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Jesus man. Do you have a stake in the NFL winning or something?

You're starting to take things personal in this thread and the other one. Why don't you take a break.

You ever come in January/February? And businesses pay the price when the customers turn their backs on them. The momentum has been building over the years. Sullivan is one "controversy" away from being on the bubble. And Chris Brown is a shill. Not sure what your point is there. Do I have to choose between Jerry Sullivan and Chris Brown? Is there no in between?

Oh God, I can't even imagine. My father has the ONLY tape of Super Bowl I in the world and I can't sell it because some billion dollar greedy corporation refuses to pay me a life changing sum that would be pennies to them just because they have their panties in a twist. Didn't some guy buy Google.com for $12 a few months ago because it accidentally became available. Google could have just sued him and taken the name back, but instead they gave him $6,000 and said sorry for the trouble. That's how you do it. Not this shady, greedy way. I can't wait until they start diagnosing CTE in living players and the NFL turns into flag football.

I wouldn't say my feelings are hurt by him. I actually don't like Cam Newton so if Sullivan annoyed him, it's all good. What bugs me is that the by far largest newspaper in the area employs a negative Nancy to take the #1 sports columnist spot in the paper. It's not that he's negative that bugs me if he was genuine and had good points. What bugs me is that I think he is disingenuous, and is a powerfully negative energy towards the city, paper, fanbase, and team. He drags everybody down and frankly I think he makes the player's jobs harder than they have to be when he writes disparaging columns about them (McCoy, Dareus, etc.). Is that what we need in the midst of a 15/16 year drought? I live in Florida and whenever I come to Buffalo you can feel it right away. There is a gloominess in the air. It wouldn't hurt to get some optimism in the #1 column spot. Not a Pollyanna, but a generally optimistic guy with some original point of views.

I never understood that frame of mind. Siding with the billion dollar corporation. I don't know if these people are just so beaten into obedience they have Stockholm Syndrome. Or they just don't want to see anybody like them (Joe Schmo with videotape) get a big pay day, so they're playing crabs in a bucket. It's like the fans that look down on players that come from poverty trying to get an extra couple million, and support the billionaire owners who don't want to open their pockets.

I don't find it interesting. People are very attached to the team here. And not only on gamedays, but in the off-season, and yes, in Buffalo News columns. Is that shameful? Does that make them less than those that aren't attached?

Buffalo is not a huge city. The opinions of our columnists make an effect on the fans. You can play the "just a game" card, but NFL and NHL are not "just a game" here like it is in say, Miami. So who our #1 columnist is, matters. People are letting it be known. Let the people speak. No need to suppress them. Fans want him gone. F*ck the clicks.

The NFL can pay this guy $100k no problemo. We know the NFL secretly wants it. We know the guy wants to sell it. Yet, they're playing the "all offers off the table" game. They know he can't sell it because they have a platoon of copyright lawyers ready to go. So instead of a compromise, some egos got hurt at the NFL office and they decide to play hardball with a nobody. I think this whole thing is about the NFL not being able to stand somebody getting the best of them. I'm in real estate and people get their feelings hurt during negotiation everyday. Even lawyers and people you wouldn't expect to. Lowballs and highballs hurt people's egos. This is all about the NFL trying to pin him. The NFL wants him to call them and beg for $30k again. Then they'll offer him $10k and he'll take it. That's what this is all about. Ego.

It says something about the guys at the News. Look at Bucky who threw the city and fanbase overboard on a guest column in Boston. They should have a reality show about the sports department called "Schmucks and Losers". Yeah, I'm sure they're laughing their way to the credit union. Do we even know if these hacks get more clicks or they translate to dollars? I know I don't read his articles anymore and a couple other people in this thread said they don't.

Haha, careful there. Even if the NFL was in the right, I would still root for this guy to get $20 million. The NFL can go f*ck themselves!

