LabattBlue
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If Tagliabue wants to have games in Toronto, let him give them a franchise. The NFL is the best run of the major sports, but this idea is not one of their better efforts. Leave our home games alone Tags!
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I can't find the complete breakdown for the Super Bowl ticket allocation, but as far as every organization goes(the ones that are not in the SB), I believe they get something equal to around 1.6% of the stadium capacity.
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.....Sunday, for the first time since Super Bowl XXIV, White won't be on the sideline waiting to complete his mission. Instead, he will spend Super Bowl week passing on his knowledge to NFL types, who will take over White's duties. Then it's on to Honolulu and the Pro Bowl. Tough break.
White has plenty of tales to tell from his experiences, the most memorable being Super Bowl XXV, the notorious (for Buffalo Bills fans, at least) "Norwood, wide right" debacle..
You remember, the one where Scott Norwood missed a 47-yard game-winning field goal try with seconds remaining that deprived Bills fans of their only Super Bowl victory.
"That was the year the designers had the genius idea to incorporate the final score into the T-shirt," White says.
The T-shirts were pre-printed, as always, for both teams, leaving an opening where the score would be put on.
As Norwood prepared to kick the game-winner, White ordered the score of 22-20 to be put on the Buffalo shirts.
"I grab the first six and saunter out. As the ball's snapped, I'm literally 5 yards out on the field ready to sprint and give Marv Levy, Jim Kelly, and other players a T-shirt."
Then, wide right. "I pull a Baryshnikov, twirl around, run back in the tunnel, throw them in the garbage, and tell 'em, 'Put the Giants on there with the score 20-19!' " White says.
"I grabbed three and caught some guys before they got in the locker room. The next day (USA TODAY's) Rudy Martzke wrote that ABC got a call from some irate fan saying, 'I knew the games were fixed, they had a T-shirt with the score already on it! How did the league know what the final score was going to be?' "
The final score on the shirts created a buzz and was unique, White says, but not surprisingly it hasn't been incorporated into the T-shirts since.
And what becomes of the mistake or losing team's shirts? Well, since they are property of the NFL, they're either destroyed or sent to a foreign country whose people are in dire need of clothing. However, White says ESPN broadcaster and diehard Bills fan Chris Berman might be the sole owner of all four Buffalo Bills "Super Bowl Champions" caps. "He somehow commandeered all four," White says with a laugh.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/su...-24-29-30_x.htm
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A little history on the Bisons and the Pepsi cap logo on their jerseys.....
http://www.bisonhockey.netfirms.com/bottlecap.htm
http://www.buffalosportshallfame.com/Class..._al_pastor.html
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My memory continues to let me down. Prior to the oranges being added when the Sabres came to town, was it....
Lower Gold
Upper Gold
Red
Blue
Grey
or something else???
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Bring back the BISONS !!!!
Guy Trottier...one of my favorites in the year or two prior to the Sabres coming to town.
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If the owners allow the players to come back without a salary cap in place, I'm done with the NHL forever. Stupid fuggers!
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I can't even find the "jump to new" function. I'm such a computer knucklehead somedays.
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He used to be on Sporting News radio, but Peter Brown and Francessa have to be long lost brothers. They are truly the kings of "know it all"!
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T80...do you get to go to the game for all your efforts during SB week?
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Chuck Lester has been here since 87. Nobody knows what it is he does, but he's got a knack for surving multiple coaching regimes.
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I agree they are all overpaid, but we go and buy the $75 dollar tickets, $15 parking, $6 hotdogs and $6 beers to go and see the games. If we stopped going to the game until the prices became more reasonable it would all level itself out.
Question: Did anyone have Sabres season tickets? How much did they cost and did that include parking?
The prices you stated are a huge part of the problem. In a big market, you may be able to get away with charging $75 for a ticket, but you have a game in February on a Tuesday night against a crappy team and you end up with an entire lower bowl of empty blue seats.
My 2 cents....I'm NEVER paying $75 for a regular season hockey game. I'm not even sure, I'd pay that much to see the Bills. Thankfully except for the club seats, all tickets are below this amount
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My personal preference...any seat in the upper deck is better than anywhere in the end zone. I love the perspective you get from the upper deck and no you don't need binouculars when sitting up there.
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Don't forget about this model citizen....
When Derrick Thomas died from injuries suffered in a car accident last February, he left seven children by five women and no will. Since the seven children, ages 2-10, are heirs to what is left because Thomas was not married and there isn't a will, the mothers of his children are fighting for a healthy share of his estate filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, MO.
Search on this guys name and read all the touching tributes to a great man. Of course in most of those tributes you won't find anything about how this fantastic person knew nothing about birth control, commitment to one woman(for more than one night) and on top of everything else he was too dumb to know he should have had a will.
I wonder if he looked up to Calvin Murphy?
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...and here I thought that I had to worry about the Bloods and Crips coming to Buffalo. Now I have to worry about the Scientologists fighting turf wars.
Coming soon to a theater near you....
West Side Story II...All gangs unite to take on the Scientologists for control of the abandoned Ted's Hot Dog stand on Porter.
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More and more WR's are doing this and it ranks right up there on the annoyance scale with excessive celebrations when gaining a first down.
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Molson is crap beer? What would your picky taste buds prefer?
Met Andy Reid last night at the nike party,
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Did you get your Nike gift bag??