I may sound like a conspiracy theorist, but when I consider that half of the Bills' home games in the 2006 NFL schedule will be played after Thanksgiving my suspicion is that it's payback for Ralph Wilson's failure to get in lock step with the majority of owners who suggest that departing Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is the greatest American leader since Abraham Lincoln.
The NFL schedule makers must think that global warming will present a generation of mild winters to Western New York. That schedule, on the heels of a sour season in 2005, could cut ticket sales by 25 percent.
I also think some of the teams scheduled for that period are typically slow sellers and would not be surprised if that was a factor as well.
Of course some moron who should be in a psycho ward will claim if Bills can not handle schedule they ought to fold or move. Oh and sell naming rights for $10 million a year too.
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