Whites Bay

Thanks for flagging this. Just left a message on Corbin's voicemail. Pile on, North Country Bills Fans. The friggin' GIANTS in Watertown? This has to be an awful joke.

I hated the way Marino always got the ball off too fast for Bruce. Well, almost always. But I hate the Pats* and Brady so much more. It's friggin' visceral.

Why is it "Baffoon" in the headings and "buffoon" in the context? Who's f-ing with me here?

I am the eternal optimist, but... I am a Bills fan. So I'm not going to pick a score. I predict a Bills win. But the difference between this week and last week is a rolling, terrifying high tide for the Dolphins. If the Bills get up by 10 points like they did against the Bears last week (when they were up 17-7), it's going to be lambs to the slaughter. Miami's offense is not the Chicago Bears' offense. And I know that Miami came back against the Pats*, but that was at Miami, and that was against the Pats* defense, and it was in 95 degrees - an environment in which they've practiced all summer (and that the Pats* haven't seen in about 3 years). If anything is going to carry the Bills this year, it's their Defense. And Bill Belichek would trade his entire defense - man-for-man - for Buffalo's in a heartbeat, especially that defensive line. If Tannehill gets behind by 10 points in THAT stadium, in THAT environment... "Bad things, man. Bad things..."

Build a stadium and the team will come? That makes me think of the construction of the (now-named) Tropicana Dome in St. Petersburg. Agreed, it has a tenant now (the Rays), and has had them for over 15 years, but the place did little more than tractor pulls for 10 YEARS while waiting for MLB. Maybe things were different back then, or maybe they're different in Toronto. Who knows? I just can't imagine ANY investor, no matter how deep the pockets, forking out the money to build a state-of-the-art 65,000-seat NFL stadium and then being content to sit back and wait a decade for a tenant. Add to that - to echo many comments on this board - the fact that Toronto hasn't really cottoned on to either the Argos or the Bills (when they had them, and, yeah, I know they sucked up there but it WAS an NFL team), and I just can't imagine that sports business model ever seeing the light of day.

Oh, my goodness. What we used to do to Dolphins players and fans 25 years ago. Their players complaining about batteries being thrown at them, being urinated upon as they ran into the tunnel, their bus being rocked in the parking lot. These people must be joking.

Friggin' Cheap Shot Artist.... He was apparently offered a chance to command another flight (and, hence, obviously walk on the moon), but declined. Don't know how I'd handle that decision. That wasn't an occupation for the faint of heart. Nor is being a Bills fan. But I'm still here after 40+ years.

Jiminy Crickets. Some people just need to find something to worry about. I just finished a very good book about Neil Armstrong, in which I found a great quote from Mike Collins (and, if you don't know who these people are...don't bother replying to the post). Collins, a noted optimist, is quoted as saying "I'm not at all convinced that everything is going to work out well, but on the other hand, there's nothing wrong with thinking that it should". So...if an attitude like that can get you to the moon, why don't you give it a try?

And in 60 minutes, they'll have lost 3. And I want Tommy on a cart. You can tell it's a hell of a week, can't you?!

Jesus H. Rain on my parade. Okay, I'll bite. They lost two games in a row heading in the season finale. It happens.

Given that Yahoo! is moving forward with their operations in Lockport, I'm TOTALLY fine with: "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, from the frigid confines of Yahoo Stadium, where the 11-4 Buffalo Bills take on the slumping New England Patriots* in a showdown for the AFC East title"... (P.S. It'll always be "Rich Stadium" to me.).

I was thinking much the same as I drove in today. To all the chicken-littles on this board who CONSTANTLY harped about the Bills moving to L.A., or Toronto, or San Antonio, or Timbuktu...ENOUGH. Drop a note and say "I was wrong". It was NEVER going to happen, but you whined and whined and got the panties all twisted up. Yeesh! Here's a little more good news for the day. I saw SDS' thread about the server being overloaded and creaky. Well, now that we no longer have to post thread-after-thread-after-thread on "The Bills are surely heading to L.A.", we may not have to fix it!

