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Ullmark played a heck of a game. Not standing on his head or anything, but a nice game. (I still don't like that first Rags goal.)

There we go. Two points, without the opponent getting one.

They have this.

Sorry I'm late to the chat. I had to watch most of the game elsewhere. This has been a well-played game on the part of the Sabs, and I may have to use violence if Krueger benches Cozens again. Said violence probably will take the form of me punching my own leg or a wall or something, but still.

Why are people even talking about running backs in the first? Not going to happen.

Oh, we've had the discussion a number of times; I don't think for a minute that you are sitting around curating ads! I do like noting them when they are funny, though. And yes, here. And of course it's not based upon what I like. I've seen so many ads for gun lockers, cat food, and swimsuits for busty women...I don't have guns, I don't have cats, and I currently am in lack of a busty woman.

Scheduling only one game on a low-sports night is a lot dumber than scheduling a bunch of games on Championship Sunday. Someone needs to hit Bettman over the head with a folding table. What in the world else is on? The Brooklyn Nets v the Miami Heat? Geez.

A friend looked at me and said "Ronnie Harmon" when that happened.

So now that I've had some time to digest: This was a fun season. All Bills seasons are fun for me, because the group I watch the games with are energetic, eager to laugh, and good friends. I'm nowhere near as emotionally invested in the Bills as I am the Sabres, either. But this season really was especially fun. The few people walking the streets these days were almost always in Bills gear. People sang the shout chant in public. There was something to talk about every day. 8 billion souls are suffering from incurable boredom right now. We were fortunate to have something to enjoy.

It goes back to what @inkmanwrote yesterday. We're desperate for a sign of hope.

Is he even being compared to Kuechley? Freester's mention of it is the first I've heard, although I'll admit I'm not that deeply into NFL coverage.

The ad for AFC Championship Chiefs gear on the main page is a bit of a slap in the face.

That "pass" at the blue line yesterday. Just what are we doing here? They're trash again and I haven't given up.

All I know is Hutton is injured and White is in KC today so Ullmark will probably start.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/439/1315/1578130/ I want to see how the Second Circuit justified its decision in the Maurice Clarett case in light of this. EDIT: NM, I had forgotten about the antitrust exemption.

If Thompson is sitting, I feel better.

I have a hat somewhere signed by the French Connection but I wasn't there when they signed it. I've got memories of standing next to Perreault at Mass, talking with Don Luce (once as a child and once as an adult), telling Max and Teppo at dinner to make sure they won their next playoff game (and Max nodding at me), and telling Miller that we were going to miss him a couple of weeks before he was traded. I actually sat next to Miller at dinner twice (we both liked eating at the bar at the same restaurant, it seems) but I didn't bug him while he was with other people. For some reason it made sense to bug him in Walgreens at 3am, though.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/01/24/robert-gehrke-if-we-want/

There we go. You had the words.

I don't have the words.

I'll be watching the Sabres. I don't really care who wins the NFC game.

He did. A long time ago. He's under contract for the next six seasons.

Thankfully they did not actually meet, much less issue.

All right. I have to return an equally obtuse question. This has been bothering me for YEARS, if not a decade. Is your avatar-thingy a blend of Mona Lisa and the lead singer from Crash Test Dummies? Or, if not, what am I looking at, here?

Oh, I know. No worries. Me too.