Buffalo Bills Fans Can Forget About Brandon Pettigrew
02/22/2009
email: pakasprz@yahoo.com My email is always open to people who want to talk about football, and get tips on writing.
Married with two kids Victoria, and Paul Jr.
High School: Cheektowaga Central
College: Erie Community College
Played high school football, four of six possible years due to injury.
Attempted to walk on to Buffalo State College football team.
Graduated from ECC in 2002 with a Liberal Arts Social Science Associates degree in 2002.
Went back to ECC, and graduated in 2007 with a Communications and Media degree in 2007.
Did my internship for my degree in the summer of 2006 at WGR sports radio 550.
Wrote for Sports and Leisure magazine for about a year, and for four months was a freelance writer sports writer for the Cheektowaga Times, until they went out of business that is.
Since March of 2006 I have my own blog on the National Football League located at http://kasperskorner.speakupwny.com
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/119342-bills-br-community-newsletter-vol-1
296 days ago
Paul, I thought you were my cousin! Maybe we are, but more distant than the one who is a broadcaster in Shawano, WI. It may be a common Polish name, but it is not common over here, so I just figure we're all related.
296 days ago
thanks for the edit Paul .... you have a lovely family mate - cheers
303 days ago
Hey Paul, thanks for the feedback. For obvious reasons, I've got a lot of love for Aikman, but I respectfully disagree with him. And the point I was trying to make on Romo is not that I think it is OK to just not care, but that he is right in his understanding that there are more important things in life.
Thanks again!
307 days ago
Thanx, for using your editing skills on my article. The article is alot better for it, you did a great job.
309 days ago
Thank you Paul. That is a fine looking family you have there.
Anyway, that is exactly how I had intended the article to be formatted. It printed like that when I posted it. Not sure why it skewed? Maybe you know?
I also wanted to ask your opinion if I did the right thing with Mark Gunza's article. His was excellent, as well. Did not intend on stealing his thunder and am hoping it draws more attention to his. Thanks again.
311 days ago
Hi Paul,
Thanks for reading and editing my article. Since I live in Toronto and have been an off and on visitor to Buffalo for the past 25 years (mostly to Boulevard Mall area) with my Wegman's card, I think Mr. Quinn's remark is a gross exaggeration. He'll accept a Hamilton franchise if paid enough. To clear up a few facts:
Yes, he will lose some of his market, but hardly all of it. In southern Ontario, Buffalo will still probably retain all the area from St. Catharines and half way to Detroit along the north Lake Erie shore. The population of metropolitan Buffalo is over 1 million. And Buffalo has all of Western and Northern New York State to market in. To the east is metropolitan Rochester with a population of over 1 million. Beyond that, metropolitan Syracuse has a population of over 700,000. To the west, Erie, Pennsylvania has a population of nearly 300,000. That's a total potential market of over 4 million people when everybody in between is counted. Buffalo could even market in Cleveland as well. So a Hamilton franchise is hardly going to be the end of the Buffalo Sabres, especially when he gets his compensation money.
Having gone to lots of Blue Jay games over the years (including the very first one) it was quite common to see buses from all over including Buffalo and northern New York State in the parking lot. So the problem with the Buffalo Sabres is not market size but lazy marketing.
Quebec, if it gets back in the NHL and wants to increase its market will have to sell in eastern Quebec and the Maritimes, distances far greater and far smaller than the potential market Buffalo has. What if Rochester were to apply for an NHL/NFL franchise? Would that too be the end of the Sabres/Bills?
The whole ploy of trying to move the Bills to Toronto and the threat of the extinction of the Sabres by a Hamilton franchise is more based on greed and lazy marketing than a real threat.
It's about time that Buffalonians and their franchise owners showed some faith in their city and region. Is everybody living Buffalo's 4 million potential market a pauper and football/hockey hater? With a market like that and the great arena that you built (the largest 18,000 seat arena in the NHL, bigger than Vancouver), it seems to me that you could bring back a Buffalo basketball franchise and have the major league baseball team you never had. Steve Thompson
P.S. If the NFL wants to put a franchise in Toronto, it could do so without hurting Buffalo that much. There's plenty of room for two franchises without one city hurting the other.
Additonal P.S. Fix up your sports record, Dimagio went 56 games with a hit.
311 days ago
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Bleacher Report said...
DeleteThanks for the edit on my Saints article.
288 days ago