Offside Number 76

Cute, but it didn't really turn up much in the way of answers, did it?

According to the article, it isn't crack. It's the far less deadly version. Still, hope the kid gets some help.

There's an easy St. Joe's joke in there somewhere, but Blitzer graduated from Ken West. He's pretty seriously Jewish (not that St. Joe's hasn't had Jewish students over the years; I'm sure that it has).

So let's rephrase: Has anyone seen a local paper saying that the local team should make a play for Stevie?

Hey Olivier--this sounds like an awesome opportunity for a kid who is right out of school. Have you considered direct emails to D3 coaches?

I don't really want the whole team doing backflips and round-offs when they're announced at the beginning of games.

The dive he pulled on Florence is still fresh in my mind.

Whoa, whoa. You are DEFINITELY wrong on a lot of levels. First, the restaurants here are incredible. Better than NYC and Chicago? No. As good as or better than any other city in North America that I've been to? Yes. Second, within the last two years, the city has received rave reviews from architecture tourists, garden tourists (yeah, there's such a thing, apparently), and the travel sections of two leading (and by leading, I mean international: the Toronto Star and the New York Times) newspapers. And I'm not being defensive about Buffalo: I'm one of the people admitting that Brady was right about the hotels. Please, by all means, stay in Seattle or wherever.

I've stayed in all three. The Mansion is the only one that comes close to a "five-star" hotel, and it isn't one. The Embassy Suites is nice because it's new, but as above, it's got a horrible restaurant. (There are good ones within walking distance, though.) But it's not a five-star hotel, either. And the Hyatt is a dump.

Except there was no link to Chinese counterfeiters. There were links to new designs and one guy's remark, a few posts later, about Chinese counterfeiters. If there were a link to Chinese counterfeiters, Scott would be wise to remove it and reprimand/expel the poster. That's not what happened here, and I don't think the NFL's suits are going to give a **** that someone made a remark. They're powerful, sure, but they're too busy for this nonsense.

No, it really isn't. Our hotels are far from great. The Mansion is wonderful, but small and unknown; the Embassy Suites is nice but has bad food; the rest of the downtown hotels are average at best. I've never been to the Millenium, but I know that the Marriott out in Amherst is a POS. The guy is right; our hotels aren't that great. We can live with that.

Counterfeit jerseys made by ten-year-olds in China is a big issue with me, too, but that's not what anyone in this thread linked to, is it?

It's an unpopular opinion, but I agree with you. Lots of touchbacks from Moorman.

Maybe so. NHL also sells an audio-only version of Center Ice for mobile devices for $9.99, but that league may be more focused on growing its fanbase and therefore more tolerant of local radio stations streaming the games. IIRC, that was the first league to have all games streamed for free over the Internet--and that was in the dialup era.

PTR--are you sure? Doesn't GR advertise that Sabres games are available through its (very crappy) app? To OP: I've had a lot of success using the TuneIn Radio app for iPhone/iPad. I don't know whether they have a version for traditional computers or over the web (but I don't see why not).

They are an AHL team right now.

"Damn the sun! How long will it torment us?" -- Guglielmo Marconi I think it's easier for AM waves to travel at night. PTR will know a lot more about this than I, though.

Thanks for adding this. I had forgotten that there was a point several years ago where the station and the team were at odds with each other. But for a number of years now, it's been pretty straight reporting and commentary, IMO. I think people will like the change. Unlike 97 Rock, WGR is able to handle a lot of weekly Bills-related programming.

His attitude towards the Bills shouldn't change until the team changes. I haven't agreed with every criticism he's articulated over the years, but the team certainly is easy to criticize.

They talk about the Bills ALL THE TIME. People get pissy when the folks at the station talk hockey. I can't imagine what they'd do in a market with four--or seven!--pro sports teams plus major college sports. People also get pissy when they do things like a country draft or Thanksgiving dinner Survivor (you'd have to listen to understand; you wrote that you don't). I can understand a little more about the frustration with that, even if I think it's entertaining. It certainly isn't sports talk. But they do treat the Bills very seriously. Negatively, which is deserved, but seriously. They had a great ten-minute interview with SJ the day after the benching. 97 Rock didn't. Schopp and the Bulldog make snarky remarks about drunk callers, not so much about the Bills. Frankly, listening to the drunk caller beat-down is usually more entertaining than listening to the coack explain a loss, but I'll certainly admit that Sunday, I was tuned in to 97 to hear Gailey explain the SJ situation. That lasted a minute, and then I was back to GR to hear a decent dialogue instead of just an interview.

Are people really critical that GR isn't positive about the Bills? Has there been much to be positive about? During just two short stretches since I moved back here seven years ago, the team has been worth talking about in a positive manner: FIrst five weeks of 2008 and first five weeks of 2011. Do you really want the radio opinion folks to talk up a crappy team? Is that useful? If so, to what end?

Did you miss the "penalty" against Flo? Brady looked like a soccer player on that one.

You graduated?

Wow. 9 pages. I'll bet everything that needed to be said is in the first 2-3.

Gailey: team policy established earlier in the season was any penalty for demonstration would result in bench for rest of game.