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Yep. You are correct. But playing devil's advocate, the following is what the OP is claiming that Jim Corsi (the OP's apparent source - as he is and has been the Sabres' goalie coach for several years - dating back to well before the Portland affiliation) appears to be claiming. Drury only signed a 3 year deal right after coming to Buffalo because he couldn't wait to leave. Briere only begged for a 3 year deal in '05 because HE couldn't wait to leave. (Oh, wait, he was willing to sign for 3 years for less than $3MM/year back then? Couldn't be, it doesn't fit w/ the narrative. ) Drury only agreed to a 5 year deal for $5.3MM/year in October of '06 because he KNEW TG would sit on the deal for 2 weeks so he could make it LOOK like he wanted to stay in Buffalo but in reality knew that TG would give him the out to allow him to look like the good guy in the run for the exit. Drury also was certain back in October when he 'agreed' to a deal w/ DR that the NYR would not re-sign Nylander in the Spring and would be looking for a high priced center or 2. Since he clearly would be able to sign with his childhood favorite team for an astounding $7MM+/year in the summer of '07, he clearly had no intention of signing w/ the Sabres back in October of '06.

Head to Windsor? ('Cause that's what they do now.) Back ~'88 they had the funds and approval at the federal level from both Canada and the U.S. to build a twin span. The idiots that wanted a 'signature bridge' that blocked that project sure were forward thinking. Maybe 20 years from now they'll actually approve putting another bridge / expanded bridge in. I wouldn't want to have any money on it.

Never had Martin's. Sound good. Best I have had are Zapp's. The chips are thick sliced and very crunchy. Their Hotter n Hot Jalapeno and Cajun Crawtaters are excellent. They used to have one that they'd sell around LSU - Tiger Taters. Wash 'em down w/ an Abita Amber or a Turbo Dog and it doesn't get much better. Creole Tomato w/ Tabasco sound good as well, but never had those.

If along w/ term limits for the elected officials there are term limits for those polical appointees serving under them, then I am in favor of term limits. Unfortunately, my expectation is that if Congresscritters & Senators are limited to 6 or so years in office, then their staffers will consistantly be 'in office' significantly longer than the Critter they work for. It seems to me that would be one more way of removing accountability for the people actually drafting and driving the laws & regulations.

On what grounds? And to what purpose? While I disagree w/ the majority of his policies, I don't see what he's done as being impeachable. (I could see calling it incompetant but not impeachable.) Even if the House did vote to impeach him (which I don't see happening) the Senate would never go along. The surest way to get him re-elected would be to go on a witch hunt.

They went to 16 games the next year and opening day '78 was 9/3. So it looks like '78 is when the 'Open on Labor Day Weekend' started up, at least for their NFL years. They started 2 weekends after Labor Day Weekend from '70-'77 (w/ the exception of '76 which kicked off on 9/13). They started on 9/4 in '66, so I guess that would technically be the 1st time they opened on Labor Day Weekend. Their other AFL openers were typically the weekend after Labor Day.

No they weren't. The #'s, names on the nameplates, and striping was all plastic decals. The neck striping, Champion logo, and any other patches (75th Anniversary, 35th Anniversary, Superbowl _, etc.) were stitched on. I've seen some whites from back then that had stitched on #'s but those weren't what the players were wearing.

That was the 2nd game I ever went to. Much better game than the one in '77.

According to the '93 Media Guide, the team colors were Royal Blue, Scarlet Red, and White.

You had the score correct. 30-6. The game I went to was rainy and miserable. 13-0, and the 1st of 11 losses that year.

September 10, 1977. I went to my 1st game ever the next weekend in a loss to the fish on the 18th.

Interesting strawman. Could you please point out some of the posts of those that say "we should never tax rich?" And 1 other question, are you saying that even if the tax rates SHOULD be where they are at or lower, you'd like to see them raised to 45%? And if I had a buck for every time you railed against such mistakenly, I'd have ~$4,700 extra.

The Thursday games for any given week are played prior to that Sunday's games, not the following week. That said, if the 16 v 17 isn't just an oversight of the article's author, it would make sense that it's the last weekend's Thursday game to make certain that nobody gets an extra 1/2 week off heading into the playoffs.

He's not as much fun as Holcomb's Arm because he tries too hard, but it was getting mighty dull around here so I hope we keep him.

Nope. But you're funny.

And American English is a form of English, which happens to be a Germanic language. Was that REALLY so hard?

OK, thanks for that. Taking a quick look at the text of the bill that passed the assembly (A08354-2011), it looks like things like Catholic Charities would be exempt from the law. But I'd hate to have any money on that as the text doesn't appear to be particularily well crafted.

Can't read the article and didn't see it in the print version, but is most of the issue having to do w/ whether the Churches would be forced to recognize the "gay marriages" for their non-specifically religious undertakings? E.g., would any employees of Catholic Charities have to get full spousal benefits even though the Catholic Church wouldn't recognize the couple as being married? That would seem to be a legitimate point of contention as opposed to the earlier raised issues along the lines that it could force the Catholic Church to perform same sex marriages.

Point taken.

Cough, cough, Pelosi, cough, cough.

Whatever. Have fun getting run over, dink.

Homey, really. Wow, what a dink you are. And I stand by my contention that it may work for YOU but it does nothing to make the motorist's trip (or the trips of those behind / around him) any more efficient.

"I am respectful of cars but blow through stop signs at will." Sorry, that may be most efficient for YOU, but it isn't terribly efficient for the motorist who now has to wonder whether the jackass on the bike realizes he DOESN'T have the right-of-way.

For a small car, that Prius is pretty heavy. If you don't kill them w/it, you'll definitely !@#$ them up.

If Jenna or Babs were caught texting / twittering / whatever pictures of their Weiners, I'd expect that would be even bigger news than this story is.