Metal Man

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.

I agree. Loved him as a player, but as an announcer he needs a lot of work.

My father found an old Bills calendar of mine back home from 1994 earlier this year and it turns out it works for this year. So since January I have been using this calendar in my office and last month I wrote the opponents for this years schedule in on each weekend of the season. I'd like to think that the 2011 schedule in proximity to Bills legends is helping with their on the field performance.

This has been on my list for a long time. I have to wait on it though now because of a self-imposed rule. I got into Robert Jordan's series The Wheel of Time in around 94 and now almost 20 years later the series has still not been completed and won't even be by the original author seeing he passed away before he could finish it. However even before Robert Jordan died I promised myself I wouldn't start any long fantasy series until it was completed just because of the insanely long amount of time some of these authors take between books. Martin seems to be in this group seeing it was 5 years between book 4 and 5. On a side note if you like epic fantasy I have been hearing a lot of positive buzz about The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

I'd add The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Forget all the crappy Hollywood translations, this is a perfectly crafted but very intricate revenge novel that movies could never do justice.

I read a lot but I hesitated for a while to jump on the Kindle bandwagon thinking I would miss the feel of a book. I broke down and bought one earlier this year and I love it. I still have a lot of real books in my collection to read so I have been switching back and forth but it seems like I read a lot faster on my Kindle. It is hard for me to pick a favorite author because I have enjoyed so many and like music it depends on my mood. Favorite book though has to be The Stand by Stephen King.

I guess the KC fans saying this didn't watch the game last year. Despite the Bills actually having the worst run defense in the league last season, and giving up over 200 yards on the ground that day, the Chiefs still needed one of those cheap "last second before the FG kick time-outs" to avoid losing in OT.

Bills: 16 Chiefs: 13

I listened to this yesterday too. Ross Tucker is usually very pro Bills so I think this criticism holds water. It is pretty obvious the Bills have had a lot of disfunction in the running of their team for some time now and it doesn't surprise me that TD would push to keep picks that weren't NFL caliber to save face because the guy had a huge ego. Comments like this help to show how the Bills got themselves into this current terrible mess in the first place. Nix and company really have their work cut out for them. My hope is that the Bills finally have something healthy in place and that the team is making progress digging out of the hole the front office has dug themselves into the last 10 years.