Jaguars 18, Bills 15

The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals annual conference and expo is underway and I worked both days this weekend on our expo booth, giveaways, draws, prizes, computer/TV looping video and on happily meeting clients and others who attended the expo on Sunday afternoon. I chaired the conference planning committee for our company and I'm happy to say that everything is fine so far. Better than fine, actually. I had many compliments on the booth so I'm happy about that. On Monday, we give away the TV.

I have just moments ago seen the Youtube video of Eric Wood's leg fracture. About as gruesome as you see with these things - maybe not quite as bad as Theisman's but not far from it. A clean tib/fib break, as someone wrote, and it's now a question of whether he will play in the NFL again. The Bills number 2 pick this year has played very well on the interior offensive line and it would be a shame for him if his promising career ended today. Best wishes to him for a full recovery, starting with walking again.

Missed all of the game at the expo today. In chatting with those in attendance, I heard more than a few people grumbling about having to miss football today - which was certainly a feeling I had too. We had a TV in our booth playing a looping corporate promotional video which admittedly was of little interest to anyone. Someone said that if we were showing football instead, we would attract a large number of delegates with it. I sort of dismissed the idea at first but then it started to make sense: Driving people to your booth is a primary goal at these trade shows. And, we could carry it one step further: During the plentiful TV commercial breaks which are an unpleasant feature of NFL TV viewing, we could insert portions of our corporate video rather than the network TV commercials. Viewers would miss none of the game and we would get our messages out to a significant audience who would actually be watching at the time. Don't know what we would play for the Monday evening portion of the expo. Need to work on that.

Perry Fewell is 0-1 as a head coach. The Bills are now 3-7 on the season. Our offensive line is deteriorating with each game. Where do we go from here? I guess the answer is we go to Orchard Park to face the Dolphins and go with best team we can field and see what happens. The 2010 draft is a good quarterback draft, apparently, so it would be nice to get a high pick now that nothing else really matters.