Archives for September 19, 2015

' “It’s definitely a loud stadium. The fans (are) amazing … the support they have on a year-by-year basis for their football team. It feels like they’re always into it. They love their team. They love supporting them. That’s NFL football at its best. It’s fun for us players coming from the other side, too, because you know you’re going to get the other team’s best. You’re going to get the most energy. For a one o’clock game on Sunday, it’s going to feel like it’s a primetime game.”'

'An online funding campaign raised enough money to bring in a representative from Guinness World Records to measure the roar of the crowd. The Bills organization has given its blessing to the effort.'

'The Bills were clearly the more talented team on the field at The Ralph last week. However, their dominance of the Colts had as much to do with superior strategy as it did with having better players.'

'"It caught me off guard," Clay said of the report. I didn't know anything about it. The day before yesterday is when I found out about it. I didn't know anything about it. My brother called me and he was laughing. He said, 'I saw what Rex said about you.' I said, 'What are you talking about?' And he said, 'I guess somebody was saying something about your knee.' He sent me the video and that's how I saw it. I don't know why anyone would do it. I don't worry about it."'

'“A guy like LeSean, who has the quickness to circle the defense, sometimes you’ve got to know when he’s around you to let your guy go because that’s where you see holding calls and things like that, when guys circle the defense. But that’s an adjustment for some people, especially the edge blockers, like the tight ends. But other than that, it’s just football.”'

'This life of growing up on a farm — how does that make you? Work ethic-wise, it’s unbelievable. It helped me grow into the person I am today. I work for everything that I want. Hard work pays off. I don’t mind getting up in the morning and working. That’s why I really appreciate my dad pushing me and for that lifestyle of if you want it, you have to earn it.'

'I'll never understand how opponents give Gronk a free release off the line, like Pittsburgh.'

'“If you’re only yelling from your neck, it’s weak,” Ruminski said.'

'When he asked if I’d like to go to the preseason game against the Steelers, I wasn’t too excited. Why go to the expense and travel time when we had a perfectly good big-screen TV at home? No one could have explained to me that it was comparing apples to aardvarks. My eyes have been opened – I’m hooked.'

'"It's shocking, even to me as a defensive player," Graham said. "I watched the Steelers game last week and I see Gronk running down the middle of the field wide open, and I don't know what's going on. Maybe he's just that good, I don't know, but it's shocking to see how much he's open."'

'Well, here we go. Sunday has arrived, and now it's time for Rex and the Bills to shut up and play, and if they play as well as they did last week against Andrew Luck and the Colts, those folks from Guinness measuring the volume inside the stadium may head home with a new line to insert into their world record book.'

'They cheat.'

'Only July’s Rolling Stones concert with a $219 average resale price has been a more expensive ticket at the stadium over that time.'

'The average resale price of $144 is the most expensive Bills home game since SeatGeek started tracking the secondary ticket market back in 2010. In fact, the average price of a ticket to any Bills home game this year is up 21 percent from this point a season ago.'

'It's safe to say anticipation will only continue to build before the 1 p.m. kickoff Sunday.'