Bill from NYC
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No "West Side Story?"
Also, am I the only one who liked the movie "Blow" with Johnny Depp? The scene when he met Pablo Escobar for the first time was as good as it gets.
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Where are all the "get anything we can" for Travis crowd??????? Please have the guts to post in this thread. Training camps have yet to start and teams already have runningback issues!
At least this makes the preseason interesting beyond watching Losman chuckin the ball around. Thanks for sticking to your guns TD.
Right here.
We will be lucky to get a 4th for Travis. Is this what you wanted to hear?
Hey, what do YOU think TD will get for him?
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I hope that you are wrong Glenn. IF, yes IF he can stay healthy, I am thinking that he has the potential to be an all-time great. If you haven't noticed, I do not toss out many compliments of this magnitude.
It is great that you are posting again.
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And, this was one of those instances where "scabs" really did hurt their union. I know we all think that NFL players are more than adequately compensated (and they are), but compared to the other major sports, the players got hosed from that strike. It is good for us, as fans, but I don't think any other union would have sold its' employees out like the NFL players union did in that strike negotiation.
Think about it. NFL players have a shorter average lifespan (both as players and in life) than any of the other major sports (I am still including hockey) and it would seem that their sport puts them at greater bodily risk than either basketball or baseball (hockey is a pretty rough sport too, I will concede), yet their players have the smallest part of their contracts guarenteed. Once a team is done with them, they are done with them, only having to pay the rest of their signing bonus. That is fine if you are Drew Bledsoe, or Kurt Warner, but what about a guy like, say Mario Haggens, or just the average Joe in the NFL? As Fred Smerlas would say about the "scabs", "what a bunch of earfworms!" And this from a leauge that makes more money than any other leauge....
If there is ANY way you can get your hands on it, try to get a copy of "Necessary Roughness" by Mike Trope. He goes into great length and detail about the strike.
Maybe your library has it; I hope so, but imo, this book is a "must read" for a serious football fan.
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Under normal circumstances, I would agree with you. Has anyone ever stopped to ponder (other than me, I asked this qustion a week or so ago, but got no response) that McGahee could actually hold out THIS season. I know it sounds insane, but this will be the summer of the Drew Rosenhaus client sit outs! Rosenhaus has said as much. I know it sounds paranoid, but I distinctly this question being posed to Rosenhaus last August (2004), on one of the sports talk radio stations (and I am adlibbibng here, but this is the jist of it):
Question: How is your client, Willis McGahee coming along?
Rosenhaus: He is having an excellent camp, he will be 110% by the start of the season.
Question: How good do you think he can be, this year, coming off that terrible knee injury, and not having taken a hit in a year and a half?
Rosenhaus: Let me put it this way, once you see what Willis McGahee play, you will agree with me that the Buffalo Bills should be sued for "theft of services". They are getting a great deal.
Now, that might just sound like Rosenhuas being cute, but this guy is an egomaniac, and loves to make noise. I wouldn't put it past him to pull something this summer. I wouldn't be surprised if he is anxiously awaiting Travis to get dealt, so he can throw his ace down...who knows, it could all be wild speculation, but nothing would surprise me when it comes to Rosenhaus.
The few interviews I have heard with Willis, he doesn't seem real into the Bills either. Not that he has said anything negative about being there, but he seems to have a little of that "I am looking out for Willis McGahee" attitude. Lets face it, coming from Miami, Buffalo is likely one of the last places he envisioned himself playing. Could the drafting of Parrish and Everett been a small attempt to make McGahee receptive to talking about a long term contract. TD is not stupid. He knows a holdout is very strong possibiltiy for McGahee.
I do not dismiss your ideas. The thing is, when you look at the numbers that Willis put up in 04, tell yourself that this pretty much started on 10/31 vs. the Cards when MM removed Travis (thankfully) from the lineup.
Now, imagine how much money Willis could demand with a full season under his belt!
A renegotiation IS possible before this season. I just think it would be to WM's advantage to wait a year.
What do you think?
