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I recall my last visit being less than inspiring for sure. I may be misremembering, but York seemed to be a superior "restaurant." At least as far as my preteen palate could tell.

I tried the Memphis Hot or whatever the hell it was called? Trrrble. If the Georgia Gold is anything like the former, be glad you skipped it! Along the lines of my previous mention of York Steakhouse, what happened to Pondersosa Steak House. Haven't seen one of them in about 20 years! Another thing I miss was Welch's brief attempt and grape, strawberry and orange soda! For whatever reason it seemed to have more flavor that the other fruit sodas. As a kid, I also remember the southern tier having a pretty wide selection of locally-made kettle cooked chips (only name that comes to mind right now, is Swanson's), but now there only seems to be a couple companies making them.

I don't suffer those types Chefy!!! Accepting only the finest things in life... harrumph!!! You accept the base level of mediocrity like the rest of us and you'll LIKE IT!!!! You get your cheese that comes from can, frozen fish sticks, the musical stylings of Creed and Everybody Loves Raymond for example Hey wait a minute, I'm not an anti sports guy and I'm involved in other.... Nevermind, nothing to see here!

There's really no place locally. I've said it many times before, if Colorado Springs (east of I-25) was a restaurant if would be Chili's or Applebee's. In Denver, I would say The Fort is tops, followed by The Buckhorn Exchange, Govnr's Park Tavern and Bull and Bush Brewery.

I'm definitely not "anti-sports guy," but as 4mer mentioned, the NFL is quickly fading in my rearview mirror. As the "bad fan" that I am, I stopped making the Bills appointment TV at least two or three years ago. I still follow baseball, golf, college sports, but the NFL is losing me. As for running into "anti-sports guy" I only know of a couple and they aren't really insufferable about it, but I get a whiff "superiority" from them because of their high-brow tastes for the finer things in life!

This is fascinating information!!!! Good stuff Joe. Thanks for sharing!

I remember this at the Brick Bar back in the day. As a young college kid, this seemed like a lot of beer. Not the most practical packaging to show up to party with though. Lugging a "case" of these in tow was a big time rookie move. I used to think it was big deal when dad would take me here. The faux gas lights on the booths really looked fancy to a five year old me. Along that line of thinking, I miss York Steakhouse!

Freaking Loblaws! They had one in Brooklyn Square in Jimmytown. Then it became a Bells and ultimately it ended as a "No Frills" Store.

He's on the Dan Patrick Show right now... great listen if you get a chance to tune in now or go back and listen to it in the archives.

Same! I remember in my early 20s catching Dick Vandyke Show on Nick and Nite and I had the same reaction you did eball! That being said, three leading ladies from Hollywood in one month? Settle down 2017... Lets not follow in your older brother's footsteps.

Lots of ideas I totally forgot about. Baby Joe Mesi, for some reason I misremember he wanted to go into politics maybe? I've read some articles about eh AAFC Bison team and that would be interesting viewing. RE: The Braves, I'm with you Augie, I barely remember them at all and would love to know a lot more about them. The Norsemen, that's fascinating! I've never heard of them until just now! The Buffalo Screw Jobs would need to be at least a three part series. I feel somewhat like a hypocrite because I live in Colorado and I now root for the Rockies which is one of the two teams created in place of the Buffalo franchise! I honestly don't know the whole story about why Buffalo didn't get a franchise, but I'm sure Toronto, Cleveland and Pittsburgh probably fought it tooth and nail.

Cool video. I've seen Elway around the Denver area a few times in recent years. He's a very cool guy to meet and doesn't have much airs about him at all. Dude looks like he definitely LIVED life and played hard both on and off the field.

Like many here, I'm a big fan of the ESPN 30 for 30 series. It's one of those shows that I can go back and watch certain episodes over and over again. It's part nostalgia and part "I never knew that's what really was going on." There's been a couple that have WNY ties (Four Falls, I Hate Christian Laettner, etc...) I was thinking the other night, it's a pipe dream obviously, but there's quite a few local stories that I've always thought would be interesting to the locals and might warrant a locally produced 30 for 30 type documentary. The rise a fall of the Buffalo Braves Richie Campbell, Marcus Whitfield and the Burgard Bulldogs of the late 80's 1950 NASCAR Grand National Champion Bill Rexford from Conewango, NY The short-lived Buffalo Stallions St BonaventureBasketball Teams of the late 60s How Buffalo lost its MLB bid in the early 90s The WNY Little 3 Basketball Conference 1946-1957 Would love to read other ideas.

