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    Pegulas invite UB football to new stadium. UB prefers to stay on campus.

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    2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

     

    I doubt that was the main reason. Probably access to land was the big one.

    In 1996, the City of San Francisco had a vote for the residents to allow the city to build a new mall and football stadium at the Candlestick Site. It passed. Some council members fought the vote the residents approved. The 49ers got sick of waiting, and built their facilities in Santa Clara. Then they just went ahead and built Levi's Stadium at the same site. Got tired of the infighting and waiting. Kinda like the same thing going on with the A's in Oakland. 

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    Pegulas invite UB football to new stadium. UB prefers to stay on campus.

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    1 hour ago, thenorthremembers said:

    I imagine the Bills dont want to have their practice field and facilities miles away from their stadium.  For logistical reasons keeping it in OP actually makes a lot of sense.

     

    Why do you think the 49ers moved to Santa Clara? That's where the teams practice facilities and offices were. The players used to drive to Santa Clara, and there would be a bus convoy up the 101 to Candlestick. Passed it many times on a Sunday evening. 

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    Beth Mowins to call Bills-Texans

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    All I gotta say is I could listen to, and look at, Suzy Kolber any time, all the time. 

     

    But those who are commenting on her voice, I just think back to the Fabulous Sports Babe. She was great on the radio. Very knowledgeable. Listened to her quite often. I never once thought her voice was nails on a chalkboard. So I don't think people saying they can't listen to her has nothing to do with her gender. It's just she doesn't have a voice that is listenable. Some of us don't. 

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    New stadium will have PSLs for season ticket holders

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    This is just my viewpoint. No links or such. 

     

    When I lived in California working as a landscaper with my ex, one of our clients was a very highly respected CPA. 

     

    Before Eddie DeBartolo bought the team, the team was owned by Victor Morabito. In 1963 at age 45, he died suddenly of a heart attack. His wife Jane took control of the team until 1977. Our client was the head CPA of the 49ers during Jane Morabito's ownership. Jane went to Andy (Name not changed, that was his name) to ask how they could generate more revenue for the team. The first thing he suggested was to make suite owners pay for game tickets for the seats in the suites. He was met with resistance obviously, but the suite owners agreed, and this quickly spread throughout the league. So in a way, that could have been the pre-curser for PSLs. If suite owners had to pay for seats to view the games in the suites they rented from the team, then season ticket holders should pay for the right to purchase their seats. 

    Get ready for Monday Night Football, playoff style

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    https://www.nfl.com/news/super-wild-card-weekend-to-include-monday-night-game

     

    Beginning this postseason, one of the six playoff games on Super Wild Card Weekend will take place on a weekday.

     

    The NFL announced Friday that, beginning with the 2021 season, Super Wild Card Weekend will conclude with a game on Monday night.

     

    Super Wild Card Weekend is scheduled from Jan. 15-17, 2022.

     

    The NFL expanded the playoffs last season for the first time since 1990, adding a third wild card team in each conference. The expansion was the genesis for Super Wild Card Weekend, featuring playoff tripleheaders on Saturday and Sunday. Beginning this postseason, Super Wild Card Weekend will feature a pair of games on Saturday (4:35 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. ET), three on Sunday (1:05 p.m., 4:40 p.m., and 8:15 p.m. ET), and the finale on Monday (8:15 p.m. ET).

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    Weird Dream

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    3 hours ago, transient said:

    I once had a dream that I was drowning a cat in front of Gugny to prove a point, except that I don’t know Gugny so it was Mr. Met, but not actually Mr. Met, more like a Mr. Met/Ghostbusters sized Stay Puft Marshmallow Man hybrid.
     

    Anyway, because he was so large and the cat was so small, he couldn’t really see it so it really wasn’t making my point so I just let it go. Being that it was a wet cat, it was seriously pissed, and it clawed me all up.

     

    As the cat’s running away Sigourny Weaver shows up, but not the somewhat sexy Ghostbusters version, more like the militant Ripley version from Alien: Resurrection. She gives me a nasty, judgemental look because of all the scratches but proceeds to turn into the Zuul dog-thing from Ghostbusters and starts licking the scratches.

     

    Hear me out, at it’s core it’s Sigourney Weaver and whether it’s sexy Sigourney or Alien: Resurrection Sigourney or the dog-thing from Ghostbusters Sigourney or whatever, I’m thinking when am I going to have this sort of brush with celebrity again, amiright, so, you know, we start going at it. Right before she tries to bite my head off like a preying mantis I wake up in a cold sweat. 

     

    The Bills weren’t playing that week, and the Sabres alway lose, so I don’t think it had any sports bearing. If there was any meaning in it, which I tend to doubt, it may have been my subconscious’s way of telling me that I should steer clear of The Old Absinthe House in the Quarter.

     

    Has my vote as post of the year!

    Bills aren't only team with stadium issues

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    1 minute ago, BillsShredder83 said:

    Good they should leave. Nobody deserves to live in Chicago... except the people already there. Build walls around it, with a one way door. In. Chicago doesn't deserve an NFL team, not even a perennial loser like the Bears. I don't care where they go - LA, Flint, MI, or Jacksonville to be crosstown rivals to the Jags, or fold all together. That team is neon green lipstick on a 3 day dead pig.

     

    But tell us how you really feel

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    NY Times feature piece on Josh Allen

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    This is it. This is all you need to read. 

     

    "Every snap he takes still seems to generate a greater range of outcomes than a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, and maybe that will never completely change. But week after week, the best quarterbacks are not those who dominate the highlights. They’re the ones who think fast, make smart throws and don’t commit turnovers. Allen can do that — has done that — and if he can do it consistently, then the longest, best, most gratifying season in Bills history might lie just ahead."

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