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On 3/12/2022 at 2:28 PM, T&C said:
That is awesome... the crap we did and survived. Bet you weren't wearing a bicycle helmet either.
Roger that, T&.
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On 3/12/2022 at 2:28 PM, T&C said:
That is awesome... the crap we did and survived. Bet you weren't wearing a bicycle helmet either.
You got that right TC. We're lucky we survived.
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On 3/12/2022 at 2:12 PM, Turk71 said:
We would dive out of the Cargill grain elevator's ~60 ft window into Lake Erie at the foot of Tifft street. The water was pretty disgusting there. A friend and I each did a 1 1/2 off the high tower at Sherkston quarry in Canada, also around 60 ft I think. In the spring after the blizzard of 77 we rode giant icebergs down Caz Creek when the ice started to flow. Insanely stupid and dangerous. I'm amazed I survived my crazy South Buffalo childhood.
Turk, you & your buddies would have fit right into my neighborhood. Got to give you big time credit for diving from 60 ft! Way to go!! And riding ice bergs down
a creek must have been wild too. I remember the winter of '77. I was in my last year at Oswego State. There was LOTS of snow during that winer (76/77).
Water Moccasins were around where we swam in the canal. Saw a huge one one day. They liked to sun themselves on the bank when no one was around.
One day when me & a couple of buddies were approaching our swimming spot along the bank, there was one hiding in the weeds. We couldn't see anything
because the weeds along the bank was too high. He heard us coming & literally sprung up in the air and out about 8 feet into the water. That thing was
easily 4 foot long.
There was a pond adjacent to the canal in our neighborhood. The water moccasins would sun themselves on the water by just laying there on the surface . We would quietly get a bunch of stones from the road nearby & creep up and pelt the you what out of them. We were good shots too! May sound cruel, but as
boys, we didn't want snakes in our swimming hole.
19 hours ago, Just Jack said:My small town would have tube races down the river during the field days every summer, until insurance became too expensive after someone, that was not on one of the teams, died.
Thanks for the video, JJ. enjoyed it.
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On 3/10/2022 at 1:52 PM, HereComesTheReignAgain said:
We always called it scum jumping. There was an urban legend about the canal that I clearly remember. According to this story, farmers would dump dead livestock into the canal. A kid jumped into the canal and right into a dead cow. He got stuck and died.
Ahhhh! As a boy growing up in a "canal town" we heard about these "dead cows" floating in the Erie Canal. No one ever saw one but there was at times
plenty of talk about them. I chalked it up as a bunch of bull (pun intended). The back yard of the house I grew up in went right up to the canal. There was
lots of "other stuff" floating down the Canal, but never anything even remotely close to a cow.
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13 hours ago, Augie said:
My sister had very long hair when she was young. It saved her life. We were at some quarry or lake with a giant wood float in the middle. Somebody jumped on her, knocked her in the head and knocked her out. Somebody else saw a long pony tail floating out from under the raft. He reached down and pulled on it. And eventually my sister appeared.
We are all lucky to have made it this far!
"Lucky" is right, Augie! I'm glad your sister survived. I almost punched my ticket at least 3 times in the canal. One by drowning, one by
hitting my head on a rock at the bottom, and the other time almost falling about 60 feet into a shallow, rocky creek going under the canal
on the back side of a spill way. Boys being boys in our neighborhood. thanks for posting, Augie.
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2 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
NYS subdivided into 2 main parts, then subdivided into 9 distinct regions either in Upstate and Downstate.
The Erie Canal in its entirety runs through Upstate New York.
1. UPSTATE:
Region 0 – Capital/Saratoga — Albany
Albany
Columbia
Fulton
Greene
Montgomery
Rensselaer
Saratoga
Schenectady
Schoharie
Warren
WashingtonRegion 1 – Eastern Adirondacks — Plattsburgh
Franklin
Clinton
Essex
HamiltonRegion 2 – Western Adirondacks — Watertown
Herkimer
Jefferson
Lewis
Oneida
Oswego
St. LawrenceRegion 3 – Central New York — Syracuse
Broome
Cayuga
Chenango
Cortland
Madison
Onondaga
Otsego
Tioga
Tompkins
Region 4 – Finger Lakes — RochesterChemung
Genesee
Livingston
Monroe
Ontario
Schuyler
Seneca
Steuben
Wayne
Yates
Region 5 – Western New York — BuffaloAllegany
Cattaraugus
Chautauqua
Erie
Niagara
Orleans
Wyoming2. DOWNSTATE:
All the BS areas associated w/NYC
Region 6 – Hudson Valley — Kingston
Delaware
Dutchess
Orange
Putnam
Sullivan
UlsterRegion 7 – Westchester/Rockland — White Plains
Rockland
WestchesterRegion 8 – Long Island — Hauppauge
Nassau
SuffolkRegion 9 – New York City
Bronx
Kings
New York
Richmond
QueensExiled, I'm impressed by your research!
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2 hours ago, Augie said:
Anything that is NOT Manhattan is upstate, according to many people.
We used to swim in the quarries in Canada…..after dropping by the beer stores. Good times!
Yup, I can relate to that also.
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How many of you swam in the Erie Canal?
Me & all my buddies did a lot back in the 60's. But as I look back now and remember that water in those days, I wonder how I was able to
survive in that stuff. But jumping/diving off those high bridges was a rush.
