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    354-396-8 says it all

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    That's correct, the Jets have sucked a lot over the years. However, there is one big difference between the Bills and the Jets. The Jets have a super bowl trophy.

    But my point remains, why are we surprised that the Bills suck? There is nothing in the team's history that suggests we should be shocked by yet another lousy season.

     

    The Jets won that trophy so long ago half their fan base wasn't even born. The bills 2 AFL championships a few years earlier are just as valid.

    In football the past does not necessarily predict the future (SAINTS). If you were a Jet fan, would you be posting on their board the teams overall record? That way the fans would know to stop wasting their time, because their overall record dictates the future is hopeless.

    For anyone who still thinks a new stadium is a good idea

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    The Ralph is a REAL Football stadium!!! Who needs retractable roofs and heated seats?! LOSERS!!! The reason you go see a football game in December is to freeze your cojones off and route on the Bills!!! If you want indoor sports, go to a basketball game!!! Enjoy the Ralph for what it is, a throwback to old time football and that's what it should be marketed as, ala Green Bay with the Frozen Tundra. Instead of arguing with the cold weather-hating media and out-of-town know-nothings, embrace our football heritage for what it is!!! We are a cold weather, blue collar city who likes our beer cold and our football stadiums COLDER!!!

     

    LETS GOT BILLS!!!!

     

    :w00t:

     

    I am pumped to get a sunburn on Sunday, but be to drunk to notice it.

    Go Bills

    Shawn Nelson Suspension

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    Agreed. I think it might be nice to give an update to dispel drug rumors. But there are reasons teams don't want to release any info. Once you make this comment (to help out Nelson) then you are expected to comment in every case, or you are damning by silence. The team's position (and most teams' position) is to stay silent on the infraction.

     

    Correct. By setting a precedent of silence on the matter, the teams can state 'you dont know all the facts' regardless of the scenario. He could have used a diuretic from GNC, or have been chasing his steroids with heroin and we would get the same response. There is most likely a clause in the existing CBA to allow for player privacy in most situations.

    Jake Long watch

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by rafter

    Do you think Jets fans care who Revis faces at WR? I will put money they don't. Having good players on a good team makes a fan feel comfortable about who they're going against but we never feel that way anymore because we don't have many "good" players. And it's a dam shame.

     

    You guys are watching Long because you know that's the ONLY chance Maybin has of getting 1 sack this season.

     

    Continue on with your "Sean Smith and Vontae Davis and Jake Long watches." Just shows the lack of faith you have in your players.

     

    It has been well documented by Jet fans and national media who Revis would be covering on a weekly basis. The fact that Revis could be out was definitely considered by all fans and teams that face the Jets this year. Player status matters and its your choice to be blind toward it. Don't be hassling us for doing what every fan of every other team does.

    Jake Long watch

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    When Bruce Smith was playing, did you care about who he was facing? Did LT care about who offensive line he was facing? Do you think Andre Johnson cares about what CB he's facing? Do you think Steelers fans worry about their defense facing the Colts as much as we would worry? NO. During the glory days, i could care less what defense we went up against because I had FAITH in our players. I didn't care who Andre was matched up against because I knew that Kelly would get him the rock.

     

    It makes PERFECT sense. If you had faith in your players and your team, you don't worry about these kinda things. Good players on good teams just do their thing no matter the matchup.

     

    If Bruce Smith was playing, and Richmond Webb was hurt, I think most would take notice. Injuries make a difference.

    Owners want 18 games, players don't

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    The players take enough of a beating in 16 games. But the NFL needs more games for TV. What to do?

     

    1) Reduce the pre-season to 2 games and maybe a scrimmage.

    2) Add a second bye week.

    3) Add Tuesday and/or Wednesday night games.

    4) Have teams coming off a bye play those games.

    5) Add 1 more playoff team per conference, from 6 to 7.

    6) Add an extra week to the playoffs by having the 6th and 7th seed play a play-in game to the wild card round.

     

    The result: Regular season is 18 weeks, playoffs are 6 weeks, pre-season is two weeks. More games for TV. Two new nights of NFL football. An extra week to the most exciting part of the season: the playoffs. Players actually play fewer games instead of more, but season is longer. Win win win!

     

    Discuss.

     

    PTR

     

    There are negative side effects to some of those proposals.

    3) I would not be a fan of adding any more games outside of the weekends. I have season tickets and travel nearly 6hours x2 to attend games. This would make more games that I'm paying for and not able to attend.

    More games, and games played during the week would dilute 'The brand'. Resulting in each game being less important and saturating the market.

     

    5) They are adding more games, not more teams. I like how making the playoffs actually means something.

    What a bush league city

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    my apologies on stevensville.

     

    but ya know what's curious: banana boy never told where he's from so that he could enlighten us on what this captivating hometown of his is like on a tuesday night, where the fountains perennially flow with gold, and the bartenders always have lovely stories of how the workers always stay downtown and never go home and never get too drunk and tip 40 percent, and where cherubs sing from gleaming spires of glass that reflect in the sun to form rainbow prisms on the always perfectly manicured park lawns, where dogs don't pooh, and kids run wild and free;

     

    it's a place where the newspapers -- all 17 of them -- have staffs of 613 reporters, each of whom works day and night to satisify these lustful cravings for baseball and football and even hockey, even if the sabres are out of the playoffs. but then again, in a place like this, the home team is never out of the playoffs, because they always win the champoinship, and all the minor league baseball teams -- from single A on up to quintessential A -- play before packed houses, and they never play a road game, and everyone catches a foul ball and goes home happy.

     

    it's a wonder why he'd ever leave.

     

    jw

     

    I'll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano.

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