Webster Guy

On the "over the air" HD on Channel 8 Rochester, there are no announcers. They turn up the crowd a little and it IS AWESOME. Check it out if you can...

"Texas wasn't a great offensive team this year." Did you actually say this? Sep 3 La.-Lafayette Won 60-3 Sep 10 @Ohio St. Won 25-22 Sep 17 Rice Won 51-10 Oct 1 @Missouri Won 51-20 Oct 8 Oklahoma Won 45-12 Oct 15 Colorado Won 42-17 Oct 22 Texas Tech Won 52-17 Oct 29 @Oklahoma St. Won 47-28 Nov 5 @Baylor Won 62-0 Nov 12 Kansas Won 66-14 Nov 25 @Texas A&M Won 40-29 Dec 3 @Colorado Won 70-3 Oh yeah, Vince Young went 30 for 40 for 267 yards against "the greatest team ever"- no picks. Hmmm, what else? Oh yeah 200 yards rushing on top of that! Does this mean he is guaranteed to be an NFL success? Of course not. There are no guarantees.

http://www.fansinblack.com/x/showthread.php?t=7121 D'Brick!

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."

Someone pointed out that Coy Wire's rep as a special teams animal was undeserved, but Aiken is a ST stud. No way he goes. Our new assistant head coach April will have something to say about that!

Sorry Blue Fire! The Texas man needs respect- "Huff" And if that QB guy from Texas falls, I think the Raiders nail em. (Just kidding Blue..."Young")

Gone before Buffalo picks: RB Reggie Bush QB Leinhart QB Young QB Cutler Who's left? Hawk, Mario, D'Brick, Texas safety, Ngati (Shut your eyes and pick one out of the hat) I'd be happy with any of these guys...

FWIW John Clayton just said Sam Adams will probably be cut.

Gotcha- thanks for clarifying. I see your point.

Actually, I wasn't comparing them based on schools. If you notice I threw Urlacher in there. One's an All-pro, one's a bust. That was my basis for comparison. Why such a negative unfriendly response?

Marv/Ralph: "The Golden Boys" Fake Fat Sunny's new name: "Pyrite Gal" (opposite of "Golden Boys") OK, was I the last person to get it?

• A club can designate one franchise player or one transition player in any given year. • The salary level offer by a player's old club determines what type of franchise player he is. • An "exclusive" franchise player -- not free to sign with another club -- is offered a minimum of the average of the top five salaries at the player's position as of April 16, or 120 percent of the player's previous year's salary, whichever is greater. • If the player is offered a minimum of the average of the top five salaries of last season at his position, or 120 percent of the player’s previous year’s salary, he becomes a “non-exclusive” franchise player and can negotiate with other clubs. His old club can match a new club's offer, or receive two first-round draft choices if it decides not to match. The signing period for non-exclusive franchise players to sign with new clubs is March 3 through November 9 (10th week of the season). • A transition player has received a minimum offer of the average of the top 10 salaries of last season at the player's position or 120 percent of the player's previous year's salary, whichever is greater. • A transition player designation gives the club a first-refusal right to match within seven days an offer sheet given to the player by another club after his contract expires. If the club matches, it retains the player. If it does not match, it receives no compensation. Transition players can be signed from March 3 through July 22."

Do the Bills take this guy if he is available? Anyone seen him play on TV? Is he the next Urlacher? or Katzenmoyer?

Yeah, since Robert Gallery. I agree he won't last but after the combine there is always a little reshuffling. Maybe AJ Hawk or Mario Williams fall instead.

The deep sarcasm and negativity from him and his callers ("he sucks, she sucks, have a take, don't suck") wears thin. Instead of being uplifting, it just brings me down. His TV show, however, avoids most of the negativity and juvenile "humor" and I find that watchable.

Please send Rome to satellite... anywhere but on my car radio.

I had the Steelers: 31. Pittsburgh Rd 1- LAURENCE MARONEY, RB, Minnesota 63. Pittsburgh Rd 2- JONOTHAN SCOTT, OT, Texas 95. Pittsburgh Rd 3- MICHAEL ROBINSON, WR, Penn State

If you don't have "Krazee-Eyes Killah" on the list, then how can I take this seriously?

I like: "Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys."

From Bill Simmons ESPN: First of all, we're six weeks into the season (of 24), and Rudy is still refusing to wear his Notre Dame football jacket. Which is bothersome. But during the scene in which Rudy implores Jack to allow the terrorists to release the nerve gas on the unsuspecting California mall (so they can keep following the terrorists), then Jack's old girlfriend gives him the Adrian Balboa-esque "Look at the TV, look at the kids you wanted to kill today, what's happened to you?" guilt trip, couldn't they have had Rudy thinking about quitting before Charles S. Dutton (as the CTU janitor) talked him out of it? Then the scene could have unfolded like this: -- Rudy (heading to his car): "Hey." -- Charles S: "Hey hey hey, whatcha doin' here, don't you have to run CTU?" -- Rudy: "Not anymore, I quit." -- Charles S: "Well, since when are you the quitting kind?" -- Rudy: "I just wanted to prove to everyone --" -- Charles S: "Prove what?" -- Rudy: "That I could run CTU. That I was somebody." -- Charles S: "Aw, you are so full of crap. Look at you, you're 5-foot-nothing, you've gained 100 pounds since "Lord of the Rings," and you have nearly a speck of athletic ability, but you hung in with the most important counterterrorist unit in the land for six episodes! In this lifetime, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody except yourself! And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen! Now go on back there and run CTU!"

