birdog1960

what a shock. another group of rw apologists attacking someone who states and sees the obvious truth...the emperor has no clothes and you all tell him how great he looks. how original.

this...but this is very savvy politically. He continues to solidify the bills nation's backing and can blame ralph if it goes bad. btw I'm on his side on most issues, go chuck.

just the damn jetstream freezing us all to death

Interesting development on this. The emergence of 3D movies will probably soon make this impractical since 90% of piracy is done with a camcorder. This is pushing the technology fast (current CEDIA show is full of it) and 3D sports could be available as soon as next year on TV. Would be nice to watch a good Bills team in 3D...one can always hope.

you might want to visit somewhere like asheville, nc or charlottesville, va or chattanooga, tn or raleigh or...your perception might change and you'd see four seasons, a generally mild winter and rare run ins with the things mentioned. btw, I recall meeting a few rednecks in wny.

In Cowher's case, I bet that's part of it. The cold, right now in the southeast, reminds many that moving back "up north" to a steady diet of brutal winters isn't a consideration. He's now a carolinian, so I'll bet he and his family are pretty content. Hopefully, I'm wrong though...Green Bay and Minnesota have had some pretty good coaches.

Sullivan speaks the truth again. This time, the truth might even be popular.

I know it's been said before but...Bills fans are the toughest, most loyal, simply the best, in the league. If SB's were given for fans, the bills would have won at least 20. The crowd for this weeks game in a blizzard was amazing to watch (from the warmth of my living room). I hope all the die hards out there are rewarded with a quality team soon. You all more than deserve it.

profound....do you disagree with the premise then or are you just practicing your ad hominem attacks

the only dog they have in the hunt is product quality,so....inept franchises like the bills, lions, raiders may well be in their bad books....doesn't make them wrong though

well reasoned. Don't see how one could argue against your logic here but I'll bet someone tries.

"i'm not looking for a big name" , "you need luck", "you don't build through free agency" and "it won't happen overnight" sounds like the same recipe, with the same inexpensive ingredients, for continued futility.

And they're both right, as usual.

A recent quote from the comments section of Sullivan's latest article supports this point. "Buffalonians will support a loser as well as any city, and our attendance the last 2 years proved it. Despite a losing 1967 season, we sold 22,000 season tickets this year, and I'd expect sales to go as high as 45,000 with a new stadium." Ralph Wilson, 1969, Sports Illustrated. Forget Russ Brandon as the puppet master, it's been ralph all along.

It doesn't matter. He's definitely in the bottom 10 and that equates to chronic loser status for the bills.

Just remembered Ford field in detroit...maybe there is something to this curse.

Yup. Is there now or has there ever been another NFL stadium named after the current owner of a team? If not, his arrogance is unprecedented even among the owners group of egomaniacs. But in reality it's not the curse of the stadium name, it's the curse of the man himself.

Donahoe was 6-10 and 7-9 last 2 years with the steelers and that was under good ownership. Hardly made him the hot commodity at the time.

you should hate the owner because he's shown you,me and every Bills fan contempt for the last 50 years. The few successful years have been fortuitous and despite him and all the while he's gotten rich beyond most peoples wildest dreams off of our misplaced but apparently unbreakable loyalty to our current or past hometown. His s***ty legacy hasn't been made by a few bad breaks here and there but by gross mismanagement and shameless, calculated financial exploitation of the fan base.

I voted "other," because the poll will not let me select all of the "haters." The organization has been mismanaged for more than a decade, and in my opinion, continues to decline. Moves have been typical lame attempts to placate ticket buyers, while in reality, the frugality has been more evident with each passing year. Hence, poor coaching and management hires and promotions. That's the background for a horrible situation for players to have to deal with, practically insuring that they will not develop and play up to their potential. Then, the haters attack them verbally (and don't kid yourself, they are aware of it), and there is even less motivation for them to try hard or to have self-confidence. But it doesn't stop there. The haters ride them out of town on a rail (look up tar and feathers) and then follow their career ad infinitum, seeking any piece of evidence that they are not playing well. Apparently, this makes the haters feel better. I don't understand their obsession and find it annoying. agree. Ralph "fanboys" most annoying.

The Eagles are 9-4 and playoff bound. Bills....not so much. Maybe ya don't get what ya don't pay for.

That's a very big "but" (pun intended) and saving on experienced team veterans to sign free agents hasn't worked out so well for 10 years now. The salary cap hasn't been a serious issue for the bills in several years and look where its got us. I suspect we'd be much better off if it WAS more frequently an issue.

Um...market value is the price the open market is willing to pay for something. Peter's salary from the Eagles is therefore market. The fact that this doesn't jibe with the bill's or apparently your sense of frugality doesn't change that fact.

Agreed, except it mostly IS the money to the Bills FO despite the fact the AP unquestioningly states that Ralph has been competitive at retaining big name veterans and signing free agents in their recent puff piece on Ralph POSSIBLY spending big bucks on a coach. And then you have the ralph apologists here explainig it all away as unworthiness and greed on the part of the star players..bizarre....