Good on him.

Rock on! I'll be rooting for the Bills all year until they play KC.

Now if only he'd say that about spending money on the TEAM.

Wonder if he'll start matching contributions to food banks in Toronto soon.

/sounds like a good guy, but terrible owner
//turrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible
///to quote Bill Walton

As long as he doesn't donate a case of spoiled OJ in lieu of a cash gift, I'm all for it.

That is very cool.

jake_lex:
//turrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible
///to quote Bill Walton

That's Charles Barkley. Bill Walton's shtick is that he goes over the top to enunciate his words.

time to go to the shelter for dinner.

Counting the donations of the Conleys and Wilsons, the Fan Food Drive collected a record total of $219,178.08, in addition to donations of 6,287 pounds of food. "I said, 'Ralph, next year are you going to cap it?' " Conley said. "He said, 'No, I'm not.' I said, 'Ralph, you don't know me. When you tell me it's not capped for next year, I'm asking you to rethink it.' He said, 'No cap for next year.' I said, 'I'll see you next year.' "

that's pretty damn cool. here's to hoping the conleys show up next year with a check for $10 million

If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.

cameroncrazy1984: Now if only he'd say that about spending money on the TEAM.

Sounds like he's a man with his priorities in order.

100k to him is like 20 bucks to an average person.

Classy move.

jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.


Hmm. That's interesting, and I suspect you'll get flamed for it. But I tend to agree.

cameroncrazy1984: Now if only he'd say that about spending money on the TEAM.

I understand, I mean, who should feed needy, homeless people. Instead of keeping his word and matching donations for people in need, he should spend another 100k split 53 ways between players that already make a league minimum of at least 250k a piece.

/sarcasm off
//tool

There's no substitute for an old AFL owner. Salute!

jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.

Well duh, it's kind of hard to have them all die of starvation when you're feeding them.

MIguy: 100k to him is like 20 bucks to an average person.

This. Of course, when's the last time any of us gave 20 bucks to a food shelf?

Shouldn't people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps instead of getting free food?

Charity should be reserved for major financial institutions that fail due to their own mismanagement.

Selector: jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.


Hmm. That's interesting, and I suspect you'll get flamed for it. But I tend to agree.

So says someone who has never been in need apparently. Not all poor are just the lazy, don't want to work type. Some just genuinely try but cannot make it. Fark is overloaded with caring individuals apparently today.

Selector
jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.

Hmm. That's interesting, and I suspect you'll get flamed for it. But I tend to agree.

Why get flamed, it's true! Besides, giving handouts isn't the best way to help them anyway. "Give a person a fish, and they'll eat for a day. Teach a person to fish, and they'll eat for a lifetime.

Raging Thespian: MIguy: 100k to him is like 20 bucks to an average person.

This. Of course, when's the last time any of us gave 20 bucks to a food shelf?

I give $20 bucks a month to the Humane Society. Humans can help themselves, animals can't.

Rhaolin: Selector: jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.


Hmm. That's interesting, and I suspect you'll get flamed for it. But I tend to agree.

So says someone who has never been in need apparently. Not all poor are just the lazy, don't want to work type. Some just genuinely try but cannot make it. Fark is overloaded with caring individuals apparently today.

I volunteer at Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen/Thrift Store. I'm well aware that it's not universally true, but it sure as hell isn't totally false, either. I know all Farkers are millionaires, but being a college kid working at a grocery store, there's some weeks that I have to eat ramen and saltines for a couple days until payday, so think about that next time you go off on a self-righteous rant.

Ralph Wilson is a good man, but he is an old man and once he kicks, the new regime will send my beloved Bills to Toronto for a few loons, leaving me with no actual team that plays in New York.

/New Jersey Jets/Giants (not breaking news, I know)
//Can't root for a Toronto team in the NATIONAL Football League (bring on the Int'NFL).

Typhoid: Besides, giving handouts isn't the best way to help them anyway. "Give a person a fish, and they'll eat for a day. Teach a person to fish, and they'll eat for a lifetime.

Or you could look at it as "Give a person a fish, they and their kids eat today, don't give them anything and they're dead tomorrow so they never learn to fish themselves"

did he pay in canadian?

Typhoid: Selector
jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.

