stevewin

The thing that will be heartbreaking is if/when they confirm after his passing that his brain turned into mush from CTE

Whenever I hear Xavier I think of an IBM company league softball team I was on as an intern back in the 80's - there was a guy on the team who had recently graduated and had been a walk-on for the basketball team at Xavier. Became a friend of mine and I started following Xavier because of him. Over the years lost contact with both. My daughter also went to a few of the hoops camps at chapel hill while in HS (eventually attended college there and played on the club team)

This makes so much more sense

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/football/nfl/bills/2025/06/16/keon-coleman-basketball-60-points-damar-hamlin-celebrity-game-buffalo-bills-michigan-state/84222765007/

Regarding the McD rookie/vet playing discussion - one thing he emphasized in one of last week's PCs is not putting someone out there if their "teammates don't trust him". A reminder that there are things factored in that we as fans don't necessarily know anything about.

And how much wind are they breaking

And the wind confusion coefficient

My biggest issue with illegal streams is all the spyware and other crap I imagine is being downloaded to my computer. I will gladly pay the cost of standalone ST to just know I have reliable access each week. I already have subscriptions to all the other streaming services so there is no net additional cost for me for those

Interesting side note - article noted he was the last remaining player on the team from when it played in SD

Another design element to confuse the wind

At my rehearsal, the 'Monsignor' was an old school priest who had been the head of my wife's parrish forever and was treated like the Pope by all the parishoners - nobody ever dared question anything he did (I always thought he was an a-hole but kept the opinion mostly to myself). At the rehearsal there was a point in the Mass where my wife wanted us to turn to the congregation and he forbade it - saying God was present on the alter or something and my wife defiantly said "God is everywhere!" making a grandiose sweeping gesture. There was immediate tension - and he responded with something patronizing which riled my wife up even more. I was prepared for my 'temporarily insane, high-strung sociopathic' wife to throw down. The next day, of course my wife made sure that we turned to the congegation at that point during the actual Mass 😛

A proper Belinda post has no message text - Mods need to start flagging improper Belinda use

Tolbert

I had this experience after HS playing pickup basketball at Lancaster Boy's Club one college break and Don 'Majik Man' Majkowski was playing with us. I played against him in HS and in pickup games back then (and he was a great HS multi-sport athlete) but by this time he was playing at W Va and holy crap had his athleticism reached grown-ass-man levels. When the dude came down and tomahawked a slam dunk like white chocolate thunder we all kind of just stood there like "OK". He took it easy on us the rest of the way :p. You know all these guys are great athletes but sometimes seeing it first hand and up close can take your breath away

Just caught new S&C coach Will Greenberg on Eric Wood's Centered on Bufffalo podcast. Found it very interesting

I assume you're referring to Stat Boy I remember watching PTI when he was just stat boy. Its kind of an amazing story how they called him to fill in at ATH the day after the SB since every other 'big name' at the network was off covering the SB - and he did so well he just kept the gig. Reali is known for as being extremely positive and generous on and off the air and think he is a genuinely good dude. I give him credit for purposely turning the show from just a yelling match when Kellerman started to something a bit more structured and even thoughtful at times. Not sure why some people get so bent about the scoring thing - there really wasn't any specific system - just him going by feel - was just a device to add more entertainment (what if friends were debating sports at a bar and someone was sitting there scoring them on who was making the best points). Last few days I've watched all his interviews as he made the rounds. Even if I didn't watch it religiously lately it was to me still a fun distraction when I did (esp day after some major sports story). It's sad to see something that was part of your life for decades go away (for no apparent good reason - was still one of the highest rated shows on the network). I wish Reali well - he seems to have moved past acceptance phase and already is making moves to move forward with other projects/platforms.

Or it finished him 😛

I agree - it is also I think much more superficial now where they don't really try to create as many "dramatic" story lines or dig as deep into the ones they do make (which I'm sure is partly done to try to make it less objectionable to prospective teams)

I love you Josh Allen!

Random question - will the parking lots for the SNF game open 4 hrs before kickoff like every other game (ie open at 4:20 in this case?)

Technically the proper use of 'Belinda' is at the end of the thread title - as a substitute for NM for 'No Message' - with no text in the body of the message. As others have indicated - it was used to basically troll a user named Belinda in the old days who was very outspoken on her hatred for users creating threads with NM in the title and no message text - so of course the creation of such messages increased dramatically at the time - with the replacement of NM with Belinda to amplify the wise-assery 😛

So was Josh not on? I DVR'ed it and my cable glitched so only the 1st hour got recorded. I just tuned in to 'Today 3rd Hour' with Jim Gaffigan plugging... his Bourbon?

In Beane's PC he said he'd play both - their approach to Dline is similar to OL where they are looking for versatility. As has been discussed in some threads - in the Bills scheme a 1 tech is not necessarily just a 400lb block of goo that can't be moved, they are looking for pass rush/penetration from all positions along the line

I posted in draft day thread: ESPN very positive almost effusive on Lundt - Mel - Run blocker, Love this kid, can get out and pull, get out on the perimeter, get the job done on the 2nd level, Love finisher mentality, As pass blocker the footwork and technique is good, Chase Lundt has talent, good athletic ability, Best is yet to come, showed what he can do this year as both a run and pass blocker, Josh Allen's gonna like Chase Lundt coming into the fold, Lot of skills and lot of potential moving forward Riddick: That's the prototype developmental OT, he has the athletic ability now just build around that frame, the movement skills, the understanding of how the position is to be played, the footwork, the angles, they may have really really hit on something there in the 6th rd