What say you? Got any "war stories"?
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Thanks Chandler. It was great growing up during those years and cheering for "our Bills" and the AFL.
Watching this video was like savoring a gourmet dinner.
Long live the AFL, and our Bills!
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Yeaaaaaaa!! Ding ***** the witch is dead.
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BBFergy, I think you've been reading too much Nostradomus.
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3 hours ago, Garrett Williams said:
My Dad has been on this site for years. He passed away last night. He coached 17 years at the high school level and Junior College level. He had the privilege of coaching 6 future NFL players and I loved discussing x & O's with him by as early as i was five years old. He made all six of kids Bills fans even though we lived in SoCal! He even flew us to New York for the 2004 and 2005 NFL drafts!! You don't need to leave this post up if it's not the right forum. Just wanted to say that he loved the Bills since '65. There's still a poster of Jack Kemp and a team photo/plaque of the 1965 Bills on the wall in his game room. Thanks All and that is all. Go Bills
An AWSOME post GW!! Almost brings tears to my eyes. As we "boomers" who remember the AFL-era Bills hear of another one of our
"commrads" passing away, we grieve together, and also wonder if we will live to see "our Bills" win a Super Bowl.
Your Dad is in a peaceful place now, GW. God bless him.....and Go Bills!
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He needs to move on and find his life's work.
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16 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:
You're objectively right, but what interests me is that a guy who has that level of game smarts is able to somehow carry on at a reasonably effective level with such obviously diminished skills. I mean, he went 21-10 the last two post-injury years (yeah, that defense) and even had sort of decent QB rating numbers even though everyone knew his arm was basically shot. He was clearly in the bottom half (maybe even bottom third?) of starting QBs, but I'm surprised he even performed at that level.
I wish him well from here on out. In the meantime, I look forward to the new Bills season next year.
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He stayed at the party too long. Should have retired a couple of years ago, but that's just my opinion.
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12 hours ago, Real McNasty said:
GDT - Boston Massacre is hands down the best for me
McNasty, I like that one, being a Rev War reenactor & all.
The Buffalo Storm of 47!
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They're playing on such a high level that they're making their own breaks. This team is steam rolling!
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On 1/12/2022 at 4:15 PM, Success said:
We mythologize him too much. He's the greatest ever - but he's still just a coach.
That said, he's cooking up something right now. It was EASY in game 1, w/ the kind of team he has. Get a lead early. Run, run, run. He got enormous praise, but I could have coached that. And if Allen makes that last pass, everyone is saying he blew it.
He tried something weird in game 2. Not much blitzing - give Allen the underneath stuff. To which Allen said, thank you sir, may I have another? There are some who think he let Allen have everything underneath as a kind of "vanilla" scheme in case they met again.
What do you all think about game 3? He's going to blitz more. I have no doubt on that - he wants to limit Allen's passing. He has to have Mac pass more - certainly more than the 1st game!
He has some surprises in store. I just don't know what they might be - thus, they will be surprises, at least to fans.
Thoughts?
What do I think about game 3? I think if we put a muzzle over Chuck Dickerson's mouth, we'll be all right. Remember HIM Bills fans ? SB 2 for
the Bills.
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7 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
I think we can all agree that there are a lot of terrible football (and really sports) color commentators out there. I believe the NFL needs to change its hiring model.
i think there was this belief that hiring former players and coaches as commentators would cause fans to like them or watch them more because of their popularity. I don’t think that assumption is right. I don’t know anyone who likes a commentator or his work just because he was liked or known as a player.
There are now so many really brilliant content creators out there (media, podcasts, YouTube) who dissect film endlessly and would provide so much better and more astute analysis than the likes of Tiki Barber or Adam
Archuletta Or Troy Ailman, or Brian Griese, or Mark Sanchez, etc.I would like to see the NFL shift away from the hiring of recently retired players and instead look at some of these “film nerds” as possible hires. As average football fans are getting smarter and more into the X’s and O’s, the current model of having former players trot out a bunch of vapid talking points is not working.
Any thoughts?
Copy that!!
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Thanks Virgil for all the "Thoughts..." over the years! I've enjoyed all of them that I've read over the years. Good work and analysis.
Go Bills!
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My quick take: I think they will get past the first round, but I'm not so sure about the 2nd round because of their o-line. We need
some upgrades there.
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Bills are going to have to play the Pats & the rest of the season the way they did in the 2nd half of the Tampa game in order to
go anywhere in the in the postseason. JMO
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Go Bills!!!
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On 12/13/2021 at 9:08 AM, Alphadawg7 said:
See my other post to understand why I am emerging from this heartbreaking loss actually optimistic: What I saw, and why I am actually optimistic after this Bucs game
I could be wrong on this, and that is fine if I am...but I honestly am quite confident that we will win out looking at our schedule and based on what I said in the thread linked above. Obviously, Pats game on paper is our toughest test over the final 4 games, but I think if the weather isn't as big of a factor as it was the first game that we will beat them decisively, especially if the offense we showed in the 2nd half of the Bucs game is here to stay.Panthers, Falcons, and Jets are all teams I expect to win by double digits.
NOTE: All of this assumes Josh misses no time with the turf toe.
Alpha: I like your spirit. Go Bills
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If You Grew Up in Upstate NY.......
in Off the Wall
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Ooops, repeating myself.