Offside Number 76

If you give it a few more years, I'd say Reggie Roby.

The reasons given in Justice Stevens's opinion show one way in which the NFL is different. The other way is that the charities you mentioned are 501©(3) organizations. Subsection 501©(6) goes to lengths to shoehorn professional football leagues--and only football, no other sport--into an exemption intended to protect business associations and chambers of commerce. Why the special treatment? (I wonder whether MLS claims that its sport is "football" to take advantage of this.)

On behalf of 40-something Gen Xers: No. We're too busy fixing what the generation before us broke, and trying to keep something alive for the generation younger. Enjoy your prosperity at our expense.

Let's see where Vegas sets the over-under for wins. THAT's where Vegas has predicted that most people will slot the Bills for number of wins.

Maybe not Nassib, but SOME quarterback, fine. Worked for DC last year. Nassib, Wilson, whomever. Should have happened, for a team that is incredibly weak at the most important position.

Killing the chance of this thread reaching 2000 posts.

I will say this: while I'm not impressed with Kolb as a QB, I was impressed with his attitude during the press conference.

Beat me to it.

Albany Law is private. It is not a state law school. This should help this side of the argument.

Well, the reason I put a "may" in there is because I am uncertain, but I would guess that it's still right near the top with enrollment, and I believe that it's still got the biggest & most prominent research grants.

As a UB alum, they need to change the school's identity as much as possible. It was until Greiner began dismantling it. And it certainly was (and may well be today) the state's flagship school.

SMART move, and not just from the athletics angle, either.

Need a better QB earlier.

They started the season with one NHL center and still have one NHL center. That's where it begins and probably where it ends.

Apparently not.

I'll try from the Sabres angle: Paul Cyr Shawn Anderson David Cooper

That's Officer Ted Johnson to you. He's George Greene's partner.

I don't know why people are so dismissive of the OP. It's a good point. What's the hook? What is going to draw the casual fan--like me (and I am a casual fan; I'm a Buffalonian but a hockey guy)--into the games? What's going to get the team to sell out games? I bid for the NE game last year in a charity auction, but I think I'd be hard pressed to do it again.

I read the article. I've heard her sing. And I'm a former singer. Perfect pitch? No. Relative pitch? Better than most. Very talented, with the courage that only a child has? Absolutely. I'll root for her to make it bigtime.

Astro, nice stuff, but it would be a little easier if three-letter abbreviations were used. I had to wrap my head around JT rather than the NYJ I'm used to, "MM" still isn't apparent to me, etc. Just a friendly suggestion.

There were probably 4000 there who either were Pens fans or Crosby fans (there are a lot of Canadians who come just to watch him; they'd be rooting for Phoenix if that's where he played). The Penguins don't own Ryan Miller, but Crosby sure does. Today, though, it wasn't Miller's fault at all.

He's wiry.

Looks like I'm not the only one!

Yep. The Internal Revenue Code is a fascinating place. It really sheds light on some things. (For the record, I don't think you need a background check to buy Sudafed; it's just quantity-restricted.) Back to Goodell: I wonder whether the comp for 2012 was so high because the bonus was tied to not missing any games due to the labor dispute. I haven't looked at his comp for other years (and I'm not about to do so today).