Bruce Smith Puts Jerry Sullivan In His Place in 1997

[MJS]

2 hours ago, JohnNord said:

Jordan Poyer apparently ran off the field saying “Where’s Jerry Sullivan at,” promoting Sullly to respond:

 

Turns out he was right.  Bruce was not up for Sully’s questioning and he responds with this hilarious blistering of Sully.  Just know there’s a few curse words below:

 

 

 

Wow, he was even less hansom in 1997 than he is now.

[Breakout Squad]

2 hours ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:

Don’t get embarrassed and writers won’t ask you if you’re embarrassed. It’s really that simple. 

They weren’t embarrassed 😞 

2 minutes ago, MJS said:

Wow, he was even less hansom in 1997 than he is now.

 

[CincyBillsFan]

2 hours ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:

He’s an award winning columnist. Hate him if you must, but the man can turn a phrase. Not sure he cares what players think of his abilities. Yeah, he was overall negative during twenty years of drought era football here - shocking. 

He's a local hack - nothing more.  The guy doesn't provide any insight and he's obnoxious as hell.

 

 

[Breakout Squad]

So Jerry Sullivan took a shot at the defense. Poyer and Hyde were naturally upset and IMO reasonably perturbed because they are literally a top 5 defense. Poyer on an insane adrenaline high calls out Sullivan’s uncalled for question from the previous game. Sullivan sends a snarky tweet disregarding their contribution in this big win.

 

I think Sullivan crossed the line somewhat and deserved to be called out. Allen was AMAZING but the D did their part. Thanks for listening 😛

Edited December 28, 2021 by Breakout Squad

[Niagara Bill]

Seriously, Sully was and is a writer who leans to the outrageous side, but he is talented and not a schill. He wrote during an era where the Bills ad dollars controlled radio and print.

Today Bulldog is weak, Schoop is an idiot who wants to talk cards, Sal Joe etc lean very heavy to the positive every day. 

Jerry survived when Dickerson couldn't, who went way too far and personal.

Every town and team needs a Jerry.

[JohnNord]

2 hours ago, Dr.Sack said:

Bruce Smith would have broken every bone in Jerry's body. When you are Bruce Smith you just grin, and keep those thoughts in your mind. 

He didn’t need to, he just told him to shut the F up while everyone in the locker room laughed at Sully.  It was great 

[JohnNord]

1 hour ago, Motorin' said:

 

And Belichick. He's all day in the Bills head. 

How so?  They handled his team pretty well yesterday 

[Motorin']

3 minutes ago, JohnNord said:

How so?  They handled his team pretty well yesterday 

 

Oh, I was being sarcastic. Neither live in Poyer or the Bills heads. 

[JohnNord]

Just now, Motorin' said:

 

Oh, I was being sarcastic. Neither live in Poyer or the Bills heads. 

Haha ok… I thought you were Matt Fairburn for a second 

[wppete]

Bruce is 100% right. Sullivan is a real goof IMHO. 

[oldmanfan]

Sullivan is a talented writer.  I always liked his stuff about golf and other topics.  But with the Bills and Sabres he felt it was cool to try and insult everyone.  He and Graham made themselves part of the story, and that was wrong.  Back in the day Felser, Peters, Northrop could all be very critical without making it personal.  Guys like Sullivan go out of their way to make it personal.

[Mikie2times]

He compensates with his writing because he was born in the smallest state. 

[Motorin']

1 minute ago, oldmanfan said:

Sullivan is a talented writer.  I always liked his stuff about golf and other topics.  But with the Bills and Sabres he felt it was cool to try and insult everyone.  He and Graham made themselves part of the story, and that was wrong.  Back in the day Felser, Peters, Northrop could all be very critical without making it personal.  Guys like Sullivan go out of their way to make it personal.

 

Part of Sully's pov is that he should be able to insult and degrade players and coaches if the team isn't performing because they get paid so much. 

 

As if making things personal and being insulting is the same thing as real criticism. It's not. 

 

[Beast]

It really is too bad that Sullivan is such an ass. Buffalo could have used a good journalist after Larry Felser left the room.

[TheCockSportif]

24 minutes ago, Motorin' said:

 

Part of Sully's pov is that he should be able to insult and degrade players and coaches if the team isn't performing because they get paid so much. 

 

As if making things personal and being insulting is the same thing as real criticism. It's not. 

 

Correct.  I think we all agree that the Gregggggggg Williams coaching regime here was a total abortion.  And yet, Sully went on (and on and on and on and on) about how these "teachers" couldn't get a Rob Johnson-led team to the playoffs in 2001.  Well, duh.  Not even the Ghost of Drew Bledsoe could help in 2002 or 2003 under the same regime.  Sully "tells it like it is" to the extent we believe that he understands what he's seeing, or that he's even watching at all.  At some point he's just a destitute man's Dan Shaughnessy, and you can't even make a career of carping about the Curse of the Bambino when it comes to the Buffalo Bills.

[Rubes]

The problem with Jerry, as I see it, is that he knows his job is to ask provocative questions to get sports players to say interesting things, but he has no idea how to do it intelligently and empathetically, which is how you get to the really interesting and insightful stuff.

