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This ^^ Their legacy is and will be a bit tarnished but clearly they would have done real well even without all the "____"-Gates.

Exactly my sentiments. I don't fit the profile but I find it offensive. I am sure he didn't mean to take a shot at all Buffalo fans who are blue collar workers. But he inadvertently did like so many others who aren't sensitive to the realities of social media.

But c'mon, the fact we all learned about this, and given the basics of social media these days, this sort of stuff gets out and is broadly disseminated.

Kelly, given these Instagram posts are for the whole world to see and scrutinize, it's not really right to view it as a very personal conversation. I get that it was directed only at the hecklers but it's broadcast to a much wider audience some of whom took offense. Not a big surprise. If he had, eg, included a racial slur or something else contemptible, the same sort of logic applies: the "whole world" sees this stuff and he'd be called out for it.

Some observations: 1. Sammy is sort of a microcosm of the basic problems with the team: Tons of hype without the results on the field backing it up (at least so far). On par with Rex's chest-thumping puffery re building a bully/#1 defense that has underwhelmed and underperformed relative to expectations. 2. The twitter comment is offensive to a broader group than the idiots who called him out because he chose to focus on people's days jobs and demean those who work hard for a living for a low wage. It's the ammo that he chose to silence his critics that is the issue. He used extremely poor judgment and wrote things that rightly rubbed a wider audience the wrong way. Not that surprising given his young age but he brought this backlash upon himself. 3. Fan interest (consumer demand in econ speak) is the driver of all NFL revenue, from TV broadcast rights (valued based on the number of eyeballs that watch games), to apparel, etc., etc.

So I spend most of my time in Cincy these days, and my daughter has a piano recital at . . . 2 PM on Sunday . . . (relatively) easy decision but will definitely be checking phone a lot!

Seconded!

Brilliant, DC Tom! I like where your heads at on that one . . .

Assume people know why winning 13 straight is very improbable, even assuming, say, they have on average a 70% chance of winning each game? You can think of it this way: Assume you have a dart board with 70% of the area in green and 30% in red. The green area reflects the likelihood of winning an individual game. Assume you really stink at darts and have no aim. You'd have to hit the green area 13 times in a row to string together the 13 wins analogous to the Pats running the table for the rest of the year. Very unlikely. Not impossible but very unlikely.

Bills 27; Fish 17. We'll get 4-5 sacks. TT's numbers: 260 yards passing (2 TDs and 1 INT) and another 40 yards rushing.

Tuco, great post!

Great thread. Grew up in Buffalo, then ended up in DC and now I'm in Cincy with two young kids. They see my passion for the Bills and I just hope it's contagious and they don't end up Bungles fans! I never even considered rooting for Skins or Bengals. Sort of liked the Nats bc didn't grow up w MLB team. Go Bills!

We lived on Crown Pt Ln, so we were close but not close enough to see the crowds on a regular basis. I do remember one year they ran out of candy on Halloween and were giving out signed autographs which was pretty cool. We also asked him to sign a football and he said not only will he sign it, but he'll bring it in for the whole team to sign. I still have that football but of course it is very tainted nowadays!

Hey Augie, we lived around the corner from him too. Talking about when he lived in Chapel Woods?

That would be awesome! I'd be fine with that!

Pretty amazing offseason for Bills fans, no? Too many positive developments to list, and then for this to happen to the Pats? And as others have said, I don't want a "gimme" win too much either but it won't be a gimme anyway and we still have the away game at Gilette late in the season. Go Bills!

Eagle, CO is near Vail and a 2-hr drive or so to Denver. Maybe they're taking a break to go skiing . . .

Totally agree - Well deserved and earned and Mario really is the man!!

Go Bills! Greetings from Dominican Republic. First game I didn't watch this year. Defense is epic.

Seasons, I live in Cincy too. Moved from DC a couple years ago.

Driving from Concy and staying at MGM. If anyone's into poker, I'll likely be in poker room mid afternoon. Cincy that is

Tried now and getting message offer no longer available - Wasted a lot of time on this today! But it will be easy to get tickets one way or another, I figure . . .

Same here - Hopefully it's just a temporary glitch - As my Cleveland buddy pointed out, it should be easy to get tix for next to nothing anyway day of event.

Will be on DirecTV too: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24825992/bills-jets-game-in-detroit-monday-will-air-on-directv-sunday-ticket