Mango

He looks shaky. But he’s also being hung out to dry. The Sabres are lucky this isn’t 6-0. I don’t mean Levi keeps bailing them out. He has but not as much as luck has played a part.

Not to beat a dead horse; but these guys don’t have any idea what they are doing or seeing out there. “If you watch our games we put in a lot of effort” - Alex Tuch That was a huge red flag for 2 reasons: 1. WTF are you watching when you guys go over film? Seriously? Does nobody understand what effort is? Do they not understand the film? Are they even watching the right team? 2. This city is so totally unplugged from this franchise that they gave done from 99.7% capacity to like 70% and bottom of the league. The only people booing are the last 800 people who still give a shirt.

“If you watch our games we put in a lot of effort” - Alex Tuch, literally

That’s fair. But something about if’s and but’s, and my aunt, or whatever also applies. You could maybe make an argument for domestic following. But I think Swift likely destroys Beyoncé internationally. It is an interesting point about music standing the test of time. Madonnas music might be a good comp? The crazy part about Swift is that she just doesn’t have a comp.

It’s Swift and not really close.

That was the greatest face off win we never won.

It took me some time to come around to it but she is more famous than just about everybody in the NFL aside from maybe, MAYBE, one or two players. She has nations bidding on her exclusive rights. It’s insane. I’ve been big on sending Levi down. But I also don’t thing one or two games here or there will ruin him. But he has to go back down.

The internet went wild because Baker Mayfield was messaging women on Snapchat to get blowies behind target. Imagine the trouble Paul McCartney would get in? He might date a woman with two legs. Or no legs. Theres a chance John Lennon could turn out to be Kanye West. I like to think Yoko Ono’s weird screaming/screeching/singing exhibits is her lifelong jealousy of Donna Godchaux's “success”. Donna has Europe 72’ and Barton Hall 77’. Yoko is still trying to catch up by becoming the world best “Donna impersonator”

There’s a weird ebb and flow with the way the league plays the Sabres. Press and forecheck heavy. Sabres don’t adjust. Opponent wins big. Then it seems like the league just sort of collectively gradually eases up until the Sabres win a couple or score a bunch. Then teams start carrying/taking us seriously again. They press and forecheck and we suck again. The cycle continues until we die. It doesn’t seem to matter if it’s a good team or bad team. It’s like a secret the whole league is in on except for the guys in our locker room.

3-4 very very dangerous shots in the last 45 seconds of game clock. This could get out of hand very quickly. Sheesh.

Jesus these shots on the PP/PK I’m shocked they didn’t rip two of those right by Levi.

Every bad challenge is preceded by Razor saying “We see Matty Ellis talking to…”.

When are the Sabres going to name a starting goaltender? I mean it is super likely to be Levi. But a little weird he hasn't been named yet.

For most fanbases nobody has much of any idea. Good teams get away with a lot. Bad teams get away with a little. Jordan bought a struggling Bobcats/Hornets franchise for like $300M. They were only like a 4 year old expansion team at that point. He sold the team for $3B like 15 years later. That is a huge increase in value, but the league also nearly tripled their revenues in that time as well. Jordan was largely considered a bad and meddling owner. But he is North Carolina's golden child and maybe the most marketable person in NBA history, if not the history of the big 4 sports in the US. Without knowing all the specifics in the background Michael Jordan was just about the only person on the planet to get NC to buy back into the NBA. Jordan is to NC Basketball what Gretzky is to Hockey in Canada. There are some parallels between some of the growth and criticisms between the Pegula lead Sabres and Jordan lead Hornets. Both have been known for meddling, surrounding themselves with 'yes men', and puzzling coaching/FO hires, but also have teams that have exponentially increased in value. So yes, the team is not failing fiscally, but difficult to pinpoint how much of that is from Jordan and the growth of the league as opposed to the COO. Having Michael Jordan own a team in his home state changes things drastically as well. Worth noting his racing team is also located outside of Charlotte and Charlotte is the Nascar hall of fame. I said it up thread I think that he is largely being brought in to manage and structure the PSL's for the new stadium and poke the Sabres marketing dept to see if they can get the fans to do stuff.

He already has Terry convinced. The Hornets have been terrible for the entirety of Jordans ownership. I wonder if Terry thinks that nobody else has google except for him? I think he is largely being brought in to manage the PSL's for the new stadium and then occasionally poke the Sabres to see if he can get it to do stuff.

I honestly don't know much about the guy. Or the role. I am just an idiot with a keyboard on a message board. But what we do know is that Michael Jordan is notorious for surrounding himself with "yes men". So much so he axed his long time friendship with Charles Barkley for pointing it out. He will fit right in with the Sabres.

It is strange to have one COO for both orgs AND have Terry sit a top both of them. In my non-billionaire brain it seems to make sense to have a hockey COO and a football COO role into the owner.

If we could get a Byram/Swift thing going that would be great. The age thing might be an issue though. Maybe Girgs or Skinner? Terry could hire her as POHO and finally get out of the way. It would be perfect. She could take up residency at the Key Bank Center. Which, by the way is a venue in huge demand since word got out that they upgraded the roof. Taylor could single handedly save the city of Buffalo.

I agree with you 100%. But I also think her numbers are so astronomically historical the whole thing has become a major talking point. For reference Elton John had the highest grossing tour of all time at $990M over 330 total shows. Taylor Swift's Era's Tour has grossed over $1B and has only played something like 80 shows to date. Her popularity and revenue is a standard deviation above almost every recording artist in history.

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Good post. To the bolded I think she has certainly broken the code on the formula for how to be a successful pop artist. I struggle to sort of explain the whole thing, but you put it really succinctly. The part I cannot wrap my head around is that she is pushing the limits of music fandom. But at the same time she isn't changing things. She isn't the first to do much anything (that I am aware of). But she is developing this sort of following that rivals the Beatles or the Grateful Dead. And even in pop music we have seen remarkable song writing from the likes of Prince or Michael Jackson. She is doing a lot of what has been already done but doing it with a following that is as big or bigger than her contemporaries who maybe even did it better. I think it is a combination of her talent (she is talented), the mix of the above, her 5 year hiatus from new music/touring, openly writing songs about A LOT of famous people (ex's), and re-recording her albums. EDIT: This is peak Pegula-Era Sabres. Hijacking a gameday thread to discuss Taylor Swift. Congrats Terry, you are doing a great job!

Yeah, but I am gonna be a genius anyways.

I mean she isn't Lady Gaga, but she is also better singer than say Trey Anastasio (most people are). It is a spectrum.

I guess add "answering a thread with something that has already been said" to the list of TAC pet peeves. This actually drives me crazy sometimes. On TBD it seems like every single day Stefon Diggs cap situation needs to be reexplained. Poster: "He can't be moved. We only have $5M in space"... Mango: (quote and respond) "Well actually it only costs us $3M more. He is $28M on the roster $31M off of it. I am not arguing for it but if the Bills want it can be done". Same Poster 2 hours later responding to somebody else: "He can't be moved we only have $5M in space and his dead cap is $31M"

resign vs re-sign.