 

He uses cheap shot questions while exuding the smugness of someone who gets satisfaction from poking the bear just enough to get a response, no matter how little it adds to the conversation. Reading his work is like eating empty calories.

 

Edited December 28, 2021 by Rubes

[TheCockSportif]

Just now, Rubes said:

He uses cheap shot questions while exuding the smugness of someone who gets satisfaction from poking the bear just enough to get a response, no matter how little it adds to the conversation. Reading his work is like eating empty calories.

 

Reading his work is like taking a road trip on the NYS Thruway and buying a bag of Combos "for the road".  They taste good going down, but...

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

1 hour ago, CincyBillsFan said:

He's a local hack - nothing more.  The guy doesn't provide any insight and he's obnoxious as hell.

 

 

I’m certain your opinion is based on your vast experience as a professional writer 

[CincyBillsFan]

25 minutes ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:

I’m certain your opinion is based on your vast experience as a professional writer 

No it's based on my vast experience as a reader and I can spot an annoying hack a mile away.

 

 

[Cruiserplayer]

4 hours ago, JGMcD2 said:

I guess he hasn’t noticed that I haven’t covered a road game since 2017

I wonder why? 🤔 Now what what do we have to do to get Jerry not to cover home games? I will donate !!!!

[Bad Things]

I've lived in 3 or 4 different regions of the US before moving overseas in 2005.

 

I can easily say that Jerry Sullivan is the worst sports writer that I've encountered on my journeys.

There were other hacks, but I have never read a more negative/douchie writer in my 52 years on God's green earth.

 

It's a shame that we're all spending time talking about him now in 2021.

(He should be purged from our memories like all the rest of the crap from the drought years.)

[Milanos Milano]

I’m glad we have Jerry Sullivan here. Sometimes it’s needed to be an *** to light a fire under underperforming teams. The goal is to win a super bowl, and I’m glad there are people out there that expect it and keep that standard. 

[Motorin']

7 minutes ago, IronMaidenBills said:

I’m glad we have Jerry Sullivan here. Sometimes it’s needed to be an *** to light a fire under underperforming teams. The goal is to win a super bowl, and I’m glad there are people out there that expect it and keep that standard. 

 

Jerry Sullivan lights a fire under the Bills ass as much as John Warwow validates the team emotionally.

Edited December 28, 2021 by Motorin'

[BRH]

I’ve blocked him on Twitter for a long time.  Unblocked him for a couple of weeks.  Realized why I blocked him.  Blocked him again. 
 

Bruce Smith yelled at him 25 years ago and the rest of us are still paying for it. 

Edited December 28, 2021 by BRH

[Breakout Squad]

I don’t think they need a reporter demoted to the Niagara Gazette to influence their gravitas, but if a disgruntled local reporter can light that fire I’m ok with that 

[BRH]

7 minutes ago, IronMaidenBills said:

I’m glad we have Jerry Sullivan here. Sometimes it’s needed to be an *** to light a fire under underperforming teams. The goal is to win a super bowl, and I’m glad there are people out there that expect it and keep that standard. 

Jerry expects the Bills to win a Super Bowl?

[Milanos Milano]

1 minute ago, BRH said:

Jerry expects the Bills to win a Super Bowl?

 

Don’t know, but it would explain the angst. I get upset with this team all the time and probably will until we win a super bowl. Only explanation I could think of. 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Hopefully Poyer gives Sully the Diggs SMFD response after the next home game...

[Warcodered]

Isn't this the guy that complained about the food in the press box and turned out to be completely full of *****?

[ToGoGo]

5 hours ago, JGMcD2 said:

“I guess he hasn’t noticed that I haven’t covered a road game since 2017” 

 

No. He hasn’t. Nobody really actually gives a ***** about what you do… because you’re an insufferable prick, Jerry. 

 

Thank you. What a narcissistic response by Sullivan. He thinks the world revolves around him. 

 

Poyer and Hyde literally made him look like the biggest loser, and all Sullivan has is the biggest reach of a comment ever. Like really? Are you subtexting that Poyer is dumb because he doesn't know your schedule? Did you really try to correct him there? Like that's the big picture of what's going on here? 

 

Then that weird flex, that others mentioned. Like it's some sort of compliment that Bruce once insulted him. And then adds the pettiest adolescent insult ever insinuating that the defense stinks and the team is all Allen. Dead wrong by the way. 

 

Sullivan is a complete and total irredeemable a-hole. I am beyond blissful that the Bills winning has exposed him and his phony "realism" that masks his true ill-spirited nature. A man that survives on keeping others down by finding that darkness on a bright day. The definition of a parasite. 

 

I speak with all my heart when I say that Jerry Sullivan is the biggest loser in Buffalo. And I'll say something that would make him shudder some more: he's NOWHERE near as smart as he thinks he is, or his fans think that they are. He serves no purpose in this city and needs to be shuttled off to Siberia. 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

6 hours ago, Warcodered said:

Weird flex by Sullivan that other really good players have also thought he was a hack.

