May Day 10

I have trouble getting mad at the homeless man. Down on his luck, he had a hand in a rather genious plot. The couple are skumm though (as is the homeless man still)

Im a fallout guy, but not an mmorpg guy

they had better figure out something. I cant imagine the league is on that great of footing to begin with.

IMO, Gronk is smarter than he puts out on the exterior.... at the least, he has received and acted on good council from his family and maybe agent. I wouldnt be shocked at all if he leaves with house money thinking about long-term health. All those earnings saved, some rings, almost certainly the best ever at his position and a HOFer. He could kick back, not worry about training camp, Belichick owning his soul, etc ever again. Probably will have some sort of entertainment career. DWTS would be a certainty.

I would actually be fine with Brady staying. Especially if there is some sort of quasi power-struggle with him and Kraft vs Belichick. I will love to see the brady flounder season. Its also a possibility Gronk could hang them up due to being fed-up health-wise. That is the important one.

He (Tyree) reminds me a bit of a poor-man's Kaepernick for Nevada. He runs like a gazelle (and then fumbles inside the 5, lol).

If they were in almost any other Division (maybe any other), things would look a lot worse for them. The 5-6 wins banked and no competition is keeping them in contention as a Division winner and (normally) an inside track for a bye. Without a healthy Gronk, life is very difficult for Brady. Gordon helps a little bit, but not nearly the safety valve with a 20 foot catch radius Gronk is. Looking at the schedule, they should be at 11 or 12 wins, possibly good enough for a bye. They do look vulnerable... and I do not see them going to Pittsburgh or KC in January and winning, let alone both (if they get out of the 1st round if they needed it). I just hope Allen is the real deal and the Bills are ready to compete once New England is truly exposed.

The game was not enjoyable from any standpoint, unless you are an Ohio supporter. Was pretty clear it wasnt going to be competitive. Whenever UB made a play in the 1st half that might get them rolling, it would be negated by a fumble, bad bounce, or penalty. Ohio is the real deal. Also came in with an obvious mental edge.

All the motivation was on ohio's side. In a vacuum im not sure ub beats ohio without playing a clean game, so im not sure this was a big surprise. Very glad it didnt cost the division. The silver lining is now, ub could/should get a manageable opponent in their bowl game. Maybe win to cap the season.

I would say maybe, depending on the cost. I also doubt Chicago is going for a complete tear-down at this point. They have Jeff Skinner, who is 3 years younger and production wont be far off from Kane. Kane makes $10.5 million against the cap. Skinner may be $7-$9 million against.

Im not rooting for losses if Allen is in there. Best case scenario is he shows tangible signs of development, win or lose. That would be worth so much more than a few draft slots.

The mics were weird for NBC Sports. You could hear a group of individual fans near a Mic as clear as day. You couldnt really hear crowd noise. Even when they scored, you could barely hear the goal horn and music. NBC Sports/OLN/Versus is such a bad partner and terrible broadcasting. The rights were gifted to them due to Snyder/Comcast. I couldnt believe what I was hearing, also, with that team broadcasting the game. That woman was amateur hour, and the pbp guy was a zombie. The arena HAS come to life a bit. I have been to 4 games and it is much better. They also improved the presentation, including my biggest pet peeve: they finally changed the tone on the organ to sound like an arena organ. The old one for the history of that arena had zero punch.

I bet Russ Brandon did this that day that he worked there

Over/Under on his first non-athlete role for PSE?

They arent upset because there is nearly 130 years of built in tradition and they arent upsetting the apple cart by a lame marketing move. I thought New York State or whatever was a lame attempt. It just felt a bit silly and forced. I get the reasons why they did it, but glad they pulled the plug. They were trying to maybe get a bit more student support from downstate students. I think there are better ways to do that. Not sure if they can ever win over the loyalty of the WNY public unless they become a Boise State or Gonzaga. Buffalo is an overrated sports town when it comes to supporting non-major league entities (minus the strange Bandits obsession). If you name the team after NYU, it would be even tougher to get the support of the general public. White's body of work at UB was great. Good hires, got rid of that BS artist Quinn. raised good money and pointed the athletics firmly in the right direction. I do wish him/they could really do something about that awful football "stadium". But I think it would/will be very difficult to ever get away from the constraints of that monstrosity.

Seattle

winning a bowl game to cap the season would be nice too.

Bills in a laffer

I agree the XFL is probably not going to work out. McMahon sounds like he immediately wants to go major league and there is just no way to compete with the MANY billions of dollars of backing the NFL has, as well as 32 historic brands almost every sports are emotionally vested in. This is a much different landscape as the fools club or even the USFL. The layout, orientation, and management of the AAF gives me like 1000% more confidence that league lasts more than 3 years.

BUT THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE THOSE SONS OF B****ES STAND FOR THE ANTHEM

I found that. I just sat there and watched the guy counting money for like 5 minutes thinking something was going to happen. Then I walked away

Ohio game is still big. Can clinch the division front door, having beat all comers. 10-1, likely to be 11-1 heading to the MAC Title game. beat Ohio and top 25 ranking might be border-line (end up 12-1 and they probably will be top 25 heading to the bowl, and not 11-2). End up 12-1 and they will probably get invited to a much more prestigious bowl game and get some degree of national attention as a top 25 team that has 1 loss (against a really good team). 11-2, they are just your typical MAC fodder win or lose in the mid-december appetizers before the real games start

Eventually, 'friends' like that find their way out of spouse's lives after marriage... and especially after kid(s). People like that feel like they dont have a lot going on in their lives... so they intentionally/unintentionally strive to make the build up to, and the wedding itself about them. Create drama, disappear when depended upon, etc. Better just brace for it and not depend on this person for anything. It gets more sticky when family member(s) are like this

Looks really good. Didnt like the prospects of the must win game @ ohio

classless and uncalled for