inevitable post-season depression thread

Why don't you guys talk about baseball in a stat-free way so I can get high-quality photoshop-based humor to go with my Dr. Morbius fix?

I have been replaying the 1967 season on Strat-o-matic but I need a Manning in my life. IF anyone wants to live dangerous I can POST THE RESULTS of the season on the INTERNET.

Anyway ALLYZAY, how was the sparkling sake? ja/nein?

xpost!!!!

It's not cheap tho.

i used to play the strat-o-matic baseball board game when i was a kid, i LOVED LOVED LOVED it. i think i should get this.

chicago k, the 1964 combination of Babe Parilli to Gino Capelleti is HOTT

holy fuck, i KNOW i should get this.

xpost: Kevin's job blocks EVERYTHING.

can you defeat it by going through unipeak.com?

the pro bowl makes even sadder than no football

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sure, let me send that email right now.

Also, the head coach and the newly minted o coordinator are both on one year contracts. I am very nervous. :/

I said "Marge, you just don't understand football."

Only I didn't call her Marge, I called her Jessica, you know, because that's her name.

But really - who the fuck watches the pro bowl?? If I wanted to see defensive players act like they're afraid to break a nail, I'd go watch a pickup game of two hand touch at the local girls Catholic high school.

Actually, that sounds pretty alright...where does one buy tickets for something like that?

If I wanted to see defensive players act like they're afraid to break a nail

uhhh.. did you see Sean Taylor DEMOLISH that Bills punter? lol

hi guys. fuck summer.

Arena football is like that person you flirt with just after a break-up, but you know you'll just be sad if you have sex.

wat about WNFL

Basketball gonna be over soon and may well be pistons/san ant final so whoopeeeeeee

u gotta have hope forks

fuck summer.

otm!

horseshoez, what do you make of all this business about your billz playing in toronto a few times a year?

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/2008/05/22/ramblings/too-deep-zone/6303/

it makes me shaky-sad in a way i don't fully understand and should maybe get therapy for? i can't see any way around it, though.

i guess it's good that it might help the "buffalo-rochester region," but it's going to finish off the city more quickly than it otherwise would have died.

also, i hate to question mr. sunshine and roses developer that they quote in that article, but it seems kind of crazy to bet that Buffalo fans will just transfer their loyalties to a fucking CANADIAN football team?

yeah, from what i understand this is basically the only shot they have at keeping the bills IN buffalo - the wilson family can't afford to keep the team after ralph dies (something to do with the estate tax?), and the lack of luxury box revenue is one of the major things hurting the team financially rn. so the hope is that attracting toronto fans = attracting canadian corporate sponsors, which would make it a much easier decision to keep the team in buffz.

does ur fam still live in buffalo? do u still have ties there and whatnot?

i don't think there's any way the team will stay in Buffalo down the line, though. that article suggests that post-2012 the team will move permanently to Toronto, which is what i've been assuming this means.

buffalo is a decimated city; i think a significant proportion of the people filling ralph wilson stadium already are from Toronto and Rochester.

yeah, my mom and dad are still there and my sister just remarked to me the other day that if there were jobs in Buffalo she'd move back in a heartbeat. it's a little surreal to face the death of the place you grew up. i'd imagine people who grew up in detroit or baltimore or gary, indiana but were lucky enough to have the mobility to leave feel similarly.

this post might not make sense because i'm drunk!

If I was the Bills, I'd hope for the big player. If you remember in the days before Favre, the Packers were splitting some home games between Green Bay and Milwaukee. I also have no doubt that the Colts would now be in Los Angeles if they had not gotten Peyton Manning.

i'd hope the owner can be convinced to sell. the pats were gone to st. louis when former season tickets holder bob kraft leveraged his business, personal wealth, and family's future on the red-headed step child of boston's professional sports teams.

yeah, for a while my sister and i were trying to brainstorm coalitions of rich Buffalonians to take the Bills off of Ralph Wilson's hands, but i think all the rich Buffalonians might have fled?

sorry to be such an eeyore all over this thread.

why are women on ilx always apologetic about when they feel sadface while the xy contingent bitchescomplain like little girlshungry kittens all day about shit like apple fuckin computers and never act ashamed

"...when former season tickets holder bob kraft leveraged his business, personal wealth, and family's future on the red-headed step child of boston's professional sports teams"

Let's not give him the Nobel Prize on this issue, CK. The whole reason he got that new stadium built was his shameless flirtation with Hartford, who had already been stung by the loss of the Whalers. (Don't laugh, they still mourn the loss of the whale)

who's giving him the nobel prize? but don't forget when he bought the team they were perennial losers. they were a distant fourth behind the red sox, bruins, and celtics. and during the flutie years bc was was a bigger draw than the pats.

and one other important note regarding this: The whole reason he got that new stadium built HE paid for the stadium to be built. no taxpayer money went into razor blade field. the two main stumbling blocks were the town of foxboro not wanting to approve the construction and the state not wanting to do anything to the two lane road outside the stadium. i don't know if you ever went to the old schaefer/sullivan/foxboro stadium but it was obsolete almost from the time it opened and the town HAD to approve construction. the state did eventually improve route 1 which they should have done in the early 80s anyway.

but anyway, the fact remains, james busch orthwein had a deal in place to move the pats to st. louis until bob kraft overpaid to keep the team local. that won't win him a "nobel prize" but it did ingratiate him to sports fans in new england.

damn, the Bills leaving Buffalo would suck! I was surprised to learn that they don't sellout every home game. Hey just like the Jaguars.

Their minor league baseball team will be done as the Indians affiliate after Columbus builds a new stadium :( Bison stadium is pretty sweet- time to move the Devil Rays.

Did Orthwein own the team when Rod Rust was the coach? god did they suck back then

Giants got their rings last night. I'm sure youre happy for them, CK.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/2008/05/22/ramblings/too-deep-zone/6303/

FO nerding it up extra hard for the dry months!

Did Orthwein own the team when Rod Rust was the coach? god did they suck back then

Giants got their rings last night. I'm sure youre happy for them, CK.

i don't bedgrudge them, they won, congratulations. i wish the pats won obviously but it's not like i hate the giants because of it.

i don't think orthwein owned the team when rust was the coach, i think he was the product of victor kiam. i believe former syracuse coach dick "there's no fear in (or fearing, depending who you ask)" macpherson was orthwein's coach. to this day you can not convince my dad that machpherson wasn't brought in to tank the squad because it would be easier to move a perennial loser. it was like having coach from cheers as a head coach.

I went to college in NH during the Mc Pherson era. All my buddies from Boston were Cowboys, Steelers or Giants fans. Nobody liked the Pats.

"When a Detroit reporter suggested to Lions COO Tom Lewand that the e-mail incident was an example of the franchise’s general lack of quality, Lewand provided a typically mature, rational Lions response. “If you write that, it will be factually incorrect and bordering on slander. And I will come after you.” "

The Lions are still in the NFL?

where in cow hampshire did you go to school? i grew up on the border, just across the line from Salem, NH. i paid money to sit on the aluminum bleachers at sullivan stadium and watch the tommy hodsons, marc wilsons, and hugh millens qb the pats.

I found this video to be very informative:

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3407985&categoryId=2494144&n8pe6c=2

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/2008/05/22/ramblings/too-deep-zone/6303/

FO nerding it up extra hard for the dry months!

-- El Tomboto, Friday, 30 May 2008 20:00 (1 hour ago) Link

i just linked to that 10 posts above you, douche!