I was under the impression that the NFL had NO antitrust exemptions, but you say they have "significant antitrust exemptions". What exemptions do they have? They were found guilty of anti-trust violations in their case against the USFL. I know they weren't exempt then- what has changed?

3rd round - PITTSBURGH STEELERS select: There are 2 picks left and this draft is over. Seattle:____________ Pittsburgh:__________ I am Pittsburgh. I am jumping ahead of Seattle because I won't be on later. Here are 2 picks in order of preference. If Seattle takes my number 1 guy then use number 2: 1. WR: Michael Robinson (Penn State ex-QB) 2. Safety: Anthony Smith (Syracuse) Thanks- good job 2003

Barry rocks. <whistling> You came along just like a song and brighten my day who would of believed that you where part of a dream now it all seems light years away and now you know I can't smile without you I can't smile without you I can't laugh and I can't sing I'm finding it hard to do anything you see I feel sad when your sad I feel glad when you're glad if you only knew what I'm going through I just can't smile, without you...

I interpolated. Not 100% sure. What do you think? The following article came out on Sunday October 17th, 2004 (Sunday paper). BUFFALO NEWS SUNDAY Sports ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Front Page > Sports > Teams & Leagues > Bills COMMENTARY Ralph owed a fish fry on birthday By LARRY FELSER 10/17/2004 Could it be too much to skip the birthday cake with the four score and half dozen candles and have the Bills produce a bona fide victory in honor of their boss today? Yes, it's Ralph Wilson's 86th birthday. Ties are out. Slippers he owns. He wears Bills' sweaters, not knitted ones. His birthday present request list has just one item written on it: "Beat the Dolphins!" It's not asking too much. This Buffalo-Miami game is like a re-enactment of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, those two Civil War ironclads that were precursors to modern battleships. They moved glacially and had short and unhappy futures. Just like the 2004 Bills and Dolphins. When you're 86 and you own an NFL franchise, what you want to do is go to the games, sit back and be entertained by your well-paid warriors. Leave the headaches to someone else, in this case Tom Donahoe, whom Wilson not only hired as the GM but bestowed the title of president upon, the first Bills' employee with that much power and say. Donahoe's reign has turned out like a Florida election. The '04 Bills can't get through an offensive series without some sort of disaster penalty, usually a dumb one. Each yellow flag is like a dart in the hide of the owner. All he asked for were pleasant afternoons. Instead he's had a month's worth of heartburn. Last week, after the last-minute loss to the Jets in the Jersey Meadowlands, Wilson spoke out angrily. He has had his fill of "nice tries" and consolation prizes. The Bills' comeback to produce a late lead was like a nice dessert that comes after the chef burns your steak and overcooks the vegetables. Wilson deserves much better. It was in October 1959 that he decided to bring an American Football League franchise to Buffalo, returning the pro game to a city that had lusted for it since losing its All-America Conference franchise in 1950, when the NFL turned thumbs down on the city. At the time, the NFL was a 12-team league with no intention to expand. There were a few forward-looking owners, but George Preston Marshall, the owner of the Washington Redskins, always blocked change. Washington was then considered a southern city. If Marshall were alive today the NFL would still be a 12-team league and all white. Marshall and most of the pro football franchise owners of the time are dead. Ralph Wilson is one of the great statesmen of American sports. In the AFL's rockier days, he saved the Raiders' franchise by buying a piece of the team. It was against the AFL constitution for anyone to own even minority shares in another team. As Wilson explained later, "The league would have gone down if I hadn't." After NBC signed a rich contract with the new league, assuring its survival, Wilson sold back the shares. He also lent money to the late Billy Sullivan to keep the rival Patriots alive. The Pats grew into one of the premier franchises in sports. Wilson, like any owner, has absorbed a lot of unkind shots in Buffalo through the years. Whenever a gas-station rumor popped up claiming he would move the team to some other city, there would be panic in the streets, or at least in the talk-show and letters-to-the-editor columns. He's still here. As he's been explaining for decades, "I'm not going anywhere." He meant it. For about the last quarter century, one of the major water-cooler questions around town has been "who will own the Bills when Wilson is gone?" There have been published stories naming candidates. Most of the candidates have come and gone. Ralph is still on the right side of the grass, agonizing over dopey penalties. He's been called money hungry yet his ticket prices are the lowest in the league, more than $10 under the league average. Parking is $4 under the average. You can buy a hot dog for 82 cents under the average. Happy birthday, Ralph. (Larry Felser, former News columnist, appears in Sunday's editions.)

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