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Thanks for the answer. I guess that works I will read it when I eat breakfast or something. I'm glad he emailed you. I guess it makes sense to somebody but from here, I don't see how they can run out of space? Like there is no paper in that online newspaper. Do they run you stuff in the paper-paper too?

I been poking around at TBN and I don't see it anywhere. I thought it came out Tuesdays

Great write up here Shaw. Thanks I enjoyed it. “I hoped the rain would stop before night set in.” Pure poetry. Here you use the rain is a symbol for decades of piss poor performance and night of course, is the symbol of death. I hope the rain stops before my night sets in too Shaw. “They're all gone, and they have not been replaced with household names. And yet, the Bills look like they're better now than they have been any time since the Bills started acquiring that talent.” I think it is partly the Team mind-set as you say, and partly that our perception of how good these players were was altered by the publicity machine. “The rain kept coming, but at least beyond Syracuse the traffic thinned out. Passing trucks was tough, with all that spray clouding my vision of the road.” I liked all this rain stuff. It was real to me because I was in that same rain yesterday, albeit loading and unloading my groceries. But I know it was a cold and rotten gloomy rain. And that part where it clouds your vision of the road on a long drive, I know that exact feeling. And that stuff drew me right onto the story with you. “I think the people in the lower bowl stood for the entire second half. And they made noise. That was impressive.” I actually hate it when the people in the lower bowl stand the whole time. Jump up when something cool happens or when in defense on third down I say. Different strokes. “The mens room was empty except for one kid wearing Raiders gear. I know how it feels to drive through five hours of crap after your team has gotten stomped. Ive done it for years. I didnt feel sorry for him.” I laughed out loud at the punchline there. “Holmes, by the way, seems to live with his toes inside the sideline. “ The weird thing for me is, of everything that happened, Holmes bopping his toes down like he did there was the single most healing thing for my soul in this game. I loved the look and the win and I am confused about how good this teams seems to be and that has unsettled me in a positive way. But the toes down inside bounds. We practiced that as kids my friends and I, imitating what our player heroes did. And for at least the last 15 years now I have watched Bills receivers not do that, or maybe do that, or maybe not, or act like maybe they never heard of that. They just keep running and turn a completion into an incomplete. We have lost games because of that. Because of something my pals and I understood and practiced when we were 10 years old. I didn’t even get angry about it any more. I guess I had thought the part of my soul that had hope the receivers would be willing to fall down to get a completion nowadays, had died. But Holmes and this new bunch who do actually do that, brought that tiny part of my dead soul back to life. It made me happy. Like your post here. Thanks Shaw.

What if a black guy said it to a black guy?

IM not a Trump supporter. But if I may since you touched on something I have noted. If you are a Democrat, you don't have a party. The Clinton Machine controls "your" party. I believe that is just a known thing isn't it? Why don't you guys react to that? Or , like, even seem to notice it? It is true that Republicans did NOT want Trump. But since they hadn't established air tight control, they had him shoved down their throats anyway, because of VOTING and Primaries. Y'all got "caucuses" . Your problem is bigger than Trump because you don't actually even get to choose your candidates in a fair and honest process. And as far as I see in the press at least, Democrats are oblivious to that. Anyway was just asking I don't mean t derail the thread topic. I think it is , if you don't think of black people as inmates.

I have lost track of who is on what side, but either way that was brilliant!

A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a lisence First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test. The optician showed him a card with the letters 'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.' 'Can you read this?' the optician asked. 'Read it?' the Polish guy replied, 'I know the guy.'

I need more information before I can decide what to think of the players reaction. If McNair has been a mean standoffish owner who uses people including his players, and they want to use this misstep to stick it to him, that is at least understandable. But if McNair has been a fair, reasonable, decent man to them, and they are excoriating this 79 year old man on the national stage for his use of a common expression that is awkward in this one context, then the players are racists. They are doing this to him because he is white. I don't know which it is.

