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FWIW, I doubt Felser expected a win like yesterday, but he does seem to think we are on the upswing. http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/columns/larry-felser/article528686.ece From that last paragraph (on 8/20/11): I know he retired a long time ago, but I'd say he stil has his finger on the pulse of the Bills.

These are my absolute favorite threads, every year. Thanks for doing them, Bill. As I have not followed the Bills as closely as I once did, I did not realize Badolbilz had left. That is a another huge hit to TSW.

I remember watching that SF game off a direct feed from a satellite which meant no commercials. It had the #1 NBC announcers, and during the commercial time, they were just gushing over what a historic game it was by the end of the third quarter, because of the offensive talent on display by both sides.

Fantastic post... I wish I still had that attitude.

Those are fantastic!

I just read through most of the posts in this thread... Even if Lori is gone for good, (which I really doubt), I do think she'd have a smile on her face reading it. There's a lot of names of posters I have enjoyed reading over the years, present in this thread...

But there is in Waterford, for some reason. I find it a little sad and weird, that, when I go home, I can now confirm that WNY does indeed have an accent.

I'd rather see someone like Dennis Abraham, from the Chargers. From his Bio on the Chargers website, He's got the credentials and he at least used to love the Bills. I played football with him, and his personality is genuinely the way John Butler used to come across.

I like Polian a lot, but he wasn't GM till 8 months after the pick of Bruce Smith. He was part of the Bills organization, though...

He's meddling because, even when he has some of the best people in the business, like Polian, running his team, he screws it up. He really is basically Al Davis, without the personality. By the way, he's not alone. I'd say the same about Snyder and Jones. I'm sure there are more, ut those are the only two that immediately came to mind...

Happy birthday to on of my favorite posters...

I with you on with that. I put my previous post that the minimum you will see at a breeder is the mother. Ideally, you should get the pick of the litter (after being coached on what to look for), and have a chance to see the parents and other non-litter-mate siblings the breeder kept... That still won't guarantee the dog won't have trouble, but if as an owner, you really plan getting the pup, chances are good you have a good owner and a good dog... My current dog's father is the reason I was went with a sheltie. He is a very confident, friendly dog, especially with stangers. She doesn't quite have his confidence with strangers, but she isn't wilt, either. The thing that really makes me shudder is the parents that pick up that Rottie with blue eyes that their 15 year old daughter really wants.

I agree to a point. Breeds do have different natures. If you trained a sheltie like you train a GSD the sheltie would wilt. I certainly used vastly different methods on my 6 year old sheltie (treats and lots of praise) than I did on my golden. I used a GSD training book called Toward the PhD for Dogs. I've watched goldens and GSD owners try the treat methods, but they just aren't as successful...

Well said. I applaud anyone who adopts a rescue. My wife and I used to foster rescues for Labs (It is basically labs since there is also a very successful Golden Rescue)and Sheltie rescues in Mass. My wife's first dog was a Lab/Shepard mix that she got from a rescue. After for four years, we had to put him down shortly after we got married. He bit her niece, who happened to be the daughter of the matron of honor about three hours before the ceremony. He bit again two months later, and I took him to the vet to be put down. That was when we got her first sheltie. The reason we went with a sheltie was that Jen was ready to give up on dogs altogether. She blamed herself. The sheltie breeder was someone I knew and trusted, and she needed to get back in the saddle pretty quickly. Anyway, that sheltie puppy is now 12. Jen and he did AKC obedience and came close to getting his UD. They got into a rut on the hand single down of all things! Her work then required her to travel more, and then came the twins. Suddenly he's 12 pretty creaky. He was also amazing at catching a frisbee. He caught so many his lower canines got ground down. The point of all that was to contrast the breeder and rescue experience. You get to at least meet the mother of the pup. (personalities are hereditary) You also have someone to turn to if you run into trouble. Most of all, any reputable breeder will take a dog back of you are unable to care for it anymore. I had a Golden rescue. I watched my dad train is golden growing up. In fact the teacher my dad went to class with was the sheltie breeder... He was 10 months when I got him. The family claimed he nipped one of the kids. (yeah, right) He also needed a bigger yard that the .1 acre lot they lived on. Turned out that dog needed more than 10 acres to run on. Man could he run. He once was picked up five miles away. Later on, after he thankfully slowed down some, he got into a car while I was moving into a house in Amherst. Luckily I got the plate, but point I am trying to make is goldens can be too friendly sometimes. He was petrified of water, too. I always figured the people I got him from must have thrown him in the pool when he was a puppy or something. He'd be twenty this year. I wish he'd met my boys. Oz Anyway, if you need help deciding what breed, you probably should not be going to a rescue.

1- OJ Simpson 2- Scott Norwood 3- Ahmad Rashad 4- Jack Kemp 5- Doug Flutie 6- Terrell Owens 7- Jim Kelly 8- Paul Maguire 9- Thurman Thomas 10-Bruce Smith A case for Norwood being #1. When you tell some you're a Bills fan, do you hear OJ's name or Norwood's?

The only people I've ever met in person on this board are SDS (one grade ahead of me in HS) and maybe Petrino (he worked with my dad when he was Petrino in Batavia and I was a little snot)... But after stopping by here for many years, I feel like I know (and respect) a lot of you. Thanks!

It was the white and green house, I think.

From street view in google maps, you can see this house pretty easily on Long St....

A friend of mine who lives near the crash site said the plane was burning prior to impact...

I don't care how long it has been in development, or whether we are in a economic crisis or not. It shouldn't cost more than it's value to make it. It sounds like a GM.

I let a cat live too long once. It was incredibly selfish of me to do that to a good friend. I made a promise that if they had no hope of not being able to ever do their business or eat on their own, I would end the suffering for them. I had to put down my golden, wow, almost 5 years ago. I have two shelties now, one 5 and a half and one 11. I will do (and did for my golden) just about anything to help them get in and out of the house, including ramps. But when they cannot do what should be natural, to me it is time. But that is me. Tom said it well, imho. You do the thing that brings the least regret for you. They're trusting you to make the right decision.

Ah, but the nice thing about a .45 is that you don't need to hit Xs...

That is all true. The thing that stands out to me is his record against other HOF quarterbacks. Out of his HOF peers, Aikman, Elway, Marino, Montana, Moon and Young, he had a winning record against everyone but Aikman and maybe Young. Certainly in the big games he beat everyone but Aikman. An argument can be made that QBs don't play against each other, but it wasn't our defense that won most of those games. Therefore, I think the comparison can be made.

Perhaps Bruce finally grew up. It does take longer for some people.

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