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    NFL TV Schedule and Maps: Week 8, 2019

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    6 hours ago, LeviF91 said:

     

    Which part of the 518?  McGearys and Excelsior in Albany will both have the game and Buffalo-themed specials.  Philly's in Latham if you can stand an Eagles bar.  PJs BBQSA in Saratoga recently opened a bar and has Bills merch all over the walls.

    I'll be in the Ballston Spa/Saratoga area.  I went over to PJ's last time I was out there, but unfortunately, their bar is reserved for their Bills backers club only during the game.  I would've signed up, but I'm not out there enough for it to be worth it. 

    Buffalo Bills pushing to expand brand north (and east)

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    13 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said:

    There's no place to play one.  The college stadiums are all way too small.  

     

    In the 1990s there was a train that went across the state for some Bills home games (The Bills Express), starting in Rensselaer and stopping in Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, & Rochester.   It would arrive in Depew & fans would be bused to Orchard Park.  There was even talk of adding a train station in OP for game day fans to arrive by train.  As the Bills stopped making the playoffs, the train attendance went down to the point it was not economically feasible to continue operating it.  I remember being on one of the last train rides.  The train only had 2 cars.  When I arrived at the Schenectady station to wait for the train nobody else was there.  Eventually a few more people showed up before the train arrived, but it was pretty obvious that the Bills bandwagon had slowed quite a bit in the Capital District.  

     

    We still have the 3rd biggest following behind the Giants (clearly #1) and the Jets.  The good news is no matter how successful they are, the Patriots have never been able to pass the Bills in popularity in our area.  That's probably because NE is in a different state so there aren't any state employee transfers from Massachusetts to Albany as there are from parts of WNY & because of SUNY & other colleges the odds are a lot better that some WNY students came here to go to school & stayed in our area while others went to college in WNY before ending up in Albany.  

     

     

    That's cool.  Was it still through Amtrak or was it a private organization?  I wonder if they would consider starting that up again, especially if the new stadium goes downtown, closer to the station. 

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