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Catholic Guilt

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  1. Well, not to generalize, but name me the last Michigan RB who was any good. Tyrone Wheatley, Tim Biakabatuka, Anthony Thomas. These guys were much higher drfat picks and were big busts. Hart was less physically gifted than all of them. I don't think we're going to regret that in the long run. Better to give a shot to a more gifted kid from a smaller school than to go with someobody because they are a name.

     

     

    Biakabatuka was a beast! To say he was a bust is foolish. He is still the Panthers leading rusher after playing only 5 seasons. His career was cut short by injuries.

  2. Thurman Thomas - 1995 at a bar in Charlotte. He just got off the plane and was a bit tipsy. Saw me and put me in a headlock because I had on a Kelly Jersey. Great guy. He wanted to chat with us longer, but former Buffalo sports guy Chuck Howard showed up and tried to get Thurman to talk. He was having none of that and spent time speak with me and my buddy. Poor Chuck tried and tried for 30 minutes to make headway with him. TT didn't like the way Chuck treated him during his sports anchor days in Buffalo. TT signed everything we put in from of him and posted for pictures.

     

    James Lofton - 1997 at another Charlotte bar after a Bills Panthers preseason game. He was surprised to be recognized and signed my game ticket. We spoke about some of his great games. I even bought him a beer. Very personable.

     

    Carlton Bailey - 2002 I did a story on him for my magazine on life after football. Funny and personable.

     

    Frank Reich - 2002 He was my coverboy for this issue on life after sports. He was one of my favorites growing up.

  3. Olean

     

    These are all great suggestions. I was thinking of a 1 year probation period. Also, the burning of some of the Pats gear that he has. He did burn a picture of Willis McGahee this past weekend so he is on the path back to recovery.

     

    I have been roommates with him for 4 years now and 2 years in college so I have heard his Patriots garbage for awhile (I have lost many bets with him). He went to the Bills-Falcons game with me a few years back and did pull for the Bills. Our own poster, BuffaloBilliever, is his cousin so maybe he could shed some light on the issue. I think the change in heart can be sparked by his rooting for the Sabres and maybe he has seen the error in his ways for leaving the home town team.

    I grew up in Allegany and there is no freaking way I'd let him root for the Bills again. His WNY card should be revolked and he should be taken to the Olean Center Mall where the townies can throw rotten eggs at him dressed in his Brady jersey. Oh yeah I live in Charlotte and have Panthers season tickets, but the Bills are still my team. SUCK IT Bandwagon turd burglar!

  4. I feel there have been a lot of people "duped" into moving to other cities, only to realize that their available income is the same or less because of ridiculous housing costs and high cost of living. Some probably don't even realize that or think about it, and for many it may be too late to try and find a new job if they have put significant time in with the company they are with...

     

    We need decent jobs to afford even those rock-bottom house prices. And please don't forget the high taxes you pay on those cheap houses.

  5. I left WNY in 1988, but it still feels like home to me. I am a Buffalo sports nut and everyone knows that. My neighbor is a former NFL running back and he constantly gives me a hard time about being a Bills fan. He doesn't understand the loyalty. My wife tells her friends anyone from WNY makes a great husband because no matter what happens, they are faithful.

     

    End Zone Crew do me a favor. Start changing the city, make it affordable for the many of us who would like to move back and have a decent job. Stop electing the same morons to office that tax the residents to death. I have many friends from back home and the only reason they left was a lack of opportunity.

  6. This was one of the thousands of tributes posted about Tim. I thought it was appropriate.

     

     

    "One final note about Tim that everybody has heard much about but that I can also attest to. That was his love of Buffalo. Tim could walk into a room of kings and potentates, but if there was someone in the room from Buffalo, anybody, that is whom he wanted to spend time talking to.

     

    As I said, what a loss."

     

    Ross Frommer

    New York City

     

    Go Bills!

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