That Aud Smell

I think a reflexive "huh? wtf?!" is justified in this situation. (Boy, especially given that it's gonna be another 80 degree beauty on Sunday.) Seems safe to infer that the ad wizards are just trying to print cabbage.

for starters (and just my guess), they’d miss the window of time during which they want people to buy those $200 jerseys as gifts during the winter holidays. this is mostly a merch promo event. i think marketing can be capricious this way. you don’t necessarily need to be on the nose. i also allow for the possibility that the overwhelming reaction could be in line with yours — “wtf - why this now?”

it’s forecast to be a beautiful summer like day and evening. I don’t think they ever intended the theme of this game to coincide literally with the weather. it’s a nationally televised game where they will celebrate the team’s legacy with winter weather games. i’m sure they hope to sell a sh1t ton of those “icy” whiteout jerseys — with SNF helping them hit/exceed their targeted #s as they approach the winter months.

my pet theory - based on total speculation - is this: samuelsson doesn’t actually like being a pro hockey player. son of a very good nhl’er. he was big. moved reasonably well. got on the pro hockey development train. it’s a life that chose him, not the life he chose. he just seems so uncommitted. so equivocal.

i heard Sal on the radio today relating how the Super Bowl era Bills once lost 2 straight games (?) where they were 2 TD+ favourites. It’s the NFL, man. Go Bills!

right - "clean" (as the kids were saying the last time i checked).

the Arizona alternates from last night have a Jackson Pollack spattering of light brown, i thought.

great preview. i hope the team knows to #shootdapuck

fwiw, "clean" is a very commonly used term for the current crop of NFL alternative uniforms (many of which feature heavier use of white/off white/silver colour schemes). i didn't mind the arizona unis -- they're clearly intended to pay homage to the desert that surrounds them.

with the whom now?

They have that amusing, non self aware segment - as I'm sure Bills Mafia does - who are apt to say things like (super Maryland accent): "Yeah, I love Lamar, man, but there was something about Flacco that I just love more ... just something I can't put my finger on ... . Man, I miss that guy."

made me think of andy bernard and his personality mirroring technique.

That’s a very impressive team. Where are their flaws? Goff is limited, I guess. That’s not really a flaw, though. He’s plenty good enough to take that team to a title game.

Ehh, no. There's a good argument to be made that they're the best team in the league through Week 3. But this is the NFL. Every team is flawed. The Bills are there at the top with a handful of other teams. But no team is far and away the best.

(second time i've used it within the last month.)

I saw the post and thought it was an announcement about Jarmo being promoted to some new, bigger position. I need to increase my Finn-fluency.

Wut?

I'll add my voice to the chorus praying for the Sabres to be visited with some random goalie excellence by Georgiev. Can we make that a #fancystat? Or does it defy statistical quantification? "Random Goalie Excellence" (RGE). Let's get it going. #RGE

Sounds like Helenius needs a Luke Adam Bucket Whack.

i didn’t get to watch. But Sabres Twitter was agog over Helenius’s game tonight.

are you trying to summon @Eleven? 🎶Lowwww bridge, everybody down ... 🎶