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Nah, you just sent me some weeny inter-office memo for speaking my piece. I don't contend when the ground is uneven.

Who was that masked man?

Easy, Silver. No need for the unbridled anger.

I own one Bills t-shirt, which I wear when watching or listening to the game. But it's more of a tradition/habit than a superstition; I've never considered it "lucky."

I read your reply, but I'm still wondering why -- when a team has 3 QB's and two go down -- that the nation is pulling for the kid QB but Bills fans aren't? Hmmmm...

Heigh ho, Silver!

On a national level, people are watching with fascination as this story unfolds. But local message boards are fighting it tooth and nail, and I don't quite understand why.

Actually, someone needs to climb off his p.c. hobby horse.

John Murphy & Mark Kelso. They are a unique combination and together they are superlative. I actually experience the atmospherics/excitement (Murphy) and see the technical aspects (Kelso) better when the Bills are blacked out and I turn on the radio.

Thanks, Quinn! We all needed that.

You took your turn; and while you did, indeed, manage to sound like a dirty eighth grader, 'witty' still eludes you.

All the witty little eighth graders are getting their chance to talk dirty.

Tom Brady has been a major contributor to many Bills losses. I once saw him laughing and goofing around during a game we were losing.

The uniforms are definitely sweet right now. So please, Bills' brass, just leave 'em be!

My bride (of then only a few years) and I attended a function at Chestnut Ridge Park in the mid 90's. We live closer to Rochester than Buffalo, and she had never been to Rich Stadium. So I pulled off the 219 and into the stadium parking lots. As we were walking around the stadium perimeter, a football-player sized man emerged from a doorway and haltingly made his way toward his car. My wife asked if he was a Buffalo Bill, and I said "That's Chris Spielman." "He can hardly walk," she said. Three days later we watched the Bills on TV and Spielman was an absolute tiger. My wife wanted to know how he could play like that on Sunday when he walked like that on Thursday. Then I told her the legend of Chris Spielman...

Godspeed, Rian.

Open Letter to Bills Nation from Rian Lindell: http://www.buffalobi...59-dc8f84ab9139 Godspeed, Rian.

You need a literary agent. You have a treasure chest of short stories just waiting to be written.

The Buffalo "Bad Things" --

That's a great story!

Well, I must say it's been fun! I'd heard that Bills QB Jeff Tuel has the highest QB rating in the league at this moment in time, and I wanted to know if that would stand up against the same conditions Kolb and Manuel must face. Despite being called stupid, a troll, and a closet racist, I still want to know. It's called the scientific method: you put the variables (Kolb, Manuel, Tuel) in the same beaker with the constants (first-string opposition) and see who does and doesn't blow up when conditions are replicated for each. By the way, to the poster who implied racism, my question from the start (see "veteran experience" above) was always about three contestants, two of whom were not black. To him I say that it takes a dirty little mind to find anything nefarious in the question I posed. Shame on you.

How 'bout we look in every direction right now and save ourselves "a year or two."

An "apologist" is one who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something. Nobody said you were apologizing.

I smell fear amongst the EJ apologists. Wouldn't it benefit EJ (and, more importantly, the Buffalo Bills) if the starting QB emerged from a fair fight? I'm not for or against either EJ or Kolb or Tuel. I'm for identifying the best QB of the Buffalo Bills. Doubts are lingering, and they won't be dispelled without a truly fair competition.

It's "happening on this forum as well" because it's happening on the field. That's the point.