Metal Man
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Lots of good ones to choose from but random top of the head stab...
Barney Stinson
Cosmo Kramer
Charlie Kelly
Woody Boyd
Jack Tripper
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It would be nice to go back to a time where there was competition for halftime eyes.
No better halftime entertainment than this gem from 1999 for me.
(though Prince was pretty awesome)
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A page of replies and no one has mentioned Rudy?
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Do the players still enjoy seeing the fans there regardless of the importance of the game?
I would think their opinion matters the most.
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3 minutes ago, nucci said:
All NFL games have National network announcers...the home town broadcast would be radio
Understood.
I realize that there are different media outlets involved which would make something like this difficult. Just putting the desire/hope out there that at some point in the ever changing media streaming/consumption world something like this would be possible.
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I like how the broadcast on Prime gives you an option for different announcers.
Unfortunately none of the options are great but it gives me hope that maybe some day all broadcasts could have something similar that allows us to choose from the national or home town broadcasting teams.
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I will be equal parts disappointed/satisfied regardless of the outcome.
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Disappointed to see Miami/NE in my viewing area for the CBS later game.
Was looking forward to that Cleveland/KC playoff game rematch.
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I like the idea of choosing games that I actually attended and for that the 31-0 beating of the Pats* really sticks out. Regardless of how that season turned out for both teams that year it was still an awesome feeling on that day.
However since that one has already been listed a bunch another game that really sticks out to me is a game in 1990 against the Eagles because of one specific play. The Eagles were deep in their own end and on a pass play Bruce looked to have Cunningham wrapped up in the end zone but somehow he shook off the tackle and ended up completing a pass that went for 95 yards and a TD.
Not really a good Bills play but that memory has always remained in my mind. Randall Cunningham was one heck of an athlete.
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I was at work listening to Howard Stern on the radio at my desk.
I remember he was telling a story about possibly having a chance to hook up with Pam Anderson and one of his staff interrupted about a plane hitting the world trade. They didn't think much of it at first thinking it was just a small accident so he continued with his story. However shortly after someone else came into the studio and mentioned being able to see smoke.
At this point I mentioned it to my cube neighbor, (who on a side not happened to be Tim Russert's sister), and she brought up CNN which already had a photo of the first plane hitting on the main page.
I went back to the radio and believe it or not Howard actually did a really good job of covering all the developments until well past his usual sign off time of 10 or 11am.
I don't think much work got done that day though I didn't leave early. Watched a lot of the coverage when I got home and recall just a strange mix of emotions ranging from anger, fear, and patriotism.
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1 hour ago, Don Otreply said:
Fired or layed off, both mean unemployed…
That's true.
But depending on what you were fired for your eligibility for unemployment benefits could be affected so there is at least some distinction. 😁
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5 minutes ago, Johnnycage46 said:
Love your avatar pic. That's one of my favorite Maiden albums.
Thanks.
New album out tomorrow. Early reviews are promising.
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Seems like there is some confusion throughout the board over the last several days on which players need to clear waivers and which don't so I thought this refresher could be helpful to some people.
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1 hour ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
There's the concessions phenomenon too.
I don't know what % of the revenue from football games is from during-game concessions, but I have it from a reliable source that various nonprofits have found an interesting effect of limiting attendence on profits.
Specifically, admission the St Louis Zoo is free, so they make all their money on extras - parking, concessions and "special activities" like train, carousel, touch a ray, sea lion show, etc. They had to limit the number of admissions this past year.
To their surprise, and they are busy trying to model this, they are making more money at partial admission than they did at full admission! The hypothesis is maybe when lines were "too long", some people would just bail but when lines are shorter, they queue up and buy.
Now obviously the landscape is different for football, but there's probably a similar impact where at some point, less fans to queue up for beer and hotdogs means more fans will buy.This is really interesting and as anecdotal support I can confirm the theory from personal experience.
Whenever I go to our minor league baseball stadium and they are at or above half capacity the concession lines are out of control so there have been plenty of times where I walk up for something and head right back to my seat after seeing the lines.
Now half full shouldn't cause a logjam like that and they need to improve their system somehow but I can see an argument that based on space there is only so much throughput a concession outfit can handle.
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13 minutes ago, SDS said:
that sounds fine, but your last line sounds like a guess.Definitely just a guess which is all any of us can really do right now in regards to how they came up with that capacity number.
Anything that has to do with maximizing profit though is probably a good guess.
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Saw an interesting take on the stadium capacity discussion on the news the other night.
