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I don't know if it is appropriate for me to post this here, but a couple of weeks ago someone started a thread questioning whether it is possible that the Bills' management ever checks out the Bills Zone and its messageboards.
Well, I don't know about the messageboards, but I think I have an answer to the question of whether Bills management is aware of what appears on the Bills Zone front page:
On Friday night, I was so angry with Chris Brown and the Bills for leaving everyone hanging with no news about what was happening with M.Stroud, or even a polite announcement that there would be not further information forth-coming at some point in the evening, that I wrote a blistering email to Brown and to Customer Service at the addresses provided for them on the bb.com website.
I received no response to my email nor was there any change in their behavior on their website on Saturday or Sunday. BUT....
Then I included a couple of paragraphs summarizing my complaint about this to the end of my "As I See It: Bills Acquire Marcus Stroud; Strengthen Defense With Solid Moves" article that currently is appearing on the Bills Zone front page (for those of you who haven't seen it, I will copy it below).
Today, with Bills fans anxiously awaiting word on what was happening with Bryant Johnson's visit to the Bills, Chris Brown, in two entries to his blog on bb.com, summarized what the Johnson situation was at that point (5:18 pm) and then let Bills fans know that there would be no further information forth-coming about it on Monday in the following post (at 5:20 pm):
Signing off for the day
Considering that no such courtesy had been previously extended to Bills fans in the past and that this was not done on Saturday or Sunday following the sending of my email, but ONLY happened after my complaint appeared in the article that was posted on the Bills Zone front page, I think that it is fair to conclude that there is a pretty good chance that someone at OBD saw it in the article on the BZ front page and, only then, decided that Brown should respond to it as he did.
I don't think my email, being just one of many that they probably receive, would have gotten any attention or response had it not been for the fact that the complaint contained within it had also appeared on the Bills Zone front page. And, that leads me to believe that someone at OBD is at least monitoring what appears there.
Which is at least an answer to the question that was asked here a couple of weeks ago.
-----------------------(here's what I wrote in the article)----------------
"PS: On a more personal note: the Stroud and Johnson deals on Saturday--as good as they were for the team and as exciting as they were for Bills fans--do not entirely make up for the lack of courtesy shown by Bills management on Friday night when it left hundreds, if not thousands of its most avid fans hanging on their computers for hours waiting for news without so much as a mention of Stroud's name or even so much as a brief mention by Chris Brown on his blog that no further news would be forth-coming on their website after a certain point on that evening!
That lack of common courtesy upset a lot of Bills fans, including this one. And, it is something that Bills management should look to immediately correct.
There are understandable reasons for an "information blackout", but, even in such circumstances, there is no reason for the team not to post a simple statement that no further information will be forth-coming in such a situation when they know that their most avid fans are anxiously waiting to hear something, anything, from them on their website."
( http://www.billszone.com/mtlog/archi...olid_moves.php )
Well, I don't know about the messageboards, but I think I have an answer to the question of whether Bills management is aware of what appears on the Bills Zone front page:
On Friday night, I was so angry with Chris Brown and the Bills for leaving everyone hanging with no news about what was happening with M.Stroud, or even a polite announcement that there would be not further information forth-coming at some point in the evening, that I wrote a blistering email to Brown and to Customer Service at the addresses provided for them on the bb.com website.
I received no response to my email nor was there any change in their behavior on their website on Saturday or Sunday. BUT....
Then I included a couple of paragraphs summarizing my complaint about this to the end of my "As I See It: Bills Acquire Marcus Stroud; Strengthen Defense With Solid Moves" article that currently is appearing on the Bills Zone front page (for those of you who haven't seen it, I will copy it below).
Today, with Bills fans anxiously awaiting word on what was happening with Bryant Johnson's visit to the Bills, Chris Brown, in two entries to his blog on bb.com, summarized what the Johnson situation was at that point (5:18 pm) and then let Bills fans know that there would be no further information forth-coming about it on Monday in the following post (at 5:20 pm):
Signing off for the day
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Considering that no such courtesy had been previously extended to Bills fans in the past and that this was not done on Saturday or Sunday following the sending of my email, but ONLY happened after my complaint appeared in the article that was posted on the Bills Zone front page, I think that it is fair to conclude that there is a pretty good chance that someone at OBD saw it in the article on the BZ front page and, only then, decided that Brown should respond to it as he did.
I don't think my email, being just one of many that they probably receive, would have gotten any attention or response had it not been for the fact that the complaint contained within it had also appeared on the Bills Zone front page. And, that leads me to believe that someone at OBD is at least monitoring what appears there.
Which is at least an answer to the question that was asked here a couple of weeks ago.
-----------------------(here's what I wrote in the article)----------------
"PS: On a more personal note: the Stroud and Johnson deals on Saturday--as good as they were for the team and as exciting as they were for Bills fans--do not entirely make up for the lack of courtesy shown by Bills management on Friday night when it left hundreds, if not thousands of its most avid fans hanging on their computers for hours waiting for news without so much as a mention of Stroud's name or even so much as a brief mention by Chris Brown on his blog that no further news would be forth-coming on their website after a certain point on that evening!
That lack of common courtesy upset a lot of Bills fans, including this one. And, it is something that Bills management should look to immediately correct.
There are understandable reasons for an "information blackout", but, even in such circumstances, there is no reason for the team not to post a simple statement that no further information will be forth-coming in such a situation when they know that their most avid fans are anxiously waiting to hear something, anything, from them on their website."
( http://www.billszone.com/mtlog/archi...olid_moves.php )
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