Lurker

All that free time was a real Godsend...

Fixed...

Both. It's the American Zoloft way...

"a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces as much energy as a thousand trillion suns." Now those are some numbers Dr. Evil could really go for...

As soon as I saw Bruce Fisher quoted, the article lost all credibility for me...

Yeah. Let's see the owners' Wonderlic scores...

Clearly, they would need to pay royalties to Gary Larson for such a setup...

Yeah, but unfortunately when it comes to making $$$ on the Internet, that "quality" becomes an asset...

IMO, his body language and tone suggestes he never felt threatened. He simply kept repeating the statement as a way to then justify the arrest for 'disobeying an officer's orders.' He clearly knew what he was setting up...and I suspect so did Emily. Still, he took the bait, so he comes off looking like the bigger fool.

Doh!! I just cut that same paragraph to paste into essentially the same response. I'm a day late and a dollar short....and that guy's still a dweeb.

Silence is golden...

yada...

So may basements, so many draft analysts....

Don't encourage him/them...

It's too bad that a once-proud publication like PFW has to yell "fire" in the theater just like the rest of the Internet hoi polloi. Then again, just think how much this guy is making as a credentialed journalist...

...ignore

Yeah, they're all jockeying to be minority owners of a team in Buffalo. Perhaps he's told these folks that a bridge in Brooklyn would be an attractive investment as well...

True. But then again, I also realllllllllly miss having the ignore feature operate like it used to...

The list that TSW junkies and others compile. You're right, Ralph doesn't have a list and won't sell while he's alive. But that doesn't stop the fans/media from keeping a running tally of likely suspects, or wannabe owners from attempting what this jamoke is doing in the WSJ. Ralph's past practice whenever "interested parties" have floated a desire to buy the team has been to freeze them out, which I suspect includes conveying that sentiment to Mary and his heirs regarding any postmortum deals as well. IMO, Ralph's not looking to maximize his heirs' return at whatever point a sale occurs--and is more interested in what legacy/memory he can leave behind. Having a true-blue "football-minded" ownership group rather than a Danny Snyder a-hole that pays a dollar more will factor into the equation, I believe.

Well, we can now officially cross this guy's name off a potential list of Bills owners. Ralph has consistently and adamantly put the kabbosh on anybody foolish enough to float a "desire to purchase" trial balloon in the press (right, Mark Hamister! ), other than Jimbo, who has tiptoed around the subject with his "syndicate." This guy just crossed his name off of any potential list (including dealing with Ralph's heirs), and I suspect his background as a trader is another black mark with RW.

Garbage in, gabage out...

Here's the actual line from the SI article: "By the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce." That "or" certainly broadens the claim well beyond "78% are bankrupt." The operative word is "joblessness," since that situation would create distress for anyone--ex NFL player or ex-WalMart clerk--forced to look for a new career. http://www.ehow.com/facts_5005211_what-average-salary-nfl-players.html "The average NFL salary is a shade under $1.8 million in 2009, but that can be a misleading number. Less than a quarter of the roughly 1,800 NFL players make that amount, and less than half make a million dollars per season. In reality, the NFL isn't nearly the "easy money" venue that many fans think. The majority of players never even see a million dollars for their career." Median NFL salaries 2009-10

Of course not...

Maybe we could introduce him to some TSW habituals to get him properly focused...

I must be getting old. I forgot these bozos are the ones that use network TV video to produce their "analysis": http://www.profootballfocus.com/about/faq/ "We use TV broadcasts for both the analysis and the player participation data. We’ve been asked a lot how therefore is it possible to determine who was on the field in every position through TV pictures. Surely that just isn’t possible? Well, just because something is not easy doesn’t mean it is impossible. Firstly, the high definition picture from which we work is excellent, and that gives us the best starting point outside of coaches’ film, which isn’t attainable outside of NFL offices." What a crock...