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I was sitting on the 400 when Mul-Key returned the kick. It was a parking, people walking around, radios blaring. Got to our seats just around half time. I think I still have goin they gave out to everyone. Only other memory is hearing that Duane Thomas stood backwards during anthem and almost hit into fight with fans in the stands.
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1 hour ago, Logic said:
As I watched multiple games on Sunday, it was impossible to ignore.
In game after game, players were stopped by a horde of defenders, only for a group of their teammates to rally to the pile, pushing the whole mass of humanity for an extra 3-7 yards.
When it happens, it looks less like pro football and more like a rugby scrum.
I've been reading a book called How Football Became Football: 150 Years of the Game's Evolution, and in it, I learned that American football used to look a lot like what we've seen recently: huge piles of humanity pushing on each other, fighting for every yard. Basically, it wasn't far removed from rugby when it began. Players even had loops sewn onto their pants for a time for their teammates to grab onto to either push or pull them more easily.
One of the earliest debates in football was how to spread the game out, make it less dangerous, and less of a tedious "three yards and a cloud of dust" affair. These "momentum plays", as they called them, lead to a ton of injuries, and to a frankly ugly, more brutish, less exciting form of football. The ability of a running back or receiver to gain yardage is de-emphasized in favor of the ability of a group of players to push harder than another group of players.
After years of this ugly, rugby-style pile pushing, rule changes in football eventually disallowed it. For most of the history of modern pro football as we know it, pushing or pulling the pile in the manner we have recently seen has not been allowed. In 2006, a rule change made pushing the pile legal again (though pulling is still technically not legal). For whatever reason, it took until this season for it to really become as common and prevalent as it has.
The question is, should it be allowed? Are these big pile-push scrums really American Football? I'm curious to know how other football fans feel about this issue.Thank you for this. I’ve been telling people that I thought it was illegal. I didn’t realize they changed it in 2006.
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54 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:
A three way in the NFL. Yeah never happens. At least in trades. Off-field never know.
Rarely happen. Of course there was that little Cornelius Bennett deal……
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2 minutes ago, Back2Buff said:
I would. He has been great with them in preseason. Why would they change out whats working?
Bills gonna have to go cheap with this because of a lot of poor other decisions for many years now that is all building up in dead money. I would expect them just to claim the Cin punter.
Yep, all those poor decisions that led them to Super Bowl favorite. How will we cope.
To paraphrase Bill Parcells. If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t trying. The smart teams admit their mistakes quickly and move on. The dumb teams refuse to admit their mistakes.
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On 8/8/2022 at 11:15 AM, CookieG said:
Miller was indeed a stud in college. When teams in the then Big 8 actually played defense, he had good games vs Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri. When his career ended, he had the 4th most rushing yards in NCAA history.
It was the end of the OJ era and he was traded to the 49ers that year. I wanted the BiIls to draft Miller as the heir apparent to OJ, (OJ lite).
And they did.
And...he failed.
I can still remember an older cousin coming to visit after being away at college and asking, "How's the new guy Miller doing?" My dad and I both said, "He's not exactly setting the world on fire."
Yeah, he had 1000 yards his rookie year, but fully 1/3 of those yards came in 2 late season games against 2 of the worst run D teams that year.
There was a reason they drafted Cribbs in the 2nd round in 1980 and a reason Cribbs took over from the get go. History would be repeated a few years later when TT was drafted in the second...and took over the running duties from former 1st round pick Ronnie Harmon.
Miller was more of a No Year Wonder than a One Year Wonder. I think he was more worried about his banking career than his football career.
Agree with most of it but I believe you are referencing Greg Bell with the quip about the banking career.
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24 minutes ago, ElMarko said:
And Nate Archibald.
Archibald was already on the downside of his career and injured himself again in the preseason and never played a game for the Braves.
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1 hour ago, Albany,n.y. said:
Speaking of Bob McAdoo, before the NBA draft McAdoo had signed with the ABA's Virginia Squires. Here's a story that I wrote years ago that is published on the Remember The ABA website.
