LancasterSteve
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/showbiz/annette-funicello-obit/index.html
So sad your gone from us but very happy that you are free from the constraints of a crippled body. May You, the Angel you are fly with them , singing your songs of love for all to hear.
Thanks for the Memories Annette..........another couple of strands in the fabric of my life
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No more playbooks either, Switching to ipads
Fit right in with SISSY BALL: http://football.about.com/od/footballrules/a/The-Future-Of-The-Nfl.htm?r=et Forget ever seeing a football again, the game will played with bean bags. Un-necessary touching (not hitting..hiting will get you 5 years in the pen) is anywhere from a 5 yard to 50 yard penalty. Penalties are the only way a team can score. There are now 3,536 banned words during a football game. If you speak any of thesewords just once, the punishment is that you have eat a bar of Fals Napa soap and then become airborn for an indeterminate amount of time
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The main problem with the Sabres in my opinion has been Regier. He lucked into the perfect storm for the 98-99 season, then proceeded to decimate the team by allowing Briere and Drury, then Campbell to walk (without even an offer being made according to Briere and Drury). His philosophy has been to get a good goalie, surround him with average skaters, and hope he steals a bunch of games and/or one of the average players goes on a tear like Vanek did at the beginning of this season.
You can make a case that Vanek isn't average and you could be right. But he is certainly not in the elite category. But try and name a Sabre other than Miller and Vanek that is above average. As a matter of fact, it might be a bit of a stretch to call most of the Sabres defense even average this season.
In hockey, like football, it's all about the players on the roster. And it is the GMs job to get and keep quality players on the roster. Regier, in my opinion, has failed miserably.
You nailed it. Regier is in way over his head with the GM job as is Buddy Nix. I was hoping he would get the ax also. Talent....what talent ??? Vanek AND Miller....and,and IM still looking. The Sabres gave it a good go at Boston tonight but the Bruins superior talent won it for them in the third period
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Really? Huh. "Make no little plans"
Author of the plan of Chicago... It is why Chicago has wonderful public access to the lake and its parks...
. We were there about 5 years ago for one on my Navy reunions and the wife & I were very impressed with Chicagos waterfront. Liked walking out on the Pier. Wish Buffalo would go this route with more park land down there. Tiffs Nature Preserve is decent but small in scope.
As far as a stadium downtown, it would be a traffic nightmare. Only the I190 N&S and to get to it you have to go over the 2 lane skyway. In white-out snows it's shutdown. Only way out to the south is taking the 2 lane Furmann Park Blvd with radar traps by every rinky-dink fifdom. Once counted five going south on 5. On top of that the road is crap; potholes everywhere and has been that way as far back (maybe 40 years) as I can remember. Nice idea but the infrastructure of roads is just not good enough and cannot be expanded West- the lake or East- the neighborhoods of South Buffalo.
Another reason, I wouldn't want to see a stadium built on the waterfront is that the limited parking would most likely cause a total ban on any tailgating. No grilling, no booze and no fun so maybe it does make sense for the NoFunLeague to put the Bills new home trapped on the waterfront. One other minor point most of that land is the result of "hot" industrial waste dumped for 100 years by the steel companies and other industries. Years ago there used to be signs warning people to stay out of this area or that due to health concerns. I am fairly certain that no reasons were given.on the signs.What poisons will be dug up once the stadium is being built? What happens if it turns out too hot to continue going forward but in the meantime this radioactive waste has leached into the river and lake, ruining our water supply. It already has been doing just that in very small amounts into the lake by Bethlehem (sp) for a very long time but they are afraid of doing any removal for fear it will exasperate the pollution. Do we really want a stadium built on stuff like this? Do You want Your kids to roll around on ground containing cancer causing PCB's ?
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You have obvioiusly never been to the Fashion Outlet Mall or the Galleria, Ontario license plates fill the parking lots.
Money is at par and less taxes on this side. Many Saturdays there are at least 10- 20 buses from Canada at the Walden Galleria on top of all the cars from Canada
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Which brings up the question, inside info or smokescreen?
It's certainly very interesting that the Bills either didn't attend or underattended Barkley's Pro Day.
Quite a mysterious situation.
This smells of smoke. Heap praises on a guy you have no intention on drafting and "leak" it through a reputable media source. Like every draft, a lot of disinformation by teams is floating around
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5th rd????? He's trying to be funny.......I hope
No doubt Nassib will be way overdrafted. This is a very sub par QB draft class IMO
. i think the fact his longer throws are rainbows bothers some people.Rainbow passes die like shot ducks in the winds of RWS. No more Fritz clones
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OK I guess, depends on which draft site info one believes. Maycok said solid but not elite arm strength;but that there a few QB's in the NFL with elite arm strength. Also said that Buffalo would be a good fit for Barkley FWIW. Don't know what to make of this but the Bills didn't send anyone to USC's proday. Maybe airfares to LA were to high...........or maybe tey havve zero interest.
