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4 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
Bates-O-Matic?
Git er done!!
Would be cool if he could play for Bears and have a "big brother" on the team.
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Attorney for Chiefs WR Rice issues statement following Dallas crash
QuoteWest said Rice is cooperating with police and plans to “take all necessary steps to address this situation responsibly.”
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Campaign efforts on both sides of stadium tax vote continue days ahead of Jackson County election
KSHB 41 News obtains poll results showing tight race in stadium sales tax
QuoteThe Chiefs have been making a big push on this. Stars like Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Andy Reid participated in an ad urging a “yes” vote. Both teams have made it clear that, if the measure fails, they could move out of Kansas City.
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Publicly-filed court documents show that former Cardinals executive Terry McDonough has won $3 million from the team in the arbitration process he initiated last year.
The ruling happened on Friday. The arbitration award was filed in federal court on Monday.
McDonough’s claims included unlawful retaliation under the Arizona Employment Protection Act, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and invasion of privacy.
For now, the news is — and should be — that the NFL’s in-house arbitration process has resulted in a very rare award for a former employee of an NFL team, and a potentially unprecedented award of punitive damages against an NFL team.
Of course, if the facts were enough to trigger that kind of an award from a process engineered to favor the NFL and its teams, the verdict in a truly independent court before a truly independent jury likely would have been much, much higher.
I am very surprised by this. NFL executives are paid a lot of money but they are handcuffed as well..
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5 minutes ago, Einstein said:
This circles back to missteps in PR strategy by the Bills management regarding the new stadium.
But as it stands, the current strategy has arguably been the least effective approach possible.
You are a genius in Marketing! Anyone notice @Einstein after Russ Brandon left Bills? Now we see where the ideas for UFL are coming from.
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12 minutes ago, Mr Info said:
Tried and it’s too large. Shrinking it reduces the ability to read it.
Sent you message to get around issue. I and a number of people have used it.
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5 hours ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:Quote
“It’s just a very basic rule of negotiation that you have to have accurate and complete information about what the other side is working with before a negotiation can be real, before it can be done in good faith,” Raghuveer said. “If you don’t have that information from the jump, it’s a bad faith negotiation.”
Very appropriate to this. They were not open about the PSLs and how seniority would be discarded with seat selection before they went for funding for they knew it could alter the decision and might have put restrictions by the agency renting to new stadium to them.
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7 minutes ago, EasternOHBillsFan said:
I completely disagree... we are not a monolith, all the same. Men of passion and empathy many times react and show great emotion. I have dated women who were as cold as ice and didn't show enough emotion or empathy for me.
It is entirely possible that Vontae Davis was experiencing issues with CTE and suffering in silence and he needed a TERRIBLE way out. I myself at 50 sometimes think about what I have to be prepared for in case of a gradual debilitating disease, for I do not intend to rot away in hospice of dementia.
Robin Williams suicide was a good example. He had Lewy body dementia and knew it would get worse and decided he did not want to go thru with it. Quality of life would suffer too much.
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39 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:
Suicide doesnt mean CTE. Plenty of people commit suicide without CTE.
Suicide for some is best solution when life backs you into corner with no way out but the government criminalizes it and part of it is financial (IRS has specific statures). Death penalty still exists for some crimes but it is a crime to decide to take your own life.
I have had some friends who have taken their own life and in most cases I understood. One was in car accident from a hit and run which put her in bed for rest of her life with tubes supplying all nutrition since much of her digestive system was ruined. Driver was never penalized. She played online gaming for a while but discovered half a life is sometimes is no life and committed suicide. She had a number of in-game friends who were sad but owner/chief moderator of game told it was a bull story where her sister who was given her login/password tried to selling her items to donate to a charity which helped her.
Suicide is not always sign of mental illness but mental clarity.
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Just the Bills info.
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38 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:
"Fleeing Buffalo Politics Bills" would be better name. What a waste of taxpayer money.
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Reminds me of the Auction a Nurse for weekend pass to Tokyo on M*A*S*H - rigged.
IF they are doing it I'd be surprised they do not auction it off to highest bidder.
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2 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
St. Louis had huge numbers last year. Wait until their home opener. But UFL aren't going to go above 20K on average.
Ever watch Tuesday/Wednesday MACtion college games on ESPN? Most nights they barely have a hundred people in the stands.
I have never watched a full college game and never went to games when I went to UB.
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Ex-Lions DB Cam Sutton turns himself in on strangulation charge
QuoteThe Lions signed Sutton to a $33 million, three-year contract a little more than a year ago, targeting him as a key player to acquire last offseason. Sutton started in all 17 regular season games, making a career-high 65 tackles and one interception, and in each of Detroit’s three playoff games.