Solid summary. What bugs me about Sullivan is the smug self-awareness that you see in the worst hipsters. They usually are of above-average intelligence, but they are so insecure elsewhere that they leverage all of their self-esteem from this intelligence. So Sullivan is meta enough where he purposely looks for the contrarian point of view, but I'm no longer sure he even believes what he says. He seems to get more enjoyment from riling people up than coming up with good columns. And that smugness hides the weak, hurting guy on the inside. I would bet a lot of money that in the BN office, Sullivan constantly cracks jokes about how dumb his readers are. And even at the SB, he probably felt he was better than everyone around him, and annoyed about all the journalists there that are far more successful than him. I don't buy for a second that Sullivan cares about race in America or black QBs in the NFL. It was all about bringing everybody down to Sullivan's level so he can feel better about his pitiful existence.

You think for yourself? And I don't think anybody is outraged, just annoyed at Sullivan for being a drag on the national stage. I think Sullivan's question to Cam was more trying to manufacture outrage than anything else. It was also stale and boring. "Cam, would you consider yourself to be a narcissist" is a much more interesting question, if you want to be provocative. "Cam, many people including MusicHunch feel you're a completely disingenuous person and this give football to kids thing is an act, what do you have to say to these people?"

Why do we need to talk about racism at the Super Bowl? What's wrong with white people in America? Black people don't even want to talk about it at the Super Bowl.

"Bills Stumble to the Finish Line" "Bills Franchise Now More Attractive to Out of Town Buyers" "What Will Buffalonians Bond Over Now?"

I think deep down most of us get where Sullivan was coming from. It's just that the Super Bowl week stuff is supposed to be light, and here's Jerry Sullivan with his negative, pessimistic, repelling vibe ruining the day. The same vibe that most Buffalo fans are completely sick of that just doesn't seem to go away. He just has this charismatic negativity that attracts eyeballs and then eye rolls. That's why he still has a job. So everyone is hoping something like this might be the straw that breaks the camel's back. So maybe there is a method to the madness, but I guess I just don't care. I hope he's gone. Do you ever not instinctively defend "The Man"?

Did anyone catch the end of the Cardinals-Seahawks game last night. As they were showing Bruce Arians shaking hands with all his assistant coaches, some guy in a peacoat slaps him on the back and Arians runs off like a scared subordinate. We're talking the HEAD COACH! And then this mystery guy pats the ref standing near the sideline on the back and the ref gives a nervous smile. Who the hell was that guy that he gets a head coach who just won to run off and a ref to blush. Anybody have a GIF of that?

And this is coming from a guy who knows people on the inside. I don't know what else people need to hear. I think it's like anything else. When a person is ready to hear it, then he will listen. Otherwise, it goes out one ear and out the other.

Tin foil hats insult. Check. What does that even mean? That I believe in aliens? Are you telling me that if I think the NFL is fixed I believe in UFOs? Now THAT is some embarrassing logic.

Who do you think the Broncos will beat in the AFC championship? The villians of course.

We should have a separate thread for each of these. It will give fans a better idea of how often this happens. Otherwise you're hiding it in a thread not that many people read.

That's the modus operandi. Fix games and if you're too obvious, release a statement on Monday saying you screwed up.

Refs are just incompetent. Nothing to see here. Quick Beerball, lock this thread. WEO, get in here and defend the NFL. Or.....the NFL fixes games on a weekly basis. Perhaps the NFL is a real sports/WWE hybrid. Just throwing it out there. Please don't ban me.

Peyton will be back for the Super Bowl......against his brother, You heard it here first. The WWFL has the storyline ready to go.

Totally and utterly incompetent. Those are strong words. Let's break them down: Totally - Completely, absolutely, without exemption, wholly, entirely Incompetent - lack qualification and ability, incapable, mentally deficient So you're telling me Rob Ryan is ABSOLUTELY, WITHOUT EXEMPTION, INCAPABLE AND MENTALLY DEFICIENT AT BEING A DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR? Look, I get that he just did really bad with the Saints, and he's been up and down in the past, but let's have some logical discussion here. Is there anybody else on this board who prefers logical discussion rather than the emotional discussion up top? What gets me is that we've been taught a million times to not get hysterical. Stop and think it over. Yet people constantly get hysteria and follow the crowd. Remember last year when Andy Dalton was the most mediocre QB of all time? Please don't ever play the stock market. I'm just looking out for you. It's Monday. I'd forgive you if it was Sunday and you were still drunk, but not on Monday.