Top 10 reasons why the Bills claimed Shawn Merriman on waivers

10) It's refreshing for them to have an unpro-ductive player who wasn't one of their own high draft picks

9) Ever since TO left, they've missed having a notorious and overrated malcontent

8) It's not like they were winning games without him

7) Hoping that this will somehow provoke a Tina Tequilla sighting in upstate New York that would make it all worth it, given the usual grade of trim in the area

6) Maybe he can play offensive line

5) Buffalo is used to getting popular things five years after the rest of the country

4) Certain that ice-cold weather and constant losing will help him have a better attitude and production than he generated in San Diego

3) Tired of not having a single defensive player that average NFL fans can name

2) Wanted to provide Merriman a nice middle ground transition for his future CFL/UFL work

1) For one brief and shining moment, people are reminded that the team exists