stuckincincy
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I'd imagine an appletini or something.
I had to look that up. Vodka and a fruit juice. Perfect.
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The way to avoid this is for some young, handsome guy to marry Ralph's widow when the day comes, so that ownership is handed down through marriage.
Problem solved!
Yup
The tax laws make these old rich guys and gals marry these young bimbos or boy toys.
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Chad had a serious case of alligator arms during that game leading up to that hit.
Yep. He was in a season-long snit, wanting more money or to be traded. I didn't think that the Whitner hit amounted to much - moreso that a drama queen at the time, decided to milk it. He has a remarkable recovery in the hospital, and was on the plane with the rest of the CIN team for the return flight.
He is notable for absorbing hits and bouncing back. Here's a good one:
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...also for being "Hungarian and a man".
All this at "Trocaire College in Buffalo, a two-year school founded by the Sisters of Mercy". Well, you know those Christians.
BTW, he looks pretty flamingly gay to me.
What about them?
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Yes, nothing like goes with a sausage like a $1,200-$1,500 bottle of wine.
White or red, with tonight's plain soy burger on wheat roll with re-heated canned wax beans?
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Depends on how long you've had it.
What a funny bunch we are!
A topic about Bryan Beluga hatches a polemic about sump pumps...
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To me, Clausen looked very average last night. While I give him props for his pocket presence as he didn't seemed phased at all by the pressure, he made some VERY questionable throws that would have been easily picked off had he been playing against a first string defense.
That's a good sign, IMO.
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Don't be surprised if Brown works his way up to #2 on the depth chart rapidly.
Romo was undrafted as well...so yes, anything can happen!
Nice avatar!
The odds are slim - I hope the club gives him a decent shot during the preseason.
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"Thanks Mrs. A."
My wife predicts that it will turn up in one of those "funniest commercials" shows that pop up time to time.
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Skooby you are the old Skooby aren't you? Starting the gameday threads 12 hours before kick off, he used to do it too. He used to post everytime he farted too. Modus operandi is the same. you go on ignore.
And if you quote an article you should credit it and link.
LSI used to do same. I wonder how he's doing? - I thought him a decent young chap, albeit a bit on the (innocent) rambunctious side.
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Starting game day threads more than a few minutes before kick-off is a known jinx.
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I don't know what you're getting at. Are you talking about after he dies? Right now Ralph is the sole owner. He can't give the team to his kids now because he would have to pay a gift tax (so that people can't just give away things before they die to avoid the estate tax.)
Paul Brown and son Mike beat the tax man. I wish I could recall the details - they somehow "lent" a substantial portion of the team's value to a family friend, and were able in large part avoid taxation on the franchise's appreciation in value.
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Atlanta is no surprise at all, they will be good. I think the Lions will be pretty good this season...
Same here. Stafford looked good IMO (still surprised they continued to play him with a bum shoulder), and rookie rb Jahvid Best should help.
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I would only have to guess at what it is right now, but 3 or so years back I took the time to take and in depth look at the previous year's draft class (which many pundits seem to feel was a pretty strong class) at the beginning of the next year to see how that class did as far as producing starters.
I found that only slightly above 50% of the 32 first round choices (I think it was 17 or 18 players were first on their team's depth chart at their position even after one year of play. Some of this was probably due to injury (though after an off-season of healing the depth charts tended to reflect where a player was expected to be) but in general, I think it is simply a fantasy that a 1st round pick is going to be an immediate starter.
There was a strong bias in performance of players in that player picked in the top 10 were in fact starters, but this makes perfect sense in that these were the best players in the entire draft and they were generally playing for the weakest teams.
However, basically across the board, rookies all say that the one thing which surprised them about becoming a pro was how fast the players were and thus how much faster the play was (in terms of decision-making). It simply takes time for even the best college players who routinely made their opponents seem to be playing in cement shoes, suddenly gets reduced to merely be a very good human being rather than a superhero when they come to the pro game.
It is simply reality that very good athletes never get it, that very good players take a while before they perform consistently well and in outrider cases that a perennial Pro Bowler like Eric Moulds can produce results his fist two seasons which were quite bust like, but then become a perennial Pro Bowl quality player.
Like it or not, even though Mel Kiper and ESPN has conspired with the NFL to sell folks a bill of goods that college players can be nearly perfectly assessed as to how they will perform as pro, the draft remains for the most part a crap shoot. Every year there are gonna be a couple of top ten players who turn out to be Ryan Leaf, Mike Williams, or a JaMarcus Russel and get paid millions to stink up the joint. There also are gonna be a few Jason Peters who do not even get drafted but a few years later make the Pro Bowl.
