TheCockSportif

So... I've posted on both sides of it this season. (Look at my posting history if that's your will.) On one hand, McD is a good coach, and I won't rehash what other people have said about how he's been the best coach since Wade. On the other, I opined (during two months of blahness this season) that he wasn't good enough to win a championship with this team. Maybe, and hopefully definitely, yesterday was the day that the win against the Pats showed what McD can do to motivate a team, and to deal with adversity. Yesterday's game will stick with me forever. Now let's see if another AFC-CG is in the future, and hopefully a SB win.

Plus, also, he continues his boast about not being vaccinated then talks of partying on social media -- while missing games. To his credit, he's a LOT more honest about his choices than, say, Aaron Rodgers, but when I think of #billsy, I think of wide right, drafting Aaron Maybin, Levy as GM / Brandon as GM, ... many, many other examples ..., and Beasley with his anti-vax crusade. And now he's unavailable in a season that so many of us thought would be lights out for this team. It's all hands on deck at this point, but apparently not for Beasley for potentially another game.

And I also opine that the reason why "Sully" never gets any good material for columns is because long ago he exhausted any goodwill he had with the team and its players. Nobody wants to speak to that tire fire of a writer.

It's not even that. He tested positive, is apparently unvaccinated, and is out... until he can prove things out via testing and return. Who knows when that will be? Could be a long time, but that's the rules currently. https://wi.mit.edu/news/new-research-reveals-why-some-patients-may-test-positive-covid-19-long-after-recovery explain why he could possibly test positive for a very long time. And to the Hamburglar guy, well... he knew the rules, decided to not get vaccinated (his choice, and it's fine, in relative terms, as far as personal liberties go), and now he's out. He can do nothing about it unless the NFL changes their policy. The only thing I care about is not having Webb as QB and somebody like Wade as RB in the playoffs, just because the key players are out due to positive tests. It isn't that hard. Why do some people (Beasley) make it so hard?

HAHAHA, no. I'm just a man who now regrets his decision to turn his head and look.

I mean, if my login alias was Reed83Rules, I still would've seen it.

We are also "Talkin' Proud Buffalo".

We visited my sister in Denver, back in September 2021. I saw something in the men's room at DEN that I will never forget. Now let me share it with you. Don't say you weren't warned. I'm warning you now. 🙂 I have this oily skin, so I washed my hands and toweled off my head to keep the oil in check for a few hours. And in the mirror, I see behind me, buttocks. This guy has his pants around his ankles, and his arms are moving rapidly by his sides. I was wearing a mask so nobody could see my dropped jaw. But it was dropped, I assure you. I made the mistake of looking in his direction before I exited the men's room. His junk was full-on OUT, and he was soaping it up in the sink. I think that King Missile wrote a song about this, but not 100% sure.

Our 12 year old nephew just told us about brickpicker. Amazeballs. Plus all of the LEGO stuff on YouTube. I might invest in a couple of these sets. About 20 years ago, after I had my first house built, my parents told me that I still had a lot of stuff left at their house. Makes sense, given the itinerant nature of college habitation, and how I moved to Boston right after graduation from UB. So from that I got Tonka stuff, GI Joe stuff (the 3.75" figures and tons of gear like a F-14 and so on), the original "squad" from the show Emergency!, LEGOs, and so on. The only stuff that I kept was from Tonka and LEGOs. My sister, when our nephews were old enough, asked if I still had LEGOs, and I would sit there with the boys and just build. It's incredible that these sets from the 1970s and early 1980s still resonated with kids, and I forgot how much fun it was to create something out of nothing, and with LEGOs as the conduit. Sure, I've created a lot of stuff since the LEGO days, but you get what I'm saying... Thanks for the suggestion about sets. I think that is a wise move, and I've seen what virginal stuff on ebay goes for, and that people actually buy it!

Yeah, the coliseum is pretty awesome. I'm kinda into the Millenium Falcon as well.

I would TOTALLY build that. Too bad that it probably costs a mint!