Not sure how true this is but it is pretty plain. http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/alcoholism/risk-factors.html Risk Factors According to the U.S. National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, about 70% of American adults always drink at low-risk levels or do not drink at all. (Thirty-five percent of Americans do not consume alcohol.) About 28% of American adults drink at levels that put them at risk for alcohol dependence and alcohol-related problems. RACE AND ETHNICITY Overall, there is no difference in alcoholic prevalence among African-Americans, Caucasians, and Hispanic-Americans. Some population groups, however, such as Native Americans, have an increased incidence of alcoholism while others, such as Jewish and Asian Americans, have a lower risk. Although the biological or cultural causes of such different risks are not known, certain people in these population groups may have a genetic susceptibility or invulnerability to alcoholism because of the way they metabolize alcohol.

thanks great post

I agree. I think it is also counterproductive to what things they are trying to accomplish, to behave so stupidly.

Take the money out of it and see what happens to that statistic. I say a well to do person of any color is less likely to go jail than a working class person of any color.

Ralph Wilson kept Bon Jovi or anyone from moving the team. Unfortunately for Bon Jovi he or no one on his legal team, and none of his supporters, including Jerry Jones, thought ahead enough to check the circumstances Ralph had attached to the team via the lease. Ralph set a trap and they walked right into it.

Holy Leak Batman!!

FWIW I enjoyed your post. I appreciate good snark for its own sake. To KTD : Ok I have read your article there KTD. That was pretty good. I enjoyed it well done. Of course you are eager for my suggestions. I won't make you ask in case you are too proud. You can take your Commandeer joke along to future posts. A remark about how Tyrod has Commodored the Bills with his new and energetic practice habits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNLASyPsUU And then if we have a bad game, he can Commode the Bills. No need to thank me.

Thanks yung!

Thank you both. I was annoyed by the interface signing up, but now I feel better about it and I will go ahead and sign up today when I get a chance. KTD this article of yours better be good is all I am saying if I am going on the hook for 2.99 here. It better be DAMNED good. Now Josh, unsolicited advice because I can't resist the idea of expounding indirectly to Warren Buffet about how to make money. Poor fellow is bumbling around, searching for answers. I have found in other endeavors, and you will likely come to find as well, that Bills fans are a thrifty bunch. Now, we will pay for expensive tickets to see a bad team. We pay $30 to park a car and $9 for a beer and $34 for a $15 baseball cap. I can meet somebody new at a tailgate and they may hand me a beer and a plate filled with $15 dollars worth of food that they cooked themselves and they think nothing of it. So one might suppose $2.99 a month will be a super easy sell. It won't be. There is a thrifty side to the fans. Very thrifty indeed. But do not lose hope! I am here to help. In the olden days my family received a newspaper 7 days per week. But the belief was that it paid for itself. Between the coupons and the advertisements for money saving deals a family could easily save more than the subscription cost. I think you could put enough stuff in there to convince your subscribers that they were getting a good bang for their buck. They will be willing for you to siphon 10 cents per day out of their thrifty wallets if they see it as a bargain. Do you have coupons behind your paywall? Good ones? And genuine sales advertised on quality items that people will want? What about a comic? People love comics. Can you put a sports related comic in there? These are old methods but you do not have to reinvent the media or the newspaper model. You just need to redo the medium. If you obtain quality ads and quality coupons you will not have to push them into our faces, so to speak. People will look for them just as they used to. That's all for now but I think it would be a good start. Between coupons, desirable sales ads, comics and KTD's stories (which had better be good) I think you will have an easier time. Also get up to date on your payment options. People use more than credit cards nowadays.

Congrats KTD. This is pretty cool. I suggest that you take suggestions with a grain of salt (pun intended). If you try to be too inclusive of people's ideas what your column should like, I think you will lose your own vision. I wanted to be supportive and even though I had stopped reading TBN sports content when it was still free, I did begin this morning to go ahead and sign up for a month plus the two free weeks just to see what you are doing there. Unfortunately the formatting is such that I must enter my personal and credit card information before I am even presented with the terms. For example it is $2.99 per month billed monthly? Or is it $2.99 x 12 for an actual charge of $35.88? I don't know! The FAQ link on the sign up page goes to a 404 error. None of which is your problem I just want to say why I won't be able to see what you write there but I do hope it goes really well for you!

I think maybe with the focus on the top 3 guys there may be a a good candidate still hanging around in the later first round.

