boltuprite Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Interesting paralell. Although I don't think Ralph is even close to Ballard in nature, the article does point out some interesting things. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/NFL/200...398170-sun.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennesseeboy Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Wasn't House Ballard the tackle who was criticized by Jim Kelly and made all pro a few times? Gee....maybe Ralph can anchor the offensive line! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Is this true? Certainly not editors at Buffalo's only daily, the Buffalo News. Between editions, they softened a piece critical of Wilson written by columnist Jerry Sullivan. That's pretty damning, if it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheRocks Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 i am curious....are there any statistics that show what percentage of season ticket holders come from north of the boarder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick in* england Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Is this true?That's pretty damning, if it is. 570677[/snapback] Jerry is a tool... It is bound to be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonz Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Is this true?That's pretty damning, if it is. 570677[/snapback] I heard JS yesterday on WGR and he did admit that the editors made him remove a few "choice" words about Wilson. Sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonz Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Jerry is a tool... It is bound to be true. 570737[/snapback] Does he write for a paper "over there" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostsOfTheRockpile Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Based on appearances and what "insiders" have been reporting, its turning into a pretty good comparison: meddlesome, no coherent plan for the future, "cheap"... doesn't help it appears as if he thinks bringing in his good ol' boy Marv (who has zero experience in the role he's occupying) will somehow trigger a return to the good ol' days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BackInDaDay Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Based on appearances and what "insiders" have been reporting, its turning into a pretty good comparison: meddlesome, no coherent plan for the future, "cheap"... doesn't help it appears as if he thinks bringing in his good ol' boy Marv (who has zero experience in the role he's occupying) will somehow trigger a return to the good ol' days. 570931[/snapback] Ralph's "good ol' days" may have been when he only needed one set of headphones to hear his 78s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasper13 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I am reading a book about the former Sabres/NHL Head Lawyer Robert Swados. It's a great book- talks about the formation of Channel 2 in Buffalo, the attempts at getting MLB in Buffalo in the 60's, the Buffalo Braves, but it is mainly about hockey and the formation of the Sabres, the Sabres in the 70's and then their sale to the Rigases and also how the NHL was run in the 70's & 80's. I highly reccomend it to any Buffalo Sports Fan. (It's called Counsel in the Crease by Robert O. Swados) Anyways, I bring this up beacuse Swados talks about Harold Ballard. The guy was a scumbag. Ballard was part owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the late 60's-early 70's and then took over full ownership in the early 1970's and continued through the 1980's (after he got out of prision for Grand Larceny and Embezzlement) Seems old Harold and the other Leafs owner Stafford Smythe used Maple Leafs funds to build themselves big mansions. They used contractors that were renovating MLG and also appropriated building suppplies for these mansions. They also took money from the team for personal use and never told anyone. Ballard did a year in jail and had to pay back all the money he took. On the hockey side, Ballard did everything he could to stop the Sabres from becoming successful and infringing on the Leafs TV market in Southern Ontario. He blocked Sabres-Leafs games from TO being shown on local TV in Buffalo in the 70's and one time he voted to put the Leafs in a division with Montreal, Boston, the Islanders & Rangers while sticking the Sabres in a division with Minnesota, Calgary, Edmonton & Vancouver. Luckily, the NHL reversed the decision. Ballard was a mean, nasty, cheap SOB. Anyways, Ballard was nothing like Ralph Wilson. What a stupid comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambler Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I heard JS yesterday on WGR and he did admit that the editors made him remove a few "choice" words about Wilson. Sad 570864[/snapback] Nowadays many people just don't understand the seriousness of censorship and the infringement of our rights. Our freedom is at stake. Maybe the NSA is eavesdropping on this message board and the e-mails sent between members. A survey of 112,003 students finds that 36% believe newspapers should get "government approval" of stories before publishing. So much for the 1st amendment - the foundation of freedom. http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/200...nts-press_x.htm It is even more repulsive to find a sports writer being censored for something relatively trivial like football. The article in the Toronto Sun was almost dead on accurate about Buffalo and Ralph Wilson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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