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felser. i strongly suspect that his long and tight relationship with ralph meant that he got the story first straight from the horse's (i.e., owner's) mouth.
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Holy crap... if you believe this crap then you are a bigger <fill in the blank> than I thought.
Cornelius Bennett stuck some poor girl in the can against her will, Jim Kelly threw drinks in women's faces, partied his ass off, and stuck small businesses with the tab for his failed restaurant. Bruce Smith never participated in training camp, was suspended for substance abuse, and was found asleep at a stop light (I also believe there is a famous picture on the bench with his hat sideways). He also celebrated after EVERYTHING he did. Thurman Thomas told some poor kid to go f' his mother (or something similar)... I'm sure the list goes on and on and on...
So if WM can even read, I expect him to throw the book back poor ol' Marv and call him a liar.
niiiiice. while i actually agree with some of what you say here, why do you so often have to resort to insults and mean-spirited rejoinders? i mean, really?
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it would be wise for mcgahee to read this passage from marv's book, quoted in the article:
Consider this passage from his book about when, during a visit to his office shortly after his retirement, he began looking at the photos on the hallway walls: "Those faces that stared back at me ... were a testament to the commitment that (former Bills GMs) Bill Polian, John (Butler), and I had made when we resolved to bring only men with solid character onto our team. There wasn't a 'look-at-me' showboat among them. There were no choreographed end-zone dancers who thought they were cute but really weren't. In fact, I don't recall seeing even one backward-baseball-cap-wearer up there. I never saw or heard any of our players indulge in degrading displays of blatant self-aggrandizement. All I saw were men who, if they wanted to brag, would have been justified in boasting, 'I came to play.' "
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sam adams comes practically free next year. just so you know.
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You need to ask Miroljub Jevtic, Ph.D. the author of "Al Qaeda in the Balkans: Who in the Balkans wants to destroy America?" that was cited in the reply.
By the way, here is his bio. Seems like he might be someone with some knowledge of the subject:
wildly conspiratorial vision of history is confirmed.
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Overtly then, Balkan Muslims are supporting the West, while covertly they may seek destruction of it.
The American strategists believed that by caving into territorial demands Balkan Muslims are making, the newly established Islamic entities will, because of the American influence and endorsement of it, be a model to the Islamic world, showing the right political path. The Christians of Bosnia, for example, are increasingly being centralized under Islamic authority; Christian Croats are spliced within Muslim federation and dominated by them while the Serbian entity is under tremendous political pressure and may disappear. Meanwhile, Bosnian Muslims want to offer Muslim Turks a dual citizenship because they consider these centuries old occupiers of Bosnia their liberators.
In Macedonia, likewise, the real masters of the situation are the Muslims Albanians who have placed the Christian Slavs there into virtual political ghettos.
this is flat out foolish and i will not participate in this discussion anymore. on display above is a wildly conspiratorial vision of how world history "works." seriously, do you know one goddamn thing about the history of the Balkans? if you did, you'd know that balkan "muslims" are about as religious as me (i.e., not at all). it's a european dispute deriving from the last vestiges of the ethnic nationalisms that fueled world war II and entirely divorced from religious disputes. and if you want to go after me, try -- i actually know what i'm talking about with regard to balkan history and the denouement of the eastern bloc.
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i said *nominally christian*. you're right, most aren't practicing christians, but the nation's historically christian roots are a definining feature of russians' ethnocultural identity.
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the israelis and turkey have developed a close military relationship in the past 10 years. no, their relationship isn't perfect, but it's better than many of israel's relationships with nominally christian countries. (a close and old friend of mine is the northeast regional director for aipac, and he'd vouch for me on this one.)
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Are you sure he is a UFA? I think he is still under contract to the Jets. It is my understanding that he is due to make@ 4-5 million next season so the Jets are trying to decide whether to pay him or not.
That being said, I would pay him 2-3 million/year for two or three years. He is a mean SOB and could instill some toughness into our passive o-line. That guy leaves it on the field every week. When the Jets beat the Bills this year he was the first one out onto the field to congratulate his teammates even though he was in street clothes. Git er done Marv!
i'm pretty sure he is, but i could be wrong.
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Mawae followed the 2004 season where by all rights deserved to be the Jet's MVP- he literally carried their running game on his back for the whole season- with a season hobbled by injury. It's a tough call, he's the best at his position in the league when healthy but you hate to pay what he'll get in FA and have anything like his '06 season happen. Since we have bigger holes at LG and at DT I think reluctance to take a shot on his health is the prudent approach.
my thinking is that he won't be too expensive, and as a 2 year stopgap (again, if he's healthy) he'd be great. teague is gone, and the bills need someone who can get better leverage in any case.
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Huh? I know you think you are being intellectual but your rant is bordering on hysterics.
Let's SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW it down for you. Take a deep breath.
Pull the stick out of your arse. There you go.