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How is it an excellent point? It's not at all. It's ridiculous. Why in the world would McGahee lock into a long term deal at this point in his career? He wants to go out and have an 1,800 yd season get his name mentioned in the same breath as the Tomlinsons and Holmeses of the NFL and THEN demand a new contract. He'll have leverage then, he doesn't have it now. And as far as Henry goes he'd be absolutely no help to the Bills if they can't lock up McGahee long term because he's GONE after this year no matter what happens.
Doc, ease up. You are making WAY too much sense, OK?
Thanks.
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>>> He was one of a handful of NFL players that broke the players picket in 1987 (Gary Hogeboom, and Lawrence Taylor are the only other two that come to mind, though I am sure there were a few more) during the NFL players strike. <<<
buftex, thanks for that info. Another scumbag who broke the strike was Jack Del Rio. It was great when Otis Taylor, who imo was one of the top 10 wideouts to ever play the game, kicked his sorry ass as he was crossing the line!
To this day, I cringe at the sight sickening sight of Del Rio. I am glad that I saw this supposedly tough linebacker get B word slapped by a receiver.
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Flutie was a midget locker room cancer with a mullet that is all the envy of the New England area, and Travis is a child-molesting locker room cancer with the mental capacity of a mop and Ray Charles balancing his checkbook.
What we need are team players. People with experience, but class. People who can carry a team on its shoulders when the chips are down.
Like Drew.
You should give us a list of Bills players that it is OK to like and or dislike.
It would make it easier to post, and we could all adhere to your specific rules.
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First of all, good post!
Doug Flutie was one of the most exciting football players I have ever seen. It is a crime that he spent so much time in the CFL. He always was an NFL caliber qb.
My primary gripe with Flutie was when he booked a superbowl gig for his band while the Bills were still alive in the playoffs. Sorry, there is no excuse for this.
Imo, Flutie was one of, if not the ONLY qb of that particular time that could have won with the Bills. We had the absolute WORST OL in the NFL back then. Remember? Flutie thrived on broken plays/pass protection. RJ was killed by it. Flutie had glaring limitations mind you, but he had a winning record.
Travis is a loser. Look at the Bills W/L record when he was the starter, please. When he WAS running well, he was coughing up the football. The 04 Bills started to win just as soon as his stupid ass was removed from the starting lineup. This is a fact that cannot be disputed.
Travis cannot block nor catch. In 04, in addition to his already proven shortcomings, he was sliding on his stupid ass, untouched, in front of huge holes and on crucial plays to boot. Do you deny this?
Now, he wants off the Bills.
I love the Buffalo Bills football team and I am a fan of WNY. Does this somehow obligate me to sing the praises of a player who, in my opinion, is not good, and wants to be off of our beloved football team?
I think not.
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I think that you have it ass-backwards. Surfmeister is a long-time and well respected poster on TSW. He goes back to and perhaps before the Flutie days.
Years ago, there was constant disagreement about personnel issues, etc.
Today, things are different. If one takes certain positions that go against the party line, they are often ridiculed.
I once suggested a trade of Travis Henry for Jay Fiedler. There were so many personal insults that Mark, to his credit, had to delete the thread, which consisted of at least 60 posts. The party line was that Travis was worth AT LEAST a 2nd, and that I was WAY out of line. One jerk-off even called it the most stupid post he had ever seen.
It IS cool to say that Bledsoe sucks and was to blame for everything that ever went wrong for the Bills in 04.
It is NOT cool to say that MW is overpaid, nor to assert that Travis Henry has little to no trade value, recent results notwithstanding.
This is STILL the best site on the web. I heap unlimited praise upon SDS and every moderator.
That said, I am thankful that there are still some "old-timers" left on TBD. Were it not for them, I am thinking that you would enjoy this board a lot less.
In summary, I salute the long time posters that helped to make this board so great, and I welcome newcomers that want to talk some serious football.
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Why did why waste millions of dollars on aid to these dirtbags, and send a whole Carrier Fleet over there to help?
Keep in they where marching in 100s of thousands two weeks after 9/11 yelling "Death to America"
Thousands of Indonesian Muslims protested Sunday outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta over a now retracted report that American prison guards had flushed a Quran down a toilet, in the latest mass protest in a Muslim country over the issue in spite of the retraction. About 7,000 activists held anti-American banners and posters while chanting "Allahu Akbar!" or "God is great!" along an about mile-long march from the capital city's Welcome Monument to the embassy.
