Stranded in Boston

Thanks for that, Chan. I needed a distraction from the news today ... 😕

Donald Wilson! Haven't thought of that name in a while ... Terrible in pas coverage -- but man could he hit! I recall he broke his face mask with a hit. Knocked himself woozy on that play too.

I remember it well, wnyguy, Check out 2:20 mark. 😀

I agree, Shaw. INTs off deflected balls are basically flukes -- especially with a 6-5 QB. It was just one of those extra fluky days when lightning struck twice ... Also, on the overthrow to Beasley, it sure looked like illegal contact by the Falcon's DB: he chucked Beas 10-15 yards up the field, throwing his route timing off. Atlanta was lucky not to get flagged on that play. Anyhow, QB ratings aside, I see no cause for alarm.

Lol, here in Boston, they think Genny is some kind of craft beer …

Heading out now with the wife and dog for a walk around Boston in my Bills hat. I've lived here 36 years and this is my all-time favorite Monday ... 😎

Well, technically the median … 🤓

I just hop on the Green Line in Brookline; ~20 min to North Station. (Also useful if I catch a buzz during the game. I always seem to end up at a table with some WNY college kids who want to share pitchers with the old guy ... 😎 )

Hey Promo, I haven't made it to The Harp yet this year. How was the crowd for the Miami game?

Fred Jackson, baby!! I like the pass-blocking by our young RBs, but nobody could crunch a blitzer like Fred! 😃

In addition to his athleticism and size, Rousseau plays incredibly smart football. He displays fantastic vision, both on the edge and when he drops into short zone coverage. What a great draft pick. ... And for my fellow old-timers here, I was surprised that Joe Cribbs wasn't among the former Bills rookies who won a POW award. I can't recall a first-year Bills player with a bigger impact than Cribbs -- 12 TDs his rookie year.

shhhhhhhhh!! 😎

Aw, did you have to bring up Ray Sheppard? It only took me 30 years to forget that one ... 😫

That's some fine old-time sportswriting there, Chan! 😃

As a kid I used to watch (or listen to) Bills games with my brothers, but since I left Buffalo 35+ years ago, I generally watch alone. I'm just an insufferable a-hole during the game -- scaring my poor kids when they were little, etc. One exception was Super Bowl XXV in 1990, when I stupidly decided to host a Super Bowl party in my crappy apartment in Boston. After wide-right, everyone kept talking and laughing at commercials and sh**, so I basically threw them all out (including this girl I was dating at the time; maybe not the smartest move). Now I will only watch games with fellow WNYers, catching a few games a year at the Bills fan club at The Harp in Boston, and years ago every Sunday at Sam Sansone's Bills Backers bar when I lived in Houston. You just have to be with your own species on game day ...

Nice write-up, Mi -- er, I mean Rubes. (However, you forgot to acknowledge your Bills' fandom in the COI disclosures. 😜 ) But we Bills fans-scientists all do what we have to do, eh? For example, I have tortured my Boston-area medical school classes for 25 years before Bills-Pats game (last year was more gleeful than usual in that regard). In addition, I know from an [ahem] EXTREMELY well-placed source that an engineer and fellow Bills fan at the Jet Propulsion Lab slipped a "Go Bills" message onto the Perseverance rover, currently cruising around on the surface of Mars. But don't tell anybody ...

Heck yes, Aaron -- that was a fantastic play by Zimmer. The kid can really run.

J. Zimmer continues to impress; man, that meatball can cover some ground! B. Basham also looked very stout at point of attack; he shed blockers extremely well on run plays, and really sticks his tackles. He looks a lot more like a very mobile, strong DT than DE to me.

Good point Chan, plus I recall our own Shane Nelson wasn't much bigger than that -- and he could hit like a hammer!

#15 Todd Collins, 1990s royal blue. After the Bills waived Collins in '98, a buddy of mine found it at a rest stop outside Erie, PA, on sale for ten bucks, LOL. I never much liked it, for some vague reason. Then one day I realized it reminded me of Jeff Hostetler's Super Bowl jersey ... 🤬

45 years on, it still baffles me that the Braves let Malone slip through their fingers -- 2 freakin' games?? I've often wondered if the Braves would have survived in Buffalo if they'd kept him ... Indeed, that front line would have been unstoppable!

I'm with you on Randy Smith, Promo. Big Mac had some unforgettable seasons in Buffalo, but Randy was the heart and soul of that Braves team, one of the greatest all-around athletes in NBA history -- and a Buff State guy to boot. (As for Gronk, he can go ... well, you know!)

Thanks Chandler#81!! That was awesome. During those grim mid-late 70s Bills teams, it seemed like Bobby was the Bills entire offense sometimes! Besides his incomparable hands, people forget that he was also an amazing athlete, a top high-school decathlete and high jumper. His body control was superb. The only guy in the NFL who could out-highpoint Bobby back then was maybe Harold Carmichael -- but he was also 6'-8" !

Hell yes, Promo!! With things reopening here, I'll definitely be there this fall with my twin sons, who -- despite being born and raised in Boston -- are now irreversibly Bills fans (= Pats haters), having been successfully propagandized, er, raised by their dad. I kept things real simple: Kid wanna eat? Kid root for Bills. 😎 Let me buy you a beer. You should be easy to spot: rumor has it that you're the biggest guy at the Harp.

Thanks again, Chandler; you're keeping me sane before training camp! What a shame Rashad blew out his knee in '75. The Bills gave up on him, only to watch him become a perennial pro-bowler with the Vikings. But surgeons were just not that good at fixing knees back then: think of Jerry Butler and Jeff Nixon -- and (no offense to Tre White and Butch Byrd!) the Bills' greatest cornerback ever, Robert James.