boater

Concur! And I pray to be here in 2025.

No. Think about it from the point of view of an HR Department (a good one) hiring people. Pulling numbers from posterior for discussion sake: there are 2000 college football players. Only 200 will make the NFL. The difference between 2000 and 200 populations: physical characteristics (speed, strength etc..) and football smarts. So the NFL is getting a much more highly skilled workforce than the colleges. Therefore, these highly skilled employees are used in a different manner. It's like comparing fast food to gourmet. (no offense intended to college football, because I like it also) This.

Yep. Related: Go to google images and search "Pontiac Silver Dome." After the Lions moved to Ford field, the Silver Dome became a money pit albatross for Pontiac MI. The Ralph would be also.

They're like the ones at Niagara Falls where you stick the quarter for five minutes of viewing. JJ.. what cheap SOB.

The Ralph is paid for. I ran the numbers. A low estimate for the LA stadium is 1.4 billion. I used a mortgage calculator (I know not the best tool for this but it's all I had): 1.4 billion 3.92% interest 20 years Monthly payment came out to 8.4 million In the unlikely event that 8.4 mil can be found, I'd rather it be spent on something else. I don't see a new stadium.** They couldn't build a signature Peace Bridge because environmentalist said "endangered birds" will fly into the suspension wires and die. They couldn't even agree to a non-signature bridge. ** unless Pegs built it on his own, I think that is unlikely

Well that's just dandy, if you live within walking distance of a Main Street metro station. 98% of us do not live near the subway to nowhere.

Yes.. I believe BBF is right. Pegs would be copacetic to tailgating. But this stadium would likely be built with public money. So the nanny state politicians and "preservationists" will have their say. They'll get their panties all in a knot about tail gating. The recent Youtube videos of tailgating Bills fans being complete Bevis/Buttheads to the power of 10, doesn't help. Context: it looks like last call will change from 4 AM to 2 AM even though the 4 AM closing has not been proven a problem--that's what NY pols do--change stuff for change sake to make a campaign talking point. 2 AM closing will just drive drinking underground unsupervised. Oh.. and all the lost tax revenue and payroll for shaving 14 hours off the weekly cash register and payroll... really? I apologize. You didn't intend to hit a raw nerve and cue a rant. Try the first three sentences, then stop reading.

The acreage doesn't exist to allow surface lots at any downtown site. Result: they'll build parking garages like Niagara Center has. That's not conducive to tailgating. There aren't going to be tents, canopies, grills, small generators and RVs in a parking garage.

I like the upgrading the Ralph idea. Also tailgating as we know it would cease to exist downtown. A new stadium would be built with some public funding. Taxes are already high enough.

Yeah.. I've moved about the country. I've been at bigger cities run by a "city manager" (ie: some hired dude) and no "common council" that are more successful than Bflo. Someone should put abolishing the City Mayor (tho I like this one) and minifying the Common Council on a voters ballot. Anarchisms of the past when we were a huge city. ...and that pathetic Board of Ed. Don't get me started.

The resurgence is joyous. Comes with a serious sad note for me: Real Estate wise, I'm priced out of the neighborhoods I grew up in, and I'd like to return to. The neighborhoods I can afford are dominated by dudes skulking about with hoodies. (hoodies comes up as error in spell check---damn political correctness!!) God bless Buffalo.

Seriously. You're right, they be dropping.. Sometimes I wonder if people near the end of life have the ability to gut it out through the holidays... then give in after January. Similarly, I think David Bowie was hanging in there to release his album. Released Friday.. passed Sunday. RIP Ted.

1987. Loved Berkeley CA, THEN. The place went down hill fast.

You be right. ..and dis thread of insignificance be proof of another long off season.

Well yes... you are correct. I did time on the West Coast, and learned the West Coast has different metrics. East coast = what have you done this year. West coast = what have you done anytime (ganja no matter).

Good point on No. 1. Example ... continuity with Kaye Stephenson/Hank Bullough/Mularkey would have led to perennial losers. Grass hopper... as an owner, how to distinguish the diff between Stephenson/Bullough/Mullarkey and Belichick.

RR has one season. CK had several (3?). False equivalence.

Agree. Your analysis was good tease. But the Bills were the sample population. It would be cooler expanded to all NFL teams. But I'm not that motivated. We need some dude or dudette grad student to statistically study this.

Epic! Now I've snorted beer out my nose twice today.

I just snorted beer out my nose LOL

Well done. That conspiracy is creative, it has feet. You should refine your portfolio, and go to places like this http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

Chip's offense design is more suited for college, not the NFL. Maybe time will prove me wrong on this. But I think this hire is another mis-step by SF.

Why does a dog lick his balls? Because he can.

My prime example: New England. 15 years for Belichick. Yeah, the blind squirrel got a Tom Brady nut. But still, an impressive record. Update/edit: Now I've gone off thinking about this (never a good thing). Does continuity breed success? Or does success breed continuity? te he .. he said breed.

The three conservatives in WNY, me and two others I don't know, find this very amusing.