"As Muslims, we unite here to warn the U.S. that the bad behavior of its soldiers has humiliated all Islamic followers around the world," said protest leader Ridwan Saidi.
In a short item published in its May 9 editions, Newsweek magazine reported that interrogators at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, placed copies of the Quran in washrooms to unsettle suspects, and in one case "flushed a holy book down the toilet."
I wouldn't have given them fifteen cents of aid. That is how little I feel for those who hate us.
I am not proud of my stance on this issue but hey, that's just me.
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I would hire DC Tom (Crap Throwing Monkey) and put him in charge of media relations.
R.Rich, Badolbilz, AKC, Lori and Simon would have jobs if they were interested.
Oh, and Travis would be gone in a week, either by trade or cut.
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Question: If you were ABSOLUTELY FORCED to take a position on which party has a worse record wrt individual freedom, which one would you choose?
Just curious.
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Very true Sir.
Again, what amazes me is that there truly are fans that liken Drew to RJ. The only thing that these 2 have in common is a sick amount of talent. RJ was not able to put together many good games, let alone 40,000 yards.
That was what I was trying to say.
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RJ and Bledsoe, huh Mark?
Some day, I hope that I am able to understand the hate. As for now, a more apt comparison would be Bledsoe vs. Unitas.
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Apparently, in 1998 (during the Clinton Administration), Washington Health Officials issued a directive to give Viagra to Medicaid recipients, a questionable move to say the least.
Before you leftists scream, no, I am NOT saying that they intentionally gave Viagra to rapists and child molesters. Even they are not vile enough to do so, or one would like to think.
I am glad that Schumer and Hillary are now stepping up against this insanity. The problem is that it took more than 5 years.
Things will not improve until citizens stop falling into the trap of worrying about nonsensical issues, and concentrate on what truly matters.
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>>>Cops prey on people who do not know their rights or do not have the balls to use them. <<<
Pretty rough and all inclusive statement, wouldn't you say?
I am guessing that most of this kind of behavior is ordered by supervisors. I never met anybody that would go into a bar and shine a flashlight in people's eyes. For that matter, something like that is/was not allowed.
Again, I have never seen nor even heard of this.
Sucks when rights are taken away, no?
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I hate drunk drivers as much as anyone and once in a car a driver should be subject to routine sobriety checks. I have no problem with cops observing drunks exiting bars and following them to see if they are driving erratically. However, I don't see any reason for cops to enter a bar and harrass customers unless the bar owner has called in a disturbance.
Bar owners have the right and the responsibility to "police" their customers by denying service to those visibly impaired.
I happen to agree with you.
The thing is, many of us are standing on the sidelines cheering while our rights erode.
How many people in this same thread who now seem indignant will be clapping when police and "health inspectors" burst into a bar and give out thousands of dollars in fines because some guy is smoking a cigarette? Already, the chickens are coming home to roost. How does it feel?
Would you walk into a bar if you were going to get a light shined in your face (although I must admit to never having heard of this)? I for one would not, even if I was not driving.
My thinking is that in a few short years, there will be far less bars. There will still be drinking because humans consume alcohol, even the yuppies who make these intrusive policies. There will also be DWIs. This will not change either merely because people get lights shined in their faces. They will simply drink elsewhere.
This is only the beginning. Keep watching as your taxes rise and your freedom shrinks. As TD once said, "stay tuned."
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Coach Krumrie is probably the toughest guy in the world.
As for the rest of the Bills, I am thinking Sam Adams. Just picture yourself in a fight with Sam Adams and trying to injure him.
Where is great big Tidal wave when you need one?
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Debbie, it is about self preservation. Many of these people were cheering after 9/11 when the dead bodies of the firefighters that YOU worked with were still warm.
You can be as forgiving as you choose. Perhaps you are a better person than I am for feeling this way, or even a better Christian.
I would rather the money would have been spent on giving tax breaks to parents who struggle to pay for the education of their children. They are FAR more deserving, but again, that's just me.