Dr. K

Subject: Eye test A Polish immigrant goes to the Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles in Milwaukee to apply for a driver's license and is told he has to take an eye test. The examiner shows him a card with the letters: C Z J W I X N O S T A C Z "Can you read this?" the examiner asks. "Read it?" the Polish guy replies, "I know the guy!!" * * * * * * * .....I think I went to High School with him. Dr. K

Good post. Puts a new perspective on it.

YOu must not know me very well. I was being sarcastic. Allen's arrest is the chickens coming home to roost on one of the biggest opportunists in North Carolina politics in the last 20 years. I problbly ought to keep my politics off this board. Sorry.

Just grumpy today, I guess. At least i'm having a better day than my hero Claude Allen got indicted. How could Pres Bush's domestic policy adviser, former Jesse Helms spokesman, a fundamentalist Christian earning $160,000 a year, be a shoplifter? I blame the liberal media.

Thanks for the reference. That certainly puts the best possible spin on it. I hope you all are right.

I'm generally one who gives the management the benefit of the doubt on personnel decisions, but let's just say the moves so far this off-season are not inspiring much confidence in me. I can't see how cutting Campbell, getting rid of Josh Reed and probably losing Moulds, replacing them with a stone-hands tight end who caught what, 19 passes last season? and a receiver who was "at the bottom of the Cleveland Browns depth chart" are going to turn this team around. The Triplett signing I have nothing to say about. It at least makes some sense. Maybe they'll have a great draft, but even then, it sure feels like a 4-12 season is coming up this year.

Waste of cash and a roster spot. We cut Campbell to bring in this guy for $10 million? Sheesh.

The "Whipping Boy" poll is SARCASTIC. It's meant to MAKE FUN OF those fans who cannot follow the team without beating up on the players, the management, and other fans. It's supposed to MAKE US THINK TWICE about unloading all our personal frustrations on a team of people who have no relation to us and who are not to blame for whatever plagues our lives. I did not realize that so much of the world was irony-impaired.

Brilliant idea. Lonnie was, after all, the prototypical tight end whipping boy. The guy had it all.

Uh, Pyrite...that was exactly the point of my poll. A whipping boy IS someone who is unfairly ragged on. That's what we do here. Sometimes it seems that's ALL we do here.

With the loss or potential loss of Josh Reed, Eric Moulds, Mike Williams, Sam Adams (not to mention Mike Mularkey and Tom Donohoe) the current Bills roster lacks a certified Whipping Boy. Reading the posts over the last few weeks reveals that we are not lacking in candidates, but I figure we ought to get this thing settled as soon as possible so the fans can start lobbying for this player to be cut or drawn and quartered or otherwise eviscerated. I've suggested a few names above, though I can't say that this is an exhaustive list, as the search for scapegoats brings out the most creative impulses in us as fan. Who can say who might turn up as the man to hate in '06? One suggested predictor: whoever's image was posted at the top of the board last year is a prime candidate for this year's whipping boy. It worked for Bledsoe three years ago, and for Travis Henry the year after that. By this indicator, the smart persecutor will select Willis McGahee. I realize that Coy Wire has already fulfilled this function so that he is not technically "new" (see criterion 2 below) but since he's been on the whipping boy bench for some time he now has a chance to rise up the depth chart. Criteria: 1.) Must be a starter, more or less. 2.) Must not have been a major whipping boy (i.e. the focus of at least as much scapegoating as Mike Williams or Josh Reed) in the past 3.) Must be capable of bearing the heat of all the frustration in the lives of every Bills fan on this board. 4.) Quarterback scores should be reduced by 1/3 because of the natural whipping boy advantage conferred by anyone playing that position. I suppose I could have included adminisrators (certainly T.D. took the heat off a lot of players in the last couple of seasons) so there is always a space available (and by early indications, some inclination) to name Marv or Dick Jauron to the scapegoat role. But in my humble opinion, a proper scapegoat needs to be a player. Have at it!

I would not be surprised.

Listening to him and Paul Christman do the AFL games in the 60s were my intro to pro football. RIP

Why didn't he simply go back to Yvel Vram?

Let me see if I get the substance of your brilliant post. I believe it goes something like this: Some quarterbacks who are great in college do not succeed in the pros. Phillip Rivers was great in college. Therefore, he will not succeed in the pros. I think this is what passes for airtight reasoning around here.

Rivers wasn't the first pick in the draft. Eli Manning was. I'm not saying that he's a guaranteed success in the pros. But how many games has he played? As far as I know, ONE start. We'll see what happens with him.

All show? How do you know that? Rivers was one of the best college QB's I have ever seen. And he ripped up the Senior Bowl while our boy JP was throwing balls into the turf.

Plus the phantom holding call that neagted a first and goal from the two on the Steeler two.

Seattle getting jobbed in this game.

I think Seattle wins, and it won't be close. Then again, I am a Bills fan, and am often wrong.

YOu guys are making a career out of dissing Mularkey. Be careful what you wish for. I think he is a much better coach than you are giving him credit for. Besides, it's getting beyond tiresome.

Last time I checked, the Buffalo Bills did not care what I thought. Given my extensive experience sitting in bars trying to figure out whether the running back made it past that imaginary yellow line on the field, I can't imagine why not.

I guess we ought to reserve judgment until we know more. At least I will back off on this.

...to produce any better results than Mularkey did? It's a mystery to me. His big winning season with the Bears was a result of horseshoes falling out of their butts in half the games. The rest of his record offers nothing over what we've seen in the last five years.

This would work for me. As if I know anything about NFL coaching.