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The Pats will lose... ... because I am rooting for them now!

My last two dogs have been Chows, a very easy breed to housebreak... but there are some common things to keep in mind: 1) As some here have said, a puppy has little bladder/bowel control until they near 4 to 6 months old. This means that you have to take your little puppy outside OFTEN! At 8 weeks old, they need to go out every two hours, even through the night. Trust me, this is the most difficult time to have a puppy, especially when it's the dead of winter when they happen to be this age. Even if you have a fenced-in yard, invisible fence or other tie-out option, you really should go outside WITH your puppy to make sure that she "goes" and to offer profuse praise (a nice, high happy voice saying "Gooood!") when it happens. This is very, very, very important! Shirk your responsibility at this formative age, and you may have a dog who has accidents for years to come. As your puppy get older, she will need to go out less and less frequently. (I wanted to have a party when my dog, Koko, first made it through the night without having to go out.) 2) Whenever you dog "goes" in the house, offer a firm and stern "NO!!!" and quickly take the dog outside. Do NOT strike or punish the dog in any other way! Make sure to clean the accident area promptly and thoroughly to prevent it from becoming a habitual problem spot. 3) Try to monitor your dog's needs and get a sense of how often and when she needs to go out. Typically, a puppy will have to go after sleeping and after lots of activity. 4) Be patient, be kind, and be consistent. It takes time and effort to train a dog to live in a house with us, something that does not come naturally to them. Know that it is all well worth the effort, though! Good luck and enjoy your new friend for life!

He already has Belichick beat in one area: his man-boobs are more prominent!

Props and (measured) respect are in order, but that doesn't mean I have to like them! Since 1995 the Bills are 6-14 against them - with more than a little bit of help from the refs in two infamous games and thanks to Donahoe being snookered into a trade that brought their weakest link to us, freeing them to leave us as the sole AFC East team without a Super Bowl win! On top of that, their coach has all the warmth and personality of a vinegar-soaked rag... and their obnoxious troll fans, bragging rights in hand, have infested the Wall for more than two years now. I really hate the Patriettes more than I ever hated the Dolphins and I will probably continue to hate them until we ditch the Statue and figure out a way to beat their arses in humiliating fashion twice (or more) each season. So there! Die, Patriots, Die!!! DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!!

Nice tribute! I still like mine, though: Die, Patriots, Die!!! DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!!

I use Quicken 2000 for Mac, but I honestly don't use the online stuff. My recommendation: Do not EVER use anything from Microsoft to manage anything remotely critical to your life or finances!

Thanks for a refreshingly different post - and welcome to the Wall! Your uniform concepts are great! We desperately need to get back to a three-color uni after living with our hideous six-color rendition now. (Yes, it IS six: two shades of blue; white; two shades of red; and a curious touch of silver.) Every time I look at our dreadful road uniforms, I just cringe... While I am not really a fan of having the logo on the sleeves (from a design standpoint, it's redundant) - I do understand some peoples' viewpoint that it's good for the jersey, sans helmet, to be recognizable as "Buffalo Bills". All in all, your concepts incorporate a nice blend of modern and retro. I do think you should send them directly to Mr. Wilson, along with a persuasive letter showing how they better represent the grit and blue-collar tradition of the Buffalo Bills than the current uniforms. If your uniforms were ever adopted, I would buy a jersey! Good luck!

Oh and another thing... The Hall of Fame is the PRO Football Hall of Fame, so what Kelly did in the USFL also counts. (In two years with the Houston Gamblers he threw for 9, 842 yards and 83 TDs!... but I'll bet Simms could have done that, too. Yeah, right.) Did they even mention the USFL in their discussion?

Why should anyone care what these two dumba$$es think? Hell, they think that the two NFL teams that play in New JOISEY are actually New York teams!

Happy New Year, Chris! How's your Photoshopping going? Did you hear about TiVoToGo? It's not out for Mac yet, but they say it will be shortly. It should make your Bills game DVD editing a lot easier, shouldn't it? I'm very psyched about it!

