Nursing Home Hire - Marv Levy -fuckkkk.

[Derron]

Bwaahhaaaa fucking crazy... bad enough the blue hairs dominated my TV set on Tuesday night, but this is fucking crazy..


[web]http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=a ... &type=lgns[/web]

[Cicero]

Wilson 87
Levy 81

[Joe in PB]

Marv Levy is only one of the smartest guys in the country and now is back in the NFL. That sure does suck for Buffalo....

[Joe in PB]

Desperate?

Rack em'

Old guys rule!

Sincerely,

[BSmack]

Levy is a transitional hire. Wilson is feeling burnt because he invested so much power in Donahoe, only to have it blow up in his face. The new look Bills will have Levy, Wilson and Tom Modrak all assuming portions of Donahoe's old duties.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20 ... 031241.asp

[Joe in PB]

Tom Modrak is an excellent evaluator of talent. I wanted him to be the Chargers GM when John Butler passed away.

The Bills will be on the up swing.....

[Derron]

Still.. I get working and keeping busy to stay young... but fuck.. 81 years old is getting there to be a VP????

Theres no one a bit younger ?? Of course it is Buffalo.. This does not say shit for the management talent in the NFL...

Levy is in my Death Pool, so I will be watching this closely, Marv may pop a valve or vein if he melts down in the office more than once..

[Headhunter]

Is his wife that unbearable that he has to take a job to get out of the house at 81 years old?

[Cicero]

You can only hit that pussy so many times.

[BSmack]

Still.. I get working and keeping busy to stay young... but fuck.. 81 years old is getting there to be a VP????

Theres no one a bit younger ?? Of course it is Buffalo.. This does not say shit for the management talent in the NFL...

Levy is in my Death Pool, so I will be watching this closely, Marv may pop a valve or vein if he melts down in the office more than once..

Think of Marv as an ambasador. Donahoe ruffled a LOT of feathers amongst season ticket holders and corporate partners. Levy is just the kind of guy to come in and placate those people with some glad handing, while at the same time serving as a senior counsel to Ralph Wilson's brain trust.

This from yesterday's report of Donahoe's firing.

If Levy does indeed take over the GM role as it appears, he’ll head up the football operations, which will be separated from the administration of the club. Russ Brandon, the club’s vice president of business development and marketing, may assume additional administrative duties, though Wilson didn’t confirm that.

http://www.tonawanda-news.com/cnhi/tona ... d=topstory

And this from today's report of Levy's hiring.

— The Buffalo Bills today hired Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy as vice president of football operations.

Levy, 80, replaces Tom Donahoe, who was fired yesterday as the team’s president and general manager.

Levy will run the football-related business of the Bills, with Tom Modrak serving as his assistant in charge of scouting and pro personnel.

Team owner Ralph Wilson, 87, will take back his position as team president and will name another person to run the team’s off-the field business and marketing operations.

http://www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs ... /601060349

In other words, Modrak is going to be doing ALL the legwork when it comes to personel. Levy will serve as a sounding board/sanity test for Modrak's personel decisions and Levy will have nothing to do with the day to day marketing and business decisions.

In other words, it's a cake job for Levy. He'll shake a few hands as the figurehead GM, make some personel recomendations to Wilson (after reviewing data supplied by Modrak) and will mentor Mike Mularkey.

[Shoalzie]

Sad thing is that he'll do better than Millen... :x

[Derron]

In other words, it's a cake job for Levy. He'll shake a few hands as the figurehead GM, make some personel recomendations to Wilson (after reviewing data supplied by Modrak) and will mentor Mike Mularkey.

He'll shake a few hands if he can keep his old palsied hands from shaking themselves. "Hi ya'll... want to see my surgery scar ??, senior discount before 5 pm at Home Town Buffet.""

He'll make personel receomendations if he can remember who was in the league in 1975. "Lets get that black running back at USC.."

He will mentor Mularkey in what ?? Shuffleboard ?? Bingo ?? Bitching about your legs hurting ?? Can't get it up even with 3 hits of Viagra ??

" E mail you ??? What the fuck is that ???"

[BSmack]

Derron,

Levy has been out of the league for less time, and has stayed in closer contact with the NFL game than Joe Gibbs. In his fairly limited role he'll do just fine. Though I agree that a full fledged GM's role would be WAY too much for Marv (or anybody else who has been out of the game for 9 years) to handle. The game has changed way too much in the last 10 years with respect to cap space and contract parameters for someone without recent hands on experience to step in and handle day to day business operations.