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Re: http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070...?tbd1012885.asp Waiting lists abound in NFL except for Buffalo which likes to pretend it has a rabid following- most of whom decry lack of sell outs so they can get theirs free!

I believe it works like this: The signing bonus is up front money. Say the contract is 50 mil for 10 years. Say 15 mill is paid immediately - that is the up front signing bonus. The player gets that whatever. The remainder - 35 mil- is paid in more or less equal measure over life of contract IF the player is not cut. The 10 mil is amortized over length of contract. I do not believe any NFL player has a "guaranteed" contract So "rich" teams NYG Dal, Wash et al can outbid small market teams- Cinci, Buff, GB- for available talent. But fear not the grave yard of sports owners is littered with multi-millionaires who squandered resources. You would think that Ralph would be more con

1) Clements is gone even if we matched the offer. It was a fait accompli at least a year ago. 2) NC says this is a business. He has to look after his family. Laudable and I have no reason to judge his sincerity. 3) The business works both ways. The Bills have choices. Can they afford 20 mil signing bonus. Probably. The question is: is NC's value 20 mil up front as an individual and then how might 20 mill upfront money , if not to NC,be distributed throughout, say, five quality players. Consider: some argue Pats would have been playing still had they paid Deion. Ok would they also have been able to retain Seymour; and had they not would they have been in position to contend? I do not know which but keeping both would ravage their budget. Further consider that Pats won three SB's in 4 years and the only HOFamers will be Brady and Vinateri with Seymour an odds on favcorite. Bruschi, Vrable, Harrison and excellent draft choices coupled with disciplined salary cap management are the source of greatness. 4) Salary cap increases do not change an iota of choices. Consider you bought your house in 1970 for 50,000. It is now worth 400,000. If you believe you have made 350,000 do not bother reading on. Because the price of housing goes up more or less uniformally. As a matter of fact the cost of football talent is mandated!! to increase uniformally. 5) Thus we are left with the unassailable truth that in a market as described it is better to have four superstars and 49 good players because the marginal cost of adding one, two or certainly three other highly compensated superstars is a prescription for mediocrity. Exhibit A; Redskins. Exhibit B: Patriots So the draft is everything. It is the cheapest most effective way to manage a team.

If height and weight determined matters Thurman, London Fletcher, Charley Tolar, dare i say Zach Thomas, Doug Flutie, Roscoe, Lee Evans, Nick Buonoconti and so on versus Mike Williams, Tony Mandarich, Walt Patulski, Gabe Northern and many other cant miss guys.............Can they play?

He lives in Eggertsville anyway

As posters add just edit your list. thnx for service

Watched him from high school. Outstanding character. Mosse Johnson with better hands and better runner. was a tailback at Rutgers

HIS revenue disparity comes from relative shortfall of luxury box income coupled with his contention that revenue sharing favors large market franchises. I argue that Wilson should consider reducing " inexpensive" seats and raising per ticket price to offset loss. Problem is big markets do not share luxury revenue. Thus Bills have to share % of lower price tix

I have nothing to add other than i want to increase my number of posts. Maybe I should have said Go Bills?

My wife believes the cost of golf is yearly dues. God bless her. Of course she has me believing all sorts of lies about Mother of the Bride dresses and so on. So we have a pact not to delineate closely the cost of certain things. One does not have to spend as much on golf or Bills games as I do (and you do too) but it is our choice. We could do it more inexpensively but we choose not to. Yet such ancillary costs are common to much entertainment. It is not outrageous to say that dinner and show, concert rock-and-not equal if not exceed Bills games. If U2 does not sell out in Buffalo it will go to Cleveland.

Ah! The I am only concerned about the "Pirates of Penzance" criterion! The last refuge of free rider Bills fans is to remind those of us with a conscience of the plight of orphans. Au contraire. Only a season ticket holder could be held blameless about the tv deprivation of widows and orphans. People who buy tickets increase the chance of Tiny Tims to view the Bills while devouring the Christmas goose. Faux watercooler Scrooges who whine about blackout rules and do not concern selves with fate of deserving poor actually ratchet the pain of the Cratchit family as they consume their chestnuts without benefit of a Bills game. O Tempora! O Mores.

10-6 but I am the original optimist. I picked all games correctly so far except I had them winning our home Jets game and the Detroit contest (didnt everybody) and also losing to Baltimore.

You do live within and you do go to games. you do not have to hold season tix to be a true fan. HOWEVER, anyone living in reasonably close proximity to Buffalo AND does not pay to go to any games AND carps about a blackout is a faux, watercooler-hero fan.

Gee what or is it which, I think which, letter should I insert 'tween f and c. Are you the actual embodiment of "Coach"?

Thanks I think that is just the tonic. By the by which are you the guy by the watercooler or perhaps the one who invested in Direct TV?

blackout means: 1) If you live within the proscribed territory and you never buy a ticket for the team you will cleave WHEN THEY WIN and wax enthusiastic at the watercooler and lie you were there then you deserve the blackout. 2) The people who actually purchased a ticket for the game, that is true fans, receive vicarious pleasure by dint that you, you cheapskate, did not see the game free. 3) I need not list a litany of things that cost $50, especially to the faux fans because it is they who have calculated each and every expenditure of their precious disposal income. 4) Please do not let the" fair weather caddies" to quote the late great Caddie Master John O'Brien of CCB fame have their cake and eat it too. 5) What is this poor little ole Buffalo crap anyway?! How many teachers (and add to that retired teachers- me- who are actually better off than working teachers) have season tickets/ or go to a number of games?Nurses? Technicians? Bankers and Financial Related? Professors? Construction and trades? I imagine many do because they make up the labor force of Buffalo. What of the rest? For a half a grand? Puhleze! 6) A Miami columnist remarked re: failure to sell out Dolphins game " just what else is there to do in Buffalo" Insensitive and rude and untrue? Yes. But it is true that without the Bills there would be an unfillable gaping chasm in the soul of Buffalo 7) Be sure to note that some of the posts below on this subject are frivolous. They mask the fact they have nothing to add. Some of the posts will be wortwhile. You will be able to tell the weak responses by their reliance on vulgarity. If any of those miscreants actually attend a game in semi-concious condition they would do us all a favor to stay home and let the rest of us pay for their birthright to see Bills from the safety of home.

Had I only known the relevance of ststistics to my life I would have embraced standard deviation for the right reason to have been devaiate! Thanks to all you upon whom my laziness relies

Was it as good for Jim as it was for you?

Some facts: Team-- Sacks--rushing yards Bills--41--1396 NE--26--1681 Jets--32--1526 Miami--36--1399

Go Bills Go

Read Ozymandius' post on "Week 16....."

Go Bills

Fact is that JP could play a lot of positions offense and defense. If I had a line consisting of JP clones I would whip your choice of clones other than JP. It would also hold true on defense line. The "Coach" is a pathetic, bitter man. He will never rise above his petulance. I do not listen anymore to him because the refrain is old and tired. Like Louis XVI who was described by his tutor " he never learned anything and never forgot anything"

Thank you you saved me hours of of work. Is Cinci win out , KC win out and Jets lose two going to do it?