Metal Man

Thanks, I figured that would be the case. Will be in town for the holiday and was hoping to walk to a place from my sister's house to start the festivities early with some beer and football. Now I just have to hope Quaker Steak is open on Christmas Eve day.

With all of the Fox and CBS games in week 16 being on a Saturday instead because of the holiday is it safe to assume all of those games not shown locally will be available on the ticket? I would think they would have to be but just curious if anyone subscribed to NFL ticket the last time Christmas fell on a Sunday and they moved most of the games.

I would be embarrassed if I was one of the people who have been posting "let's just lose out" the last week or so. First off I think you can't argue against that HOW you draft is much more important than WHERE you draft. But the craziest thing about it is the Bills are STILL ALIVE for a play-off spot. Unlikely or not it CAN happen and HAS happened to other long shot NFL teams over the years. If the only way you are rooting for your team to win is if they enter December with 10 wins or more go be a front running Pats* fan with the rest of the m@ssholes.

At the start of the season my hope was that the team showed some improvement and that come December they were still alive for the play-offs so at least some of the final games could mean something. After the hot start I was definitely thinking higher but now that reality is starting to set in I can't really complain. The team has shown a lot of improvement, when healthy, and even with a loss to the Jets this Sunday there still will be a mathematical chance to get into postseason even if it is only a very small one. I know for most teams it is a pretty low bar to set but as a Bills fans you have to keep some of your high hopes in check to avoid serious disappointment every year.

Picard definitely had his supporters. It took a good team to be such an elite Starfleet crew and Riker contributed a lot without a doubt. However Picard could handle things on his own when he needed to. Kirk on the other hand had the intelligence of Bluto Blutarsky. Without Spock he would have been lost, likely off somewhere trying to defend Pearl Harbor from being bombed by the Germans.

Kirk did this? Anyway Kirk has his good traits. He b@nged a lot of chicks and played by his own rules. The guy would definitely be cool to hang out with and drink some beers. However if I am in Starfleet and heading into a starship battle I want someone a lot more sophisticated and intelligent as the captain of the ship I am on. Someone who has continuously proven to be a true leader and superior tactical commander to everyone he has faced. That guy is Picard.

FYI for anyone who might be interested, Fred Jackson was on Dan LeBatard's radio show yesterday. The interview is included on his podcast, The Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz, and this is available for free through iTunes. It is the show for 11-17 and the interview starts around 26:30.

No one is arguing for Janeway?

Thanks for the info. I will definitely check it out. By the way your logical statement above is wacko. Picard was much better, it isn't even close. I would even say T.J. Hooker > Kirk

The way the current schedule formula works only two opponents are based on last year's record. Since the Bills finished 4th in their division last year they get the 4th place team from the AFC North and AFC South this year. That turned out to be the Titans and the Bengals. The rest of the games will be the same as everyone else in Buffalo's division, we all play the AFC West and the NFC East this year. Definitely not a perfect system seeing the Pats* ended up with the Colts as their AFC South first place team this season.

I don't think Kelly's last game, a play-off game against the Jags, was televised.

I always thought it would be a good idea to offer alternative broadcasting kind of like you can get a Spanish broadcast using SAP. It would be great to be able to choose from the network's broadcast team, the home or away local broadcast team, or nobody at all. One big upside would probably be once the networks realized everyone hated Joe Buck and never listened to him he would lose his job.

Ouch.... too soon? Should be safe though unless the Onondaga parkway is somehow on the way to the Ralph.

In this case some of the market has decided the NFL price is way too high which drives people to the knock offs. I imagine the majority of the people here would buy the official versions if the costs weren't so obscene.

It is unlikely but a tie would help us out the most so I plan on rooting for whoever is behind at the moment.

Bills - 27 Bengals - 13

Very weird.... I thought he was a HUGE Brady fan, as in borderline man-love?

Didn't Bruschi rescue 20 kids from a burning building, single handily foil 20 terrorist plots on his way to finding Osama, write all of Lady Gaga and Aerosmith's hit singles, help 40 underprivileged teens get off of alcohol and drugs, and solve a Rubik's Cube in less than 30 seconds without removing stickers or taking it apart? And all on top of being the best defender to ever play in the NFL. I am certain these are just a few of the things I heard about him on ESPN so maybe the guy knows what he is talking about...

Buffalo 27 Oakland 17

I'll second Requiem For A Dream. Also for me Leaving Las Vegas is right there with it.

The Dark Tower story was wrapped up in book 7 back in 2004 however there is another volume by King coming out next year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower:_The_Wind_Through_the_Keyhole

To me it isn't as much about patience as life expectancy.... of the author or myself. If another Dark Tower like series started tomorrow, and took as long to complete, I could very well not be alive to see it finished.

Were those the first four volumes of Wild Cards MadCap? Or maybe you were talking Ice and Fire... because I can't seem to find any of the old Wild Card books anywhere besides eBay except the the reprint of volume 1. Agreed on Philip K. Dick. Loved Ubik.

I have been wanting to read those. A lot of the earlier novels are out of print now and pretty tough to locate. The copies I found on eBay always seem to be going for more money than I would want to pay for a paperback book. The first one was recently republished though so hopefully they continue to do that with the following books.

Ross Tucker put the Bills at 18 in his power rankings on his ESPN podcast today.