OMFGAWD!!!!!! How in the HELL did Buffalo blow that?!!!! Jesus Christ...just fall on the ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Up 11 with less than five minutes to play and now I will have to see the commentators do everything but pull Brady's pants down and jerk him off!! UGH!!!!!!

god awful....

Loved it how the commentators said all Trent Edwards had to do was maintain his cool in the last 45 seconds of the game, because it wasn't his fault. Well...he didn't maintain his cool!!!

trent edwards is awful, but a least he's hot...

goddamn, it would've been nice to see brady's pats 0-1.

jets need to win next week!

The more things change the more they remain the same when it comes to the Bills. Getting T.O. may have been a change but losing in improbable fashion on a Monday night is a repeat performance from 2007 when Dallas beat them 25-24 on two last minute drives. At least Buffalo has a flair for the dramatic on prime time.

The Patriots just had to win in their season opener with the return of the Bradymeister. I thought the old Boston Patriot uniforms looked great too.
I felt unsettled with the way the no-huddle offense sucked the air out of New Englands D. Surprising NE couldnt figure out what they needed to do.
Tom looked more confident in the 4th and seemed to be connecting like the QB we're used to seeing.
Welker and Moss looked pretty good too.

Either there is no God, or there is one, and he hates Buffalo.

How many more Monday Night choke jobs do I have to live through.

So what if McKelvin came out of the end zone? If he doesn't fumble, the Pats still have all of their timeouts left. They stop the Bills on three and out(these are the Bills, of course it would happen). Then block the punt or get a killer return(Again, the Bills). Easy touchdown comes anyway.

Everyone outside of Buffalo couldn't believe it happened. Everyone inside of Buffalo was just waiting for the other shoe to drop. And it did.

(sigh, what have I done to deserve this.....)

My bf is in a NFL pool & he changed the channel early b4 the game was over. He was pissed. He had picked New England (he also went to bed early cuz he was beat from work). I watched most of the game. So this morn I told him that NE had won. He was SHOCKED!..SHOCKED I tell ya!

Why did I waste any time even watching bits of the Bills game? They suck! 6-3 loss at home to Cleveland. Ugh!

Ok, blueraider must be on suicide watch.

That was painful to watch, but the Bills pull off a 16-13 OT win!

Congrats to the Bills. Happy for blueraider!

although i like the jets to win, it's still nice to see them suffer...lol

same old pathetic jets!

1 word: Masochist.

WOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Admittedly, the Jets lost it more than the Bills won it. And Sanchez has to realize that as much as Buffalo stinks, they're still a heck of a lot better than what he faced at USC.

I see another 7-9 season for the Bills coming with a weak schedule ahead.

His games against fUcla comes to mind.

i root for the giants. i like the jets to do well, but i don't get upset if they lose. i do enjoy the jets fans long-time whining and suffering. the more painful the loss, the better. just like the last two games vs. fish and bills.

All I can say is Round Two Jets and Bills I hope is a better game. That is the one Bills 'home' game being played in Toronto this year - so of course I was an idiot and bought tickets.

Hey Blueraider - you going to be able to make it up here with the game being on a Thursday night?

Yep, I'm coming. I won't have much, if any time for pregame. But I'll get there....

It'll be interesting to see how much different the atmosphere will be for a night game. I'm hoping the crowd shows up - for the Bills....

Let's see.....

Outgained 425-167 in yardage, but wins by 11.

Always good to win the turnover battle 4-0, isn't it?

Second ugly win in a row. 3-4 on the season.

Baffling thought of the week: As crappy as the Bills are, had they hung on to beat the Pats in Week 1 they would be 4-3, in a three way tie for first in the AFC East, AND be on top of the tiebreak thanks to wins over the Jets and Pats. Absolutely crazy....

Dungy: Vick could end up with Bills

Bills fire coach.

Buffalo News article with audio report.

about fraking time. Let's see if Ralph goes out and gets a big name coach in the off season. Oh, wait. He hasn't done that since he hired Chuck Knox in the late 70's. Nevermind....

Jauron should have been fired after last season. Then this year - WITHOUT DOUBT - he should have been canned after the Bills lost at home to the Browns.

The Bills are so bad that the Bills In Toronto Series is becoming a costly joke for Rogers - who paid Ralph Wilson something like $64 million dollars for the 8 game series. There are reports that there are as many as 10,000 unsold seats (of 51,000 available seats) for the one Bills game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto this year against the Jets on Thursday December 3rd.

Rogers are now so desparate to fill the stadium - so they do not suffer the embarrassment of the blackout being enforced - that they are now giving away tickets to the game. My friend Jim - who already bought tickets to the entire 8 game series through 2012, bought his usual 10 game Flex pack for the Jays for next year on Monday and he got a call from the Jays who are owned by Rogers) thanking him - and to let him know that as a 'bonus' they were giving him a pair of tickets to the Bills games for free. So for buying about $800.00 worth of Jays tickets Rogers threw in a pair of Bills tickets - face value of over $200.00 in total - for free!

