RuntheDamnBall

DUCK SEASON!

They're a complete waste of materials and electricity and they piss me off most up north where they've replaced anybody's creative urges to actually take a half-hour to build a snowman. Which is funny because it probably takes hours of work to earn the money it costs to buy those stupid things and keep them running.

Well, these players didn't do that last year -- they beat the Bengals and should have beaten the Jets if it weren't for Kelly Holcomb and his favorite receiver, Ty Law. I think with better coaching you'll see the same effort and better results.

Here's a Tom Friedman column on it. I'm finding his style grating these days but liking what he has to say here:

It'd have been a back breaker if it wasn't really the best team in the league. LT can't be stopped these days.

Statistics deathmatch begins in... 3....2...1...

Thanks. I appreciate your kind words. You're getting there.

I suppose, but I feel like I'm a real fan but there's no way I could afford season tickets + travel from NYC to make a reasonable number of the games. I can, however, afford the single games. But it gets way out of hand when a profiteer is trying to make triple the value of the ticket. All I'm saying. Thankfully there are usually enough Buffalo fans that aren't greedy who have seasons, and are willing to sell off a game or two that they aren't going to at a reasonable price.

Poaching the Panthers and Squishing the Fish: For Buffalo, twice as nice

548 posts for a thread that could be summed up in one quick visual:

Marv was a retread. Herm Edwards was a hot young Jets coach once, also. Things can change on a dime. You've got nothing to prove otherwise; besideswhich, Jauron was working as a D-coordinator, and then an interim coach for the last three years, so he actually has been coaching in the NFL. But don't let that stop the prognostications of doom and gloom if that will make you happier.

Good guy to have around come October. Hope it doesn't happen.

While I appreciate ripping off Leafs fans, this is also the reason our house gets taken over whenever Toronto comes into town. Personally, I think real fans would want to see that game.

Looks like I was right.

Because he can ground his conclusions in opinions of posts on a football message board.

...so dumb.

Yeah, but if he's using his influence and capacities to get tickets that people might otherwise buy and then selling them at a huge profit, it's kind of unfair. I'd be pissed about people doing this at a Bills or Sabres game. As it is I had to pay quite a bit to get tickets to come home for a Sabres game in Feb. Season tickets should not be an opportunity for fans to make money. You either want them and you go to a bulk of the games, or you sell them for a reasonable price to cover the hassle, maybe 10-20% more, tops. I hate that it's become really prohibitive in terms of both pricing and atmosphere for families and your average joes to go to and enjoy games.

He can and does. It's tiresome, but he doesn't care. It's the crusade, love it or leave it, baby. His plan = give the ball to another QB who will struggle and whose head he would be calling for in another year. Talk about finding comfort in misery and vice versa.

OtoH, I think it's a remarkable phenomenon. It should give us pause and make us wonder: how 'real' or trusted is the news most people get anyway? What if there could be an open source-type movement in news? What is the nature of the truth? The answers might not all be accurate or academically certifiable -- certainly not subject to the kind of peer-review process or journalistic standards we believe we're getting. But it's quite an interesting rupture. Even more interesting is that the only response companies seem to take to this phenomenon is to keep swallowing one another up and consolidating.

Funny, I was screaming all last winter to try and pry away Manuwai as an RFA from the Jags. I thought nobody heard me.

I'm not all that hot on Leonard Davis, either.

Interesting idea. If you were to say how he influenced history itself, I would probably agree with you. I think perhaps the disconnect is that he didn't have ideas that really influenced the country (rather, they were reflective of already existing ideas). So, his actions did influence history but I don't think they really influence the way we approach the world today as much as those of many others. Good point, nonetheless.

Jersey spill

Obviously, you're not a golfer.