Albany,n.y.

By Andrew "Not So" Sharp.

Knowing Ralph, the Bills clause probably is that Chan has to pay the Bills for every day there is no football : It's interesting that he cites "10 to 12 teams" & 12 teams have opted out of the coaches' pension plan. Players are paid one-seventeenth of their base salary with each week of the NFL season while pro coaches are paid proportionally throughout the season. "I'm really talking about 10 or 12 teams. There are 20 or 22 teams that treat their coaches very well and have great respect for them." Kennan said the coaches are "as close as they have ever been" to forming a union. Although he admitted it's not the result he wants to see, the coaches are "not afraid" to go that route. Any unionizing would not occur until after a new CBA is formed. Twelve NFL teams already have opted out of the league's pension plan for their coaches. The list: the Chargers, Cardinals, Falcons, 49ers, Saints, Bills, Patriots, Jaguars, Buccaneers, Cowboys, Texans and Redskins. The majority of those moves, Kennan said, were spurred mostly by a tanking economy, as early as 2009. As for how the coaches relate to the impending labor crisis, Kennan said: "There's enough stress in coaching already that now we're going to be docked 25 percent pay. We have nothing to do with (the lockout)." http://www.profootballweekly.com/2011/02/24/coaches-could-face-hefty-losses-with-lockout

I think our definitions of yelling are quite different. I didn't scream at the guy, just slightly raised my voice and voiced my annoyance at his lack of knowledge to do his job. My yelling is probably your whispering.

I was trying to be polite, that's why I said goodbye, but the guy was such a freakin' moron, not answering a single question with an answer that made any sense, he just got too annoying to talk to any more. If they are hired to talk about a product & they can't speak English, they shouldn't be calling me or anyone else in this country. He's the one who interrupted me, calling me out of the blue, not the other way around. The main reason I was so harsh was I was hoping the call was taped for review & the people who hired him would get the message to hire more qualified callers. I would have been very happy to hear my questions answered-they were pretty simple. For example, with cable the answers would have been simple to answer: "We have NBC, CBS, and ABC available On Demand in addition to many popular cable stations, but not all programs are available. They are usually available within 24 hours of their air date." It doesn't take a genius to know that answer.

Verizon just got approval for FIOS TV in my area. So today I got a call from Verizon about their FIOS TV. The call starts with the guy speaking broken English, stumbling over my name & making a horrible 1st impression. Then he tells me it's not a sales call but an informational call, so I ask him for some information on the availability of On Demand. First he starts rambling without answering the question, so I told him if he can't answer the question he's not qualified to be doing his job, so he asks how he can help me and this time I fire out a couple of specific On Demand questions: 1)Is On Demand available for the major TV networks? 2)If it is how soon after the program airs is it available? He answers by reading from a script the number of channels that FIOS has. By this time he was really getting on my nerves & I just yelled at him-you're not answering my questions, don't you understand English? Goodbye. I then hung up the phone. What is wrong with companies like Verizon who hire people to call you up who can't speak English & are so poorly versed in our language that basic questions stump them?

You're paying for 1 reason: You are getting less taken out of your check than you owe. That is actually a positive situation because it means you're not giving the government an interest free loan. The ideal situation is to always owe a little (but not enough to trigger a penalty). The people who get those huge refunds are either getting too much taken out of their checks or are getting tax credits because they're eligible to receive them because they are basically poor enough to receive credits and/or have a lot of dependents. Some who make virtually nothing get back more than they pay, so their refund is actually (non taxable) income. I'd rather make enough money to live comfortably all year than to have to count on a check from the IRS to eat.

I took it & scored either a 42.5 or a 45, depending on how you count the pages in the debatable question which originally says 17. I put 20 & the explanation said 20 is acceptable. Now I'm a great test taker when a test is heavily math or has sequence questions, but I can't see why a RB needs to have a high math aptitude. I'd rather have a guy who has great vision & agility than a guy who can figure out quickly how to convert letters into numbers and complete a sequence.

