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    Walking Dead S7

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    Aaaaaand we're getting Carl 2.0 in the form of Henry.  He realizes that bullets travel long distances and he doesn't NEED to be in the cage in order to kill people with that rifle right?  As soon as he entered the cage, I said to no one in particular "should have stayed in the house, just like Carl back at the farm, this ain't gonna end well."  

     

    I can suspend disbelief to a certain extent, but some of the things they throwing out there is a just a bridge to far for me.  

     

    Did anyone who DVRed it get two hours worth of recording on a one hour show?  

    Walking Dead S7

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    6 hours ago, eball said:

     

    I mean, that has to be the case, right?  It will be interesting to see if he ever lays into these idiotic fans during his standup if/when these shows finish.

    I bet in VERY private circles he does probably crack the wise at some of the uber fans of the show (particularly "Community lady") 

    I wonder if he gets some carryover fans from the show to see him do standup? 
     

    3 hours ago, dpberr said:

     

    Hardwick has run his course, especially since they do the same bit for the bench team Fear the Walking Dead and they do it for Better Call Saul. 

     

    However, I'll shamelessly admit to watching this show when any of the show's actresses are on.  On the show, they are sans makeup, jewelry, etc but on the Talking Dead, they look amazing.  

     

    Other than that, I could care less what all those special fan celebrities think about the show.  

    Yes, AMC has gotten a bit carried away with "processing" shows for sure.  Seriously is ANYONE anywhere even remotely interested in any of the Fear morons that they need to "process" the events that happen to them? 

    And yes, seeing some of the actresses glammed up is about the only redeeming quality of the show.
     

    Walking Dead S7

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    2 hours ago, eball said:

     

     I'm tired of that jackass Hardwick and his promos for the inane after show. 

    Oh man, I thought I was the only one who couldn't stand this hack! Whenever a character on the show dies, he likes to let us know he's "here to help us process what was saw." Dude, it's a TV show, I just don't have that much invested and every three or four weeks he brings on that wack-a-doo that used to be on the show "Community" because she actually takes freaking notes on the show... she has a notebook of observations about the show!!!  WTF?!?  My DVR bleeds over into the first segment of his "processing" program and end up hate watching about five minutes of it just for the giggles it gives me. He takes himself and his "aftershow" entirely too serious and he also does this type of show for Better Call Saul I think?  

    The Subdued Celebration

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    I was at a bar with my wife (life long fins fan) sitting at a small table. Most our friends were bellied up to the bar including one friend who is a Ravens fan. We both knew what was at stake, but neither of us really spoke about it after the late games started Sunday. The Bills and Ravens were side by side on the TVs above the bar so it was easy to follow the back and forth action. My team had just beaten my wife's team, but she knows well of drought, so she was hoping for the best for me. As we're watching the Bills chances ebb and flow during the remaining moments on the TV, I'm texting my friend in VA who's at NYE dinner with family and can't see the Ravens/Bengals outcome. When Dalton converted the 4th down play my wife said, I was just staring at the TV mouth open and in shock basically that for the first time in a long time the dominoes fell in Bills favor. Wife gave me a rub on the back and a kiss and told me congratulations.  I texted my friend in VA "The Bills are going back to the ******** playoffs!"  I think all I said to my wife was "I can't believe it." 

     

    Only to have the moment ruined by an obnoxious Broncos fan in the back yell "Good! Goodbye Ravens!" Which immediately brought out Hulk rage from my Ravens friend. (I was pretty sure a Donnybrook was about to break out, but it didn't). All my friends at the bar (including Ravens fan) came up gave me a hug congratulated me, Happy New Year, etc... strange surreal and really understated feeling/reaction.

    The last time the Bills were in the playoffs...

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by Bullpen

    Ten cent wings were still a thing

    Red Dog and Red Wolf beer existed

    AOL instant messenger did too

    Ditto for the Montreal Expos

    The Brewers just moved to the National League

    Shopping Malls were still a thing

    And video game arcades

     

    Personally: 

    My son, in first grade at the time, was still a Bills fan, he's since jumped ship following 99 season to become a Titans fan, graduated HS, went to prison for a few months is now closing on his first house this coming weekend. (yeah a lot of changes). 

    Left military service, worked in the civilian sector for seven years, came back and now I'm a DoD civilian.

    Owned two different houses, owned five different vehicles (only 2 I truly liked)

    I've been to over 300 major and minor league baseball games and seen two no hitters, one NLCS and one NLDS game each and three Triple A playoff games.  

     

     

     

    Attendance Sunday?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    I don't live in WNY anymore, but in Denver attendance is down, not to the level that is in Buffalo. There's plenty of factors IMHO, a fanbase suffering from a raging case of apathy (albeit a less severe case in Denver), not much return on investment, other/better options ie: watching from the comfort of your home or local bar, cheaper prices for food/beer/soda, traffic (especially in Denver's case) less chance of ending up a donnybrook at home or bar than at stadium, parking lot, wherever and of course weather.

    Short the NFL?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, coloradobillsfan said:

    For those who hate the announcers, if you have 5.1 audio try this:  turn off the center channel!

     

    You may need to also turn down the bass/subwoofer to get rid of the 'muffled' voice sounds, and turn the overall volume up.  

     

    I've been doing this for years now, it has been a revelation.  You get ALL of the sounds of the game, and can even pick out individual voices from the crowd.  The World Series sounded *spectacular* it was just like I was at the game.  Commercials will be weird - some sounds will be silent while others blare but it's a small price to pay in my opinion for a much closer to being at the game experience.  Hope others find this useful as well. 

