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This is a good point. Let's think about this logically for a minute or two. The teams most likely to be mentioned in any relocation conversation are the Saints, the Bills and the Jaguars. For reasons that require no review, New Orleans is the logical and most likely candidate to fill the Los Angeles void. Moreover, Buffalo has a couple of things going for it that may not yet have been mentioned: 1. Market size. Granted, Canadian citizens have no bearing on US television market rankings. However, Buffalo is strategically located within an hour and a half drive of the greater Toronto area (Canadians, help me out, population of 4 million plus?) and is well within reach of the more affluent areas of Rochester. Any new stadium should not be located in Batavia; rather, that facility should be positioned to provide greater accessibliity for residents of the Horseshoe and of the Flower City. Neither New Orleans nor Jacksonville can draw from that sort of population base. 2. Eliot Spitzer. Will he be a good governor? Time will tell. His runaway numbers, have, however, discouraged a certain Rochester billionaire from spending $100 million of his personal funds on political activities this spring and summer. One wonders if those funds could serve BTG well elsewhere . . . .

Maybe somebody could help me out with this: I read the Web site very quickly and noticed that one of the components of the plan called for "the players," namely a wet-behind-the-ears insurance agent and two other unidentified parties, to control 15% of the stock of the proposed corporation. Given that the proposed IPO calls for 10 million shares to be issued at a price of $100 per share, that indicates that either (1) these guys have, collectively, a cool $150 million stashed in the freezer; or (2) the above-quoted numbers are a bit askew and they somehow expect to control 15% of a billion dollar corporation in exchange for proposing this idea. The idea of a community-owned team, or at least a team controlled by a corporation funded largely by non-voting stockholders is interesting. This idea, however, is a pipe dream (and that's putting it politely). One more tip for the players: Unless you're worried about potential criminal liability, EC District Attorney Frank Clark probably has no interest in this scheme.

As absurd as this sounds, there is at least a small possibility that this info is legit. Let me qualify by saying that WGR is likely guessing on this one (similar to the Flutie situation), BUT (1) they did pull the "pilot" line from the story (possibly to protect the source?); (2) their Bills sources have, in the past, been secretaries or relatives of players or those connected to the organization; and (3) there is a slight chance that Cap'n Bob Masse might have been the charter pilot and passed the info to one of the few competent people at the station (this is not a joke).

Don't take this the wrong way, but you have to get there to lose the games. The plethora of openings coupled with our frugal owner means we're not likely to get a coach with better credentials than Schottenheimer.

I hate to be the guy to rain on the parade, but Marv's statement doesn't necessarily imply anything. Taken at face value, he said 2 of the 32 teams in the NFL have contacted him re: working in a football-related capacity. One of them is not the Bills. No comment was made as to whether the second team is or is not the Bills. All it means is that a team other than the Bills has contacted him about a possible return to the league. We're inferring that the second interested team is the Bills. Marv is a pretty shrewd guy. While his statement doesn't preclude the theory that the Bills have expressed interest in his services, he may well have chosen his words carefully to drum up this kind of interest and, for lack of a more artful way of putting it, incited the masses to talk about and perhaps clamor for his return.

The length of the ball accounts for the difference in field position on change in position. The back end of the ball on fourth down is the front end of the ball on first down.

Actually, the Weis move has made for good business. The Alamo Bowl or whatever mid-level bowl game the Irish have participated in over the last few seasons probably pays no more than $2 or $3 million; conversely, the BCS payoff is in the neighborhood of $10 million. On top of that, the TV deal with NBC is still viable and probably even more attractive.

Here's a few more: Found liable by preponderance of the evidence in a civil matter.

OJ deserves whatever verbal abuse or otherwise he gets. There is no distinction between OJ the person and OJ the player; both are double-murderers. I sat in section 130 on Sunday and couldn't observe the reaction because I was very close to the field, but the tenor of the response and craned necks was such that I thought people viewed the man as a sideshow but did not evince outward support. In my view, there is a big difference between an alcoholic who admits his faults and works to help others and a man who murders the mother of his children. At least now OJ can cross the dugout suites at the Ralph off as potential locations for the "real killer(s)."

