CodeMonkey

I don't remember that specifically. But calls like that are game situation based and far more involved that saying I have a solid QB so I'm going for it. I think a lot of the time McDermott thinks along the same lines as you do though.

I agree with how the Bills handled the clock at the end. Superb actually.

I completely disagree. His teams offense had done exactly squat in the 2nd half, nothing, zilch. Zero points, zero anything. What made him (or you then) think his team was going to magically get it together on that one play? Take the 3 and force the Bills to score or lose. As it was, if things looked bad during that last drive all the Bills had to do is let it go to overtime. Big mindset difference than needing to score or lose the game. But I will say it was nice to have the opposing coach make game losing mistakes. And yes, the receiver was open early, but like the rest of the 2nd half the Ravens F'd it up.

Yeah its horrifically inconsistent. Soccer for example, when the ball is completely over the line it is out of bounds ... period. Just one of the ways the NFL has overcomplicated the rules.

Yes sir. And go F yourself.

First, I live in Roch and Thad is the head sports guy for our CBS affiliate here, and a major Fing Dbag, Don't put any faith in his inside sources. Second, I have ESPN+, but it's mainly 200ish channels of D1 college, soccer, and other things that the networks don't show. What would I be looking for?

Bolded means the people (Bills fans) that use the stadium, fund the stadium. The billionaire owners should fund it themselves, but if they are too smart for that, the fans who actually use it should. Of course they don't generate significant revenue. How could they only being used 8 - 10 times a year. That article is spot on.

Dude was standing there filming them with his iphone? Good god.

Cancel culture what it is in the US these days, the claims might not even need to be true.

The Giants and Jets did the right thing and got their stadium without government funding I believe. Blackmail does seem to run rampant in the NFL, I agree. And politicians in fear for their jobs don't want to be blamed for teams relocating out of a city so in many cases it works.

I have never tried to sell a Bills ticket. But the stadium sure looked full during the "fair weather" games. Even in the Kelly/Thurman years the winter weather games were a bit of a hard sell. Didn't look like "nobody wanted to go" to me from my couch watching on my HD TV (technology I'm sure did have a impact on ticket sales).

A GoFundme page for a new Bills stadium is a good idea though. Allow the hardworking people that want to, contribute to the billionaires stadium that the millionaires play 8 regular season games in a year. I wonder how embarrassed the Pegulas would be to have a GoFundMe page setup for them. This fact seems to elude far too many people. They all should be funded that way IMO.

He might be trying to pay for his Bills habit that way. I used to do the same with the Sabres, you know, waaaaaay back when they looked like a NHL team. Living 1+ hours from the stadium I'd sell a lot of weekday games and go with friends or my kids on weekends and the occasional weekday game. I'd always sell for more than my cost, particularly habs and leafs games. Selling those games paid for the games I went to. Granted with only 8 home games, its much harder to do that for the NFL.

Nonsensical leap there. I want the NFL and the billionaire owners to pay for their stadiums. If they feel the need, stick it to fans with PSL's. But what I don't want is people who could not care less about a team, Bills or otherwise, to pay for a billionaires stadium that multimillionaires play 8 games a year in.

Absolutely not. NFL betting is a small fraction of bets. Particularly when you look at a year, not just NFL playoffs and superbowl time. The NFL, it's teams, and it's fans should fund stadiums, full stop. The NFL and teams in particular certainly can afford it. I keep hearing this nonsense. 8 days a year in general you are talking about. Maybe a few concerts if it was domed. "fuels the economy", for gods sake.

So in your opinion, soccer ticket prices are too high and it is over commercialized to the point you have reduced interest in the game. But those things are not true for tackle football???

There won't be many. And for those that do, there will be others to buy them up. Particularly seats like yours. The team playing well after a long suck period, and the border open. Bills fans in general will pay whatever is asked. Look at how many kept paying even during the decade of suck to "support their team". It pisses a lot of people off that the state will throw money at it, myself included. It should all be paid for by the team, the NFL, and the fans that go to the games.

Political opinions aside, that is really at the heart of the matter IMO. A 4 hour TV broadcast for about 20 minutes of actual action. Even with my solution of no commercials and skipping halftime, I still have all the dead time between plays, clock stoppages and so on which brings my time per game up to 90 - 120 minutes.

I watch only the Bills, conference championships and the superbowl. And even the Bills games I record and have my system automatically skip commercials on playback to reduce the time spent watching significantly. I have been steadily losing interest in the NFL for years. I think a combination of having a family and therefore better things to do, and the over commercialization and over saturation of the NFL. Sunday, sunday monday and thursday nights, really? Maybe I'm actually finally growing up <gasp>

That ended up being my favorite.

Syracuse entity doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds them. But could the Bills look attractive to some top but aging talent looking for a ring ... perhaps.

Look at Vic suddenly with his finger on the pulse of the entire NFL. Or ball washing his golden goose, you make the call Either way, only time will tell. Josh is likely happy, so there's that! McCoach is a defensive guy who makes questionable in game decisions so Dorsey will need to be able to stand on his own two feet.

This, I would like to see Stafford get one after wallowing in Detroit for so many years.

Yeah that could be I suppose. But at the same time you would think better defenses as well (sundays game notwithstanding )

I wonder why the percentages of playoff teams who win the coin toss winning the game are so different than regular season (19.4% opening drive, 52.7% win). Maybe just as simple as a significantly smaller sample size? If it truly was 89% overall with the entire sample size I would have expected teams and fans would have been up in arms already. For me 89% is a epic fail and would require a change to the rule. But a small sample size producing that result wouldn't lead me to a rule change.