Dwight Drane

Just look at my profile and posts in April of '08. You can scan them very fast. I wanted Malcolm Kelly and John Carlson. My main point was that Trent Edward's biggest asset is his head and that Reed was our only receiving threat over the middle. This team fell apart when Josh Reed went down. Edwards had nobody he could trust once Lee Evans was locked down.

When Trent Edwards and Josh Reed both are healthy and play more than a half of football together, the Buffalo Bills are 6-0 and have covered the spread in 5 of 6. When either of those two have missed a game or are injured during the game (Arizona, Miami, SF), the Bills are 0-8 and are 1-7 against the spread. I still contend that this is a talented team that threw the season away in the draft by passing up on intelligent receiving threats that can work the middle of the field in order to take homerun chances on guys that are less than a sure thing. You can put some real blame on coaching, but coaches look a lot better when they have players on the field that know where they are supposed to be and that are reliable.

We just share the same sock...that's all.

Sweet! Thanks for the ammo....although it's more about the thigh highs. Wow, you old guys are really diverse in your knowledge. And to think I once only lived in a world that consisted of Porky's....

I don't think it's fair to call her a whore. I will however say that on a real lonely night I have no problem clicking to The Nanny, seeing if she's in those thigh high stockings, hitting the mute button, then doing what needs to be done.

Yeah...especially at the time because the show came out of nowhere. Poor Dave....he was the perfect example of pushing the envelope with a positive motive. I still laugh at the people that can't see how brilliant South Park is for that and think it is just a bunch of poopie jokes. I couldn't find the Armisen tape on youtube or CC. He did such a dead ringer for Paterson....the lazy eye and all. I guess since they live in NY and it is sort of picking on a handicap, they may not bring it out. I actually like Paterson. He's trying, which is more than you can say for 90% of these scumbags on either side. And I respect someone who tells it like it is, even if it doesn't look PC.

They are a decent price. $330 Canadian and you can have 5 people in the room to watch the game. Regular rooms are going for $150 Ca....and the big 2 level suite that sleeps 5 and 10 can watch is $550. We have 4 guys staying 2 nights so game and hotel breaks down to $150 each. It might not be the same party environment as being in the stands...but that is what Friday night is for! I reserved one for the Bills game but cancelled after the game became meaningless.....and that the NFL said they were going to search the room with dogs. You can book through Marriott.com if anyone else is up for it.

Fred Armistan does a GREAT impression of him. He did it on Comedy Central last year, but they haven't pulled it out on SNL from what I have seen. I'll try and post it.

That's the way I'm playing it. The trickle down to the team hasn't been felt yet as tickets were renewed early in summer and there was enough pent up demand from people that couldn't get seats during the playoff runs. A 2nd stinker season which looks to be taking shape, and the economy only getting worse over the near term....and it is a smart move to raise cash. I am surprised he didn't do it sooner. please....baby Jesus....let Larry Quinn get his money and send him far...far away!

Nice job with the updates all year Promo. I wish I could get truly excited for the team, but I'm just really jumping on the bandwagon and wishing them the best. It was fun talking to all my college buddies as the game progressed the other night...going there in the early/mid 90's...we were all in shock watching them win like that. We talked each other into going to Toronto for bowl weekend and I reserved a room with a field view in the hotel inside the stadium. I've always wanted to go to a game in my underwear. Now if we can get the BB team to get to the tourney.....it's go time.

Golisano has lost close to half of his net worth over the past 2 years as his Paychex stock was cut in half. That company has no real assets....it depends on driving transactions from employees of their clients, and by arbitrage on the cash held for payroll. Well, as people get fired....less employees, less transactions. As the economy slows and halts...less businesses around and less willing to outsource payroll. As cash is tight, less amount of time a client is willing to front the cash and interest rates are non existant on the float. Nucci and a few others know I have little respect for the Sabre organization. So much so that Golisano's company is one of the few that I keyed on to go down with my doom and gloom economic predictions. I have said before there is almost no chance he can buy the Bills unless he is one of a team that hooks up to do it. He bought the Sabres because of political connections. Quinn and his buddies were able to get extra tax benefits and propose a near no-lose situation to Golisano. That is why he took the team. You do not want to buy an NFL franchise right now...and really few can with the credit situation. If there is some way another owner and more importantly management team can come and keep a team in Buffalo, I will do cartwheels. I used to LOVE hockey and the Sabres, but the slimeball businesslike way this team has been run along with the pacifist nature from top to bottom truly drove me away from the team. While there is a chance the team could move after a sale, I am willing to take that chance.

Those are great. Watching those plays develop frame by frame is like watching a Conan OBrien bit. Maybe someone can photoshop Jauron's face on the last few photos.

