Bills Lost, Good bye Playoffs
Well as I am sure you and all of the fellow Buffalonians already know the Bills lost earlier today eight to nothing by the Cleveland Browns. This dashed all hopes for the Bills to make a spot for themselves in the playoffs.
There was a lot of hype put into this game. Like I said, a victory would put the winning team in great in a great position to make it to the playoffs. The weather also played a factor in the game as well. The news providers were referring to the game as “The Snow Bowl” and “The Battle of Lake Erie.”
Both teams were huge long-shots at the beginning of the season to even have winning records by the end of the season.
The Browns always seemed to be perennial losers, but that changed this season after week one. They, like the Bills, had the odds stacked up against them as well. After benching their starting Quarterback after week one, and the releasing him to another team, having their coach on the verge of losing his job, and being totally disregarded as a good football team before the season started, they sure overcame some diversity. They became one of the league’s best offenses, and even though their defense usually does terrible they came up big against the Bills. Hence, that big goose egg of a zero the Away team, Buffalo, had under their name on the scoreboard.
To be quite honest, I did not think that the Bills would win more than five games this season, but they did in dramatic fashion.
After Kevin Everett’s injury topped off with a heart wrenching lose to the Broncos, a Cowboys lose with just seconds left on Monday Night Football, to our leading tackler in Paul P. (I am not going to bother trying to spell his last name) going down with a season ending arm injury, along with 7 others put on injured reserve, plus 12 other players that were hurt. The odds were really stacked up against us to even make a push to the playoffs this late in the season. According to my standards I am satisfied with the outcome on the Bills’ season, which still has two games left to be decided. We could possibly end up with a record of nine wins and seven loses. Not to shabby, even though we will not be heading to the post season.
Next to the Arizona Cardinals, the Buffalo Bills hold the longest current streak of not making the playoffs. That’s not a statistic a Franchise would want to be part of.
Like the saying goes, There is always next year.” And if you are a fan of Buffalo sports, you have pretty much said that your entire life.
I hope the Bills can make a few off season moves to make the team better. I have high hopes for them next year.
Now we can all root for the Sabres to make a run to the playoffs and hopefully surprise a few teams in the post season. Who knows, maybe they will even end up with a Stanley Cup. Hey, you never know.
Life Without Running Water
November 5, 2007 
Well what an interesting way to end my weekend. I come home from a long day of work and watching sports to find out that my house is out of water.
I walked home from my friend’s place and in the distance I can see four or five real huge dump trucks with yellow lights flashing and lighting up my entire street. When i finally reach the pavement of my street I find myself standing in a huge pool of water and as I get closer to my house the water becomes deeper. When I reach the front yard of my home I see a bunch of guys digging a big hole into the sidewalk of the house across the street. Apparently while my neighbors were out enjoying the Bills’ game at Ralph Wilson Stadium the main water pipe in front of their house exploded causing a huge flood on my street. Not to mention that all of the neighboring houses were completely out of water as well.
So when I arrived at my home I continued on with my normal Sunday afternoon schedule. Basically what I do is I will exercise for about an hour, take a shower, and have a snack. What I didn’t realize at the time is all three of these activities usually require water for me to do them. When i exercise I prepare myself a nice cold water bottle. When you take a shower you pretty much need water, common sense really, and I usually prefer a tall glass of water with my snack.
I figured that I could go on with my Sunday schedule without water. Simple enough right? Not quite. I pretty much forgot that the water was out about four different times. I would keep on walking up the sink during my exercising, grab a cup, and try to turn the faucet on. Basically what happened was the sink would make a very loud and strange noise, which was a rude reminder that the water was still not working. I felt like an idiot every time I did that. Yet I continued on with my afternoon activities. I figured that the longer i exercised the more time it would give the guys working on the broken pipe outside to get the water fixed for me to take a shower after. So i exercised a little bit longer than usually and went to the nearest sink to test it out and see if the water was working. Of course, not a single drop of water came out of the sink. Plus, now I had to go to the little boys room to take care of some business. Well without any water the toilet doesn’t flush. So I trekked myself outside and picked out a nice pine tree next to my garage to tinkle on. So this is what life was like way back in the day huh?
Well here I am now. At least the electricity is working. I have not showered since yesterday morning. Since then, I have gone ice skating, worked in a parking at at the Bills’ game, hung around with my friends, and did some exercise. Lets just say I don’t smell very terrific and I just feel dirty. Hopefully I will wake up tomorrow and have the water running. If not I just won’t go to school. I figure nobody will want to be around me if I have not showered in over two days.
