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We are not alone in excoriating the bizarre play-calling. The national press has piled on and rightfully so. Hopefully the Boss is recognizing that last Sunday was just the latest episode in what has been pretty much a tragedy of a season. I do not expect that the players will play for MM anymore, but they may play for themselves. After all, there are contracts on the line. All along, the TD party-line in response to criticism has been that "all will be evaluated at the end of the season."" TD has to answer for the decisions he has made in staffing, from head coach on down. In the NFL you are judged on the basis of your record, regardless of how many season ticket holders renew. I believe that more of the undecided will give a new GM/HC a chance, rather than suck along with the old regime. Hopefully the new guys will build the team from the inside out - which has proven to be the formula for success. What would this offense have done with Denver's O-line, for example.
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After five years of Millen running the worst franchise in the NFL deeper into the ground, the move would be long overdue.
Oh Im sorry...I thought they were talkimg about Donahoe.
But if the Detroit Lions president wants anyone to believe he learned anything about values during his playing days, he ought to do the only honorable, team-first thing on the week he fired another of his coaching hires.
He should resign.
After five years of Millen running the worst franchise in the NFL deeper into the ground, the move would be long overdue.
The Lions stunk when Millen took over. They are worse now. The fact he will be hiring the third head coach under his tenure is just one of a million mind numbingly bad stats.
There should be no shame in failure for Millen. He was hired as an out-of-the-box idea for a franchise that has won just a single playoff game since 1957. The Lions have wallowed between bad and mediocre for so long that the hiring of a TV personality with no front office or business management experience seemed like a what-the-heck gamble. How much worse could it get, right?
Millen could always talk a good game, but in the Motor City, he has shown an aptitude for nothing else.
The Lions are a league-worst 20-55 since his hiring in 2001, worse even than the expansion Houston Texans and Cleveland Browns. Despite spending five first-round draft picks on offensive skill positions, the Lions are averaging just 15.8 points a game.
In head-scratching fashion, Millen chose wide receivers in the first round in each of the last three drafts. One of the receivers, Charles Rogers, was suspended for a month this year under the league's substance abuse policy.
Both of his two coaching hires – Marty Morningweg, who famously once chose to kick off after winning the coin toss in overtime, and Mariucci, who ran an offense that seemed allergic to throwing downfield – have been fired. The team has few stars, no clear course and more holes to fill than five years ago.
And yet Millen remains.
Why the Ford family gave him a five-year extension last summer remains a mystery in Detroit. It wasn't like Millen was a hot commodity. No other franchise would've been foolish enough to hire him. While much of that money wasn't guaranteed – meaning he could be bought out – there has been no indication that he's being sought by another team. The guy just isn't a good administrator and letting him hire another head coach just delays his inevitable doom.
Admitting failure is not easy, especially for a Super Bowl champion player like Millen. But to call his tenure in Detroit a catastrophe is unfair … to catastrophes.
The brooming of Mariucci, who seemed uncomfortable with the personnel Millen kept supplying him, is just the latest copout. It's not that Mooch had done much to deserve to stay – the Lions are 4-7 and looked hopeless in consecutive losses – but this is a mess that begins at the top.
When Millen was hired, his credentials were questioned. He may have been a terrific arm-chair GM on FOX broadcasts, but what, exactly, did he know about setting up a winning franchise?
His response was he played for Joe Paterno at Penn State and Bill Walsh in San Francisco and pretty much left it at that. He had football values, a no-nonsense attitude and a big work ethic. He rode a Harley. He was a tough guy.
The Ford family bought it. They are still buying it. No one else is, though.
So if Millen really wants to honor his mentors, honor the game he holds so dear and prove that tackle drills, wind sprints and adoring cheerleaders really do make football players better human beings, he ought to do what is right and step down now.
It doesn't make him a bad guy. It doesn't tarnish his great playing career. It doesn't make him a poor announcer.
It would just make him a respectable football man.
You could use a surprisingly high percentage of this text and do a story about TD.
