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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.

What name calling? You can't even call yourself an a-hole? Or do you mean no naughty words at all? P.S. Still waiting to hear why all the "NFL is rigged" threads were locked.

It's one blowhard trying to put down another blowhard. The difference is one guy has a talent for making it sound like he knows what he's talking about and the other guy knows what he's talking about but makes it sound like he doesn't.

Most insightful post yet. But a couple questions for you: 1. Why are we still being ripped apart by short quick passes like in the Pats and Giants game? 2. Why don't our Corners bump more at the line of scrimmage to disrupt routes if the goal is to force quick passes. Aren't quick, timing routes the Achilles heel of a defensive scheme like that? 3. If we let go of Mario next year, what kind of players do you think Rex and Roman will spend that extra money on?

I'd be gone at the end of my contract if I was him. Ungrateful and impatient fanbase. Marrone left for a reason. Right? Clearly there are lots of people on this bored who have never been frustrated before. Some things are just out of your hands. I can't imagine having to deal with what he deals with. Money isn't everything.

I don't know what's worse, the vitriol spewed at a guy for looking out for himself and hating him because everybody else hated him or turning around and acting like you miss him all of a sudden because your team lost a few games. I get it, but I just don't understand how a person's conscience is OK with this. If I was Marrone, I'd tell the Bills fanbase to go f*ck themselves.

Meh. Not really. Meh.

Meh. I've seen so much in my 18 years of existence that I'm over it. Meh. Whatever. Meh.

Meh. Game deciding call. Meh. Over it.

I can link you 6 or 7 closed threads since Week 2. There's plenty of reason to believe this (and Sabrespace) are not really third party forums.

Did they really take professional photos for Halloween.

I think there was some miscommunication between us. I used big and small market teams as examples. Those were probably the wrong terms. Detroit is a bigger market than Green Bay, yet Green Bay has many times more fans nationwide. Overall popularity is a better variable to use. There is correlation with market size (Chicago, NY, Dallas) but there are exceptions like the Packers, Saints, Steelers, etc. . Think of it from a macro point of view. Let's say the NFL Conference Finals include the following teams: Bengals, Chiefs; Cardinals, Panthers Average TV rating - 15.4 Now in an alternate universe we have the following Conference Final teams: Patriots, Broncos; Packers, Cowboys Average TV rating - 20.1 I tried to make it as realistic as possible. Now let's say with zero NFL influence the NFL playoffs over a 9 year TV contract averages a 17.1 rating not including the Super Bowl. Now let's say WITH influence (referees keeping games close, making calls favoring popular teams) the average NFL ratings are now 19.2. Walking into negotiations with CBS and FOX with 19.2 vs 17.1 is worth a couple billion dollars at least, I would imagine. That's the gist of what I'm arguing. Basic business stuff. Here's some legs: http://www.thefixisin.net/nfl2015.html Glad you like it. I threw that video in there because Beerball closed the other thread under the pretense of already having a similar thread. I think he closed it because of my video. Every thread on TBD that accuses the NFL of fixing games get closed, without fail.