The Avenger

Worse yet - bad for anyone in America who signs a legal contract - you actually have to live by the terms of that contract - imagine that!

Can't wait to see how fast the helmet radios go down for the Bills is week 4....

That was crazy - not being a huge Prince fan I'd never seen him play like that. That reminded me of Stevie Ray Vaughn - just played with so much style and emotion yet completely effortlessly, as if the guitar was actually part of him - amazing.

Fernando....that's a fun name to say.....

I like the horse collar change - I could never understand why you had to have your hand inside a player's collar to be called - it's the same dangerous tackle even if you pull a guy down from the top of his jersey like that. A facemask is a facemask and a horse collar is a horse collar - the exact form used should be irrelevant.

Please make it stop - international games suck. I get that they want to expand the sport to other markets and open the game up to the world, but these are REAL GAMES with REAL CONSEQUENCES. Teams lose home games. Teams have to travel time zones and deal with the consequences. Then there's the logistics of getting tons of equipment and having all players get passports and having their affairs in order to be able to travel. At some point soon there will be a player with a passport or legal issue that will prevent them from playing in an international game that will impact the game and the fans. Put some preseason games in China - they won't know the difference and we don't care about them. Nobody gets all messed up traveling halfway around the world and then needing time to travel and recover or be at a disadvantage to their next opponent. Oh, and did I mention the fans? I wasn't a big fan of getting up early and dealing with Yahoo streaming video for a London game last season, and I'm on the east coat - had I been a fan in Cali I would have been up at 6am to see the game. It'll only get worse with games in China. I don't know about you, but I'm going to be majorly pissed when I have to wake up at 4am to watch a Bills game from Kuala Lampur broadcast via a series of 6 second Vines and animated gifs.

Gotta back you up on this, brother. I love the Big 4 and have since the 80s, and Slayer is at the top. I hear their influence in so many other bands it's not even funny - it's everywhere in metal and that tells me a lot about their stature in the genre. I saw Slayer with Testament and Carcass last week and they were, as always, awesome even without Jeff and Dave - and their new video that came out yesterday is pretty cool as well. I do like other forms of metal - sludge (Crowbar, Down), metalcore/mathcore (Dillinger Escape Plan), goth (Type O) but it's hard to stay away from the stuff you first liked and for me that's thrash and that's Slayer.

Wow - I didn't know this many people would be upset that we let Hogan go. I don't dislike him, but he's not worth $4m/year to the Bills - nowhere close to that. Maybe he's a better fit in NE's offense and catches many more balls than he would have ever caught in Buffalo, but I still don't see how he's worth that type of money. Glad he got paid and looks like he has an opportunity to be a bigger part of the offense, but I'm not worried about replacing him at all.

Bruce always puts on a great show - every time I've seen him play he looks like he's really "on" that night and is playing the show of his life, and after seeing about 5 shows you realize it's just par for the course for him. I was never a fan until my wife took me to a show and his live performances really turned me into a fan. I tell everyone to go see him live if they haven't. I'm really bummed that I couldn't get any tickets to his show in Boston for this tour - I've always wanted to see him play The River and it's guaranteed on this tour but the scalpers got all the tickets and I'm not paying $700 for a pair.

I think you use the Brady defense here - if the specific infraction wasn't clearly defined by the league ahead of time along with what the punishment would be for such an infraction, the league can't enforce any discipline. Does Goodell have a specific rule against being in an early morning bar fracas with friends who are criminally charged when you are not? If so, what's the penalty? How is Shady supposed to know what's against league rule and what the punishment is unless it is clearly stated ahead of time for everyone to know?

The 2016 Buffalo Bills: Welp

He bullied Eric Wood into actually snapping the ball, though - just a big bully.....

Darby - straight from the bottle....

I love how EVERYONE smokes - even in hospitals, doctors and patients just light right up....different times.

Room 22 was always one of my favorites - still creepy after all these years - "Room for one more, honey"..... Nothing in the Dark with a very young Robert Redford It's a Good Life - "You done good,Anthony, real good" Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up - 2 aliens in the restaurant.....

It's like that with everything nowadays - any type of event you want to see - sports, concert, show - only the wealthy can afford to go. I remember growing up we didn't have much money, but every so often we would go to a game or a show at Sheas, but nowadays I don't know how a family could do it without dropping $500 - that's a lot of money. It's a shame because kids don't get to see the things I got to as a kid - they have to watch everything on TV or video because it's too expensive to actually go to many things. My brother lives in San Jose and makes a pretty good living - his son is a huge Niners fan and they can't go to a game because it would cost a minimum of $300/seat to go - not worth it, but they are losing my nephew as the next generation of people to attend games.

Agreed about the Big Short, although I really liked Flash Boys as well. I find Lewis is remarkable in his ability to get average folks to understand how some of these very complex financial instruments were structured and functioned. I worked in the asset backed securities market before the collapse and I recommend Lewis' book to everyone who wants to understand what happened. I'm hoping the movie will be good - I see Carell and Bales got Golden Globe nods as well as a nomination as best picture, musical or comedy (still not quite sure how they categorize these)...

Bye-bye Joe Dirt!

I think the Bills win it and start a winning streak for no other reason to get our hopes up - we'll do everything we can to make it to the playoffs only to watch something happen in week 17 that keeps us out - it's the most painful way to end the season, so with this organization I think it's the most likely. As we sit in stunned silence and realize we didn't make the playoffs we'll think back to all the games we pissed away and think next year will be better - happens every year.

Maybe they ARE ponying up for the Sunday Ticket Max and the app.....

Agreed - The Pats* are expert in knowing when to use challenges and when they need to avoid having another team challenge. The catch that Sammy made where KC challenged, I was screaming at them to hurry to the line and run a play so KC couldn't throw the flag - that's exactly what Brady does in that situation to make sure a catch can't be ruled incomplete. What to the Bills do? Go into the huddle and as they break the flag comes out - luckily the replay went Buffalo's way. As for not seeing replays on the scoreboard, what do you expect? All teams do that - show replays helpful to the home team and not show them if they would help the visitor - it's part of having home field advantage. There should be absolutely no excuse for not seeing the replays needed for making a challenge - if we see it at home the coaches should see it as well. Hell, if we have to we can do a gofundme to buy the Bills a Sunday Ticket Max subscription so they can watch on their phones/tablet from anywhere (probably get it for a prorated price now that we are to week 13).

Loved how the song on the car radio when Simone got to the hotel was "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" - great nod to Lebowski (also played for the closing credits)....

Not sure what's worse - the Chargers or Rivers' 'stache....

Chargers defense is miserable

What amazed me was that he had only 1 type of pass last night - a quick laser spiral with no arc. Sometimes that's what you want, but not always, and that's all I saw from Johnny football - can he throw a fade to the corner if he needs to?