"The only ABA vs. NBA exhibition game I ever saw was the Virginia Squires vs. Buffalo Braves game played in Buffalo on September 22, 1972. The game itself really isn't the story so much as the reason why the game was played. The story began the day of the 1972 NBA draft. On that day I opened the Buffalo News, and the sports page headline read "Braves' Dilemma - McAdoo or McAdon't." The story mentioned that even though the Braves knew that Bob McAdoo had already signed a contract with the ABA Virginia Squires, the Braves believed that they could draft McAdoo, find a loophole in his Squires contract, and sign him. Obviously, that's exactly what happened. This story is similar to the events that happened a year earlier when Howard Porter signed with the Pittsburgh Condors, yet never played for the Condors. Instead, Porter was "traded" to the Chicago Bulls after he had signed contracts with both teams. As far as I know, Paul Ruffner (the player sent by the Bulls to the Condors) was the only player ever to be willingly sent to a team in the rival league -- as compensation for the right to keep another player. That made Ruffner the only player to be "traded" from the NBA to the ABA. The McAdoo case was different in that no player was sent by the Braves to the Squires. However, there was a settlement between the two teams that permitted McAdoo to join the Braves. As part of that settlement, the Braves and Squires agreed to play home-and-home exhibition games against each other before the 1972-73 regular season began. The final twist in this story occurred one year later. More than a year after the demise of the Pittsburgh Condors an ex-Condor player signed with the Braves, and made the team -- his name was Paul Ruffner."
If memory serves, the reason the Braves were able to void McAdoo’s Virginia contract was due to McAdoo being not if legal age to sign the contract in Virginia.
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As much as I love Andre, Sestak in the 16th round is easily the number one choice. He may have been the best defensive player ever till LT came along.
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38 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:
Ernie D didn’t get hurt, he contracte leukemia. Really sad story with his childhood. What he accomplished in college, it’s no surprise they made a movie about him.
No, I think you are talking about Ernie Davis. I’m talking about Ernie D from the Braves
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1 hour ago, Stranded in Boston said:
LOL Shaw, one of my boys is a big NBA fan, and I’ve been telling him for years that I’d put 1970s Big Mac up against KD any day of the week. Naturally he doubts his old man, but I’ll show him your post … 😎
That whole team was ahead of its time. Before Ernie D got hurt they were showtime before the Lakers.
A couple years later, for 48 hours they had McAdoo, Moses Malone, Randy Smith and Adrian Dantley. If management had stayed out of their own way, an NBA championship could have been in the picture.
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I would like to know if his opinion of the Pegulas has softened. When he was my UBER driver he went on and on about how they f***ed him. He was a very bitter man and the ride was uncomfortable.
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3 hours ago, maddenboy said:
it sounds more like Sammy is begging for another, nother, nother chance
"Wait, I can change! I am still trying to learn. Even from young guys. I'm Coachable!!! Pleeeeeeeeeze gimme some more free money to run around and not get hurt much and not work super hard. I love the NFL"
He’s signed with Green Bay so this is not him begging for anything
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15 hours ago, First Round Bust said:
back at that time, the daze of my misspent youth...I thought we were on to something with the rebuild...had a very talented group of WR in Briscoe and Haven Moses, JD Hill (2 of those 3 were number 1 picks)...couple of early second-round picks in Dennis Shaw (qb) and Jan White (TE) and then the back-to-back USC number 1 picks OJ and AC (who made more fame together in the LAPD White Ford Bronco chase scene than we "initially"[pardon the pun] thought)...just goes to show we didn't have the right qb and our TE woes continued for decades...then the bad trades of Briscoe, Moses, James Harris, Dunaway, etc and the missed drafts of Patulski, Dokes, Nebraska LB Twins (Ruud, Nelson), Gant, etc, etc...no wonders we made the playoffs once during the 1970s (wildcard loss to Pitts) and the 0h for the decade against the Dolphins...SMH
I think you mean Mcdole, not Dunaway.
15 hours ago, WotAGuy said:Bob Nelson did and was forgettable, obviously. 🤣
Ruud actually played 3 years and Nelson became a starter for 2 years on some pretty good Raiders teams I believe.
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17 hours ago, RoyBatty is alive said:
He was great watching him pay, especially quarterback when it was so controversial. The Bills were terrible but I grew up the year he and Eddie Ruthkowski were thrown in as emergency QBs in the old AFL, fantastic memories, Bills dont get enough credit for that or for James Harris.
I’m pretty sure he never played QB for Buffalo.
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17 hours ago, machine gun kelly said:
Zero, I like you as an unapologetic KC fan. All good, but why? My dad is 92 and still kicking. If you don’t know a
close friend of Van Miller and Mr. Felser. My dad worked the Buffalo News for 44 years and so do I on college in 87-90.
