Mark80

These are great points and I agree with you 100%. To play a bit of devils advocate though if I may. I remember when I used to listen to Colin Cowherd's radio show like 7 years ago or so, he would defend when he would talk about the same things numerous times during the show. He would say that the average listener would only tune in for X amount of minutes (a small number that I can't remember). So, if they tuned in they would expect him to be talking about the big story of the day (I think this was around the Bonds or Clemens PED coverage that was so annoying). If he wasn't talking about that, they'd turn it off immediately. He admitted it's all about the ratings and all about the average viewer, flat out saying sorry to the hard-core listeners. Now, this is obviously TV and there is probably a longer viewing time than listening time on the radio, but I think this is probably applicable here. The average NFL fan only cares about their team (obviously they show the most popular teams the most often) and if they are flipping through and see their team (or some player like Manziel) on NFL network in some capacity they may watch for a while, if not they are certain to turn it off. Unfortunately, the true fans get the shaft because they are trying to get the ratings from the average viewer over good content.

Not on topic really, but as a huge A's fan I have to correct you a bit here. They do not take calculated risks. Really, the only risk they have taken lately is the signing of Cespedes. They win by not overpaying veterans and often trading them away before they have a chance to demand enormous contracts for a bunch of young prospects. Most notably, young pitching prospects. They basically turnover their pitching staff every 4 years. They then stock their offense with a lot of platoon type players that can play numerous positions as well and set their lineups based off of the opposing pitchers (mostly righty / lefty matchups). For example, while the Yankees are paying Brian McCann $17M per year for 8HRs and a .222 BA this year, the A's are platooning John Jaso (a lefty) 7 HRs and .271 BA and Derek Norris (a righty) 8 HRs and .302 BA for a combined salary of less than $3M. Combined these two make one of the best catchers in the league, if that makes sense. Their system is based almost exclusively on analytics, which by definition is not risk based. After all, the best predictor of future performance is past performance.

Here's some more that you can purchase. They are a bit pricey though but some are quite amazing. A lot of them have a little story about the location and how they were taken. Pretty interesting. This cityscape is probably my favorite one: http://peerlessfinea...llery/patience/ peerlessfineart.com

Smoking hot for sure. Was listening to some sports talk over the weekend (can't remember who it was though) and they were saying something along the lines of her parents are ruining her childhood and she shouldn't be playing, she shouldn't be subjected to this sort of pressure at 11, look at what happened to Wie after she hit the scene blah, blah, blah. I'm thinking to myself, you media types are the ones creating all of this so called pressure. Inundating her constantly with questions, cameras, microphones, etc. And Wie? I think she turned out to be a pretty darn good person and golfer from what I've seen (even if she hasn't completely lived up to the hype as of yet). Regardless, she seemed pretty comfortable in front of the media, was happy and smiling the entire time, and seemed to really enjoy herself. Any kid who enjoys golf would be in absolute heaven to play beside the professionals that they look up to so much. And she did pretty damn good too for an 11 year old.

Disagree on this completely. Rosters really are not going to change that much. You are going to have cuts, free agent signings, and injuries all throughout the year, the main free agency period and the draft period is over, there has been mini-camps and OTAs to get a taste of what you have. This is a completely appropriate time to have this tread active and I venture to say that most teams projections are not going to change much at all barring a major injury (namely, a franchise qb going down).

Kyle looks to be keeping some good company on that list. Big Ben, Joe Haden, Larry F., Suh, Lavonte David, Rivers, Marshall, Revis, and Aldon Smith. Very Impressive.

I believe this is only in regards to the Redskin name. So any one could create merchandise using Washington and Redskins together with the appropriate colors. However, the logo looks to be still protected and wouldn't be able to be used without breaking the Trademark / Copyright on it.

Always liked The Tao of Steve and Grandma's Boy, Also thought Magnolia was very underrated and under appreciated in general.

Facepalm.

