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Posted Tuesday March 24, 2009, About: Canadians aggressively pursuing Bills
It won't happen. I was at the horrible game in December at the SkyDome and most of the Canadians in attendance were more interested in the pizzas being served than in the game being played. That said, the game sucked, but even for a sucky game at Rich the fans know what's going on. This new stab at stealing the Bills doesn't throw me as much as the initial treason of giving it to 'em in the first place.

As for those of you mocking Bflo, or Canada, or whatever, hey, no matter how much a place might or might not suck, it's still home, y'know? You might have a really ugly sister with buck teeth and three arms and halitosis, but you still love her, no? Those of you from NM or DC or that Jets fan, I've seen some especially heinous parts of your home turf as well, so you don't have much to look down upon.

That said, we Buffalonians (emeritus, in my case) are a realistic lot, among other things. We know the moment Ralph Wilson dies, the Bills'll be no more. And we hope his **** lives to be 150 shriveled years old...
Posted Thursday March 19, 2009, About: Cutler's agent in Buffalo
This has got to involve Peters. I just can't see us going for Cutler when we've made such public knowledge of the building process with Edwards. If Peters left, it'd solve so much of the dynamic problem-- other than the fact that now there'd be another annoying Bus Cook client up in Bflo...
Posted Wednesday March 18, 2009, About: Chipper upset with WBC format
Torontonians shouldn't be that upset that a guy named Chipper doesn't like their town. Dunno-- maybe there aren't enough high-class strip joints for the guy?
Posted Monday December 15, 2008, About: Holt: Official used Jumbotron to call interference
In the Miami/Buffalo game last weekend in Toronto, several calls could definitely have been influenced by fans were the Rogers Centre jumbotron operator at all interested in the game. Every time a challenge was called, the screen immediately went to commercials for the new Jim Carrey movie until the decision was made.

Then again, this Bills "home game" was really an away game, given 2/3 of the audience being Dolfans, but that's for another day...
Posted Friday December 05, 2008, About: Buffalo fans cool to Toronto 'home' game
Muttley, Buffalo teams most definitely appreciate the fan support from our Canadian neighbors, but that's not what this game is about and you know it. If someone took away the Maple Leafs from Toronto-- especially if it was a bigger, flashier, prettier city right next door, you guys (although maybe not you personally) would feel the same way. The Bills are our identity. Even the Buffalo Diaspora (laugh at the term, but ask around your office and see how many Buffalo ties there are-- 32 people in my office here in DC, 5 with Bflo ties) has a deep identification with the Bills. You could only understand this if you are from a Cleveland, a Brooklyn, or some other place with more exciting, flashier, better represented neighbors and the devastating loss of a pivotal piece of your local identity.
Posted Friday December 05, 2008, About: Buffalo fans cool to Toronto 'home' game
You guys can debate this all you want. Here's what I have to say.

I am driving 400 miles north to Buffalo for the weekend, then another 100 miles north to Toronto for the day, about a third of which will be in driving lake-effect snow. i had to spend $1200 to get four tickets to the game, which is the cheapest i could get, because they only sold them in packs of three games (including one preseason game) or eight games (including two preseason games). So in other words, I got four tickets to two actual games for $150 apiece. The average ticket price is not $400-- it's only about $250. But remember, our average ticket price at Rich Stadium is only about $55, I had fantastic seats to the actually-sold-out Chargers game at Rich in October for less than $60, and the highest average ticket price in the league, in New England, is still a touch less than $100. I'm going to get to go to my first Bills-Fins game ever-- but it'll be in Miami weather-- and afterwards, I'll still have to scrape my car windows, and then drive the 100 miles back afterwards. And my hometown will be all the poorer for it. I understand it's a huge payday for the organization, but if the organization has already made up its mind to move north, who the heck cares at this point?

I'm a Bills fan, so I'll do it. Begrudgingly. But how much better would it be if I could do it in my own stadium, with my own weather and my own home-field advantage? With my own crowd, with an extra 20,000 people?

And how much do you want to bet that there won't be a single "Let's Go, BUFFALO" chant started by the scoreboard? Personally, that will be the only chant I use the whole day.

