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Two years ago he was supposed to go golfing with a bunch of us prior to the home opener. Unfortunately, his plans got canceled and he didn’t make it.

Today we found out that flaz died of cancer on April 3. At one time flaz was a pretty big regular and spent a lot of time in the shout box with us. Besides being a huge bills fan, he loved fishing and watching golf. The last few years have been particularly hard for him. The death of his wife, the death of his mom, his house in Fort Myers demolished by a hurricane. Then cancer. he was a good guy who was fun to talk with. There was a day that he was down on his luck and a bunch of us got together and had a lasagna delivered to his house. Lol. he was touched by that. thanks for spending so much time with us flaz. You were good people. Here is his obituary: Dave was born on March 16, 1954, at Cuba Memorial Hospital in Cuba New York to his loving parents, Donald E Williams, Sr. and Jean Carol (Nunamaker) Williams who preceded him in death. Dave was one of three brothers. In addition to his parents, his brother, Donald E. Williams, Jr. from Cuba also preceded him in death. He is survived by his brother, Douglas E. Williams of San Rafael California. Dave had graduated in the class of 1972 from Cuba Central High School and had further education, but no advanced degrees. He worked primarily as a flooring technician at Total Flooring in Cape Coral, and for a short time he operated Williams Flooring. Dave also worked as Facility Manager for Tech Fiberglass in Tucson AZ for 5 years in the mid 2010s. Dave was devoted to his partner of over 40 years, Shirley Vale of Cape Coral, Florida. His brother Douglas will miss him greatly and remembers him as a good man who lived life to the fullest day by day. Dave was an avid fisherman and enjoyed golf, billiards and kayaking. He was also a dedicated Buffalo Bills Fan and probably still is. He will be missed by many beloved family members including his brother Don’s spouse, Katie (Learn) Williams and their children David Williams, Audra Metz, Barbara Williams and Michael Williams, Douglas E. Williams and spouse, Lisa Diamond Williams and their 2 children, Olivia Williams and Zachary Williams his spouse Benita Horl Williams, their son Ira Gunther Williams. Although Dave fathered no children, he was a father figure to Shirley’s daughters Cheri and Nichole and a loving step grand -dad to their children Rachelle and Brian, Scott and Michelle respectively.

It was just a expired certificate. I just needed to renew it. No biggie.

update 2: move complete. Carry on. Update 1: Things didn’t go as planned last week. The new server is up and running, but there was an ordering snafu. Hopefully things will be completed on Monday. We are switching servers, since our OS has reached its EOL. This will happen the next couple days, probably tomorrow. It will also happen during the afternoon most likely. I assume I will put things in read only mode once migration starts. My expectation is that when the move is completed the board will be open for posting. After that, I will fix things as needed. Thank you for your patience.

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The red uniforms are straight trash.

Today I got confirmation from John's son that @John from Riverside (formerly from Hemet and VA) passed away in August from an unexpected heart attack. John was a daily mainstay in our lives here for over two decades. 47,292 posts and that's just from when we started counting in 2006 or so. He was getting ready to pack his bags and move to live with son in Oregon when he passed. Mysteriously, he last logged in March 8th. I had tried to connect with him several times per month since his disappearance, as there wasn't any public reason why he hadn't logged in. Unfortunately, we could not make contact with him or his family until the note I received today. John was a fiercely loyal Bills fan, despite never making it to Orchard Park. We had tentative plans to get him out for this year's tailgate, when he started mentioning health issues. We never got a chance to meet. John was an interesting guy. His deep love for the team made for some emotionally charged discussions. He never met a UDFA he didn't love, nor a ref he didn't hate and rage against their bias. His most well known story goes back to very early days of the community. The community troll (we had no moderating tools back then) liked to have fun with John given John's proclivity to emotional outbursts. This culminated in "Hogboy" challenging John to a helmet-spearing contest in a parking lot. John took this seriously and was ready to strap it on! 😂 John frequently told us about his interesting life. He was in the air force in Iraq where he often told us about his high-level security clearance and attending intelligence briefs. He was a roadie for the Scorpions. He loved his kids and always had dreams of his son making the NFL and his daughter becoming an actress/singer. We would hear about the constant shuttling of his daughter to auditions where he would name drop with best of them. IIRC, he had plenty of stories about Katy Perry, Madonna, Celine Dion, etc... He was a great sport in the shoutbox as the guys there enjoyed ribbing on some of the peculiarities. Topics on conversation included his frequent visits to Subway on campus where he was a grad student advisor, his love of Latina women, and a rotting toe that he proclaimed grew back after disregarding his doctor's advice and he just starting running on it. 😂 Ultimately, John was a great guy who absolutely loved his kids, loved the Bills, and loved the community here. I regret we didn't make plans to meet a year earlier. We are fortunate he decided to make his home here and he will be missed. Go Bills!

100% he was supposed to roll to his right side. The wildcat was supposed to move everyone to the left and Josh was going to run against the grain. But the line collapsed and he had to turn around and go back to his left. At that point he should’ve just ran out of bounds. there was nothing wrong with the play call per se. The execution was beyond horrible.

It's just a joke inspired by the Big Bang Theory...

Celsius? I didn't ask any hippies for an opinion.

i’m not gonna look this up at the moment, but I don’t think the Hilton head airport qualifies as a hub. I am all about the nonstop flights. As many places as I can get to with one leg is where I want to be.

if you buy a house 40 years ago it’s super easy. I just need to get a time machine first. 🙄 what do people think about downtown Manhattan?

let me know when they do something about 350 days of cloud cover. 😃