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I too graduated OP and had Tundo in Gym. He isn't the brightest guy but he has a great sports mind. He consistently gets his football and Lacrosse teams deep into the state tournaments, and this is a guy that had never picked up a lacrosse stick until he started coaching. He simply knows how to get alot out of his players. I don't understand how any one out of OP could have anything bad to say about Tundo, he is an OP legend.

what play would you have wanted him to challenge?

I liked watching Art on Empire, so thanks for posting this. Like you said a real blast from the past

thanks. that makes sense.

Yes, I also thought this. My father and I couldn't figure out how they stopped the clock both at 50 seconds and 14 seconds left in the half. I had thought they had only had one time out left going into the final minute of the half. The announcers never said why the clock stopped at 50 seconds and they never flashed how many time outs each team had left. It obviously doesn't matter now but I was pretty certain they were given four time outs there as well.

I am really hoping to get knocked out this week

i will have no voice tomorrow.

watched it on tv and it looked like everyone there was having a great time. Wish I would have gone to the game.

I dont know about for Bills games, but I went there for a Sabres game last year and everyone in the place was a Buffalo Fan. So I would assume it is a similar occurence for Bills Games. Kelly's is quite a bit smaller than McFaddens though.

That peter pan site is hilarious. I know it is old, but every time I see it I die laughing.

BINGO

Well they did guarantee that Cleveland would get a new Browns expansion team the next time the league expanded, and this was during a time the league was planning further expansions in the near future. So I would say the league did Cleveland one better by guaranteeing to right a wrong done by Modell. Also, there is a huge difference between a bus ride from TO to Buffalo and the plane trip from Cleveland to Baltimore. So, for those two reasons I would say your example isn't very comparable to the current Bills situation.

Well every league in the states has some sort of CBA, that is just a bargaining agreement between capital and labor. Since all the pro leagues have unionized CBAs have become part of the sports landscape. So all the leagues in the US "push" CBAs. Secondly, their is a good chance that the league will be uncapped in 09 which could potentially lead to the end of the cap era and the end of a competitive league. The Craft's and Jones' are going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, because of their exceptional greed. In five to ten years there is a good chance that the NFL will be similar to baseball with 5-6 good teams and the remainder will all be farm teams. This will be Paul Tagliabue's legacy, by forcing a horrible CBA on the owners they are now willing to opt out and possibly put the competitive integrity of the league in the balance. Also, LA doesn't have a team because they couldn't support one in the days when fan attendance actually mattered. Now that TV revenue has become so important as well as luxury seating, don't be surprised to see a team there sometime in the future. The next three to five years will show whether the NFL really is any better the other major leagues in maintaining a competitive product, but I have a feeling some of the traditional markets are going to be losing teams to both LA and Toronto. If I were you I would stop drinking the NFL coolaid, because I have a feeling the league we all love today will be drastically different in the very near future. All that said the NFL has the best product right now because of the cap and if the owners are all on board with that idea and can convince the players of that, then this league may be able to remain competitive in the long term. However, I am not holding my breath, I will enjoy the next few years of good football and hope that they aren't the last.

Thanks for the amazing post, brought a couple tears to my eyes. I am only 22 so I love hearing about the 60s and 70s as those are the seasons all of my fathers stories come from. The super bowl years were my founding years of being a football fan (and sports fan), which has allowed me to appreciate how truly special a championship would be for Buffalo. Being only five years old I fell asleep before the end of Superbowl 25. However, my father and mother woke me up to watch the final kick, and I remember bursting into tears the second it went wide right. That really is my first solid memory of the Buffalo Bills, and the heartbreak all Buffalo fans are forced to endure. When the bills re-sat the stadium about ten years back my father moved our seats to below the press box, in the final row. We literally sit right below where the national guys do the telecast and a few seats over from where the local guys sit. For the first few years after his retirement Van would sit right above us and give us high fives whenever the Bills scored. It was pretty cool. The best was the day he brought a whistle to the game. He would blow it ever few minutes, and for the first quarter I couldn't figure out what it was. Finally, he leaned over the railing far enough and blew the thing right in my ear (because no one sits above us we stand on our seats the whole game, so he didn't have to lean over far). It was pretty funny and he couldn't stop laughing at how high I jumped. Anyways, I just wanted to add some of my favorite memories that I have developed over an admittedly much shorter period of time, but I hope some day to have many more great memories and hopefully they include many more Superbowl years.

I thought we had picked Thomas because of the cell phone thing as well and was pleasantly surprised when we went with McKelvin.

if we can beat them the final game at home I would be very pleased. Assuming of course that the first 15 games go well.

very cool, will definitely be looking at it on Saturday.

I agree that the mock draft stuff gets really old probably sometime in February, but it is still fun seeing who will be Bills next year. I usually watch the first dozen picks or so and then keep espn on in the background waiting for the bills picks. But, I know almost nothing about most of the players in the draft and I don't pretend to, I watch some college ball but it is impossible to know about every player that is projected to go in the first let alone all 7 rounds. I just like the idea that in one minute these guys go from basically nobodies to millionaires, kind of an interesting day.

my birthday is may 2nd so hopefully the punishments will rain down next friday

W-Sept. 7 Seattle Seahawks 1 p.m. L-Sept. 14 at Jacksonville Jaguars 1 p.m. W-Sept. 21 Oakland Raiders 1 p.m. W-Sept. 28 at St. Louis Rams 4:05 p.m. W-Oct. 5 at Arizona Cardinals 4:15 p.m. Oct. 12 Bye W-Oct. 19 San Diego Chargers 1 p.m. W-Oct. 26 at Miami Dolphins 1 p.m. W-Nov. 2 New York Jets 1 p.m. (thanks for spotting my miss beerball) L-Nov. 9 at New England Patriots* 1 p.m. W-Nov. 17 (Mon.) Cleveland Browns 8:30 p.m. L-Nov. 23 at Kansas City Chiefs 1 p.m. W-Nov. 30 San Francisco 49ers 1 p.m. W-Dec. 7 Miami Dolphins (at Toronto) 4:05 p.m. W-Dec. 14 at New York Jets 1 p.m. L-Dec. 21 at Denver Broncos 4:05 p.m. W-Dec. 28 New England Patriots* 1 p.m. 12-4 and a AFC east title won on the final day of the season.

One of the reporters asked a similar question in the press conference and the response was that he will be playing LT for dolphins.

this is why i don't understand why players always try to get long contracts. If I were a player I would prefer short contracts that allow you to negotiate every few years without looking like the bad guy. Especially in the current sports market where the next guy to sign always gets more than the last, it really makes no sense from a players stand point to want such long deals yet it seems that they always ask for more years than less. If you aren't going to respect the contract by the middle of the deal you might as well have signed for less years, giving the flexibility to negotiate another contract before your career is over.

Was this topic started because Schopp is being fired or is this just for fun. Because, it would be awesome if he got the ax.

difference is all of those cities got a team back at some point. If the Bills leave Buffalo there will not be a team returning to the region.

I think this college paper thing with April fools is pretty stupid. In the Spectrum every article was a fools prank, so I don't think anyone would fall for any of them (which IMO the point of the day is to fool someone). If you want to publish an additional paper that is always phony like the onion that is fine, but printing an entire edition full of make believe is stupid. It would be much more likely for someone to be fooled if all the articles were real except for one or two of them. Then the reader wouldn't be able to look at the other titles and realize that it is April 1. Just my opinion, but if they are trying to emulate a real paper, printing an entire bogus issue is ridiculous. I also wasn't impressed with the decision to Print the Ralph Wilson article.