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    Multiple people shot at KC parade.

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    4 hours ago, Lost said:

     

    Raising our children to be decent human beings might help too... just a thought

    Sure. Let's do that. But not everybody will be able to, so I don’t see this as any solution. In the presence of so many lethal weapons, there will always be enough bad actors around to commit such atrocities. 
     

    I think the number of weapons and the type of weapons are the fundamental difference between the US and other countries.

    Multiple people shot at KC parade.

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    Mental health issues are a problem in every country, but no other country on the planet has the problems with gun deaths that the U.S. has. You can't solve this through "better access to mental health treatment" though I am all for that. 

     

    350 million weapons in the hands of citizens are the problem. It's too easy for bad actors to murder the people around them. The numbers can't be reduced unless you reduce the number, availability, and lethality of the weapons in our country.   

     

     

     

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    Do you wonder if the league is fixed?

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    6 hours ago, The Red King said:

     

    That's...not what I meant by 'fixed' at all.  In fact my last reply (right above your quoted reply) pretty well explained what I meant by it.  In detail.

    What you said ["We want <x> to win, see what you can do."] amounts to a conspiracy in the league offices. 

     

    Refs make lots of bad calls and miss lots of obvious penalties. It's the nature of the game and of their job. They can be influenced for and against a team by the crowd. Some refs are incompetent.The league should have full time professional refs. 

     

    But the fact that some players and fans (including me) will say a team "had to beat both the opponent and the refs" is not evidence that games were fixed. 

     

    I could more easily believe that some individual refs might be paid by gamblers or the mob to make or ignore particular calls (as has happened in pro basketball) than that the league would throw a game to Kansas City because of Taylor Swift. That is idiotic.

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    Do you wonder if the league is fixed?

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    If by "fixed" you mean the outcome of games is consciously determined by some conspiracy in the league offices, this is beyond idiotic. 

     

    But the United States if full of people who believe idiotic conspiracy theories right now, so I guess believing this would just be more of the same brain-dead business as usual.  

     

     

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    The Most Embarrassing Day in Bills’ History

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    3 hours ago, st pete gogolak said:

    The recent back and forth whether to move on from McDermott because he “can’t get us over the hump” takes me back to one game: Super Bowl XXVII against the Dallas Cowboys.  The Bills had an up and down 1992 season, failing to win the division and losing Kelly to injury last game of the season.  The playoffs, however, were memorable, starting with the Comeback against the Oilers, followed by impressive road wins against the Steelers with Reich again at QB, and the Dolphins, with Kelly back at QB.  
     

    The Super Bowl, however, was a debacle and an embarrassment.  No question Cowboys had a very strong team and frankly a better team.  It shouldn’t have been a blowout.  It’s interesting to look at stats and play-by-play from the game.  Bills had more first downs and total yardage was relatively close.  Final score - 52 - 17!  Two key sequences. Down 14 - 7, Bills has second and goal from Dallas one.  Two runs and an interception followed.  Later, Bills down 21 - 7, Bills had first and goal inside the Dallas 5 and settled for a FG.  That was pretty much all she wrote.  The embarrassing part was that the Bills fumbled eight times and lost five and threw four interceptions, two each by Kelly and Reich.  Nine turnovers in the biggest game of the year!!!! 
     

    It’s hard to imagine a less well prepared team going into a big game.  Levy was a good coach, not a great coach. It was clear after that game that he’d never lead the Bills to a SB win.  Do you fire a coach who has led you to three straight SB’s?  In hindsight, the answer is, yeah you probably do.  Blow it up and let your GM start the rebuild. Instead we fire the GM and keep the coach.

     

    Does this give any insight to our present situation?  I think yes.  McDermott should be on the hot seat this year.  Super Bowl or bust.  If we don’t do in 2024, time to move on.

    I remember being flabbergasted back then that they fired Polian when in my opinion Levy needed to be shown the door. 

     

    However, I'm one of those who is not convinced that firing McDermott is going to result in a better result for this Bills team. I actually think McDermott is a better coach than Levy. Those 1990s Bills teams were loaded with talent, more talent relative to the rest of the league at that time than the current Bills are relative to the other AFC teams. 

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    Josh made the right call to go for the TD

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    41 minutes ago, Success said:

    I am beyond tired of the national hand-wringing about that play.  It was THERE.  I've actually heard fans argue that what Allen SHOULD have done is to just keep picking up small chunks, and then score a TD with just a few seconds left on the clock.

     

    As though you can script something like that perfectly.  Then there is a holding penalty, or sack, or turnover, or you just can't get in the endzone.  Allen saw Shakir wide open for 6, and he went for it.  And, as we all know, if Chris Jones gets there a half second later, that's a TD and we're likely up by 4.

     

    I'm like, is that the best that you've got, Allen haters?  The guy plays a great game, should have had at least 100 more yards and another TD if his receivers could hang onto the ball - and you're saying "same ol' Allen" because he went for an OPEN TOUCHDOWN.

     

    And I hope Mahomes throws 3 picks this week so we can all see the double-standard.  It won't be nearly as analyzed and dissected.

     

    Chiefs will lose to the Ravens—as have in every playoff game they have played after beating the Bills. 

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    Chiefs players of years past

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    On 1/20/2024 at 10:53 AM, Stroke 17 said:

    Going back to the old AFL days at the Rockpile, one of my 1st games.

     

      BUCK BUCHANON, OTIS TAYLOR, JAN STENERUD, WILLIE LANIER, QB LEN DAWSON AND COACH HANK STRAM.

     

    A few that jump out at me. 

     

     

    Mike Garrett killed us in the '66 title game. 

    Sorry to say... But Diggs is done.

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    My experience tells me that whenever anyone begins a sentence “Sorry to say…” what comes afterward is something that they are not at all sorry to say, something they have been eager to say for a long time, just waiting to throw into the face of their listener.

     

    I think that this is 100% true for this grammatical construction.

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