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http://youtube.com/watch?v=0bUxi_Eo6fU

He could easily take out some loans for the team. It's not a big issue.

John Clayton said he wouldn't be punished way back right after his plea.

PITTSFORD, N.Y. -- Whether it was posing for pictures taken by fans lined along a fence at Buffalo Bills training camp or discussing the franchise's long-term future, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was all smiles Monday. Goodell met with franchise owner Ralph Wilson and Sen. Charles Schumer, and learned of the tremendous rise in season-ticket sales and the increased interest and revenue the team's generating as it prepares to play games annually in Toronto. "The nature of the conversation was to find out how the Bills were doing. Fortunately, that's the good news," Goodell said. "The Bills, particularly in their effort here to regionalize the team further to southern Ontario and Toronto has been a very big success. And I think that's something that we're all proud of, the fact that we can now make the team stronger here." Schumer said he's seen the Bills make progress in the last year. "This was a good and happy meeting because things are looking up," Schumer said. "I feel a lot better this year than I did last year at this time, and so does Ralph Wilson, about the future of the Bills in Buffalo." The comments mark a significant turnaround in the two years since Wilson first raised concerns about the long-term viability of the Bills and other small-market NFL teams as a result of the NFL's new labor deal, which he voted against in 2006. Wilson spoke only briefly during the press conference Monday, but his mood was notably upbeat. He jokingly introduced Goodell as "the boss of everybody," and later referred to Schumer as "a great guy who's done an awful lot for the Bills." Wilson had good reason to be happy. The Bills have sold 54,200 season tickets this year, the most since 1992 when they sold a record 57,132. The team has also sold out all but one of its regular-season home games, with only a limited number of tickets available for Buffalo's game against New England on Dec. 28. That's a big increase from two years ago, when the Bills failed to sell out four of their eight home games. And then there's an even bigger windfall: The $78 million the team is guaranteed to receive from playing five regular-season and three preseason games in Toronto starting this year and running through 2012. That's more than double the Bills' calculated 2006 operating income. The move to expand their market north to Toronto makes the Bills the NFL's first team to play annual regular-season games outside the United States. And it has allowed the franchise to tap into Canada's financial capital and North America's fifth-largest market, with a regional population of about 5 million. "I think it's been very successful in making the Bills stronger in western New York, which is our effort here," Goodell said. "It's bringing more people down from Toronto. They're spending more money in western New York." Goodell's visit was part of an annual series of trips he makes each preseason, and his first to Bills training camp. The visit coincided with an opening in Schumer's schedule, so both could meet with Wilson. Schumer allayed fears that the Bills playing in Toronto was the first step to the franchise relocation. But he was unable to provide any assurances about what would happen to the Bills after Wilson dies. Wilson, who turns 90 in October, has previously said his family isn't interested in taking over the franchise, which would potentially put the team on the open market. Schumer declined to say whether a succession plan that included keeping the Bills in Buffalo was discussed during the meeting. "To talk about that subject in public would be counterproductive to keeping the Bills in Buffalo, so I'm not going to do it," Schumer said. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3508655

elegantelliot something.

Goodell said a traffic violation is not a violation of the personal conduct policy.

Sounds like Peter's agent is being a real dick.

too small.

It's not that big of a deal. You go to west point to be an army officer, not to play pro football.

So you would rather have a guy with a QB rating in the 70's over a guy with one in the high 90s?

Except the teams still have to pay the player their guaranteed money.

I don't think I've ever seen a performance more haunting than Ledger's.

Those numbers are only gotten by very few CB's in the league each year. It shows that McGee was allowing only very short gains, and batting down/intercepting a lot of passes. That is all you can ask of a corner... McGee did his job as well as it could have been done last year.

McGee: 5.8 YPA Longest completion allowed was 25 yards. 21 PD's and 4 INTS. The Average YPA is around 8 for a corner.

McGee played at an Elite level last year....

One of the biggest problems with the Death Tax is that it hits people who have assets worth something and not a lot of free cash. This forces them to liquidate their assets.

The Death tax is one of the most inefficient taxes ever. "A 1994 study found that the estate tax’s 55 percent rate at the time had roughly the same disincentive effect as doubling an entrepreneur’s top effective marginal income tax rate. The estate tax has also been found to impose a large compliance burden on the U.S. economy. Some past economic studies have estimated the compliance costs of the federal estate tax to be roughly equal to the amount of revenue raised—nearly five times more costly per dollar of revenue than the federal income tax—making it one of the nation’s most inefficient revenue sources." http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr142.pdf

The death tax should be for multi-billionaires... not people with $20 million in assets. There is a principle in life... it's called working hard so your kids don't have to.

If Ralph dies in 2010... there is no estate tax. Sounds kinda cruel.... but it's true. It starts up again in 2011.

It would be really stupid for Peters to sit out... which is why every analyst worth his salt expects him not to. Evans is priority uno.

Why? He signed right away, and for less than what he could have gotten by holding out. Hell, Matt Ryan got more than he did. I hope he is a good player, just not twice a year.

Agreed. There is no way Peters will pass up $3 million this season. Evans is more important.

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Wheres that guy who told us about all the FA's coming to buffalo when you need him?

Favre will take a pay cut if he goes elsewhere. No one is paying 13 mill for him.