MattM

My wife and I were there for that. It was his rookie season and he was there with his girlfriend (who I believe he later married). Was a great guy who just hung out and talked football with the fans there. He couldn’t believe his luck to be playing in the NFL. My wife and I both walked away very impressed with him and he’s been one of our favorite players ever since. i just hope he’s ok going forward and can lead a normal life outside of football.

I don’t necessarily think it’s the league with a conspiracy (more likely the team itself, which has been caught cheating twice now), but there’s definitely something funny going on there.....

While I think Dareus is a talented player, it should be noted that he doesn’t even start for the Jags: http://www.jaguars.com/team/depth-chart.html

Some of those Pats no calls were obvious holds. At a certain point when it happens over and over, you have to ask why one team seems to always get the controversial calls/no calls go their way.....

They did their work mainly in the first half on that ridiculous PI call. In the second half, they chose to not call obvious O-line holds.

Welp.....

Nice!

Marcel!

There’s a first time for everything!

Does anyone doubt Riveron will bail them out?

Love that “Skol” chant!

Or just keep him in bounds and let the clock run out

Amazing—abso—f-ing—lutely amazing.....

Maybe he deserves scrutiny, too. Never said he didn’t, only that he’s a full year and a half younger than Brady. He also doesn’t play for a franchise that used to be the favorite destination for aging players who seemed to miraculously regain a step when they arrived there, and at least one of whom (who, somehow, miraculously considering this, is now a network NFL coverage guy—kind of as if Barry Bonds got hired to be a MLB analyst) got caught using HGH only by being dumb enough to use his own name in ordering it, and which at one point a few years back had 3 RB’s over age 32 (I struggled that year to find 3 others in the rest of the League combined). See Seau, Junior, Morris, Sammy, Taylor, Fred and Faulk, Kevin, among others. PS. I’m sure that Dennard suspension is coming any day now.....

If you paid anything at all for the “education” that you got, you might want to get a refund.... On the Brady vs Brees point, a couple of thoughts: 1. Brees is a year and a half younger than Brady—let’s see if he’s in the MVP discussion in the 2019 season; and 2. Last I checked, unlike Brady, Brees doesn’t have as a best friend a supposed “health guru” with a degree from “Fly-By-Night University” who claims to do what no one else in modern science can (and, oh, yeah, was hit by the FDA for lying about the effects of stuff he was selling, to wit, claiming his product cured certain types of cancer). Wow, I bet that guy’s legit.....

Does anyone recall refs EVER overturning a false start to turn it into a neutral zone infraction AFTER the initial penalty was walked off and implemented? Holy rigged games, Batman!......

Yup—they were all great. Was it my imagination, or did the Bills also get a lot of Curt Gowdy, too, when we were growing up?

Selmon Brothers, Leroy and Dewey for the expansion Bucs in the ‘70’s were both very good players, one ending in the HOF if I remember correctly.....

What’s TOP? It’s got to be 3-1 or 4-1

I could be wrong, but I recall reading that your sleep two nights before an athletic event is more important than your sleep the night before.....

Totally agree—that’s the awesome part of the Pegulas owning the team. I was doing cartwheels when they bought the Bills. I grew up in East Rochester (Fairport’s rival back in the day, perhaps hard to believe now considering they’re 6 times ER’s size), and was lucky enough to sit for a game in one of the Bills’ boxes due to a friend’s connections. I got to meet her and she was quite gracious and down to earth—we compared notes on growing up in ER and Fairport back then (I’m just a few years older than she is) and what we still loved about the area (for both of us that included Abbott’s on Fairport Rd!)— and she is indeed a fan, which is great to see. She and her husband have taken a bit of flack from time to time on their running of their teams, but it’s not for lack of trying or caring.

Neither of my kids were born (and onevis a mid-teenager)...,,

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I thought in the compromise bill, the $10k is either property taxes or other state taxes (i.e. Income taxes) as a nod to to NJ/NY/CA Republicans. http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/20/pf/salt-deductions-new-tax-plan/index.html I live downstate and many, many people here (if not most) are screwed by the new tax plan.

I think you knew what he meant--SALT used to be fully deductible (with possible fade outs for high earners), but now it's capped at $10k, which is a pittance when talking about salaries in the multiple hundred of thousands or more. Trump did indeed %*^# just about everyone in NY on that.....