I'm pissed off that months ago I bought a pair for $220.00 - because as my friend Jim mentioned yesterday - he would have given the pair he just got for free to me. The last time I spoke with him he told me so far the first few people - he knows are NFL fans - that he has offered the tickets to for free, have all turned them down. Usually with a comment along the lines of 'Thanks - but you couldn't pay me enough to go watch the Bills.' It's that bad.

I would absolutely take the free tickets! Unfortunately, I'd also need money for airfare and hotel.

Salvation Army where art thou?

Boy the Bills themselves are making the 'Bills in Toronto Series' a very tough sell. Rogers and other sponsors of the game managed to give away enough freebies to sell-out the Rogers Centre - and it actually looked like close to 50,000 actually turned up to watch the pathetic Bills struggle against the not much better Jets. And just like last year the Bills laid an egg with practically no offence yet again. Fewer than 100 yards passing on the night.

I went to the game but skipped the 'official' tailgate party which although well attended turned into a bit of a joke because it became a mud bowl from the heavy rain the night before. Real tailgating is ilegal in Ontario - so this was the sponsors attempt at having a party outside the stadium in the hours leading up to last nights game.

As for the crowd at the game - I think this paragraph from Stephen Brunt of the Globe and Mail is the best description I read.

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Once inside, though, it did seem at least subtly different from last year's dreadful regular season match between the Bills and Miami Dolphins, a 16-3 win for the 'visiting' team that was as lifeless a sporting event as one is every likely to experience.

There were certainly empty seats and how many of those in attendance paid, or what they paid, is anybody's guess but not enough to create a cringe factor for anyone who had actually anted up.

More significantly, it felt like a far more engaged crowd, involved in the game from the opening kickoff, cheering in the right places, groaning in the right places, with a clear rooting interest. This time, the 'home' team was at least obviously the home team, (albeit the Toronto version thereof, so the support wasn’t as loud and rough around the edges as what the Bills experienced back in their regular digs).
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I think that is a fair description. I laugh at some people describing it as a neutral crowd. It was neutral if you consider 40,000+people cheering for one team and about 5,000 the other as neutral. Sure when there is absolutely nothing to cheer about the 40,000 can seem pretty quiet but through 8 quarters of football now there have been maybe 5 plays where the Bills gained more than 15 yards! They've been that bad!

The night game start certainly made for a more lubricated crowd with even a few brawls breaking out in the stands in the 4th quarter, a fairly common occurence at Bills real home games - but a rare occurrence at any games for any team up here in Toronto.

Some people are already judging this entire series is a failure, but I think it is too early to say that. If the Bills actually ever played a meaningful game up here - instead of a late season game with a back-up quarterback - with the team already eliminated from playoff contention - as has been the case the last two years, I think selling out the place would be a breeze - and you would see a much more engaged crowd. Maybe not as loud or wild as they would be in Buffalo - but much more a factor than what we've seen through the first two years of this five year experiment.

Heck - I'm a Bills fan and haven't even bothered to watch them the last couple of weeks on TV and were I not going to the game last night would probably only have glanced in occassionally on TV. Give us a game that means something before giving up on us.

Edited to add.
I just read another column in The National Post and it sums up the problems with this series - and does include a note about that fans here won't be engaged until the Bills move here. This from The National Post article titled 'Bills a tough sell in Toronto'

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Why on Earth would any right-minded person become a fan of the Buffalo Bills now? There are plenty of people in Toronto who love the NFL, but Buffalo is just one of 32 teams. And, frankly, not a terribly appealing one.

Buffalo has ranked 23rd, 30th, 23rd and 24th in the league in scoring in the last four years; this year, going into this game, they ranked 26th. They have finished 7-9 the last three years, and have a marketing guy as the GM. This year, they signed Terrell Owens. But he's been quiet, so the most interesting thing about the Bills is still that they might one day leave Buffalo.

Ask a Buffalo fan, and it's likely they were either trapped by geography or history. Chris Sabourin of Burlington, 29, is a Bills season-ticket holder. He grabbed on when the Bills played in four consecutive Super Bowls from 1990-93, and was hooked. He crosses the border every weekend, revels in the pre-game tailgate that surrounds Ralph Wilson Stadium like a Mongol camp, and loves his Bills.

But if he was 10 years old today, would he become a Bills fan?

"No," he says.

And that's the problem. The time to capture this market was 15 years ago, when the team was good and the Internet was slow and you couldn't see any other team without a fight. There is a generation that grew up here and was captured just that way. They just didn't know what they were getting into.

As one co-worker and Bills fan put it, "Grew up in southern Ontario, got local Buffalo TV, sucked in by [the Jim Kelly no-huddle offence]. Tragedy ensued."

No, until geography traps them -- until the Bills are here full-time -- new fans aren't going to be lining up. Rogers is working hard for the $10-million it is shelling out per game, but unlike cable TV, there's no monopoly on NFL entertainment in Toronto. You can pay Rogers cable division -- or Bell -- to watch any team you want for a lot less than the price of a ticket.
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