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    Week 11 SNF: Chiefs at Raiders

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Is that Collinsworth describing Carr’s “hurry, hurry, hurry” (w/ 15 secs. Left on play clock) followed by a hard count? He got the jump and the free play, and then made the play...

     

    Josh 17 held up D.Carr as his idol in high school, part of why he wanted to go to Fresno State. I hope Josh learns that trick from Derek...

    Josh Allen’s grandmother died night before Seattle game [Update] The Patricia Allen Wing at Oshei is now open!

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted · Edited by Rhode Island Red

    On 11/10/2020 at 6:03 PM, Hapless Bills Fan said:

     

    Yeah, I think that would tarnish a spontaneous outpouring of goodwill for Josh and his family myself. 

     

    The other 32 teams can quietly contribute if they want, but if they want to show their colors let them do their own thing in their own way, no need to butt into our bizness

     

    So I’m resurrecting Hap’s reply from a week ago (!) for a reason, or perhaps reasons...

     

    I had suggested that perhaps Oishei should insert donation buttons for all 32 teams.  His above reply sat well with me, in that it was true to Josh, true to Bills Mafia, **** the rest of them...etc.  That was a week ago, when we were all agog at having raised a few hundred thousand $, and wondering if we could possibly surpass the $400somethingK that got sent to Andy Dalton’s charity.

     

    But at this point I really think this thing has gone beyond all that.  I think we have to realize that this is just not about Bills Mafia being awesome about recognizing the perfect opportunity to celebrate Josh by honoring his mother, and the circumstances under which he played his fabulous game against the Seahawks.

     

    It’s about Oishei. 

     

    Folks from all over the country have been donating, they dig it, they’re into the whole good vibe thing, and ohbytheway Oishei is recognizably the ‘real deal’, a top notch A #1 facility for our children and apparently for CHILDREN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD...

     

    The donations are still rolling in.  Yes they’ve slowed a bit, but $1K/hour is still fan****ingtastic by anybody’s fundraising standards, imho. I’m firmly of the opinion that we need to acknowledge the true reality of this opportunity for the hospital, and do our best to pump this up and roll it through the remainder of the season.  My notion of how to do this is to introduce 32 team donation buttons on their website.

     

    And keep track.  A super-friendly, we’re all in this type of competition.  Howzabout if Oishei starts the team buttons next 

    Sunday, and publishes the team by team totals each week?  Including us.  Can we outraise the Chargers fans?  How about the Niners and the Steelers?  If we can make this continue to “be a thing” until we go as far as we can go, we can make the current total of $600K+ look like chump change.

     

    I can scrounge around and find $17/week for the next six, seven, eight or more weeks for this; it’ll cost me a few coffees, etc.  If our normal home crowd can do the same in lieu of buying tickets, we’re at $1M+ per week.  Plus the other teams’ donations....Yowza...and it will only get bigger the further we go.

     

    All to the benefit of Oishei, not us.  We’ve done spectacularly well already, but HolyMoly we’re riding a fast horse on our way to a potentially monstrous win, and we’re really not even at the quarter mile pole yet...

     

     

     

     

    Josh Allen’s grandmother died night before Seattle game [Update] The Patricia Allen Wing at Oshei is now open!

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted · Edited by Rhode Island Red

    Dollars to donuts that if folks can get it to $983K he’ll pony up again!! ...but no pressure, Josh!

     

    I’m beginning to picture the new Patricia Allen Wing at Oishei...

     

    Edit: However, ‘upon further review’, methinks a new wing would be a lot more than a paltry $1M...

     

    Wiki: “Construction on the hospital started in 2014 at an estimated cost of $350 million, $35 million of which was provided by the state of New York and $10 million from the John R. Oishei Foundation”

    Josh Allen’s grandmother died night before Seattle game [Update] The Patricia Allen Wing at Oshei is now open!

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted · Edited by Rhode Island Red

    Totals at 0700 EST this morning:

     

    $358K from 18K donors

     

    4.25 hrs. Later at 1115:

     

    $386K from 19.5K donors

     

    so $28K raised from 1500 donors in that time span, or approximately $7K/hr from 375 donors/hr

     

     

    Really impressive to be rolling like this during day 4.  Huge shout out to the BC/BS employees of WNY for the killer $17K donation yesterday!

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    Josh Allen’s grandmother died night before Seattle game [Update] The Patricia Allen Wing at Oshei is now open!

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted · Edited by Rhode Island Red

    30 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

     

    There are undoubtedly some donations that are bigger than $17, but they've got more than 14,500 donations so the average is $18.60 per donation.

    Meaning it's mostly $17 donations and either a number of people chipped in more, or a couple people made a more substantial donation.

     

    $287,456 / 15,080 donations = $19.06/per at this moment, for whatever that detail is worth.  

     

    A wondrous “spontaneous outpouring of good will for Josh and his family” to quote Hap...

     

    Edit, 5 minutes later:  up to $287,759, so $303 / 5 mins. = $60.60/minute.     🙂

    Josh Allen’s grandmother died night before Seattle game [Update] The Patricia Allen Wing at Oshei is now open!

    in The Stadium Wall

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    27 minutes ago, NI Bills Fan said:

    I've been trying the link at the top of the page all day today with no luck from a range of different devices/networks.

     

    Can any of the other UK based posters confirm if they have been able to donate? I'm starting to wonder if there is some geotagging security on the website.

     

    Cheers in advance.

     

    I sent the links I posted above to a couple buddies, one of whom wrote back to say that the links all came up blocked.  Sure enough, turns out he’s back in Vienna... surprising to me ‘cuz we’ve shared plenty of links before when he was over there, just not about football, or Buffalo.  Way beyond my ken to figure out...

    Josh Allen’s grandmother died night before Seattle game [Update] The Patricia Allen Wing at Oshei is now open!

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted · Edited by Rhode Island Red

    14 minutes ago, stevewin said:

    I gave last night - definitely felt good, God Bless all the people who need the hospital services - can't imagine anything tougher than a child with a serious illness.

     

    They may be working on it, but a counter would defnitely be a good thing.  Think it would spur more donations as people see the total real-time and work to make it grow.  

     

    Counter is a good idea.  How about with $17 donation buttons for all 32 teams?  See if the Seahawks crowd can step up first.... I’m assuming a sizable chunk of that fan-base consider themselves ‘progressive’....:-)

     

    Edit: Needlessly snarky on my part, apologies.  Just getting carried away thinking how truly huge this could get with a little NFL-wide competition!!

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