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I remember a a very brief lyric from a song from the early - mid 50's that's been stuck in my head for decades. I know the tune as well, but the lyric was: "On brave old Bu-fa-lo Bills, On to vic-to-ry." Not sure where I heard it, but it could have been from the lead in to WBEN radio casts in the early 60's.

We are about five plays into this game and there is already a huge delay on a pass interference call. I am absolutely certain that at the end of this year, someone will start a thread about the 2019 season, but to be the first, the 2019 season is going to be about how horrible this officiating has been. The NFL needs to solve this, but the vector is not good.

That is one grossly empty stadium.

No secret there. That's why he turned down at least three offers to command the Intl Space Station.

Le Batard has been a Miami jerk forever. His show is bizarre. I had it on when I was driving last Friday after the Steelers game, and he and his group started blasting the Bills at 10:40am eastern, calling Buffalo a "pit," and opining how horrible it is that ESPN ponied up to buy the Sat playoff games which nobody would ever want to watch because the Bills will be in one. Unbelievably insulting, and I never get worked up over clowns like him, but that was excessive. As he began railing on Josh Allen, I changed the station promising myself I would never listen to that thing again. Just a stupid show that spends way more time talking about absolutely idiotic stuff and personal experiences than it does on what the subject is supposed to be.

I think his timeout to spot the offensive set is used up. It is extremely predictable now. I'm guessing it won't be long that opposing offenses will predict it and come out in some set and after the timeout, change the play, or he doesn't take the timeout, audible out of the original set into something they want to do. Last night it was extremely predictable.

Agree. Milano was a totally legit call, and Edmonds was horrible. One of the things I think needs to start getting some consideration is the gross attempts to punch the ball out and trigger a fumble. The Watt attempt on Josh at the end of the game was not a football move. It was a right hook aimed at his midsection. Any other play it's a personal foul and disqualification. I think it's time they reeled this stuff in.

I have no problem with the legitimate and deserved criticism of Allen's technical errors, and frankly, I getting a little tire of them. But....The third quarter was nothing more than a Steeler's documentary narrated by this crew. I was expecting them to break out an Ancestry.com report on the Rooney family, or maybe stop the game for a Rooney grandchild parade. It was overwhelming.

Not sure of the logic of this one.

By the way, the airplane may have landed in Providence, RI. That's where most teams stay when playing the Pats, but not sure about this plane, and it isn't important.

NFL charters don't normally stay at the game location after dropping the team and equipment off. Sometimes they do. I know the Dolphin's charters to Buffalo used to stay and use the same airplane to get home. Not sure if they still do. It depends on the contract and how the airline can use its airplane. If its convenient to ferry it out from the game location on Saturday and get it back in the system, that's what's done, and a different airplane is flown in to pick them up. I don't know how the Chief's and their charter lost track of this container. It either was never off-loaded, or was off-loaded and mistakenly re-loaded on this or another airplane. If that is the case, there are other issues that have consequences. If the charter airline accounted for the container on the BOS-EWR leg in its load manifest, its simply an internal problem. If it didn't, and was not accounted for in the weight and balance of that flight, there are legal consequences, and the FAA could get involved. Very unlikely the Pats were involved in any way, as there would be significant legal consequences.

Not so fast. Th gear is put into very large aluminum cargo containers. The containers are loaded and locked down. It was, more than likely, not a bunch of bags. It was one large cargo container on a 767. Given the city pairs, I'm guessing it was a United charter. The airplane left Boston, probably empty, without the normal baggage check on departure, and went to Newark to get integrated into the system.

I thought about this that entire drive. They had just been successful on two similar plays. One, a touchdown to Beasley, and then the two pointer. Both similar patterns. They had the Ravens set up. I would have lined up for two, and if the liked the play they had against the Ravens defensive set, run it. If not, run motion to see what see if you can change the matchups and get into another play. If you really like what you've got after the motion, run it. If not, take the delay and penalty or time out if you think its worth it and you have one, and let Hauschka kick the point.

