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Taking off 6 AM tomorrow! I'm pretty sure I'll be at my best even though I had a game Sunday so it's a short week to prepare and have to travel, you know?

IF the Bills are in a playoff game that is driveable, I will go to it. So if we play in NE, or in Pittsburgh, or in Cleveland, or in Cinci, or in Baltimore, or in Indy... I'll go.

So my wife sends me an email from work today that basically says "I'm going to a conference in Vegas, flying out Saturday January 10th. Would you want to see if my parents can come watch the kids so that you can come out too?" and my first thought was "What if the Bills are in the playoffs?" I am horrible, aren't I?

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Is it just me, or does anyone else get the impression that Terry is an idea-man and Kim is actually the one who gets stuff done?

Did you know that Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard?

I heard the final exam is a real pain in the ass

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million to one shot, doc

Got mine this morning

If there was a man-purse involved then it must've been Tinky Winky

Amen, Brother Heitz. Amen.

We blame the refs.

no that's way too informative to be mine

I gleaned out what I needed to to make myself feel better.

That right there means 8-0! YUSSSSSS!

They were going to move Kiko to the outside despite the monster year he had at MLB in 2013. Preston Brown has taken the spot Kiko would have had this season and is doing very well. Brad-ham, despite his penalties yesterday, has been very good this season and Brandon Spikes might just re-up for next year. So... Who sits? Kiko has to be on the field - that's a given. Preston has played 99% (if not 100%) of snaps this season. You put Kiko back in the middle and let Spikes walk? Put Brad-ham back on the bench? Go back to a 3-4? Talk to me.

Wow, an "I LOVE you guys!" post from Chef Jim. Will wonders never cease.

Preston Brown was on with Murph last night and said Kiko's on-site rehabbing every day, always has a sweat worked up, and is in the locker room at half-time to relay what kinds of things he's seeing during games. http://www.buffalobills.com/video/audio/Brown_RWS_best_atmosphere_Ive_been_around/fa1c8a81-42e3-4d64-99a4-1d26850dab6f

No, the other items of note was more stuff that I and other members of the board brought to the attention of the front office, or that they wanted us to know about. So the water fountains was something I noticed at the opener - I typically buy 1 water then refill it at a fountain but that option was gone so I brought it up to find out what the long term plan was. The mis-timed crowd noise was something brought up here and by many others about how fans are supposed to quiet down when we have the ball, but it wasn't happening so what can we do about it? Bills game stats are on the main board, next to the endless Jani-King ads If there's a specific location in question, let me know and we can ask that a screen be put up there. There are 2-3 screens per concession stand from what I've seen

Yeah I think they were already on the banned list.

We did say that last night. They asked if anyone missed the Jills... I said "my son" but everyone was pro-Stampede and would love to see them grow and be even more involved.

IMPORTANT NEWS I posted about this a few months back, that the Bills were looking at the possibility of putting all tobacco products (and accessories) on the officially prohibited list. Well it's happening. Smoking itself has been prohibited for years, but with the number of smoking-related ejections on the rise, they have decided to officially prohibit bringing this stuff into the stadium. Starting with the next game (Kansas City after the bye) you can no longer bring cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, chewing tobacco, lighters, matches into the stadium. If caught at the gate you will not be allowed in with them and will have to dispose of them there or return to your car. Moving forward, if caught with them in the stadium it's grounds for immediate ejection rather than just a warning to "put it out". I advised them that a media blast will be necessary so that people are informed and not caught off guard, to stave off the majority of the inevitable at-gate confrontations. The website has already been updated: http://www.buffalobills.com/stadium/permitted-prohibited-items.html Some other items of note: * Water fountains were thought to be unsanitary, mostly used for garbage and other unintended purposes. With the renovations they were completely removed. Well, they definitely heard about how much they are actually used, especially at the hotter preseason games. They have made water available at all guest services booths, and now have arranged with concessions to provide tap water on request while they work on better ways to reinstall fountains. * Ticket Security - I brought up the fact that when tickets are printed from their Account Manager site, the season ticket holder's name and account number are displayed on the ticket. This does not occur when selling on TicketExchange or forwarding ticket via Email. But it could become an issue if you print with the intent to sell an extra ticket at the game. They were going to pursue this with Ticketmaster, but did say that the original 4-digit PIN password scheme is no longer in effect and passwords should be changed to increase account security. * Sound System - They are still tweaking various volume levels in and around the stadium. Especially tough at the gates where there is a peak period of about 1/2 hour where it needs to be much higher. They are looking at ways to try to direct traffic to gates with the shortest wait times. * In-Stadium Wi-Fi/cellular - No schedule for getting Wi-Fi, as they want to do it once and do it right. They will be working with the 49ers to see how they did their new stadium as that seems to be the best implementation in the league right now. As for cellular, improved for all carriers except for Verizon. * Mis-timed crowd noise - Here's a note from Andy Major we just got: I did share how other teams have on-scoreboard videos featuring players which seek to educate fans on this issue. I would have hoped Bills fans were already pretty smart on this but I guess not. Obviously we're not the only team having this problem, as Peyton Manning was pissed off about this at last night's game in Denver too. They did say that if it became an issue on the field, Coach Marrone would make some requests as well. * Ownership Transition - The Pegula's history with the Sabres shows they have a much higher involvement with fan experience at the ownership level than Ralph ever did and they expect this to start becoming apparent once they get comfortable with everything. * Food options - Said that the local vendors are still shaking out how to best provide the quantity of food required at the quality people expect. I did give my printed summary of all of your feedback from yesterday's thread to the Assistant Director of Customer Service, for which he was grateful. He also said that despite the sales organization's hesitancy, our proof-of-concept for the opener tickets went perfectly and they may expand the availability of that option to some other groups on a per-group basis. Oh one other thing - you might have noticed that they flipped which of the new scoreboards was used for replays vs Fantasy updates and out-of-town results. This was at the request of the coaching staff, so that from the coaches booth they could see the replays on that big screen better

Swept the fish last season with Thad Lewis at QB, and I think we're improved enough to sweep the jets.