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I think this is the first time they've actually said what happened to Kim Pegula (co-owner and team president for the Bills and Sabres) but I could be wrong. Heart attack at home, CPR done by one of her daughters, and a really tough road back to any kind of normal. Pretty crazy to think the Pegula family watched Damar Hamlin almost die on the field 6 months after their wife/mother went through a similar thing.

1 minute ago, the admiral said:

Why does that bug you? Sounds like they're being consistently fussy.

I think it's an easy way they could swing the balance a tiny bit toward the defense. Kind of like you sometimes see someone in the middle of the field commit to a hit, but then the person they're hitting does something after to make it helmet-to-helmet. I think it's too hard for the defense to decide whether the runner is going to go out or stretch out for another step in bounds.

This is not a snap opinion just because the game didn't go the way I wanted, but it bugs me how they literally measure first downs to the inch, but they're so ticky-tack with hitting a guy when he's a quarter second out of bounds.

12 hours ago, Unocal said:

Allen is no longer elite,

Allen had horrible accuracy as a rookie, followed by some incredibly good accuracy in following years. He struggled again this year. He reminded me a lot this season of a hockey player trying to play through an injury in the playoffs. Just in general, though, how tf do you write off a 26 year old QB as "over the hill"?

Oof. Just when they were putting something together, a .000001 second difference between a fumble and an interception ends things.

Go anyone but Kansas City.

Edit: Lol go refs

It was nice of the Bills to show up and make a game of it, but you can't spot the other team 14 points before you do.

19 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Maybe. It just takes away some of the enjoyment for me I guess.  It’s one thing if the play seems close from the start, then you’re thinking right away that you want to see the replay.  But when you think you just saw a touchdown, players high diving, fans yelling, and then after two or three replays here comes Tony Romo’s annoying voice with the “oh, wait a minute”… sure if it goes in my team’s favor I’m relieved but if I’m just trying to watch a game, it’s a bummer. 

It's true that it changes the experience of watching the game. I think they should go with the call on the field more than they do, actually, but I don't think this one was very close.

24 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Huh.  I thought the NFL had decided at some point that if it basically looked like a catch they weren’t going to go over it with that super slow mo fine toothed comb. There were a few high profile overturns of what looked obvious touchdown, and the thought was they should avoid that going forward.
 

I guess not. 

Could be homerism, but I don't think that was a particularly close call. He barely had it, the ball was moving as he brought it down, and it ended up on the ground.

12 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

Unpopular opinion - I don't like snow games. Yeah, they look cool, but I'd much rather have good field conditions and high quality play.

 

Carry on.

The good news is it's too warm to really stick, so it shouldn't get any worse.

1 hour ago, Sport said:

Going to the Bengals-Ravens game tonight. I feel weird about it. Not unconfident, but having a hard time shaking 3 decades of Bengals PTSD. That's not gone away with one playoff run and I don't like seeing the Ravens for a third time. Their defense is no joke. 

As long as you spent less than $27,000, it won't be the worst loss in CCSLC history.

6 minutes ago, Rockstar Matt said:

That's a bad call. Miami got hosed there. 

 

And let's go Vikings. 

4 minutes ago, See Red said:

That looked like a terrible spot to me. 

I'm not sure if it was a first down, but it looked like the TV yellow line wasn't lined up very well with the marker on the sideline on that play.

Weird little things for the Bills... they call a timeout that ends up costing them 50 yards of field position, the jumbotron crew might have cost their own team 4 points right before the half...

I'm still not used to my team being the one throwing the rainbow deep balls.

Only four kickoff return TDs in the league coming into the final week; Nyheim Hines had two today.

48 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

Wasn't it a team policy to not retire numbers, with him getting the honor of being the very first?  Pretty sure Joe Green, Bradshaw, Lambert, Woodson, etc also haven't had their numbers retired.

 

It's arguable that it's a dumb policy (especially if they're 100% absolutely never going to issue the number again), but he was technically about to to be the first one to receive what should be considered the ultimate honor a team can bestow upon a player.

They have two officially retired numbers... Ernie Stautner and Mean Joe Greene. Also a bunch more that are kept out of circulation. If a guy dies 3 years after he retires, yeah, that was completely unexpected. Trying to line up a retirement with the 50th anniversary of something is too cute. The guy's been retired for almost 40 years and nothing's changed. 

21 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

One of the articles I read said Joe Greene's number is also retired. Then I read another article that said that the Steelers have no officially retired numbers, but there are certain numbers the team won't give out - 12, 32, 58, 75, and so on. So...Franco's number will be somewhere between the first and who knows how many numbers to be retired by the Steelers.

I think they only started retiring them in the internet age, so some old articles will still say zero. The Steelers' own article from the summer about Franco's number getting retired says it's the third. 

https://www.steelers.com/news/steelers-to-retire-harris-number-32

Good job waiting to retire his jersey, dumbasses.

The last two plays that mattered in Giants-Commanders were the refs taking a TD off the board because a guy was a step off the line and then refusing to throw a PI flag when a guy got absolutely mugged... both against the Commies. 

The snow came in at the critical moment like Popeye's spinach. Pretty cool to see the Bills have a little success running at the end. That boneheaded roughing the punter penalty by the Bills finally evened out by that pass interference on the final drive. Felt like there were a bunch of drops on the Bills' end, so it was shaping up to be a frustrating game until things seemed to turn in their favor in the snow. They don't win every game, but it's always encouraging when they can fight back after a rough quarter. I spent a solid 15 years watching this team fold at the first sign of trouble.

13 minutes ago, dont care said:

Was it another dildo?

No, Tom Brady is playing Cincinnati tomorrow.

If you throw anything on the field, you are a garbage person and should be insta-banned.

Different opinions on how much snow will fall during the game, but we'll have a good base to work off of.  When I was at the first Winter Classic, there was enough snow blowing around to make it look amazing, but not really collect on the ground. That's the best case for a good football game with an interesting backdrop; 6" falling during the game is more like a car crash "can't look away"scenario.

Bills are home against the Dolphins Saturday night. I don't think we've had a night snow game in Buffalo in a long, long, long time.

Edit: And I checked... the Lions are on the road this week.

This play might have won the game. Mike White fumbled the next play and didn't look the same afterwards.

10 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Tage Thompson has 5 goals tonight...through 2 periods.

 

Wow!

Right now, his career is looking like the most un-Sabres thing ever. He had 35 points total in his first 4 years in the league. Last year, he exploded with 68 points. The Sabres decided this was good enough to give him a $50M contract (which doesn't take effect until next season; he's still making $1.4M this year). Normally, for the Sabres, he would immediately get injured or otherwise disappear from the scoring sheet... but he has 21 goals and 40 points in only 26 games so far. If he keeps playing somewhere between this season and last season, it's going to be one of the best contracts in the league.

2 hours ago, DoctorWhom said:

What in The Hell is going on With this Kraken - Kings game? 

Update: Kraken Win

I bet the under at 16.5!