SF Bills Fan

If the team is not sold to Jim before Ralph passes on, and the team is up for bid, we have to hope the NFL rejects any group that plans to move them away and accepts a local bid by Jim and his group. The NFL owners would never keep the Bills in Buffalo out of the goodness of their hearts. How could you tell the Wilson family that they can't sell to someone from LA for 500 million more? You can't. Plus a move to LA or even Toronto is lucrative to those fat cats. So that will not happen. We have to hope for a deal in place so that when Ralph goes, the price has been set and the team passes at fair value to Jim and his group. I hate the fact that there will more or less be an auction for the team. Has that happened in the NFL before? Has that happened in any pro sport before? It's a shame Ralph was a carpetbagger and didn't have sons that were Buffalo guys.

Jax may be growing- but not at that fast of a rate. It is 1.3 million in the greater metro. Buffalo is about 1.2. However, Jax is not a regional market. You don't leave there and drive 80 miles and find lots of Jax fans. They share their market and butt up against all the other NFL teams and college football, which may be more popular around there. 80 miles outside Buffalo and you are still firmly in Bills territory. Rochester is a metro of about a million and that is all Bills. And, of course, there is Toronto a city of 5 million+ which is counted as our market, which is fortunate or possibly horribly unfortunate as we will find out in the not too distant future. LA won't take the Bills, but we will either lose them to Toronto entirely or end up sharing them to a greater degree. I'd say that Jax would be a prime candidate to move to LA should a team decide to go there. Depends on if Wayne Weaver is losing money or gets greedy.

I think the Jags should be the team to move. They can't even sell out a Monday night game. They have to block out seats. That team never should have been awarded to Jax to begin with. They were the default winner when St. Louis screwed up their bid in '95.

I can understand the the initial reaction from the officer, but after the explanation, he should have let them go or even helped them get to the hospital ASAP. How hard would it have been to do a little "police work" to find out the truth here? Police are usually skeptical and don't give the benefit of the doubt, which leads to problems like this. You are guilty UNTIL proven innocent in these situations. But it is impossible to prove your case and your desperation just gives the police more license to go after you. You are more or less placed in a situation where you have to break the law and things just escalate with every action until something minor leads to resisting arrest or worse. I'm not anti- police- I can understand the caution that needs to be excercised. Look what happened this weekend in Oakland where a routine traffic stop got two cops killed.

Buffalo's nightlife is fine and there are plenty of places to go close by like the Casino in Niagara or Toronto if you want to change it up too. I don't even think TO drinks or parties much. When he was here in San Francisco, I never head of him doing anything. I think he may welcome a quieter scene for a change.

There are so many cheapshots being taken and it's all the same old tired crap that gets trotted out year after year by sportswriters (who are usually not the brightest bulbs in the newsroom anyway). Just let it go and forget about it. I'd say wait until the season starts and if we kick ass with T.O. then throw it in their faces.

What was that thing all about again? I recall something fishy happened or might not have. There were all kinds of rumors. Does anyone remember the details?

Yeah and "don't forget to pack heat and some blunts."

If Marshawn gets it I bet there are epic parties there with T.O.

You can already hear the shots. Something to the effect that Owens was finally exiled to Siberia aka Buffalo and so forth. Screw it I don't care- we'll get the last word.

I would love to have T.O. on this team. Who wouldn't want a guy of his calibre? At this point I'll take the baggage because maybe he would pump life into this franchise. We are irrelevant right now. You want to take this team to the next level- T.O. does that immediately. I've always admired our pursuit of character, but character hasn't done jack. I'll take Marshawn's troubles and T.O. and a Super Bowl por favor.

Compared to last year where there was a pedestrian hit and an actual crime, this seems minor. I'm also curious as to why the cops found any probable cause to approach these guys. My guess is that this will turn into a misdemeanor and a fine.

That is a great article. It's crazy is how it confirms our paranoid fears about outside forces working against us. Can you imagine Buffalo without the NHL? This article was written when Buffalo was a bigger city. How could a major city that was a hockey hotbed be overloooked? It shows how much of a poorly and shortsighted operation it was that a**holes like Jim Norris were in control, ensuring that their interests were taken care of, but the league suffered. The NHL is still struggling to be anything but an afterthought and they can thank sh**heads like Norris. Glad they took his name off the division. Buffalo should build a statue of John Norris on the the waterfront getting pee'd on by a Sabre.

They could be the Shmoos and play anywhere that wanted an NFL game that weekend.

Finally something to celebrate. And the Hall of Fame game to boot.

Th Houston comeback game is easily the winner.

The Bears in '85 were great. My complaint with them is that they should have won more than one. But that year, they were awesome.

Not so much inept as irrelevant. We are in the league, we play the games and that is about it. Nothing of note.

If we are not in within 3 years, we are not in for a long time, if ever. How many 3 year plans will we go on before we just become the Cardinals (oh... wait). Speaking of, I am sick to death of the fact that a team that had little support for decades suddenly gets a shot at greatness. If they win, it will only be a sick joke. It's like in the NHL and teams like Carolina, Tampa and Anaheim all collecting cups. What the!? Buffalo is cursed. What cosmic entity got so pissed off that we keep getting denied?

Thurman could have had 300 yards that day. When Parcells got sick of seeing Thurman run by, he would have had to stack the line, then we pass to Reed. We got outcoached and too bad for us, Kelly called his number more than he did Thurman's.

His analysis of the candidtaes is pretty spot on. Even with his past good deeds, I think Ralph recently has ruffled feathers with his crying poor all the time. Reed will probably never get in. We needed a Super Bowl win with a great "Lynn Swan type performance" for him to get in. Reed never made a huge impact in the Super Bowl and the one time he would have had a signature play- in the 1st Super Bowl game, he dropped a crucial 3rd and 3 pass over the midddle (after we get the kick with the safetly) that would have gone huge and helped put the game away.

I was way more upset seeing him in a Dolphins uniform.

He looks like a donkey and he is from New Jersey. I'd be bitter too.

Ha! Detroit is last here too.

I don't really think that Nate is slighting buffalo. He didn't come out and say he didn't like it there. Rob Johnson trashed Buffalo big time when he left. I don't think that is Nate's intent here. I would say that playing for Buffalo is a great thing for NFL'ers that are family men. The young guys with millions feel limited for sure.