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I believe Ralph did meddle in that era. Ralph ended up firing Wade Phillips because Wade wouldn't obey him. Thank goodness Pegula does not meddle. The zeitgeist against Flutie was he didn't have a long game. I don't know if you can win a Super Bowl that way.

Oh...! If we're not careful, this thread could deteriorate into a Doug Flutie versus Rob Johnson debate. Those were some dark days.

I guess I am one of those tight wads, the baseline comparison for me are the above average RB who make about 5 million a year--Ray Davis is an example, making $1.2 million a year. Ray Davis isn't as good as James Cook, but he's still pretty damn good. So I'm looking at great RB making 14 or getting a pretty good RB making less than 5. When you only have $95K in open cap (https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/overview) you have to give some serious thought to being a value shopper.

The Eagle extensively use "void years" salary cap voodoo. They haven't been impacted yet, but there are dark clouds in the years ahead for them. Agree, Knox and Samuel are overpaid.

"Were there ever years you were disinterested in the Bills?" During the back-to-back 2-14 seasons, 1984ish. Hank Bullough and Kay Stephenson were two totally uninspiring head coaches. This was during Ralph's cheap phase.

So the Bills will have one of the highest paid QB's in the NFL, and also the one of the highest paid running backs. That's a lot of salary cap for two players. I don't want to hear any complaints when they have to skimp at other roster spots.

Invite everyone who writes a flattering tweet to training camp. What could go wrong?

Tempting. Very, very tempting. The only hesitation comes from: I enjoy watching the games at home on TV.

I am nostalgic for Clayton's Toys. When they were on Elmwood Avenue--not the glorified gift shop they are now in Amherst. The Elmwoood stores (they moved around a lot) had the best toy selection outside FAO Schwarz.

"He's an impeccable kid," Beane said. "We did a lot of research. I think all teams were aware of the Title IX thing. That was fully investigated by the school...It was one of those where there was zero information saying that this actually happened." I will trust Beane's research over the word of someone out to make money.

The Bandits sell out in the playoffs and almost sell out their 9 regular season home games. That's an arena of 19,000 It's not a lot of money in the big picture, but expenses are cheap so there is almost certainly a handsome profit margin. The Bandits make money instead of losing it. I'm not sure the same can be said of the Sabres with their half full arena.

Actually, looking at the empty seats at a Sabres game, I think the Sabres are a negative cash flow for Pegs. He probably chips in monthly to cover expenses. The Bills and the Bandits generate cash, lots of it.

They had a powerful transmitter and it truly was heard up and down the coast. Now that transmitter is wasted on sports talk radio, blech. Wikipedia: Thus, while WWKB can be heard across most of the eastern half of North America at night, its signal is spotty only 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Buffalo. Local residents remain largely unaware that the antenna array is internationally famous for sending WWKB's nighttime signal to all over Nordic countries on a regular basis. The directional nighttime signal has resulted the station being commonly heard in parts of Finland and Sweden using special DX equipment during winter months. A group of Scandinavian radio reception enthusiasts visited for conference at a Camp Road motel, to view the transmitter array, apparently to photograph and measure it.

He should spend some time with QB coach Jordan Palmer, like Josh did. Palmer makes star QBs.

BISCUIT!!

I've been here a VERY long time. My first connections were with a dial-up 9600 baud modem in Summer of 1996. My previous user names were lost when SDS upgraded the forum software. There were (are) some real characters back in the early days. I remember some trolls named Combo, Ice, and maybe a HogBoy. They have thankfully disappeared. Of course, who can forget the infamous Belinda.

Dion is handful, and a genuinely nice person. I'm happy he is the second highest paid player on the Bills. Seen from this viewpoint. the stadium is AWESOME. I can't wait for the opening. He sat in one. His butt fit but his torso overflowed to the seats next to him.

This conversation supports the notion: The college system doesn't grow enough QB's to quality stock 32 NFL teams. About 10 teams have to field some real schnooks. This is why I view NFL expansion with a wary eye. QB play in an expanded league will be dreadful.

I'm a McDermott supporter on this board. Having said that, if a real hot coach--and I can't think of an example, somebody credible, became available -- I would replace McDermott. However, there is no one available who is a step up from McDermott. That is my disagreement with the "fire McDermott" posters. Sure, fire him, but replace him with what?

Say what you want about Ralph, but one thing he was is loyal. He was loyal to Buffalo*, he was loyal to other team owners, he was loyal across the board. Pegula is also loyal and his team is ingrained in the community. I think Ralph would be very pleased. * his estate is building a multimillion dollar park on the Buffalo waterfront, goodness.

True, that. I have noticed: all across my life there are places that need new young blood, including here at TSW. We're all a bunch of day-posting retirees, naps in the afternoon and in bed at 9 PM.

Thanks for that. I had forgotten how good Jim Kelly was. I never compare him to Josh, that would just be a wrong thing to do. I noticed there wasn't a post-game handshake between Levy and Shula. I guess it wasn't a thing back then.

Pegula is just doing house cleaning of his financial portfolio, as men his age like to do. He's getting rid of marginal operations.* He's keeping profitable operations. Nothing to see here. * he'd sell the Sabres if he could, but he would do so at a loss right now and is waiting for them to uptick in value EDIT: * he'd sell the Sabres but they would sell below market value, he is waiting for them to uptick in value

You guessed. You even got the Friggin part which was common among fandom.

I remember one starting Tight End who had cinder blocks for hands. Out of respect, I'm leaving his name out of it. He's been ragged on hard by Bills fans. That must suck.