SPORTSFEBRUARY 25, 2000, THE BEHREND BEACON, PAGE 15
The rise and fall of
Professional sports teams always
outdo themselves. Every time that I
think something couldn't become
worse or more ridiculous, it always
does.
Several weeks ago the free agency
period began in the National Football
League. This is the time for overpaid
athletes to get paid even more and
underachieving athletes to get over
paid. Each year I approach the free
agency period in horror because it
always seems that the Buffalo Bills
make some boneheaded move. Now
I know that they have a crack staff at
One Bills Drive, under the direction
of General Manager John Butler,
working diligently to find another
way to disembowel the team.
And this year they did not let the
die hard Bills fans down.
But before I get to this year's fine
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Player FG 3-point FT Points
Lawrence 4-9 3-6 2-2 13
Berchtold 3-6 1-2 0-0 7
Orris 2-7 0-4 2-2 6
Hughes 10-17 0-0 6-7 26
Keith 3-5 1-2 0-0 7
Park 2-6 0-I 3-5 7
Willson 1-2 0-0 0-1 2
McKinney 2-3 2-3 1-2 7
Totals 27-55 7-18 14-19 75
Assists: 13, Rebounds: 38, Blocks: 1, Steals: 4, TO: 9
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Henderson 3-10 0-I 1-2 7
Domonick 10-19 3-8 5-6 28
Baker I-1 0-0 0-0 2
Castrilla 0-0 0-0 0-0 0
Colon 3-6 2-4 1-2 9
Totals 26-54 5-14 8-11 65
Assists: 10, Rebounds: 21, Blocks: 1, Steals: 7, TO: 6
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executive decisions, let me go down
the list of Butler's previous blunders.
As history tells us, John Butler re
placed former Bills general manager
and football mastermind Bill Polian
after the Bills second consecutive Su
per Bowl appearance. Pollan had built
the empire by drafting Jim Kelly,
Bruce Smith, Andre Reed, Thurman
Thomas, and others. But for various
reasons, Pollan left the Bills organi-
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Lake Erie
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Player FG 3-point FT Points
Buck 2-4 1-3 0-0 5
Nestor 1-4 0-0 0-0 2
Weigold 1-3 0-0 0-0 2
Mauser 1-1 0-1 2-2 4
Tanner 0-1 0-0 0-0 0
Janiuk 0-0 0-0 0-0 0
Jackson 5-9 0-0 0-0 10
Costanzo 0-5 0-1 1-2 1
Charnock 1-3 0-0 0-2 2
Phillips 4-11 0-0 12-14 20
Sanders 0-5 0-1 0-0 0
O'Lare 5-8 0-0 7-9 17
Totals 20-54 1-6 22-29 63
Assists: 10, Rebounds: 37, Blocks: 2, Steals: 10, TO: 19
Lake Erie
Player FG 3-point FT Points
Taylor 0-0 0-0 0-0 0
Whitacre 1-2 0-0 1-4 3
Berardinelli 4-13 0-0 3-6 11
Casiano 4-15 0-3 1-4 9
Bolden 4-8 0-2 0-2 8
Gast 1-1 0-0 1-2 3
Frahotta 3-12 0-7 0-0 6
Foglyano 1-3 0-0 0-0 2
Ford 0-0 0-0 0-0 0
Novotny 2-5 0-1 1-2 5
Totals 20-59 0-13 7-20 47
Assists: 5, Rebounds• 38, Blocks: 3, Steals: 8, TO: 16
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zation and the reigns were handed
over to Butler. Now I know that Mr.
Butler probably is an upstanding in
dividual, but what I don't like are the
decisions that he makes about this
football team.
With that being said, the demise of
this team started during the year after
free agency was instituted in the No
Fan League. One of the Bills key of
fensive lineman, Howard 'House'
Ballard, was an unrestricted free
agent.
The 'House' wasn't asking for a
truckload of cash, but the Bills felt that
it was too much to pay, so the 'House'
moved to Seattle and the Bills running
game went with him.
To fill the hole in the offensive line,
the Bills drafted John Fina in the first
round of the 1992 draft. I can remem
ber watching the draft at home. see-
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ing ESPN analyst Mel Kiper go nuts
after the Bills selected Fina. Ile
thought it was a bad pick then, and I
can tell you from a fan's perspective,
he was right.
These decisions are the first in a
long list of decisions that have put the
Bills into the predicament that they
currently are up against. Two weeks
ago, the Bills had to say good-bye to
the three remaining players who were
on the Super Bowl teams of the early
1990'5. Due to salary cap restraints,
caused by incompetence and misman
agement on the part of Mr. Butler and
Bills' owner Ralph Wilson, the Bills
cut future hall of famers Bruce Smith.
Andre Reed, and Thurman Thomas.
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Cincinnati
Arizona
Michigan State
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7. Tennessee
8. Auburn
9. Oklahoma State
10. Florida
11. Syracuse
12. Temple
13. Tulsa
14. Indiana
15. Texas
16. Kentucky
17. LSU
18. lowa State
19. Maryland
20. Oklahoma
21. Connecticut
22. Vanderbilt
23. Kansas
24. Utah
25. Purdue
I realize that this trio was past their
prime and the money was needed to
stay under the cap, but this never
should have happened. If Mr. Wilson
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cared about how the team performed
or any of the players on the team, he
would have prevented this. But be
cause he only cares about his pocket
book and is probably scheming to
drive the team into the ground so he
can move it elsewhere, he did noth
ing. Instead of showing some respect
to them and planning for this day sev
eral years ago, he did the exact oppo
site and merely had his henchmen
muster up a press release full of rheto-
Let me tell you that this organiza
tion has to he the most mismanaged
in the NFL. Any team that signs
Doug Flutie to a twenty million dol
lar plus contract has to have their head
examined. Contracts like this one
have put the strain on the Bills and
prevents them for keeping their mar
quee players.
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Already the Bills have lost key free
agent Thomas Smith and are on track
to lose offensive guard Ruben Brown.
But the Bills managed to keep tight
end Jay Riemersma in town by ten
dering him the largest contract for any
tight end in the league. I swear these
people are brain-dead or they live near
a nuclear power plant or something.
Riemersma is an average player at
best, and he does not deserve to be
the highest paid tight end in the
league. Contracts exactly like this
are the root of the Bills' problem.
Don't you think that they would
have learned from their previous mis
takes? Apparently they haven't, and
if this mismanagement continues, the
Bills won't he at One Bills Drive
much longer.
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