Absolutely!!! I like the rough ins idea!!!

This is exactly me as well. If I see the business end of bar after 7, I have to start reevaluating my life choices. Pooj, we ain't the young lions anymore!

We'd be doing much better if you would just take some damn advice once in a while!!!

There have been so many "Kay Bullough and Hank Stephenson" type coaches paraded through WNY over the years, the Rex hire at least made me take notice, but not necessarily in a good way.

So much this!!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^ She bounces that sucka off of curbs all the time taking a turn on the a side street. The anarchy that ensues when trying to park basically turns into, "Let me get out and I'll spot you" or "Just let me land this mofo!"

Mrs. Bullpen is THE worst driver. No fore thought to where she is going or the route she is going to take to get anywhere. We'll be driving a restaurant less than three miles from our house and she'll ask, "do I turn here?" WE JUST CAME HERE LAST MONTH! DO YOU REMEMBER DRIVING ROUTES OR DO YOU JUST USE THE FORCE TO DRIVE? Or she takes what I like to call "anti-terrorism paths somewhere" where she will take a completely different route somewhere than one she took two days ago. This is because she doesn't pay attention to where she is when she's driving or riding in a car. "How do we get to Mo's house, do we turn here?" "We've known Mo to live in this house for five years?!?! Her braking and accelerating habits probably milk about 10K miles off ever car she owns. I swear every time, she hears a knock or ping in the car, she'll point it out to me and I'll ask, have you taken it in? The answer is always no.

I always mean to mention it, but I forget because I post so infrequently anymore. I love this book. My mom (RIP) got it for me many years ago and it's one of those books that I read all the way through, put it on the shelf, go back and read certain passages over and over. It really was a great gift and wonderful read. Thanks for writing that!!! That being said, thoughts are with him and his family. This is truly sad news. The big three in Buffalo were as much a part of my evening meals as a child as my parents were. Often times more so...

Leave the gun, take the canoli....

I haven't watched it yet, but my wife called me to the TV she was watching, while I was upstairs watching the Rose Bowl, just so she could show me that interaction. I realize it was heavily edited, but man that was freaking hilarious!!!

I'm starting to subscribe to this theory also Shrade! I feel like there's too many fringe characters (red shirts) that get just enough dialogue or plotlines that they become distracting. As boring as the "Rick Grimes, down on the farm..." season was, at least there weren't so many characters to follow. I temper these comments by saying, Walking Dead is on after I've normally watched yet another uninspiring performance from the Bills (accompanied by copious amounts of beer) so my ability to follow multiple characters is severely diminished!

I have pretty much the same list as Gug, but add: Public Image Ltd. - Album Metallica - Master of Puppets Prince and the Revolution - Parade AC/DC - Who Made Who Run DMC - Raising Hell Talking Heads - True Stories Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Liverpool (the one without Relax and Two Tribes)

Agreed. I was glad to see is caricature-ness muted a bit. Although, (and I apologize now if this plants a seed in anyone else's viewing) I can't stand the "lean-back-on-one-foot-and-bounce-with-every-single-word-he-says" delivery of dialogue! It just looks awkward and I don't know that I've ever seen a verbal crutch or tick like that on anyone TV or real life! It is good to see some depth brought to the character finally. For thismuchtime, I genuinely thought he felt bad about making fun of Coral's eye stump. His gentleness and baby-talk with Judith (NO ONE WATCHES THE KIDS ON THIS SHOW SO HE MIGHT AS WELL!!!!), was interesting development for Neegan's character. And it no only coincides with the holidays, if memory serves correctly, it doesn't come back until after the Super Bowl! By then, I'll be right back to looking at my wife and saying, "who the hell is that again?" Oh DC Tom, I wish I had thought of that one! Never change Tom... stay golden Pony Boy!!!