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Didn't hear this news yet until seeing it now! He was a total athletic freak who was born to play, like Maradona, Johan Cruyff, and only a few others on that level. Playing professionally at 15 and good enough to get on the Brazilian national team at 16! LOL! You see a talent like this in any sport only a few times in your life. I'm right on the cusp of remembering him as a child, but not really. I do remember when it was news that he signed with the NY Cosmos.

And yet some people wonder we we suffered a 20 year drought. LOL! It's healthy and re-assuring to read comments like yours from time to time, now. It's like a little slap in the face and brings you back to reality, so that you can better enjoy what is going on RIGHT NOW. Wakes you up out of the fog of winning all the time so as to better appreciate it.

I voted "not sure" before reading the first post. $6,000 per person? I didn't know it was that expensive. I could afford a pair of seats and supporting fees, but in no way would I want to spend that kind of money for that type of short term "entertainment". Attending a football game in person is no longer my idea of high living in the first place. Most importantly, if I did spend the money and get to the game, almost FOR SURE I would be the kiss of death and guarantee a loss, making it nice round 5 for the franchise. I would be sick to my stomach paying that much money for a Bills loss. I'd rather just stay home and chew on some broken glass. That's a great point; if we actually won the game, I would definitely fly up to WNY, stay at my mom's house, and want to be in person for the victory parade which I assume would run down Delaware Avenue. That would be more "special" to me than the actual football game itself.

Today on GR-55, Ross Tucker did his weekly segment. They talked about concussions, Tua, and Morse for a while. Ross said that if he knew he had a documented 6th concussion (like Morse) he would not return to playing the game. But he pointed out he's older now, has kids, at a different point in life, and everyone has to answer this for himself. I totally agree with him! Morse is nuts to continue playing. You have to assume he is gone after this year.

My least favorite of all the combinations. If I was in charge, this combination wouldn't exist. I prefer all red, which is not really our best look, also all blue! All white is like not even trying from an artistic standpoint.

It makes zero sense for a lousy team with no QB to pay huge money for an OLman. In this way, I never had a problem with the Bills letting Peters go, when they did. At that time, paying him a fortune would not have really made the team better, while still eating up huge salary.

Back when the salary cap was invented, critics suggested the day would come when a handful of core players would make ALL the money and everyone else would make league average. It's getting more like that all the time. QBs SHOULD get almost all the money; they are the entire team they play on. In the years ahead, it will get worse, not better, in terms of salary going to a few players, mostly the QBs.

It's interesting. I never really thought about it. But he's been around a while now, and been a stud for a while, and yet he never really got a nickname. At this point, I don't think he will. I remember back to the SB teams when they were getting good, and before the game started on NBC, they put up some cheesy graphics and said it was a duel between "(some QB I don't remember)" and "Machine Gun Kelly." After that I heard "MACHINE GUN KELLY" more, but it I always thought of it as a cheesy made up piece of crap by the media. I think I'd prefer for Josh to just remain Josh, unless some organic nickname crops up, perhaps while we are in the process of winning a SB.

Top Attractions in Cincinnati, 2022 version, with photos: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g60993-Activities-Cincinnati_Ohio.html Historic Findlay Market looks interesting to me; never been there.

I would think closer to game time you can get something for a lot cheaper. I have to believe a LOT of ticket holders are not going to want to bother fighting through the snowy roads and what not to go down there tonight. The problem is more than half the house is not sold! So the number of secondary sales is limited. And the Sabres themselves are not going to discount the tickets. It DOES look like this game is actually going to happen though, so there's no worry about postponement, I don't think. I'm looking forward to watching a game! It's been a while. I'm expecting a Sabres win despite our lack of practice. Maybe, but then the opposite may also be true. We are already deep enough into the season for lots of people to be dinged up with annoyances, and those have had some time to heal now. Granato commented on this yesterday I believe, saying the rest is huge for the team right now. I'm all in favor of acquiring Chychrun, but I don't have a problem playing Dahlin 25 minutes a night. He'll be eating those kinds of minutes for his entire career.