I think you can pretty much throw out any assessments of players drafted in 2010, 2009, and 2008 which make a suggestion other than arguing what the best way to keep developing that player is going to be. Almost always the right answer is going to be either stay the course or give them another chance.
Thoughtful post.
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3 pages - not a word about #2 pick Troup. Is he in camp?
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I'm going to predict that we will be surprised at how effective the new 3-4 defense is. I think we will be surprised at the effectiveness of special teams.
I predict that WAS doesn't give a rat's fanny and will be busy trying to evaluate their own bunch of unproven millionaires.
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I prefer to look at it as a "reality" post.
Alaska's Concealed Carry law was patterned after Vermont's. The only reason we have a Permit is for reciprocity with other states. I think there are 17 or so that accept Alaska's CCW card as valid.
Every time I watch one of the nut jobs go off on a killing spree at work I think about how that would look in our office - with about 90% of the people firing back.
When OH re-instituted concealed carry (with a ton of restrictions), many commercial establishments rushed to put up signs and decals saying no concealed carry allowed.
The restrictions have been lessened, and the merchants that listened to their lawyers found out through the years that their signage ended up being an announcement to criminals who interpreted such as "C'mon in! We are an easy mark. Come and kill and rob us." And it happened. Often.
I refused to patronize such businesses that have that signage. I'm not alone - they have been steadily been removed as merchants think about their falling number of patrons. Long before today's troubles.
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Bills 3
Skins 10
Oh. Another fast-paced score fest, then.
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http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2010/8/12/...top-5#storyjump
Interesting article. IMO, I think the defense can jump into the Top 10, but I'm not so sure about Top 5 just yet. IMO, the author seems a little too impressed with McKelvin & Maybin so far, but other than that, I agree with the rest.
Kilowatt44 - one of America's most respected, proven, football commentators.
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I always liked Torry & he can teach our young guys a few tricks. I just don't know if he is all washed up or enough about it to comment intelligently, maybe someone here does.
Er - the reason clubs hire WR coaches is to teach those "tricks"...bringing in a vet, taking up a roster spot - preseason or regular - to do same, isn't very wise.
IMO.
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Even though it's preseason, I hope it doesn't end up being another one of those 16-10 numbingly dull things the Bills have been famous for in the past several years.
A little pizazz, please!
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First post!
Welcome!
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You're presupposing that Southern Ontario is actually a real market for the Bills. I would like that to be the case myself, but I suspect that it's just wishful thinking. There ain't much of a fanbase there, as far as I can tell. There appears to be no fan base in Toronto either.
My take is that there is a solid contingent of diehard Bills fans across the nearby regions of the Niagara Peninsula. I'll pick numbers out of my hat - perhaps 10K that are regular attendees. Maybe 50K that follow the club -who knows?
I agree about the lack of any significant TOR base. An NFL game for many Canadians, is just a pleasurable -i pricey piece of entertainment on a Sunday. If the Bills moved elsewhere, they would be just a remembrance. And TOR is a pricey place to live - how do you convince the average Joe to fork over NFL ticket $$$, in numbers enough to fill an NFL stadium 8 times a year?
I know some like to make jokes about the CFL. I don't - I've been a fan for years. Go Ti-Cats!
Here in the States, there is an ingrained football tradition. Many areas are ga-ga about H.S football. That's the case here in OH, when I lived in the PGH area, same in the south, in Texas, Oklahoma, the west coast, and so on. Then add in the rabid following of college football. That's really not there to any meaningful degree in Canada.
I think you are 100% correct.
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I wonder why we don't have that kind of stuff in Alaska? Oh wait, no I don't.
"Any person 21 years of age or older may carry a handgun concealed on their person provided that, when contacted by a police officer, informs the officer of that possession and allows the police officer to secure the handgun for the duration of that contact."
Isn't that a political post? Tsk, tsk.
As KY and OH (finally) joined the majority of States that woke up and permitted concealed carry, there were no end of dire predictions about mayhem in the streets. See also FLA and TX.
Of course, that didn't happen, and the screeching yowlers are nowhere to be found these days.
The OH contingent managed to make permit holders a matter of public record initially, but that has been stopped.
Vermont. The State's leanings are well known. However, they somehow cut short those leanings when it came to protecting themselves. The hypocrisy drips, of course, but the low crime rates in Vermont are enviable. Coincidence?
VT firearm law:
Getting angry with the media
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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It's an old story...
We are strong in pass defense! (we finished 30th in run defense last season - who would bother to pass against us?).
Or - we are strong in run defense! (they didn't run much, because they knew they could pass us silly).
Pick your year; the story has a regular rotation.