So true. I lived in Boston for years, and people were totally fine (although they did rib me about the Bills -- which is fine). It's the media, though. I assume that Sullivan didn't end up at the Globe because he wasn't caustic enough.

Totally sucks.

Exactly. With 6 games left, consensus here seemed to be that it was a 6-game season. The team I saw today was one that I had been waiting for, looking for -- for the last 2 months.

For... Baker Mayfield? LOL.

Anything can happen, but what I don't takeaway from today is that the Bills are a team that's on their heels.

True, but don't you think that losing today, given the gravity of the situation, and breakdowns over the past couple of months, would've made even an appearance in the playoffs one with a lot of uncertainty and doubt? I'm not going all AFC-CG again, much less SB, but this was a quality win today, and it came at precisely the right time.

My take as well. Yeah, some D breakdowns, but the intensity of this game made me take to OTW for a few minutes (my heart! my heart!), and definitely a satisfying and well-fought win.

Had someone told me a few short years ago that we'd have a QB who would throw 40+ times, to over than 300 yards, and beat the Pats at home (i.e their home, i.e. away) in a crucial game, I'd have asked you if Mother Theresa came back to life. Seriously. JA is seriously ***** great. We are so lucky, because at least QB isn't a hole to be filled for a change, and yeah, I'm sure that great will-be be FAs will definitely want to play for the Bills as a result.

I've always been into LEGOs. It's this quirk that has followed me deep into adulthood (although, full disclosure, I do not have a room filled with LEGOs at the house). My sister won the (Christmas) gift day yesterday by buying the LEGO (world) map for my wife and me. When talking to the family yesterday afternoon, my nephew informed me that LEGO also has these kits where you can build muscle cars and so on. Mind blown. So I looked it up today, and there are several sets that look pretty interesting and fun to build in that LEGO collection. And then I found it. The Titanic. The mother*****ing Titanic. Look at it sitting there, all in placid calm, just sitting there on a display stand as if nothing happened. I would build this model a lot differently. How would you build it? Someone whispers to me, "there's a game on." Oh, right! Back to that!

It started as Groin then (d)evolved into this one. As a tech nerd, I got involved in this programming language called "Ruby": mailing lists, code patches, going to conferences, etc. This one person appeared on the mailing list using the name of 'bigmacturdsplash', and at first I thought they were going to ruin the mailing list. And yet, they were super nice and helpful. In that light, and not to say that I'm helpful, but...

I felt this way about Christmas 2020. It was just so... off. I wasn't feeling 2021 either until a couple of weeks ago. My wife has been working on -- not one, but two -- SCOTUS cases, and it's meant 7-day work weeks -- for months. I joined a startup over the summer and I've been flat out as well. Thankfully SCOTUS relented on the second case, and she got an extension until January. So at least she was able to come up and breathe for a couple of weeks, so she took two weeks off, and here we are. My company gave us all next week off, paid, which is amazing. Once the Christmas stuff came upstairs, and we started playing all of the classic vinyl as we started decorating, it all came together. It's been a really great holiday season overall.

My boss bought a Tesla Model S last year, and when my wife and I visited him in November, it was my first time in a Tesla. I've gotta tell you that in as much as I think that Elon Musk is psychotic, the S-3-X-Y branding of their vehicles is precious, and that the Tesla is that kind of status symbol that I usually have zero interest in, the car is ***** hot. Now my wife is saying that her next car is a Tesla, and I'm leaning towards either the F-150 electric or the Bronco. I'm a car guy. I've always been. My dad was an engineer with GM (Harrison) for 36 years, so we basically had nothing but GM cars, for better or for worse (generally for worse if you look at their output in the 1980s through most of the 90s). Once he retired, I branched out into other brands. As a bachelor, I had some neat rides (fast cars, trucks, etc), but as a married guy I'm pretty much in Toyota/Hybrid land at the moment, well, sprinkling in a few years of Jeep Cherokee (XJ model) or Wrangler here and there. Plus last year I sold my '75 MGB. But, yeah. Tesla. Mind blown.

Freeland was a very interesting guy. I have some stories, but for some other time.

Wentz is the luckiest ***** in this league to be on the team that he's on.