Motorin'

Would it necessarily raise taxes if the stadium was publicly owned? Why can't the construction costs incurred by a state / county partnership turn a profit? Not just leasing it the the Bills, but concerts and events?

The fact that Terry put public ownership of the stadium on the table is encouraging. A combination of State and county funds could pay for 100% of a 500M new stadium and then charge the Bills 25M per year on a 25 year lease and recoup their expenses.

Exactly, in today's dollars the cost to build Heinz Field would be around $430M. No way they should even consider plans any more expensive than that.

Blah blah blah. Put words in my mouth that I never said and ignore the fact that FIFA has disgusting lied about the revenue that the woman's world cup has generated. 40% of 1.85 billion is 740 million dollars that the woman's world cup generated in TV revenue.

A billion people tuned in the watch the Women's World Cup in 2019. According to Fifa, the women should be paid less because they generate less revenue. Ok, but they count $0 in revenue for the women from their TV audience. The tv contract in total was nearly 2 billion dollars. The women generated 40% of the total tv audience, but FIFA pretends like that counts as zero percent of the 2 billion generated revenue, and pay them 10 times less.

The men's union explains very well why this is bunk. The women were never given a choice of the same pay structure. Bait and switch. Their law suit is going to prove it. Lame. Why should Rapino's brand worth mean she should shut up about a pay structure that pays the women on the national team nearly 10 times less then the men's team if they won the world cup? Let's circle back after their appeal is heard and I'll give you all of the logical reasons why your assessment is way off base.

The women still get hosed. Fifa sells the broadcast tv rights to the men's and women's world cup for one bundled fee. The tv revenue is a massive amount of the overall revenue. Fifa places 100% of the revenue from the tv contract in the profit totals for the men's world cup, denying the women hundreds of million of revenue in their column... And because you haven't heard Rapino advocate for equal pay hardly means anything at all about her recent actions. I didn't hear the Misses get up and go to Pilates this morning. Doesn't mean she didn't get her work out in.

$300 million for public ownership of the Sabres ala Green Bay would work.

There was one window in Bills history in the 90's where this was true. But we are kidding ourselves if we don't admit the negative effect those playing conditions had on every team without a QB named Josh or Jim.

Yeah, but if it doesn't there are newer construction technologies that keep the wind out. It's almost like Rich was constructed in a way that doubles wind speed on the field.

This is pretty funny: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/are-you-allowed-to-criticize-simone-biles-a-decision-tree

They look really good. But I have faith in our team. Especially if they can stay onside before scoring!

Awesome win in the Quarter Finals today, Megan Rapino smashing home the walk off, game winning penalty kick in extra time. One game away from a potential rematch with Sweden, who took a knee with the US team in their group stage victory. I guess woke politics are good for the Swedes? No, they won because they were faster, stronger, more aggressive and dominated the midfield. The US coach looked like a deer in headlights. Looking forward to a second crack. Just have to beat Canada.

She did! I don't think she'll appreciate being used for anyone's political narrative though.

have a beer for morning drinking!

Why are you so dense? Gymnastics isn't a team sport. Each athlete is competing against themselves. She didn't have her best stuff is the 1st round and the US finished 2nd. She came out and had a nearly catestrophic landing on her vault. It isn't football, you can't punch the Russians in the mouth and steal their floor excercise to get another chance at scoring. Once you lose points you can't medal. If there's a more apt sports analogy, it's like the Dodgers pulling their starting pitcher after the first inning of Game 6. Did he quit on his team? No, the Dodgers relief pitchers carried them to victory. I want to see you do a two and and half flip with two rotations off the vault and not break your neck. I disagree with your assessment.

So Bernie and AOC are anti-Suni Lee excellence. Got it.

Well then no one you know is a socialist.

Sorry for lumping you in with Irv... I still don't understand what wanting Suni Lee to have health insurance has to do not being able to celebrate her success?

Props to Poyer on getting sober. Hope he has the structure in place to maintain it... As far as Lorax goes, not surprised he was there for a teammate. I think the loss of his leadership and intensity was more significant to the overall performance of the D last year than we realize.

Suni Lee is amazing. I was so proud and happy for her. I don't understand the need to revile Simone Biles or use Suni to assert national supremacy.

Sobriety is all about personal responsibility. You should try it, you might stop shitin your pants.

You keep shitin your pants, huh?

You guys should consider sobriety.