That could happen. Or they could wind up with stability at the QB spot for the first time in 20 years. We could wind up with somebody who we are not settling for because top QBs are hard to get. We could have somebody at QB who when we inevitably blame them for the losses, that we are actually wrong about it. Actually genuinely wrong. Ah well so far the new Bills seem to know what they are doing. We will see how things work out for us I guess.

This is my greatest fear. That aside, thanks for the RR and the perfect lunch time delivery made it extra special.

And God Said: Let My Shady Go!

I was mad at first when I heard about it. But when I watched it, I didn't think it was that bad. One big difference to me is that he was very plainly not after the official. He wasn't mad at him, he wasn't trying to do anything to him, and in some way it matters to me at least that the official put his hands on Marshawn first. I think the ejection and a fine is enough, or maybe add in a one game suspension.

I think most of the white males who have been bills fans for the past 20 years are pretty grumpy. But so are the black ones. And the white and black women Bills fans. I think pretty much all of us. #wearegrumpnation

Hello Josh, Pleased to meet you. I have some ideas that may or may not fit somebody with your business mission but let me leave deciding if it makes sense or not for TBN to you. That will save me having to outline that I am aware that I may not know what I am talking about more than the one time here at the top. So I would like to carry that idea through down the page please. I don't see you having asked us what you are doing that we don't like. Well played Sir. It says what should we be doing and what more of? I will stick to that, and saying what I would pay for. On analysis: From one statistic, on average teams score about 60% touchdowns to 40% field goals. In some cases teams have run more 50-50, with the difference being attributed to a backup QB having to fill in or stuff like that. So far the Bills have scored 8 touchdowns (7 on offense 1 on defense) against 11 field goals. So that is 42% Tds vs 58% Fgs, which is upside down from the normal average of 60-40. What is going on there? What does that tell us? (Besides that we have a great kicker) Next: I used to review the game footage in condensed form after games. So an hour's worth of film, but it would take me three hours to review it. One sees a whole different game when one does that. And from doing that I would learn that multiple news sources would report things that were not true. Stuff happens too fast in the game to see it without review. Some examples of hundreds, one team had our silent snap count, somehow. We were using a silent snap count and they knew what it was. I verified that with the coach later and he said the Bills picked up on it and they changed it at the half, which was apparent to me already from the film because it stopped in the second half. Another: Running back runs along behind the line to the right hand side. Tackle stuck his leg back too far and the RB tripped over it and disappeared into the crowd of guys. QB turns to the right because the play was designed that he was going to throw to the running back. QB sees no one there, and then got sacked by an unblocked man. I think his name was Pope. This all happened very very fast and was not easily understood by just seeing the play without my stop motion viewing and finding out what had happened. What was reported by all was the QB was confused, didn't know where the receiver was supposed to be, and also failed to pick up a blitz which was evident. None of that was true. What is clear to me is that nobody in the press watches a whole game repeatedly like that and then reports what actually happened. It would make a fascinating weekly column. And I would gladly pay a subscription for that because it would save me 3 hours or more of work. So that would be good. And more work evident in the reporting in general is something I would be glad to pay for. Here is another one that is very specific but heck you asked so here is my chance. I would like a story on who pulled the plug on the Bills message board and why they did not notify or thank or express anything at all to the fans who used it. About 2,000 of us used that board for 15 years or more and then one day last March, around noon I think, it was just gone. They didn't even tell the people who were running it for free for them, some for over 10 years, what had happened and they didn't email them after either. Who does something like that? I would like to know! And if it wasn't a whitewash non-answer BS reply accepted without challenge, I will sign up for 6 months of Blitz just to commemorate that one story. You have my word. Now THAT one might be a great job for Sully. Next, Shaw66 here writes game summaries that are as good or better than most of what appears in any press. I would add him in there. It is different enough that there wouldn't be much overlap with your other content. If you were to get me a 2 or 3 days press pass to Camp, I would give you a good story. Maybe more than one. It for sure would be different content. In your place I would do it. If I could get down on the field to move around easier and see more I would probably come out with something quite good. So there you go. Thanks for your interest in us guys and what we have to say.