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My wife, who has asthma, used to complain to ushers about smokers around us, and they laughed at her and said they couldn't do anything. It was one of the reasons she stopped going to games (well that and someone needed to stay home with our kids ). Not to start a war or anything, but I've always noticed that a preponderance of smokers at Bills games -- particularly those who refuse to stop when asked -- are of the Canadian persuasion.

Well, you were sitting way the hell over on the other side and I was otherwise occupied with the culinary delight in front of me. Likewise great to meet you and Mrs. R!

Not just you. I retired from fantasy football a decade ago because (1) there were too many teams from which I couldn't draft because I viscerally hated them; and (2) it was detracting from what I felt should be an undivided loyalty to my Bills. I play fantasy baseball because I'm a baseball fan first and a fan of a team (Mets) second. That doesn't hold true for me in football.

My God, that is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Looks like it belongs on a Bang cartoon.

Bradford also made another major error, according to Troy Vincent in today's D&C, when he quit on his route during the long pass to Andre Johnson that Vincent intercepted. According to TV, he was keying on Bradford but when Bradford didn't run his route after the snap, TV left him alone and went to help out on Johnson. Carr was quoted after the game as saying that TV "must have known we were going that way or something." Now he knows why.

Three words: Assumption Of Risk.

Whoever was at fault, I thought JP handled it well and JR didn't. JP didn't wave his arms when he was yelling at JR, but JR gesticulated wildly and drew attention to the spat. It's kind of like how baseball umpires will let you comment on their ball/strike calls, but the minute you add some visual histrionics you're gone. You can't show up a teammate in front of the home fans, especially the quarterback. That may have been why Nate was laying into JR.

They did that Sunday early in the fourth quarter.

I think people should stand and yell the entire time we're on defense, but I've also always felt there's no reason for the crowd to be standing while we're on offense (until after we make a good play or score, at least). There are far too many people these days who think they're supposed to yell while we're on offense, too. THAT's embarrassing.

Okay, you're getting there.

I hope to run 15 more quotes like that during the regular season and more in the playoffs!

Oh okay. here. Yeah, high praise.

Where?

And Denney made a big play yesterday, too, if I recall.

Now, come on, VA. You're on record multiple times as saying that the Bills made a mistake letting Drew go, perhaps not in those exact words, but I'm sure everyone here will agree that your tone has been unabashedly pro-Drew and anti-JP all off-season. Now you're getting on people for "reading way too much" into your "what if JP made the mistake" post? Perhaps I missed the post where you admit that JP played well yesterday. It might have given your comment about the JP-Reed skirmish more credibility.

I'd like Antwaan Peek to apologize to the BILLS' RECEIVERS for his comments last week. I wonder if he thinks our receivers aren't nothing to worry about anymore. Certainly they showed better hands yesterday than HE did!

That is EXACTLY why I was happy with his performance (and that of the Cowboys) yesterday. I only care about other NFL games insofar as they affect Buffalo's playoff chances. To root for Drew to play badly and the Cowboys to lose yesterday isn't looking at the big picture, which is that we need our AFC rivals to lose games -- especially games they're supposed to win.

The best part is that Peter King couldn't bring himself to mention the Bills at all in his column. Not a single word.

It was fuggin hot yesterday and I didn't see it affect our boys.

And does anyone have a good wallpaper shot of either JP or Willis from yesterday? I need a new background for my computer.

I noticed that too, and that really is the biggest thing. The more we vote with our wallets by buying the throwbacks, the more reason we'll give OBD to go back to them full-time. On another note, while walking through the parking lot I saw a guy wearing a Bob McAdoo powder-blue Braves jersey. AWESOME!

I'm barely old enough (I'm 36) to remember the original standing buffalo. I've spent most of my life associating the Bills with the charging buffalo, for about a dozen years on the white helmet and for more than two decades on the red one. Yet I LOVED seeing them run out there with the old standing buffalo on their white helmets. I got chills, in fact. Like Kent Hull said -- and he played in the red helmets -- these uniforms just LOOK like Buffalo. I flashed back to all the tapes I've seen of the old days -- with Tom Sestak and Ron McDole chasing down hapless QBs, with Kemp airing it out to Golden Wheels and Cookie and the Juice breaking loose, and Lou Saban pacing the sideline. It made me feel good. Damn good. No one would be happier than me if we went back to the old unis.

I thought Gilbride's offense relied too HEAVILY on Drew's abilities. I would agree that Mularkey's offensive creativity and Drew's traditional QB talents don't mix well. And that, as Mr. Gump would say, is all I have to say about that.

My favorite Kelly moment was a game where he walked up to the ENTIRE offensive line, which was seated on the Bills' bench, and proceeded to ream them out individually and as a group for a good five minutes. And all 1,500 pounds of them sat there and took it, and then they went out and took out their anger on the opposition. I loved it yesterday when JP was the last player off the field at halftime because he was running along the stands getting the fans fired up. That was beautiful, man.

I don't understand this. How did we look like the Colts? The Colts have two white stripes around their shoulders. We had a different pattern of stripes, including some red, on our upper arms. The Colts have solid white pants. We had the red and blue stripes on our white pants. Even the shade of blue is different, and of course there's the helmet difference. Our current unis look as much like Tennessee's and Denver's as our throwbacks look like the Colts', perhaps more.