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Exactly! Rivers doesn't have a super bowl ring either

Thats not the problem I have....the problem is those huuuuge dell and toshiba laptops that feel like they are made out of enough plastic to build a nice kayak. Those guys just so obviously don't care about having a nice product, its all about what specs they can throw in there. If I want a really powerful machine, I'm fine with a desktop. For my laptop, I want something portable.

The real answer is.... it doesn't matter Seriously, it mattered 5 years ago. But what do you really do on your computer anymore? I'm willing to bet that 95% of computer usage is online, which works from a mac, a pc, linux, even your blackberry. If anyone is still using Outlook, you are doing it wrong. I've used web-based mail clients for pretty much the last decade, and gmail is far more useful than outlook. I'm a software engineer so I probably use more local software than the average person. And I used to care passionately about my OS, but now I feel that any tool I need is available on every platform. I have a mac at home, and a windows machine and a linux machine at work. I use them all equally, and don't really care which one I'm on. I bought a mac laptop for home use because I think they make the nicest hardware. Lenovo has done an admirable job of keeping up IBM's quality, but really nobody else seems to give 2 craps about the quality of their laptops. If somebody does, I'll consider buying a different laptop, but right now Apple is the only company that seems to understand people don't just want a cheap plastic POS.

He'll fit right in in the Ralph parking lot every Sunday evening.

I don't have the actual stats on this, but I feel like last year there were a lot of backbreaking 3rd and long conversions against our defense. (And maybe the year before with all of those bend-but-don't-break drives). If all this guy can do is make it to a QB in 2.5 seconds on 3rd and 10, I think he is an immediate impact player. Whether he matures into what a high 1st rounder should be will take a few years, but shutting down one or two big 3rd down conversions will be the difference between wins and losses next year.

Hmm, did anyone else see Levitre commit a blatant hold on _every_ snap they showed at the senior bowl?

I think Levitre played tackle....

Well, we just replaced probably one of the dumbest O-linemen in the game with what sounds like the smartest in the draft class. Yeah, he isn't an LT, but I doubt the kid is stupid enough to hold out then play like crap.

Think so? I think Sanchez will be a bust, and now they have a need at S, and don't have a 2nd round pick.

Everything. Couple of scrubs, Abram Elam, and their 1st and 2nd. This is a _great_ deal for everyone except the Jets

This was essentially a job interview....if I flew somewhere for a job interview and they took me out to Dave and Busters, I'd have had some big questions about the quality of the company. You don't give someone an option, you take them somewhere that will impress them. Maybe football is a different world because these guys have never had a job in the real world....but somehow I doubt that the cowboys would ever dream of taking a prospect to a crappy chain restaurant.

I thought that the one guy who was saying "the market will decide" was just being smug, but then he followed it up by saying that ticket sales weren't good last year. The guy who was saying "Toronto should be an NFL city, not a CFL city" made no argument other than the implicit "Toronto has the $$ to support an NFL team". What they don't seem to get is that the $$ isn't all it takes....LA has the money to support an NFL team, but both of theirs left. Montreal had the money to support MLB, but they left. Vancouver had the money to support the NBA...you get the picture.

He was?

Yeah, I think this is awful. I don't understand why anyone can think this is a good deal....MLB and NHL show their games online for a (reasonable) price. You can pay ala carte to watch a large number of college sports online. The NFL and DirecTV are in the stone age, and it looks like that isn't going to change any time soon. This is pretty much awful news

I've seen it a few times now, people think we are going to lose to Arizona. They are the freakin cardinals! If we can't beat them, we won't beat anybody good, and we'll be a bad team. Here is my prediction: If we beat the Cardinals, we'll have a winning record (or 8-8). If we don't, we'll have a losing record.

Dude, _every_ player in the NFL was an amazing player in high school. Thats why they are pros, because they were always the best player on the team, in town, in the state, in college. Being the best at every level an athlete plays at is the basic requirement for being a pro. That doesn't mean he will be the best against other professionals.

Looks like it worked.... http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/sto...25/daily21.html Great, now another eyesore downtown. That area was actually looking fairly promising, I was at this new bar (WJ Morrissey's) there a few weeks ago and it seemed like the area had some potential when the casino was finished...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?...e=ESPNHeadlines Apparently, Jay Mariotti agrees that local news coverage is dying, and online is the new reality for sports news. Or, are there other reasons for him leaving?

WBFO kept reporting it as true even after various media outlets pointed out the hoax. Its sad how the media here just follows whatever story someone else prints, without doing any fact checking whatsoever.

Tim, I'm wondering if you can shed more light about how the NFL views a market... I know you are a mainstream media guy, but this is 2008. Where do I get my bills coverage? Right here! I don't go to the Buffalo News first, or ESPN, or anything like that. I go to the Stadium Wall to see what my fellow fans are talking about, not what the media talks about. If someone posts a link here, I'll probably follow it, but the discussion happens here. This is where we go Monday morning to talk about the game, we don't sit around the break room looking at a dead-tree copy of TBN. I hope the NFL is wise enough to know that most of the content generated about their product comes from places like this, not places like the News. Yes, people voice their opinions louder here, the content is not polished or professional, but there are quite a few posters on the board who I give a lot more respect to than certain people in the mainstream media. I hope the NFL has people who follow fan sites like this one, to gauge the general sentiments of its fans. It doesn't come from comments on ESPN.com, it comes from real online communities like this one.

I think the difference is the NFL is far more popular and marketable in 2008 than it was in 1998. Most of the stadiums built in the late 90s were in the ~$200 million range...stadiums being built today are pushing $1 billion. I don't care how rich of a city we are talking about, 10 years ago a billion-dollar stadium in the NFL would have been unthinkable. Now, they know fans will cough up big $$ just to be seen at the game, and corporate interests use tickets as a sales tool. So no, I don't think winning builds a new stadium, I think marketing and popularity does.

Yeah, there is an energy input in this instance. No perpetual motion or cold fusion or anything here....just good old-fashioned tuning-fork like resonance.

Only if you placed the actual power source (whatever generates the magnetic field) in the road. The question then is....who pays for the energy? While this is a really cool technology, it isn't a perpetual motion machine and still requires an energy input. Could be cool though if your garage charged your hybrid's battery overnight. You would never have to mess with a plug.

To some extent....this is already done. You are exposed to magnetic fields all the time just by being on earth.... This would be more like sitting in a really low-power MRI machine all day. Much of the research around MRI side-effects would be applicable to this technology as well, and I think they are basically considered harmless. This is a very clean, efficient method of "transmitting" energy. The difficulty is in creating the "generator" portion that lives in the device.

No, this is different....basically you have some wall unit that generates a magnetic field at a resonant frequency of a little vibrating generator in your device. The magnetic field keeps the generator going as long as you are near it. Tesla was sending actual electricity through the air, this is much safer.