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    Multiple people shot at KC parade.

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    4 minutes ago, Lost said:

     

    Raising our children to be decent human beings might help too... just a thought.

    Nah, that requires responsibility which is something we are great at passing off.

    9 minutes ago, klos63 said:

    Impossible,  800 cops ( good guys with guns) were there. Plus Missouri has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the country ( more good guys with guns?)

    And this is why I rarely go to large public gatherings. Security is for show and really can't stop any of this. At least they caught the people this time. Didn't prevent it from happening though.

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    Parents and youth sports (again)

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    On 2/7/2024 at 12:21 PM, May Day 10 said:

    My son got into lacrosse last Summer.  

    I thought it was a nice breath of fresh air from the hyper-competitive parent-ruined travel sports.

    Hockey is bad too, but there is a framework of a governing body(s) and any ordinary Joe cant just go and start a team.

    It depends where you live. Lacrosse is toxic where I live. There are too many parents who DO know the game or played the game here and they run things.  It's a shame, my kid played lacrosse for a couple years and he was good at it.  He played until he aged out of the youth program we moved him to (in the town next door because the local team was toxic and allowed hazing of 9 year olds) and when he got to the point where he had to play for school, and with the toxic people we left, he stopped playing rather than deal with them and their parents. 

     

    Hockey is bad also and while an average joe can't go start a team a non average Joe can buy a rink and that rarely goes well and sometimes a local rink decides kick clubs out of rinks, create their own teams, and then jack up prices.  The local leagues and associations throw a fit and threaten x,y, and z and then let it go because at the end of the day, the owner of the big rink (or rinks) has more money and power.  Team Philadelphia out of Ice Line in West Chester, PA is a perfect example of this.  Owned by the rink, kicked out a club that had been there for decades.  Local league tried to sanction them, they played an independent schedule for a year then the league let them in. The club eventually left that league for a new league that was formed by the owner of multiple rinks called Black Bear.  The Black Bear rinks basically flipped off USA Hockey and the sanctioning bodies and dared them to exclude them from Nationals,etc. and that didn't happen.  They were the 800 pound gorilla because they owned something like 14 rinks (now 37) AND the clubs that ALL of those dues paying members played at.

     

    My kid just finished with hockey, he loves to play but he's done with the off-ice BS with coaches after 9 years and more games than I care to admit.  He's also a thrower for track and he's pursuing that in college next year.  He enjoys it, is decent at it, and there aren't the politics involved.  You can either throw far or you can't. It's pretty objective.

     

    My other kid was a district and state level swimmer for our local YMCA until this year.  Coach has a kid on the team who can do no wrong which is always frustrating.  Bigger issue is my kid is a big boy, he's not fat but he's just big and he's strong as hell and he basically got fat-shamed out of swimming by the coach.  God bless my kid he stepped up at age 13 just after he had a season where he qualified for the state meet and said "I'm done".  He wanted to play football and if you ask him why it's because he gets praised for being big in football and he always got crap for it at swim. He played for his 8th grade team only, and not for the local youth level team. I cautioned my wife about that and told her there is going to be a family out there that hates your kid because he's going to take their kid's spot at some point.  Some kid who has been playing Pop Warner forever and whose parents see that future spot on the Varsity team as their kid's isn't going to be pleased when our kid, who never played football before, but who is twice the other kid's size shows up and makes that kid switch positions or sit on the bench.  Sure enough, he started the season as a backup and running special teams.  By the end of the year he played basically the whole game going both ways on the line.  I know who he supplanted and they were not happy and the backbiting and politicking in the stands has already begun.  Now it's off-season lifting for next year's HS teams and he's already gotten the attention of the varsity coach because he's always at the sessions and he's an ox.  The other kid isn't.  That kid isn't getting his spot back and it's just going to get worse from that family and potentially the rest of the Pop Warner clique that we aren't part of.  I don't know ANYBODY at football because I spent the last 9 years at hockey rinks, lacrosse fields and swimming pools.  From my perspective, it's nice.  I can just go to the games and watch my kid for a change.  The boosters had a meeting recently and my wife asked if I wanted to go and I told her absolutely not.  I don't want to meet the other parents.  Not at all.  At some point it will be inevitable, but that day can wait as long as possible.

     

    I'm an AD for the school I work at (not the school my kids attend) and I can tell you so many stories about parent and player misconduct you'd never want to have your kids do anything.  I've got a story from 2 days ago and another two from January and another from December.  Just basketball.  Middle school basketball, and most of it is employees (not mine), not even the kids or their parents.  Though they have their share also.  I had to kick 4 people out of a track meet recently.  Let that sink in.

