Buffalo has a Napoleonic complex. We're only four-foot-nine, but we want everyone else to think we're six-foot-six. So, we built a subway that goes nowhere, not to spur economic growth, not to help city residents get to work, not to promote the city's benefits to suburban residents, they built it because all the other big cities have a subway. We tried to bring Major League Baseball and the residual drug and steroid business that goes along with it to town. Built a huge, new downtown ballpark and filled it to capacity for our AAA Buffalo Bisons so we could impress the Major League. In the end, we didn't get the Major League team. Our failure to do so is actually our success, as we may have learned a lesson: That bigger is not necessarily better. Check that, I doubt that we learned a lesson. Face it Buffalo, we're not Major League. Not for baseball, not for business, not for much of anything.

"Buffalo is a football town." We hear that all the time. Maybe it's because we're not a prosperous town, a healthy town (disproportionate cancer and leukemia rates), a fun town, an employment town, a proud town, an innovative town, a friendly town (the city of good neighbors - yeah right), an equal town (ask former Sabres goaltender Grant Fuhr about his experience joining a local country club), a town of economic opportunities, a town of economic growth, a town of visionaries nor a town of opportunity. Football is something we have in common. All the drunks hang out in the stadium on Sunday afternoons and fight - it's great for the area economy. Our multi-million dollar stars spend their off-seasons out of town, spending their tax-abated incomes somewhere else.

The place has nice weather and I like living here, but can we get some houses that look different from one another? Can we get some actual grass somewhere? And everybody lives super far apart because everything is so expensive.