Up at the lake with my wife and my brother. Lunch will probably be Persian kebab, which I'll grill and consume ahead of the game. I'm usually sporting such a knot in my stomach by the end of the first quarter that I can't eat anything. Washed down with what is sure to be one-too-many Sam Adams in cans.

My brother and I called Time Warner and did 2 hours of trouble-shooting last night, resulting in the purchase of a new HDMI cable. Problem solved. We figured it was better to get this sorted on Friday night, rather than calling them at 12:48 P.M. Sunday after the first home brew...

I forgot about Ngata being available, Bill. You may have nailed it. AND they were wearing those stupid uniforms.

Most here have been putting forth defensible statistics to back up their respective selections for "Worst Draft in Bills History". I won't. I'm going to stick with 2002, simply because it was early in the era of those god-awful Titan-esque clown uniforms that Gregg Williams brought over. Talk about futility. I wince when I think back to the early part of the last decade. A bunch of nobodies wearing clown suits, getting creamed by everyone from the Pats* to Mount Saint Mary's Sisters of the Blind. Painful.

The graphic that got me was during the Pittsburgh game a couple of weeks ago. It listed all of Buffalo's first-round picks. Not just the ones that Buffalo has picked (Dareus, McKelvin, Spiller, etc.), but all the first-rounders that they've picked up in Free Agency. People like Williams and Williams and Rivers and Hughes and Lawson. I mean, the list just went on and on and on. I never really realized how many top-round picks were on this roster. And eventually the light bulb HAS to go on and the team has to gel. I mean...right? I have to say...it REALLY left a bad taste in my mouth.

Please tell me I don't have to watch Archie Manning again.

Man, the interior of that O-Line showed me NOTHING today. NOTHING. CJ got outside on a few good plays (and so did Fred), so I'm not going to bark at the tackles, but holy underwear, Batman. There was NOTHING inside. Against F-ing Tampa? I'm usually floating along in a Kool-Aid Jacuzzi with this team, but this game took everything out of me. That was just god-awful. Someone is getting fired tomorrow morning, and he deserves it. I just hope this isn't a repeat of 2009.

I don't mean to be Bobby Buzzkill on this one, but I have daughters and nieces that age. They're good people, as is this young lady, and deserve to be treated better than that. What a turd-licking limp-wristed nancy-boy douche.

Was the bid in Loonies?

It just reinforces - in my mind - that there's all sorts of crap going on out there that I don't want to know.

He also said "Baseball is a game for louts". Sometimes "Less" isn't "More". Nicely done, Merriman.

The defense hasn't been this good in years. There are VERY few holes in the defense. Is it Super Bowl caliber? Come on! Who knows WHICH defense is Super Bowl caliber? Is it playoff caliber? I daresay "Yes". I'm actually not too worried on the defensive side of the ball. I'll leave that stressing to others on this board. Enjoy the ulcers. My ulcers go to (1) EJ stepping up; (2) The WR corps performing as good as it could (I personally think it gets a little tenuous after Williams-Watkins-Wood); (3) The O-Line gelling and not collectively blowing out knees or discs in training camp. It's this latter element that intrigues me. I don't mean to get intrigued by large, heavy men, but this could be the best O-Line that the Bills have fielded in 20 years. Do a mental rundown on the names...Trey Teague, Bennie Anderson, Langston Walker, Mike Williams, Colin Brown....I'm going to start weeping again. It was never a unit. Always something missing somewhere, dammit. But maybe not this year. That O-Line could be terrifying. And look who's running behind it. Damn.

There's a time and place for everything. Any Bills fan that hasn't gone apoplectic watching a Pats* running attack simply choke off the oxygen at the end of a game hasn't been around for the past 14 years. That having been said, if I have to watch another Hackett "Student Body Left" on 1st-and-10 midway through the second quarter, I'm going to hurt someone. Probably my TV again. At the end of it, I guess you have to ask yourself whether it bothers you to have one of the top one or two sets of running backs in the league. Trust me - if the Bills ever GET a lead in the 4th quarter, everyone on this board is going to get religion real f-ing fast. Running the ball will never have looked so good.