Neo

“They’re doing it again! They’re doing it again!’ Van Miller

Whoooo Whhoooo

I am picturing you staring at Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford and mumbling … “they have moles.” There’s not one post on TBD that says TOs don’t matter. Not one. That’s the absurd straw man to balance the absurd, and weird, development of an “arm punt excuse” thread. What, exactly, is being excused and who’s doing the excusing? I can see the Hollywood Blog now. Some benign moles, that every human has, turn cancerous. People “excusing” Marilyn and Cindy and focusing only on their other-worldly beauty are missing the point that wise observers like me understand - despite being obvious to everyone. I understand the contrarian dopamine LAMP rush. I understand less the desire to nit -pick the greats. It exists, certainly. My DNA leads me to wonder and marvel. I’d recommend, when the urge to manufacture or join a criticism is too great, spend a moment considering what’s been concocted. “Arm punt excuse” is manufactured Frankenstein with Abbie Normal’s brain. I understand you didn’t build the monster. I was inspired by your “acting like TO’s don’t matter” advancement of the argument.

LOL, “the arm punt excuse” analysis and discussion. Why not just pin a “daily nit pick about the greatest player we’ve had in generations” where the small can take shots at the large?

I rode my banana seat bike to exit 56 and watched, as well! More than once, OJ Simpson stayed late and played keep away with a group of us. Imagine ten boys trying to encircle and catch The Juice. Years later, I met him at the sports bar in the Hyatt on Main Street. He was there with an Oakland Raider equipment guy. They were in town for a Bills Raiders playoff game where OJ was a broadcaster. THe bar was empty, before “happy hour” started. OJ waived us over and I sat down and finished a beer. I told him the twenty year old story of chasing him around a field near the motel. He laughed, of course, and asked if we’d like to try again. What a charismatic, engaging guy. Seeing him through a different lens is still unsettling.

I’ve been several times with my wife. Three years running, now. We’ll be there in September, as well. It is worth going. For us, it’s two different trips. When we stay in South Beach, it’s a beach resort with fine dining and upscale cocktails with my beloved Bills smack dab in the middle. We run into Bills fans here and there. When we stay in Lauderdale, it’s a three or four day party with some die (very) hard Bills fans who fill lobbies and take over bars. We stay at a place off the Ocean that, while it has a resort feel and great pool, doesn’t give us the beach. The beach is close, of course. South Beach: Higher end dining and cocktails everywhere. Art, music and architecture. Lauderdale: “Hey, ay ay AY - Let’s GO BUFFALO!” with some still nice pools and drinks.

It wasn’t my best formulation.

I work in the SEC footprint. Almost all of my colleagues are SEC grads. It’s unreal.

Was thinking just that. I have put an asterisk next to your name to look for when I wade through 45,386 opinions on college talent. Edit to add: 1) Outside of the top three, who was your best WR prospect, period. 2) Outside of the top three, who was your best WR prospect for Buffalo?

Not sure I was doing that. There of hundreds of goods to greats without college domination. That, I believe, was the post I replied to.

Michael Jordan says “Hello.”

It gives me no reason to speculate with confidence that the sun will rise tomorrow. It doesn’t have to. The word speculation acknowledges, requires, demonstrates the topic is unaddressed in the article. If we can’t speculate, eliminate 98.4% of our threads.

Peter Puck!

The OP doesn’t need my help, but nowhere in his post does he claim the article “even hints at that.” “Speculating with confidence” is a reasonable reading of “Sure.” Respectfully, all.

308 straight games. He was .. the man.

FDR once said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I’ve made.” Joseph Conrad, “You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.” Three days ago I didn’t know Butker from Adam. Today, I really like him. Neo, son of a single mom, brother to a sister, husband to a wife, father to daughters, father in law to daughters in law, and grandfather to granddaughters. “Misogyny” has joined “fascism” and “bigotry” in the Word Likely To Be Used Incorrectly Club. The recent membership application of “genocide” is pending.

God, class, income, values .. what a feeding frenzy chum we have!

I have stumbled upon the most ridiculous commentary delivered with the most stout conviction. I’m not talking about Mr. Butker. For all of you “I know what’s best for you to believe” types, please send me private messages. There are times when I see different people having different beliefs and taking different paths than I do. Unlike you, I’m inclined to find them interesting and respect their views. I need a boost of your “I know the way God or Darwin intended us to live and it applies to 8 billion human beings” confidence.

I”m going to Miami …. Miami ami ami.

I don’t know if the NFL did or didn’t. Regardless, what do you find unbelievable and disturbing?

Oh, man … NO Miami in September, please. There should be a permanent agreement that game one is north and game two is south. I agree with everything, except for the “because” part.

I am guilty of half a dozen others ….

Ingrid Bergman or Sophia Loren?

I agree. I’ll add, if not for the sun we’d live in darkness.

Birthday parties can be cancelled. They haven’t happened, yet. Debt can’t be cancelled. You can only change who repays. More honest than “I’m canceling debt” is “I’m shifting the loan payments to working families who pay taxes.” If it’s a good idea, why not cancel credit card debt, auto debt and mortgage debt? The answer, of course, is that pandering at that scale would reveal the transparently absurd that goes unrecognized at a smaller scale.