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The Bills getting rid of Willis McGahee is probably the right move. The sad thing is it makes me look back on the Tom Donohoe era and contemplate once again what an utter waste it was. I’m glad that Levy and Jauron are building this team through the draft and focusing on the offensive line. I think they deserve our patience. There hasn’t been any real enthusiasm about the Buffalo Bills since Flutie left and Donohoe came in. Maybe this team will put something together as soon as next season. Ralph Wilson has been an old man for a long time, but with the direction the league is headed, this is the first time I’ve really worried about the future of the Bills in town. It’s always in the back of my mind whenever I think about the team these days.

Not to sound like I’m defending Gary Matthews for probably using human growth hormone, but it’s hard not to have a little sympathy for the guy when you consider the free ride that Shawne Merriman got both from the media and the NFL itself. If anything, the four game suspension that Merriman got only built his credentials because of the numbers he put up in a shortened season. Apparently no one finds it relevant that Merriman was juiced for part of that season. If anything, I feel sorry for Jason Taylor that he had to contemplate losing the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award to a convicted cheater. Merriman’s first game back after his suspension was against Buffalo, and you would think that no one had ever made a tackle before by the way he celebrated on the field. With the praise he gets, maybe you can’t blame him for thinking that the football season didn't actually carry on the four weeks he was gone.

I often preach the values of the following presentation to my daughter with no success. Perhaps it will make an impression on your family:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvVhm0-gyC0

When the dinner hour at home is treated with a certain amount of graciousness and ceremony, it can be memorable. There is no family so poor, but that the evening meal can be eaten in an atmosphere of warmth, and gentleness. There is no family so busy, but that it can come together in the evening for a dinner date, which will give its members something to look back upon with happiness all their days.