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    Bills-Jets Pregame thread

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Did I eat my chocolate bar too early? Electric yellow's got me by the brain banana.

     

    There is always something about the first game. Once we're 3-4 games in you kinda know what is up. But the first game feels like Xmas to me, and you don't know if you got a good gift, or coal, til you open it up. Please give me a good gift this year.

     

    HOW MANY HOURS UNTIL THE GAME???? D'oh!!

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    CT Bills Backers?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    1 hour ago, Shaw66 said:

    We SHOULD bring back the tolls.   Now there's a ridiculous double whammy, as far as the state's revenue is concerned:  I drive to Massachusetts and pay tolls on their roads, then go to their dispensary (speaking theoretically, of course!) and pay 20% to the state to buy THEIR pot.  Why shouldn't Connecticut collect both of those from me, instead of Massachusetts?

     

    Bah! Because IMO NO STATE should have tolls. You already paid for the roads, as politicians love to tell you, with your taxes. Remember how every politician always falls back on "don't you like roads, schools and (used to be) hospitals? That's your taxes at work!" You already paid for that road!

     

    And to me, the thing is here, we aren't a thoroughfare to get anywhere. You pay to ride on I90 in MA because it takes you somewhere worth going, or to work. It's a major highway with huge out of state use.  You pay to use bridges etc to get into NYC and NYS state, as they are major travel routes which get you somewhere worth going. Those tolls target out of state users on heavy use roads who contribute lots of wear that they don't pay taxes on (I still don't agree with that conceptually, but it at least makes some sense)

     

    CT tolls are largely only going to target normal CT residents. Nobody from NY rides 84 to MA or vice versa for work, or into CT. But lots of CT residents use the Merritt or 91 or 84 to get to work.  So it's just CT gov squeezing more and more money from a smaller and smaller user base. No wonder everyone is leaving!

     

    (seriously, our work truck box truck breaks down once a year, or needs work. We rent one to cover the week. You can't even GET rentals around here any more. The trucks leave the states with the folks moving and never come back!.)

     

     

    36 minutes ago, Paul Costa said:

    Weed will be legal soon enough in CT. Connecticut is crazy expensive but like Shaw said there’s a lot of advantages also. I always say I don’t take many vacations because our life here is like a vacation always doing something . Good golf courses, water sports on LI Sound, proximity to NYC, Foxwoods @ Mohegan Sun, great bar and restaurant scenes in countless towns in Westchester and Fairfield . And of course the 6 hour drive to WNY!! 

     

    I hope so. I'm a conservative guy but the Republicans here are largely clueless on pot IMO. Some of them still think Reefer Madness is a documentary. :lol:

     

    And you've got out of staters like Luke Niforatos peddling nonsense to scare people. So aggravating. But, as Yankees (the good kind, not the NY one), we persevere!

    If you can't go to the stadium, where is your favorite place to watch the game?

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    How about this one....if you can't watch the game live, even just a bit of the beginning....do you RECORD it?

     

    My buddy does this with football and I am like bro....either the game is still on and you just watch it as soon as you can, or the game is over and you just check the score. I may be an idiot for yelling at my own tv (yes honey, I know they can't hear me) but I'd feel doubly idiotic getting emotional over ***** that already happened.  I can't stand recorded sports. Live or GTFO. Gotta have the tension.

    CT Bills Backers?

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    1 hour ago, Shaw66 said:

    Connecticut is a great place to live, but there are conditions.

     

    1.  It's expensive.  Taxes, gasoline, housing, food, everything.

    2.  It's not a great job market.   Except in some pockets, the economy here is pretty stagnant. 

    3.  It's quiet - if you're looking for an exciting nightlife, Connecticut isn't it.

    4.  It's east coast, all the way.  They drink soda here, not pop.  More importantly, there's the east-coast elitest air of superiority - many people here can't understand why anyone would want to live in Buffalo or anyplace in the midwest.  

    5.  Did I say it's expensive?

     

    I've been here 40 years and I love it, despite the shortcomings.   There's a lot to do, people are nice, New York City and Boston are short drives away - I can drive to either city in less time than it takes a Buffalonian to drive to Syracuse or Cleveland.  Not knocking Syracuse or Cleveland, but ....

    Wheels, are you still in CT?   

     

    Wasn't the Danbury place Billy Beane's?

     

    That was it, Billy Beanes. And as long as the business is still running....yes, I'm stuck here! ?

     

    (You know I kid, I love the state, born and raised here, love the nature and the people...I just can't believe the governmental idiocy. Our broke ass state still won't legalize pot--though anyone can just drive into Massachusetts now and buy it legally, and bring it back. But we WILL BRING BACK TOLLS!!!! Sorry, rant over!)

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    Just how important is Sundays game?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    I think we're better than the Jets...but they're at home. And what game is harder to predict than game 1? I dunno. Week 1 is crazy.

     

    I think winning is very important as it's an opener (duh), and a division foe (double duh), and seeing as how we're going right back there next week....I think being in that same visiting locker room before the Giants game with a W in hand from the same spot last week would be pretty good. It's certainly a more important game than, say, if we were at Dallas first instead.

     

    As a corollary--I hope the Gints get rocked by Dallas. NYC is just WAITING to start chanting for Daniel Jones. Start the controversy early!

    Week One: Bills at Jets

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    3 hours ago, JoeF said:

    This is the Andre Roberts revenge game.  Andre will make the Jets pay.  He is the main reason they won Bills-Jets part II last year and now he is ours. 

     

    I think STs could be what decide an ugly, low scoring-ish game. I like that the Jets have been looking everywhere for a kicker, and only just recently settled (again)--maybe they miss a FG that makes the difference.

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