I've got to agree with a lot said in this thread. I got tired of the cliche comments about Buffalo weather by sports folks years ago. Lots of cities have games significantly impacted by weather, but never get a similar mention. Still, a game like the Colts in the snow lasts for years in their memories. Regarding Buffalo weather, I went to college out of state and never moved back after graduation because of career. I've lived in the San Francisco Bay area, Central California inland, Raleigh, suburban Chicago and now central Virginia. Buffalo's problem, to me, is the delayed onset of spring, and brief autumns. As a Courier Express delivery kid for three years, I faced the weather, and it wasn't a problem, but spring comes much earlier, and fall lasts much longer in other places. I remember playing infield in my youth and standing at shortstop is still cold, wet infield dirt and wondering when it was ever going to dry out and warm up. Fully agree with the Chicago comments. I love that city, but it is every bit as cold as Buffalo +/- a few degrees, and has far less outside recreation opportunities in the winter, and it goes from spring to summer in about 72 hours. Shares Buffalo's mosquito problem though. My kids were born in the San Francisco area, but we would visit family a couple times a year in WNY. My kids always enjoyed it, and are serious Bills fans. As adults, my two boys come over every Sunday here in Central Va for the Bills. Anyway, when my oldest was about eight, he had just learned a bit about natural science and the solar system in school. We were visiting family in WNY on one of those late spring days with low broken clouds along clipping along at about 25 knots and my son is watching that as we were walking. He says to me, "Ya know what I like about Buffalo dad? You can see the earth spinning here."

TV decisions are business based, and the Cowboys draw higher ratings than other teams. Selecting a game which will likely produce higher ratings leads to greater add revenue, and that is their job.

We made the decision not to offer him an extension. That was writing on the wall and he saw it for what it was.

My favorite Ro-ment was when Dak threw the pick to Lotulelei. Under his breath, almost whispering, he says, "Oh no. Say it isn't so."

While acknowledging everything else, the predominant view I had of this game was the difference in Josh's passing. He usually throws high, and often high and outside, especially early in every game. Receivers have had to break stride, adjust to the high ball, catch it and re-accelerate, usually unsuccessfully. This game he hit guys in the numbers, ins stride resulting in much better runs after catch. Looked completely different, and extremely effective.

I saw it. I'm kind of a student of that battle. There are a number of story lines about individual people and the things they did, and its kind of like a checklist approach to getting those in, one by one. I thought the special effects were good, and far more realistic than Dunkirk, ie., no dancing around with each other air to air combat. Quick, violent encounters-the way it really is. The biggest thing I thought was silly was the constant NY accents of various people, which weren't reality at all.

I am not skipping over anything. The Vietnam war was after the assassination, and didn't get to be the divisive event until well after that. There was no shortage of disagreements, but that wasn't one of them at its start. The point is that Congress worked in those days legislative warfare was not waged, as it is now. State Houses weren't fought over like they are now either, nor were Supreme Court nominations the starting gun for incredible sleaze.

It is absolutely nothing like today. Of course the civil rights things was contentious, but you had nothing like what is going on today. If anybody from either party was doing what JFK was doing in the White House under everyone's nose, or a current Attorney General was setting up assassinations of foreign leaders like Bobby Kennedy was, or the Director of the FBI running his own little company wire tapping everyone he didn't like or a host of other things, the hatred of the opposition would assure it was front page every day.

Can't compare it to today. It was the shock of the end of innocence. Regardless of political view, people generally didn't hate the other side, and couldn't believe a sitting president could be so boldly assassinated.

My daughter was recruited by them and during her due diligence effort, received very bad reviews from folks, so she declined. Not sure if there have been changes.

Mike Stratton hitting Keith Lincoln. 1964 AFL Championship game. Blue on white.

He's a bit of an enigma to me. He is grossly inaccurate coming out of the locker room. I always hope we get through the first two possessions alive, then he seems to settle down and do OK. He missed grossly on that fourth down slant early in the game. I mentioned to the people I was with that we need an Allen run on our last possession to get a field goal, and we didn't get it.