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Expect 8 and 8 becasue you will never get much more than that out of this sad sack group of leaders.
You're exactly the type of fan our franchise DOESN'T need.
Why don't you join the Patriots bandwagon? Goodness knows there franchise is all about free spending and flashy stars to win championships.....oh wait....
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If you don't think anyone on this board doesn't "understand" this oh so subtle and complex point that you just so amazingly articulated for the first time in the history of this board, then you are the one with his head up his arse. The point is, unlike weathervane bandwagon pansies, us diehard fans prefer not to judas on over to the Chicken Little Crackhead Brigade. And even if we did, we wouldn't be stupid enough to parade our fair weatherness in front of the whole board.
Do what you want, people, for monetary or whatever reasons, just don't expect any of us to pat you on the back for it.
Now that is a great post Sketch!
Fans in Buffalo don't realize how good they've got it with an NFL team. I'm from Winnipeg. We had an NHL team called the Jets that meant so much to our city. Then the league started getting expensive and the Jets couldn't compete and hold the players they were drafting. The bad years started and the bandwagoners started falling off, they stopped buying tickets to "send a message" to the team. The team got the message, they up and moved to Phoenix. Our city lost our heart and soul and as much as I loved the place, it became a toilet. Now, all the kids who loved the team have grown up. They could have supported it a team but instead are leaving the city.
The Bills are the heart of Buffalo. It needs REAL fans.
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Fight Bills Go! We're going to win for Buffalo!!
Okay, so here's what I've gathered by Marv's statement at the restaurant.
To me "Go Bills" indicates that Marv will not be heavily pursuing any free agents this summer. The "Go" in combination with "Bills" says that he has no interest in resigning Nate hence why he is telling him to "Go" away from the "Bills" organization. I predict a 5-11 season based on this restaurant exchange. The Bills are doomed. And are moving to Toronto.
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The strategy didn't work for them last season, but it did in 2005 when they made the playoffs and advanced to the Divisional Round.
Their strategy at least gives their fan-base hope!
This Bills team is the 12th worst team in the league according to where we are Drafting and we are losing at least 2 starters from an average defense.
To take this team to the next level and give it a chance to compete for a playoff berth, they need a very aggressive offseason which won't happen according to Marv!
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?!? He just said they wouldn't go overboard. Overboard does not equate to agressive at all. Marv probably has the agents he wants targetted and he'll go after them to the worth that he thinks they are.
The fact that we're dissecting a friggin' press conference to figure out how our season NEXT year is going to go is ridiculous. All speculation now before free agency and the draft is a moot point!
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I wonder if Tom will do the right thing and marry that hag.
I'm sure it would be cheaper in the long run.Do you think the Patriots fan board is full of posts right now demanding that Brady be traded because of his inability to have unprotected sex? Obviously having a baby mamma means he can't play football good anymore. I mean we've got about 4,000 posts saying that about Willis right?
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You know, I haven't been on the board long enough when the Bills have had a winning season. Do guys like DeLuca still find things to b!tch and moan about if we're winning?
Stop PMSing now and wait until training camp before crucifying Marv. One press conference and some of you already have your panties in a bunch.
Chicken Little called, he wants his gimmick back.
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What do Dennis Green, Norv Turner, and "Mooch" all have in common?
They are all two time losers as HC because they all sucked.
Throw Pansy Pete Carroll on this pile as well.
With all the names being thrown out here, I still think best candidate is Mike Martz, with Mike Sherman being second.
Martz has already taken a team to the SB, so theoretically he knows what it takes to get there.
On this short notice, TC would make a great DC, considering he already knows Wades system.
As for the OC ..????
RUSS GRIMM. He was an eyelash away from being the Steelers HC. I think he is just jonesin' to be the top man.
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The Texans missed big time in not bringing Vince Young back to his hometown through the draft last year. If Young has a pro bowl career, this draft blunder by the Texans could be one of the top 20 draft blunders of the decade.
Blunders of the decade? Try "in the history of pro sports". What Houston has essentially done (passing on future phenom Reggie Bush & hometown hero (and now Pro Bowler) Vince Young) for a non-impact linebacker, will be a mark on their franchise forever.
I know it's a little early to say, but Mario Williams will be the Sam Bowie of the NFL. "The Texans took WHO over Reggie Bush and Vince Young!?!?"
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Practice what you preach. Your post consisted of two more words than mine, yet you didn't give your prediction. At least us "windbags" managed to stay on topic.
Miami hotel managers.
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And the escort services.
