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Atlanta's troubles stem from inept management, and an unwillingness (or inability) to pay for and keep thier top talent = fan apathy. No one wants to go see a loser in a city with so much going on like Atlanta...
The real problems are that hockey isn't very popular in the US (about to be passed by MLS, if you can believe it) and Atlanta has a lot of transplants who would otherwise follow other teams.
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It's funny how being in the right place at the right time has been chalked up to dumb luck. Could instincts and positioning possibly factor in to the equation? What cannot be ignored is Byrd more than doubled Donte's career production in one season. Why aren't opposing QBs throwing the ball into Donte's chest all the time? Some guys make their own luck, get on a roll, it happens.
It's certainly "dumb," but not (entirely) "luck."
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Yes, hopefully the opposing teams QB continues to throw the ball into his chest.
Yep, they were all into his chest.
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If you have the money, it would probably be a good idea to hire a private investigator. Any contact between the two "witnesses" won't stay secret for long.
I was going to suggest this. The PI can find out if they know each other, if they have done this before, and any other dirt on them that they won't want being aired in public during the cross-examination.
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One they don't have the statium needed.
Two there is no show of support from the local fans.
Three it would stuggle to support a thousand employees ,not thousands and thousands.
Four Buffalo is bring the NFL to toranto now.Good move on their part to show l;eague that it would not pay to offer a franchise to Toranto.
Five Buffalo benifits from a Candian fan base of aroud 12000 ea home game.If there was a "Toranto" team Buffalo would lose that support and the league would have a weak franchise to deal with.(two counting Toranto)
Sixth the NFL will in time become international.There is nothing you or I will be able to do about it.There is just too much money in places like Lyondon,Paris,Berlin,Mexico City,Tokyo,etc,etc, etc.The NFL only knows one thing for sure,it will go where the money is.
Actually if Buffalo had been moved years ago, then Toranto would have been in the NFL sites,but with Buffalo there and with them playing a few games in Toranto I believe they have effectively removed Toranto as a possible site.
I agree with everything except for having teams in countries outside of Mexico or Canada (and I don't mean Toronto). The plane flights/time differences would make it too hard.
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I don't know anyone who is nearing or of age who's actually planning on retiring here. That's an entirely untenable prospect.
CT's a beautiful place (well, here in the more rural part) and it's the land of all my sins, but it's getting harder and harder to justify living here. If our home hadn't been bought so cheaply and paid off in the '70s, there'd be no way we could afford it. Even at that, it's difficult. This town does next to nothing for services and yet they get very creative with their taxes. We live on a lake and now have a "view tax." A !@#$ing tax because we have a nice view. Holy ****! And it's tyranny of the majority here. I shouldn't have to move just because these !@#$s vote to spend and spend and spend.
It is a beautiful place, but it's steadily being destroyed by liberal policies. I am looking for other places to work/live because things will only get worse.
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Call me what you will, but there's a part of me that thinks O would absolutely love to see this happen just so he could get his fingers on that. To the tune of being willing to sacrifice a second term.
Here in CT, the governor, after raising taxes on "the rich" and actually increasing the budget by $1.5B over two years --- this is after we've been $3.5B in the red and high-interest borrowing to meet payments --- got some good news that tax receipts had gone over expectations by $400M so far this year. What do you think he did with it?
Spent it like it's going outta of style.
I used to pick among candidates that I thought were best, among the parties (I once even voted for a local-ticket Board of Educ. Greenie who appeared not to have his head up his ass). Nevermore will I vote for a Democrat. !@#$ing NEVER. You hear it so often it's almost cliche. But it's true. It's just tax and spend with them and they don't give a ****.
Dannel's plans have caused what's being called "the white flight" from CT. According to a guy who was a former CT politician who came to my surgery center, 10,000 families with jobs left the state and 9,000 families needing state aid moved-in in April alone. One of the ENT's I work with said that he saw a medicaid patient that came from somewhere in the midwest and asked him why he moved to CT, and he said it's because the benefits are better and easier to get.
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Yes, it appears another thread was necessary. I believe the original poster wishes to discuss William of Pagula, 14th century lawyer and theologian. While he is certainly a long shot to be the next owner of the Bills, Ralph has been reluctant to reveal his plans about the team's future and its still anybody's guess at this point.
Rachel Phelps was the last owner of a professional sports franchise to openly admit a desire for their team to fail. Despite her best intentions, the Cleveland Indians banded together and won the division title, thus ruining her plans to move the team to Miami.
F you Jobu, I do it myself.
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Most likely all the old people got their asses out of their rockers to vote Dem while most of the others stayed home. Kind of like how it goes every year with our town budget (which leads to school programs being cut, while welfare for the poor and old are kept). Thankfully this year after the budget failed, we were able to re-vote and it passed (and thus there will be no school cuts this year).
