Mark80

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.

Agreed, especially with a bounce back injury free year that we will hopefully get.

What does Marcel's brother being shot or Williams being stabbed by his brother have anything to do with them going to jail? Last time I checked, an overwhelming majority of victims (Williams) and their family members (Dareus) don't go to prison. You clearly have little to no understanding of the legal system if you believe Marcel is going to actually be found guilty of a felony. He'll plead it down to a misdemeanor pay a fine, do a little community service and be done. As for Williams, criminal mischief charges? Come on, you really think he's going to jail for that? These guys can afford to pay for the best defense attorneys in their state, you don't go to jail for such things when you have attorneys that know what they are doing. That's the reality of it. 100% guaranteed that neither goes to jail for either of those offenses. As far as the other weak argument, what makes you think it is easier to throw balls to big receivers than small ones. And these guys are not that agile, they are more straight line speed guys and Benjamin isn't even that fast. There is a very small window a QB can throw a ball to a covered tall WR that he can snag and the CB cannot grab or knock down. It is much easier to throw to an open receiver regardless of their size. If you don't think he can hit our WRs when they are open, who are much better route runners than Benjamin and Bryant, than what makes you think he'll hit the smaller window for a taller WR to make the play when they are covered? WR has quickly become one of the best strengths on our team, IMO. You don't get better by improving your strengths slightly, you get better by improving your weaknesses a lot...OL, LB, and DB had to be the targets after we got Watkins. Period. Finally, Watkins. What would make you think he's going to be injured? He only missed part of one game in his entire college career because of injury and that was just an ankle injury. You could create the exact same doom and gloom scenario for any team in the league. Your act just gets old.

What the hell are you talking about? "Focuses on the the availability of just one weapon"? What does that even mean? Watkins, Spiller, Goodwin, Woods, Williams. 5 legit weapons in the passing game. Watkins IS our big threat guy. Williams IS our BIG threat guy in the redzone. Just because they are tall and fast doesn't mean they are NFL superstars. Benjamin and Bryant? Seriously? Maybe we should have just drafted 6 WRs? Preston Brown an UDFA? Unreal. You're complaining about Watkins "not even out of the bag yet" but at the same time proclaim Brown and Cockerell to be wasted picks already. Williams and Dareus in jail opening day? Come on man, get a grip on reality.

Someone didn't use their Bluebook!

That Mitch Frerotte one is just fantastic.

Really, besides harbor center where? Also, they should be within walking distance of the stadium to be relevant.

Right, but that alone isn't enough. Even if it's downtown they would still need more hotel space, restaurants, and a new convention center I would think. If the convention center could be built with the stadium it would probably be the old "if you build it, they will come" sort of thing for the hotels and restaurants.

I think it would depend on how much infrastructure we have available around the stadium. If the hotels, restaurants, convention center, and access are up in place then I would say we would get one. They seem to be really rewarding the new stadiums lately and it could easily be an unofficial promise made to the city / new owner to get a new one built.