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Statement from Dave Wannstedt - looks good for the Bills!

This rule leaves a lot to be desired. Team A scores a FG in OT. Team B, on the ensuing possession, throws a pick. A proceeds to fumble the ball on the same play. B recovers. Game over, A wins. Team A performs an onside kick. A scores a FG. A wins. Team A has the first possession, fumbles the ball, B recovers but then fumbles to A on the same play. A scores a FG. A wins. A lot of strange possibilities are possible. Why not just keep playing 15 minute quarters until the game is no longer tied at the end of the quarter? That is a lot simpler and has the potential for more ad revenue.

No pickle juice?

6-0 in the division and yet they don't make the playoffs. Imagine the uproar here if this team went 6-0 in the division and yet didn't make the playoffs. It would make the Dallas and Patriots* MNF aftermaths look like child's play!

Of course they are directly related. Who do you think handed the guy the script of what to say? Who made the signage that went up on the scoreboard? There is a time and a place for this. That time was not with 5 mins left in the 4th quarter after your fans witnessed a beatdown by a team that's beaten you 15 straight times and after you've been out in the cold for 5 hours. Nix didn't have anything to do with i t, but you can be damn sure Russ Brandon did. The fact is that this team has been focusing more on hyping a mediocre product rather than fixing the problems that have been plaguing this franchise for over a decade.

Yes, I do. I'm starting to understand the portion of the fanbase that's fed up with the management of the team.

Ryan Fitzpatrick arguably had the worst game of his career yesterday. Of course, I had the pleasure of witnessing it in person, waking up at 2AM to drive from downstate (where I was visiting my folks) to beat the storm. Yet I hear the PA announcer say "Congratulations Ryan!" in the 4th quarter of yesterday's game, celebrating his feat of surpassing the 3,000 yard passing mark this season. Was anyone else peeved about this? Seeing your team getting the snot beaten out of them, much of it due to the 3 interceptions Fitz threw and the 2 fumbles he gave away. And yet we congratulate him? I know we are gullible SOBs for our continued support for this team, but do they really take us to be that stupid? For the record, they also congratulated Stevie Johnson on getting 1,000 yards receiving. I wasn't happy about this but at least SJ didn't directly contribute to the loss through exceptionally poor play.

CBP has no authority over Canadian matters - Canada's customs officers are charged with the responsibility of admitting travelers to Canada. Canada currently does not have any passport requirement at all so you will have no issue with them. The problem you run into is the reverse - when you come back, the US requires that you prove your identity with a passport or other approved document. If you don't have that, then the officer needs to determine who you are. If they determine that you are a citizen, they are under a legal obligation to admit you. The amount of time they take figuring that out? Well, that depends on whether you're on their good side.

Your posts always bring a smile to my face .

The law also states that CBP must admit US citizens under any circumstances - they cannot turn you around for lack of ID if you claim to be a US citizen. The problem one runs into without a passport is that the officer has to determine that you are who you say you are. Depending on the whims of the individual officer, that can take 10 minutes, or 10 hours, during which time you're in a holding tank waiting for them to sort you out. Oh the stories you read about unfortunate souls on Flyertalk .

I think the offensive game planning and schemes are light years ahead of where they were a year ago. That's almost all of Chan's doing. That being said, I'm still not convinced that the defensive side of the ball is in better shape than it was last year at this time.

Quite the difference: http://www.buffalobills.com/media-center/videos/Coach-Jauron-Post-Game-Press-Conference/1bcfa192-5313-4eb3-88dc-e5fe8664f767

http://www.buffalobills.com/media-center/videos/Chan-Gailey-Postgame-Press-Conference/d698f070-a589-44c8-9233-b610f2bad59c#?id=d698f070-a589-44c8-9233-b610f2bad59c Right at the start.

Because the Yankees are in a position to compete. They have a roster with players that have hundreds of games of playoff experience. They have fistfulls of cash. They've missed the playoffs only once since 1996. The Bills, on the other hand, can't even get free agents to visit and depend on the draft. They haven't made the playoffs in over ten years. I don't even know if they have a single player on the roster that has any playoff experience. What you're proposing is tantamount to a janitor becoming CEO of a Fortune 500 company in the span of a year. That just doesn't happen. It takes hard work, a lot of learning, and experience to do that. That's what this team really needs before drafting a rookie QB.

