May Day 10

I remember the snazzy commercials during the Monday night football games. The guy would refer to events in the game and it seemed so awesome. I begged my parents to subscribe because I wanted to play fantasy football/rotisserie... but they wouldnt budge

word Its an interesting and complex issue for sure. Not everybody has a DC Tom to explain things. While I still don't/can't understand what compels people to want to kill/display these animals... it seems to be a necessary evil to give locals an economic interest in staving off poaching. A real evil seems to be the Chinese and their antiquated 'medical' needs.

Apparently there is some confusion. He is alive?

Same one!

so 'leaks' told the locker room bozos to deflate footballs and gave them merch?

I like how he starts referring to the Patriots as "we" in the column

Graham strongly pointed the finger at Jauron in the Maybin article, didnt he?

that is what I was saying.... its in between and there are many factors that are glossed over when people give the 11%-20% figure (I actually thought I heard 17% somewhere but I could be wrong and cant find it) And the amount of other people the series p*&&^d off is also a factor. I know 3 people who cancelled their seasons. I was in the process of purchasing club seats when the announcement came down with the Wilson PC and I bailed on the ticket rep and provided that as a reason (a few years later I 'inherited' a rockpile seat from a friend). I still think the #1 motivation was the cash. Its all past history though. I'm fine with everything in Bills-land at this point, and that includes Brandon or whoever... even in the overlord position. This discussion has no relevance, really. I kind of wish they would change Billy Buffalo though Things are awesome

huh? Aaron Maybin? Anyways, Im wrong. Didnt attend community college. 100% of the 9% of Canadian Season Ticket holders were directly thanks to the Toronto games. No other factors were necessary or applicable.

at the same time the increase was happening, the Canadian dollar was strengthened. Is that not a factor at all? Only factor was that sham game? edit: Im not upset about it any more at all. At the center of it, it was perceived as cracking the door open to a huge market that had its eyes set on stealing our team. The game was symbolic of us losing the Bills. Now that it is gone, and the series is gone forever, it just doesnt matter. I still disagree that it was an effective Regionalization tool. I have never met a Canadian fan who liked the series and/or was compelled to go to RWS because of it. It earned the Bills some bucks. Its history. Im fine with it.

the STH from Ontario rose from 11% to 17%. That equates to roughly 2,500 seats. How many were from Toronto? How many as a result of that great and authentic display of Bills football in the Skydome? How many were due to the surging Canadian dollar and general high Canadian shopping activity here? It was an effective cash grab. That is all it was. We can move on. We will see a lot more Canadians when the wins pile in.

im in

For sure, I love the Pegulas as owners and wouldnt want it any other way... A+++ Just grading the Sabres so far, while ignoring the peripheral stuff (and also not assuming/predicting future results), Id give it a C.

To me, it's already a win. Through the whole process I expected the nfl to turn over and push the narrative that brady is a swell guy. The opposite has happened and the whole football world sees the patriots as slimy cheaters who really are incapable of acknowledging any wrongdoing even though it has been laid out for all to see. You really have to believe there is much more behind the curtain there and hopefully this is the beginning if the end of the "run". Even if lawyers get the suspension overturned on a procedural technicality... will anyone proclaim that brady is innocent besides that senile little toad bob kraft and patriots fans? Brady has been exposed for who he really is. It's already a win and good on goodell and the nfl not going the easy route and helping brady here.

Not good enough. Needed Bruce Jenner to find it and Donald Trump to try to stop him/her

wow. very interesting stuff http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/world/northern-rhino-dies/index.html

I just mean for the defenders of The Pats/Brady. The whole crux of their argument is Goodell is out to get Brady... but I dont know what the reason could be

does anybody know what motive the NFL has in going after Tom Brady? I dont get that part. is Gary Bettman going to go after Sidney Crosby?

This big money game hunting and poaching/species conservation is an actual issue though. It isn't kardashians, is the dress Blue, Confederate Flag nonsense, Trump, Deflategate, Comic Con, etc. I mean we can get high and mighty, but if you cut down to it, we all should be building shelter for the homeless and not commenting on a message board.

I read that no group has the resources/$, there is a lot of red tape, and nowhere to put/raise them. Plus its possible the 'deed' has been done.

yup. that is apparently true... And quite possible the Cubs' mother will die too trying to defend them.

i love it

the world hates this guy. Online petitions to extradite the guy to Zimbabwe are getting 100's of thousands of signatures in hours.

Anyone following this story?

I dont get what motivation the NFL would have to do this to Brady and the Patriots. if anything, they really wish they didn't have to... The denials and the Patriots' clown act PCs before the Super Bowl gave the NFL little choice. The denials remind me of George Castanza driving his in laws all the way to the Hamptons.