Where’s the rock?
October 15, 2007
Filed under Favorites, Hobbies, Music, Telivision
Tags: rock music tv vh1 mtv sucker free rap radio
Is it just me, or has rock music fallen off the planet the past few years. I mean you turn on the tube these days, put on MTV or VH1, and all you hear is rap and pop music. I have no problem with either genre of music. I have some rap songs on my ipod, but i can get really sick of the stuff really fast.
I put MTV2 on today and they had that Sucker Free Countdown on, which is a countdown of the 20 best rap songs of the week. i thought to myself how can someone watch a countdown of all rap for two straight hours? i listened to one song and the guy was rapping so fast i couldn’t understand one word he was saying. i felt like pulling my hair out. i wanted to hear some good tunes while i was exercising. so after i got sick of the rap music i was listening to, it took my about 10 seconds to finally change the channel.
i put on Vh1 and they had the top 20 video countdown on. i figured this is good, the top 20 countdown should have a good variety of music to listen too while i exercise. maybe I’ll actually hear some good rock music. it turned out that there was only about 10 minutes left of the 2 hour program. before they showed the number one video of the week they showed a recap of the videos that placed 20-2. i was disappointed to find out that the heaviest song on the countdown was a Maroon 5 song. how crummy is that? how am i supposed to pump and iron and hit the treadmill while listening to Maroon 5?
there was a song by velvet revolver on there. the only reason why i mention this is because they are a combo of Guns n Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, who are two amazing bands. The song they had on there sounded like something my mom would want to listen to on the soft rock channel on the radio. the song sounded like some crappy jingle you would hear in the elevator.
After the dissapointment of the VH1 countdown i figured i would try my luck with the radio. the #1 video of the week was a nelly furtodo song by the way. Nothing gets me pumped up like a a good Nelly Furtodo song huh?
So i turn on the only rock station i know of, 103.3 the edge. How could they let me down? well after about 15 minutes of commercails on how to save money on car insurance and coffee at dunkin doughnuts, metallica’s enter sandman came on. Finally i can feel pumped up while i work out. After hearing songs by Metallica, Guns n Roses, Motley Crue, and many toher bands from the ate 80’s early 90’s my workout was complete. it was then that i realized i didnt hear a single rock song that came out in the past 10 years.
What will it take for new rock music to take over mainstream music on the airwaves and the telivision?
“Accepted” Movie
September 26, 2007
Filed under Hobbies, Movies, Places, Worries
Tags: accepted movie college school grades
Over the weekend i came home in the afternoon and took a seat on the couch in my basement. I picked up the remote, turned on the tube, and hit the TV guide button to see what was going to be on in the next half hour of programming. I scrolled through the usual stuff, ESPN, MTV, FUSE, stuff like that. i had some time on my hands so i figured i would see what movies were coming up next on HBO.
The movie “Accepted” came up so i figured i would wait out the 5 minutes until it came on. It turned out to be a pretty good movie. It had many funny parts in it. I thought it was quite the coincidence that i was watching a movie about applying to colleges since i will probably be doing that in the upcoming months. I figured maybe i would learn a thing or two about college life by watching this movie. I turned out to be slightly mistaken that the movie would feature your average college.
The movie was mainly about an average high school kid ready to move out into the real world and take on the job of applying for colleges. Unfortunately his grades weren’t that amazing and he wasn’t accepted into any of the colleges he applied to. Instead, he comes up with the genius idea of creating his own college called, “South Harmon Institute of Technology.” (S.H.I.T. oddly enough). He rents out an old abandoned psychiatric ward to use as the campus for his parents to visit during open house and creates a fancy website featuring a fake college to fool his father into thiking that the school actually exists. His plan backfires when hundreds of kids come in saying that they were accepted to the college that he created due to the phony website. So he has to step up and take complete control over the operations of running a college. He let’s the students create, teach, and take their own classes which make for some hilarious scenes in the movie. “Accepted” made college look like a blast. Now i realize that college wont be anything like the one that the kid in the movie created but I hope it comes close.
Basically what i learned from this movie is that college should be a whole lot of fun. However, on a more serious note, i also learned that i should try to make good grades with my final year in High School. I mean imagine if the kid in the movie didn’t come up the genius idea to create his own college. He would be flipping burgers over at Burger King right now. Hopefully i will work real hard in the remainder of my final school year and get accepted to some great colleges. Or maybe i will just use the inspiration from the movie to create my own college.
