CodeMonkey

I agree to a point. But back then TVs were small and low definition and VHS quality was even worse than that. Now you have large TVs, very clean HD broadcasts, and the online ability to view multiple cameras of your choice. Also throw in the significant expense of going to a game (magnified if you have a family) as well as the inconvenience (traffic, drunks etc.) and you can see why stadium attendance is going down. But there will always be enough of a hardcore group of fans who love the "game day experience" to fill a reasonable amount of stadium seats. I wouldn't call it anywhere near a majority though. The games that don't sell out 70,000 seats at the Ralph for example, how many people do you think are watching on TV in Buffalo? And I do agree that eating wings cooked on the hood of Kenny's pinto and washing them down with a bowling ball shot is by far the best way to prepare for a Bills game!

Any true Billievers who are also gamblers will probably jump on these two if they can get someone to take bets now. Week three, Buffalo at NY Jets -3.5 Week seven, Buffalo at Miami -4

Then he should get the ring back. Hopefully he will learn his lesson and put that money to a better use. 3/4 million dollars buys a lot of lap dances at the Sundowner.

I think CU is far better looking than FH, and her voice is far superior. So as long as they dress CU hot and let her sing instead of coming up with some hillbilly horseshit song this is definitely an upgrade.

Crazy when you think about it. Almost 3 hours duration for a game that has an hours worth of clock time. And out of that hour, there is less than 30 minutes of action. But I'm like you, I love watching the Bills game sans commercials.

To make it in 30 minutes they must strip out all the whitespace and just show nothing but the plays. I'm OK with the ~70 minutes I get

I know Macs can emulate windows and run Windows apps, but I'm not sure about DirectX ones like these are. I don't do Mac so I can't be of any more help than that

'Tis the time of year to Billieve

Maybe what they should do as a courtesy to the fans at the games is not have the TV timeouts at the stadium. TV can show the commercials and show the rest of the game on a delay. That way the people at the game don't have to sit through the commercials and get out of the game (and back to the post-game tailgate) that much quicker while the people watching on TV watch as long as it takes with all the commercials. Why punish the people paying the $$$ to go to the game? That also would allow TV to show as many commercials as they want without affecting the game itself. Damn, I should have King Rogers job

So he buys her a $750,000 ring, she uses his plastic (that he gave her) for another $100,000, and he spends yet another $230,000 on her for "luxury items" then dumps him. Well you know what they say about a fool and his money. Or maybe she just felt she could not compete with all the hot wing-fed Buffalo women

Kraft wants a winner. I have no trouble imagining him not caring if his players prefer men or women so long as they help the team win. Thanks, I wasn't going to look but now you have ruined boobs for me forever!

Erie County ..no problem at all. NYS ... no !@#$ing way. I live in Rochester so Erie county can do what they want but I don't want any of my money going to a stadium, ANY stadium.

I think teams will do what the Bills did some years back and lower the seating capacity in favor of corporate and luxury boxes. Big market teams can get away with that for sure. Plus with only 8 regular season home games (7 for the Bills) people who really love the "game day experience" can generally come up with the money to go if they want to bad enough. If tackle football does lose it's place as the top American spectator sport I do not believe it will be due to lack of attendance at games.

I was beginning to think that no one would ever be able to use "common sense" and "legislature" together. I can see NY stiffing the Bills, but I can't imagine them not throwing money at any NYC teams. I hear Toronto wants a team.

Many would use a word other than devotion for what you describe. But I can appreciate your mindset.

And with everything so new and not even a camp to watch at this point, both are equally valid. Or neither, and go with the tried and true "wait and see"

I use private software to watch/record satellite TV and use an open source package called ComSkip http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/ for commercial removal. There is an open source package for satellite/cable watching/recording as well that also has a plugin for using ComSkip that works well called MediaPortal http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ . Another good and free (though not open source) application that also supports ComSkip is NextPVR http://www.nextpvr.com/ The pros to this are you can watch a game in a very reasonable length of time and at your convenience. The con though is that I now tend to find it excruciating to watch a tackle football game in real time due to the commercial interruptions.

I disagree. I also prefer to be at home. That way I can enjoy the game with my family. No way would I bring my young kids to a Bills game, other than the kids day preseason game when most of the drunken idiots don't go. Way to damn expensive, and also just not something I want to expose the kids to. Instead I have PC software setup to record the game and afterward automatically strip out the commercials. We then watch the game in it's entirety in about an hour while we are eating dinner (works perfectly for the 1pm games) on the 55" LED TV.. So old and lazy, no. Older and wiser, perhaps. And watching at home "not the same", absolutely my point ... I find it to be considerably better.

Oops, right, USFL. And maybe not been great those 3 years and been run out of town. You just never know!

Past history IS a reliable indicator. Expecting that this one kid coming in right out of college is going to take a team that has not even been close to the playoffs for 13 years and turn them into a super bowl contender in his first year is not realistic. Even you should understand that.

I never knew how badly until i saw a show on ESPN recently about that draft.. To the point he got a call from a CFL team while he was at OBD to sign a contract, and signed with the CFL team. Crazy stuff.

Saw this on facebook and thought it puts things in perspective ... Don't get your hopes up too high.

I don't know, at least the Leafs made the playoffs this year.

I remember these same types of posts 3 years ago when Gailey took the TVs out of the weight room. Old school tough coach expects the players to work. God is it preseason yet please?

Every team that drafts a QB has a "rookie QB trying to beat out the veteran". The Bills have been irrelevant for at least the last 13 years. No one but Bills fans would care or watch if the show focused on the Bills.