SageAgainstTheMachine

Oh, man. I want to make sure I'm on your side of the revolution. Here's what I bring to the table - nothing. Ball's in your court.

I want to skydive without a parachute. That's the very definition of something you do before you die.

Playing = fun Watching the competition = fun Winning = fun Deciding that winning is the only important thing in life = not fun Some of my fondest memories in competition involve the memory of a losing effort.

To be fair, the OP described SJ's celebration as idiocy, not the man himself as an idiot. I disagree with the claim, but I've known plenty of smart people who've done idiotic things.

The point of football is... 1) Fun 2) Winning That's how I've always seen it anyway. To me, seeing the Bills win is secondary to taking Sunday off to veg on the couch with some chips and guacamole and have some fun watching football. So when Stevie makes me laugh like that, it's 100% a positive.

I think so. Look at Kevin Kolb... 2010 season: 7 games, 7 TD, 7 INT, 60.9 completion %, 6.3 YPA The result: Arizona traded their most promising DB and a 2nd round pick AND extended Kolb's contract by 5 years, $63 million. For whatever reason, there's a major dearth of QB talent around the league. Fitz would get paid the big bucks.

Football is very serious business.

How did he manage to get a whiff of anti-corporate sentiment with his head so far up his ass?

Publish a book.

Which is one thing I like about this board. There isn't a glut of specific conduct rules (that I'm aware of anyway). Rather, posters are trusted with the efficacy of being respectful. So long as things don't get overtly discourteous or profane, everybody's opinion is welcome. In my opinion, dredging the archives to create "gotcha" moments is in the nebulous gray area of discourtesy. To be fair, PTR's original post falls in the same gray area. However, the man himself (SDS) has spoken and has no problem with this incidence, so maybe I just have a stick up my arse.

I'm not happy with the scenario either, but if you look around the league you'll realize that Fitz probably would've gotten more money if he tested free agency. There are teams that are DESPERATE for the type of middling QB play we've gotten. It's sad but true. Cleveland, KC, Washington, and Seattle immediately come to mind as teams that might cut ties with their current guy and sign Fitz. So at that point, the Bills would've had to choose between a) paying through the nose for Fitz or b) suffering a hit at the QB position. $10 million per year for an above average QB is not ridiculous money.

Which wouldn't be a problem if all the talking heads weren't so convinced of their status as prognosticators. Unwritten rules get broken. In any case, it's pretty classless.

It's a head scratcher. This issue has had a hard enough time being taken seriously...doesn't help that some of the players don't want their own interests protected.

Hopefully the big leagues don't act like the tobacco industry and deny, deny, deny until the science is 100% incontrovertible. The best thing for the NFL and NHL to do is to operate under the assumption of a fatally injurious link between game action and head injuries. Then, adapt. Fans will hate it, but that's where the moral responsibility lies.

Dehydration, mostly.

That's a valid point. I'll say this - when I have kids, I'll probably try to gear them toward lower risk sports like baseball. Of course, kids can hit their noggins in a variety of situations but with contact sports you're just asking for it. To bbb's point, I'm no C.T.E expert but I'd bet my bottom dollar that the average soccer player's life is a solid 15 years longer than the average football player's. EDIT: And I hope it goes without saying that I'd never advocate to BAN any sports. People make their own decisions, after all. But I'm debating whether or not to offer my tacit support as a fan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/sports/hockey/derek-boogaard-a-brain-going-bad.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all?src=tp Fascinating stuff. I think I'm reaching a point where I can't morally justify watching football or hockey. Not a judgment on anybody else...just on a personal level, whenever I see a big hit I think... 1) WOW! and then 2) I wonder how many years that knocked off his life? It disturbs the heck out of me.

Best excuse for public drunkenness I've heard.

I'd shed a tear. Nothing tragic about an elderly man dying after a life well-lived, but it would make me rather sad nevertheless.

This is a good point. In addition to following the Bills and Sabres, I'm a fan of the Yankees. During the baseball season (heck, even during the off-season) there is daily thought provoking content about the Yankees from a variety of local (NYC) sources. Most available material regarding Buffalo sports usually doesn't travel very far beyond banal fan-talk.

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.

Annoying redudancy is irritating.

I guess I meant late September, once the Bills were 3-0.

Today is cake and ice cream day, A day for lots of fun. A baby's day for celebrating Birthday number one! Yaaaaayyyy! Somebody help him blow out the candles.

Amateur opinionists that we are, there's not a single person on this board who's ineligible for a big old batch of "I told ya so", regarding one topic or another. I realize it was an unjustified slight on the local sports media, but I don't think PTR deserves to be singled out for a 3-month old post. Go back to September and most of us look like dumbies.