[joshfitz]

A friend of mine just returned from the Bills - Miami game and showed me this flyer he got, featuring a huge photo of the 2009 Buffalo Bills.

2009 Buffalo Bills

We were joking about how we should cross off all the players that ended up waived or on IR, so I started to comb through the players in the photo and noticed that Dick Jauron wasn't there. That's weird. Don't they take these team photos at the beginning of the year? There's no way they got everyone together AGAIN just because Dick was released. Or would they?

Then we slowly pieced together more and more evidence leading us to believe this photo has been altered:

1. Xavier Oman (#44) is in the photo. He was waived on 11/11. Jauron wasn't fired until 11/17. This photo couldn't have been taken after his firing.

2. Ralph and Brandon seem to be a little off-center. It seems that the logical place for Dick to be standing is right next to Ralph, where the three would be perfectly centered in the photo.

3. Who is in that spot? Jairus Byrd. And he seems larger than normal. In the photo he looks slightly taller than #29 next to him (Drayton Florence). Except Byrd is listed at 5' 10" and Florence is 6' 0". See a zoomed-in photo

4. Take a look at #29's right ear. He seems to have some extra pixel's... either that, or Kawika Mitchell has a seriously weird forearm.

Conclusion: The players were digitally shifted over to cover up Jauron's image.

Not a big deal, but we thought it was amusing. If only we could erase his legacy so easily... :thumbsup:

Here's the super-high-res version if you want to try to find more evidence.

EDIT - Scanned a better version of the flyer:
2009 Buffalo Bills (better scan)
2009 Buffalo Bills HI RES 4 MB (better scan)

[bartshan-83]

Damn, Roscoe is tiny.

And what is on Stevie Johnson's face? Is that just a blemish on the photo? It looks like he is hooked up to an oxygen tank.

[EC-Bills]

Chuck Lester strikes again.

[joshfitz]

bartshan-83, on Dec 1 2009, 02:13 PM, said:

Damn, Roscoe is tiny.

And what is on Stevie Johnson's face? Is that just a blemish on the photo? It looks like he is hooked up to an oxygen tank.

Haha... well, this is a scanned photo of the original flyer. I think that's just a wrinkle in the paper.

[eSJayDee]

It likely was pieced together, i.e. Photoshopped. It appears that Ralph's shadowing is different from everyone else, too.
FWIW, Byrd appears to be slightly in front of Florence, which might cause the apparent hgt disparity, as well; it does look like he was pieced in.

[Skunkpost]

Definetely photoshopped...... Alvin Bowen is still in the photo too

[Beerball]

I see his shadow!









wait, he doesn't cast one, does he?

[duey]

How great would it have been if they photoshopped the picture so that Ralph is holding Dick's head and not a football?! :thumbsup:

[Jamie Nails]

as is the recently waived Chorsen one.

[duey]

LOL Check out Josh Reed's face!

[Mr. Fancy Pants]

Spend more time in the bath water Roscoe.


:thumbsup: Littmann does not look that old and he has some upper body definition??

[Gary M]

Who is Dick Jauron?

[Enemarty]

duey, on Dec 1 2009, 03:21 PM, said:

How great would it have been if they photoshopped the picture so that Ralph is holding Dick's head and not a football?! :thumbsup:

:doh: thanks ... now wiping up drink spit onto keyboard.

[Mr. ChumChums]

Byrd's right arm looks HUGE! :thumbsup:

[DC Tom]

They used to do that in Stalinist Russia. Execute a guy, then retouch every single official photograph he was ever in to make him disappear. I believe the term for them actually was "unperson".

[Beerball]

Mr. ChumChums, on Dec 1 2009, 03:31 PM, said:

Byrd's right arm looks HUGE! :thumbsup:

Thought so too...

here are his real arms/hands

[bartshan-83]

Mr. ChumChums, on Dec 1 2009, 02:31 PM, said:

Byrd's right arm looks HUGE! :doh:

:thumbsup:

YO...wtf is that?? I didn't notice it the first time.

It's like when you'd take the arms off an action figure and put them on a different guy.

[Mr. ChumChums]

If only Maybin and our LB's had arms that big, maybe one day he'd get a sack. One can dream...

[bradjames24]

That team photo was taken in Sept. I remember TO posting some pics on his twitter while talking about "picture day".

Some photoshopping has def been done.

[Fewell733]

bartshan-83, on Dec 1 2009, 02:35 PM, said:

:thumbsup:

YO...wtf is that?? I didn't notice it the first time.

It's like when you'd take the arms off an action figure and put them on a different guy.

the ghost of Langston Walker? He's not anywhere else and who else would be that giant?