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Pre evil OJ is awfully tempting, just for the incredible aesthetic athletic beauty, and thrill of watching him run again. But with this team, he's likely just back to being pre Lou Saban, decoy OJ, and that wouldn't help anyone. Kent Hull leaps out of the mist to me as the man I wish would walk through that door today. He was a stud and an anchor for the entire line. He made the average guards next to him pretty darn effective at the same time. Joe D, Main Man Reggie McKenzie and Rueben all merit consideration, but at the end of the day, Kent Hull all day, every day. Just imagine where that Tennessee QB sneak goes with Kent in front of Josh. It would have been straight ahead into the end zone in all likelihood. Time travel and resource retrieval! Hell yeah... what a great Wednesday. Isn't it amazing anything's accomplished today? Could we use Bobby Orr? Bonus Round: I'll always have time for Isaiah Robertson just to hear him sing "I've got a feeling" one or two more times. Plus, I've become curiously curious to know exactly how Isaiah would handle the tricky task of having himself paged in a restaurant in the age of cell phones.

I can appreciate your journey, OP. In 50+ years of watching this story unfold, I've been all over the map with the extent that I let my Bills habit form my emotions. In the end, I think that I finally arrived at a place of serenity and renewed enjoyment with it all, once I learned to view it as just that... watching a story unfold. Like you, and really like so many of us, I have great memories of watching and going to games with my Dad. We had season tickets for many years. I laugh and remember that for a long while, the only question of relevance on most games was "How many yards did O.J. get?". Because really, that WAS the story of interest in those teams. But, of course the storyline eventually and ALWAYS changes. I remember being disillusioned at different times; O.J. got traded, #1 overall draft picks flipped us off and went elsewhere, the string of Super Bowl hell and of course the drought etc... As we move through life, hopefully priorities also change. And I had to come to terms with the reality that I'll never get those good times with my Dad back, but I finally embraced that I do get to keep the memories. Chasing new memories is an acquired taste I guess. For me, learning how to keep and value those old memories without a need to duplicate them was not easy, but eventually it arrived. It's rational to feel differently about the the things that we once valued so highly. I still laugh and smile when I think about my old high school and college friends. But I have limited interest in hanging out with them much any more. I'm good with it. So why are The Bills so different? They clearly are for almost all of us. Because when they win, it is a rush. It's brain chemistry and psychology 101. Endorphin storm = Good! When we let our fear of losing get out of balance, it can limit and overshadow that potential rush. So we start to lose interest out of fear of being disappointed, fear of not getting that rush... it's a puzzle that we either solve or just lose interest in. For me, maybe out of coincidence, the final piece of that puzzle came the year I retired, which by lucky coincidence was the year the drought ended. It happened that I had just moved into a brand new house on the west coast of Florida in the first week of Sept 2017. I was more preoccupied with real life stuff like moving in, learning a new city, and then learning what in the hell to do in the face of an incoming Category 5 hurricane as Hurricane Irma was beating a path it appeared, directly at said new house. This was the early morning hours of the 2017 opener vs the Jets. Somehow, I learned all the proper prep, no doubt going overboard with it, but hunkered down for the storm, expecting power and satellite reception to go out some time during the game. Somehow both stayed on throughout the game, and The Bills won a very vanilla, boring game. It was a nice diversion and gave me something to smile about. Of course... the power went out later that evening and stayed out for a miserable week. But The Bills had once again given me something to smile about and played a nice role in a memorable, yet otherwise miserable time. That season (and life) unfolded in typical roller coaster fashion, as we know and in the end, I was at a delayed Christmas family celebration on New Years Eve what Tyler Boyd scored that TD. I lost my S**t in a spectacular way that literally frightened half of my family and myself with my way over the top reaction. I didn't know that little kid was still in me. Since that time, I've enjoyed the he** out of letting that little kid breath again. It's been fun. When they win, and fortunately that is a lot right now, it's high times in my head again. And when they don't, I just turn the page and see where the story goes next. I wish you well on your journey Red King! It's just a story. Let's see where it goes next. Back in 2017, Hurricane Irma took a last minute turn and spared me and my house too much grief. Nobody knows right now what the next turn in this season is going to be.