Please name me one major religious conflict currently on the globe (not Hatfield and the McCoys size family feuds), just one major armed conflict or struggle, that doesn't involve Islam on one side of it. Please. Do tell. Buhadists fighting the Jews? Christians fighting the Hindus?
ever hear of a little place called ... bosnia??? where nominal muslims were targeted for extermination by a quasi-fascist population feeding off of religiously based 500 year old myths? i know your response -- but muslims were involved!
the absolutely brutal russian occupation of chechnya shoots a hole in your theory as well. the chechens aren't blameless, but they didn't start it and their actions pale in comparison to the nominally christian russians, and their historically based grievances against the russians (primarily stalin) are entirely valid.
as for tolerance of other religions in muslim countries, you may want to check turkey. seems to me that they have an excellent relationship with israel as well.
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I have been meaning to start my own thread with a similar title, but I think this title sums up what I'm thinking. Nobody knows what is going to happen in sports. It is a crap shoot. Everybody on this board (including myself) has absolutely no credibility. Why do we not have credibility? Because we spend way too much time arguing ON AN INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD.
If your post count per day is in the double digits then you really have lost your credibility. I don't care how smart you think you are, your intelligence is only relative to the rest of us bozos who FREQUENT AN INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD. You're not discussing quantum physics, you're talking about football.
Do you think real men that matter actually would waste this much time on the internet? Do you think Marv comes to the Stadium Wall everyday to see what everyone thinks about his new haircut? He has better things to do! I hear all these terms around here like "retard rollercoaster" and "drinking the Kool-Aid" that have such condescending connotations. Whoever coined these terms would never classify themselves as a member of the "retard rollercoaster", but without you there would be no rollercoaster. Everybody who posts on this forum is an idiot, EVEN ME! Every second I spend on Two Bills Drive is a second I know I should have spent doing something else, something more productive. We all are addicts. We're addicted to the Bills, to football, and to arguing about absolutely pointless topics.
Marv is 80, so what? How can you say that he's not going to do a good job. You have no idea. You won't know until this time next year. So lighten up, enjoy the euphoria of the hiring of a Hall of Famer, and PASS THE DAMN KOOL-AID!!!!!!!!!!!
GO BILLS.
great post!
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i'm assuming he will be. he's a ufa.
bentley is the other target.
who's going to bet a better player over the next 2 years?
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Personally, I think SDS's source is right on the money. I think Gray has resigned already and reading the writing on the wall (and before he was let go). I think he is staying in his office at OBD until all this craziness clears. I think after talking to TD and MM and maybe Ralph, Jerry Gray was told or sensed he wasn't part of the teams plans anymore. I think the Bills have been and will be good to him, and will "protect" him through all of this.
Gray will look for another job or go on interviews for head coaching positions and through third parties, say he isn't comfortable in the Bills unknown future, and would be willing to make a lateral move. This all puts Gray in the best light for any job opening, be it DC or HC. Then, if a job comes up in the next week or two as teams scramble for filling their coaching vacancies, the Bills will "allow other teams to talk to him", and Gray can announce he is resigning from the Bills to take a job on the _______.
absolutely.
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disagree, but you probably knew i would. quickly, though -- name me one other national writer who actually talks about how the game is played. there aren't any.
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...ense/index.html
no bills even get a mention, and i trust dr. z.
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http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/n...ts/13551679.htm
"Team officials won't talk, but a little birdie says the reason Vikings controversial cornerback Fred Smoot was in full uniform on the Metrodome sideline but didn't play a down Sunday in the team's season-ending victory over the Chicago Bears is because he blatantly disregarded the team's curfew the night before, on New Year's Eve. Word is Smoot placed a couple of pillows under his bed's blanket as a decoy at the team hotel."
i tried that in high school. it doesn't work.
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Professor Frink = Mark Kelso
Milhouse = Alex Van Pelt
Comic Book Guy = Jamie Nails
Lionel Hutz = Troy Vincent
Cletus = Billy Joe Hobert
Nelson Muntz = Tim Krumrie
Krusty the Klown = Jon Dorenbos
Joe Quimby = Marcellus Wiley
Fat Tony = Joe Panos
Troy McClure = Coy Wire
Otto = Reuben Brown
Gil = Hank Bullough
Barney = Jerry Ostroski
Dr Hibbert = Dr Sack
Rev Lovejoy = Frank Reich
Sideshow Bob = Shledon Jackson
Supernintendo Chalmers = Lou Saban
Frank Grimes = Greg Williams
Groundskeeper Willy = Carwell Gardner
Apu = Lauvale Sape
Skinner = Ryan Denney
Ralph Wiggum = Dusty Zeigler
Snake = O.J.
Chief Wiggum = Speedy Neal
Uter = Kurt Schulz
Maggie = Doug Flutie
what was the name of the bills longtime team doctor that screwed up on leonard smith and gave him a staph infection? wouldn't he be dr. nick?
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not to rain on your parade, because i like the levy hiring, but reagan was 77 when he left office.
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I see the parallels to Don Zimmer, who combined with Clueless Joe Torre to form a championship managerial team. I can see it now, Marv behind MM on the sidelines getting all worked up, with Meathead mouth agape trying to respire. I can see Marv getting rolled by Bruschi.
Marv really should get on the sidelines with Meathead. There is such a small chance of this "fresh start" working that the very least they could do is guarantee us some entertainment.
weak, badol. you're capable of better than this ...
Levy Perspective from a respected journalist
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted
spot on.