Cam Sutton arrest update: Ex-Lions CB turns himself in on domestic battery, weeks after being on run
Latest on Cam Sutton: Lions release CB over disturbing domestic battery allegations with NFL player on the run
Lions will take a tremendous dead cap on him.
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Neilson numbers may be more important to keep broadcasters continuing to show games.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/ufl-attendance-gets-off-to-so-so-start
UFL attendance gets off to so-so start
(NBC is not broadcasting partner so do not expect soft treatment)
UFL’s debut had so-so attendance, to no surprise. Via Mike Mitchell of SI.com, the opening game between the Birmingham Stallions and the Arlington Renegade attracted 14,153 fans.
The second game, featuring the Michigan Panthers hosting the St. Louis Battlehawks, drew 9,444 to Ford Field.
NFL analyst points out reasons for "so-so" attendance at UFL season opener
https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-nfl-analyst-points-reasons-so-so-attendance-ufl-season-opener
The official attendance figure for the UFL’s opening game at Choctaw Stadium between the @USFLStallions and @XFLRenegades is 14,153.
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Any official and unofficial attendance figures?
I am expecting XFL to cite ticket sales but many may not be used as has happened in past in alternate leagues.
Cameras by broadcasters appeared to avoid showing sections of stadiums with few fans but I only saw FOX since I do not pay for ESPN.
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I was amazed on number of older vets. I was expecting players who could not stick to regular roster trying to do what Kurt Warner did - use alternate leagues to increase his skill set - but not players in 30s.
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Some of the shows at amusement parks we went to as kids.
The one on Grand Island Fantasy Island (loved the mouse) and Crystal Beach.
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1 hour ago, BarleyNY said:
That is not thought to be true. IIRC the Scrooge character was based on Dickens’ father. Thus the two very different versions of him in the story. Scrooge’s treatment of his workers was a social and political statement regarding the (mis)treatment of the working class which was seen as very disposable at the time.
In college I was in literature class and research had indicated it was a composite of multiple people and he had frequent jabs at non-contributing wealthy.
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9 hours ago, Figster said:
The reward you may get for being one of the best college athletes playing in your position is to end up playing for one of the worst coached and managed teams in the NFL. In many instances the best college QB's end up in places destined for failure. So why reward poorly coached and managed teams in this manner? Why do we reward the best college athletes entering the NFL draft in this manner? I get trying to even the playing field. My idea is to make teams work for the rights to the best college athletes. Show that you can coach and manage well enough to give star athletes a chance for success in the NFL. My idea is to give the best team/record to not make the playoffs the 1st pick in the draft and go from best to worst record. Teams on the brink of becoming playoff caliber getting the best college athletes available. Win, win for both the player and team. Playoff teams pick last and still go from best to worst. Stop rewarding perennial bad teams for failure.
Any thoughts on this idea my fellow Bills fans?
Make it about money like current NFL - let all players be able to be auctioned to highest bidder. Then players will be more accurate it at calling it a slave auction.
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16 minutes ago, BarleyNY said:
Ebenezer Scrooge was a fictional character whose character change which was the point of the story.
Ebenezer Scrooge was based on real people at the time but he changed which was and is rare.
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1 hour ago, stuvian said:
Much of the right wing press made this out as a DC Dems issue of uncontrolled crime near the current Capitals and Wizards venues. I've never heard that substantiated elsewhere.
https://thespectator.com/life/sports-latest-victim-washington-dc-crime-wizards-capitals/
Some of it MAY be opposition to VA governor support since he has been in constant conflict with large portion of Northern Virginia but not hear anything other than locals being very unhappy on impact on traffic. Every time a project developers proclaims metro will be handling excess traffic but it rarely does.
Metro is always complaining about lack of funding and I used to agree with them until they decided to go electronic pass or you cannot use. It does no good for taxpayers required to have to have an electronic card to use bus and then say bus needs. People use buses for unexacted reasons like forgot wallet, wallet locked in car, car failure, etc. where in other case they could just bottom a few dollar bills and get home or where they need to go and return later. They also invalidated paper stored value cards and if you did not convert them into electronic cards money irretrievable - meaning they got free money.
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4 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Isn’t it funny that the person who gloated the most about their wealth is having the biggest issue with extra fees?
Ebenezer Scrooge was a very rich man and way he did it was making sure he paid as little as possible.
2 hours ago, WotAGuy said:
Well, it’s not surprising he gave away the farm - he was receiving a lot of manual stimulation that warped his thinking.He also did it after Hartford backed out and his partners did as well.
He recovered the money in costs of suites which is a lot easier to sell in Boston.
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Police searching for Rashee Rice in connection to accident - Now officially charged
in The Stadium Wall
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Hopefully the and prosecutor and judge is are old school people looking to make an example and own suites in Dallass Eye to the sky stadium.