BadLandsMeanie

Are you describing your colonoscopy?

It takes me at least 3 to 5 hours of watching all 22 game film to understand what really happened in the games each week. I think it costs me 80 dollars too. So I will subscribe to anybody who will write about what actually took place in the games in without a boatload of jargon. 2.99 is nothing compared to how much time it takes me to know what is going on out there. It is fascinating all the stuff that really happens out there. But I am not going to pay anybody to read about Bills games when I then still have to go and do the job of finding out the reality myself. NOBODY writes the story of the games. "Made substitutions" ... "made adjustments". Why? That is just, boring and tell me nothing. It could be like, Miller was getting beat so they brought the fullback in to help him but then the Pats attacked that set up by..... and so on. Every game is like that. Coaching minds struggling against their counterparts and player against player and guys getting beat and their buddies helping and somebody steps up and pulls the team's berries from the fire with an insanely good play.. Stuff like that. Its wonderful. Why I want to pay to read crap that sounds like a stock market analysis? Gimme that I will pay 10.99 Meanwhile I will do it myself at home with less than ZERO of the access the press have. The sporting press is being beaten because they can be beaten. Period. Make it so you are very, very hard to beat at what you are doing and then you will probably not have to worry about how easy it is to get what you do, for free in 10 other places.

Wow!! You have your battles on here but basically you don't go off on people. So when you do, it gets my attention and carries more weight. Wow.

Coincidentally, I just read an article in Popular Science about that very thing. Two points to add to your words. One is, it is more likely to be hacking that takes the power grid down. And they are fighting hacking probes from unknown places every day. People somewhere testing vulnerabilities to just that. Probably armies in other nations. Then, if the electrical grid goes down, we have about 3 days before we run out of nearly everything. All foods that require refrigeration, any medicine, any ability to bank, make payroll, communicate, even water needs electric pumps. Everything goes away. Everything depends on computers which must have electricity. There is no back up system. They don't even teach kids to write in cursive any more. Even worse is if someone gets control of the networks before they bring the power grid down. They could just wipe bank accounts for example. All of them. Any financial records that are electronic. I only read that yesterday and haven't had time to process it, but it scared the crap out of me.

I can agree with that part.

Change isn't what puts them out of business. Failing to adapt does it. Your two examples, Sears and Penny's make tremendous examples. Sears and Penny's were mail order businesses. Sears I think is the company that paved the way for the very business model Amazon is using now. Look in the Sears catalog, order it, it comes. 120 years later Amazon is putting them out of businesses using an updated model of what Sears itself used to become a giant. Sears is owned and run by people who don't know what they are doing. All they had to do was look at Amazon and think just a little bit. They could have crushed it. Or purchased it. Instead they made ineffectual half efforts. Same thing with TBN. Buffet doesn't know what he is doing with newspapers and doesn't care. He just wants to squeeze what cash he can get out of them before his papers die. Hearst would know what to do. Hearst would not be sitting wringing his hands. Hearst or someone like him who is a Newspaperman would see the opportunity in change and then act to turn it to his advantage. None of the newspapers are owned or run by minds like that. They are being run out of business by entities that are owned and run by minds like that. agreed. Fairburn pumps out the work.

Well I know that newspapers are in trouble. That doesn't make what you said true. Do you understand? "They simply are two provocative columnists who provoke their readers. That's what columnists do." Person after person on this board has very vocally told the editor Josh that they will not read or subscribe because they dislike what some of the columnists do so intensely. So they are not simply provoking their readers. They are losing them. Driving them away. And not just for themselves but for the entire paper. They can't even feature them in advertising. Who is going to pay for that? Put an endorsement for Jerry in your ad and you will sell less cars than if you hadn't run an ad at all. They don't have endorsements like that but that same effect bleeds over. Association with the Buffalo News is a negative for your business. But according to you all that animosity has no effect on anything and it is me who doesn't understand and I need to get a clue.

He says as they get squeezed out. What they are getting paid for now is to go away. This is a remark that is intert with respect to the events taking place. As if you had no ability at all to integrate the new information or the topic at hand into your opinion. So you just said the old one like nothing at all has changed. Weird.

She's not. She kept putting kimchi on the hot dogs and she got fired.

How do you know?

That is just the sort of leader I want at the helm when times get rough! Going all the way back to George Washington at Valley Forge who said "Gentlemen was are fighting the world's largest Empire. We are doomed" Very inspiring.

Good post. But they will not listen to reason. The NFL may have made this worse. They keep being owned by Donald Trump who I think they almost universally regard as an idiot. Yet Trump did this to them with a few tweets and some remarks in a speech. All of which amounted to maybe 10 or 15 minutes of his time. The players and owners should reflect upon what it means to be taken advantage of and outwitted by a moron.

