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Well, it is rather elaborate. But somehow I think they are trying to convey a different message than the one I take from the commercial. That is - be a bully, buy Nike. Come on, they've got 300 lb NFLers stomping all over a high school team, but they still need to go to the last play to win the game? On 2nd thought, maybe the message isn't "be a bully, buy Nike", maybe it's "point shaving is good, buy Nike".

Substitute Meathead to HC and substitute DL for secondary and we pretty much have last year's Bills team. For Puhonix, it looks like it's gonna be a long season. It's really a shame that you don't cheer for a team that I could say I don't want to see it happen to you.

Amen, heck yeah, and Hallelujuh. Thing is, I've got all you 60's birthdays beat. I was born in that warped decade too, but I was born on the day the Bills first played the fish. The Bills kicked the crud out of the fish and my dad watched the whole game while my mother was in the delivery room. I had the good taste to wait until about 45 minutes after the game ended to be born. Pretty cool, huh?

Technically, I think it was Kay Stephenson who blamed Fergy's int's on the white helmets. Either way:

Very good point. The O seemed to make good adjustments as well today. Not terribly surprising that Meathead's squad didn't do much after the half.

You DO realize, don't you, that you just quoted Madcap's post, not BillsFanNC's post. We have both agreed that Madcap posted about the yellow and gold not matching. Yet somehow you continue to tell me that Madcap posted about the yellow and gold not matching and had nothing to do with the new pants not matching the vintage blue. I realize that, obviously you do as well. Unfortunately, the yellow not matching the gold was NOT the comment I was responding to. Actually, it wasn't even in the POST I was responding to. Look back at my original post. It was in response to BillsFanNC, NOT to Madcap. Response to BillsFanNC NOT Madcap My reading comprehension is just fine, thank you very much. You might want to tone down whatever it is you are imbibing while celebrating the victory, though.

Well, no, didn't you listen to Sylvester Dierdorf? Your team was running the ball down the Bills' throats after 2 plays, one of which was a pass.

Well, the Bills beat a "very good miami team today". Yeah, right. The Bills have to do better on 3rd down in the 1st half next week or we may be hearing the same things said about the Bills.

Yeah, he's still their dad no matter where he coaches.

He IS very good on ST's, but I cringe every time I see 27 on the field lined up at safety. Meathead's only gadget play was totally sniffed out by the Bills, unfortunately Wire was the player that was in position to make the tackle for a 5 yard loss. They ended up picking up about 15 yards on the play.

Madcap's post WAS in response to the yellow not matching the gold. How many friggin' times do I have to tell you that my post was not in response to Madcap's for you to realize that I wasn't replying to Madcap's post? I will say it again. R----e----a----l s----l----o----w this time. I was referring to THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE QUOTED by BillsFanNC, which I requoted in MY RESPONSE to YOU. I was NOT replying to the post by Madcap. Got it now? PS - Yes, they beat the Meathead led fish. That is $%!#! cool.

Cool, I am officially out of the contest. Hopefully somebody who picked the Bills going 15-1 ends up winning it. Good luck to all those who had faith back in April.

Black stripper falsely accused 3 white lacrosse players of raping her. DA up for reelection in very African American district presses charges even though it appears there is little to no evidence that the stripper was raped much less having been raped by the players.

You're referring back to Madcap's post. My comment was in response to the newspaper article quote that BillsFanNC quoted. I don't see any comment about yellow and gold in that one.

I think he has more of a backup problem than a back problem. And that being that the backup is mobile and Drew was memorialized on the Bills throwback helmets.

The pants not matching the rest of the throwback was a known problem as soon as they decided to run with it for damage control. When teams change unis they aren't allowed a 3rd sweater for 2 or 3 seasons. They are allowed "vintage" unis and that is what the Sabres are running with. If the colors of the sweaters were navy they wouldn't be "vintage", they'd be "3rds". I'm not sure why they aren't using vintage pants (royal blue with the white and yellow stripes up the middle of the side) instead of the new ones. As for the confusion with taking a quick look and passing to the wrong team because of the blue arms, I don't think that will be a huge issue because the other team will be dealing with the same (but reverse) problem. A Loaf might see the arm of Drury in the ACC and send the puck to him because it looks in that split second like Drury's a loaf. Actually, if anything, the Sabres would be dumping the puck out of the zone more than passing it up as it appears there are no open Sabres, and the home team would be expected to put bad passes on the tape of a Sabre as it appears there are no Sabres.

Except the Slabyk proposals were all take offs on the original logo that the Sabres do own the copyright for. If they chose a design that was "similar" to the Celsius designs, it wouldn't be like the Ravens getting dinged for stealing a totally new design. I can think of a lot of ways the Sabres could have updated the original while still making it difficult, if not impossible, for Slabyk to successfully sue the Sabres. From the little bit that I've seen where Slabyk has posted, he doesn't come across as a jerk. He'd have to be a world class jerk to sue the Sabres for using "his" design of their logo unless the thing were pretty much identical to one of his designs. While I admit that a fear of lawsuit MAY have contributed to the Sabres chosing the direction they went, I don't see it as being the primary or even A primary driving force. I see this as being more of a case of some idiot at Reebok coming up with a hare brained idea and some combination of backroom politicing / lobbying eventually convinced Tom and Larry that this was a good thing. Quinn has been favoring radical ideas (blue ice, rounded goals, game by game pricing structure, etc.) since he retook the reins, so it probably wasn't too hard of a sell to get him to agree to (or even suggest) the Sabres logo go in a radical new direction. Which is really a shame because the successful relaunch of the b&g was pretty much a slam dunk, open net, no brainer and the Sabres and Reebok managed to screw it up.

Going kind of off topic. I went to that game and sat in the tunnel side end zone. The performance RJ put on ended up having me believe, until it was too late, that he was the correct choice in the DF/RJ debates. It was like watching Kelly shred them back in '91 or '92. Since the game was blacked out, most people didn't know just how good he did look that day. Yeah, it came against a team that had clinched everything and had nothing to play for, but I remember a team 2 years ago that was in the same situation and didn't accomplish anything. But like you and Corp say, he had all of 2 other games in a Bills uni (maybe there was a 3rd, but I can't think of what it would have been) that he looked anywhere close to that good.

You might want to suggest to your relatives that they invest in a wonderous new technology device called a water softener. They are truly miraculous devices.

Uh, is your question serious? Because yes, when someone violates the terms of a "ceasefire", it does open up the option for the other side to resume firing.

It doesn't but it does include some "special" events like the AHL all star game and other stuff like that. If you have DirecTV and the Sports Package, you will get preseason games that are shown on the regional sports networks. They don't black preseason games out.

That is good news. Hopefully this will just be a short lived excursion like the Gorton's fisherman was.

Were people buying the new junk? When Channel 2 panned the crowd I only saw 1 lady wearing a tee shirt that may have been new. (1 out of 2,000 isn't bad in my book.) My fear is that people will say "I want to support the team and buy this stuff even though it has a horrible snot smear across it". If the cash registers in the store were mobbed, we'll be stuck with this abomination for a long time.

wgrz.com is streaming live. Right now the only people on the ice are 2 refs and 2 linesmen.

Unlike the rest of us.