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Bills have $19M in cap space
Just in Atlanta replied to PromoTheRobot's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Should fund a killer analytics department. -
He'll play again. Hate to sound like a cliche, but I will anyway: The dude is a winner. He took a crappy Broncos team to the second round of the playoffs. He may not be a good QB, but he finds ways to win, and is exciting to watch. He beat the freaking Steelers in the playoffs. There are plenty of prototypical QBs who finish their careers at .500. I'll take a scrappy .750 bawler with bad form any day of the week over the former. Listen to Chuck Norris. His wisdom will guide you.
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Poll: Should the "Redskins" name be changed?
Just in Atlanta replied to Just in Atlanta's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Only ham sandwiches with mayo offend me. Southerners love them. They even put mayo on Italian hoagies, which is an affront to good taste. -
Poll: Should the "Redskins" name be changed?
Just in Atlanta replied to Just in Atlanta's topic in Off the Wall Archives
We're approaching a PC slippery slope where in the future, much more will be offensive 10 years from now. The Buffalo Bills? The slaughter of bison. The NY Jets? The glorification of U.S. military hegemony or violence against other nationalities. Let's pick nouns, and vote on them to find the 32 most inoffensive names for all races, creeds, sexes and whatever else category people fall into. The Buffalo Balloons? There we go. The NY Jelly Rolls? Shouldn't get a rise. This nonsense is only going to get worse. When we're done with the race thing, it'll be something else, I promise. .... And, by the way, Indians, aka redskins, in the context of football, implies the warrior spirit, as does Viking. IT IS NOT intended to be a slur. Vikings raped and pillaged. But that's not apparently offensive to rape victims, because it doesn't have the magical connotation to ethnicity or race, only nationality. It's a superficial barrier that PC types put up, and keep changing. Will nationality nicknames be offensive next? Knicks? Canadians? Etc. Etc. Etc. I agree with Like a Mofo. The name will eventually change, despite the owner's promise, as will other names. -
The OP's comments are not racist, context or not. And what the hell is wrong with liking fried chicken or watermelon? I have both in the fridge. They're freaking delicious. Racism is the belief your race is superior. To make a crack about watermelon, and race, is nothing more than stereotyping. It doesn't make you a raaccisst. This word literally has no meaning anymore. To say someone came from the hood is no different than saying someone came from a trailer park. it's not nice. But it is what it is.
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Possible changes coming to Pro Bowl
Just in Atlanta replied to Just Jack's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Watching Dick Jauron knit a sweater would be a lot more interesting. -
ESPN cutting hundreds of jobs
Just in Atlanta replied to Just Jack's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The pyramids would be just about finished -- today -- if unions were involved. -
ESPN cutting hundreds of jobs
Just in Atlanta replied to Just Jack's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The purpose of a business is to make money for stockholders, not to employ people. It's a cold fact of life. But the alternative system is far worse. That said, I echo nearly everyone else: ESPN is near unwatchable. -
Emmitt Smiths 2013 mock draft. Hilarious
Just in Atlanta replied to Hazed and Amuzed's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Electric Juice. -
Stevie Johnson Thoughts On New Receivers
Just in Atlanta replied to BuffaloBaumer's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'm glad you didn't ask his opinion on North Korea. Great comments on Goodwin, etc. Thanks for the share. -
Are You Excited About The New Bills ?
Just in Atlanta replied to Owen's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I expect an exciting offense, and an aggressive defense. For that I am excited. But I have no expectations of a lot of Ws. Last year's team in the offseason looked hella good...and we were terrible. Complete coaching overhaul, new systems on both sides, a lot of rookies, likely a lot of mistakes...likely a similar record. But yeah, I am excited. I was last year too. I've learned, as most here have, to temper expectations after 13 years of drought. -
Fixed. Commonly-accepted style is to capitalize the first word after a colon if the phrase can be used as a full sentence. And what he meant to say was everything, except one, was correct. But even that was intended to show the absurdity of bashing someone's spoken English, which often doesn't translate well to paper. Mr. Tolstoy, who professes to be a writing instructor or something, is living in a 1950s 4th grade grammar class. People who get paid to write for a living do pretty much everything opposite of what he says.