CBSSports: http://www.cbssports...-steal-the-show
I did watch Barley's workout. Short passes looked OK but seemed like some long passes got hung up but all those were into the wind. But then again I can't remember too many wind free days on the field at RWS. Entirely different from the stands. The wind on the field swirls and is very unpredictable. IMHO this was the reason quite a few of Fritz's passes died like ducks; he didn't have the arm strength to drive his passes especially when it got colder. IMO "good arm" won't be good enough at RWS.
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Does anybody know how Matt Barkley made out at his Pro Day today ???
OK I guess, depends on which draft site info one believes. Maycok said solid but not elite arm strength;but that there a few QB's in the NFL with elite arm strength. Also said that Buffalo would be a good fit for Barkley FWIW. Don't know what to make of this but the Bills didn't send anyone to USC's proday. Maybe airfares to LA were to high...........
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And Bob Lamb.
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Aren't we all??
Naw he's a youngster
Tough break for Valerie Harper....all any of us can do is say a prayer
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Espn sucks. Sirius sports breaks have had it as the lead story since it happened.
When dinosaurs roamed the earth and ESPN was new; it actually was pretty good. My bookmarks and pre-sets for ALL things ESPN have long ago been banished to the underworld.
Sirius= NFL Network
Direct TV= NFL Network Thats all I need. The rest of these pretender sports broadcasters, WGR included can kiss my butt
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Just an illustration of how little NHL hockey regsiters on a national level:
News of Ruff's firing is not among the top 10 stories on Sports Center..."Mel Kiper's Big Board", for the April draft ranks as bigger news....story is not amongst the "Breaking News" on the bottom ticker...they did mention, in passing, amongst the final 3 topics on PTI.
We shall see....but I think Ruff bares as much responsibility for the "zombie" part of this equation. I may be wrong, and I am hardly a Darcy Regier fanatic, but I still feel like there is too much talent on this team for them to be struggling so mightily. Darcy just collects the talent...some of these guys have talent, a lot of them in fact...but they don't play with urgency often enough. I think the Sabres issues have been more coaching than talent. There really is no reason this team should not be in the playoffs, even with the "skating dead".
Plenty of blame to go around and firing Ruff is the right first step. IM asking, was it Ruff's fault that the power play wasn't crisp and decisive...with bad passes ? or that players were so out of position all the time or even on a break to look so disjointed with their passes ? Was it Ruff's scheme that caused these guys to look like lost second gradrers when another team turns up the pressure ? IM asking how much of this was on Ruff ?? or could it be that Regier has aquired a fair amount of good talent that doesn't translate into a winning formula as a team. There has been no smoothness to this team and maybe now they won't be so ruff to watch (-:
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Nice guy my mother in law knew him & he gave us his tickets on occasion even for one of the games for the playoffs a few years ago when we played the flyers. He will find another job no problem. It was time to part ways though. The players on this team are mostly made up of marginal to below marginal talented NHL players & they have tuned him out. Which brings me to my next point. Regier should be on the same bus out of town with Ruff. He is the one that put together this heartless lack of effort team. IMO, Ruff did the best with the hand he was dealt for the most part.
I agree Regier should be fired. Put together a team of zombies. I have at this point lost all hope that this will ever be an above average hockey club with Regier responsible for bringing in talent that doesn't mesh as a team.
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So if you want to assess really bad real quarterbacks, you can not find worst stats than Dan Darragh from William and Mary who turned out to be a very good environmental attorney but a really bad NFL QB
Didn't start going to games with my late Dad until 1962 at the old Rockpile, War Memorial Stadium. Didn't miss more than a handful of games in all those years leading up to my going on active duty for the US Navy in August of 1971. Originally sent to the west coast and thought I was going to Nam, but then got orders for Command for the 6th Fleet out of Newport, RI. At the top of the hill where we parked our cars; I could pick up KB...(WKBW 1520 on the dial) and listen for the Bills score. Folks I got this stuff in my veins..
Now back To Darragh the only QB I have ever seen throw a backwards pass which the Bills lost. This kid was the original "deer in the headlights" look. Sometimes in the English language there is not a sigular word to describe the piss-poor play that we witnessed
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Jay Rosen: Super Bowl electrician.
No Doubt
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Ravens 31 - 27 late drive by San Fran just comes up just short
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More like the size of Maybin. The power of Maybin. The explosiveness of Kelsey and the out of position of Poz.
That about sums it up
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Seriously, where are all the Te'o supporters that were calling me ignorant and stupid a few weeks ago?
Has bust written all over. The Bills fell for an over hyped LB before in Poz. Slow, can't fight off blocks. There will be better players at the Bills # 1 pick
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Um, how exactly did Notre Dame become #1?
ND hype machine
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Really? Who did ND beat this year because they looked totally overmatched tonight. Te'o looks like Aaron Maybin in the NFL so far.
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We have all been scamed by the the ND hype machine. What a friggin disgrace for ND to be playing in this game. I hope the Bills don't draft anyone from this crappy ND team.
What is the first noise you make after the announcement?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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This is a family forum, so I won't repeat what I shouted after the Maybin pick. I doubt that a similar outburst will occur tonight seeing that I am going to be in the Jim Kelly club and Curly, Larry & Moe arnn't running the draft