Sabres would have stayed around until a buyer showed up.
The Bills would be in LA where they belong.
And you're talking to someone who's gay for the Bills.
The best thing for this city, the city of Buffalo, would have been to get rid of this retarded sports culture that killed it's actual culture about 50 years ago. - BeadyEyedDouche
Actually the Sabres would have bailed as well. Your last paragraph makes plenty of sense by the way ............
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Feb 26 @ 11:46 PM ET
Sabres would have stayed around until a buyer showed up.
The Bills would be in LA where they belong.
And you're talking to someone who's gay for the Bills.
The best thing for this city, the city of Buffalo, would have been to get rid of this retarded sports culture that killed it's actual culture about 50 years ago. - BeadyEyedDouche
B-b-b-but.... Buffalo is experiencing a Renaissance since he showed up!!!! - BeadyEyedDouche
Real estate development and running a successful sports program on the field of play are clearly two very different things.
I would love to work for a business who's owners are so rich and so easily distracted that they didn't realize their core part of their business is an embarrassment. They're too busy enjoying the accolades of being rich ass folks in a poorer town.
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Feb 26 @ 11:50 PM ET
Real estate development and running a successful sports program on the field of play are clearly two very different things.
I would love to work for a business who's owners are so rich and so easily distracted that they didn't realize their core part of their business is an embarrassment. They're too busy enjoying the accolades of being rich ass folks in a poorer town. - Buffalo--Sabres
My only solace at the end of the day is at least we aren't Binghamton.
But we should e more along the lines of Pittsburgh. Their industry left, too. And aside from their football team, their sports teams were a joke forever.
That city, however, managed to invest in the right things in the late 60's and early 70's and it paid off for them incredibly. They invested in a lot of alternative energy and pumped their culture with architecture and art, not sports and beer.
My only solace at the end of the day is at least we aren't Binghamton.
But we should e more along the lines of Pittsburgh. Their industry left, too. And aside from their football team, their sports teams were a joke forever.
That city, however, managed to invest in the right things in the late 60's and early 70's and it paid off for them incredibly. They invested in a lot of alternative energy and pumped their culture with architecture and art, not sports and beer. - BeadyEyedDouche
That's kind of how I see Buffalo now. Buffalo's culture is just moving foward without the teams. Obviously the teams are still a huge part of our identity though.
However the two are immaterial. Buffalo having a strong real estate market and changing landscape is totally unrelated to the obvious, glaring reality the Pegula's are letting play out through 5 sports teams. They've been all talk on the competitive side. And it's not for a lack of trying.
But at the end there's no trade off. Do they just get to get away with sucking and being a total embarrassment at every turn? Because Harborcenter? It would seem at this point if any team had any amount of success or relativity it would be purely be coincidence and short lived. And that seems to be what the fans are rooting for.
Listen .... I get the disdain for Bylsma many here have..... but the guy is not stupid.
Again ..... for all you know Jack was dinged, a bit ill, needed to crap, ate something bad ....... etc.
Any number of things............. - fastek
Nah I'm pretty sure he's an idiot. Why else is the O'Reilly line getting the most ice time and is creating by far the least amount of scoring chances of any of the 4 lines. Why else is Kulikov And bogosian on the ice with 20 secs left. Btw, eichel also only had 10:00 of total icetime through the second period and sat on the bench in the third watching girgs and O'Reilly getting the first two shifts. wienerhead Dan won't win this battle
Nah I'm pretty sure he's an idiot. Why else is the O'Reilly line getting the most ice time and is creating by far the least amount of scoring chances of any of the 4 lines. Why else is Kulikov And bogosian on the ice with 20 secs left. Btw, eichel also only had 10:00 of total icetime through the second period and sat on the bench in the third watching girgs and O'Reilly getting the first two shifts. wienerhead Dan won't win this battle - turbo044
Nah I'm pretty sure he's an idiot. Why else is the O'Reilly line getting the most ice time and is creating by far the least amount of scoring chances of any of the 4 lines. Why else is Kulikov And bogosian on the ice with 20 secs left. Btw, eichel also only had 10:00 of total icetime through the second period and sat on the bench in the third watching girgs and O'Reilly getting the first two shifts. wienerhead Dan won't win this battle - turbo044
Nah I'm pretty sure he's an idiot. Why else is the O'Reilly line getting the most ice time and is creating by far the least amount of scoring chances of any of the 4 lines. Why else is Kulikov And bogosian on the ice with 20 secs left. Btw, eichel also only had 10:00 of total icetime through the second period and sat on the bench in the third watching girgs and O'Reilly getting the first two shifts. wienerhead Dan won't win this battle - turbo044
Here's another thought .... what if Bylsma was actually a smart guy but it was the players that were the stupid ones .... and unable to do what he coaches?
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Feb 27 @ 12:07 AM ET
That's kind of how I see Buffalo now. Buffalo's culture is just moving foward without the teams. Obviously the teams are still a huge part of our identity though.
However the two are immaterial. Buffalo having a strong real estate market and changing landscape is totally unrelated to the obvious, glaring reality the Pegula's are letting play out through 5 sports teams. They've been all talk on the competitive side. And it's not for a lack of trying.
But at the end there's no trade off. Do they just get to get away with sucking and being a total embarrassment at every turn? Because Harborcenter? It would seem at this point if any team had any amount of success or relativity it would be purely be coincidence and short lived. And that seems to be what the fans are rooting for. - Buffalo--Sabres
The problem is, I think this revitalization is happening off the back of a billionaire owner of our sports teams and a lot of it is depending on their and his success to keep supporting all of this development. I could be completely wrong, but I just do not see anything but a farce when I go to Buffalo right now.
Bunch of scumbag hipsters and Buff State students cutting their hair stupid and working at the art galleries for free or minimum wage and hustling at the bars and restaurants.
It's riding off of our old and already in-place architecture and art galleries. I don't like the gaudy coffee shops and bistros popping up everywhere and the hideous new buildings getting erected all over the place.
They should have started with the expansion of the bike-routes and linking the parks, filling in the kensington and fixing up the East side and public schools of the city, as well as dredging the scajaqueda creek and trying to fill the HSBC tower. They need to update the metro and subway system and fix the streets.
But nope. We have a bunch of new steak-houses and Harbor Center's overbearing phallus underneath that wretched skyway that's still there.
This city dug it's own grave when it decided it was a good idea to run a highway system through and circling the city.