That was a great article you wrote. Thank you. We can afford a stadium. But if my name was Pegula I wouldn't want to share ownership of it with the state or county. Because what we can't afford is a giant modern stadium that gets used 10 days a year. We can afford one that gets used a lot just fine. I could make money on it. Of the 32 teams the Raiders are the only ones who have a clear advantage of location over us , now that they are moving to Vegas. I wish they would let me build the stadium. But since they won't I am just fine with New Era and I like it. Except for more bathrooms and they used bolts that are too long on some of the seats and they poke my knees. I would put in correctly sized shorter bolts, and more bathrooms.

It is a mistake to put a Canadian in charge of anything unless you have beer, Tim Horton's doughnuts, or hockey tickets to keep them under control. It is a nice forum though. The people in it? That is on a case by case basis. But the forum itself is top notch! Thanks to all who make it happen for that!

Cash? He is worth 5 Billion overall if I remember correctly. 4 billion in cash is different.

Lets go with it being a creative way fans can help their team? So we can look and learn to support our football Bills better!

I don't recall the details really. I have a feeling you know though. ? I just recall from having read a number of articles that the Jets put in a ton of effort that was unusual even by NFL standards.

Maybe but Iooked into it a bit. Beane had said he had not met with all of them yet. And they he didn't have his board finalized. And the Jets were reported to have done way more work on this early on. But since everyone is lying all the time about the draft, you never know!

Looking at it my way, I think Beane got the same thing the Jets did, but at a substantially lower price. I think he did good. What I mean is the Jets traded the 6th overall, plus three 2nd round picks, to assure themselves of at minimum, the 3rd QB taken in the draft. That means of course they were good with at least 3 of those guys. The Bills got the same opportunity, but for the 12 overall and two second round picks. And some extra grey hairs for Beane that the Jets guy didn't have to worry about. Beane had to have guts to let it play out under live fire as the draft unfolded. And he had to guess right that the Giants wouldn't go QB. But after that, Cleveland wasn't going to take another QB and Beane had a deal with Denver to get their spot so he pretty much knew by doing that, that they were not after a QB. And it worked out good for Beane and us that Denver took Chubb. That way we only had to trade up to 7 because again, he guessed correctly that the Colts were not taking a QB. So he was in the same position the Jets were in, which is he was in the place where the 3rd QB in the draft would fall to him for sure. because he played it right. Bu he did it way cheaper. And he got a QB in the top 10 in the draft for the first time ever in the History of the Buffalo Bills. He did good. And he gets it. We need a QB. We got to have a QB. And for me even if he misses on Allen I would still keep him around for another go because he did it. He went up and got one like nobody else we ever had ever did before. Beane did get outmaneuvered by the Jets because the Jets were way ahead of him in their QB evaluations. So te Jets were able to make their move early and lock in at 3, before the Bills even had their Qb draft board set. But Beane made up for it he got himself where he needed to be. There are negatives you glossed over, and so am I for this article, so I won't chirp about that.

A Kingcognito thread?

I think you are missing the point though. Companies spend their advertising dollars in the way that works the best. If advertising in the local paper worked, they would do it.

All of that is probably true. But I think if they can not find a way to use their advantages in advertising they are all done. I think they should be focusing on that. Put another way if I was CEO of TBN my word to the troops would be something like. "Headline 2 years from now. "Retailers are struggling across the nation, except in Western New York. Read why" And the why will be us ladies and gentlemen. Let's get to work." This guy's letter was more like : "Cutbacks, And We gotta do something" They are dead. The advertisements are artless, and actually annoying. I had a paid subscription and the top 1/3 of the page was some big ad, for trucks or whatever, pushed in my face that I had to read around. My thinking is they know who I am, my name, they know where I live, they know what I read. They could even know with little to no effort, where I buy my groceries. That is a tremendous advantage which they make no use of. They push ads in my face in a random way. Like google does. I had typed in , you name it, teddy bear in my browser for some reason and then google will show me teddy bear ads for the next 2 weeks. Meanwhile I was unable to search the ads in the buffalo news. I saw no interface to do that. I want a mattress who has one on sale? No way to know. A lawnmower? No way to know. No way to search. I can't have a preference list that the paper would notify me of ad for items I am interested in. They could easily have an advertising experience tailored for me that I myself helped to set up. What are the specials at my local supermarket this week? If I want to know, they come. I like a certain type of music. Any artists coming? I could be sure i would know automatically. They could regain their position as an indispensable resource to the community. Such that you are at a disadvantage compared to your neighbors if you do not subscribe. And your life will take more time if you do not subscribe. Instead they push random ads in my face. Oh well.

It would be fun to watch them pull it out of the nosedive. But again it is a very bad circumstance to be in deep financial trouble and not even know what business you are in. They don't know what business they are in. They are in the advertising business. But people will not buy ads in the newspaper. What this means is, that the ads in the paper are ineffective. If the ads were effective they would sell like hotcakes. Their focus needed to be to find out why their ads don't work for the customer and fix it. That's job one and they are still not doing that even as the ship is taking on water.

I love them thank you.