Basically the guy was saying that when you start to add extra seating capacity you build up which significantly raises the cost with more structural support needed. However since those are the nose bleed seats you are adding a lot of construction cost for extra capacity at the cheapest seat sales price.
Makes sense to me then that above the ~60k range is where they decided the extra cost wasn't worth the extra seat revenue.
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16 hours ago, maryland-bills-fan said:
YeaBut...... The top 3 or 4 WR can be put on IR for a few games near the end of the year to recover all their boo boos. We have quality depth and if you keep them on the roster they can win you games near the end of the season that help get a bye or homefield games.
I agree and that strategy makes perfect sense.
It is just hard for me to envision some of the top guys taking a seat in a meaningful game if they are good enough to go but not 100%.
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Just now, ndirish1978 said:
You can rest assured Stormlight will be finished in a timely manner. Look at the top right corner of Sanderson's webpage, he gives weekly updates on his writing and what stage a project is in.
For sure. I love how Sanderson has a progress bar on his website for his projects.
It is a nice change up from Rothfuss getting annoyed anytime someone asks him about the last Kingkiller book or the BS that Martin keeps saying about Winds of Winter being right around the corner for the last 5 years.
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17 minutes ago, ndirish1978 said:
I'll check out Destroyermen thanks! Goodkind I have issues with, he has a real problem with not doing homages, but lifting entire premises and just copying them from other authors. I know a lot of people are not aware of this. I'd recommend giving this a watch
Goodkind is definitely a pretentious $%#! from everything I have ever read about him and he definitely gets very political heavy in some of the later Sword of Truth novels. I get why he turns a lot of people off.
Also even though most fantasy is derivative at some level the similarities to Wheel of Time are pretty evident.
All that being said though the first 3 or 4 books of the Sword of Truth series are highly entertaining.
25 minutes ago, ndirish1978 said:- Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson - This is my favorite current series, it's in the epic fantasy genre.
25 minutes ago, ndirish1978 said:- Kingkiller - Patrick Rothfuss - Excellent writing, but the third book may never come out while the first two are classics.
I have heard nothing but good things about Stormlight Archive and even more great things about Kingkiller Chronicles. However I have promised myself to never start a series again that isn't finished after waiting 20 years to get the ending of Wheel of Time and more than likely being burned by Song of Ice and Fire. 😀
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3 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I was actually left a little confused by what McDermott said, it sounded to me as though he said the starters would play after the half.
Did anyone else catch that?
It kind of sounded like that but what I think he meant was some starters will only play a little bit and some will play into some of the second half.
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The Bills needing extra WRs based on the offense they run makes sense and the arguments above about how banged up the WRs were in the AFC championship game are valid.
However I think if we end up in the AFC championship game again with a banged up Diggs, Beasley and Sanders those guys are still going to be the ones who play regardless of the depth behind them. The only way the #6 and #7 WRs on this roster would see significant snaps in a playoff game is if everyone above them is injured enough to be in street clothes.
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15 minutes ago, CuseBill said:
I think that is exactly what is happening in Upstate NY. And it's weird that the local ABC affiliate in Syracuse apparently thought that more people in Syracuse would rather watch a German soccer game. There's a huge number of Bills fans in the Cuse. But it doesn't explain why it is happening to viewers outside of NY, such as the comments above from NJ, CT and SoCal. Thankfully this won't be happening in the regular season.
What really doesn't make sense is according to tvguide.com the Syracuse ABC affiliate is showing "Paid Programming" at 1pm this Saturday and then showing the Bills game at 7pm on tape delay again.
WTF is that all about?
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13 hours ago, CA OC Bills Fan said:
Thanks for the advice. I also want to sell my tickets for this Saturday. Listed on NFL Ticket Exchange, now I just also listed on TickPick. But, I think you're incorrect on no fees. It shows a similar fee to Ticket Exchange. In either case, I show what the sales prices is and it comes back with a new price that's a bit lower due to fees.
I thought no fees was their gimmick, but maybe it is only for buyers.
Sorry about the bad info.
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I was in a bar for the bears game in the Syracuse area and they had NFL Network on, Direct TV. A message came on at 1pm and said that the Bills game was blacked out due to local broadcast. The stupid thing was that the game wasn't being shown locally live and was instead a taped replay at 7pm on our local ABC.
That kind of rule just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
In any case as a heads up it looks like the exact same thing will be going on in the Syracuse area this Saturday as the guides are showing it as being on ABC at 7pm.
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Week 5: Bills at Chiefs on SNF
in The Stadium Wall
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You mean other than last season when the Bills played them in OP?
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