Let's Go, BUFFALO.
Posted Friday October 17, 2008, About: Wall Street's $1 million fantasy league
Dude, JC1984 you had me at hello... until you equated people not agreeing with you with the liberal media and "ABC News at 10." Um, yeah. You do know that your local news is probably one of the most apolitical, moderate, ho-hum sources for "news," right? I mean, let's put a liberal spin on local news: puppies were rescued, and it was because of Obama! An old lady's house burnt down, and McCain said she deserved it! The local Boy Scout troop was forced to pray to Satan! Doesn't quite make sense...

As for whether your intelligence is judged by your grammar and capitalization, I would urge you to reread your initial comments and ask yourself, "do I sound a bit like a lunatic at the street corner in this posting, spelling and punctuation notwithstanding?" That's why you're being judged, my friend. :)

Oh, and topically, you can do with your money what you damn well please, Wall Street. But don't come whining to be on that "liberal" 10 o'clock news show JC1984 is whining about if you lose everything and your family's out on the streets. No sympathy.
Posted Tuesday October 07, 2008, About: Warner hasn't ruled out retirement
If he were to retire, it'd've been nice to have done it before the Bills game... Now, I want him to stay on the rest of the season just to smoke the Patriots.

Oh, and it's funny that in a Cowboy-article-less day, seemingly half these posts involve Dallas. I think the Texans (by state, not by team) are taking a page out of the Palin playbook and just talking about what they want, regardless of the question asked.
Posted Wednesday September 24, 2008, About: Steinbrenner rips MLB playoff system
I'll side with Steinbrenner the day his Yankees make the playoffs but the wild cards have better records. When he gets in because of the system, and still complains about it knowing full well that it helped him, that's a complaint worthy of consideration. Otherwise, it's Steinbrenner being Steinbrenner.
Posted Friday September 19, 2008, About: Steelers owners reject takeover bid
Take it from someone hoping that the evil Ralph Wilson lives to be 362 years old... Keep it in the family, with the traditions and the ties to make the Steelers stay in Pittsburgh forever. Because even a well-meaning billionaire will some day be tempted to sell the team to a well-meaning multi-billionaire from LA or Toronto. ahem...
Posted Thursday September 11, 2008, About: Giants-Jets stadium controversy
Volkswagen was ****'s company as well. My grandparents' families were all killed in the holocaust, yet they both drove Jettas. I think people are smarter than this story is making them out to be. Either that, or several rabblerousers are being ridiculous.
Posted Friday August 29, 2008, About: Vikings turn down L.A. offer
I don't care if the Vikings or the Cowboys or the freakin' Saskatchewan RoughRiders move to LA... Just get someone in that godforsaken football purgatory before Ralph Wilson dies and they steal my Bills!
Posted Thursday August 14, 2008, About: Personal attacks bother Rodgers
If Rodgers doesn't like kids swearing at him, he definitely should avoid playing for a team in NYC during his career... he'd have little old ladies swearing at him.

That said, I totally agree with the comments that you don't want to be the follow-up to everyone's god; everything good you do is expected, and anything bad you do is automatically cause for expulsion.
Posted Monday June 02, 2008, About: Niners, Raiders to move to Los Angeles?
someone please move to LA before Ralph Wilson dies... that'll make my Bills a whole lot less attractive to prospective carpetbagging scavengers.
Posted Wednesday April 30, 2008, About: Why do people hate Flyers?
People hate the flyers because of the same reasons people hate the Raiders and the Cowboys and the Yankees and the Soviet Olympic Team... They're the "bad guys!" (Unless you are one of them, in which case you are a "bandwagon fan" or a "commie," depending on your citizenship...) No, really, I think it's because these teams feel a certain entitlement that really annoys the rest of the teams. The fact, for instance, that the Yankees are PO'd that they haven't won a World Series "lately." Uh, neither have the Chicago Cubs or the Brooklyn Dodgers...

I could care less about the Flyers, or any other team, unless their fans, coaches, players, or other personnel are generally idiotic and/or cheating. (Oh, I guess I forgot the Patriots...)

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