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Beefing boys can kindly stand down. This is the Bills 2024 thread. Let’s get some vibes popping.

i do occasionally think about this team having both eichel and reinhart. just 2 excellent NHL players. it shows to go: building a successful NHL team is more complicated than assembling talent. the mix has to be right. and some of that mix involves not just types of talent and styles of game, but stages of career as well. ah well.

THAT's a meme

That entire video with Stafford was funny and clever. (Who was the mystery guy working out in the background -- Myers?)

i think i once found a gif of him giving the WTF wave -- this is more just his WTF look.

On the pure meme tip, we probably deserved to enjoy more of the Fu Man Drew stuff. (I guess the team just needed to be better.)

This is a fair observation and point. I also think that the online concept of a "meme" has started to evolve and expand in its meaning. At least I think it has. Such that the concept of a "trope" may be encompassed thereby. So I'm mostly thinking in terms of tropes. But if it were limited to pure memes, then I think the Derek Roy sausage grab photo would be at the very top of the charts.

Dammit. I should have had this one. Probably my favourite.

Terry’s meddling. Which recently feels like it’s turned more to “Terry‘s cheap” (the internal cap).

Lol - I just can't resist a gratuitous opportunity to post a .gif from my favourite sketch comedy show ever.

very much so. hopefully, they can figure out how to adapt, or even mitigate the problems. i moved my kid into college yesterday — northeast ohio. holy hell what a storm that was. they may be without power for a week or more.

That tornado passed about 1/8th of a mile north of where our office building is. I parked on the street today. Thankfully, there was no damage to my vehicle. People parked ~100' feet to the north of me were not so lucky. I had some storm debris on my windshield (roofing materials, looks like) - but no damage. There's more incoming as well. Storms often don't behave the way they used to. Existing models are of limited utility.

Every Olympics, I try to enjoy that sport. But it just won't take. There's apparently no limit the number of times that a team can foul the other team? Also, a decent save percentage must be like .350 because well over half of the SOG I saw wound up as goals. It just seems like the sport is the start of a proper idea of what a competitive gymnasium game should be.

I wish I could find the version of this photo that I saw on Twitter - I can't be bothered to go back and dig for it now - where there was a line drawn to the winning US runner with a caption: FASTEST MAN IN THE WORLD - and then a line drawn to the runner in green (Jamaica?) with a caption: DID NOT MEDAL.

Also: How should we set an over/under on this thread getting locked/posts getting moved? I’ll put it at 5.5 additional posts beyond this one (it’s a Sunday after all - mods may be away).

Is it? Was she? That’s far from clear at this point. In any case, the situation with this athlete is not a simple one. Relatedly, I was watching the France women play … was it Brazil? In soccer. That French centreback is very masculine looking (whatever that means). And fearsome to play against, I am sure. But she’s a woman. I recall a rumour surrounding her during the last World Cup that her testosterone levels tested outside of some prescribed limit for “women.” This stuff is confusing as hell. Testing from a Russian federation, you say?

I find these issues to be enormously complex and not amenable to simple declarations. The athlete who’s been the main punching bag (if you will) on this — Khelif — was born with (and presumably still has) female anatomical parts. She has some unusual hormonal condition, evidently. Again, a complicated situation. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/08/02/imane-khelif-fact-check-olympic-boxer/74645341007/

Marv’s capable of prompting a “holy sh1t - that guy’s still alive?!” from me. He’s a remarkable man in so many ways — now adding long-lived to those ways.

Bro.

I just watched the first little bit. The kid reminds me of some dude who starred in a bunch of movies (not recent ones, since I don't see many of those). But I cannot think of who that is. Possibly someone as far back as The Outsiders? I mean, you hope and pray that Ziemer can elevate his game to an NHL level. Because that kid appears to be a dog.

They sure do. Outdoor shows on the other side of the hill are called amphitheatre shows. Shows in that original venue are mainstage theatre shows.

$42M~ guaranteed over 4 years - based on simplistic math. Which would be 70% 🤓

167 is guaranteed, reportedly. Given how much guaranteed money there is, I will presume that there’s no escaping that contract.

what’s the guaranteed money?