BadLandsMeanie

I think it would be good to make it 700 feet high. We would be able to say we have the league's highest attendance.

I don't remember seeing that. Thanks I meant in this move.

Just a word of reality here for ya's None of these people have anything to do with how the team has been playing, except the one strength guy might have some small impact. Likewise Scott Berchtold had nothing to do with team performance. None of the front office decision makers who have presided over the last 17 years have been replaced. Not one.

The problem in my view is that we as a people are unable to find a way to make a stadium pay for itself. It is an inherently money losing proposition. And we allow the football business to inform us of their requirements for a stadium and to insist that we meet them. If I may say so, that in itself isn't a that big of a problem. The bigger problem is that we as a people are not paying attention to the finances of our nation and government and are gouged in a multitude of gigantic ways just because we don't pay attention, trust that somebody will do it for us, and don't do arithmetic on the numbers that are a matter of public record. Anyway, here's a stadium arithmetic example. 1 Billion dollar stadium seating 60,000 fans 1,000,000,000 divided by 60,000 = $16, 666.00 per seat. This seems expensive for a seat and 1 - sixty-thousandth of the cost of a football field. Say each seat averages $200 per ticket per game. If we put every penny of the ticket price towards paying for the seat, how long to pay for it? $16,666 divided by $200 = 83 games. At 10 games per year it would take 8.3 years to pay for the seat, not counting maintenance costs. By which time they might be calling for updates and renovations. I wonder why a stadium costs so much money? And I think there just is no sensible way to pay for it, because there is no way to get all that money back out of it.

Post of the day! Would he take a Hail Mary on a QB?

My evidence is because Coach McDermott said, he is doing the talking, one person will do the talking, and he is the one talking and saying that. So that means Whaley will not be talking. What is confusing about that? How much plainer could that be? And..I didn't say and I am not saying, that there is any truth the the rumor that Whaley is in hot water. I haven't seen any proof of that at all in any of the stories that have come out. What I said was, this clears nothing up. What Coach McD said, clears nothing up. But that doesn't mean I believe the rumors.

Gullible people in this thread. So it's not that McDermott is now doing all the talking, it is "One Voice". It's not that Whaley no longer appears in public or speaks, it's "One Voice" We will just tell the fans it is "One Voice" , and we believe in it, and they will believe it, because they believe anything we tell them. And they will mock people who point out that calling what has happened, is the same thing whether you say 'Whaley doesn't get to talk any more" or "One Voice" And they will mock anybody who points out the irony of it being Sean McDermott being the one to say all of this means nothing, at the NFL meetings, which is yet another event that Whaley will not be allowed to talk at. Two months ago Doug Whaley said the team policy is the coach is the voice during the season and he is the voice at other times. And oddly, that was the last peep we have heard out of him. I am with the few who say, this talk by One Voice McD, doesn't clear up anything. What McDermott did do however, is point out that he and his coaching staff, are now more involved with the free agency shopping, than the coaches have ever been said to be before. Doug Whaley always got all the credit for that.

I'm not sure it makes sense to help pay a bunch of money to a team, so that they can then charge us more money for tickets and stuff? I know other cities do it. But I don't think it is the Buffalo Way. I think we should do it the Buffalo Way. We could set aside a comparatively small amount, say 200 million. And then we could use that money and some elbow grease, to roll up our sleeves, and trash the other 31 stadiums. Just really mess them up, make them smell bad and everything. That way we would then have the best stadium in the NFL while saving hundreds of millions of dollars.

By that logic, Was Whaley not GM when Rex Ryan was hired? Then it was a move made by him. Was Whaley not GM when Doug Marrone was hired? Then it was a move made by him.

Yeah that was my thought. Nowhere to go but up for him.

They don't have the salary cap room to make their usual splash. I think that is why.

Thanks for this. This was fun the the photo of your dog making his selection was the cherry on top. So to speak. It made it funnier for me

Nice first post. Im gonna go with, they made a mistake letting you in.

It's funny to see so many "catty" bills fans in one thread! Kinda interesting, because usually male bills fans act like men!

Howards posts were very funny. I blame the closing of the BBMB on pickelpusses

You are very good to help. Maybe I can go buy a fuse at the re-fuse company. But I looked in the fuse box in the basement yesterday and there is only a bunch of switches in there. So I called the power company today after you told me what to do. They said they are aware that the power is out. I said so am I, I didn't need to call the electric company to find that out you can hear it on the radio if you have batteries or a car with a radio in there. I said what i need them for is to turn it back on and I asked where are the fuses in my fuse box I only have switches. He said they are circuit breakers in the fuse box and that switching them wont help. I said I wouldn't think so because the circuit is already broken. I asked did they have somebody who knows about electricity that I could talk to because I had already asked what I want to know which is where I should screw in the fuse. He didn't say anything for a minute but I could hear him whispering to somebody. He said all the electric repair people are already out working. I said I didn't see anybody out there you can tell because they have giant trucks and there aren't any and there is nobody up on the poles. I asked if they could send someone to my house just long enough to show me where to screw in the fuse. He said they can only send somebody immediately if there is a medical emergency like if somebody is on life support or in medical peril. I said my goldfish Whaley's bowl has frozen into a block of ice and he looks ok in there but I am not sure how long he can go without being thawed out before he catches cold or the flu or something. He apologized and said they can't come for goldfish and he said to take Whaley to the library to thaw him out and if my power wasn't on when I got back to call again later when his shift is over. My mailman will be by around 2PM I will ask him where the fuses go before I take Whaley to the library. Is it ok if I tell him Howard said it was ok to ask? That way he can call you on two way postal radio if he needs information.

Well, I am enjoying this thread very much and Howard's stance on Russ Brandon makes good sense to me. I live in Rochester and the wind came and blew all the trees down and now I haven't had any power or heat at home for 3 days. That isn't such a big deal I suppose but I am soft and it seems terrible to me, and I don't like it at all. Goodness knows when they will get it all fixed. I am at work now and we have lights and internet. But last night I was sitting in the dark wrapped in a blanket not not very happy but then I spent a good amount of time reading this thread on my phone and snickering. So thank you to Howard for that. Also in tribute, I want to remind everyone to please always leave a knife for your mailman. Thank you. Oh I don't know how to put a youtube right in my post on this board yet so sorry about that I will just put the link.

I enjoyed this op and Some of the messages. Thank you

You put them in the dishwasher, not in the sink. Thanks beast

I think it is clear that the more drugs that are available to children, the better. In this, as in all other things, Mexico stands as a beacon to the world of progress and prosperity for its people.

Aww thanks new pal! You are the best. <3 I was a stupid jerk in that stupid place, just as you say. And I miss the other stupid jerks. Your effort here to make me feel less lonesome for my former toxic stupid home of jerks makes me misty. Thank you thank you thank you. !

(Was joking)

Diesel's wit has been missing since 1997. Its on a milk carton. :I *waves to Jimbo* Good to see ya!

I don't need to laugh at myself for being a Bills fan. My friends do it for me Ok I laughed at some of those jokes

There you go pal. One of the things that worried me is that I had not had a chance to back up my avatar (because they gave no warning). I uploaded it there a loooooong time ago. But lucky for me I had a copy of it moved forward and saved on here, two computers later.