CodeMonkey

I actually thought my post was neutral to slightly positive. After DJ a mediocre coach is an improvement

Also for all you people with seasons ...

Tried that but the picture was crappy by comparison. I guess I'm spoiled by sports in HD

I hope seasons sales picks up. If not and we tank there could be blacked out games later in the season.

Pinto Kenny

The facts are that he has never been one and will probably never be one. He has historically been mediocre and I don't expect that to change in Buffalo. Some people tend to get excited at the prospect of a new head coach after the ten years of **** we have just lived through. And will revise history to make that coaching change seem like the move of the century to increase, and justify, their excitement. The season will start soon enough and we will see.

Product Name: NFL Jerseys Denver Broncos #15 Tebow jersey authentic navy blue orange white Unit Price: USD 18.52 ~ 21.39 / Piece This big bust sure has slowed them down huh

Yeah, “could be” flammable, that’s the reason they were seized and not the fact that you can get a $250 “authentic” jersey for $25 , complete with hologram tags I found it interesting that they pretty much admitted the jerseys were the same are the real ones. So hmmm, assuming the $8,125 is NFL retail value, that’s probably 30ish jerseys. So the person is probably only out $600 that he paid to China. The cost chain is interesting too. You gotta figure Reebok is paying at most $15 per jersey to their China manufacturer. Reebok marks it up, the NFL marks it up, and the team stores mark it up. And that reaches $250? Somebody (probably all 3) is making a buttload of money!

Interesting point. A different take on my #1 scenario above. Not a fiasco at all, but a victory for real football fans. Not sure I agree with him completely, but a interesting point of view.

I just got around to thinking about this a little. It does sound like the fairest thing to do. But can you imagine a city like Buffalo hosting a superbowl in January? The superbowl is more of an event than a football game anymore. Attended by people of means who can afford to go party for a week and pay stupid prices for tickets (if they even bother going to the game). I can see two nightmare scenarios: 1) The people with means google Buffalo in January and decide to take a pass. No one shows up to party, the Ralph is filled with Bills fans watching 2 other teams play in a white-out and not giving a **** about either team. The whole event never gets off the ground and Buffalo is a laughing stock. 2) The people do show up, but need to stay in hotels as far away as Syracuse or Toronto because there aren't nearly enough 4 or 5 star rooms in Buffalo. And they spend all week bitching to each other and the media about how Buffalo is not capable of hosting this event, how there is no nightlife, the weather blows, etc. etc. and Buffalo again is a laughing stock. No matter how much you love the B-Lo, can anyone honestly say Buffalo is capable of hosting something like the superbowl?

Everyone does

A little early for Irish Car Bombs isn't it?

No ... both!!!

It is a entirely different game now than it was in the 50's (for better or for worse), but I certainly respect your opinion about playing in the elements. The affordable issue is a whole other discussion

I'll watch whatever I want to watch, in the stands or on my couch. Whatever I see fit. Enjoy the game!

Whatever. You just can't talk to some people. 1) I'm not watching a superbowl in Buffalo. 2) I haven't paid $500 or more to see said game in Buffalo. 3) If I paid superbowl prices to see a Jan game in Buffalo and it was pissing down rain or snow and blowing like hell, yeah I'd hate it. 4) I don't generally go to late season games in Buffalo because of weather (and over drunk !@#$s). Your better team comment is true ... to a point. But when it comes down to two otherwise good teams trading 3 and outs and whatever team fumbles the least wins, yeah it's invalid at that point to me. YMMV.

The playing field can only be leveled so much. Far superior teams should still win. One would hope that the teams playing a superbowl would be better matched than the Bills and the cheaters were 2 years ago. They can't postpone obviously. My suggestion, if I were the God of the NFL, would be to require a dome to host a superbowl among the other requirements like hotel rooms etc. Are you suggesting that either watching a superbowl in pouring down rain would be as enjoyable to watch from a competition perspective or would show which is the better team? How about the in person fan experience? Pay all that money to sit in a monsoon and watch two good teams fumble to each other all day. Not sure about you but man that would really piss me off.

Games with horrible weather evens the playing field giving the worse team a much better chance to win. Wasn't talking about NYC here, but small cities like Buffalo.

There are other rules that come into play as well regarding number of hotel rooms etc. There is a lot more to hosting a superbowl than just the stadium itself.

Not much of a choice there. Unless they wanted to change the playoffs to some kind of a neutral field format which would be a disaster or force all stadiums to be domes. The superbowl site is already neutral, and I would prefer to see the better team win than see a 6-3 blizzard bowl where the luckier team wins for example.

That really wouldn't make much sense. However I can see people like Jones asking for a bigger slice of that pie than the small market teams.

In my opinion it is stupid to have a superbowl decided by weather.

Probably because the merchandise companies will court teams like the Cowboys much more than the Bills. For example, do you think that Brandon will be able to strike the same deal with Reebok that Jones will be able to get for the Cowboys? Now not only do the big market teams get to sell more stuff, they will get that stuff at a lower cost as well. Plus I suspect it opens the door to no profit sharing which is what Jones has been pushing for as well. I can think of no good that can come from this for small market teams.

Figure it's probably bad news for the Chinese knock-off makers. Today they have to copy 1 base RBK for style, tags, and packaging, then customize per team/player. Now they may have to make base styles, tags, and packaging for RBK/Nike etc. So my $200 item from the Bills store may now cost me $25 instead of $20

Probably want you to use it driving to Toronto twice this (pre)season