Locomark Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Glad Jerry got a job writing in the huge metropolis of Lockport. Was the sports essay contest for the Athletic closed to his age category this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreggTX Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 (edited) I've always liked Sully and still do. He is brutally honest and some people just couldn't handle it. Even now, any criticism of the Bills however valid evokes flames of wrath on this forum. Get over it. You don't live in a perfect world and honesty is no sin. I can't think of a single local sportswriter that's remotely as forthright or interesting as Sully. Edited October 8, 2020 by GreggTX 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livinginthepast Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Sully is a Sports media legend in this town. Even the fact that he has been marginalized in his new job and has little exposure like he used to, yet he still seems to cause controversy is testament to that. I dont think Sully or any Bills fan for that matter has to apologize for being cynical or negative when it comes to this team. We lived through almost 20 years of a joke organization, bad coaches and utter dreck on the field. Having a skeptical take on this franchise is just common sense. That all being said, I think he is right in this article. The Bills are a team right now that could get to the SB and with a few breaks (on any given Sunday), win it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 5 hours ago, GreggTX said: I've always liked Sully and still do. He is brutally honest and some people just couldn't handle it. Even now, any criticism of the Bills however valid evokes flames of wrath on this forum. Get over it. You don't live in a perfect world and honesty is no sin. I can't think of a single local sportswriter that's remotely as forthright or interesting as Sully. Meh. Short memories make it easy to like people who take both sides of an issue and tell you how right they are all the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hapless Bills Fan Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 On 10/6/2020 at 7:56 AM, CorkScrewHill said: Signs of the end times: There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven and Jerry Sullivan shall complement the Buffalo Bills. https://www.lockportjournal.com/sports/sullivan-2020-bills-looking-more-and-more-like-super-bowl-forebears/article_da915606-06a8-11eb-b1d8-8fdf2b177889.html I'm not gonna go look, but I think he's still got a nothing-burger about Coach McDermott chewing out Matt Fairburn for violating Bills practice rules or something, stickied on his Twitter with an addendum trashing the Bills for discipling Chris Brown. it came up when I was searching for Fairburn's twitter account and typed "Matt" instead of "Matthew". Both McD and Fairburn have moved on long since. It must be getting lonely on Sullivan's Island 4 hours ago, Livinginthepast said: Sully is a Sports media legend in this town. Even the fact that he has been marginalized in his new job and has little exposure like he used to, yet he still seems to cause controversy is testament to that. I dont think Sully or any Bills fan for that matter has to apologize for being cynical or negative when it comes to this team. We lived through almost 20 years of a joke organization, bad coaches and utter dreck on the field. Having a skeptical take on this franchise is just common sense. That all being said, I think he is right in this article. The Bills are a team right now that could get to the SB and with a few breaks (on any given Sunday), win it. Meh. Sully went beyond "skeptical take"s. I remember him yelling that the Bills should extend Fitzpatrick immediately and not wait when the Bills got off to a 5-2 hot start in 2011. When the contract was signed, he praised it. Then next spring he tore into the Bills for their stupidity in a premature extension. He liked to play both sides of an issue and would never acknowledge that he might have been wrong. Now he's just petty, like posting a pic of the Press Box spread framed to make it look pathetic which a bunch of other reporters immediately corrected by showing the whole picture. That was a perfect metaphore for what he'd become: framing things in the most negative light. One can be a legend in many ways. I would say Aaron Maybin is a Sports Legend in this town, but it's not for a good reason. "Give back some of that money you ain't ***** earned!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locomark Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, GreggTX said: I've always liked Sully and still do. He is brutally honest and some people just couldn't handle it. Even now, any criticism of the Bills however valid evokes flames of wrath on this forum. Get over it. You don't live in a perfect world and honesty is no sin. I can't think of a single local sportswriter that's remotely as forthright or interesting as Sully. I think Sully is seat of the pants and is inconsistent in what he thinks. I lived in 2 major markets and by comparison he is a mediocre writer due to that constant inability to hold a view or admit when he was way off. Its all what you have been exposed to. It’s not his current viewpoint, which I am fine with. If I wanted to complain about terrible writing and being hard on the Bills unnecessarily, I would have mentioned Bucky.... Edited October 8, 2020 by Locomark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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