I think there was a Houston MNF game back in the day that was also blacked out. Those days were a little before my time, though -

I live in WS off of East & West near Union. Joe has some good advice: Park in Drive 5 (off of Route 20/ aka Southwestern Blvd.) and take 20 to either 277 (Union) or Transit Road (I think it's 78) and shoot up to the airport from there. Don't bother with the Thruway or 219 after the game; both the Union route and the Transit route are faster.

Let me preface my two cents by saying that I can't stand GR or the way they do business . . . . (particularly the recent PM drive hosts, with the exception of Bulldog, who is a very nice guy). Hamilton should be given a little slack. The man knows hockey (played at Iowa State, I believe, and skated in camp with the 1980 US Olympic team). Moreover, he's not a bombthrower or reactionary type and doesn't adhere to the Coach's m.o. of setting a team up to fail. While I agree that GR is generally a joke, I feel compelled to say that Hamilton is more likely than not merely expressing his opinion.

If you have to solicit advice as to a major decision such as this from posters on an Internet message board, it might be time to fold your hand and go home. That said, I'm a recent law school grad and can relate to what you're going through. Things began to make a lot more sense and, with the exception of Civ Pro, became a lot more interesting after October of the first year. Good luck.

He works as a salesman for a group of local radio stations that includes 97 Rock.

Teppo comes for $2 million: http://www.nhlpa.com/WebStats/PlayerBiography.asp?ID=4212

I've lived in both Roch and Buffalo - Rochester is an oustanding place for families - particularly on the "east" side, but there's not too much going on at night. That said, like anywhere else, the experience is what you make of it, and if you can find ways to enjoy some great restaurants and appreciate certain outdoor activities (the surrounding area is incredible), you will enjoy it greatly. I prefer Buffalo, but Rochester is very viable alternative and can certainly keep you busy. One disclaimer - this is not the place you want to be without a car.

That might be part of it, but for all practical purposes, it was impossible to extend the metro to North Campus because (in layman's terms and as best I understand) the rock was too thick through the Millersport area and impossible to blast through without damaging the surrounding area.

The law school is in Amherst - one of the safest municipalities in the nation. Great location and a great school at an outstanding price. There is no reason to hesitate -

1. Report it to your insurance company. Preserves coverage for you in case she turns around and commences action against your wife and whoever owns the car if it's not your wife (don't remember from the post). Even though she was ticketed, there is a possibility that she could claim a serious injury resulting from the instant collision and try to recover from you. If you don't provide notice immediately (you're playing with fire after a week), your insurance company's obligation to "defend and indemnify" is not triggered. What this means in simple terms is that you will have to pay for a lawyer, and even in the most mundane auto accident, your defense costs at around $125 an hour could reach $20,000, if not more, should the claim have any merit (not to mention the fact that the insurance company would bear no responsibility for any subsequent judgment). Here's a nightmare scenario: The other driver gets ticketed, fights the tickets (prior conviction of the traffic violation inadmissible at forhtcoming civil trial we'll get to) sues you, meets the Insurance Law's Serious Injury threshold with a couple of chip fractures, a busted tooth or two, and nice scar on her young, pretty, feminine face, not to mention the dreaded cervical injury that requires subsequent surgery. Because the nightmare scenario involves an accident in Niagara County, your jury is composed primarily of folks from Niagara Falls who think that the avlusion fracture and busted teeth alone are worth a few billion dollars (OK, slight to moderate exaggeration - how about - more than the value of the house and cars you co-own with your wife). Next thing you know . . . bye bye house and cars. 2. Let your insurance company worry about getting it back from her. Somebody owns the car; whoever that is must have insurance pursuant to state law. Even if the driver wasn't insured pursuant to her policy or somebody else's, whoever owns that bad boy better have some kind of policy, because your insurance company will more likely than not subrogate, i.e. pay you for your loss and get it back from them, and make that money reappear from somewhere. 3. Based on the above, you shouldn't get into the SUM analysis, but if your policy provides SUM coverage, your carrier may be obligated to take care of you in case the other folks have no insurance and no assets besides the car that is undoubtedly less valuable now than it was a few days ago.