We’ve been fans since Lookie here comes cookie, Kemp, Fergie, OJ, the electric company, and so on.
we didn’t become fans when Kelly came! We were here all along. You KC GUYS IF YOH WANT TO PICK IN A TEAM SUCJEF
AFYER SEASON 4 and we’re Absent until Montana.
show respect of you’re coming to another board. I respect you’re team. I think you’ll be in it even without hill. Do t
crap on our brother. Otherwise just go away.
You missed a lookie and “whitey, you’re killing me.”
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The key is that many believe that the NFL is due for a salary cap explosion in a couple years. The only reason to be cautious is if you worry about another pandemic or natural catastrophe, otherwise, you should be able to continue to move money to the future.
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5 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said:
She is gorgeous. I sat next to Talley and his daughter at a Bills game.Don’t know about gorgeous unless there is more than one. Just saw a picture of the one graduating law school and she is not bad but hardly gorgeous. Obviously pretty smart.
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3 minutes ago, Warcodered said:
Saw this highlight that got posted of McKenzie that had several of his returns even some that got called back.
How many mistakes did he really make as a returner in a year where we seemed to play in a lot of crappy weather?
I think he's getting more of a shot at the slot this year, but he really does have upside as a returner.
I know it was a long time ago but Denver cut McKenzie almost entirely because of his fumbles during return. Some guys just can’t handle it.
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Just now, Wheels Not So Golden Now said:
1972-73 Rookie of the Year: Bob McAdoo; 1973-74 Rookie of the Year: Ernie D.; 1976-77 Rookie of the Year: Adrian Dantley. And let's not forget the coach i.e., the great Jack Ramsay who let Portland to the NBA championship the year after he left the Braves. "Buffalo, Home of the Braves" by Tim Wendel (grew up in Lockport) is definitely recommended reading for Buffalo sports fans.
Yep, they had the third or fourth best record in league in their 4th season. Unfortunately, the Celtics were in the same division. They were showtime before the Lakers. Second highest scoring team in league with youngest roster.
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11 hours ago, billsfan89 said:
The Nets had to pay the Knicks 3 million dollars as an expansion fee (considering they were eating into their market) they offered the Knicks Dr J straight up if they waived the fee. The Knicks took the money instead and well we all know how that worked out.
The Braves also had a chance to acquire Dr. J but you know Snyder wasn’t paying. Two things that people around here don’t have a great appreciation of;
1) Before Bird and Magic the NBA was in trouble. As someone said, the Finals were on tape delay
2) how good the Braves were, and how good they could have been. They were ahead of their time. At one point, for about 48 hours, they had McAdoo, Moses Malone, Adrian Dantley and Randy Smith.
One last thing, from a business standpoint, best ABA story is the deal the owners of The Spirit of St Louis made in return for not holding up merger.
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22 hours ago, JohnNord said:
The other day, I couldn’t remember who the Bills offense coordinator during the SB era was after Ted Marchiabroda left to coach Indy.
I looked it up only to find that there really wasn’t a direct replacement. Marv did two things - promoted running backs coach Elijah Pitts to Assistant HC and named Tom Bresnahan OC on top of duties as OL coach. So it wasn’t a situation like we just had in Buffalo where Dorsey was promoted to OC and then Joe Brady was hired to take his job as QB coach.
Does anyone remember what went into this decision to not replace Marchiabroda with someone from the outside?
Also what was the role of Elijah Pitts as Assistant HC?
Finally I noticed that Bresnahan along with DC Walt Corey had position responsibilities on top of their jobs as coordinators. Was this something the Bills did to save money on coaches? Oddly enough Marchiabroda was only OC.
This was the start of my fandom so I don’t remember much things like this…
For whatever it is worth, Norv Turner was OC and QB coach and Dave Wannstedt was DC and LB coach for Dallas. I’m pretty sure no one ever accused Jerry of being cheap.
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4 hours ago, scuba guy said:
Big thing is I half to dumb it done alot for the board most of the time so if I used words like belittle, you would have to look up what it means in a dictionary.
Seriously, you need to end the charade and stop proving my point.
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1 hour ago, scuba guy said:
Big item there for ub is Albany get it
I teach four different classes there and love the campus and atmosphere that they are trying for but when you defund 5 sports after school has already started and don't tell the students or coaches it puts a black eye on the school.
And there swim team was also getting national attention with the athletes there were sending to nationals and there coach was doing a great job
Hopefully you are not teaching English.
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Greatest All-Star Band Ever?
in Off the Wall
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There was a brief moment when the Yardbirds had Clapton and Beck on lead guitars and Jimmy Page on bass which couldn’t have been too bad