And yet that's not what anyone was suggesting. What I am saying is that this team is far more than one or two players away from competing for the Super Bowl. If this team wants to get to the playoffs (which should be the primary goal of this group given the holes they have), they need to start plugging holes like LB, DE, and OL. Incremental improvements at the QB position (which is what Luck would be 3 years after he enters the league) is not going to put you on the track to make the playoffs given the other holes. And yes, I am a Yankee fan, and consider anything short of a World Series win a failure. The Yankees are a much different team than the Bills and as such the strategy and goals are different.

Really? You think Seattle wouldn't drop Hasselbeck for Fitz? Washington just benched McNabb. Denver is so desperate that they dropped their former starter down to third string. You think Cincinnati is thrilled with Carson Palmer's play? Tavaris Jackson was so good that the Vikings had to get Brett Favre again. Fitz is not Peyton Manning or Tom Brady. However, he's good enough to get the team to the playoffs. At this point I think that's what you shoot for - take baby steps, don't worry about wining the Super Bowl right now.

Actually, they played a super bowl there not too long ago. Better than what Buffalo can say!

I've been there many times. Trust me - it's a Bavarian tourist trap and not much else!

You've got it wrong. Punish yourself with pushups, squat thrusts, etc when the Bills fumble, throw a pick, give up a TD, etc. You'll be fit in no time.

+1 on the club seats. The fact that you are outside but have indoor amenities right behind you, that the badly behaved have been weeded out for you, and clean/ample bathrooms make it a no brainer for me when I come back to the east.

San Diego is the one team that would cause the NFL the least amount of pain to move to LA. It's what, a 2.5 hour drive between the two cities? For Buffalo, this would be like moving to Syracuse, if Syracuse were a flashy, larger city. I would still be a Bills fan if they stayed within the state and they moved outside of Erie County. Not a chance if they moved to Toronto.

Sammy! Mr. Beverage Container had better be on the case!

These scanners amount to nothing more than security theater - they would not have stopped the underwear bomber because TSA themselves admit that they blur the genital and facial areas on the scan. Don't believe me? Then perhaps you should read Bruce Schneier's blog on the matter: http://www.schneier.com/ Of course, the scanners also don't detect explosives hidden in body cavities. Should we search body cavities too while we're at it? We all want to be "safe", don't we? The health issue is another area of concern. The MMW machines are safe - but the backscatter machines use cancer-causing ionizing radiation focused at the skin. The amount itself is indeed less than 2 minutes worth of flying - TSA has that correct. However, that radiation is absorbed by the entire body rather than just the skin, which is what happens during a scan. The effects of the backscatter machines with respect to skin cancer are widely unknown at this point and we're supposed to take the government's word that everything is a-ok. I'm sorry - but I just don't have that amount of blind faith in them. So ignoring the fact that they are unable to detect explosives in the genital area, or inside body cavities, or if they are folded along the contours of the skin, why doesn't the federal government just use the millimeter wave machines given that they have no health controversy? Because former DHS-head Michael Chertoff's company, Rapiscan, manufactures the backscatter machines. I'll let you add 2 and 2 together here. The chances of another 9/11-style attack are extremely remote in this country given that the cockpit doors are now reinforced with steel and locked. That right there is the biggest improvement to aviation security. These moronic body scanners don't do anything except waste stimulus funds - if you're a terrorist and want to blow up a plane, it's a hell of a lot easier to do it with cargo rather than carrying it on your person.

Wifebeater = shirt this guy is wearing: http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2007/10/08-15/kfedxbox.jpg

If they can beat the Steelers, Patriots, or Jets, yes, I will be thrilled. I'm sorry but it's hard for me to get excited when they beat the Lions or when our QB is throwing pick-sixes to Cincinnati and wins the game. For us, beating the Pats is like ace-ing the SATs. Beating Cincinnati is like filling in your name on the score sheet - we haven't been defeated by them in over 20 years.