Leftovers after Thanksgiving:

Many Bills fans may have gotten what they wanted when coach Dick Jauron was fired,

but it didn't translate to big viewership in the first game in the post-Jauron era.

The Bills' 18-15 loss to Jacksonville had a 26.9 rating on WIVB-TV, making it the season's

lowest-rated Bills game. The previous low was a 27.3 for a loss to Tennessee after the bye

week.

Fans seemed to disappear after the home loss to Houston on Nov. 1, which had a 32.3 rating.

Despite the viewer decline, the Bills-Jaguars game drew 26.9 percent of area households and

was by far the week's highest-rated television program here.

By the way, Steve Tasker is the analyst alongside Gus Johnson for Sunday's home game

against Miami.

Wonder who Jim Kelly voted for when NBC's Andrea Kremer asked Hall of Fame

quarterbacks if they would pick New England's Tom Brady or the Colts' Peyton Manning to

quarterback their team? Manning won, 13.5 votes to 2.5., with four abstentions. Joe Montana

split his vote, saying he would start Brady in the first half and Manning in the second. Since

games are won in the second half, isn't that saying he would take Manning?

Kremer wrote that Kelly was going to split his vote, too, but "when pressed" he chose

Manning "by the slimmest of margins."

During the pregame show two weeks ago, Manning talked about great quarterbacks who have not

won a Super Bowl: "I still defend [Dan] Marino. I still defend [Fran] Tarkenton. I still

defend Jim Kelly. All I know is what great quarterbacks they were."

Here is former San Francisco 49ers coach Steve Mariucci's take on Miami's

deactivation of linebacker Joey Porter for the Tampa Bay game two weeks ago. "I had to suspend

Terrell Owens one week, and then, all of a sudden, for the next three years we just butted

heads."

Ray Romano, who played his share of fictional golf on "Everybody Loves Raymond," will

try to improve his game on The Golf Channel's "The Haney Project." Let's hope he's funnier

than Charles Barkley.

Sorry to hear that former Channel 2 sports reporter Josh Mora will be losing his job

at Comcast in Chicago. A newspaper columnist in the Windy City speculated that the highly

respected Mora is being let go because he was too honest in covering the Chicago Blackhawks.

Wrote Carol Slezak: "Given that the Hawks own a stake in Comcast, well, you can connect the

dots. If true, that would be shameful. Not only because Mora merely was doing his job but

because it would mean Comcast had allowed the Hawks to interfere with its news operation."

Everybody seemed to have an opinion last week about whether former Denver coach Mike

Shanahan really would be interested in the Bills job. But at least CBS' Shannon Sharpe talked

with his ex-coach and confirmed on Sunday that he was going to interview with the Bills, which

he did. Added Sharpe: "Having played for Mike Shanahan for seven years, if there is not a

total commitment from the organization to win Super Bowls — it is not about winning

division titles or beating a particular team in that division — if it is not about

winning Super Bowls from players' standpoints and the coaches around them standpoint, you are

wasting your time with Mike Shanahan because that is the only thing that matters to him

— winning championships."

To which Sharpe's CBS teammate, Boomer Esiason, added: "He's not going to Buffalo."

In another installment of "they actually get paid to say these things," here's what

CBS' Marino said about Cleveland coach Eric Mangini before Brady Quinn threw four

touchdown passes in a 38-37 loss to Detroit. "If you are going to make changes, you don't want

to lose your locker room. He needs to change the quarterback position. In my opinion, Derek

Anderson gives them a much better chance of winning than Brady Quinn. If you are Eric Mangini,

you want to win them back as a locker room, you have to have Derek Anderson."

Things are looking up for St. Bonaventure men's basketball, but the Bonnies' games

aren't on a Buffalo radio station this year after they were dropped by 1300 AM. To get Bona

broadcasts away from Olean, you have to go to the Web.