C.Biscuit97 Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 The Bills suck, so you win. Congrats!! It's funny. If the Bills made me as miserable as some of these "realists," I think I'd find other ways to spend my time than just bitching about it on a Bills' fan message board.
John Cocktosten Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 The Bills suck, so you win. Congrats!! Dr. D, you are certainly one of the most pleasant Pollyanna posters around but this response is lame. billsfreak is not happy that Fitz appears to be a little bit more than a stop gap but bf was called out for something that he was obviously right about. Accountability works both ways even if you don't agree with it.
benderbender Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Our team sucks so bad we would rather nitpick each other's criticisms of the team. Honestly, I would rather do that for 3 hours on Sunday than watch the product on the field.
John Cocktosten Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 It's funny. If the Bills made me as miserable as some of these "realists," I think I'd find other ways to spend my time than just bitching about it on a Bills' fan message board. CB97, we've had some good fun on these boards and I respect your opinions. But your assertion that the "realists" should do something better is a little bit off. Maybe people are stuck in offices, in a car or airports and just want to kill time on here. I'm in medical sales and I sit in the OR ALL DAY either in cases (that can last for 5 hours) or waiting in lounges for a client so I kill time on here (and other websites). I'm actually glad that my life isn't so important that I can jump on here every once in a while and mix it up. The point is, I would guess that there are very few people who are sitting around and lighting a pile of Bills jerseys on fire with their bong lighter and letting this inept organization ruin their lives. I just don't don't see it that way. It also makes some (PTR) on here come off a little bit self important and "evolved". If "some" (PTR) are above it all THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ON A MEANINGLESS MESSAGE BOARD IN THE FIRST PLACE? Plus, I don't hold it against you that you were the President of the now defunct "Dan Lefevour Fan Club". It was just poor judgement on your part and I let it go.
C.Biscuit97 Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 CB97, we've had some good fun on these boards and I respect your opinions. But your assertion that the "realists" should do something better is a little bit off. Maybe people are stuck in offices, in a car or airports and just want to kill time on here. I'm in medical sales and I sit in the OR ALL DAY either in cases (that can last for 5 hours) or waiting in lounges for a client so I kill time on here (and other websites). I'm actually glad that my life isn't so important that I can jump on here every once in a while and mix it up. The point is, I would guess that there are very few people who are sitting around and lighting a pile of Bills jerseys on fire with their bong lighter and letting this inept organization ruin their lives. I just don't don't see it that way. It also makes some (PTR) on here come off a little bit self important and "evolved". If "some" (PTR) are above it all THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ON A MEANINGLESS MESSAGE BOARD IN THE FIRST PLACE? Plus, I don't hold it against you that you were the President of the now defunct "Dan Lefevour Fan Club". It was just poor judgement on your part and I let it go. 1) Yes, we've have some disagreements but it has always been civil. I respect your opinion as well. But IMO, this board sucks when the Bills lose. It's not fun to come here. Very rarely do people talk about football and just rip the organization. They do deserve to be ripped at times, but what does it really accomplish? And personally, I'd rather hang out with people who are optimistic. I despise the people who just whine constantly and then put it in your face when it gets prove right. Why anyone would take pleasure in the Bills sucking boogles my mind? 2) For the record, Lefevour is on Jacksonville. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/player/Dan-LeFevour/766394 I wanted the Bills to spend a 4th or lower pick on him. A little different than you suggesting the Bills draft Clausen, a projected 1st. Right now, they are both having the same impact on the NFL, expect we already know Clausen sucks. 3) Maybe the losing has soften me. I used to punch walls and break things when they lost. I cared more about Bills games than my own football games at times. But I do view the games as entertainment. I want nothing more than the Bills to make the playoffs. But let's be honest. People crapping on the team has the same exact effect as teh people who are pro-Bills all the time. It doesn't really matter what we do because we have little say in the team. I didn't want the Bills to cut Maybin, most fans did. I do believe we are an improved team and injuries shouldn't be an excuse. But this team's margain for error was so small, it couldn't hold up with the injuries. I think this team is headed in the right track but clearly needs more depth. And you do build through the draft but unfortunately, most fans don't see it that way. If there aren't really signs of improvement next year, then it needs to be blown up again. But calling Spiller a bust after not even 2 years is the exact hot pocket mentality that saw the Bill give up on Maybin too early. The Bills have sucked for 12 years, but Nix and Gailey have only been here for 2. Fans need to remember that.