This team is still good and isn't far away. They screwed up the draft BIG TIME, and it bit them in the butt when Josh Reed went down. Jauron is a decent coach when things are going well, but it just looks like he can't handle adversity in a quick fashion. Edwards is good...the chain of events in the middle of the season was a killer. He needs SMART receivers around him. I really figured it was obvious to the front office, but they went the Hardy route and tried to get lucky with an undersized TE in the 4th while having to rely on Royal again. The defense has improved, although Ko Simpson never made it back in full it seems, and Schobel could have made a difference. We are in the same spot we were last offseason, minus Stroud at DT. We need a true top 3 receiver that has common sense and can run routes. We need a threat at Tight End to take advantage of Edwards best pass...the 12-15 yard zip in traffic. We need to make a play for a better center, although I feel benching Fowler was a mistake this year. And if our white boys at DE can't get it done, we need to go into the SEC and get us a mean big man that can cause some pain. I'm in for next year full force, even if Jauron stays. I think these guys are smart enough to learn from their mistakes this season...but I would like to see a true offensive mind come in here as head coach..a guy who calls the plays and can make clock management and red flag decisions because he is INVOLVED in the game. I said last year I would love to see a Mariucci in here. This season stung the way it played out, but we certainly don't need an overhaul.

I bet those 3 people are really pissed at you right now.

Hang on......I'm still waiting for the.."FOR ME TO POOP ON!"

Sort of scattered answering points, but here. My main point is that the son could have very well done it. The kid has a serious condition of rage where he blacks out. It has been documented and he has been seen by professionals and put in a hospital before. Why would he do it? Nicole was a 2nd wife and taking up OJ's time and attention. She was a party girl and got into plenty of trouble on her own. She didn't get along with his son, and their two personalities really clashed. His son worked as a chef/cook at a nearby place and he was supposed to cook for the whole family after the younger daughter had her dance recital. Nicole called and cancelled the meal at the last minute. She wanted to go somewhere else, and some may say she did it to jab at the son. When interviewed by the police, coworkers said he was really pissed and packed up his stuff, which included a professional knife set, and stormed out of work early. Now....couldn't you see how that scenario sets up for the kid to go to Nicole's house to confront her? He didn't go there to kill her....but imagine what happens when he gets there and her hotshot coked up boyfriend who works at an eatery is there with her and gets involved. Probably some yelling, shouting...and Goldman says something that sets the trigger off. The kid goes back to his car in huffing rage...has the knife set that he brought back and forth to work every day on the seat of his car...grabs it....and says to himself, "B word ain't gonna make a fool out of me ever again." Boom........motive, knife, crime of passion......... Now what about the glove and the footprint? The kid after the fight/killing runs back to his car...and as he comes down from his rage, understands what just happened and breaks down. He calls his father in a state of desperation and panic, sobbing about what had just happened. OJ after doing a WTF does what any concerned parent would do and tries to console his son. He tells him stay where he is and he'll be there in 5 minutes. OJ is dressed from before "who the hell wears $500 dress shoes when planning on killing 2 people in broad daylight?", thinks for a minute what needs to be done, grabs a pair of gloves and a bag and runs to the scene to figure out what just happened. He gets there...tells his son to get in the car and follow him home. OJ then picks up the knife and throws it in the bag. He runs back to the car and goes home as his son follows him. When the limo driver showed up to pick OJ up to go to the airport, there was an extra car in the driveway that wasn't OJ's or his daughters. It just happened to be the same description as his son's car. This makes more sense to me than OJ "planning" to murder his wife in designer shoes, with a knife, in broad daylight. I also want to know how two specs of blood end up in the Bronco after he supposedly just killed 2 people in hand to hand combat? In a culture of hollywood, sex and drugs, OJ had seen his wife play around before. Goldman wouldn't have set his alarm off....been there done that. Nicole was a party girl, and if OJ wanted her gone, he could have done it in a much easier way. OJ is possesive, and he has a bad history of treating his wife in a less than Prince Charming manner. But it was a two way street. Hopefully most here aren't used to seeing the type of interdependant relationship that evolves when money and drugs are on the line. It is nasty....it is a lifestyle....and if you let it run you, you end up in a very bad place. Now the Bronco Chase could have been legit. OJ knows his life is forever changed, even if he doesn't go to jail. He could have been suicidal and figured if he took off or killed himself, case closed. He's too selfish to knock himself off though. There was a documentary put together on just this subject with many detectives and PI's coming to this conclusion. There are some Youtube videos as well that make real sense. Like I said, he's an easy target. If he did it, he's got his punishment. If he didn't, and was actually taking the fall for his kid, I feel horribly bad for the guy. It's not a Buffalo homerism thing either. I wanted Hardy gone in May.