    This is a great hack for watching sports, I wish I had thought of that sooner!

    Short the NFL?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    16 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:

    Too many prime time games. TNF has oversaturated the market.

     

    To me that is problem #1. MNF is now meaningless. The games are awful almost every week. You don't hear a lady singing "Monday night's about to happen..." because nobody cares about watching crappy games with zero sizzle on MNF when there are thousands of other options on cable, streaming, etc.

     

    A close second is the refs are ruining the games. Non-stop penalties. When there is a big play you have to delay your excitement to make sure there aren't any flags, because it seems like 9/10 special teams returns of any kind have a holding or block in the back penalty. Huge play on defense? NOPE! Illegal contact, automatic 1st down! Team has 3rd and 27, runs a simple draw for 3 yards and you're off the field?! Nope. Illegal hands to the face on some DL. First down!

     

    What is a catch? Did the ball bobble? All this non-stop debate over plays is killing the sport. Call only the most obvious penalties and stop sucking the life out of the game with fantom holding calls that take points and exciting plays off the board.

     

    This ^^^^^^^^^

     

    I will bet this happens to almost all of us now, when watching the Bills or ANY NFL game, a team scores a touchdown and immediately where does your eyes go? To that little portion of the screen where the "flag tab" pops up. Was there yet another penalty that will negate the score?

     

    Then no one, none of us really know what a catch is anymore, it varies from game to game and sometime even play to play. You can't get excited about anything and be in the moment on a score, because you first have to check was there a flag, next did he really catch it, did he maintain possession all the way through... blah, blah, blah. There's just no flow to the game anymore.

     

    Short the NFL?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    39 minutes ago, BuffaloBill said:

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-lewis-author-moneyball-short-nfl-135810598.html

     

    Author of Moneyball points out the NFL is having problems in its business model.  Primarily states that viewership is down and sentiment is becoming problematic due to CTE and protest issues.

     

     

     

    For me one of the things (among a few) is NFL fatigue really.  The NFL seems to always be trying to force feed me every single event as "THE EVENT" the schedule reveal, the pro bowl roster reveal, combine, etc... They are trying to make the NFL part of every single day's 24 hour news cycle. There are two radio stations in Denver that are essentially 24/7/365 Broncos talk regardless of the season (and the Rockies had a very successful season).  At a certain point, you just say, enough is enough.

     

    It's like that friend that you have that's constantly trying get you to watch a certain TV series. You can only hear how great some show is before you finally just say, "Dude, I'm not gonna watch it, let it go." 

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    Methinks It's Time to Sell

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    Colorado Springs is building like there's endless amounts of land... which there is as long as you go east I guess. It's a very military/transient community, so turnover on housing is never-ending. I've often said if you Colorado Springs east of I-25 (which divides the city to 70% east and 30% west) was a restaurant, it would be a Chilis or Applebees; bland and pretty characterless.

     

    Anyway, to answer your question, the market here seems to be doing well again after the blood-bath of 2008. It seems to be coming back.

    Are you still here? Famous people who need to go away

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    Gordon Lightfoot

     

     

    :w00t: Haha!!! What did Gordon do to offend you? I know he's done a concert tour in the last couple years, but for whatever reason this one gave me a case of "el-oh-els!"

     

    My addition to the list would be:

     

    Our administrative assistant (secretary) - She asked us to confirm, seriously I might add, that Mt. Rushmore is man-made. And doesn't know the meaning of "quarter-til or "quarter-after."

    Rex Ryan

    Screamin A. Smith

    Second the nomination on Curt Schilling

    The new World's Most Interesting Man

    John Sterling

    LaVar Ball

    Jimmy Fallon

    Mike & Mike (most of the ESPN radio and tv programing actually)

    Jack Black

    Seth Rogan

    Eric Byrnes

    Bills have Air Force WR Jalen Robinette at rookie camp

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    I somewhat know him based on my job at the Academy and he's a great kid, not only says, but DOES all the right things. In my limited contact with him, he strikes me as the character type guy that Marv used to love. He's a hustler and hard worker and if he can take his talents to the NFL level, he could be a very valuable asset to the team. When he comes back for graduation events in 10 days, I'm going to try to run him down and find out what he thinks his chances are becoming a Bill.

    Hot for teacher: Austin TX style

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    whats the protocol in these threads?

    I guess I'll see soon enough

    Just most every other thread there really is no protocol, it will either eventually unravel into something completely different or just move farther and farther down the page as people stop commenting.

     

    Normally, you just comment whether Yes, you find her attractive and would enjoy relations with her, or you say not and try to make some sort of snarky comment about how you've had much better in your time... because this is an online message board, there's no way to validate any claims of having better, so snark away!!!! :lol:

     

    All that being said, yes!!!

    Update the status of past TSW members and of their demise.

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    I'm blocking you!!!!!

    I already did, what did he say?!?! :nana:

     

    Just kidding EIE. But seriously talk about a "thread jack."

     

    I've seen some names on here, that I forgot about from long ago in "good/bad old days." The Dean was great and his legacy lives on with "shiv the mofo." Lana was great as was ajzeep.

     

    I saw somewhere a few pages back, someone commented about taking some time away from the board. I took about two years and it really didn't seem that bad. I'm not "addicted" to this page, by any means, but taking some time away allowed me to forget about perceived slights or other biases I may have had against certain posters, topics or viewpoints.

     

    All in all, it's good to be back here. I just can't see letting anyone that I don't really "know" get under my skin so much. Just my opinion though, I could be (probably) wrong.

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