I would go mad if I had to listen to that garbage while trying to practice! But then I'm not an NFL football player.

This is the game I think about when I think of the Bengals. They were one of our real hurdles in the early days of building the Super Bowl teams. It's funny that after so many decades of crap from both organizations we are both back at the top again.

It makes sense to me that Tre is still not up to his normal standard. The question is if he is going to get back to it, and if so, when. He deserves more time to find out. Let's check back in halfway through next year.

I would suggest having a look at the WR corps for Alabama! They will probably all end up in the NFL anyway...one or 2 of them have to be phenomenal athletes. That place is a conveyor belt of nationally ranked talent.

...right after we get a proven #2 WR first. It should be top priority; Completely overhauling the O Line should be Top Priority #2. So we will probably draft d-linemen!

We finished it but I won't say a thing at this time! I did enjoy it though and wish it would somehow continue.

Mike Schopp led his show of on Wednesday with this tweet reference. He seemed really excited about the whole thing and thought it was juicy and great. I didn't really get the excitement.

Teams are very slowly starting to realize there is no need to hitch your wagon to a starting QB if he isn't getting the job done. Without a QB who can get it done, you have nothing. People are realizing more and more that if a guy can't get it done now, he probably won't get it done later. It's a good trend for the fans IMO.

Folks here love to dump on the Browns, despite them being a nearly identical city/region/team to the Bills, historically speaking. I think that's because they were the only organization in the league that Bills fans could dump on for a very long time. LOL

The whispers are starting in New England that it's time for BB to go... But I don't think he'll be gone after this year. He'll be around a few more years. Then you have the all time wins record, which complicates things further. He needs a QB, like everyone else.

This story is front page lead article at cnn.com right now! https://www.cnn.com

Bass was a great draft selection, but man, what a lousy draft class! Our drafting is the only blemish you can find on Beane's resume. Not that it's all been terrible. PS: I remember the missed kicks very early in his career too! But it didn't last long and he did very quickly settle in.

I have heard a story over the years (that someone here can probably relay more correctly) where Kelly took a big hit and was basically concussed. On a single drive, he kept calling the same run play over and over (like 5 or 6 times in a row) because it was the ONLY play he could remember, having just been concussed. It was working, too, and we kept moving the ball downfield, so it all worked out OK...but that is still kind of crazy. Having your "bell rung" used to be thought of as a part of the game. My father was in a fraternity at Indiana University in the 1940s! The star wingback of the team was in the same fraternity, and they all lived in the same huge, lovely, fraternity house on the old campus. The wingback would run the ball a ton back then, and be so concussed after almost every game that it was just a regular thing for his fellow frat brothers (including my dad) to take turns "keeping an eye on him" all day and into the evening after home games back at the house. They would even check in on him after he went to bed apparently! That guy is probably dead now, but I wonder how he was later in life. Good God.

I was just listening to the Andrew Peters and Craig Rivet hockey podcast, with a regular visitor Jeremy Roenick. JR was joking (sort of, but also serious) when he was recounting a story from a game in the '90s and he said something like "Now remember, this is back in that period of my life where I don't remember much from head shots" or words to that effect. Like an entire time period (multi-years) of his life is now just a blank. He mentions that now and again. He used to love to hit people and I can recall some absolutely ENORMOUS hits where JR was totally blown up and down for the count with a clear concussion. I love that aspect of sports, but I don't want to see people become brain damaged either. I also love boxing, and that is even worse with the brain trauma. So either we put player health ahead of entertainment, or we don't. Probably the NFL should cease to exist for health reasons if we are being totally honest, but it will continue for a long time to come. The thing to watch for societally is if the day comes when insurance companies will no longer insure scholastic youth football programs. If THAT becomes a big thing, youth football will die, and when that happens, the NFL will die some time thereafter. That might be 30 or 50 years down the road. Or 5. Or never! I don't know.

Chain Gailey actually had a knack for creative and good offensive play design. He's too old now, but I would love to take younger Chan and give him the tool we have now, and tell him to whip up some clever stuff. It's just what our offense could use. A little creativity and cleverness.