RJ (not THAT RJ)

No Doc, this is the time for someone to say, "Sure, the Bills re-sign a white player."

A brilliant comment, and the bolded part made me laugh out loud! Thanks!

I hope for your sake that your crystal ball works better than your grammar checker. What possible harm is done by a fan wanting to see the glass half full? Sports are the toy department of life; pleasant illusions harm no one at all, and they make those fans more fun to be around. I doubt that even the most optimistic fan on TBD is unaware of the real weaknesses and challenges facing this team. Perhaps they just prefer to wait until the games are played to mope around.

False. His rookie season was 1969. You can look it up.

Sabres fans know a bit about that as well.

I have heard this story many times, especially connected to the game in Buffalo where the dolphins won 17-0. The Bills kept handing off to OJ instead of trying to score, and Fernandez and Buonoconti ripped them for it. My interpretation has been that the Dolphins of those years were angry that they were such a great team, on their way to a third consecutive Super Bowl appearance and a second consecutive championship, including an undefeated season in 1972, but the press went to OJ's 2000-yards. Being the "no-name defense' actually rankled them more than they want to admit. Just as there are many connected with those teams who lament the dismantling of the champion Dolphins after 1974, when Joe Robbie let Csonka and Kiick and Warfield leave for the WFL. The last great game for those teams was losing the heartbreaking "sea of hands" game to the Raiders in the 1974 playoffs, and it left Miami players and fans with a bitter taste in their mouths. There is almost something tragic about how that 'Phins team ended up. But even at the time the 'Fins had a reputation as an unlikeable and arrogant. Whether that was justified or not is another matter, but it has both undermined any positive sentiments others feel about them and has also fed a sense of resentment among the Dolphins of that era that continues to this day and feeds their Schadenfreude when undefeated teams lose. The only thing that upsets Dolphins vets and their fans more is that by the end of the 1970s people were calling the Steelers, with their 4 SB Championships, and not the Dolphins, the Team of the Decade. There is a lot of bitterness in South Florida. P.S. Anyone interested in seeing some quality OJ highlights must go to YouTube and look at the videos posted by billcody1960 (who has posted the Bills' official highlight films from 1973-1975) and nitroradio99 (who has posted highlights of pretty much every Bills game from 1968-1972).

Quite so. And note that at each stop, the highest point was lower than the last, and each tenure was shorter..... Time for the Tuna to retire.

Thank you, eball! I immodestly claim the creation of the BPLODR, but am delighted to see it used. As soon as I opened this thread I knew it would be appropriate.

that is one of the funniest post's I have read in year's.

Right, right. Now I get it. If a player sucks in practice, he sucks. If he does well in practice, he still sucks.

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Nice weasel words there. Your overreaction on the TE question speaks volumes about your desire to see the worst in everything.

That hiring Marv was a PR move is certainly true, though one has to remember the context. By the end of the 2005 season, TD had completely destroyed the relationship of the team leadership to the fan base, appearing excessively thin-skinned and paranoid. Many of you remember his edicts on signs in the stadium late that year, for example. He had reached the end of the line, and Ralph, showing (believe it or not) concern about patching up ties between the team and the fans, decided to serve up a helping of Levy hash as comfort food. Alas, Marv then made a hash of the team.

Weak feet are the bane of the big man... Hope for his sake it is not chronic.

Steal away, eball... it is my rewriting of Barry Goldwater's famous line: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice..."

Nice post, Bob. As a wise man once almost said: Optimism in the defense of fandom is no vice, and pessimism in the name of realism is no virtue.

I have never found any of Gaughan's articles poignant, but the Bills' performance has occasionally brought a tear to my eye. (Oh, and I think you meant "pertinent.")

That is some funny stuff... and I hope you're right!

Or Wikipedia!

That means it's option 3 then.

She sounds like she was quite a lady. May her memory be a blessing to you and your family, Scott. RJ

This.

Quite so. What is amazing is that, for most of his Bills career, Fergy was booed mercilessly by the expert fans who were just SURE that Gary Marangi, or Matt Kofler, or somebody else had to be better. He took a lot of punishment, especially in 1977, which had to be a low point in Bills football. One of several, to be sure!

Worst thing of the SD game is Charlie Romes dropped an INT the play before the TD... and on the previous drive the Bills were stopped on 4th and 1 after forcing a fumble on a punt, then missed a FG... sigh. And yes, the Bills were driving to tie one last time in Cincy, after coming back from 14-0 and 21-14 deficits to tie...

I am not foolish. I know it is common, and that does not make it right. I would shitcan the entire college football system tomorrow, if you want to know the truth. Two edits: 1. Everyone may be doing it, but that does not mean that those who get caught get a pass. Period. 2. Wow, a profanity made it past the filter. Sorry about that!