FitzShowUsYourTitz Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I'd just like to say my birthday couldn't be any better. The Bills got me the best present of all. Damn. Are you telling me this was ALL for Your birthday????? WTF? I thought this was for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Again, no. His year two salary could be gauranteed and in theory would not count in their accounting this year - that isn't cash out of our pocket today(technically it's held in trust, but not paid yet) Ah, thanks again. Mathin' numbers confusing for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FluffHead Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 (edited) I hadn't been able to view the board today until now. I had been following on twitter, but anyway, I logged on and decided I wanted to read the board's reaction from when it was made official. I randomly typed in view page 167, and that was the exact page where the announcement was made official. It has been that kind of day!! GO BILLS Edited March 15, 2012 by FluffHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSaint Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Ah, thanks again. Mathin' numbers confusing for me. It happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACor58 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 NFL Total Access - both Billick and Baldinger crapped on the signing - said one player does not make us a contender. Baldinger, who is kind of a douche, said that he would have rather spread the money out on a couple of good players. I guess the forgot that we actually have a really good secondary -that may become great if we can put some heat on the QB. Our LBs are pretty damn good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy10 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Everyone is ground up and in the freezer after going through every possible emotion the past three days. Welcome to Buffalo Mario!!! I'm not ground up and in the freezer. But the ice in my vodka just was. Cheers, y'all. We earned it these last 48 hours. LET'S GO BUFFALO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glory Bound Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 NFL Total Access - both Billick and Baldinger crapped on the signing - said one player does not make us a contender. Baldinger, who is kind of a douche, said that he would have rather spread the money out on a couple of good players. I guess the forgot that we actually have a really good secondary -that may become great if we can put some heat on the QB. Our LBs are pretty damn good too. I just watched that! They also said Mario wasn't elite. grrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 NFL Total Access - both Billick and Baldinger crapped on the signing - said one player does not make us a contender. Baldinger, who is kind of a douche, said that he would have rather spread the money out on a couple of good players. I guess the forgot that we actually have a really good secondary -that may become great if we can put some heat on the QB. Our LBs are pretty damn good too. Really Baldinger? Which guys? If the Patriots had signed MW, they'd be rubbing themselves in oil talking about it being the greatest coup in football history. !@#$ them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrags Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Damn. Are you telling me this was ALL for Your birthday????? WTF? I thought this was for everyone. Nope. That's why they waited until today. You heard Mario say he pretty much made up his mind on Tuesday didn't you? Yup. All for me. Thanks for the gift Ralph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAinLack. Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Buddy said we'd be active up until Friday...., can we say "Encore"..., maybe?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airtas Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I just watched that! They also said Mario wasn't elite. grrrrrr That's cause Billick is still mad the bills didn't interview him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Too long a thread...anyone have a link to the press conference? I'd like to watch it. It's up on bb.com now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickelCity Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 It's up on bb.com now Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 NFL Total Access - both Billick and Baldinger crapped on the signing - said one player does not make us a contender. Baldinger, who is kind of a douche, said that he would have rather spread the money out on a couple of good players. I guess the forgot that we actually have a really good secondary -that may become great if we can put some heat on the QB. Our LBs are pretty damn good too. Thanks for another reminder of why I rarely watch those awful shows. Just a couple of morons blathering from a position of ignorance. Anyone paying the least bit of attention knows this is exactly the guy the Bills needed to maximize the impact of their two best existing defenders -- KW and MD. Good article here; I love that Mario was so interested in defensive scheme, the attitude in the locker room, how the guys on the D got along both on and the off the field, etc. That all says to me the dude is serious about his football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevestojan Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 We spread $100MM out already. On 52 players and 0 playoff wins. !@#$ anyone who doesn't love this... no, anyone who doesn't respect it. Don't let them get into your heads. !@#$ them, their horses, and their horses moms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 (Super) Mario "Freaking" Williams is a Buffalo Bill. At least for today, we stole every bit of thunder in the NFL and it feels sooooo good! My love for Buddy Nix grew more than the Grinch's heart today. Thank you Bills! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 1331854444[/url]' post='2410167']Naturally love the signing and the team's approach to getting it done. The entire organization should be praised immensely. OTOH, if you're that concerned about other individuals like myself who had the audacity to criticize after years of inept decisions, well so be it. Congratulations, you got 1 right after years of being wrong and are a huge credit to the board. It's a day to be thankful, not go after posters who. Get a life. Feelin' a lot of love around here tonight. Paying it forward, Matt183, I'm dropping the deal. It won't be me, anyway, that holds you to your word. Rejoice, Bills fans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewin Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Notable items during the dizzying 72 hours of courting of Mario Williams that led up to, or led to, his signing: - Free agency begins - amateur sleuths track plane call numbers - George Seifert is not seen at the airport - He's here! For real! - Meachum's here too! - They're going to dinner! - Meachum's going too! - Meach! uuummm..... Crap - He's staying the night! He's left Buffalo! He's staying the night! - Embassy Suites - clean, efficient, adequate. Suck it Brady - St Bona is leaving the airport for the tourney! Wait - wat? Mario?????? - A Man with an Awesome Stache there to greet at airport - Taurus getting oil changed - car with comparable fuel economy located - Fiancee forgives Man With Said Awesome Stache for not carrying her bag - Bridge to Toronto? - Initial blindfold plan scrapped - strategic use of "scenic" routes on trips to/from airport used instead - Efff Five? - Randy Constan server reaches record number of hits - She likes the room! - Enthusiastic heartfelt chants at Sabres game sent with love directly to Mario in Bills suite!!! Oh... - Nice Wives! - In most pivotal moment of entire saga - at the Kelly's, Jim does NOT get wasted and does NOT ask fiancee if she wants to meet his 'Wild Bill' - NO goddammit - for the last time, not even close to most posts in a thread! - Deer In The Yard! - WNY business productivity hits record low for 48 hour period - employers care less - City Of Good Neighbors - Signing imminent. PFT breaking news Mario left Buffalo two days ago - Showed Him The Money!!!!!! - Tens of Thousands of males in Bills Nation get something in their eye at the same time - Is this real life!?!? FUG YEAH!!!!!! - Ground Up And In The Freezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggieScooby Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 In the end Mario couldn't be super without the Bills! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I made a thread about it, but in case no one ventures outside this thread for awhile: http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/mario-williams-to-the-bills-fans-rejoice-and-then-worry/?ref=football The NY Times gives this thread a shout out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACor58 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Really Baldinger? Which guys? If the Patriots had signed MW, they'd be rubbing themselves in oil talking about it being the greatest coup in football history. !@#$ them. Ha ha. I am picturing Billick pouring oil on Baldinger's block head and playing with his nipples. Gross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAWNDO Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 (edited) Notable items during the dizzying 72 hours of courting of Mario Williams that led up to, or led to, his signing: - Free agency begins - amateur sleuths track plane call numbers - George Seifert is not seen at the airport - He's here! For real! - Meachum's here too! - They're going to dinner! - Meachum's going too! - Meach! uuummm..... Crap - He's staying the night! He's left Buffalo! He's staying the night! - Embassy Suites - clean, efficient, adequate. Suck it Brady - St Bona is leaving the airport for the tourney! Wait - wat? Mario?????? - A Man with an Awesome Stache there to greet at airport - Taurus getting oil changed - car with comparable fuel economy located - Fiancee forgives Man With Said Awesome Stache for not carrying her bag - Bridge to Toronto? - Initial blindfold plan scrapped - strategic use of "scenic" routes on trips to/from airport used instead - Efff Five? - Randy Constan server reaches record number of hits - She likes the room! - Enthusiastic heartfelt chants at Sabres game sent with love directly to Mario in Bills suite!!! Oh... - Nice Wives! - In most pivotal moment of entire saga - at the Kelly's, Jim does NOT get wasted and does NOT ask fiancee if she wants to meet his 'Wild Bill' - NO goddammit - for the last time, not even close to most posts in a thread! - Deer In The Yard! - WNY business productivity hits record low for 48 hour period - employers care less - City Of Good Neighbors - Signing imminent. PFT breaking news Mario left Buffalo two days ago - Showed Him The Money!!!!!! - Tens of Thousands of males in Bills Nation get something in their eye at the same time - Is this real life!?!? FUG YEAH!!!!!! - Ground Up And In The Freezer CLASSIC, THIS THREAD SHOULD END WITH THIS. Edited March 16, 2012 by BRAWNDO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I made a thread about it, but in case no one ventures outside this thread for awhile: http://fifthdown.blo...y/?ref=football The NY Times gives this thread a shout out! That's *awesome!* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 - Signing imminent. PFT breaking news Mario left Buffalo two days ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 (edited) Notable items during the dizzying 72 hours of courting of Mario Williams that led up to, or led to, his signing: - Free agency begins - amateur sleuths track plane call numbers - George Seifert is not seen at the airport - He's here! For real! - Meachum's here too! - They're going to dinner! - Meachum's going too! - Meach! uuummm..... Crap - He's staying the night! He's left Buffalo! He's staying the night! - Embassy Suites - clean, efficient, adequate. Suck it Brady - St Bona is leaving the airport for the tourney! Wait - wat? Mario?????? - A Man with an Awesome Stache there to greet at airport - Taurus getting oil changed - car with comparable fuel economy located - Fiancee forgives Man With Said Awesome Stache for not carrying her bag - Bridge to Toronto? - Initial blindfold plan scrapped - strategic use of "scenic" routes on trips to/from airport used instead - Efff Five? - Randy Constan server reaches record number of hits - She likes the room! - Enthusiastic heartfelt chants at Sabres game sent with love directly to Mario in Bills suite!!! Oh... - Nice Wives! - In most pivotal moment of entire saga - at the Kelly's, Jim does NOT get wasted and does NOT ask fiancee if she wants to meet his 'Wild Bill' - NO goddammit - for the last time, not even close to most posts in a thread! - Deer In The Yard! - WNY business productivity hits record low for 48 hour period - employers care less - City Of Good Neighbors - Signing imminent. PFT breaking news Mario left Buffalo two days ago - Showed Him The Money!!!!!! - Tens of Thousands of males in Bills Nation get something in their eye at the same time - Is this real life!?!? FUG YEAH!!!!!! - Ground Up And In The Freezer