JP should start in any games against New England regardless of who is the official Bills starter. Being the headcase that he is facing his old team, Bledsoe cannot beat them. If Bledsoe is the starter, his record against NE will be 1-8. Let's face it: the path to the Super Bowl is going to go through Foxboro for the next several seasons barring any major developments - - - and they are Bledsoe's "daddy".

Tom, I'm just quoting you so I can reply to your "You can't handle the glockenspiel" tag. I'm probably one of the few here who can proudly proclaim that I handled the glockenspiel for three years in my high school marching band. It was not pleasant holding on to one of these wearing only white cotton gloves during sub-zero degree night games... but I never dropped it!

Ron Jaworski still thinks that he is a very, very good quarterback, for goodness sakes!

Scott, it was someone from Hawaii if I recall correctly. Hope that helps.

All I'm saying is that Flutie was better than RJ. Heck at age 42, he's still better than Bledsoe!!! As for Brees, I don't want another "Drew" under center. Or another Rob. Or another #11. Bad Karma, man. Time to move on.

Trading for Bledsoe was a horrible idea right from the start as far as I was concerned. After Donahoe pulled the trigger on it, though, I wished I would be proven wrong. Unfortunately, I wasn't wrong. As long as Bledsoe is the starter we will lose twice a year to New England (who is loving every game of this blessed "experiment") and we will never win a playoff game... IF we ever even get to the playoffs. I don't know which Donahoe decision was worse: the trade for Bledsoe, or going with RJ over Flutie. Doug Flutie: He Just WINS!!!!

Happy New Year, folks! I haven't been able to watch a game in a long, long time... and even when I was in Elmira last Sunday they televised the Jets/Pats game. I know everyone is bummed, so I uploaded a new (generic) Bills wallpaper for you. Click on Buffalo Bills Stuff

Thanks for the hat tip! I'm glad you enjoy the wallpaper, Fan in San Diego... For 2005, I'll be redesigning the wallpaper template and also add some generic wallpapers as many have requested. (I just haven't had much free time lately and decided to wait until the new year to create these.) As always, TBD input and requests are always welcome! (Nope, I won't be doing any Bledsoe wallpapers unless the Buffalo Bills SPECIFICALLY indicate that's whom they want to feature!)

Yeah, Drew had a decent game... so let's extend his contract! [/sarcasm] All I can say is, if Bledsoe is still in a Bills uniform next season, I will take a season off from being a Bills fan.

Sorry if I'm just not very observant, but how long has Bledsoe been wearing this thing on his wrist? Has he had it all season? Longer? Without going into a lot of commentary, it reminds me of the "dummy" notes that Vinnie used to wear when he and Parcells were with the Jets. The days of quarterbacks calling their own plays are long, long gone. Perhaps the days when they even remember the plays will soon be gone, too.

Sorry, but I couldn't help but think about that old campfire ghost story... Who stole my golden arm? WHO STOLE MY GOLDEN ARM? ...YOU DID!!!

Did you ever see such a look on Jim Kelly's face when he was on the sidelines for the Bills? Drew is a sad-sack loser. I can't even stand to look at him anymore.

Good points, all. I'd also add another personality trait not listed: toughness, mental and physical, that matches the character of the city in which they play. I want Darryl Talley-type players who play like it's a summer's day when the temperature hits 20º below zero... not huddle around the heaters in October like these guys do. Oh, and I'd shed those fuggin' ugly assclown uniforms that Donahoe brought in. I am so sick of looking at them, especailly the humiliating yoked road unis. Pitiful. Bring back the uniforms of the Jim Kelly era, possibly with a darker blue all around. (Using two shades of blue is aesthetically wrong.)

I do not even want Bledsoe ON THE TEAM anymore!!!! He's a pitiful moping loser whose influence can not be healthy for a young quarterback in the wings. And don't give me the "he mentored Brady and he turned out okay" argument, because it doesn't apply here. Get rid of him - and send "genius" Donahoe packing, too.

We are never ever going to go to the playoffs again with !@#$ING Bledose! Get rid of the POS bastard!!!!!!