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buckeyebrian

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  1. Well...

     

    I agree Bills Fans will return if given some hope...But if this Team returns "as is" so-to-speak...with Jauron as HC...The Bills are going to have a MAJOR problem on their hands selling tickets...And Ralph knows this...So does everyone at OBD...The product right now is not going to excite anybody...Especially the way they are finishing this Season...The promise built from the 5-1 start has been thoroughly squashed...I don't know about the faction of Fans who always believe the hype, but I'm guessing most Ticket buying Folks are not going to be fooled by the "Young Team" garbage any longer...The educated Fan is going to look at Teams like Atlanta, Miami, and Baltimore and know beyond a shadow of a doubt Younger Teams can WIN with good Coaching...And I'm pretty sure those same educated Fans know Dead Dick and his Band of Zombies are not good Coaches...

     

    So anyway...I would not be so quick to assume the Fans will return any longer UNLESS The Bills start winning again...And I doubt The Bills will start winning again without a new HC... :lol:

     

    Ralph is employing the strategy seen in the movie "Major League"

  2. Exellent AUTHENTIC fish frys from Gallas. Thanks Bob!

    Great wings too. None of that asian spice, sprinkled cayenne, marinated wings, and all the other crap wing sellers do to ruin our hometown delicacy.

    And yes - it would be great to have the famous Buffalo-style sausage w peppers & onions and/or"Royalé" Italian sausage & Cappicola hot subs.

    Mmmmm.

     

    Jeff - welcome back to civilization and away from the shadow of Bartow. I assume your commute has improved tremendously.

     

    Speaking of the "Royale" sub - is Casillo's rebuilding on Transit after the fire? Visited a year ago, had not seen Dennis in 25 years, he remembered me and asked me about my brother as well.

  3. I left Buffalo (Lancaster) 30 years ago to attend law school and never returned except for brief visits which declined over time as the rest of my family moved away. However, Buffalo has never left my heart and no matter how many Super Bowl and Stanley Cup finals losses I suffered through, I let anyone who cared to know that I was proud to be a Buffalonian. I admired Tim Russert as much as anything for his unabashed love for his hometown and I always choked up when at the end of Meet The Press he would look into the camera and said "Go Bills" One Superbowl, either 27 or 28 he went on a bit about how Buffalo needed the Super Bowl victory more than Dallas because Dallas had everything that Buffalo didn't from the standpoint of size, wealth and population, but that the good people of Buffalo deserved it more.

     

    From watching MSNBC this weekend I could not help but be impressed by all the expressions of love and admiration for this man, not only for his intelligence and political savy, but even more so for his love of his family, his God and his hometown. Tim Russert touched a lot of people in his 58 years. He was comfortable in the company of the most powerful people in the world, yet when it came to Buffalo, he was just like the rest of us. God bless Tim Russert and his family. WE have all lost a friend.

  4. For the Bills Giants came I paid $300.  For the Bills Redskins game I paid $400.  I tried in Atlanta but all I could find was ticket for $1200 so I watched the game at a Hooters in Atlanta.  Saving the money on a ticket bought me all I wanted to eat and drink.    What is the going rate for tickets to the Super "Corporate" Bowl going for these days!!

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    In Atlanta it cost me $1500, but I was between the 40's about 15 rows back of the Bills bench. I was so close that then Thurman fumbled the ball early in the second half and Dallas returned it for a TD that I could see the looks of "here we go again" on the faces of the Bills.

  5. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember the Braves opening dau roster the year before they moved as such

     

    Tiny Arcibald    point

    Randy Smith    shooting guard

    Macadoo          small forward

    Dantly              Power

    Moses malone    center

     

    Yes we had Moses Malone for all of two games I believe. John Y Brown had bought the team and wanted out of Buffalo, so he traded everyone that year, cept Tiny, who blew out his archilles first game of season.

     

    Can you imagine if they had kept that team together. Might been one of the all time best.

     

    Another blub bout that season

    The Braves are purchased by John Y. Brown former owner of the Kentucky Colonels in the now defunct ABA for $6.2 million. As part of an agreement with former owner Paul Snyder, Brown would give Snyder money received in player deals to reduce the purchase price. The sell off would begin shortly after the season started as the Braves sold Moses Malone who they acquired in a trade with the Portland Trailblazers after the ABA dispersal draft to the Houston Rockets, it would continue into the season as Bob McAdoo is sold to the New York Knicks. While the deals helped Brown pay virtually nothing for the franchise it turned an up and coming franchise into garbage. Attendance would fall off severally as the Braves finished in 4th place with an awful 30-52 record. The only ray of hope would come as Adrian Dantley captured Rookie of the Year honors with 20.3 ppg. However Dantley himself would be traded following the season to the Indiana Pacer for Billy Knight.

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    For those of you too young to remember what Brown did to the Braves and Buffalo, just think of the movie Major League. The skank owner of the Cleveland Indians tried to do just what Brown did. he sold off all the good players for cash, kept the money, turned the team into a joke and then moved it when atendence fell off.

  6. He only has 14 starts so give him a break. But yesterday he mostly has himself to look at in the mirror for his performance yesterday as he was given time in the pocket. And while we didn't run the ball enough, the fact that JP turned the ball over given the Bears a short field added to the running game being a nonfactor. This will just be a game he will have to learn from as he is a young QB. But at the same time no one should make up excuses for his performance yesterday as he flat out sucked.

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    Isn't that about the same number of starts Grossman has had?

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