One of the biggest mysteries of the NFL offseason has been why the Buffalo Bills felt so compelled to dump Willis McGahee.

In 2003, the Bills used the 23rd pick in the draft to pick him up even though with Travis Henry around, RB appeared to be one of their few strong areas. They then sucked it up as he sat out his entire rookie season and the first five weeks of 2004 recovering from a knee injury. Now with two full seasons under his belt, with McGahee having proven to be among the top tier RBs in the league, Buffalo's top priority was, inexplicably, to dump his ass. So they flipped him to the Ravens for two third rounders and a seventh.

The reason why has never been adequately explained. Until the Baltimore Sun got McGahee to admit that he wanted out of Buffalo because the women there are so damned fugly:

Coming from Miami, I was used to partying, going out, just having something to do every night. Restaurants, whatever. Going to Buffalo, it was like hitting a brick wall. Like, 'Damn!' Can't go out, can't do nothing...I'm like, 'What the?' And, you know, the women ...

"You see, when I was in college that's what I used to thrive off of," the 25-year-old says. "The better you do, the more fame you get. So you know, it was like, I was used to that. And then you get to Buffalo and no matter how you do, it's the same. It's no big city. You know what I did every day? I came home and played video games."

I guess if I was from Buffalo, I'd be pissed. But as it is, I just have to give the kid credit for being honest. He can't be the first ballplayer ever to base a career decision on the relative amount of doable women in a particular market. But I don't ever recall anyone admitting it before.

If I was the GM of a team in some target rich babe environment city like say, San Diego, Miami or LA, I would without question use the relative hotness of the female populous as a bargaining chip. I shudder to think how much more the Patriots have to spend against the salary cap because they have to sell free agents on the idea of a career spent trolling the clubs of East Providence as opposed to South Beach.

I don't mean to suggest, as Willis has, that Buffalo is full of ugly women, because I have no idea. But I drove through the city once, and I took pictures because I'm not going back. At the time, the civic slogan was "We're Talkin' Proud" and I remember saying "No, You're Talking Urban Blight." If the women look anything like the city, McGahee is a genius.