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My folks live about 3 miles east of the Taconic in Dutchess County. I remember when we would drive the back road (aptly named Mountain Rd) to get to the parkway. It's an at-grade intersection and you can't see more than a hundred feet or so of oncoming traffic. Horribly unsafe and an accident waiting to happen. They've since closed off most of the at-grade intersections in Dutchess, though Mountain still remains open since there are few alternatives for farm vehicles that need to cross the parkway.

Why? Ralph tells us patience and we don't have a single non-injured Pro Bowl caliber player on the roster. Good players don't get injured at the rates that our supposedly good players seem to. This should be a wake up call to all the fans that think we are one or two good players away from making it. We aren't even close. What a waste the past ten years have been.

I'm 27 and I traveled 2500 miles to see that game. Let me tell you - I've been to my fair share of sporting events in person and I can easily say that this game was the most miserable game I've ever seen one of my teams play. While the 52-17 drubbing in Super Bowl XXVII was bad (and I remember watching that one as a kid, it's actually my earliest SB I remember), it doesn't sting as much as actually having paid hundreds of dollars on airfare to see them lose so badly.

If you know where to look, it's not too hard to find out, or figure out on your own . Who officiates which games should not, but quite often does, have a large impact on the game. There are crews that call far more holding, DPI, etc than others, and given that the later has the potential to penalize a team 40+ yards, you can bet teams game plan for certain crews.

Self explanatory: http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/73019-the-bills-are-putting-themselves-in-a-bad-position/

And at this point in the season, it would have been highly unlikely. The NFL has rules regarding spacing between assignments, I believe it is at 6 weeks right now. Other rules: - Max number of times one crew can officiate a game for a single team during the regular season: 2 - If a crew does officiate a team more than once, they cannot be both home or both away; they must be split. - No crew can work the same matchup twice in one season. There are other one-off rules - Walt Coleman does not call Raiders games following the tuck rule fiasco, Ed Hochuli rarely calls Arizona Cardinals games since he lives in Phoenix, and Triplette at one time did not call Carolina games out of fear of possible favoritism.

It completely depends on where you are sitting. Club seats (Jim Kelly, Van Miller, Paul Maguire as well as the End Zone clubs) are all great. Fans are well behaved here and the prices displace those who want to get drunk rather than watch the game. Lower level sideline seats are also pretty safe. Many long-time season ticket holders have seats here. End zones and upper deck seating are unfortunately free-for-alls. If I were in Buffalo in a blackout situation, and my choice was to sit in one of those two areas for free or listen to the radio... I'm listening to the radio.

Oh the marketing genius! Ralph is cheap!

There are blue pants... apologies for the low quality as upload limits are 200k.

It's likely due to the fact that the Bills will be wearing blue on the road in Dallas. Brandon likely wants equal time in each uni for marketing purposes.

The referee is going to be Ed Hochuli.

If that is the hotel that Ralph is putting players up in for the Toronto series, the "Ralph is cheap" crowd has some fresh ammunition...

Obviously hindsight is 20/20, but given how things have gone, it's fun to look back on this. Quite a few gems in there: http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/83674-fitzpatrick-signed/page__p__1330758__hl__fitzpatrick__fromsearch__1#entry1330758

That is not the same as pass interference. The referee (almost) always says with illegal contact: "Prior to the pass, while the QB was still in the pocket" Illegal contact requires both of those things. "Incidental contact" that people do not want called as DPI always occurs after the pass.

Will Chris Brown report on this? Doubtful http://nationalpost.stats.com/fb/story.asp?i=20111026131634782764508 Updated link to give JW the byline... ESPN put its AFC East blogger in the article so I thought he wrote it...

Wow, very sad if true. He was truly one of the greats from the 90s teams - up there with Jimbo, Thurman, Andre, and Bruce. It really makes you wonder if playing football for that long is a healthy thing to do...

Dude, read what people are writing. We think the Bills will win if they score more points than the Giants. Yes, there will be a score, this isn't for *****-and-giggles. Where is Crayonz when we need him?

Nope: WEEK 6 – Oct. 16 GAME PLAY-BY-PLAY/ANALYST PRODUCER/DIRECTOR 1:00 PM, ET starts: •Buffalo @ N.Y. Giants Jim Nantz/Phil Simms Lance Barrow/Mike Arnold •Indianapolis @ Cincinnati Kevin Harlan/Solomon Wilcots Jim Rikhoff/Bryan Lilley •Jacksonville @ Pittsburgh Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts Bob Mansbach/Suzanne Smith 4:00 PM, ET starts: •Cleveland @ Oakland Marv Albert/Rich Gannon Ross Schneiderman/Mark Grant •Houston @ Baltimore Greg Gumbel/Dan Dierdorf Mark Wolff/Bob Fishman

Playing well will get you the top team. We get Nantz/Simms next week against the NYG.

When they send LBs up to pressure the QB on every play, they're going to give up medium-range passes down the middle and allow a lot of yards after the catch. The coaching staff seemed to be OK with that as long as Vick got hurried and knocked around. The collapse during the Cincy game worried me a bit, and this game didn't do anything to relieve those fears... but at the same time, I don't think you can use data from this game to go overly negative on the LB corps given the game plan they went ahead with.

They are highly rated, but their efficiency isn't that great: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4509 A little less than $.81 of every dollar goes towards their programs, while $.12 goes to "administrative" expenses and $.07 goes to fundraising costs. By comparison, the regional food bank I volunteered at last month has $.93 of every dollar going towards their programs.

It might not be pleasant to think about, but it might be the day Ralph became physically unable to meddle with any of the critical decisions facing the franchise.

Agreed, I don't care that the Lions and Bills are both 2-0... you don't get blown out by those two teams in consecutive weeks. Haley is a goner. As awful as Crennel was in Cleveland, he likely gets the interim title until the end of the season.

...with an escape clause to allow for building a new stadium locally if some miracle were to occur. If the team is successful, people will pay more to see the games, and they will be able to afford to build something in a more geographically friendly location for fans located in Southern Ontario or Rochester, perhaps in Niagara or Tonawanda.

No surprises there....