Hmm. That's interesting, and I suspect you'll get flamed for it. But I tend to agree.

Why get flamed, it's true! Besides, giving handouts isn't the best way to help them anyway. "Give a person a fish, and they'll eat for a day. Teach a person to fish, and they'll eat for a lifetime.

It's been my experience at the soup kitchen that some people really do need some help here and there, but an equal, and probably greater, number just show up out of habit. They're not out actively trying to make their lives better or anything...they show up when the door opens, take what they can get, and leave, never even stopping to thank us in most instances. Some of them are genuinely grateful, but I find that those individuals are the ones who rarely show up.

Selector: jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.


Hmm. That's interesting, and I suspect you'll get flamed for it. But I tend to agree.

Give the poor a fire, and they'll be warm for a day...

MIguy: 100k to him is like 20 bucks to an average person.

Seriously.

I mean, giving to charity is great and everything, and kudos to both the donor and Ralph Wilson for matching.

But Ralph Wilson has managed to turn a $25,000 initial buy-in into a franchise worth more than $850 million, by most estimates. That's one hell of a return on investment, but it doesn't stop him from crying poverty to the league every year, and demanding millions of dollars in state tax money for stadium improvements. Which stadium is going to be used less from now on, since Ralph has decided that he needs to shift some games to Toronto, citing financial hardship. But apparently the financial hardship is not so great that he needs to pursue other common-sense revenue sources, such as selling the naming rights to the freaking stadium, rather than taking the egomaniac route and naming it after himself.

jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.

You'll never get rid of them whether you do or not, so you may as well feed them.

Beatlefreak: I give $20 bucks a month to the Humane Society. Humans can help themselves, animals can't.

Cool. Do you ever come up to Minneapolis for the Walk For Animals? I get my Humane Society donating for the entire year done at that time.

cobby97: //Can't root for a Toronto team in the NATIONAL Football League (bring on the Int'NFL).

Apparently you haven't looked carefully at the list of teams in the National Basketball Association. Or the American League of MLB, for that matter.

Raging Thespian: Beatlefreak: I give $20 bucks a month to the Humane Society. Humans can help themselves, animals can't.

Cool. Do you ever come up to Minneapolis for the Walk For Animals? I get my Humane Society donating for the entire year done at that time.

Sadly, my schedule hasn't cooperated for me yet. I'm hoping to make it to the 2009 one. I've done a couple local walks for the shelter here though- they need a new building badly.

rasproteus: Selector: jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.


Hmm. That's interesting, and I suspect you'll get flamed for it. But I tend to agree.

Give the poor a fire, and they'll be warm for a day...

Set the poor on fire, and they'll go away.

Beatlefreak: Raging Thespian: MIguy: 100k to him is like 20 bucks to an average person.

This. Of course, when's the last time any of us gave 20 bucks to a food shelf?

I give $20 bucks a month to the Humane Society. Humans can help themselves, animals can't.

So all those stray cats and dogs can't make it without a person such as yourself? Animals can survive just fine without humans. They have been doing it for a very long time.

Typhoid: "Give a person a fish, and they'll eat for a day. Teach a person to fish, and they'll eat for a lifetime.

I think the second part is "Teach a person to fish and you've given up your fishing monopoly".

The Asshole Guy: So all those stray cats and dogs can't make it without a person such as yourself? Animals can survive just fine without humans. They have been doing it for a very long time.

Stray pets are, as a rule, cute and adorable.

Stray humans, not so much.

Beatlefreak: Raging Thespian: MIguy: 100k to him is like 20 bucks to an average person.

This. Of course, when's the last time any of us gave 20 bucks to a food shelf?

I give $20 bucks a month to the Humane Society. Humans can help themselves, animals can't.

Why do they call themselves the Humane society if they don't cage humans?

/I got nothing..

cobby97: Ralph Wilson is a good man, but he is an old man and once he kicks, the new regime will send my beloved Bills to Toronto for a few loons, leaving me with no actual team that plays in New York.

/New Jersey Jets/Giants (not breaking news, I know)
//Can't root for a Toronto team in the NATIONAL Football League (bring on the Int'NFL)

I know looking for rationality in sports fans' allegiances is pointless, but does an arbitrary line in the dirt that is there more by historical accident than anything else really mean that much to you? Why shouldn't a person living in Buffalo be more concerned with/connected to things happening in Toronto than in, say, Hawaii? Just because of what government authority you live under? Should that really matter for so much in a free society?

