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I don't think there is any doubt: He lost his helmet in the game Sunday but didn't stop until the play was over. For that, he got three stitches and his eye started to swell shut. But he returned to the game and finished with the second most tackles on the team. After the game, he had given so much of himself on the field, he needed five bags of IV fluid. Weeks ago, he put his name on the line to fire up and challenge his teammates when he guaranteed a trip to the postseason for our beloved Bills. Donte Whitner is my favorite current Buffalo Bil,l and he is, for my money, the toughest player we've had on this team in quite a while.

OK, back to Buffalo... As tainted as that game was, a loss for the Chargers is probably better for the Bills if we're in the hunt later on, as San Diego has the talent to make a late-season push and still potentially win the AFC West. So any losses the Chargers incur now will help the other division winners when playoff seeding takes place. That said, if we don't beat them in the week after our bye, it doesn't matter.

Not to get politically technical, but Palin was a "head coach" of a town and a state, where as Obama was never the head of anything. Nada.

That's funny. Might I suggest going over and standing next to the other cheering section for a while, too. You might hear some funny, contrasting opinion that could make for nice color, especially if your editor comes back at you for more column inches.

First, you are teasing Murphy's Law here, and I won't stand for it. If you were handed a microphone during a game, you would no doubt tell us all how many passes Trent has tossed without being intercepted, just moments before he inexplicably gets throws a pic-6. Second, the Browns do NOT belong in that list of teams. I am in no way a Cleveland supoprter, but the Browns are way better than the stinkin' fish et al.

Bingo. Same thing with Zorn is Washington. These guys who jump into jobs they aren't really ready for a short-sighted and dooming themselves.

http://www.sbreport.net/raider_news/008/404.html Please take this with a disclaimer from me: I am not sure of the validity of this Web site. I posted it because as an FYI as the Raider fan boards are linking to this, as well.....

Yes, but they aren't playing the stinkin' fish Sunday. I still feel god about our chances, but the Bills better be ready for the heat. I am sure they will be.

The forecast down there is for about 93 degree at kickoff, which would be a Jaguars team record. Their fans are counting on this to wilt the Bills, but I think they'll be OK. Stroud played down there for years, so he should know how to deal with it and tell his new teammates how to deal with it. Plus, a ton of our players are from the south or southwest, so they are use to it already. But Jack Del Rio has this whole mindset he imposes on his team that to be tough, they have to act tough. So the Jags will be wearig their teal jerseys Sunday, allowing the Bills to wear the cooler white jerseys, according to Jacksonville radio. For at least some games last year, Del Rio wouldn't let his team use the sideline "cool zone" machines. They were the ones who wilted in a loss to Indy. I hope De Rio has more of the same for the Jags, but either way, the Bills need to be ready for 100+ degrees on the field.

Does this mean Derek Fine is back?

JUST GOT THIS FROM THE FURLONG: To: Bills Fans From: Bob Furlong Date: 9/11/08 Subject: Sunday's 1 pm Buffalo vs. Jacksonville on CBS6 This is a retraction of yesterday's e-mail. Fred Lass, CBS6's Chief Engineer and huge Bills fan, who was born and raised in Niagara Falls, was in my office late yesterday crying. I and CBS cannot stand to see a grown man cry. So CBS6 is going to carry the Bills game on Sunday 9/14 instead of the Indianapolis game. Please thank CBS for agreeing to make this last-minute change and if you see Fred on Sunday, high-five him. Bob Furlong, VP/GM

Houston gets an Applebees slam.

Is it family-friendly? I have four kids (9,7, 1 and 1 month). My only requirements when I bring them are seats and a non-smoking area. If it fits, I will be there a few times this season. Not to hijack your thread, but I also belong to the Central Maryland Bills Backers. They just changed venues, too. Effective this Sunday, Sept. 14, we are moving to Nottingham’s in Columbia, less than a mile from our former watering hole at Sonoma’s. The address is 8850 Stanford Blvd., Suite 1100. There are three or four buildings in the middle of a circular parking lot. Nottingham’s is about 90 degrees clockwise from the traffic circle. Look for an awning covering the entrance.

You can all burn me at the stake for this suggestion, but I wouldn't mind nor be surprised to see Toronto host a Super Bowl toward the end of our contract with them. I don't want a dome in Buffalo, and that would, in fact, prohibit us from ever hosting a Super Bowl. So why not use our Plan B stadium?

According to some Jags fans, Del Rio and Stroud were at great odds throughout their last season together. So hard feeling are already there. But I have to believe that Stroud being the professional he is, he would play as hard as he can no matter who he is facing.

That little blurb will do a lot, I am guarantee. WRGB's parent company, Freedom Communications, will see this and address the issue. I presume Furlong is going to have a meeting very soon at Freedom Communications' headquarters. I'm sure they have a PR department clipping news nuggets every day, but I sent it to the corporate office just to be sure they have a chance to see it.

True enough. That's a good point. And I have already decided I am never going to work a Bills game. Of course, I hate the Cowboys probably as mush as Skins fans do.

The woman at the Redskins game is the perfect candidate for being taken into the concourse and told to leave you alone. If she continued taunting you, she would be ejected. Why that didn't happen, I don't know. But I will say we have one guard per section, so we know there is plenty of crap that goes unnoticed by us until it turns into a fight. I'd say if you were such a situation again, please tell one of the ushers or one of the guys in the yellow "EVENT STAFF" shirts. We'd watch her and the next time she appeared to be talking in your direction, we'd pull her, warn her, let her return and watch her more. As for the parking lot, that is the police department's job. I was at the Bills game in the end of 2006 at Baltimore. I was wearing our colors, cheering when the Bills did something well, which wasn't that often then. I was cheering toward the game field, being careful to remain positive toward the Bills and not at all addressing the Ravens. I didn't boo, call Ray Lewis a murderer or say anything negative about the home team. Yet, I got pulled by security and warned I had to stop cheering. To my delight, the Raven fans around me srceamed at the security detail when they came up and got me and cheered when I returned. They appreciated the respect I was showing them and, I was told. I kept cheering just as loud and in the same manner. I was left alone. Plus, the fans there told me they liked the brassiness to go into their house by myself dressed in Bills gear from head to toe. Now, looking back at the situation, I understand the security team was just trying to protect me and make sure I wasn't going to earn a beat-down. As for fans of the opposing team, we don't hassle someone just because they are cheering for the away team. But we will warn someone if they are "cheering" at other spectators rather than toward the field. In other words, if someone is just to be annoying, we'll warn him By the way, I was at hte Bills-Skins game last year, too. The Bills were very well represented. That was so great when Lindell made it.

That is a GREAT column. EVERYONE NEEDS to click on the link and read the whole thing. The little snippets here are funny, btu the whole pacakge is a MUST-READ. Besides, if we want to help the guy keep his job, we need to give his article a lot of hits. Here is the link again so you don't have to scroll all the way back up: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/c...amp;format=text

Ah, that's right, get use to living in the past.

I understand that, but these are Week One injuries. We cannot get a season shorter than that. I would say there are more serious injuries in the earlier games of the season than there are in the later games.

Chris Brown has noticed.... and promises to get the quote to Stroud.

Brady didn't play in the preseason, so he cannot be used as a reason to shorten it.

I think MC can be decent if not even good with that team he has around him. I am most puzzled by the Pats*' reluctance to bring in another QB even if just as a back-up Right now, they only have MC and a rookie. That's dangerous ground when you consider how many hard hits Brady seemed to take each week.

Don't forget VY wimped out on his team last year in crunch time! Tenny won't be a serious Super Bowl contender with Collins, but they may be better to just starting moving forward now.