WotAGuy

I was 17, and was working in Niagara Falls as a helper on a RC Cola truck delivering pop to supermarkets. The weather turned and we decided to quit and head home in the early afternoon. It was too late - it was already a whiteout, roads were jammed and cars had trouble moving through the heavy snow. I was running out of gas, so I pulled into a bar and went inside. I talked to some people and a guy offered to drive me to a nearby Howard Johnson's so I could get a room and ride out the storm. I was stuck there for three days - ended up going literally stir-crazy, playing basketball by shooting vending machine popcorn into the wastebasket. Finally, it cleared just enough for my sister and her boyfriend to come and rescue me. It took them a few hours to get from Clarence to the motel on Niagara Falls Blvd. We got my car, got gas and made the slow, treacherous trip back home. For the next week, we did the same thing every day - got a sled, walked 3/4 of a mile to the Niagara County Produce store at Transit and Millersport and got a case of Genny Cream Ale pounders. We played cards (including weird games called Mille Bornes and Michigan Rummy), and then hooked the sled to a rope tied to the back bumper of the car and drove down the road luge style. I remember seeing a wire sticking up out of a snow bank and dug it out to find it was a car antenna. No one was inside, thank God. It was a lifetime experience and my sister ended up eventually marrying her boyfriend. He stayed with us during the storm, until my mother told him "It's April - you can leave now!"

By characterizing Johnny Football this way, you are giving weak-minded, alcoholic, drug-abusing fools a bad name. Shame on you.

Maybe Washington subscribes to the Big Cat theory of defense: when the team loses because they give up more than 20 points, it's the offense's fault.

When Nate Hackett is a two-time OC in the league, the Bills change in midseason to a first-time OC and improve, and OCs bounce from team to team like a $20 whore - maybe we are overthinking their importance?

You don't have to convince me. I'm just predicting it's an issue the BN guys may make an issue of.

I'm thinking the media is going to jump all over the issue of who is the "voice of the organization". Whaley said last week he speaks for ownership. This article states the coach speaks for the organization. Look for the BN guys to drill into this issue, because although meaningless, they can use it to embarrass someone.

Sully (or perhaps Bucky): "If the Bills gave you $4 million to leave - would you?"

The Bills are pros at dealing with instant backlash; in fact, they are pros at creating it!

Only if Chip brings in cutler to QB. Now there's a team I could learn to hate.

Who can we blame for allowing all these free agents to hit the market concurrently? I have my torch and pitchfork ready.....

Rumors? You mean those ones about the Replacements getting back together for a final finale tour in '17?

Isn't TSW built on analyzing the $h*t out of everything? 😎

Bill's dysfunctional.......what? And what about Bob's dysfunctional? In fact, what about Bob?

The Bills problem has not been draft position, it's been the people making the selections.

Wonder what the press guys say about TSW posters when they are together swilling Gennys at the pub?

Why do you think he wasn't given that option (if indeed he wasn't)? Could it be he just cannot handle it mentally - cannot process what he's seeing quick enough to make it work?

If we catch Irsay hitting the sauce, or crack pipe, we might have a chance at this.

Back at work, as in, Rex's PR person? Sorry, couldn't resist. I do appreciate you keeping things civil and being respectful in your responses. It's tough to toe the line when people are attacking your opinions, and you did it with class, I'll say that for you.

Sun?? It's January in upstate NY. Way to be dramatic!

I listened to the presser live and quite honestly, never questioned his speaking ability or thought he had an impediment. To me, it sounded like he was nervous and trying very hard to not lose his composure to the guys he knew were going to be Dicks in coming after him. In that sense, I thought he did a good job holding his schitt together and not losing his composure.

Part of your "problem" (sorry, bad way to put it) is you became a fan as the Bills were reaching their peak as a franchise. You had 7-8 good years, plus a couple Flutie years, to enjoy your fandom. Those good, early years left a strong impression of a really good team that was well run and fun to watch. However, more recently, you are seeing the team that someone like me started with in 1968. Bad players, bad coaching, bad management and bad luck. The press is jumping down their throats and ridiculing the team you love. It's a painful thing to watch. Try to not take it so seriously - enjoy it for what it is - a diversion and a chance to commiserate with like-minded people and have some fun for a few hours each week. Don't take it personally when anonymous people on a message board dish out tough love. They are people that are hurting too; they are just dysfunctional in showing it. And don't try to drink it away - that ends badly.

The Buffalo News articles today about the Whaley presser read like the posts on TSW, complete with memes.

I just hope that Bucky is able to get to the bottom of exactly when Rex heard about the rumors of his firing.

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Haven't you been on this site long enough to know weak sarcasm when you see it? Unless.....YOUR response is sarcasm.... Hey, wait a minute!