Stanley Lombardi
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What did you to deserve a WTF?
As I said, I haven't posted in a decade. So you can tell that I don't get out much. Last time I posted, "WTF" meant "Way Too Fantastic." So has anything changed since then?
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I haven't posted in a decade. But I thought that I should thank the Bills (and the original poster of this thread) for naming this great Sunday after me.
I don't deserve such acclaim, but I'll take it!
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Marv is an man who might appreciate a youngster's struggle with social anxiety disorder. He might give the boy credit for surviving the transition from Paxil to weed to teaching tubby women yoga in Northern California.
What he won't do is part with a draft pick for his services.
This is poetry. I kid you not.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-sp....story?track=tbd
I hope he fails miserably in Baltimore.
His mother sounds like an incredible person though, props to her.
Spin scum any way you can...you still get scum.
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19 & Oh,
Buff uh low.
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I gotta go with Spiked Lemonade
Cablelady and #89.
Class and grace are in short supply everywhere. We need them more than they need us.
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well i only met terrence mcgee, jim kelly, and thurman thomas. but out of the three of them I think the best person I met was jim kelly, I met him last year when he maid an appearance at one of the day at training camp, it was the greatest day ever.
I met OJ Simpson, walking down the 2nd floor hallway at Lockport Memorial Hospital. He was alone, visiting kids in the hospital. He was dressed in a tailored 3-piece suit and I was surprised by how stocky and strong he seemed. I must have figured that anybody that fast could not carry that weight. I just said, "Hi, OJ!" He had a big smile and a big hello as he walked by.
He was a flat-out impressive human being, I thought, until years later I found out he is just another murderer.
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Yes, you must be right. I'm either lying or do not know how I feel and felt and what I think or thought. It MUST be Johnson-love that leads people to dislike Flutie. There is not other explanation. That must be true as YOU say it is.
If one didn't "choose" Johnson or Flutie, but rather rooted for the BILLS QB to do well, they are clearly "Cowards".
We, certainly, are not worthy to have a person of your great insight among us.
BTW, you might want to work on laughing and standing up at the same time. After that, you can try chewing gum and walking!
Dean, Dean, I really don't deserve such adulation!
And your attempt at humor, lame as it was--it ceased to be funny sometime prior to the 5th grade for most of us-- was brave of you, considering the onslaught that your puny ego is undergoing as you attempt to revise your miserable past!
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You totally missed the point. I liked both Flutie and RJ and thought we had two good QBs. I was wrong. Both RJ and Flutie were bums. But, it was Flutie's politics and whining that tore the team apart.
Ah, yes--Thee Olde "I'm objective because I liked them both" ploy. This ploy was the greatest cowardice of all in the days of the Great Buffalo QB Debate. Pathetic. The revision of history concerning this old debate is its greatest legacy. I fall down laughing every time I hear one of these Johnson lovers contort himself into a pretzel to save his face.
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The thing i love ost about this thread...I can finally see how many people hated doug flutie. it seemed while he was on the bills, everyone loved him (not me). Now that he's gone, people realize him for what he was. A midget piece of crap that tore apart our locker room. Good riddance jerk
They didn't really hate Flutie at first. That only happened when they needed a smokescren to cover their embarassment over choosing RJ in The Great Buffalo QB Debate. When it became apparent that Johnson was a loser, they tried to take the focus off their footbal stupidity by making Flutie's personality the issue. Most of these Flutie choices in this thread are not about Flutie, our last winner, but about the losers on this board. They're still running the old misdirection play. It's been so long ago that most of them have now convinced themselves it was about personality from the start. It wasn't.
So now we've added "self-deluded" to "stupid."
Have at it, Johnson lovers!
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Should get some interesting answers with Willis departing this week. Newbies welcome
. Old school as well.Least- Doug Flutie
Most- Kurt Schultz
Favorite--Joe D.
Worst--Billy Joe Hobert
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No!!!!!!!
Don't even go there!
Sorry, bflodan. What a loss that would be. April is a great coach and leader. His enthusiasm is conveyed to the players, unlike loudmouths like Krumrie and, in an earlier day, Dickerson.
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I'm predicting Steve Mariucci.
Getting fired by Matt Millen & Ford is a plus, not a minus, on someone's resume.
Proven regular season winner who has won 3 playoff games with the niners.
A QB guy to further the development of Rivers.
Bobby April.
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no actually he was at an elite top 50 in the world level, as his times were 13.81 and 49.77 for the hurdles. Both of those times easily place him in the top 50 in the world for any given year. Please keep talking out of your ass, i am enjoying it too much.