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Didn't the article say he forgets things. He probably forgot he had a concussion.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
THE BELICHEK DEI HAVE FOUND OUT ABOUT THE RELEASE OF THIS INFORMATION AND I AM IN DANGER NOW. PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN TO BREAK THE CODE
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SO DARK THE CON OF PATS
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Let the Belichek is a heartless monster chat start now:
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6434128
Johnson says Belichick ignored LB's concussion
Associated Press
Posted: 6 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) - Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson said coach Bill Belichick subjected him to hard hits in practice while he was recovering from a concussion - against the advice of the team's top trainer.
Johnson, who helped the Patriots win three Super Bowl titles before retiring two years ago, told The New York Times that a collision with another player during that 2002 practice led to another concussion. And, after sustaining additional concussions over the next three seasons, he now forgets people's names, misses appointments and suffers from depression and an addiction to amphetamines.
"There's something wrong with me," the 34-year-old Johnson told the Times in a story posted on its Web site Thursday night. "There's something wrong with my brain. And I know when it started."
The Boston Globe, which is owned by the Times, posted a similar story on its Web site.
Johnson, who played 10 years in the NFL, said he began to deteriorate in August 2002 with a concussion during an exhibition game against the New York Giants. He sustained another concussion four days later after Belichick prodded him to participate in a full-contact practice, even though he was supposed to be avoiding hits, Johnson said.
The next month, with their relationship already strained, Johnson confronted Belichick about the practice after the coach asked him to meet in his office.
"I told him, 'You played God with my health. You knew I shouldn't have been cleared to play,"' Johnson told the Globe.
Belichick told the Globe he got no cue from Johnson in practice that day that he was hesitant about participating in the full-contact drill.
"If Ted felt so strongly that he didn't feel he was ready to practice with us, he should have told me," Belichick said.
The Patriots did not allow Jim Whalen, still their head trainer, to comment for this story, according to the Globe.
Patriots spokesman Stacey James told The Associated Press on Thursday night that the team was aware of the report but was not prepared to comment.
In a story last month, the Times reported that brain damage caused on the football field ultimately led to the suicide of former NFL defensive back Andre Waters last November, according to a forensic pathologist who studied Waters' brain tissue.
"We have been focused on the issue of concussions for years," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the AP. "It remains one of our prime concerns as we continue to do everything possible to protect the health of our players."
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is expected to answer questions about the issue at his annual state of the NFL news conference Friday.
Dr. Lee H. Schwamm, the neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who examined Johnson, wrote in a memo on Aug. 19, 2002, that Johnson sustained a second concussion in that practice, the Times reported.
Schwamm also wrote that, after speaking with Whalen, that the trainer "was on the sidelines when he sustained the concussion during the game and assessed him frequently at the sideline," and that "he has kept Mr. Johnson out of contact since that time."
Johnson said he spoke with Belichick the next day about the incident, but only briefly, the Times said.
"He was vaguely acknowledging that he was aware of what happened," Johnson said, "and he wanted to just kind of let me know that he knew."
Johnson sat out the next two preseason games on the advice of his neurologist, but played in the final one. Then, thinking he was still going to be left off the active roster for the season opener against Pittsburgh, he angrily left camp for two days before returning and meeting with Belichick.
"It's as clear as a bell, 'I had to see if you could play,"' Johnson recalled Belichick saying, according to the Times.
Moments later, Johnson said, Belichick admitted he had made a mistake by subjecting him to a full-contact drill.
"It was a real kind of admittance, but it was only him and I in the room," Johnson told the Times.
After returning to game action, the linebacker sustained more concussions of varying severity over the following three seasons, each of them exacerbating the next, according to his current neurologist, Dr. Robert Cantu.
Cantu told the Times he was certain that Johnson's problems "are related to his previous head injuries, as they are all rather classic postconcussion symptoms."
He added, "They are most likely permanent."
Cantu, the chief of neurosurgery and director of sports medicine at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., also said Johnson shows signs of early Alzheimer's disease.
"The majority of those symptoms relentlessly progress over time," Cantu said. "It could be that at the time he's in his 50s, he could have severe Alzheimer's symptoms."
Johnson told the Globe he estimates he had at least six concussions in his last three seasons, but reported only one because he already had a reputation as an injury-prone player and he didn't want to make it worse.
"Looking back, it was stupid not to tell anyone," Johnson said. "But I didn't know then that every time you have a concussion, you are four to six times more susceptible the next time. I had no idea the damage I was causing myself."
Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association, spoke in general terms about concussions at a news conference Thursday in Miami, where the Super Bowl will be played Sunday.
"If a coach or anyone else is saying, 'You don't have a concussion, you get back in there,' you don't have to go, and you shouldn't go," Upshaw said, not speaking about Johnson's case specifically. "You know how you feel. That's what we tried to do throughout the years, is take the coach out of the decision-making. It's the medical people that have to decide."
