10/9/07

Just Stop Buffalo

This was posted last October:

Stop thinking we are only "Buffalo" wings and blizzards.

Stop charging me to drive through Grand Island.

Stop keeping the Main Place Mall an eyesore.

Stop Downtown being a 9 to 5 city.

Stop replaying Brett Hull's skate in the crease.

Stop the Music City Miracle.

Stop the Bass Pro talk.

Stop making us use that deathtrap known as the skyway.

Stop opposing progress.

Stop bringing in the Gorski's, Giambra's and Larry Quinn's of the world.

Stop giving a Major League Baseball expansion team to a Florida city that doesn't care.

Stop just talking about the Peace Bridge.

Stop making me move for a job.

Stop educating everyone, then letting them slip away.

Stop the Lackawanna Six.

Stop polarizing Bucky Phillips.

Stop leaving the waterfront the way it is.

Stop having the Canadian side be 10 times nicer.

Stop breaking our hearts letting Briere and Drury slip away.

Stop losing 4 in a row.

Stop the Adelphia scandal. 

Stop all of the unionized "projects" that cost too much.

Stop useless construction.

Stop only reporting when we get 2 feet of snow.

Stop with the Casinos already.

Stop linking us with OJ.
Stop our "subway" from only going in one straight line.

Stop having Main Street be a ghost town.

Stop just talking about the good old days.

Stop the beaucratic roadblocks that stunt our growth. 

Stop only funding NY State east of Albany.

Stop the embarrassing view driving along the 33 near Buff State.

Stop the last second field goals.

Stop giving us a gorgeous 85-degree day, only to humiliate us on national TV.

Stop giving us hope, then ripping it away.

Stop being a national punch line.



Just stop Buffalo. I can't take it anymore.