NFL Schedule released!

The 48th season of Buffalo Bills football features the return of Monday Night Football to Orchard Park for the first time since '94 with the Dallas Cowboys' visit on Columbus Day weekend.

Personally speaking, I think there could be a record for arrests and ejections at the Ralph that night.....but that's just me....anyhow, schedule:

All games are 1pm starts unless otherwise noted, and of course subject to last minute and seemingly indecisive changing.....

9.9 DENVER
9.16 @Pittsburgh
9.23 @New England
9.30 NY JETS
10.8 DALLAS( 8pm monday night)
10.15 bye week
10.21 BALTIMORE
10.28 @NY Jets(4pm start)
11.4 CINCINNATI
11.11 @Miami
11.18 NEW ENGLAND
11.25 @ Jacksonville
12.2 @Washington
12.9 MIAMI
12.16 @Cleveland
12.23 NY GIANTS
12.30 @Philadelphia

Some thoughts:

Another visit by Miami in the cold weather....

If Cleveland still sucks this year, how big of a presence will Buffalofan have in Cleveland?

Wondering just how negative things will get when McGahee comes back on October 21st..

Anyone notice that the Bills don't leave the Eastern Time Zone at all this year?

Season begins on 9/6 with the Saints visiting the Colts. Will the Saints drag out Archie Manning to make this another silly, overhyped Manning matchup?

New Meadowlands stadium - a staggering $1.6 billion!!!

Appearing in today's Newsday is this report that has the proposed new stadium in the Meadowlands now estimated at costing$1.6 billion, and that number is seemingly climbing by the day.

Now the NFL owners will have to vote on whether to expand the borrowing capacity for the project. If owners nix the deal, both the Jets and the Giants might have to return to the drawing board on their stadium plans.

So why did James Dungy commit suicide?

Back in late 2005, we were saddened to hear of this story regarding James Dungy, the 18 year old son of NFL coach Tony Dungy. Why would such a fine young man abruptly kill himself? It was sad, it was tragic, and there seemingly were no answers.

But knowing Coach Dungy and his constant religious pontificating, my gut told me that his son was hiding a deep secret. My instinct told me James was gay, and if you understand the parallel universe that Christians operate in, sometimes death might be preferable to the *insert shriek here* horror of being gay.

Now my instincts are being reconfimed as I read this report in the Indianapolis Star, as Dungy was the keynote speaker at a banquet the other night for some nut group called the "Indiana Family Institute". This organization is apparently fighting to adopt legislation to ban same-sex marriage in Indiana and also rescind hard won equal rights initiatives in the state.

"IFI is saying what the Lord says," Dungy said. "You can take that and make your decision on which way you want to be. I'm on the Lord's side."

So tell us, Coach Dungy, when exactly did you and God have this conversation?

I used to admire and respect Tony Dungy. Suffice to say that is over.