John Wawrow 🤷‍♂️ Profile picture
Buffalo-based AP Sports Writer and accused of being a “wing elitist” by Alexi Lalas. The blurry banner photo is of The Replacements playing in Detroit.
Mar 28 12 tweets 2 min read
I’m subtweeting a few folks here, but a lot of the debate over contract extensions — deserved or not — are being argued in a vacuum.
And this might be a long thread.

Granato earned his extension for the development the Sabres youngsters, Tage, Dahlin, Casey. … And that promise became evident last season when the Sabres fell oh-so-close to making the playoffs.

Folks in both the media and on the team crowed the Sabres were in the cusp of sustained success, despite the low bar of success established (missing the playoffs) …
Jan 13, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Music:
Starting with The Faces:
“Too Bad.”

The rock and roll will then continue to ensue. “Go Amanda”
— Steve Earle.
Oct 31, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
Not entirely sure what people want.
#Bills have been built methodically with some calculated risk-taking, but nothing so harmful with the capability of setting back the franchise long term. ... If people want the return of the wild-west, make-a-splash to sell tickets and hope they win show of the past, sure.
That succeeded in setting the team back 17 years.
Want to be back in cap jail, I’m all for offer-sheeting a tight end, or signing Marcel to $100 million.
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