Little legal advice here: You should report the incident to your auto carrier for your own protection. While this is highly unlikely, in the event one of those folks comes down with the tried and true cervical or lumbar injury as a result of running into your truck or decides to pursue a PD claim for damage incurred as a result of the collision, your insurance company might try to avoid defending you against their claim (as your policy requires it to do) unless you provide timely notice of the incident. Hate to be that guy and screw the old folks, but it's in your best interests to advise the insurance company of the incident, no matter how unlikely it is that you did anything wrong.

SUNY Geneseo; UB Law

As a recent UB Law grad, I thought I'd offer a few general observations on this thread: 1. Before I start, a little background: Graduated from a SUNY College in Western/Central New York with a bachelor of arts I'd prefer not to mention in the interest of maintaining anonymity and secondary education certification. Went straight from undergrad to UB Law; earned law review membership and moot court, worked 15-20 hours per week during the semester and graduated with honors. After graduation, turned down an offer to work at a wonderful firm in the Buffalo area, accepted a position outside of Western New York where I'm not responsible for billable hours and intend to return to Buffalo in the next year or so. 2. To those considering law school, i.e. Johnny B. and the "Ivy" daughter, I have a couple of suggestions: a. DON'T take a Princeton, Kaplan or other LSAT course. It's a waste. I bought the ARCO book by Thomas Martinson, spent 3 hours a night with it for about 6 weeks, and scored in the 90-95% percentile range on the LSAT. You're better served by buying a book like that for $20 and working the practice problems until you get every single one right. Thereafter, I taught an LSAT course for a company I wish not to name. I wouldn't take a course like that, and here's why: the actual classroom sessions are poorly planned and essentially parrot the material contained in the texts distributed to the students. More importantly, though, what the places with the larger class sizes don't tell you is that students who don't have a prayer of getting into law school are grouped into the same class as those who are there to try to boost the 159 to a 164. I had a group where a few of the students scored a 120 (rock bottom) on the preliminary test, while other students were over 155 (generally good enough to get into a Tier II law school). My problem, then, was to try to figure out whether to help the lower end of the class score well enough to get into law school, or help the higher-end folks boost their scores and get into a Tier I or Tier II school. Those responsible for supervising classroom instruction offered no advice in this regard. Thus, if you're moderately intelligent and willing to work, a $20 book with three or four practice tests and a "can-do" attitude should be enough to get you where you need to go on the LSAT. b. Have a plan when you go to law school and be willing to work. I’m not even sure where to start with this . . . . I guess this is directed more toward the “Ivy” daughter. UB Law is a wonderful place and a great school. If you work hard during the first year, make “A’s,” get on law review and present yourself well during August recruiting following your first year, it is well within the realm of possibility to get a job paying close to six figures (though not in Buffalo). If you don’t do as well academically during your first year and therefore don’t get a job in summer recruiting, you’ll have to compete in Moot Court, boost your grades, and give it a shot again next time around. On the other hand, law review and moot court membership doesn’t necessarily guarantee anything either. I know a few law review colleagues who were still looking for jobs six months after graduation, while others accepted positions in medium-sized firms from Buffalo to Albany and all places in between with average starting salaries of between $37,000 and $54,000 and billable hourly requirements of about 1800 hours a year. The money may sound somewhat pedestrian, but consider this: those who take the six-figure jobs in New York City, Boston, D.C. etc. have hourly requirements in the 2000 to 2200 range. What that means is they’d better learn to enjoy spending nights and weekends in the office. Moreover, from what I hear from those I know in the “fancier” jobs, just about all of the big paycheck is spent every week, whether it be on rent (Manhattan is expensive), loan payments due on the 15th of the month, or, as comes with the "big firm" job, the obligation to “accessorize” – i.e. the women have to have the expensive handbags, and the men need something other than suits purchased at a store in the Galleria Mall. The lesson is, I guess, that everything comes with a price, and while it’s easy to go to a big city and make the big bucks, bear in mind that whoever is paying you is probably getting a heck of a lot more out of you than you’re getting out of them. c. Academic environment at