Gugny Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 1) Yes, we've have some disagreements but it has always been civil. I respect your opinion as well. But IMO, this board sucks when the Bills lose. It's not fun to come here. Very rarely do people talk about football and just rip the organization. They do deserve to be ripped at times, but what does it really accomplish? And personally, I'd rather hang out with people who are optimistic. I despise the people who just whine constantly and then put it in your face when it gets prove right. Why anyone would take pleasure in the Bills sucking boogles my mind? 2) For the record, Lefevour is on Jacksonville. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/player/Dan-LeFevour/766394 I wanted the Bills to spend a 4th or lower pick on him. A little different than you suggesting the Bills draft Clausen, a projected 1st. Right now, they are both having the same impact on the NFL, expect we already know Clausen sucks. 3) Maybe the losing has soften me. I used to punch walls and break things when they lost. I cared more about Bills games than my own football games at times. But I do view the games as entertainment. I want nothing more than the Bills to make the playoffs. But let's be honest. People crapping on the team has the same exact effect as teh people who are pro-Bills all the time. It doesn't really matter what we do because we have little say in the team. I didn't want the Bills to cut Maybin, most fans did. I do believe we are an improved team and injuries shouldn't be an excuse. But this team's margain for error was so small, it couldn't hold up with the injuries. I think this team is headed in the right track but clearly needs more depth. And you do build through the draft but unfortunately, most fans don't see it that way. If there aren't really signs of improvement next year, then it needs to be blown up again. But calling Spiller a bust after not even 2 years is the exact hot pocket mentality that saw the Bill give up on Maybin too early. The Bills have sucked for 12 years, but Nix and Gailey have only been here for 2. Fans need to remember that. This. Times 100.
Metal Man Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Why is it that every time someone on this board says anything negative about the media as a whole anyone else who actually works in the media takes personal offense and gets extremely upset about it? Every single occupation on the planet has people involved doing a half-a55ed job at it. I work as an engineer and if I hear someone talking about a bunch of crappy work other engineers did my first thought isn't to fight back, first thing in my mind is that they are probably 5hitty engineers. I guess I am missing something but it seems pretty obvious to me these days, with the expanded medium, that there is a lot of bad/lazy journalism out there. So if I was a journalist instead of getting mad and defending them I would just make sure my work was above reproach.
PromoTheRobot Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 You will find that at least every other post of PTR's is all about bashing media personnel. Seems he wanted to be one but failed and can't handle the fact that others succeed. I didn't know that... explains a lot.. If you call working in the radio business as an air personality, then program manger for 27 years, then starting my own media related company "failure" then I guess I am a failure! PTR
Ozymandius Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Man, JW being the dick today is really overshadowing how dick-ish PTR was in that original post. PTR thanks you, JW
John Cocktosten Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) 1) Yes, we've have some disagreements but it has always been civil. I respect your opinion as well. But IMO, this board sucks when the Bills lose. It's not fun to come here. Very rarely do people talk about football and just rip the organization. They do deserve to be ripped at times, but what does it really accomplish? And personally, I'd rather hang out with people who are optimistic. I despise the people who just whine constantly and then put it in your face when it gets prove right. Why anyone would take pleasure in the Bills sucking boogles my mind? 2) For the record, Lefevour is on Jacksonville. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/player/Dan-LeFevour/766394 I wanted the Bills to spend a 4th or lower pick on him. A little different than you suggesting the Bills draft Clausen, a projected 1st. Right now, they are both having the same impact on the NFL, expect we already know Clausen sucks. 3) Maybe the losing has soften me. I used to punch walls and break things when they lost. I cared more about Bills games than my own football games at times. But I do view the games as entertainment. I want nothing more than the Bills to make the playoffs. But let's be honest. People crapping on the team has the same exact effect as teh people who are pro-Bills all the time. It doesn't really matter what we do because we have little say in the team. I didn't want the Bills to cut Maybin, most fans did. I do believe we are an improved team and injuries shouldn't be an excuse. But this team's margain for error was so small, it couldn't hold up with the injuries. I think this team is headed in the right track but clearly needs more depth. And you do build through the draft but unfortunately, most fans don't see it that way. If there aren't really signs of improvement next year, then it needs to be blown up again. But calling Spiller a bust after not even 2 years is the exact hot pocket mentality that saw the Bill give up on Maybin too early. The Bills have sucked for 12 years, but Nix and Gailey have only been here for 2. Fans need to remember that. 1. Hard to argue with a reasonable post. 2. I still believe Clausen can be a good QB and I don't mind saying it. LeFevour on the other hand... 3. Let's not forget the point of this post though. Promotional Robot attacked JW for simply having a different opinion than him. All JW did was give an honest assesment of the Bills (turns out he was right) then reminded Promotional to think before you speak. But Promotional Robot can't even muster up a bit of humility to say he was wrong (WHICH HE CLEARLY WAS). This isn't about being positive or negative when it comes to the Bills. It's about acting like a child and Promotional does that better than anyone on these boards. Edited December 5, 2011 by John Cocktosten
Hapless Bills Fan Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 And it's more than just that. I think an unwritten rule of TSW is that you don't go dredging through old posts in an attempt to humiliate a specific person. If a thread just so happens to survive for a long time, or if new information of relevance comes to light - that's one thing. But this was uncalled for, in my opinion. It does seem like a "campaign", and also making it personal - rather than just a blanket "Hey, weren't there a bunch of you dissing the media for writing off the Bills at the start of the season? How do you like me now?" which would be - unfortunately - justified
John Cocktosten Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 If you call working in the radio business as an air personality, then program manger for 27 years, then starting my own media related company "failure" then I guess I am a failure! PTR Whoa! A program manager makes even more sense than a politician! A true company man who has to fall "in line" in order to keep his job around every turn, a mouthpiece for upper mngt and an enforcer of censorship. Man, Promotional you nailed it.