: )

Food.

The Asshole Guy: So all those stray cats and dogs can't make it without a person such as yourself? Animals can survive just fine without humans. They have been doing it for a very long time.

Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats really can't survive without humans. Even strays survive on the fringes of human civilization, and they don't exactly thrive.

Domesticated animals have evolved for tens of thousands of years to become adapted to their environment, and their environment is us. Human society. They wouldn't do so well in the wild.

rbuzby: Shouldn't people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps instead of getting free food?

Charity should be reserved for major financial institutions that fail due to their own mismanagement.


THIS

I'm so tired of charities wasting money on the needy when CEOs are losing their jobs left and right. Huge severance packages can only support an opulent lifestyle for so long. We need to get our priorities straight as a nation and stop helping the useless poor so we can contribute more to the rich.

That's awesome.

How about..


ONE MILLION DOLLARS?

Beatlefreak: I give $20 bucks a month to the Humane Society. Humans can help themselves, animals owned by humans can't.

FTFY

Tassach: The Asshole Guy: So all those stray cats and dogs can't make it without a person such as yourself? Animals can survive just fine without humans. They have been doing it for a very long time.

Stray pets are, as a rule, cute and adorable.

Stray humans, not so much.

Amazing how people would rather help out a stray animal than a human. Poor little kitty can't live without my handout, let me take it in, clean it up, feed it and shower it with love.

Poor little homeless person you just ignore and would never invite into your home, clean them up, feed them and shower them with love.

I find it very sad that people care more about a cat or dog than a human being. At least the guy in this story cares about humans and is trying to make someones else life better.

Churchill2004: cobby97: Ralph Wilson is a good man, but he is an old man and once he kicks, the new regime will send my beloved Bills to Toronto for a few loons, leaving me with no actual team that plays in New York.

/New Jersey Jets/Giants (not breaking news, I know)
//Can't root for a Toronto team in the NATIONAL Football League (bring on the Int'NFL)

I know looking for rationality in sports fans' allegiances is pointless, but does an arbitrary line in the dirt that is there more by historical accident than anything else really mean that much to you? Why shouldn't a person living in Buffalo be more concerned with/connected to things happening in Toronto than in, say, Hawaii? Just because of what government authority you live under? Should that really matter for so much in a free society?

Try having this discussion with a redneck about his favorite sports team, with all its detailed analyses of every player, play, coach, opposing team, etc,and then try to have a conversation with the same redneck about politics, whereupon they seize up, look uncomfortable, and spout whatever crap their respective "team" has put out that particular day. I know the analyzing component is there (due to the sports team conversation), so why in the blue fark can't they think for themselves when it comes to politics?? It's pretty much the same damn conversation.

Typhoid: "Give a person a fish, and they'll eat for a day. Teach a person to fish, and they'll eat for a lifetime.

Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Selector: Rhaolin: Selector: jjorsett: If you feed the poor, you'll never get rid of them.


Hmm. That's interesting, and I suspect you'll get flamed for it. But I tend to agree.

So says someone who has never been in need apparently. Not all poor are just the lazy, don't want to work type. Some just genuinely try but cannot make it. Fark is overloaded with caring individuals apparently today.

I volunteer at Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen/Thrift Store. I'm well aware that it's not universally true, but it sure as hell isn't totally false, either. I know all Farkers are millionaires, but being a college kid working at a grocery store, there's some weeks that I have to eat ramen and saltines for a couple days until payday, so think about that next time you go off on a self-righteous rant.

Good on you for working at the soup kitchen and helping others, and good on you for doing what you have to do while you work towards your education and try to survive at the same time. Been there done that, and I respect the hell out of people that do it today.

Now - just a little friendly advice... I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the tat you're showing off in your profile was in the $1000 range? It's really cool and all, but maybe, just maybe, you could do a little better for yourself than Ramen and saltines, had you prioritized a little more?

/yeah, I'm old - get off my lawn

I'm glad to see the owner of the Bills has a heart wide enough to do the right thing.