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Forgiven for being a bigot and a hypocrite? I think not. Howard Cosell left MNF voluntarily after the 1983 season because of the controversy resulting from a comment he made during a MNF broadcast in 1983 that was interpreted by many as racist (Cosell). Three decades later, Gruden wrote/posted excrement that was blatantly racist, homophobic and misogynistic, even by standards of the 1980s. I'm not sure what legal grounds Gruden has to sue the NFL over the emails. Once you send an email to someone, the recipient can do whatever he/she wants to do with it just as if you sent that person a letter via "snail mail". If these were sent to Snyder at an official Washington Commanders' email address, he absolutely had no expectation of privacy. Those emails became the property of the team as soon as they hit the team's server(s). When I was in high school more than half a century ago, one my teachers said something that always stuck in my mind: never put down on paper anything you'd be ashamed for your mother to see. Just add email and/or social media, and that's still a good rule to follow.

FWIW ... Here's a piece on the film with some explanations about why it's controversial ... and why it wasn't released sooner: Why 'Sound of Freedom' is a Hit.

A veteran player's potential to improve significantly depends upon several things, probably his age, position, and his "fit" for the new team being the most important. It's not uncommon for young veterans who played their first contracts as part-timers behind established veterans to blossom on other teams where they get the opportunity to start in an offensive or defensive system that fits their skill sets. Think Jerry Hughes, Michah Hyde, and Jordan Poyer. Sometimes, veterans just need an opportunity to play, too. Think Fred Jackson who failed to catch on with the Bears, Broncos and Packers and wound up in NFL Europe before signing with the Bills and finally getting an opportunity to play. Older veterans can sometimes improve, too, especially if they've been in a bad situation where they are used differently or feel better about the atmosphere, etc. There's also no guarantee that bringing in a big name FA is going to pay immediate dividends. In fact, there are numerous examples to show just the opposite, so teams need to do their homework to be sure that targets FAs truly fit. What exactly constitutes your "general consensus" besides commentators, amateur and professional, who share your opinions about the Bills? IMO, any team with a top level QB beyond his rookie contract, simply can't afford to have many other elite offensive players beyond their rookie contracts without depleting their defense of talent.

There are feeders with weighted perches that are squirrel resistant. I bought a tube feeder like that to discourage pigeons (Squirrel Proof Tube Feeder). The ports are large enough to feed peanuts in shells. If the cardinals don't like my new feeder -- they tend to prefer platform type feeders -- I will probably get one that looks like a building that has long perches: Birders Choice Feeder

Some people just HAVE to have bragging rights whatever the cost ... to themselves or to others.

I have about the usual number, which isn't a lot since I live in a very urban area. I usually see only 1 or 2 on any particular day. They start coming when my hostas start blooming and stay to feast on red bee balm (monarda). This year at least one has visited my fuschia plant hooked to the awning over the back porch, so I'm going to hang a hummingbird feeder near the other feeders to see what I get. Cardinals like to feed really late when it's almost dark. They also come very early in the morning. I think they do this because they're naturally very shy. It looks like a kingfisher, possibly a young one.

Congratulations on buying your first home, but especially for gaining control over your illness so that you can have a better life, with or without your own home!

Since most of Western New York and Pennsylvania are officially in moderate drought, do the birds in your area a favor and put out a bird bath ... and clean bath and change the water frequently. I have three in my backyard (plus a waterfall with an area where the birds can drink and bathe). My yard is full of birds all day long, with many ignoring the feeders in favor of drinking and bathing.

Too many Americans simply don't plan very well for retirement. Too many decide to retire at a certain age (frequently 62 when they're first eligible for Social Security) without investigating if they can afford to actually to do so. Too many have only minimal savings. Too many don't know how much they're going to receive from SS or their pensions. Too many don't plan for how they're going to pay for health care before they're eligible for Medicare or medical expenses not covered by Medicare when they turn 65. Too many Americans "retire" needing at least a part time job to maintain their life-style from the get-go before they have to deal with inflation, stock market declines or rent increases whether they were low or high wage earners. Most retirees who've planned well for retirement haven't been forced back into the work force, even if they've been retired for several years.

My sentiments exactly. That's the whole point of retirement IMO.

I sort of do this, too, but in a different order. I bake them in the oven in a roaster on a rack with a little water in the bottom until tender. Then I put them on the grill and slather them with sauce to get the char.

During the pandemic, I started watching the Food Network cooking shows like "The Kitchen", "The Pioneer Woman", 'Girl Meets Farm", etc. because they not only give you the recipes but demonstrate how to make them. They also demonstrate skills and explain why you should do X rather than Y. All the recipes from these shows and others are on FoodNetwork.com. They are very tasty and usually easy, especially the recipes from Ree Drummond of "Pioneer Woman". Many of her recipes are Tex-Mex inspired and are based on ingredients you'll find in most supermarkets. SpendWithPennies and allrecipes are both excellent sites. For Italian food, Lidia Bastianich's cookbook A Pot, A Pan and a Bowl is full of simple-to-make Italian recipes.

Lots of famous people have siblings or other family members who are continual embarrassments, including presidents of the US while in office (ie, Jimmy Carter had brother Billy and Bill Clinton had Roger). Actually, many not-so-famous people have embarrassing relatives, but they don't make headlines or social media because nobody cares.