In fairness...you start a thread asking specifically for those opinions on OJ not being the killer, then the predictable pile-on starts with name calling and ridicule. A bit of which comes from yourself as well. Now I consider those that don't answer, smart. You have proven it to be the trap that it is. I have no problem telling you how I feel, but I'm not worried about what you think and understand nobody is going to have their mind changed at this point. I laugh all these years at how the media and others "worry" so much about OJ's kids and how he could do this to them...while the irony is that the media is the ones that have made the kids' lives a circus, and in fact that OJ is in the sh-- he is today quite possibly out of love for a child. A child that has a medical diagnosis of rage and that has been institutionalized multiple times for it. A child who had his father's attention taken from him by a woman that wasn't his mother, and a woman that did more than dabbling in narcotics and would cause multiple headaches for his family. ANd it is quite possible these things all exploded at the same time.....do some research, it is out there. And what would you do if you were a father and received a call from your kid that they screwed up...screwed up real bad? What would your instincts lead you to do? Would you let them handle it on their own, or would you try to "clean up" their mess? Ask any old timer here.....OJ has always been connected. And when you get stuff...you tend to get it for free and in bunches. You want to know why the glove didn't fit? Because he had 10 pairs of them and gave them to friends and family. Quite possibly to a family member that is a size smaller than he is, and that is a chef at a local place where he was to cook for the entire family that night until the plans were cancelled at the last minute by his stepmom because she wanted to go eat at the place where her boy toy worked. Quite possibly a family member that would commit violent acts of rage as he blacked out, and that just so happened to have a $500 knife set that he took in the car with him back and forth to work. That same set he took with him after leaving work early the night of the murders when he was told his family wouldn't be coming in for dinner. OJ doesn't have the best judgement as we have seen. That includes his choice of women...yes the same women that have an interdependant relationship with him that leads to drama. That alone is reason enough to suspect him and I understand that. But when had anyone else ever accused OJ of doing ANYTHING crappy to them? The guy was a class act on the field and to his teammates. He was always loyal to those close to him. He is loyal...to a fault. The reason he is in jail now is because he trusted his agent and friend to handle his memorabilia, only to have it sold from underneath him. Couldn't that loyalty have POSSIBLY been the reason he was at the crime scene in the first place? I just feel that it is easy to kick someone when they are down. Most people can't come up with an original thought and need an easy target. That's what OJ has been the past 15 years. Sure, he deserves some of it for being an idiot...but imagine having to saddle all this if he really didn't do it? How bad would you want to scream, but out of love you didn't? His kids love him. The idiots in the media that blew up his book were so concerned as to "How could he write a book and do this to his kids?" He did it FOR the kids! The kids were going to get the money from it. The same money that was taken away from their dad and their family, with little hope of ever getting close to what they had before. The kids were on his side. You can call OJ an idiot, you can call him a womanizer....but he played by an unwritten code. He was loyal and always went out of his way to be kind to fans, kids, and really anyone he came across. If he didn't do it, what he has had to endure is nothing short of a Shakesperian tragedy. If he did do it, then God Bless Him.

When it comes to what wine goes with a swordfish steak, I'll listen to Chef Jim. When it comes to where to find the hole in the caulking outside the men's room at FSU, I'll listen to you.

Why don't we form a good old fashioned detective team? You could be the Hutch to my Starsky. What do you say? I'll swing on down to DuPont Circle and pick you up. I'll even let you run the siren.

It's kind of hard to when I have the group of you quoting me in multiple threads that I am not even posting in. Heck, this is a thread about "Does anyone out there believe OJ is innocent", yet the usual suspects start to show up and talk about another topic. Now I am bright enough to know that I should not expect a friendly reception when defending OJ, but I think certain people here need to get over the fact that there are actually people out there with more exposure to certain areas of life where it would be wise to yield to such poster on those particular subject areas. You never know who is on a board like this. I'm stupid enough to give an honest opinion on any subject matter. I don't blame others for not sharing information on relevant subjects. I have nothing to lose. I would rather be informative. Some people would rather stay in denial and not worry about stuff. Good for them. Just don't derail an honest person that wants to learn about the truth.

You're welcome. And thank you and the others for removing the stress of caring for strangers enough to try and give them a head's up at the risk of one's own self. In every tragedy, there is comedy waiting to be had. I guess I'll just have a twisted little smile on knowing some of the twobillsdrive illuminati are enjoying their carefree lifestyles over the next few years. Or so they will tell us.

Yahtzee

PS...I think the poll is incomplete. It is very possible that OJ was at the scene of the crime at some point before the police showed up, yet he had nothing to do with the murder itself.

I am 90% sure he did not do it. I have a decent idea both who may have done it, and why OJ was seemingly involved to the extent that he was. There is a good theory out there that is bang on. OJ knows enough people that if he wanted a problem to disappear, all he needed to do was whisper it and it would be done. He would not plan out an attack over weeks and do it himself. The guy is no angel and has some bad habbits, but that does not make him a killer. His Vegas issue was legit. His only crime was trying to circumvent police in getting his things back since half of them would probably get sold off in the civil case. That is why they disappeared in the first place. His old agent screwed him over and sold the stuff from under him instead of keeping it locked away somewhere. I feel bad for the guy. Eventually poor judgement and hanging out with shady characters will catch up to you, but in reality he has taken a far bigger multiple of flack and hatred than what is warranted. I think if people knew the whole story, the lightbulb would go on as to what the real deal was.

82? I thought you were trolling! Wow! I may have to run up Amherst and tip over some cop cars!