Bills 43, Jets 23

When the Bills were scoring multiple touchdowns yesterday in the Meadowlands, they were messing up my ballot count. I have more than 1,000 ballots in my possession for today's election in Ward 18 and yesterday I had to count them and initial the top of of half of them before I take them to Wallace Emerson Community Centre on Dufferin Street, just south of Dupont this morning, where I will be working as a Managing Deputy Returning Officer, responsible for 10 staff and serving up to 2,000 voters today. The never-ending mayoralty campaign has now ended and, this evening, we will have elected a new mayor. I will hold off on any predictions in order to maintain my impartiality as I sit here at my desk early on election day morning.

I watched the Thursday night game between the Jets and the Patriots 11 days ago and, since the Jets played well enough to win the game and lost it by 2 points after a blocked potentially game winning field goal, I was worried about playing a dangerous looking 1-6 team the following week. Then the Jets traded for malcontent speedster wide wide receiver Percy Harvin during the week and I really thought that it could be a long day for the Bills. But the Jets and their starting quarterback Geno Smith were about as bad as they could have possibly been yesterday before switching to Michael Vick who was at least able to generate some semblance of an offense. Riding no less than 6 Jets turnovers, the Bills racked up more points yesterday than they have in 4 years on their way to pre-bye week win to bring them to 5-3 at the mid-point of the season.

I have been very impressed with Bills rookie receiver Sammy Watkins who had another strong game yesterday. Since the Bills scored a touchdown on the drive and won the game easily, the mental error Watkins made on a long first half pass can easily be forgotten but I don't he will soon forget it. Thinking that he was cruising easily into the endzone on a long pass from Kyle Orton, Watkins eased up and raised his arms in touchdown celebration mode just before Jets defender Saalim Hakim caught up and tackled him at about the 4 yard line. He was lucky not to have dropped the ball on the play as others in that position have done while being chopped from behind. Bills coach Doug Marrone said afterward that "we don't have time for that". Watkins scored a touchdown in the second half but he will likely have a more lasting memory of the one he didn't score yesterday.

I'm rather stunned by the Jian Ghomeshi developments over the weekend and I'm really not sure what to think about it. He will apparently file a $50 million lawsuit against the CBC today (after he votes, I presume) and seek reinstatement of his position as host of the very popular weekday morning program "Q" under the collective bargaining agreement. The CBC fired him after learning of certain details relating to his sex life. He claims that a jilted lover, with whom he engaged in consensual "rough sex", is now trying to advance a claim that aspects of the sex were not consensual and generally expose his private sexual preferences. The CBC says that they deliberated thoroughly before deciding to end its relationship with him. There is likely more to this story than what the CBC has said in a brief press release and what Ghomeshi posted on Facebook yesterday but, at this point, I'm not sure than I really want to know anything more about it.