^^^^ ^^^^ I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't decipher this thread title! There's a reason punctuation and conjunctions were invented about the time people started writing things down, people! "Josh Britt" is one person! "Josh/Britt" or "Josh-Britt" or "Josh and Britt" or "Josh & Britt" says 2 people related in some way! Get real. Most people change over time, and the younger a person is, the more likely he or she will change as he or she matures. Are you the same person you were at 18 or 22? I surely am not the same person at 73 that I was at 43, and especially at 23. I think that they've grown apart. It happens all the time. Josh has become a famous, very wealth sports star because of his talent and hard work. That says Allen has tremendous ambition and drive. I don't know anything about her, so I'm not going to diss the young lady, but Brittany's only claim to fame is that she lives with Josh Allen. She hasn't developed a career or made a niche for herself -- for example, taking the lead in supporting some cause -- which suggests that she's not particularly ambitious. This seems to be is a very unequal relationship in temperament and goals, not to mention wealth, and it was probably doomed by Allen's success. He's never going to go back to the Central Valley and be a cantaloupe farmer.

The real test of your morality is if you pick up after your dog at 7 am on a cold rainy day in a large public park where it's just you and your pup and some squirrels.

If there were existing graves on the current stadium site fifty years ago, they would have been exhumed and moved elsewhere. The discovery of old cemeteries/burying grounds during construction for some project is quite common. In fact, most cities in the US would probably be cursed if disturbing old graves could conjure up a curse because most cities started out as tiny little settlements with burying grounds within walking distance of the center of town. In the nineteenth (and sometimes into the twentieth century), as cities grew, they would create new, larger public cemeteries further out on the periphery of the city limits or even beyond and move the graves from the old cemeteries there. If graves in private cemeteries weren't marked with stone markers and/or the caretakers of the cemeteries died or move away, these burying grounds might be lost for decades or even centuries until somebody decided to build a house or building on the site and unearthed bones. The remains are then removed and re-interred elsewhere. We have a grave site -- or at least a headstone-- on our property south of Gowanda that we found back in 1960 shortly after we moved there. It's located on a hillside in what was then a cow pasture and is now a woodlot. The date was from 1869, an eighteen year old woman named Ella or Emma. There were no other signs of graves there, and we didn't go looking to find more. It might have just been a single grave or it might have been that other graves were marked with wooden crosses that disintegrated over time.

You're welcome. It's great to know there are so many of us Lightfoot fans around ... although most of us are probably on the really really wrong side of thirty.

... and I'm a ghost!

Prime Video offers a documentary from 2020 that I watched during the pandemic: "Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind". It was excellent. You can rent it now for $2.18.

Back in the days of OTA television when just about every house sprouted an antenna on the roof, our farmhouse in northern Cattaraugus County was high enough in the hills that we picked up a couple of Canadian TV channels. In 1967, Canada celebrated its centennial, and Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song to celebrate that event which he performed on a TV song. It was the "Canadian Railway Trilogy" ... There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun Long before the white man and long before the wheel When the green dark forest was too silent to be real But time has no beginning and the history has no bound As to this verdant country they came from all around They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forest tall Built the mines, mills and the factories for the good of us all And when the young man's fancy was turned into the spring The railroad men grew restless for to hear the hammers ring Their minds were overflowing with the visions of their day And many a fortune lost and won and many a debt to pay For they looked in the future and what did they see? They saw an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea Bringin' the goods to a young growin' land All up from the seaboards and into their hands I have been a fan ever since. Like so many others, "If You Could Read My Mind" has been my favorite. I think it strikes a chord in almost anybody who's ever loved and lost. RIP, Gordon.

Most of the 2009 season. I was so angry that the Bills brought Dick Jauron back as HC after the debacle of the 2008 season (5-1 in the first games, 2-8 the rest of the season), that I not only didn't renew my season tix but didn't watch any of the Bills games until the 10th game of the 2009 season, which was Perry Fewell's first game as interim HC. That was the game when Fitzpatrick came in to relieve Tentative Trent Edwards and hit Terrell Owens on that 98-yard TD pass (I think it was Fitzy's first pass).

Even before I read the article, I figured that Buffalo's housing costs and short commute times would be major factors in Buffalo's ranking. I wasn't wrong. It's easier for singles, whether they are 20 something or 40 something, to live more comfortably in Buffalo than in many other metros. If you look at the list of the least singles-friendly metros, you'll find that they are mostly metros with significantly higher housing costs than even average. From the article ... "Median single-person income, monthly housing costs for mortgaged homes, rent prices, how many residents live alone, and a city's unmarried population were all used to compile the list. The average round-trip work commute and non-family households that are owner occupied were also used to create the ranks."

My first thought when I heard the news was that either Frazier or someone in his family is facing some kind of health issue.

Have you ever lived in a rural area or ever even been in a rural area for more than a few hours on driving on an interstate???? With fewer people spread out over larger areas, there are fewer resources to care for the poor who are do live in rural areas. Overall, the poverty rate in nonmetro (ie, rural) is about 16% while it's about 12% in metro (urban) areas. Across the country, the poverty rate is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the gap between rural and urban poverty rates vary significantly by region. In the Midwest, the rural poverty rate is .8% higher than the urban poverty rate (13.4% vs 12.6%). Geography of Poverty "Who know what's dumped there" describes just about every single private farm dump anywhere in the rural US ... and most farms had -- and many still have -- private dumps. FYI ... farmers have been using pesticides on their fields and putting those pesticides and other poisons in their dumps since WW II.

As a grad student at Nebraska, I tutored Tom Ruud, the Bills #1 pick in the 1975 (19th overall), in American history.