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I hate to interrupt the flow of this mature and sophisticated discussion, and maybe I'm just getting senile, but I honestly can't remember anyone named "King" in the least. Which makes your draft point again.

Does anyone know what happened to justin tv? It stopped and shows "not broadcasting."

I believe they're already in a bowl game because of tie-in's between certain bowls and the MAC. There are 34 bowls this year (= 68 slots). I don't know if they can upgrade beyond the slot for the MAC #2 team. Does someone else know the particulars for sure?

Via con Dios, compadre.

That was John Madden!

There's actually a point buried in this. How many times have you seen someone else's RB keep going because a Bills defender didn't wrap him up? Hitting isn't tackling.

You're putting two things together. The NFL had a game with last season's champion vs. College All-Stars that was the first pre-season game before the HOF Game was. I remember the Jets playing in it the summer after Super Bowl III. It was invented in the 30's by Arch Ward, the Chicago sports editor who also thought up the MLB All-Star Game. In the 30's a game between College All-Stars and an NFL team was apparently competitive. It was eventually dropped because it was an awful game by the 60's and the NFL hated letting blue chip draft choices stay out of training camps to get ready for it. The AFL started with an East vs. West All-Star game but tried a champions vs. the rest of the league format for one year, 1965 (= why the Bills played it). That was a post-season game like it is now. The source for the format was the old 6-team NHL, which did the same thing but, IIRC, played the game mid-season. I don't remember what the AFL did in '66 but since the champion had an extra game (SB I) I think they went back to East vs. West. God I feel old knowing this stuff.

At last, an easy one: because they'd drafted Alex Smith #1 overall recently enough that they couldn't use a high pick on another quarterback in '07. At that point they probably hadn't decided Smith was a bust yet. (As I recall, he was the Opening Day starter in '07.)

Just FWIW: there's the Cubby Bear across the street from Wrigley Field. They have something like 20 screens and carry every game, so you find yourself in a Bills corner with other Bills fans. (The Fish fans -- if there are any -- will have their own corner, just like everyone else.)

I kept thinking throughout the 4th Quarter how this feels exactly like so many games from recent years except the team roles are reversed -- the Bills give up the TD interception, the Bills fumble the long catch, the Bills watch the other guys pull away, etc., etc., etc. But not these guys . . .

For anybody who saw the Bills/Rams Game listed this morning as on CBS/2 at 4 p.m.: according to Channel 2's own website (WCBS New York), they're showing the SD/Oakland game, so the Record listing looks like a mistake. This message is intended as a public service for my fellow Bills fans marooned here in Gothamland.

I think you may be right. Don't get old -- you lose your memory. Bottom line: the Bills were a beast vs. the NFC in those days regular season. If only . . .

FWIW, in '93 (the last Super Bowl year) the Bills actually beat each of NYG, Dallas and Washington in the regular season -- and the Dallas game was IN Dallas. They also beat the Giants about a month before the SB (at Orchard Park) in '90, the first SB year. I think that's the game where Simms got hurt.

Everybody seems to have an excuse (age, injuries, etc.), except Cleveland. I agree they had an easier schedule last year, but am I missing anything else? Did they lose anyone? Didn't they get everyone back healthy?

From buffalobills.com: "The Bills second-year signal caller has now posted wins in eight of his 12 career starts for a .750 winning percentage, making him one of just three active NFL quarterbacks with a winning percentage of .750 or better." 8/12 = .750?????? No wonder they have trouble with clock management.

Sigh. From your mouth . . .

Yeah, I remember that too. He missed a couple in regulation. I seem to recall some quote from Thurman at the time about what would have happened had he missed again.

The '91 AFC Championship Game (51-3; greatest game ever played by Bills) was played in Buffalo in January. This cover is from the regular season game in Oakland the following season, in December of '91.

Maybe we're all misunderstanding this: "What will it be like to have [former Jaguars defensive tackle] Marcus Stroud coming back this weekend? It's going to be a homecoming, with a butt whipping. Did I say that right? A homecoming, with a butt whipping. Yeah, yeah, I like that [laughing]." Maybe he meant Stroud GIVES the butt whipping. Ya think?

This could be crucial. With the expected heat and the difference in playing style vs. Seattle (with Taylor and Jones-Drew, Jax can be expected to run more) the Bills probably need a four-man DT rotation next week.

Absolutely true.

This is the Bills we're talking about. Peters won't count against the roster for two weeks, if he's even ready to play by then. It's GUARANTIED that before he's activated someone will get hurt and go IR. Then it will only be a question of depth.

So Schouman is playing?

Well, I'm jealous. I'll be stuck in Bergen County watching Jets/Phins ( any way they can both lose?) or St. Lou at Phil, with the Bills game updating on nfl.com.

The season starts Friday? When "the New York Giants travel to Washington, DC" -- ? Was I ever misinformed!