According to the Track and Field News website, Moorman's best time in the 110 high hurdles was around the 250th best time in 2005. There were approximately 114 individual hurdlers (some had multiple performances which exceeded his best) ahead of him:
http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/in...al=A/index.html
The same website puts his 400 meter hurdle time around the 225th best performance of 2005:
http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/in...al=A/index.html
Now unless you can squeeze the numbers 250 and 114 into 50 ( "Both of those times easily place him in the top 50 in the world for any given year," you said above) it seems that you should be mouthing your apology to me, just after you take the crow feathers out of your mouth!
You guys are way too easy to beat. You bore me. Bring back the armpit farts, jzmack, but leave the facts alone. The facts just made you look really, really ignorant.
Do you practice this "talking out of your ass" trick (as you mentioned above) every night, like you've been practicing it in this thread? Your dedicated practice has made you world-class at this trick, "easily in the top 50 in any given year!"
To quote one of your posts in this thread:
"I wouldn't call gettin worked up, i'd call trying to heighten the situation... ie.) half of the crap i say on PPP when Holcomb's Arm is talking. My object is to make this person continuously make an ass out of himself/herself."
You've made an ass out of yourself. I'm embarassed to see anybody get his head handed to him like you just did.
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I am almost a crusader on Moorman's speed, but the reality is that he could compete with most of the D-I guys w/o doubt. Hell I am a D-III hurdler and sprinter, and I have spanked some D-I athletes in my day. The sad truth is that some of the D-I "talent" is misevaluated and does not deserve to be there while some D-II and D-III hidden gems can put a whooping a good chunk of the D-I scholarships athletes. In fact, I met a pro-Pole Vaulter who was D-III that was the best in all of the NCAA a few years back. So, your claim that Moorman was just a D-II athlete is a lame excuse as he was voted the best D-II athlete his senior year for his track and football accomplishments. Again proving some ingorance
No ignorance, my friend. Brian Moorman is flat-out fast, and I said so. But he has not taken it to anything near an international level, which is the level this thread has been speaking about. I have a feeling that Brian Moorman would be the first one to double over in laughter if you are thinking of comparing his 110 high-hurdle ability to Olympic-calibre hurdlers.
Brian Moorman is fast compared to the Buffalo Bills, but slow compared to the world. That was my thesis--that football players are only big fish because they compete in a relatively small pond. Thus, you have unwittingly gone a long way towards proving my thesis, as have most of the replies to this topic. So, thankyou, jzmack. Thankyou...one and all.
Now, jzmack, who's "proving some ignorance?"
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Wow! Upsetting your cherished assumptions was great fun! But the cat does get tired of toying with half-dead mice after awhile. Not one of you has pointed to any recent American team victory internationally, which is exactly what my point was from the start...
So, sayonara for now.
But before I go, you guys have proved one thing. While the American athlete is an also-ran internationally, the American intellect, if represented by your replies, can't even find its way to the starting line.
Your replies have descended to the intellectual level of armpit farts. But armpit farts are also great fun. So, thanks!
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could you possibly fathom that the majority of our top athletes are training in popular speactator sports like football baseball and hockey, as opposed to ones of a more international flavor? Seriously, If you had Deion Sanders in his prime as a striker, he probably would have notched a ton of goals. Brian Moorman, just a hair off being ranked in the top 25 or top 50 in the world in both hurdles events while he was at Pittsburg State. To state that our country is lacking athletes is like saying Osama bin Laden is lacking nose hair
We're a non-factor in hockey, haven't won in baseball, have seen our "best athletes in the world" from the NBA embarassed annually for years and years now. I would call all of these facts. Which of these facts am I not fathoming?
Deion Sanders as a striker is conjecture. Brian Moorman is a fast punter, but never appeared on anything other than a division 2 or 3 college level in track. These are figments.
I fathom facts, and you fathom figments. But we both fathom.
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Yawn. A bi-annual event that leaves out most of the best players in the world. Maybe if you considered the world golf rankings at the end of 2006, you'd see a vast array of countries, with the USA more than holding their own (including 3 of the top 4.)
They also took a game that was played seriously in one country on earth, this one, and made it a true world game. But you're right, Spain is better. I also enjoyed how you failed to mention that the rules are quite different from the rules our players have played with their entire lives.
So...you're citing a one-and-done knockout tournament as evidence of American demise in a sport where the BEST teams only win 55% of their games? Sweet.
