CodeMonkey

It is a pointless game and should be replaced with a flag football game played by the cheerleaders of the two teams in the superbowl.

Johnson is no P. Manning or V. Jackson and plays for an irrelevant team. No reason for the media to speculate about him.

It's a nice city. Never been to the stadium but in every other way I'd say it beats Indy, Dallas, and a lot of other cities.

That must be it! Those damn terrorists are trying to destroy the US in the most devious way possible, by bankrupting the only true American only sport, the NFL! That's it, I've purchased my last knock off!

First off why is homeland security getting involved in this? I love these quotes (with my corrections): "This type of crime takes jobs away from American workers and profits away from U.S. businesses." "Counterfeiters use inferior the same materials and craftsmanship to produce look-alike products that do not benefit the teams, the players, or the hard working employees of legitimate U.S. companies and trademark holders." I can only imagine the quantity of counterfeit superbowl crap that must be in Indy now selling at half the price of the licensed ones. I'm not surprised the NFL pulled some strings to get the government to get as much of it out of circulation as they can so the NFL can make as much money as possible.

I suspect anyone with an agent is immediately too expensive.

They should get rid of it altogether in my opinion. The whole concept is pointless. Battle of the NFL cheerleaders would be far more entertaining. And probably far more physical as well.

I can't imagine Tasker ever making it in. For Andre I am torn. He is a Bill so I'd like to see him make it. But is he really a "hall of famer"? I can't talk myself into answering yes.

The Bills could use that quality.

I think most people here know that he is good. It just makes then nauseous to admit it publicly. I would not want to live in Buffalo at all for many reasons (most of which are spelled out in this thread), but if I had to live in either Buffalo or NYC, I'm taking Buffalo hands down.

And hence a big cause of the decline. Adapt or die. Buffalo and Kodak chose the latter (though there is still hope for Buffalo). Xerox is adapting.

BellyCheat doing a girl that hot is not right, not right at all.

Not sure I follow your thought process completely here. I do work on open source projects so in effect that code is published "to the web". And people take pieces of it all the time and turn them into applications that they make money on. When the counterfeiters make jerseys that for all intents and purposes are physically the same as the ones you purchase from the NFL, that is competition. It is license infringement and therefore illegal, but it is not theft. Theft would be if they robbed whatever Chinese factory makes the Reebok/Nike jerseys then sold what they stole. Ugh. Don't even get me started on SOPA/PITA.

I'm just hoping they have a plan A.

I am in the software business and that happens all the time. Not after 50 years, but the same principle. You learn to make a better product at a better price than the competition rather than hide behind the skirts of the law in order to survive. Particularly in the current global economy. In my opinion if the NFL is concerned with the counterfeits, the best business approach is to deliver a better product, which in my experience the quality of the counterfeits is basically the same, and/or become price competitive, which they clearly are not even in the same universe. Who would bother ordering one from China if you could walk into the Bills store and get one immediately for roughly the same price. 1000% markup buys them a lot of leeway however. If a substantial number of people feel the way that you do (or don't even know about the counterfeits) and buy the licensed product they can afford to ignore the counterfeiters.

Hampton Inns are nice for budget rooms, but not what Marcia is looking for.

I was just thinking that too. I have never stayed in a hotel in Buffalo, (by the hour or otherwise ) but Rochester has two that I have been in that are very nice. Hard to believe Buffalo doesn't have any.

I don't buy it, because it is obscenely overpriced. My perception of a products value does drive my decision to buy or not buy a product. It also drives my decision to buy or not buy a counterfeit. I understand that the companies making the counterfeit jerseys are illegally reproducing the licensed property of the NFL. But when I see a 1000% markup (not all to the NFL, Reebok/Nike gets their cut too) on any product, I have no issue breaking the law that benefits the price gouger.

You are absolutely correct, what the China sites that I have seen sell are not marked as irregulars. They have the holographic seal, tags, and everything else that would make someone think it came from Nike or Reebok. The attitude that anything the NFL does is good, including making a 1000% or more profit on merchandise and blackouts, is also sickening to me anyway. If the NFL charged a reasonable price for the jerseys in the first place, there would be no market for counterfeit ones and we would not even be having this discussion. And regarding the 10 year olds in China, who do you think makes the jerseys for Reebok or Nike?

Settle down Francis. Not only did I not give a direct link, I did not even give an indirect one.

You might be able to eat for the year on the $50K, but you would be living in a cardboard box.

Whatever you think of ChaNix, they aren't totally clueless. They announced it for a reason. Wanny has been out of the DC game since 1999, and when he was a DC it was 4-3. Maybe making this announcement is an attempt to remove doubt in FAs mind enough so that they will at least agree to talk to the Bills. Who knows.

How would you determine how many jobs he was offered?

They need to release the jerseys so china cloners can get to work and get reasonably priced ones to market.

True enough. But one thing is for sure, this is ChaNix year 3 coming up and it's baby time.