Bills' Buddy Nix and Bucs' Mark Dominik Pranked into Free Agency Gab Session

If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall during a private conversation between general managers, hopefully you will settle for being just an average Joe with a great Internet connection and a few minutes of free time. 

That's all you need to hear how one conversation might go as the NFL free agency signing period nears its beginning.

Deadspin was given audio recording taken by a couple of pranksters who bamboozled Buffalo Bills general manager Buddy Nix and Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik into dishing like school girls over free agency and those damn franchise quarterbacks. 

The audio, provided by Deadspin, is delivered in four easily digested bits of goodness. It all begins with a bit of confusion. 

Wrong number? by Deadspin

New free agency rules by Deadspin

Trade talk by Deadspin

Nix on Ryan Fitzpatrick by Deadspin

It's thanks to some quick thinking and great fortune for a couple of fans that this was all made possible. 

The report reminds us of the classic Domino's prank once posted on Deadspin. Essentially, pranksters tricked one Domino's location into a phone conference with another. 

And that's what went down here. 

On Thursday afternoon, a couple of 20-year-olds decided to ring Buddy Nix and claim to be Dominik, using a completely public phone number. 

The only trouble was that their ploy worked, and they were left without any idea of what to do with their newfound audience, so they hung up on the man. 

But Nix called them back, again and again. Instead of panicking, our evil geniuses decided to see just how far they could take this prank. 

They called Dominik with the thought of getting these two in an endless loop of useless calls, but fate decided to get in on the hilarity:

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So they rang up the Buccaneers, but while on with Dominik's secretary, Buddy Nix called again. It was perfect. They answered Nix's call, then fell silent while they were patched through to Dominik. They put the call on speaker, recorded with a second cell phone, and sat back and listened to the fun.

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And this is the moment that you excuse yourself to get some popcorn. 

As you would expect, the conversation starts with some confusion, as only a phone call neither man actually planned begins. 

Nix offers jokingly, "I've called you back a hundred times!" Dominik, ever the polite gentleman, guarantees that he would never string Nix along. 

The general managers then do what general managers do, and that's whine and moan about the state of the league. This time it's the topical issue of the free agency period and the new rule that states teams can talk to free agents at midnight Friday night, but have to wait until Tuesday to sign them. 

As for the juiciest part of this gab session, it would have to be when Nix discusses the finer points of his resident, non-franchise quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. 

Here is how Nix sees his gunslinger: 

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We're still struggling here with our quarterback...We're not really struggling--he's going to have to do something, or we'll have to...

We just can't afford to pay that kind of money for a guy who's fighting for probably a backup job.

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Somewhere, Fitzpatrick is walking around his house with a sad punim. 

And that is when the call ends, amid Nix's ultimate sadness that he will hang up and Fitzpatrick will still be his quarterback. 

Next time, when you have your people call another's people, make sure you actually know which people are at work. 

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