarily a bad thing...) (Edit: added link to the NFL.com story...)

That's friggin' beautiful, Jack.

Dante "Crutches" Culpepper. Cleo Lemon. Brock Berlin. And the possibility of trading one of your few remaining draft picks for Joey Blue Skies. All of a sudden I don't feel so bad about Losman/Holcomb/Nall....

You mean this post? Nope, just added to one of the many other threads all discussing the same topic...

Well, lessee... Cincinnati (37-27) has already been mentioned. McGee kickoff-return TD, plus three Lindell FGs. Also of note: -Recovered onside kick by Ryan Denney, although Holcomb gave it away with an INT two plays later. -Nice day for Parrish, with 15- and 23-yard punt returns. -McGee-to-Leonhard handoff on the second-half kickoff led to a 43-yard return and a drive start at the Cincy 46. McGee also had two other 30+ yard KO returns (as well as the INT return for the game-clinching TD). Houston (22-7): Alternately, Rian Lindell 15, Bills regular offense 7, Texans 7. Otherwise, a quiet day on STs. Miami (20-14): High impact on outcome. 2 Lindell FGs provided the margin of victory. Also of note: the second Buffalo TD drive was aided by a fumbled Miami punt snap (recovered by Sam Aiken), which gave the Bills the ball at the Fish 45-yard line. Good day for Moorman, as well; he averaged over 50 yards/punt, including 60- and 63-yarders to keep Miami pinned deep while the Bills offense was spinning its wheels. Jets (H, 27-17): Debatable impact. Good day for McGee -- two 40+ yard KO returns, including one just before halftime that set up a 50-yard Lindell FG. One could argue that special-teams players were responsible for the Bills' first TD - an 8-yard catch/run by Jonathan Smith, aided by a Sam Aiken block - but that's pushing it, in my scorebook... KC (14-3): Debatable impact. Good day for Moorman, averaging 48.2 yds/punt. Game shouldn't have been as close as it was, though - Lindell missed both his FG attempts. Best achievement might have been keeping Dante Hall out of the end zone -- his longest return was for 24 yards, and ended with Ryan Neufeld forcing a fumble on the tackle. Kansas City's second-half drive starts: KC 9 (punt downed by Wire) KC 28 (punt to 4, 24-yard return, tackle/forced fumble by Neufeld, recovered by KC) KC 18 (punt to 16; 2-yard return, tackle by King) KC 10 (punt to 14; -4-yard return, tackle by Aiken) KC 21 (missed FG) KC 41 (McGahee fumble)

Yup, that's the guy. Six sacks by the Bills that day, including two by Schobel. Things that make you go "hmmmm": Fifteen of Green's 32 sacks last season came in the six games Black started at LT.

Shhhh... Go Habs Go !!! No Leafs-love here, obviously. The egoboo is appreciated, but WTF are you doing posting here when you have a brand-new little one to go ga-ga over? (Congrats, BTW...)

Interesting? Hah. Tucker plays for Toronto, remember... According to the afternoon crew on GR, NO ACTION against Tucker. No fine, no suspension, nada, zip, zilch. Here's the (relatively) good news, though -- sounds like you might only be missing Hecht for two weeks instead of the 'long-term' Ruff feared last night. As some of you know, the Sabres aren't my #1 team... but can I still add my vote for having Peters wipe the ice with Darcy T. the next time y'all play? Do the entire league a favor...

Ever been north of I-80? There's critters up in this neck of the woods...

Too bad the Dolphins don't have a sixth-round pick this year. They traded it, and A.J. Feeley (who cost them their 2005 second-round pick), for Cleo Lemon.

Funny, because the few Gints fans I know spent all of last season bitching about how lousy their DBs were. I don't recall NY putting up much of a fight to keep Allen, either...

Good read? Can't tell you how many times I've almost snagged that book off the 'local interest' shelf at the bookstore... maybe next time I'll hang onto it. Speaking of locals, ever chat with Mason Winfield? Fascinating, although his books make me want to sleep with the lights on...

Not hard enough, unfortunately...

Bad writeup by whoever submitted it to KFFL. Here's Mark Gaughan's original (italics mine): Buffalo News (All the more reason to check the original sources instead of trusting KFFL to get it right...)

Agreed, and agreed. Right now, that's not a playoff team with or without #4. GM Ted Thompson's best bet is to rebuild, and let Favre walk if he doesn't approve.

In other words, first-round talent but not #1 overall?

Ticketmaster link for individual game tix As Jack said, though, single-game seats don't go on sale until July. Packers game will probably sell out before then (via group/season-ticket-holder purchases, many to Packers fans who don't have a prayer at snagging tix for GB home games). You can find tix on eBay or through a broker, but you're probably going to pay through the nose with either of those choices. Your best bet would be to link up with a season-ticket holder; our single-game sales begin in mid-May. I'd suggest posting a request on the Trading Post board here on the Wall...

In the business once upon a time, before the multiple set/chase card explosion. Still got in excess of 100,000 cards upstairs in boxes and binders... and my brother probably has two or three times that many at his place. I cheated on the Bills cards; one of the binders on my desk contains every Buffalo team set from 1960-90. (Before I discovered Relentless and media guides, they were my main source for stats.) I'm looking at the Bateman right now, and it looks like someone added the red accent to the numbers with a Magic Marker. Laughable. As for the others, I have a special affinity for the 1977 Topps set, because that was the first year I really started collecting. Incidentally, Torkelson is from said '77 set. (Check the copyright date on the back.)

Oh, man. So many to choose from, including more than a few in the set your avatar is from. I actually started an All-Airbrush Team at one point, while sorting through some boxes of old cards... For some reason, I seem to remember the Chip Myers and Gary Huff cards from that '77 set. Think Myers was a Charger by then, but the card photo was taken while he was still a Bengal. Never fear - have airbrush, will travel. Those painted-on bolts measure up against some of JP-era's finest work. Huff's was a closeup, with a badly-brushed logoless Buccaneers helmet. Brutal. For the Bills, the '75 Marv Bateman was pretty bad. (Cowboys jersey painted to look like a Bills shirt.) Ditto the '74 Ahmad Rashad. Great question.

I have two problems with this: 1] McFarland is better than Kevin Williams? 2] Describing Chris Hovan as "great". Other than that, rock on...

Fark.com's addition to the hysteria: If all films were produced by the people that created the movie "Snakes on a Plane"

Whoah. In the FIRST PERIOD??!?!? Just cranked up the GR feed. Gotta hear what BradK has to say about that trainwreck...

Pre-emptive strike against the next joker. If I had to guess, fewer threads have been whacked today than on Thursday... and I, for one, would like to keep it that way.

1387? Really? Impressive, if puzzling. Think they were scoring them in increments of either five or ten (don't remember which) by the time I took them.

Today? No. Thursday? No comment.