Hapless Bills Fan Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) Classless acts breed classless acts. "MOOOMMMMMM! Johnny kicked my Transformer car!" "But...but...but...6 months ago Robbie stepped on my new Indian bow and it snapped!!! He deserves to have his car kicked!" Classless acts breed classless acts, only when people are classless. Or in kindergarden. Edited December 5, 2011 by Hopeful
PromoTheRobot Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) Whoa! A program manager makes even more sense than a politician! A true company man who has to fall "in line" in order to keep his job around every turn, a mouthpiece for upper mngt and an enforcer of censorship. Man, Promotional you nailed it. WTF is that???? Man I never knew I got that far up your butt!! You are almost as bad as Wawrow at taking stuff personally. I finally had the chance to review that thread and I think John took something I said about the media in general and turned it into what he considered a personal attack. In fact there is nothing, NOTHING in that thread I don't agree with now, even after a 5 game losing streak. In fact if anything, the 5 losses make my point. When the team was 5-2 we were ranked top 5 in some power polls and everything was sunshine and lollypops. Even Jerry Sullivan was banging the drum for Fitz to get a new deal. No one said "watch out, they are about to collapse." Which goes to show that the media (not John personally!!!) is like a rear view mirror. They are great at telling you what just happened. Not so great at what will happen. Obviously John was waiting all these weeks to shove this back in my face. And all the trolls who had to go into hiding the first 8 weeks are out dancing in the streets. Good for all of you if this makes you happy. Just clean up after the circle jerk. PTR Edited December 5, 2011 by PromoTheRobot
MRM33064 Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 I guess it's kind of off-topic, but here we've got a site filled with people who are passionate enough about the Bills to sign up, post, share opinions, and the team is so freakin' lousy (AGAIN) that we start turning against each other for sport. Man, it just ain't fair. We (fans) deserve so much better.
RunTheBall Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) God I love this shiat I'm just sorry its only 3 pages, I have half a cigar left Quick, someone insult Tim or Lori to keep it going. THIS IS SPARTTTAAAAAAAAAAAA! Just awesome, thank you all for participating Edited December 5, 2011 by RunTheBall
Coach Tuesday Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 God I love this shiat I'm just sorry its only 3 pages, I have half a cigar left Quick, someone insult Tim or Lori to keep it going. THIS IS SPARTTTAAAAAAAAAAAA! Just awesome, thank you all for participating Now you've done it - those words are gonna trigger Tim's RSS feed, and he'll quickly come back to tell us that he's leaving again.
John Cocktosten Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 WTF is that???? Man I never knew I got that far up your butt!! You are almost as bad as Wawrow at taking stuff personally. I finally had the chance to review that thread and I think John took something I said about the media in general and turned it into what he considered a personal attack. In fact there is nothing, NOTHING in that thread I don't agree with now, even after a 5 game losing streak. In fact if anything, the 5 losses make my point. When the team was 5-2 we were ranked top 5 in some power polls and everything was sunshine and lollypops. Even Jerry Sullivan was banging the drum for Fitz to get a new deal. No one said "watch out, they are about to collapse." Which goes to show that the media (not John personally!!!) is like a rear view mirror. They are great at telling you what just happened. Not so great at what will happen. Obviously John was waiting all these weeks to shove this back in my face. And all the trolls who had to go into hiding the first 8 weeks are out dancing in the streets. Good for all of you if this makes you happy. Just clean up after the circle jerk. PTR Actually I don't remember the thread when it originally came out so, once again, you're wrong. Your lack of accountability is sad and your disingenuous shock over me saying that your mentality fits the profile of a Radio Programmer to a T is laughable. Go back and read how you called out JW about how to do his job. The personal attack you levied against JW was simply because you didn't agree with him. End of story. Lastly, your muddled explanation about how JW (and media) were not predicting collapse during the Bills short run of success IS ABSURD! Not sure if you noticed while you were creating your genius response but it's a 16 game season and we've seen this act before. So who's more uninformed now, the guy who bases his thoughts on history and logic or someone who bases them on emotions (it's rhetorical)?
Alphadawg7 Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 And it's more than just that. I think an unwritten rule of TSW is that you don't go dredging through old posts in an attempt to humiliate a specific person. If a thread just so happens to survive for a long time, or if new information of relevance comes to light - that's one thing. But this was uncalled for, in my opinion. Huh? What board are you taking about? This goes on here all day every day...lol
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