Lori

Let's hope that we've already gotten our heartbreaking loss out of the way this year ... BTW, I've got two jars of Weber's mustard that were never opened in Canton, so you can check that off your list.

Let's rock!

I was thinking, tennis crowd. Not that there's anything wrong with that ...

Sal tweeted it (as I'm sure you already saw). But since he used "reportedly," it sounds like he hasn't been able to confirm it either. http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Wilson...st-vandals.html Looks like everything tracks back to Sedita.

I like the way you think.

Judging by the reaction I've heard from my non-Bills-fan friends around the country, the highlighted statement is entirely correct, and I'm getting tired of insisting to them that we're not all like that. P.S.: "That fan" -- a member of this board -- is not from New England, although he currently lives there.

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That particular collegian, in that particular town, would make for guaranteed sellouts. And considering that as of yesterday, approximately 17,000 good seats still remained for Sunday's home opener, it might be the only thing that will save this franchise.

Because the pic was taken at last year's game up there. Just take a look at the crowd -- ONE Bills jersey that I can see.

Valid point. Of course, I would have been one of the people deleting some of said over-the-top venom (at least until I headed into work that night) instead of adding to it, and a couple of those posters are no longer here ... My thoughts haven't changed since Monday night: kid fumbled. Bills lost. Bummer. It's still just a freaking GAME, and there's another one this week -- hardly worth jacking with the guy's property. As soon as I heard about that, I knew it would be picked up nationally and we'd get all the "stay classy, Bills fans" crap, which annoys me far more than losing a game. Has the pendulum swung just as high in the other direction, with the signs/cards/etc.? Yeah, probably. I'd like to think that there are a few guilty consciences among that crowd, people who realized that they WERE over the top in the heat of the moment. We'll see what happens the next time someone makes a bonehead play. Guessing it won't change, though. Just remember, "fan" is an abbreviation for "fanatic."

http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/3182/3182 Meh. Nothing to see here, SportsCenter. Move along ...

Interestingly, Yahoo! is the outlet which did the digging to break both the Reggie Bush and the UConn recruiting stories. Talked to Adrian Wojnarowski about his UConn piece, and he admitted that no newspaper in the country would have given him the time or the budget to chase the story. (He and Wetzel booked a last-minute flight to IDAHO to get a one-paragraph quote from one of the major sources, who wouldn't confirm anything over the phone.) And ESPN, the place everyone loves to hate, hired one of the guys who wrote "Game of Shadows" as part of their investigative staff. I don't know how much detail he'd be willing to go into on the board, but considering what's happened at his last newspaper since he left, I'd be willing to bet Tim has some interesting thoughts on dead-tree vs. cyberspace operations.

Seattle (1995), yes, but not San Diego. They played here in 1976. Other than the Bucs, the only team I've never seen live, maybe St. Louis (1986). After that, you're left with the expansion teams and Baltimore -- Ravens didn't make it here until 2007.

http://www.kansascity.com/491/story/1450453.html

'S probably why the quote from the linked story says, "never played a single regular season game in Buffalo" ...

38 ... so yeah, watch out for the pre-game flyover.

Jokes on TV don't make me lock my front door. People messing around on my property late at night do.

Thanks for getting the other side out there, John.

Personally? Web sites can be avoided. Someone AT YOUR HOUSE, not so much. But that's just my take ...

"I hate Illinois Nazis."

Neat trick, since Leypoldt would have still been in college when Bills fans beat up Booth Lusteg in 1966.

If he was no longer in the league, maybe they would have let it slide ... but since he is, I don't think they dared set that precedent.

Tannenbaum was the Jets GM, Mangini the coach when the Jets intentionally kept Favre off the injury report last year even though they knew he had a bad shoulder torn biceps tendon. Kudos to the league for not giving the Mangenius a pass because he's no longer there. The backstory: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4476355 http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4472877

Mangini and Tannenbaum also fined. Just on ESPN; I'll grab a link when I see one. Add, via Adam Schefter's Twitter feed: "NFL doled out $125,000 worth of fines on Favre injury -- $75k to Jets, $25k to Mike Tannebaum, $25k to Eric Mangini." Edited the title to reflect this. And the link: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4478429

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