No excitement in soccer huh? Go and watch the last 10 minutes of Manchester City vs Queens Park Rangers in 2012. It was the last game of the season. They needed to win the game to win the league title (no playoffs in premiere league soccer, but two cup tournaments, the main prize is the league title though). It was one of the most exciting sporting events I have ever watched. You probably won't even go watch it though because you have programmed yourself not to even give soccer a chance (as many Americans have). Or just watch a Messi, Suarez, Renaldo, highlight reel. Unreal what they can do. I gave it a chance about 5 or 6 years ago and I like it more and more each year. I love being able to wake up on Saturday and Sunday mornings and watch live games from 7 am till about 2 in the afternoon. It's perfect. Just watching the skills and ability of a lot of these guys is awe inspiring. In fact, just watch their feet for a few minutes, only their feet, you'll be shocked. While I am still a American Football fan over Soccer, I have come to enjoy it as another sport to watch. But to compare the two is simply not fair, it's a totally different game. Soccer is low scoring, yes, but the rush of excitement from a goal or from a huge save on what should have been a goal is tremendous. Or to see a team wear down right before your eyes in the last 15 minutes of a game because they have already ran about 7 miles while the other team is still going strong and now dominates because of their fitness level. It's great. Oh and there is plenty of contact and rough play in soccer to entertain me as well. No one ever said you had to like it more than Football, but to not even give it a chance and proclaim it boring is just dumb in my opinion. But I also like baseball, so take that for what it's worth!

You can actually buy beer from a store starting at 8 am on Sundays now. This changed a few years ago. This proposed change is only for "on-premise" sales.

Guarantee that Watkins has better production than SJ this year. Guarantee EJ has better production than Bortles or any other of the "early" drafted (whatever that even means since I would consider Bortles the only early drafted one myself) QBs this year. Guarantee that OTAs don't mean jack squat. Guarantee these hypothetical "what if we did..." don't mean squat either.

Yeah that, and it's a really, really terrible thing to call a Native American person. Wake up buddy.

Let me get this straight. You've been racking your brain for a month and all you came up with was his initials? Hum. I could certainly here Berman saying this. But as an every day one it's just too long. Unfortunately, I'm not the creative type to come up with anything good. Swatkins sounds decent though.

Not to be that guy man, but for future reference it's bandwidth if you did not know and that wasn't a typo.

There has to be a way to allow smoking somewhere in the stadium. Just has to be.

For the first time ever, I'm actually concerned about LA. It was always a never gonna happen thing to me and I focused my fears up North, but now, with the Clippers sale, the comments by the Fins owner, and the league considering hosting the draft there when they don't even have a team...I'm not liking this one bit. Hopefully the Chargers, Rams, or Raiders move there stat. I agree, this whole 4 day thing is ridiculous. The glory days of rounds 1-3 one day and 4-7 the next are never coming back. I'm curious if anyone has any idea how much more revenue they generated with the 3 day draft compared to the 2 day? I can't imagine it can be that much more in the grad scheme of things for the league. Didn't he just get booted off the team? I can't imagine him going first round after his repeated antics and getting kicked off the team. I think next year's draft will be just fine. QBs will probably be rated higher with Winston (potentially), Hundley, and Moriata heading into the season with very high expectations. All 3 could have easily been the top QB taken this year with good workouts / combines / interviews.

He didn't destroy us one game last year, he destroyed Justin Rogers one game last year. The guy had no business being on an NFL playing field but desperate times called for desperate measures I suppose. I'd like Geno to win it because I also believe that he is a terrible QB. Bad skill set, bad intelligence level, bad leadership skills. Anyone, anyone, who believes he is better than EJ has some serious perspective issues and are just flat out wanting EJ to fail for whatever reason (yes I'm talking to all of you "i hope he does great but I don't see it after 1/2 a rookie season" bozos).

The only idiots here are the people that still listen to that channel and especially that show. The only things worthwhile are Muph's show and the Sabres / Bills games. The other two sports stations in this town are much, much better to listen to even though they are mostly national shows. I'd take their national programs over these idiots, jeremy white, that crap hockey show, and rome any day of the week. Simon is ok, just ok though. Young rich people by fast cars. People who buy fast cars drive them fast. It's not a Buffalo thing at all man.

I don't really like this idea at all, but if the name has some sticking points why now follow the Angels lead. They've gone from California Angles, to Anaheim Angels to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. All in an effort to tap into the LA region. Perhaps Buffalo Bills of Niagara or something like that is possible to keep both sides appeased.

See what you are saying man, but you have to take those Forbes valuations with a grain of salt. In reality, teams are worth what someone is willing to pay for them.

You're a waste of my time. I'll just end by saying this. I'm sure I know just as much if not more about the legal system in the south than you do. Going to a top tier law school in the south tends to teach you a thing or two about the law.

There is a really good thread about this already that was active a month or two ago. It has all the info you need. Got moved to the archives but here it is. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/167165-coming-to-buffalo-looking-for-advice/

In light of another high impact player going down in OTAs yesterday for the Cowboys, I'm just looking for everyone to stay healthy, that's all I care about.