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R Stillers 26, Bills 3

Heavens, this was one of those games where you’re left scraping the bottom of an incredibly low barrel to find good things to say. Yeesh, that was bad. Oh well, at least my second favorite team, the Steelers, won. Woo-hoo! … Continue reading

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Et tu, Belichick?

Friends, Romans, NFL fans, lend me your ears!I come to bury the Patriots, not praise them.The games that they win live after them;the things they do to win those games are oft interred with their bones.So let it be with … Continue reading

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There but for the Grace

Kevin at BfloBlog has a rundown on the latest details on Bills tight end Kevin Everett, who suffered a very bad spinal injury in yesterday’s game. I don’t have much more to say than this…but what a horrible thing to … Continue reading

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Broncos 15, Bills 14

Well, that sure sucked! Expecting one’s team to go 5-11 doesn’t make it any more fun when one of the eleven predicted losses turns out to have been as winnable as this game was. For what it’s worth, I saw … Continue reading

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Are You Ready!

We’re coming up on the start of the NFL season, folks, so here we go: it’s Prediction Time here at Byzantium’s Shores. Or, in other words, “Let’s all watch as our Humble Narrator goes on record to demonstrate how little … Continue reading

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Ah You? Ah No!

Random thoughts on sports, culled while I was on hiatus: :: Over the last two weeks, the Baltimore Orioles have launched a nine-game losing skid with a game in which they gave up thirty runs. That’s an already notorious event … Continue reading

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I heart JP Losman

Here’s what I love to see: JP Losman, the Bills’ young starting quarterback (entering his fourth year with the team), has taken his new hometown into his heart in a big way: When Losman started to think about what he … Continue reading

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A couple of sporting thoughts

One: on a scale of relative outrage, I think that the Michael Vick thing so far outpaces the Barry Bonds steroids thing that they’re not even remotely in the same reality. One guy takes drugs to give him some extra … Continue reading

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Thermal

Thurman Thomas, Hall-of-Famer. I could never decide, way back in the days of the Buffalo Bills romping through the AFC every year, which was my favorite player. Sometimes I’d name Jim Kelly; other times I’d name Thurman Thomas. Bruce Smith … Continue reading

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Sporting Notes

Stuff from sports: :: Every year in the various playoff periods for each sport, I’ll encounter a bit of logic that always escapes me: the idea that if your team loses in the playoffs, you should root for the team … Continue reading

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