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BillsPride12

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  1. 49 minutes ago, SirAndrew said:

    The roast was decent, but it seems we have a lot of secret Brady/Pats fans around here. 

    Think it's more so fans of Comedy than fans of Brady.  It was funny regardless of how you feel about Brady.  I wasn't even planning on watching it originally

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  2. I wasn't planning on watching this originally.  I was watching Vegas-Dallas Game 7 but then I noticed Twitter was blowing up last night about how funny it was so I decided to watch and it was so worth it and the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.  Kevin Hart was hysterical hosting and Nikki Glazer killed it.  Also thought Gronk was hilarious.  If you haven't seen it yet it's definitely a must watch.  Funniest roast I've ever seen 

  3. 7 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:

    Used to enjoy those 9ers - ‘Hawks games. Always pulled for SF though as I hated the Seahawks and still do. Agree with your take overall though for sure, those were great to watch. 

    Those games and the Steelers-Ravens games from around that era(maybe a little before then) were great 

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  4. 8 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    Maybe for your age group and your demographic but the next generation will just enjoy it for what it is. That's been the way since the beginning of sports. With each set of generational changes you get the generation that grew up with the old game who say "it was better in my day." I turn 40 in a couple of weeks *sobs* and me and my mates get nostalgic over Premier League soccer from the 90s when the game was played at 100mph and was a bit more blood and thunder. I made my 19 year old second cousin sit and watch a re-run of an old game with me over Xmas and he was like "this is utter crap it's so basic, just like a fight on a soccer field." His generation much prefer the smoother, more methodical, less physical style of today. I don't speak to any teenage Americans (I'm guessing there are not many of those here) but I suspect you'd get a similar feeling re. the NFL.

     

     

    You will have to ask the league why they always tend to go for early in the season. There are some ground availability issues as you get later in the year (they normally try and coincide at least one of the weeks with the Premier League break for international fixtures) but I don't think there is anything insurmountable. I wonder whether they think weather is a factor too that might affect attendances for the neutral fans who are not hardcore of either team. 

    That's a fair take.  Like I said in my original post the ratings and overall interest in the NFL aren't going anywhere.  

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  5. 6 hours ago, sleeby said:

    Greed. That will be the demise of the NFL.  Time zones, team travel problems (jet lag), not enough elite positional players for even 32 teams, language barriers, native preferred sports (soccer), etc.  Top of the NA food chain and just being greedy and spreading too thin and wide.

    The NFL is too big I don't see there ever being a true demise but I feel like the NFL will start to go the way of the current NBA.  Ratings and revenue will still be great but the purist fans of football will lose interest and the NFL will generally be talked about how much better the product was 10-15 years ago.  There's a lot of people on the board that deny this but I already see it in a lot of places how people talk about the NFL this way.  It's sad but money talks and that's all that really matters for the Owners of the league.  

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  6. 5 hours ago, Gregg said:

     

    The new stadium isn't big enough to hold the draft. They said 700,000 people showed up to Detroit for it this year. Fans of every team show up as it is a big event now.

    I have no idea how the logistics would look but if Green Bay can handle hosting a draft then Buffalo/Orchard Park could handle it too

    4 hours ago, Awwufelloff said:

    Didn’t a million+ just show up to Buffalo for the eclipse? 

    Those were projected numbers but then the weather ended up being bad in Buffalo for the eclipse and alot of people went to other places like Cleveland etc.. and they said they were nowhere near 1 million people in the Buffalo area.  I wish the weather was better because I was actually curious to see how the area could handle hosting that many tourists.  

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  7. 1 hour ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

    I don't get how Terry could have screwed this up so badly. Build around it, put a dome or a retractable roof and you can have tons of events in there. We could have held the Draft, a Superbowl etc. 

    I don't love the new stadium by any means but disagree with a couple points here.  I think Buffalo can still end up hosting the draft once the new stadium opens and we were never getting a Superbowl here no matter what.  

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  8. 10 hours ago, Another Fan said:

    I know as a kid growing up that magazine along with Playboy TV seemed the ultimate in risque adult stuff growing up.  Little did I know though that that was just the tip of the iceberg then.  Lol

     

     

    I have a couple magazines I hold as collector items/nostalgia kind of thing.  It usually involved me being a fan or liking whomever was on the cover.  I have the physical copies of the issues where Geri Halliwell, Cindy Crawford, and Lisa Rinna (pre-housewives) were on the cover.  I still have the Maxim and Blender magazines Christina Aguilera was on the cover in the early 2000s.

     

     

    Funny story if anything this thread is making me think of my late Uncle (R.I.P).  He lead a pretty minimalist lifestyle in general.  When my aunt and uncle went to his apartment to clean it out well it seemed he had years and years subscriptions to Playboy magazine.  Apparently he had hundreds of them in his apartment.  

    Apparently he wasn't as much of a minimalist as you guys thought 😄

  9. 4 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:

    You know a bunch of people here compare him to Kelvin Benjamin, right?

     

    Why give them this ammo?

    Kelvin Benjamin also was lazy and unmotivated.  I don't get this vibe from him at all.  He's allowed to enjoy good food 

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  10. 24 minutes ago, BeastMaster said:

    It would've not only cost us this years draft, but also next years to go and get one of the big three at WR

     

    The correct play was to then shift to reloading the roster and use the cap space and even better draft capital next season to go and get that big time player that can be a game changer. 

     

    Anyone who thinks we should have sold the farm for one of the top three would be groaning when the team has no young talent or depth once they falter yet again in the playoffs. We had a top WR and it didn't get us anything but playoff disappointment. You need a complete team with depth along with some playmakers to truly contend. 

     

    I think the plan is to retool this season, and then go all in in 2025 again with a big time addition on offense and defense. With a hopefully strong draft class this season, we will be in a prime spot to challenge again with another superbowl window wide open.

    Exactly!  Couldn't have said it any better.  The people that are disappointed he didn't swing for the fences and trade up and make a big splash are the same people who think this team was contending for a Super Bowl this year.  It was always going to be a 2 year re-tooling process and I think he did an excellent job plugging in the holes with this draft.  I can see him making more of a splash move next year. 

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  11. I've been saying it on here all offseason this is absolutely the beginning of a transition period/reset. Do not have expectations for this team to be a Super Bowl contender this year.  It just is what it is.  All in all I thought they did a good job of plugging holes this draft but they will still need at least one more offseason of work to really get this thing back on track.  

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  12. Drafting players and how they will pan in in the NFL is never an exact science.  Fans are allowed to have opinions.  Most of the time they are wrong lol.  But there has been plenty of times where Beane & Co. have been wrong themselves.  We just have to let it play out but of course fans are going to have their opinions 

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  13. 6 hours ago, Special K said:

    After an injury plagued regular season, it looks like the VGK is back!

     

    I wonder if any team has won back to back Cups with two different goalies??

    Detroit did in 97 and 98 with Mike Vernon and Chris Osgood 

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  14. 1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

    No. Labatt Blue/Rockpile section

    That was probably just the introductory phone call then.  I got one of those with my rep introducing themselves a few weeks ago but they said I wouldn't be up for the stadium experience until the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025.

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