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Some people simply don't watch football outside of Bills games.

Very nice piece.

Adblock is browser based, it will do nothing for advertising in other programs (i.e. Solitaire) or the OS itself. The privacy concerns go far beyond simple advertising anyways.

There have been a lot of privacy concerns with Windows 10 surfacing in the last 48 hrs. It's supposedly a lot more intrusive than previous operating systems. Might want to look into that before you upgrade if that kind of thing concerns you.

Russ traded wins for cash, and you've talked yourself into thinking it was a good thing? We sold a freaking home game. We became the laughingstock of the league - a dysfunctional organization that was the punchline to jokes across the nation. Free agents perceived us as a team that was committed to profits over success on the field (and who could blame them). Russ managed to take an unattractive destination for free agents, and somehow, someway, he made it even more undesirable to play here. Good luck trying to calculate the lost opportunity cost of that, best to probably ignore it, huh? What about all the fan anguish and uneasiness it generated locally? Do we have any figures or metrics that show how negatively this idea hurt local ticket sales? I don't recall RB ever releasing that data. Bah, who cares about that anyway, I'm sure that 11% - 20% bump in Canadian sales easily replaced the disenchanted locals. So, yeah, it was pretty much the worst marketing decision in the history of this franchise (even worse than the Whammy Weenie). Aside from buying the team, the two greatest things the Pegula's have done so far are 1) cancelling that abortion of a series and 2) completely marginalizing Brandon's duties. And yes, he has been marginalized. A president that doesn't have the coach or GM reporting to him is a president in name only - it's an empty title. His value at OBD was so cherished that Terry basically said, "Hey, why don't you just split time downtown? You can be 'president' over there too." It's not like the Sabres need help, they just played their worst two seasons in franchise history back-to-back and they still sellout every game with 96% season ticket holder retention. Anyways, this is truly a win-win situation. Russ gets to play "president," and we don't have to worry about him hiring any future coaches or GMs. I look forward to his updates on the facilities at St John Fisher, any new additions to the Sabres' locker room, and how Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is coming along. Huzzah.

We've reached the point where we're now lauding RB for the Toronto series? I definitely feel like I've landed in Jonestown.

I've been very pleased with how isolated Russ has been from football operations since Rex came on board. He's not much more than a glorified marketing exec at this point, and if he wants to do that with the Sabres, that's fine by me.

Truly a sad day, he had such an iconic voice that embodied the team. It always felt energizing walking through the parking lot on game day hearing his voice blaring from hundreds of radios.

I'm sorry but that article is just terrible. If you ever need a textbook example of cherry picking, bookmark that sucker. It's a classic case of forming an agenda first (laud EJ; disparage Marrone), and then attempt to manipulate and contort data until you can fool someone into believing said agenda has merit. By the end of that atrocity I fully expected the author to attempt to statistically blame Marrone for the Clinton prison escape. That piece is the product of a man with no statistical background, a rudimentary grasp of algebra, and way, way, way too much offseason Kool-Aid. It's also what happens when you delve too deep into the numbers and don't watch the actual games (he does have a future in politics however)

The IRS doesn't initiate contact by phone, it's almost always by certified mail or in person. When you file for bankruptcy, get a lien or a judgement it goes on your public record - for everyone (including the scammers) to see. You'll probably be getting a ton of junk mail from tax attorneys in the next few months.

Just because he was arrested at 1AM doesn't mean this incident occurred after dark, and I highly suspect it didn't. Most people don't fish at night.

There was a lot of grey hair in that parking lot.

It's hard to believe that's written by the same guy that only a few months ago called the pro-tank fans "losers." Boy, Bucky sure came around fast. Good article though.

That's just what I would want to do as an 18 yr old that just signed a $2.7M contract - move in with a married 34 yr old with his wife and kids.

I thought bringing back Sekera made a lot of sense for our L-handed defenseman needs. Just fell out of my chair when I heard he got a $33M deal.

Greg Roman is more overrated than the Anchor Bar.

I probably said this about 500 times back where half the forum went apesh*t over losing Levitre - You don't break the bank for a guard.

It's possible for you to win the lottery this week, but I wouldn't bank your retirement on it.

Article is over 2 days old.

He turns 34 this season and he's not content with making $11.5M over the next 2 years. I mean, I know he wants more guaranteed money, but what does he think he's going to get?

The game was always going to be broadcast locally in Buffalo and Jacksonville, that's standard operating procedure for the London games. Anyways, talk about your first world problems...

I thought the restructure was terrible. He had almost no leverage whatsoever coming in (~1M Gtd) and for some reason we felt it necessary to give him ~26.5M Gtd. When you are comparing his salary to other RB's, keep in mind he wasn't a FA at the time we did this. Well, I guess he did have some power - he could could whine about the trade and make veiled threats about not coming here, which seemed to work perfectly for him (no doubt Rosenhaus was right there in his ear). I think your odds are a bit optimistic IMO.

Disco Dan in the house

Looks like his plan all along was to use us to drive up his price (and it worked magnificently). Sullivan's article is actually pretty funny; he sounds really PO'ed and like he's just taking it out on everyone. Well, most of us have been expecting Richardson since January. It just sucks to have the hot girl hanging on you -- only to make her boyfriend jealous.