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Not quite - 300,000 left at halftime then stormed the fences to get back in after the Bills scored two TD's by the time they got to their cars.
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Nah, Preston Ridelhuber
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No one with a football clue would have been willing to bet that JP would be a stud quarterback in his first year. He has the ability but has no pro experience and only a mid-major (my apologies to the Green Wave) college background. Expecting even competance this early is nice but totally unrealistic. It happens very rarely with quarterbacks. Consider the following names and check out their first and second year experiences (and sometimes much longer): Starr, Namath, Staubach, Bradshaw, Young, Farve, Elway, both Mannings, Garcia, Fouts. Give Losman time and, in the meantime, give the ball to the running back.
Amen to that, and craft a game plan that he can execute
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growing up in Niagara Falls there were two things the city is known for- chemical dumping and great pizza. Sammy's and Buzzy's are really good but the best is a little place called the Pizza Oven on Niagara St. Take out only. Problem is they close from June to mid September every year. Owner goes on vacation somewhere.
Pizza is the best. Lines are out the door on any given friday or saturday night.
How good is the pizza? Good enough that the owner can close down and take the summer off.
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A very accurate description. I saw Anderson play 4 years at OSU and to me he was the cornerstone of a D-Line that saw all 4 players drafted high, including Will Smith in the first round. Smith got all the pub, but Anderson routinely graded out better.
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No, this was the year after 2000 yards. Ferguson entering his 2nd year.
Frankly, the tapes show the refs screwed the Bills again, crediting a TD to Warfield when he was down at the 1, and wiping out a 105-yard Tony Greene INT return, and a weak roughing-the-passer PF. Some things never change
I don't remember this Stanfill guy from Miami but he was abusing us, the same way Earl Edwards was to their guys. They were doubling and tripling Earl like he was Bruce Smith. O.J. didn't do jack in this game, but a QB controversy did start
Oh, and watch when Griese scrambles... he get planted into the turf like his kid does into the driveway
Adding to the screw-job was a questionable interference call that wiped out an interception, allowing Miami to score the winning touchdown, a run by Don "human bowling ball" Nottingham. And, the call that cost Greene his 105 interception run TD was in reality a 14 point swing as Mami scored a TD on the next play after that call. Teams were tied for first in AFC East, so it earned it's "Classic" billing.
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http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=130240
TSN is reporting it as done. There should be a press release later today, and the ratification process will begin. Once that is done (probably not until next week), there will be a press conference.
LETS GO SABRES!!!
Since teams over the cap will have to release players, and teams with cap room like the Sabres will be able to add, who would you like to see in a Sabres uniform? For me, I would love to have Mike Peca back, losing him was the beginning of the end.
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Will she sue God for not giving her a wiener?
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"You're fat and ugly, but at least you smoke"
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They robbed our Braves. I have scrapbooks of the Braves, Sabres and Bills from the 70's. 1970 was awesome with both the Braves and the Sabres as expansion teams. I used to "illegally" stay awake after my bed time to listen to both the Braves and the Sabres with an old classic radio on my nightstand and a transistor radio under my pillow while monitoring the sounds of the "inspectors" coming up the stairs! Sometimes, I would fall asleep with my radios still on and my mother would come in and throw a fit. But she know there was nothing she could do other than take away the radios! And that she didn't have the heart to do!
I saw McAdoo score what I believe was 53 points at the Aud! THe series win against the Bullets was the Braves only series win!
The Braves were very popular until John Y. Brown sold off the star players in his scheme to sell off the team to interests who wanted another west coast team.
What John Y. Brown did became the basis for the screen-play in the original "Major League" movie.
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OK - at the risk of revealing a total lack of WNY culture and even though I lived there for 8 years, I have to admit that I've never tried a fried bologna sandwich. I did, however, love bologna as a kid so I'm sure I would like this unique culinary delight.
So, my fellow wallers, please describe to me (in detail) how I should prepare a fried bologna sandwich.
At the G&R Tavern in Waldo, Ohio, home of the world famous fried baloney sandwich, a slice about an inch thick is fried in a little butter on a grill, then put on a soft bun with a slice of onion and slices of pickle. Mustard finishes it off for me.
