Aaron Sydor

Win/Loss is NOT a QB stat. This isn't golf people

[Sal Capaccio 🏈 @SalSports]

For most of my life growing up I was told the Bills would eventually leave Buffalo. Was told the market was too small. There weren’t enough big corporations or big enough money to keep a team. NFL owners would want to bolt to a bigger market as soon as they could.

The opening of the stadium tonight means something far deeper than just an awesome new football stadium to many of us.

It means the Bills are still here, and staying here. It means another generation can root for the BUFFALO Bills, and keep doing that, for many years to come.

We’re here. We’ve made it. We’re not going anywhere.

Enjoy tonight, #BillsMafia ❤️💙🦬🏈

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@Wallstreet1975 @yacon3_1 @EliotShorrParks Man, don't use the word "simpleton" in your post and then respond multiple times about "wins". Win-Loss isn't a QB stat, it's a team stat. Was JA the one that fucked up 13 seconds? Was he the idiot that didn't tell his players to hold every Chiefs receiver off the line?

[John Breech @johnbreech]

Which NFL market has the most avid fans? Glad you asked.

Nielsen has the answer in its first-ever NFL Fandom Index.

Top 5
1. Buffalo
2. Kansas City
3. Green Bay
4. Cincinnati
5. Philadelphia
#Bills #Chiefs #Packers #Bengals #Eagles

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@Grzesiek1610 @anah_sahh EU living has a high floor but a low ceiling. If you're someone that's mid and you want a comfortable life, go to Europe bc it's much better to be poor/low income in Europe. The US is not as great for low income earns but it is FAR superior for high achievers and it isn't close

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@Civixplorer F and it's not remotely close

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

A thread of what cities in the United States looked like a century ago

1. Buffalo, New York, 1908.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Justin Thind @JustinThind]

Ultimately, 9 of the 11 starters for the USMNT can mostly cut it on this stage, along with a few subs.

The 2 that can’t cut it play in the MLS - a GK that gifted an absurd goal & a 38-year-old CB that let a skeleton dominate him for a header 3ft from goal.

Roster isn’t far, but the lows are embarrassingly low from a very small number of guys. So frustrating.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

No red card.
No penalty.
No yellow card.
No foul.
No review.

FREE FOLARIN BALOGUN.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

🇺🇸 @StuHolden saw this @USMNT beauty developing way down the field

[Dave @davebftv]

The US has guys like this now. Folarin Balogun holy hell

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@LogicUniv Colombia > Argentina

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@BuffaloSabres @B_Kenny131 👀

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@B_Kenny131 I ran to my spots book to bet this one. Car -1.5 was even money...

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Colombia is home to about 2,000 bird species, more than anywhere else on Earth. Decades of conflict kept people out of many areas, preserving the birds’ habitat. Now birders are flocking in. @AndersonCooper reports, Sunday. https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

Whit has dubbed the people of Buffalo the greatest people in the United States of America 🇺🇸

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@B_Kenny131 @TheChargingBUF Preach

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@brockwayonline @ThyLordMatthew Thats an absurd reason to lower a country in your rankings. Every country that's worth going to had tourist traps that suck, and yeah Cartagena is particularly bad if youre a foreigner pero Colombia es un tesoro!

[Aaron Sydor @_Sydor_]

@B_Kenny131 100% agree. Between him and Malenstyn, our 4th line may be the best I've seen. It has everything a coach dreams of for his 4th line- elite speed, textbook forechecking, hitting and occasionally chuckin Knucks and occasional flashes of skill/scoring