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OK here are a few highlights: This season gate 3 will have walk through metal detectors rather than manual wanding. Expect this pilot to lead to all gates having this next season. Measurements show manual wanding passes 6 people/minute. Walk-through passes 20. Those who attended the 1st preseason game surely noticed that beers were served in the can rather than poured into cups. Enabled by improved fan behavior, this helps to:speed purchases keep beer colder reduce spillage Note that caps will still not be given with waters. This is an NFL best-practice, to keep bottles from being sealed and used as projectiles Wi-Fi update: Improvements implemented. Next game will be a bigger test with larger attendance. The known challenge is to get access to lowest rows of lower bowl without interfering with on-field communications Playoff ticket email: Mandated by NFL due to challenge of selling wild-card game tickets on short notice. Signing up does not charge the card in any way, but does give discount for wild-card game (if we have one) so that seat cost is average of season ticket price (so if your season ticket costs $750, the wild-card price would be $75 - less than a gold-level game). Sign-up ends 9/6. Once it's time to pay for playoff tickets, you will be able to contact your ticket rep to work out payment details (account balance vs credit card vs cash etc). Others areas discussed include Bills Bucks, NFL Game Pass, team-run fantasy leagues, tobacco policy. I'll post a link once the podcast is online.

Gonna have to find out why I'm not on there. Might be because I'm considered a 'business' because TwoBillsDrive.com is attached to my account due to the group purchases... Or they thought I'd break something.

We'll see if I can crash the Bills Radio Network

1 Prime please and thank you

Wednesday or Thursday to review what was discussed yesterday, and the F.A.B. in general. The meeting was held at yesterday's camp session. My pictures: https://www.facebook.com/jacob.rosen.35/media_set?set=a.1029077130449360.1073741833.100000412489023&type=3&pnref=story

I want Tyrod or EJ to earn it. Has little to do with last night - it's always been more about the long-term prospects for them vs Cassel, and to solidify the position for a few years so that we can concentrate on other things.

It looked like the same is true of Rex' feelings on IK's jump on 4th and 4 on the final drive.

She was also in Star Trek:

https://www.facebook.com/jacob.rosen.35/posts/1027476693942737

I passed one on the 290 last weekend. But nobody felt it was their duty to hold everyone else up. The cops leading the procession didn't care. I turned my lights on, if that helps.

Mmmm hmmm

Weather like that is hard on just about everyone

http://deadspin.com/we-now-know-your-name-ladell-beckham-jr-1662925272

The people who sat behind us when my son was younger used to pay him a dollar for each swearword they blurted out. One guy once gave him a $5 bill at kickoff saying he had a bad feeling about the game. Where you sit has a huge bearing on what a child is exposed to. I used all of the idiotic behavior as teaching moments, which so far have kept him away from trouble I think. He does have a foul mouth as a 17 year old, though

We are according to this guy: http://www.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/buffalo-bills-have-drunkest-fans-in-the-nfl-081114

I just rewatched the Bills Jets game that was in Detroit the night after OBJ's catch. Solomon Wilcotts had this beauty: "The whole world knows your name now, Lidell Beckham Jr!"

You're welcome. I'm not sure this is a team thing, but I can definitely ask about it. I will say that I bet no team wants to have tickets available for less than what they are trying to charge. Perhaps once a game is sold out this might be an option, but I wonder how many preseason games sell out.

I'd say Kiko Alonso, but that was 2013.

http://www.buffalobills.com/tickets/stadium/permitted-prohibited-items.html

We have smokers on the Fan Advisory Board. But I think people see the greater benefits of freeing up security personnel for more applicable duties. It's unfortunate that the actions of a minority screwed up the compromise that was worked out (designated smoking areas outside the seating area/concourses), but they did and these are the consequences.

Do other folks have specific areas where exiting the lots is routinely bad? I will compile these and present them.

The smoking policy has been evolving over time, responding to ongoing abuses. As soon as they prohibited smoking within the bowl itself, some (NOT ALL) people continued to try to smoke there even though there were specified areas where it was allowed. It has gotten to a point where enforcement of the rules in place (again due to continued abuse) has taken so much security/police attention away from where it is needed that the Bills have now not only prohibited smoking from all areas, they have actually prohibited bringing tobacco products into the stadium. There's now no grey area. You are caught with tobacco products, you get rid of it (no more "just put it out") or you're gone. Don't blame the team for the bahavior that forced this drastic action. Here's a link to the smoking policies of all NFL teams. Buffalo is not the only one that completely prohibits smoking. http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/smokingpoliciesNFLstadiums.pdf The smoking policy comes up at every meeting. It is what it is.

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Ultimately of course that is up to the fans. But the Bills realize that they have to give fans a reason to leave their tailgates and come in earlier. We gave many off-the-cuff ideas last meeting so I'll be very interested to hear what if any progress the team has made in this area. The fact they can't sell alcohol til noon is of course a blocker... I'll make sure that an update and further discussion is on the agenda. Those are vultures, and they're just waiting for me to pass on. Gotta happen soon...

From a guest experience perspective, is there anything you'd like me to bring forward for discussion? Any question you have that I can get answered for you?