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How far back do you want to go? In Lancaster we had Latello's and Schulga's, Keystone "90's" way up Transit Rd, Brennan's Bowery Bar (where I would sometimes have a cold one with the late, lamented Brian "Spinner" Spencer, the Pierce Arrow (OJ hangout), Psychus, a big club in Cheektowaga across from the airport (can't remember the name), so many others. Back then the drinking age for evertthing was 18. Good times.
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That was awesome - and J.P. leading the way!
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during his post game interview that he heard George Mikan's family was struggling to pay for the funeral, and if they called the Miami Heat front office, that he would like to personally pay for the funeral himself.
Shaq deflected the first question about the game, and then made Craig Sager essentially talk about George Mikan. Shaq thanked Mikan for paving the way for him, and said paying for the funeral would be the least he could do.
I like Shaq!
New respect for Shaq
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Dan Snyder and the way he runs the Redskins is the problem. The Redskins are going to kill the NFL. Not Mr. Wilson and the way the Bills run things.
The Redskins make big profits and don't want to share them. Fair enough as there is plenty of money to go around for now but keep it up and that makes for a league that would look like MLB or even the NHL. Five or Six gigantic payroll teams in the playoffs every year, a couple fluke teams in the playoffs and 20 teams that can't compete. People in the smaller market cities will eventually give up spending their money on consistently losing teams and the league will fall apart much like the NHL has.
Fans in Washington get raped year after year by Dan Snyder yet they continually sell out every game even though they don't even sniff the playoffs. I can't figure out why they can treat their fans like dog crap and still be as profitable as they are. I sense a ton of jealousy coming out of DC towards the Bills for no other reason than they wish they had our owner instead of what they have.
All Mr. Wilson is doing is looking out for the Bills and the other smaller market teams and in fact, trying to look out for the best interests of the entire league. (I wouldn't really call the Bills small market except in terms of non-league revenues as we are always in the top 10 in attendance and get gigantic TV ratings in the area market). If they let Dallas, Washington, ect. run wild it will kill the league as we know it.
Let's not confuse football fans with the corporate and government types that populate the stands and suites at Redskins games. You won't see many Joe Lunchpails at these games. And, since it is the stockholders or taxpayers that are frequently paying the bill for that seat or suite, "fans" don't care what it costs. Add that to the fact that the new stadium in D.C. is HUGE (substantially larger than old RFK), and that there is a waiting list for season tix, and that they have probably the largest suite and premium seat revenue in the league, it's no wonder that the midget throws big bucks at every free agent that comes down the pike. You would think that by now he would realize that championships are not won in that fashion. Snyder is just another carpet-bagger like Jones that is motivated by greed and ego. At this point, RW (who by the way we should not weep for considering how his $25,000 investment made in 1960 has done), is thinking about his legacy and what competitive balance has done for the league in the past few years. Hopefully, the owners will agree on something that will allow the smaller market teams to compete. One would think that even the big guys would not want to end up with a 12 or 16 team league. For sure the players would not.
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amen. If the Bills leave the Buffalo, I will say goodbye to the NFL and never watch another game again. I would go out of my way to make sure I didn't hand over one dime to the league. I am certain there are many of my fellow fans that would do the same. I was pissed when the Browns left Cleveland and screwed over fans like my grandpa who was an original fan from back in the day.
I am in total agreement - I would wash my hands of the NFL. Unfortunately, I can't see the league doing for the city and fans what they did for Cleveland, in the event the Bills move. I can see the greedy owners more readily approving the sale to a group that would move to a bigger market - more TV $$, and f**k the good and loyal fans of Buffalo. Shame.
Do your remember when....
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I remember going to the main post office at midnight to get our request for STANDING ROOM tickets postmarked as early as possible. I remember seeing the Sabres win a 14-2 game. I remember Sports Illustrated rating all the cities and Buffalo being 1, or possibly 2 behind Philly. We even had professional team tennis - the Buffalo Royals. Those were the days boy.