"I tried to walk into Target, but I missed." - Mitch Hedberg

From Robert Kraft's personal suite?

So many good choices. Gotta go with one more. Sing it for us Bobby...

“When you say it’s going to happen now, when exactly did you mean? See I’ve already waited too long…”

If you're looking for Dennis Weaver, then no...

I wondered about this last week when Allen didn’t get the Offside call he was motioning for on a play that ended up blowing up on him. It seems like the refs kind of let him hang himself out to dry on that play as if they resented all the plaintive pointing at the line …

2021 = 1989? It sure feels the like the same script.

Queue Jim Mora sound byte… Playoffs?

Cole just coughed...

Just once before I die, forever I've cried Still saying the same thing so many years later But hey, I am greedy, so I need one now to prove I've lied Cuz I'll need another a year later, just before the ventilator. Look out Trevor, it's time for Poyer and Hyde.

I'll take this right now!

Career advice

Thanks Bart. I get the tragic comedy of the premise, but not really what I was questioning. Guess I did not phrase it quite right, but was curious if construction would impact the usability of the current stadium. Sounds like that is thankfully not a concern.

If the new stadium is built in OP, where does team play during construction? Do we continue in current stadium during construction or is there a viable alternate in mind?

Not as far out as it initially sounds...

Think he's taking his talents back to South Beach.

So… they just fell out of bed and took a three point lead.

"I could make you scared, if you want me to" If The Bills get there, you just know, and it's probably perfect poetic justice that they will get to vanquish one of their historic demons. So the script lines up as ... go through the "Brady in the SB" legacy, after years of just any given Sunday torture at his hands, or do we get really ambitious and bite off a piece of our therapy inducing Super Bowl issues vs America's team. This is tough stuff, football fan psychiatric gold! Best I can go with is letting history inform my gut. There was a time that seeing Miami creeping up on the schedule always put a knot in mine. It always felt like a certain terror awaited, a humbling reality check following us down a dark alley. Of course, that Dolphin ghost story died away decades ago and that reversal will always be one of my favorite memories and occupies a most satisfying place in my current Bills fan psyche. Now we've landed in the 21st century and have lived (or maybe are still living in) the awful sequel, produced all too well. Brady seems to have taken on, and perfected the role of the dark alley stalker for The Bills. He's just always been there around the corner, waiting with that menacing, soul lacking look in his eyes. There was a piece of me, albeit a small piece, that felt relief watching the Super Bowl last year thinking how horrific it would have felt to see the Bills reviving their Super Bowl notoriety at the hands of Brady. Football PTSD! No, no thank you... not today Tommy. On the other hand, we have the Dallas Cowboys. If you were a Bills fan in the 90's, it's hard to envision wanting another bite of that s*** sandwich. I'm seeing the pledge in Animal House... "Thank you sir. May I have another?" The ridiculously atrophied area of my Bills fan brain that is rational understands that none of this is real, that that is all old history. So what? Being a Bills fan has never been about reason or logic. It's the trip, stupid! And for my money, my best trip sees us handling Brady in a few weeks right where he has long menaced us, in the regular season. Maybe we do our part in keeping him out of one last big dance. Any one remember how great in felt to chase Don Shula into retirement? And peaking in the Super Bowl by chasing one last demon, America's Team... Well what could be better than that? That would be one seriously good day. It's halloween damn it, where is my chainsaw? "If you're prepared..."

Bleu Cheese Spoils Sushi Wrong Hurricane Will Cost You Tagovailoa

I see Hyde and Poyer giving Tua nightmares. I'll lean toward Micah for the highlight show plays.

It’s a week to week league. This week, with respect to this game, the best Buffalo can accomplish is to pull back ahead of Tennessee in the conference with a KC win. So, hold my nose and root for Chiefs and then see how the conference looks next week.

When breaking a 20 game losing streak is not the highlight of you week... Nice!