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I can't disagree with any of this. I'm just not looking forward to yet another guy (he for the 3rd time) who people had to convince me wasn't good enough or not the right fit for the Sabres, only to see them go be successful somewhere else for whatever reason.

I hope you know that was sarcasm. I think it takes very little and very few people to "nudge" the results of a game, just like WC said.

Yes. The entire NFL. Every single employee down to the lowly office manager is taking orders from the sports books.

Which team was there more money on?

At work. Wouldn't change your mind anyway. I'm baffled that you guys don't remember this conversation. It was in one of the lost Around the NHL threads (2010-2011?).

I'm curious to see how he looks. He can make some pretty plays with the puck. It's him trying to get it that concerns me. Let's hope he's been cooking down there.

It absolutely was a part of it. We hashed it out here. I'm not doing it again as I really don't care. The funniest part was Campbell's excuse, "I didn't think anyone would read my emails from 5 years ago."

That was one part of the scandal. The emails also showed that not only did they know that refs were biased (which is bad enough) but that they were sending them to certain gains because of that bias. If that isn’t trying to effect the outcome of games than I don’t know what to tell you. And just so you know, I wasn’t one bit upset over the Bills loss. Zero. Still not. Read my responses right after the game on why I thought we lost. I didn’t mention the refs once. It was a great game and a fun season, but I think you are naive to think that what I’m talking about doesn’t take place.

He also took two other teams to the SCFs. That would be nice.

I don’t believe it’s every game. Sometimes it is just those natural biases better teams get. And sometimes it’s flat out fix. Why do I watch? I love the game. The NFL has ruined that game and I’ve already reduced my intake of it by a lot. I chose to do other things several times this year and haven’t watched the past 2 SBs.

It absolutely did. How else are you going to be able to lose for that long, just tell your guys to not try? They won’t do that. The Sabres had to not only get rid of their top talent, but some of their mid-level guys to in order to lose for 2+ years. We’re still recovering from that depletion. If having to use Pat Kaleta as a center because their was nobody else isn’t proof enough for you, then you will never change your mind.

Do you really not remember the Colin Campbell email scandal? Really? Good lord. We had a thread about it and talked about it for days here. You must have put it out of your mind because it didn’t fit your world view. As to the Bills/Baltimore game, maybe. I don’t know. I’d have to go back and watch it to see if I even agree with how you saw those plays. If I said yes would it make you feel better. It wouldn’t make me feel better.

Why? Three holding calls on big plays is might be enough. Canada doesn’t count in ratings.

It preceded it in relation to 9/11. Birther was a derivation of it. There are others. It might not be exclusively a righty thing. Still dumb though, and usually what comes out when there are no more arguments left.

Righty BS trying to trigger you.

Oh brother.

Just like when it was preposterous in then NHL, only to find emails stating they we're sending certain refs to certain games to get certain results. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. I'll ask again. Do you think that "the refs" didn't see a single thing during play that was a penalty on Houston?

When, in the history of football, has a player ever not taken a knee to down the ball once he has caught it?

I’m guessing with the rising numbers of legal sports books, we’ll be seeing more and more “officials” with earpieces running on to the field.

I have a hard time believing that two multi-billion dollar industries leave their profits up to the winds of incompetency.

What other explanation can you come up with?

Do you think that "the refs" didn't see a single thing during play that was a penalty on Houston?

And with that touchdown called back. JFC are you serious?! So now we have the officials that are making calls based on what they think the player meant to do. I bet it's getting hard for nfreeman to convince himself that he's the guy in the land of the sane.

Zero in-play penalties on the Texans Saturday. They must be the most well coached, disciplined team in the NFL. I mean, what other explanation could there be.

So, at least he'll be available for the playoffs.