When have they ever won? Interesting that USA doesn't quite have the athleticism of other world powers, and both football and soccer are fall sports in this country...I wouldn't mind seeing Reggie Bush if he played soccer 14 hours a day from the time he was 3 years old. The USA is a world power in Under-20 tournaments, but it hasn't translated into the men yet.
Canada, Czech Republic, Sweden, Russia, USA. Pick one. I guarantee they win the next major tournament or Olympics.
Again, if you would check the world rankings, the USA is one of two countries with two players in the world top-10. Andy Roddick is ranked 4th and James Blake is ranked 6th. The other country? Croatia, with players ranked #8 and #10. Although it could be argued that anybody not named Roger Federer sucks at tennis right now. He's unreal.
Your grasping at straws with this one. Americans will be the favorites in every event under 800M, plus decathalon, heptathalon, pole vault, etc. while a smattering of opponents from dozens of other countries will be able to 'steal' a win in certain events every once in a while. Big deal. Does anybody even remember these people ten minutes after their event is over? That includes the Americans.
I defy you to find a more pure athlete than an NFL running back. Or linebacker. Or wide receiver.
Huh? Once again, I'm not afraid to post the evidence for you. Can you find five?
I got out the microscope and the binoculars, smokinandjokin, but I've yet to locate a winner in your very laborious post. A whole bunch of promises and excuses, but the trophies seem to be on somebody else's shelf.
The rules, the tournament set-up, guarantees, rankings, our great junior varsity squad...but no trophy.
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Why are you here?
I believe that this is a board about Buffalo Bills football. I'm glad you're an "avid Bills fan", but I get the feeling you're more
like an "avid troll".
I think this discussion would be better placed in an off-topic category. Please?
Thanks! The topic was meant to place our footbal heroes in a proper athletic perspective. When the American athlete goes against the world, he is shown to be mediocre. No one has refuted that premise in the replies so far. There has been bluster, chest-thumping, conjecture, and (most of all) excuses--but no refutation.
I do think that we as football fans should understand the very small pool of talent that our "stars" compete against. It's akin to competing to be all-league in a talent market the size of Buffalo vs. a talent market the size of L.A. or New York.
Questions like this interest me about sports and culture. If they don't interest you, then just beat your man-boobs like the rest of 'em! And go on to the next topic about the subtleties of the off-tackle slant! Or the ever-enduring fascination with whom we should select in the 4th round...
I'm also here for fun--and I'm enjoying it as you twits bring forward one weak, pathetic reply after another!
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Blue on Blue? More like Smurf Fugger
You boys seem to enjoy being the world's B word!
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You can't be serious. Yeah, the US sucks ass:
Gold metal history for modern summer olympic games. Notice how we've never finished lower than 3rd in the modern summer olympics?
Gold metal history for modern winter olympic games. We're not quite as good at these games, finishing 8th at the lowest.
Our overall average ranking for gold medals in the Olympics is 2.72. Yeah, the US sucks.
If you had read my initial post, I was positive about our our international track teams. It was the big-$$ sports I was mocking. Welcome aboard.
Before I leave, I would like to let you know (any friend would, to keep you from further public embarassment) that gold "medal" is spelled with a 'd.'
We lead the world in over-hyped athletes--and in the least bang for the educational buck!
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Yeah, you already said that, and are ignoring the point. Do you want to start listing the countries that offer better athletes than the states?
Oh, where did I put my world atlas?
Can you make a list of the international competitions our "greats" have won? Don't you see that the rest of the world counts wins, while you are counting pipe dreams. Dream on.
USA wins lately = zero.
Kelly's excuses = (nobody but USA apologists care).
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You mean except for the fact that in almost every spot, the Americans are the guys or team to beat? The Ryder Cup is ALL of Europe. Our basketball teams would kill these teams if we used all our players and they played together as much as their competitors. Think if we use our best baseball players we might win a world competition against another country?
Granted, it's okay if we're not the best in certain sports anymore. It's actually good, for everyone. And surely other countries are catching up in a lot of sports, and that's good, too. But it's still not even remotely close as to who has the most and best athletes overall.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply, Pollyanna. But we have taken our very best into these situations and have not only gotten beat, but hammered. Then we regrouped and got hammered again.
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You mean except for the fact that in almost every spot, the Americans are the guys or team to beat?
You mean except for the fact that in almost every sport, the Americans are the guys who get beat?
Do Today's Bills win a Super Bowl with heyday Jim Kelly
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Agreed. Peyton puts up formulaic yards in a pass-happy era, but Kelly is a superior QB.