Offside Number 76

I don't doubt that you saw the sign, but the Braves and metro construction didn't coexist. (Braves left in May 1978; metro construction began that summer). I'll take a Stanley Cup first, followed by a Lombardi Trophy the following February.

As I've posted before, football luxury boxes are very difficult to fill in Buffalo. The fans who want to go already have tickets. My company never was able to fill its box with customers (so employees always got tix), so we got rid of it. (But we seem to fill a box at HSBC 20 times per year, and those are a LOT nicer, so maybe it is the amenities.)

I'm pretty sure that the 300-pound dude who just ate a sixpack at mighty taco litters the air, too.

Actually, the analogy is pretty apt. The behavior of drunken fans at the Ralph, punishable or not (you'd have to actually hit someone to get the police to pay any attention at a Bills game), bothers me a lot more than do the people having cigarettes outside. Drinking definitely affects people besides the drinkers, and there are tens of thousands of purported fans every game who have more than a few. More than anything else, this is why I only go to one game per year. I go, I get disgusted, I don't return. The smokers outside don't bother me at all--unless they are drunk in addition to smoking. Otherwise, somehow, I'm able to just walk by them. If the county or the team wants to ban smoking outside the stadium, fine, I guess; I'd rather see a more serious approach to drunk behavior. /ex-smoker, current drinker who knows how to count to three.

Well, it was well-addressed at one point. Now we're all just happy the guy can walk.

Well, I wasn't aware of your site until your critic posted about it on here, so consider that you at least have one more reader now as a result of this thread. (I'll bet that there are a few more who now are going to visit your site due to this free publicity, too.) And the way the team has played the last several years, "Buffalow" isn't necessarily wrong.

So maybe it's ageism?

Blount was just talking. The Boise kid shoved. There's the problem. Once you shove someone, you don't get to dictate their reaction. They might shove back, they might walk away, or they might clock you in the jaw. Agreed that his antics AFTER the punch deserved some serious examination. And Joe, while I think race might have played a part in the reaction by the coaches/media/fans, I don't think anything Faustus posted was racist. Or hypocritical. The two incidents (Blount and Light) are very different.

Dude was asking for it bigtime. Frankly, I wasn't unhappy to see Blount teach him a lesson with one punch, and if Boise's coach had any ethics/balls, he would have suspended the kid for one game. You don't get in someone's face like that on the way off the field. And let's not forget that it was the Boise player who got physical first, albeit with a shove and not a punch. What Blount did afterwards, however, is a problem, as is his history.

I sure did. I'm even going to leave it they're for all to see.

1. I'm not going to trust information coming from someone who doesn't know the difference between the words "there" and "their." That's not me being a grammar policeman; that's simply refusing to trust a source of information who either is unintelligent or fails to pay even the slightest attention to detail (or both). So, as far as I'm concerned, the traditional media still has a job. 2. The posters here probably know more about the current Bills team than most media personnel who aren't based out of WNY, because the posters here probably watch more Bills games than do media personnel in other areas. That doesn't mean that the posters here know more about football or about upcoming transactions, draft picks, etc. Clearly, the traditional medial has more connections on the insides of 30 organizations. That's another reason why the traditional media still has a job.

Yes, you are beating a dead horse. What the hell inspired you to post this?

How so? The TV money is shared.

Or: College students like free stuff.

I think this is the most interesting thing to come out of the meetings--far more interesting than the playoff OT rule. This will have an immediate impact on the way the game is played (every game, not the one playoff game every eight or so years that goes to OT).

Here's an appropriate one: plenty of lawyers take relatively low-paying jobs as prosecutors for a few years, and then become defense attorneys. Some of them even make a good buck at it. Nothing wrong with it at all.

I just saw this thread and read the first responses with a sense of wonder; I don't know why anyone would have doubted it to begin with. It's really not unlikely at all that Tebow and Jim Kelly would have dinner together or that they would be "spotted" at Chop House.

Why don't you click on the link and see how it works before going after him-- Draft Tek is pretty cool stuff.

Yeah, New England has horrible luck in that sixth round.

Please let me know where this is. I need to read some Skooby from time to time.

You mean, who's the other Bill.

Matt Hasselbeck is a slightly less successful Trent Dilfer, IMO.

He wears the required uniform.

I came here to say this.

Look, I'm not taking sides in this fight because frankly, I don't care, but according to Tiger himself, he's a "cablinasian," and his father is not 100% black, and his mother is not 100% asian. As I understand it, the various contributors to Tiger's race, as if if even possibly could matter, are: Caucasian, Black (or African American, depending on what is the popularly accepted term in your area), Indian (or Native American, or Amerind, depending on what is the popularly accepted term in your area), and Asian. And no matter what, "Big Ben" is not going to get a break because of his race. There's either evidence, or there isn't; I doubt some prosecutor is going to press a case without it. (They didn't with Irvin, and he looked ok at the end of the day, because he was innocent. They did with the Duke kids, and well, prosecutor isn't exactly practicing law anymore. Sux for the whities sometimes, too.)