Upshaw told the AP that concussions are one of the issues the union is examining this year.
"We've seen a number of concussions in the NFL this year, and as a result of our studies, we've seen a change in the helmet. We're also studying the effects of that on concussions," Upshaw said.
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HOCKEY SUCKS PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ITS BY FAR THE MOST WORTHLESS SPORT ON EARTH!
We've got a winner for most pointless post on the earth.
Marauders has a serious hate-on for hockey....per chance was your heart broken by a member of the US women's hockey team? Or let me guess, you bet your life-savings on the Russians in the 1980 Olympics.
Why are we even debating which sports are better? It's apples to oranges. If you like football more, good on you. If you're rallying behind the Sabres sweet run, then good for you.
TO EACH HIS OWN.
We can all agree that baseball sucks right?
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http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/NFL/Pla...489995-sun.html
Colts prez foots the Bill
Ex-Buffalo GM returns to Bowl
By ROB LONGLEY -- Sun Media
Indianapolis Colts President, Bill Polian (centre), along with owner Jim Irsay (right) pose for the team picture at Dolphin Stadium in Miami on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
MIAMI -- Unlike Jim Kelly, Andre Reed, Thurman Thomas and the rest of those lovable Super Bowl losers, Bill Polian is getting another chance.
"Hopefully we can take it just a little bit further than we did in Buffalo," the fiery Indianapolis Colts president said yesterday. "It's an honor to be here. It's what we play for."
Polian was the general manager of three of those Bills teams before being fired after that third consecutive loss in Super Bowl XXVII.
That run is still viewed as one of the greatest in league history, even though it didn't bring a championship to the hard-suffering sports fans of Buffalo.
Now in a different time and a different city, Polian is on the doorstep of the sport's biggest game yet again.
BLUEPRINT
In the past, he has talked about "the blueprint being in the drawer" when he arrived in Indy in 1998. On that topic, the no-huddle offence of Peyton Manning sure bears some resemblance to the one Kelly's K-Gun operation, and Marvin Harrison can match the big-play skills of Reed.
Mostly though, it is shrewd personnel moves that helped Polian succeed in both cities.
The first big one was in 1998 when he didn't waste any time making his mark by dealing popular quarterback Jim Harbaugh.
When draft day came, Polian defied some critics by opting for Manning over instant flop Ryan Leaf.
There was some draft-day wizardry the following year after he traded Marshall Faulk to the St. Louis Rams and needed to fill a hole at running back. Polian looked hard at Ricky Williams and instead settled on Edgerrin James.
Both in his years in Buffalo and in Indy, Polian has been the most active NFL executive to mine the CFL for talent.
This year's roster includes Nick Harper, the defensive back he snatched from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2001 and University of Calgary product, Dan Federkeil.
Polian has CFL legend Cal Murphy on his scouting staff to keep his tabs on three-down football, an allegiance that has strong roots. And when he wanted his son Chris -- now a Colts executive -- to learn the game, he sent him to Sacramento to work for that city's CFL franchise.
Why the connection? Longtime CFL fans know that before he became an NFL executive, Polian spent a handful of years in Canada getting his introduction to all aspects of managing a football team.
"Are you kidding me? When I became a GM in the NFL, I was one of the best prepared guys that nobody heard of," Polian said.
"Whether it was a scout in Montreal or personnel director in Winnipeg, I had to do everything you have to do to run a football team.
"It was the most fun I had in football. I was very well prepared by the time I got to Buffalo."
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Its Peyton.......
When I start getting down about the state of advertising in sports, I have a Coke and smile.
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sphincter says what?
What?
D'oh!
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I wouldn't call gettin worked up, i'd call trying to heighten the situation... ie.) half of the crap i say on PPP when Holcomb's Arm is talking. My object is to make this person continuously make an ass out of himself/herself.
In all my time on the Wall, I've never called anyone a retard before.
Times change.
Blue on Blue, you are a retard.
Kelly is right, you're lack of logic in dispelling American athletes ability on the global stage via a contrived arguement about team sports (most of your examples citing teams that are put together weeks prior to the event).
Canada's dominance in hockey is a result of a nation built upon hockey and nothing else. Save for winter sports, what else are Canadians good at. Our performance in the World Baseball Classic mainly consisted of Canadian athletes trained in the American system (college, farm teams, MLB, etc).
Canada plays football. I'm pretty sure the best CFL team couldn't beat the Houston Texans if we played 3 down football.