Awesome! The only thing you forgot was: - Lettering on "F5" button worn off on thousands of Bills' fan's computers due to an unknowable number of refreshes of a certain thread on TSW. Edited March 16, 2012 by ChevyVanMiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Notable items during the dizzying 72 hours of courting of Mario Williams that led up to, or led to, his signing: - Free agency begins - amateur sleuths track plane call numbers - George Seifert is not seen at the airport - He's here! For real! - Meachum's here too! - They're going to dinner! - Meachum's going too! - Meach! uuummm..... Crap - He's staying the night! He's left Buffalo! He's staying the night! - Embassy Suites - clean, efficient, adequate. Suck it Brady - St Bona is leaving the airport for the tourney! Wait - wat? Mario?????? - A Man with an Awesome Stache there to greet at airport - Taurus getting oil changed - car with comparable fuel economy located - Fiancee forgives Man With Said Awesome Stache for not carrying her bag - Bridge to Toronto? - Initial blindfold plan scrapped - strategic use of "scenic" routes on trips to/from airport used instead - Efff Five? - Randy Constan server reaches record number of hits - She likes the room! - Enthusiastic heartfelt chants at Sabres game sent with love directly to Mario in Bills suite!!! Oh... - Nice Wives! - In most pivotal moment of entire saga - at the Kelly's, Jim does NOT get wasted and does NOT ask fiancee if she wants to meet his 'Wild Bill' - NO goddammit - for the last time, not even close to most posts in a thread! - Deer In The Yard! - WNY business productivity hits record low for 48 hour period - employers care less - City Of Good Neighbors - Signing imminent. PFT breaking news Mario left Buffalo two days ago - Showed Him The Money!!!!!! - Tens of Thousands of males in Bills Nation get something in their eye at the same time - Is this real life!?!? FUG YEAH!!!!!! - Ground Up And In The Freezer That deer is the unsung hero of this story. It should be given apples and acorns for life. Maybe a parade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdand12 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I was just telling.my dad how the bills haven't won a playoff game since I was 8!! Hopefully the bills win one in his lifetime(I'm 26) he's a giants.fan so if we won soon it would be a double whammy hed go out on top Lets hope so! our prospects look better lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevestojan Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 (edited) Can we please change the suffix of this thread to SIGNED please? Edited March 16, 2012 by stevestojan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickelCity Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Can we please change the suffix of this thread to SIGNED please? I was thinking the same thing. Or, "Mario Williams: Buffalo Bill" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdand12 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 not that it matters, but just between us... was the deer real? Great post stvewin and should be the final one to lock one our most memorable event in a rather long while. should be a "sticky?" so we can review and laugh about how foolish and giddy and spurned and hopeful we have been. Mods i sugeest you put this one in the glass box under the security lights soon! Great ride folks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I made a thread about it, but in case no one ventures outside this thread for awhile: http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/mario-williams-to-the-bills-fans-rejoice-and-then-worry/?ref=football The NY Times gives this thread a shout out! We'll have to enjoy the irony when the site crashes with a bunch of new members because of a NYT article about the site that quotes Jay Rosen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewin Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 We'll have to enjoy the irony when the site crashes with a bunch of new members because of a NYT article about the site that quotes Jay Rosen. Would have been better if they named the source as Jay 'Rubeo' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 We'll have to enjoy the irony when the site crashes with a bunch of new members because of a NYT article about the site that quotes Jay Rosen. I think the rig handled things well today. I never really saw any signs of true distress... and this was its largest test yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 not that it matters, but just between us... was the deer real? Great post stvewin and should be the final one to lock one our most memorable event in a rather long while. should be a "sticky?" so we can review and laugh about how foolish and giddy and spurned and hopeful we have been. Mods i sugeest you put this one in the glass box under the security lights soon! Great ride folks!! Hero deer identified Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Hero deer identified sweet tail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I think the rig handled things well today. I never really saw any signs of true distress... and this was its largest test yet. We definitely don't need a bigger boat. The rig was awesome. Just poking fun at Rosen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 We'll have to enjoy the irony when the site crashes with a bunch of new members because of a NYT article about the site that quotes Jay Rosen. Holy Crap! Glad I saw the article first and not this. Quite a shock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrags Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 CLASSIC, THIS THREAD SHOULD END WITH THIS. Agreed. The post of the entire ordeal. At one point I was hoping this thread should go on forever. At least until MW has retired but then again he'll probably retire as a Bill and then we can come back and talk about how he'll be a HOFer and another Jim Kelly type in BLO. But I think this should end with this post with an updated "F5 keys break and wear down to metal nubs across WNY" as stated by Chevy in another post and then sealed and locked into a box for all future fans to see the thread that led to the turnaround of the franchise for our children and grandchildren to enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 In hindsight, WE !@#$ING GOT HIM!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills1960 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 can we please make this 300 pages long? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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