     

    Youth sports is not a great place to be and I feel like it's getting worse over time.  There is a reckoning coming as referees retire and are not replaced by younger kids.  My oldest is 17, he has 9 years of playing experience and would be the perfect sort of candidate to become a ref now that he's not playing anymore.  Zero interest and I don't blame him.  I am qualified to officiate a couple sports myself.  Zero chance of that happening.  When my boys are both out of the house I MIGHT go back to coaching baseball because I enjoy that, but I stopped doing that a couple years ago when I became AD.  Coaching for the school was OK.  I got to pick my team and keep the parents at arms length mostly.  When I coached Little League it was horrible and that's sad because what I really WANT to do is get involved with the local Little League to coach the coaches of the youngest players and help them be better and to teach the players better.  That's the way I think I can be the most useful, by making the whole program better.  But I know if I do that a good percentage of the new dads coming in aren't going to listen to what I say because they all know better and every parent whose kid doesn't immediately become Shohei Ohtani will be angry with me and then I have to decide if that aggravation is worth my time.

    Best Buffalo Bills tweets on X

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    11 hours ago, JerseyBills said:

    twitter is my only news source or at least only one I completely trust. Because you get every side of a story on there and I get to the truth myself.

     

    I rarely post or comment, just browse about what's really going on in the world. 

    I do have FB and IG but I'm not too active 

    If you feel like you learn what's really going on in the world from there I wish you luck.

     

    That might have been possible when the blue checkmarks meant something, but now that they don't it's impossible to source anything properly. It can be anyone (or a bot) posting anything.

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    Best Buffalo Bills tweets on X

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    I'll say this. I deleted all things Facebook and Twitter 5 or 6 years ago now and not only do I not miss it I think my life is better.  The Missus needs to have it for work, but she just took it all off her personal devices as well.  For every decent thing on there there are 100 pieces of toxic garbage and if you look at toxic garbage enough, whether you agree with the garbage or disagree with the garbage it messes with your mental health.  I don't need to hear what every idiot with opposable thumbs thinks abut every topic.  I don't need to know the stupid crap my own family is getting into.  I don't need to see the carefully curated set of images people put out there to look better than you. I don't need to see the ridiculous, clearly attention seeking, posts that people put out there waiting for a response.  It's all crap and it's all crafted to keep you engaged with it longer and longer and longer consuming more and more of the garbage, giving your brain these little dopamine hits every time. 

     

    Try completely turning them off for a week.  Just a week.  You'll thank me.

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    Have you ever been to a Super Bowl?

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    5 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:

    They were talking about the subject on WGR this morning since Del Reid of 26 shirts is getting to attend this year after winning Fan of the Year for the Bills.  Just curious how many TBDer's have gotten to experience a Super Bowl?  Feel free to share any cool stories or memories for those that have attended any 

    I went to the last one with my family. It was a fun car ride down and a long quiet car ride home.

    First piece of steel raised at new stadium

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    35 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:


    Im not saying it only happens in Buffalo, but there are lots of stadiums where guys don’t perform that behavior.  I’ve been to the Jax stadium many times and Miami even more, and never witnessed it.  I don’t care, and laugh when I see the guys, but it’s also kind of gross as I normally wash my hands always after and can’t do that in Buffalo with people peeing in the sinks.


    Anyway, I’m happy Steel is coming up, and can’t wait for my first game in the new stadium.  I fully expect the tix are going to be a lot more expensive and am prepared for it.  I still will take my kids up for whatever Sunday game in September is at 1pm.  It’s too hard to make a night game.  Not when I fly back Monday morning as most of the time the only nonstop on SWas that is the only airline that has one nonstop to Tampa.

    Most places, the sink doesn't look like a giant urinal though.

    What's your personal Bills win/loss record?

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    I figured this out awhile ago and don't feel like looking it up or recalculating. Suffice to say it's really strong. Part of that is that I was a season ticket holder from 1989-1995 and another part is I was really good at cherry picking games I thought we'd win during the drought.

     

    My personal playoff record is 8-1.

    Jaguars Manager of Financial Planning stole 22 million from the team

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    10 minutes ago, QCity said:

    Holy crap the man lost $20M on FanDuel  😂😂😂

     

    Online records show Patel was a high-stakes and high-volume daily fantasy player on FanDuel and DraftKings, both of which are official betting partners of the NFL. Patel played daily fantasy sports as far back as 2017, the records show, and his play escalated in 2021 and 2022. ESPN previously reported that Patel played daily fantasy under the username "ParlayPicker" and was believed to have racked up big losses playing against elite competition in contests with buy-ins upward of $24,000.

     

    One veteran daily fantasy player told ESPN on condition of anonymity that they believe ParlayPicker is "the biggest loser ever on FanDuel."

     

    "He was legendarily bad," the person said.

    The league doesn't have a problem though. This is all fine. I'm sure it never impacts games, it's guys in suits that do stupid things

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    Josh running out of time?

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    44 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:

    Folks keep talking about Josh running out of time to win a championship.  Here’s a link to ages of all SB winning QBs:

     

     

     

    Lots of older guys, some younger guys.  I think the average age is around 31.  
     

    So he’s got plenty of time.  He will likely not be as much the runner, but that’s OK.

    Josh is 28 next season. Very few people on that list past 32 or 33. Very few.  4-5 years left to get it done sort of adds a bit more urgency dontcha think?

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