When it comes to basketball, its popularity worldwide grew because of the relative cheapness of the sport. The rest of the world caught up to America because, like soccer, any child can play it if he owns a ball and a hoop. It took years before the world caught up. Remember the 1992 Dream Team? They ran roughshod over everyone. The world watched, focussed, and more than 10 YEARS LATER learned to play the game.
The Ryder Cup is a joke. It's stupid match play style golf and no one cares about it but die hard golf enthusiasts. And even they b!tch about the stupid rules.
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Being retarded?
I never understood how the Bills couldn't sell out home playoff games. To me that smacks of a lack of interest.
I know this is going to offend a lot of people on the board, but the Bills should really market hard to the Toronto metro area. Create ticket packages that give transportation to and from games. Heck, I'm a gigantous Bills fan from Ottawa and I still make the trip out to Buffalo at least twice a year. In my office alone there are 15 Bills backers. The team should market itself to Canada. Canadians love NFL football. That would get you 10 to 15,000 more people to games couldn't it?
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Guess your momma raised you different. I'd be horrified if they promised him they wouldn't and then tagged him.
Think of the ramifications if the Bills went against their word. No agent in their right mind would ever consider an offer from the Bills once word got out that we aren't honourable.
BAD IDEA TO FRANCHISE CLEMENTS.
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Did the kid break the law? Yes or No
Ignorance is no excuse.
So if there was a law in the books that was passed in 1912 for South Carolina that stated it was illegal to flush your toilet 5 times, punishable by flogging, then you would be okay with being arrested for that and given the full penalty because some DA wants to see you 'take your medicine'?
Tell me in a post every law that's been passed in your state and I won't call you ignorant.
Give your head a shake.
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Oh please, you're telling me he didn't know the age of consent and that the girl was a sophomore?
If not, then he's an idiot.
Do you honestly think a 17 year old (considered a MINOR in the state of Georgia) would think that having sex with a 15 year old (another MINOR) would result in a 10 year jail sentence?
Come one Joe, everyone on this board knows this is a gross injustice and a Georgian egotistical bass-awkards b!tch of a lawyer trying to make an example of an 'uppity negro'.
He got screwed. I guarantee 50% of this board's members would be looking at 10 to 20 years of jail time in Georgia for the dumb sh-- we pulled in high school. Where do you think any of would be if we actually served that time?
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That prosecutor has the biggest ego drive going i've seen in a long long time. He is sitting there feeling proud of himself that he has the power over this kids life and all he has to do is come beg to him. Not do what's right and give him his life back, he wants the kid to beg for it. He is the definition of a tool.
When people make jokes wishing lawyers would just die off, this guy is your prime example. On the plus side, ESPN bringing this to national attention may put a lot of heat on Georgia. No one likes negative publicity and if this case was to really make the rounds of media, there would be action and fast.
Hopefully, this kid's future isn't already compromised. Talk about the system failing someone....
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It's not clear to me why (if the testimony at the time was that the girl was consentual and initiated) the jury didn't acquit.
There is something not said in the ESPN article.
Basically - this is a bit of a tearaway kid who smoked dope and drank and shagged girls at the age of 17 (and younger presumably) whom we are being asked to look favourably on because someday he might have had a chance to play pro football, or at the least Division 1 College football?
I don't agree that on the balance of the ESPN article he should be doing time, but all I am saying is that something is off with the stance they take. Just because he plays football doesn't mean there is no fire where there is smoke.
I think the gist of what this article is saying is that this kid is being made an example of by a state's archaic laws and the egos of the prosecuting attorney. The entire article made me sick. A kid gets a BJ and has to pay for it for 10 years of his life? So that a lawyer can feel good about himself. Good to see that Georgians are on the cutting edge of the law. It's no wonder so many people have little to no faith in the legal system.
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So with Coughlin getting his extension, we have the Raiders, Pittsburg, and Miami left, right?
You also spelt 'Pittsburg' wrong.....
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Outside The Lines, normally one of the few shows I watch on the WWL, is running a poll asking which nicknamed NFL post-season moment is the most memorable?
And to do this, they just showed Wide Right and Homejob Throwforward back-to-back (although they still insist on calling the latter something stupid like "Music City Miracle").
Bastages...
(On a serious note: we should go rig that poll for Franco or "The Catch", just so we don't have to endure even more replays of the above clips...)
Not all of ESPN hates us....we still have Boomer!
Last week when he yelled: "Nobody circles the wagons like the BUFFALO BILLS!" and proceeded to load his "Playoff Performers" with classic Bills moments, he put a smile on my face.
God Bless Chris Berman
How much would these guys cost us
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Thomas looks like he's agreed to a blockbuster of a deal with the 49ers. Somewhere in the neighbourhood of 8 to 9 million a year. A lot of teams can't afford that kind of jack.