Offside Number 76

Right there with you.

I have the same problem with the article, and I like McShea. It isn't even funding football. It's funding a radio broadcast that proved too unpopular to stand on its own. If the Bills had committed some money to youth football programs and yanked it, I might have a problem with that. This was a commercial sponsorship that was producing no return.

We don't know that it's $10K, and it definitely is not a service for kids. It's not like the kids can't play the games anymore; they just won't be broadcast on radio--do the kids need their school to be on radio once every X years? After years of funding this, perhaps the Bills decided that the broadcasts haven't proven popular enough to stand on their own, so enough was enough. The Bills gave the program a chance, and the program didn't succeed. How many people here listened to the Intense Milks Game of the Week? I hadn't even heard of it until I read McShea's article.

'88

Obviously a fellow St. Joe's grad.

Same here, and it disgusts me to say it, too. (But he's also a UB alum, so I've got at least some level of solidarity with him.)

Non-voting shares? No thanks, for me. That doesn't prevent what we all want to prevent. If you're only interested in the ROI, sure. But as numerous other people have mentioned (including you), the NFL no longer allows publicly-held corps to own teams. They're allowed to give franchises to whom they want; their rules.

You did?

That's insane.

Very nice. The ethnic last name bit was the funniest, for me.

Fast fact: If we had a thread about what radio jackasses picked for or against our Bills in every NFL market, in every week, that would be at least 31 threads (I'm combining the two NJ teams into one radio market). Who the F cares?

He's revealing his St. Joe's education, is all.

Your post is not politically incorrect and the campaign is out of control.

bump over the seventeen Maybin threads

I looked at the first four weeks and thought three weren't just winnable--but wins. (Of course, I got the last two wrong on the specifics.) At the beginning of the year, I thought the Bills could beat any of the four NFC East teams on the schedule--not that they would, but that they could; i.e., they are "winnable" games in my mind. Southern Maryland might be 3-1, but I'm not a believer. The Jets in Buffalo don't scare me as much as perhaps they should--they do have a very, very good defense. But I can also see Sanchez having a pick-fest out there. It's a winnable game, IMO, although maybe not as winnable as the three against the NFC East. I'm going to say 3-1 again. Possibly 2-2. No way worse than that.

Did you? When did you start thinking that? If it's at any point before approximately 4:30 last Sunday, I'm not believing you. Most people didn't even expect a 3-1 start (I know, because I did, and people were pretty critical of me).

Right on. Moreover, I don't think that the wildcat fools anyone (or "forces them to prepare") when the team runs out of it 95 percent of the time. I'd rather give the ball to Jackson against that mean Cincy front seven than screw around with Brad Smith.

He may be athletically gifted, but he's a freaking dumbass. He was a dumbass when he ran the ball out of the endzone and he's a dumbass now.

I'm almost proud to have to ask this, but what is a wizzer bat?

Granted, it may have been tough to find because "defer" is spelled "differ" in the title, but this is only a couple of days old: http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/136124-if-we-win-the-toss-do-we-differ/page__p__2267004__hl__defer__fromsearch__1#entry2267004

Here's what's sad: Of course, the Jills aren't doing the exams. But someone is, and they are reaching out to guys, 40-70, to get a health check done. More dudes get prostate cancer than women get breast cancer, but who gives a !@#$. right? There is less research money at it, no serious approach to prevention (as proven by the first page here). Look. If you're 40, get screened. If you're male, DEMAND ATTENTION. I'm glad the NFL does its pink month or whatever, and I love me the tittys, but WTF when it comes to ourselves?

I'm a little sick of the media attention, too.

Always defer unless weather dictates otherwise. (E.g., if a storm is going to roll in at 130pm, but at kickoff, there are clear skies.)

In this case, it's almost certainly former Razorback Darren McFadden.

Politically, sports, economics, you're right. I'd bet 85% of the folks living in the five boroughs can't find Buffalo on a map because that city is so self-centered. They can't even remember that a plane hit the Pentagon or a field in Penna., FFS.