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Funny how quick a lot of you are with half wit cracks about Belichick or Brady. You're the same folks I presume who'd be giddy and jumping for joy if either one of them somehow became employed at One Bills Drive.
Y'all sound like bitter immature high school freshmen, envious of the varsity letterman with the new Corvette.
If there's any hate for the beating the Bills have taken at the hands of the Beantown Bullies in recent years, it should be directed at the incompetent staff who've been running the show in Orchard Park since just prior to the arrival of the ink-stain-colored superman costumes the players wear for home games.
As our hometown hero's rivals, I have total distain for B&B and the Pats as well, but I still respect the level of achievement and consistent play for the last decade.
Don't know about you folks, but I'm a little sick of hearing about the 90's glory days and The Comeback Game - blah blah blah. It's getting further away in the rear view mirror everyday and becoming ancient history in my eyes.
The Patriots are where we wish we could be, like it or not.
BTW, ever notice how Belichick always wears vests to hide his man-boobs?
Cheaters? Think again.
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What a tremendous victory for the status quo of overspending. Splendid.
Yep.
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Zillow has the house estimated at $7M.
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Id say 6 plus one ps player. Probably in the order listed.
I can't see them exposing Nelson, Jones, or Roosevelt to waivers. If anything, they keep 7 WR's and 2 TE's, again with Nelson playing a pass-catching TE role of sorts.
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83 Evans, Lee
13 Johnson, Steve
11 Parrish, Roscoe
81 Easley, Marcus
86 Nelson, David
19 Jones, Donald (ps)
18 Roosevelt, Naaman (ps)
15 Huggins, Felton (roster for special teams?)
17 Hubbard, Paul (cut)
Barring any trades or season-ending injuries, I see the first 7 being kept, with them using David Nelson as a TE/H-back of sorts.
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Sour grapes-The Bills cut him as a rookie before camp even opened. So if he was cut before camp by a minor league team, what kind of player does that make Mr Elizabeth Filarski.
I was going to post the EXACT same thing, including the "Mr. Elizabeth Filarski" thing. Nice going.
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The receiving corps definitely has some potential, but they will only be as good as Fitz and the OL allow them to be.
Fitz getting most of the starting reps with them will help a lot. Fitz practiced a lot with Stevie last year, which is a large part of why they had success together.
As for OL, Cornell Green was a disaster from the get-go and then no one could stay healthy. Replacing him with someone else and sticking with him can only be better.
If Easley is bigger and stronger, can he block in the run game? To fit in at the TE position would be an option, just sayin'....
He, along with Demaryius Thomas and Donald Jones, were considered the best blocking WR's in last year's draft. But as for playing TE, no. Fortunately, FA has at least 4 UDA TE's who could help the Bills out (Lewis, Boss, Miller, and Daniels), and Greg Olsen is probably still available for trade.
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Unless I am mistaken Cornell is the only University made up of a combination of land grant colleges and private ones. I received a graduate degree from there on NYS in state tuition. It was a bargain.
I went to the Ag school (in-state), got $4K in scholarship money a year, and graduated a semester early (I delivered pizza and played in a garage band during what would have been my last semester). I paid more for food and housing than the tuition.
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If this Obamanation isn't repealed, we're seriously screwed.
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That was awesome. Ah, to be in college again.
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So, when does he file the lawsuit?
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9 or 10 wins? never happened with Schobel and Butler.
That has nothing to do with anything. The Bills lost 3 games in OT, another by 3 points, and another to the Dols by 5. It's no stretch to think that having both Schobel and Butler could have made a difference in the outcomes.
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Hopefully I really thought that the Bills should have spent a higher pick on a RT. If they got a stud in the early 4th AND Dareus, Williams, and Sheppard pan out on the defense this draft could be gang busters. But its hard to get a great impact guy in those mid rounds.
More than a few productive OL come from the mid-rounds. Again, Hairston has all the things you want in an OT (could stand to be a better run-blocker) and went against some quality competition in college.
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Aaron's days were numbered and his play was slowing down quickly as a defensive end. Do you really think he would have been a stud OLB when he was beginning to struggle at his natural position? He was a good player in his prime but I don't think he would have helped us very much at all...
As a DE, he was going-up against guys who were 60-70# heavier than him. Moving to OLB would have helped with the wear-and-tear at least.
Butler hurt us a lot more by quitting, IMO...They were both big losses. But they had more time to replace Butler since he announced his decision before FA and the draft.
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The more I read about this kid, the more I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did. Big, good feet and pass protector, strong, mean streak, smart. Looks like he needs to work on run blocking, but seems like a player who should develop.
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Yep. I have no problem with this. Especially since repeat offenders otherwise wouldn't care.