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  2. I’m not sure this holds anymore. Back 15 years ago when you could get a house in Tonawanda for 87k, sure. Now that same house is 250k and has the property taxes to match. If you don’t care where you live, then I’m sure Buffalo has affordable spots. But go into any decent neighborhood anymore and it isn’t very affordable. Once you factor in property taxes, you can find the same house elsewhere. Taking simple home price of XXX dollars you come out with a far different picture. But not everyone has massive property tax exemptions and pays in cash.
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  4. On Tuesday, the average net worth of someone living in your neighborhood was $100,000. Then on Wednesday, Elon Musk randomly moved in. Now it's Sunday, and the average net worth of someone living in your neighborhood is well over $1 billion. Josh Allen is the Elon Musk of Beane's draft picks. Adding one guy like that is going to make the average look much, much better than it otherwise would have. Let's say I'm the GM of an expansion team. I have two options. 1) I'm gifted a rookie version of Josh Allen. 2) I'm gifted rookie versions of all other Beane draft picks. I know which of those options I'm taking. Dude, it's not even close.
  5. By 1973 I had been to numerous Bills, Sabres and Braves games with my father. It dropped off after that, my parents separated, my father moved out, forever, he had a girlfriend. My life changed. My mother had to go to work. My father eventually had no time for me anymore. I didn’t talk to him for years. Time has healed the wounds. He’s still alive and quite well at 87. We talk. The sports memories now don’t seem so long ago and are much fonder.
  6. I can’t hate on players who try hard but just aren’t talented or got hurt. The one thing you can control is effort so I only truly dislike “lazy” players. Some players in no particular order come to mind. 1- Marcel Dareus- Tremendous physical athlete who came in as a good starter his first two seasons then he balled out completely in 2013 and especially in 2014. Once he got paid after 2014 he declined a lot and that was by all accounts very unmotivated and lazy. 2- Mike Williams - Kind of similar to Dareus but he never got that motivation to get a big contract. A very high draft pick that was just burnt on a player who didn’t play hard. 3- JP Losman - Lots of potential but there was a lot of issues with him seemingly lacking motivation and work ethic at times.
  7. Wade was an NFL head coach of six different teams and compiled an 82-64 record despite his vagabond lifestyle which seems to say he's an above average coach. Yet he can't sniff an NFL job. It seems unfair though his poor playoff record might have something to do with this. I hope he gets another chance.
  8. Hello. Anonymous sources can't be vetted in any of these ways. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
  9. This ought to be right up there with "retatta" and Peter Pan as a TBD classic
  10. Comeback game - I remember eating wegmans subs at 9 am, dad drinking beers. By half time we were getting hit with snow balls from oilers fans. We stayed (pretty sure because he couldn’t drive back to Rochester) then we started coming back and we were the ones throwing snow balls. Great game great memories.
  11. My wife and I took my boys up to Buffalo in 2017 and saw the Bills beat the Broncos. It was the game where Von took an ill-advised/questionable penalty late in the game and also where I took the photo that became my 2BD avatar. The weekend was great, the game was great but what I remember most was the great folks from Buffalo that we came across all weekend and how the whole family embraced it. Since then we've been rewarded with the Josh years. Good times.
  12. When the Bills play the Dolphins this year Poyer's number one goal is for Josh not to jump over him, that's the list.
  13. An illusion. No you don't. You pay way too much on other things, like military, health, and Social Security. Social/Corporate welfare (economic security) is only 8% of the budget:
  14. This is very true. Bills have been a great team the last 4 yrs. But to say they’ve been the best because of point differential instead of championships is crazy. They’ve been great but they haven’t been the best.
  15. In the all-time series during the regular season, the Dolphins lead 61-54-1. Josh Allen has really narrowed the gap ever since the Bills went 0-70's against the Phish.
  16. I’ll only count their career years both in and off the field. Murdering one’s wife after retirement won’t be considered part of a Bills career. If Rae Carrith had been a Bill he’d qualify. Ken Jones - Way too much holding Ronnie Harmon - Catch that for Pete’s sake Perry Tuttle - Yeesh Doug Flutie- An average QB with the rest of that team might have gone places. Instead we got the self promoting locker room dividing little squirt who is still crying today.
  17. You started with, “wow” and I dropped a handful of stats supporting his case as “one of the most talented punting prospects ever.” It’s really not up for debate. What he accomplished in his short time is unmatched. You diminishing the stats to support your unwarranted surprise at how dominant he was. Just say, “I didn’t realize that he was that great” and move on.
  18. A BIT of a moron? You’re being too kind. He’s a full blown moron!
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