This is the product that some people spent over $200 to see! Lets hope that when the University of Buffalo Bulls come to Toronto and play in the International Bowl, they will do a better job in representing Buffalo than the Bills did on Sunday. Playing the first NFL regulation game ever in Canada, the Bills laid an egg. They lost to the Miami Dolphins 16-3, making it two straight games where they only scored on a field goal. The Bills offense has been inept recently, to say the least.

The UB Bulls would probably beat the Bills if they played them right now. They won the MAC Championship Friday night against previously unbeaten Ball State 42-24. The Bulls quarterback Drew Willy would do a much better job than either Trent Edwards or J.P. Losman, as he has a much better pocket presence and is a more accurate thrower. Comparing the Bulls and Bills coaching is like night and day. Bulls head coach Turner Gill has turned the UB football program around 180 degrees. Meanwhile, the Bills are dangerously close to finishing up l7-9 or worse for their third straight year under Dick Jauron. The Bills fans are clamoring for Jauron's head after the Bills have fallen from a great 4-0 start to their current 6-7 record.

While the UB Bulls demonstrate how to win a football game against a stronger opponent, the Bills can't even beat teams that they should be on par with. Maybe its attitude and getting up for every game. Maybe its coaching as the Bulls have an outstanding coach in Turner Gill and the Bills have Dick Jauron, who has as much emotion and drive as a wet noodle.

The Bulls will be playing in the Rogers Centre in Toronto on January 3. It won't take much to put on a better performance than the Bills did on Sunday. Just showing up on the field will accomplish that.

Bills fans can only blame themselves for mediocre team

Bills owner Ralph Wilson smugly proclaimed that if the Bills win 1 or 2 games next year before the Toronto game that the fans will still come. He's been saying exactly the same thing year in and year out when he provides a mediocre product at best and the fans keep on buying the tickets.

Actually, Wilson isn't really to blame here. The fans are to blame as they keep thinking that the Bills will improve and actually may make the playoffs one of these years. That is so far from the truth that they give credence to the old axiom that "a sucker is born every day." Why should Wilson pay the money to bring in a big name coach, to bring in players who care and will make the team actually competitive? All Wilson has to do is to threaten to move, complain about the economy here and take more and more games to Toronto where they are even bigger suckers and are willing to pay him $10 million a game there. No, the fans have themselves to blame for not having a playoff team since 1999.

The Toronto fans aren’t stupid. They didn’t really flock to buy these tickets and the game was not a sellout (even if the Bills said it was), or even close to it. They were giving tickets away the last few days up to game time. Whether Rogers Communications will find a way out of the contract to pay Wilson $10 million a game for the next 6 games in the deal is up for debate. Some are wondering if Rogers Communications can afford it in light of the was a massive layoff in the Blue Jays front office and workers. Rogers also owns the Jays. The Blue Jays have indicated they may have to cut their salary cap from $100 million ot $80 million. It appears the economic meltdown is affecting Canada as well as here south of the border.

Will the Canadian fans be suckered into paying premium dollars to see another Bills fiasco in Toronto?

The Bills put on a bland product, have a bland coach and played a bland game the past two weeks when they could only muster up a field goal in each "contest." There were more Dolphin fans in the stands than those clad in the red, white and blue. Maybe the Bills fans should be given some credit there for not wanting to spend $200 a ticket for this joke on the field.

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