UB v. a “Top 14” school: Again, UB is a great school and one can start a great career there. This is a close call, but if the goal is to make money quickly and live in a big city (and spend some serious time in the office), the higher-ranked school is the way to go. That said, if the “Ivy” daughter doesn’t ace the LSATs and ends up at UB, she should be wary of establishing a mindset that the Ivy pedigree will make UB a breeze. I dealt with a number of Ivy and Ivy League “flunky school” grads (sorry, Colgate), and while some were extremely nice (two of my best friends in law school are from Cornell and another outstanding private school in the North Country), for the most part I found that there were more than a few who liked to hear themselves talk and had a hard time squeezing their egos through the door. I happen to be the first to finish college on my father’s side of the family, worked throughout high school, college and law school, and am not in the business of taking any crap from people like that. Needless to say, many “Ivy” classmates provided wonderful motivation. Any time I felt like closing the books a little early on the weekend or leaving the library before midnight, a casual reminder of a particularly pompous classmate would cure that thought very quickly. In the end, things worked out pretty well for me, and to a certain extent, I have my interaction with some of my more “privileged” classmates to thank. d. “I don’t want to be suing everyone all the time”: This is a misconception. What people don’t realize is that, for the most part, it takes two lawyers to conduct a trial. So, while a “trial lawyer” may be responsible for suing someone, it takes a “trial lawyer” to defend the suit. Some of the ill-informed folks here may not like “trial lawyers” per se, and to some extent they may have a point. However, I doubt you’ll hear too many complaints if you choose to practice insurance defense and therefore defend the father who gets sued because his kid got into a car accident with the father's car. In any event though, the “trial lawyer” complaints expressed in previous threads are for the most part ill-informed. Anyone who bothers to “google” the afore-discussed McDonald’s coffee case will realize a couple of important things: (1) the coffee was served at 190 degrees – approximately 40-50 degrees hotter than industry standards, and therefore in clear breach of McDonalds's duty to serve coffee that wouldn't melt human skin in 2-7 seconds; and (2) the punitive damages award was reduced by the court to a figure in the neighborhood of $400,000 before a confidential settlement was reached. That may seem like a lot of money, put the nature of damages, at least in that regard, were punitive, which means they were supposed to punish and deter future similar conduct. There, the damages as reduced by the court amounted to just a few hours of coffee sales at McDonalds restaurants. All of the proponents of tort reform should think very carefully about this before spouting off with ill-informed opinions. Such deterrence encourages responsibility. I doubt those proponents of tort reform on this board would be willing to strap their kids into a Ford Pinto, throw some Firestones on the car, and hit Niagara Falls Boulevard or the 290 during rush hour. In any event, my opinions on “trial lawyers” aside, most lawyers don’t conduct trials and are instead engaged in paperwork or motion practice. This would be a silly reason to forego law school. e. What to expect as a young lawyer: Without revealing where I work or my salary, I will say that life after law school can be grueling. I work anywhere between 60-80 hours a week and come home so tired at night that I can barely string two coherent words together in conversation or on paper (as if you haven’t figured that out already by reading the above). That said, I love my job and am very happy with my decision to attend law school. I note, however, that if things don’t work out financially in the next 10 years or so, I will have no problem leaving a job paying less than 1.5 times the average teachers’ salary per year to make use of my teaching certification, enjoy the summers and accrue outstanding retirement benefits. 3. A brief comment on the Medical Malpractice discussion: I think it’s interesting that people generally choose to attack lawyers on this issue. If ever there exists a profession where a certain standard or care and prudence is required, medicine is it. Most people don’t realize that in order to pursue a medical malpractice action in New York State, a plaintiff invariably needs the friendly testimony of a medical doctor to merely survive summary judgment. In other words, if a doctor doesn’t say another doctor screwed up, it’s tough to maintain action against the doctor that screwed up. In any event, and I say this in the most conciliatory manner possible, I’d be interested to see the statistics regarding recovery caps and insurance premiums. The big assumption in that argument, I suspect, is that insurance companies would be willing to lower premiums in conjunction with a ceiling on potential malpractice recovery