We don't have anything left from the trade. We got Trent Edwards & CJ Ay You (cut as a rookie) in the draft & then packaged the 2008 3rd round pick along with the Bears 2008 #5 for Marcus Stroud.

Very few remakes last more than a season. Hawaii Five O looks like the exception. Bionic Woman didn't even make it through the season, Wonder Woman probably won't either, but I'll still watch it until it gets cancelled.

I think the funniest thing in the thread was when Mayock was quoted as calling Maybin a 1 down player. Then someone says who is Mayock. Well 2 years later we now know Mayock was totally wrong calling Maybin a 1 down player-He's a NO DOWN PLAYER.

His points seemed quite coherent & logical in reply to your prior post. Point 1-You say it's believable that Nix had nothing to do with the Maybin pick. He replies that no matter how disfunctional the Bills are on draft day, it is not credible that the Bills brought Nix in to help them in the draft, named him the national scout & then ignored him entirely when it came time to use their 1st round pick. My comment-based on Nix's statements upon being hired as Bills' GM, he clearly implied that he wouldn't have selected Maybin, a 1 year wonder. Advantage: SJBF. Point 2-You basically said someone can't have it both ways. If you blame Nix for Maybin, you have to credit him for SD's drafts. Spartacus counters that AJ Smith may have had total control in SD and that you can't assume that Nix was responsible for AJ's success in the draft. Also, Ralph may view Nix as the answer to the Bills draft woes, but the way Ralph feels about his employees & the level of responsibility he gives them has no correlation to what AJ Smith/SD did. AJ could have ignored Nix entirely or used his picks, but you can't assume because Ralph values Nix's opinions that AJ felt the same about Nix. Advantage: Spartacus.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Back in the 1979 the NFL put pressure on the NY Giants to hire George Young. This was after fan boycotts including burning tickets in the parking lot & a plane flying over the stadium with a banner reading "15 years of lousy football-We've had enough."

The poll sucks-it doesn't allow a none of the above option. Of course, all mock drafts at this time of year suck, so the poll is no worse than any others that make a mockery of the draft.

I think this link might be what you're looking for. It isn't mentioned in the story, but the TV deal expired after the season & I doubt they'll get another one as good as the 1st. http://hamptonroads.com/2011/02/ufl-nearly-ended-its-money-misery

You just made John McCargo's day. Now he can tell everyone he's not a bust.

This has to be the worst idea ever proposed on this board. It's hard enough to attain team stabilty, now you want to throw that all away. The goal of most teams is to have a competent backup QB. All you have to do to see the insanity of this is to look at the Super Bowl champs. Aaron Rodgers was drafted in the 1st round to eventually replace Brett Favre. The plan worked. Under this "system" it wouldn't work for any team with an aging QB. I seriously doubt the players would want anything to do with this.

Maybin looks great too. Can't play a lick, but he's in rock solid condition. Receiver is the one place we don't need to bring in a guy at the end of his career like we did with TO 2 years ago.

I was watching Showtime & they had a half hour standup show with Brian Dunkleman. He made some jokes about Idol and when the show ended they had him commenting and he talks about how he made the dumbest decision in TV history when he quit Idol. One of his jokes was about once being on the same plane with William Hung thinking if the plane crashed, Hung would get top billing on the casualty list.

Egyptians tasting their new freedom. How do you say Go Bills in Arabic?

Cookie: Why do you describe Cameron Diaz as a homewrecker? A-Rod dumped his wife long before he hooked up with Cameron Diaz.

Looking at your original data & ddaryl's it's pretty obvious what the problem was: your source didn't include the 2010 season.

As I said in the other thread, that idea is absolute nonsense.

It seems like the old AFL guys don't like to pay coaches big bucks.

On the NFL commercial with the film clips of old shows, how many of you noticed that Cosmo Kramer's coat had a Bills logo on the sleeve? If you missed it, check it out: http://boston.sbnation.com/2011/2/7/1979912/super-bowl-commercials-2011-youtube-best-fans-ever-nfl-ad