 

I think it's the equivalent of saying "I've been called worse things by better people"

51 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

Isn't this the guy that complained about the food in the press box and turned out to be completely full of *****?

 

Yep, that was Jerry Sullivan

[Ray Stonada]

When Bruce was released by the Bills (the same day as Thurman and Andre Reed, terrible day in team history), Sullivan wrote an hateful character assassination column about Bruce for the BN. It sounded like Bruce was his bully in high school.
 

That was his way of marking the career of Buffalo’s greatest ever defensive player. 
 

A narcissistic, deeply petty and, worst of all, boring writer.

[hondo in seattle]

7 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Everybody and I mean everybody speaks ill will of Jerry Sullivan

 

But the dude was the lead sports columnist at the news for as long as I could remember

 

Because everybody read him whether you loved it or hated it

 

I didn't.  He is the kind of guy who could find a dark cloud on the horizon even on the sunniest day.   I wouldn't want him for a friend.  I wouldn't want him for a neighbor.  And I didn't bother to read his articles when he was at the BN because they contained no news, no new insights, no useful information.  They were just the opinion pieces of, to borrow Bruce's term, "a little punk ass."   His opinion meant nothing to me.

[Buffalo716]

13 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:

 

I didn't.  He is the kind of guy who could find a dark cloud on the horizon even on the sunniest day.   I wouldn't want him for a friend.  I wouldn't want him for a neighbor.  And I didn't bother to read his articles when he was at the BN because they contained no news, no new insights, no useful information.  They were just the opinion pieces of, to borrow Bruce's term, "a little punk ass."   His opinion meant nothing to me.

Most sports journalism or talk is pure opinion.. check Colin cowherd or Skip Bayless or Tim cowlishaw or woody Paige .. it's all opinion

 

The fact is he's one of the few AP sports writers in Buffalo 

 

And he held the head roll at the news for a long time.. looking back he actually was right a lot more than he was wrong.. because when the bills sucked he said it

 

But Jerry Sullivan wins when NFL players say his name not vice versa.. poyer should give it up because he's way more important than Jerry Sullivan.. he only gives Jerry importance when he talks about him

Edited December 28, 2021 by Buffalo716

[Motorin']

58 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

But Jerry Sullivan wins when NFL players say his name not vice versa.. poyer should give it up because he's way more important than Jerry Sullivan.. he only gives Jerry importance when he talks about him

 

That's how Jerry Sullivan loses his press room credentials, again. 

[Governor]

I like writers that keep it real. The defense isn’t SB quality. We look a lot like the early 2000 Colts and they needed to face a really bad SB opponent to finally get it done. We would need to score 35 points in that game to win. Their “softness” is likely what irks him the most. It’s pretty tortuous to watch.

[Motorin']

28 minutes ago, Governor said:

I like writers that keep it real. The defense isn’t SB quality. We look a lot like the early 2000 Colts and they needed to face a really bad SB opponent to finally get it done. We would need to score 35 points in that game to win. Their “softness” is likely what irks him the most. It’s pretty tortuous to watch.

 

Jerry Sullivan's as hard as a Q-tip. Not the stick part.

Edited December 28, 2021 by Motorin'

[Governor]

3 hours ago, Motorin' said:

 

Jerry Sullivan's as hard as a Q-tip. Not the stick part.

He should be blasting Star, not Poyer and Hyde. This coaching staff allowed Star to embezzle millions from the Pegulas over the last few years. What an absolute joke that snowflake is.

[eball]

I wonder if any Boston hack asked Matt Judon after the game if he was “embarrassed” the Bills didn’t punt?  No, of course they didn’t, because it’s a douchey question.

 

Sully still doesn’t get it after all these years.  If you’re a little weasel with no credibility and you insult professional athletes they aren’t going to take kindly to it.

 

 

7 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

But Jerry Sullivan wins when NFL players say his name

 

What exactly did he win?  He lost his job at the Buffalo News, for crissake, and is at a rag called the Niagara freaking Gazette.  Did he get a few Twitter hits?  I hear the Gazette pays an extra $.05 per retweet.

 

 

 

Edited December 28, 2021 by eball

[ToGoGo]

8 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Most sports journalism or talk is pure opinion.. check Colin cowherd or Skip Bayless or Tim cowlishaw or woody Paige .. it's all opinion

 

The fact is he's one of the few AP sports writers in Buffalo 

 

And he held the head roll at the news for a long time.. looking back he actually was right a lot more than he was wrong.. because when the bills sucked he said it

 

But Jerry Sullivan wins when NFL players say his name not vice versa.. poyer should give it up because he's way more important than Jerry Sullivan.. he only gives Jerry importance when he talks about him

 

Like eball said, he's destroying his career by ruining relationships. His "wins" are short-sighted. He's on a path of self-destruction. And it couldn't happen to a better guy.

 

He's a parasite, so of course he was "more right than wrong" during the drought years. That's how he got away with his behavior for so long. Now that we have a winning franchise, Sullivan is exposed for what he is. Don't be fooled into thinking he's got some special insight into the team or football or sports for that matter. He's a classic gaslighting narcissist. Very dangerous people.