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I think it sold out, but not in time to lift the local broadcast blackout. As I am sure you recall, back in those days, a Sunday game had to be sold out by Thursday in order to broadcast in the home city. Different times!

No, I was referring to the opening day game from that season...the Miami game where the streak ended.

One of the greatest runs ever... Giovani Bernard Unreal Run On Thursday Night Football - YouTube

I have always been a fan of his. I wouldn't object. Good receiver out of the backfield, and can be an elusive runner.

I collect old Bills games. That is the "holy grail" of modern Bills games. From what I understand, it was only broadcast in Miami and some parts of Florida. It was around the time when VCR's were becoming a little more common in most houses. Surely, somebody has a copy of it somewhere! I have been looking for a copy of it for probably 20 years. I even joined some Dolphins fan group, just to see if anyone had a copy. Found a guy that had nearly every Dolphins game from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's...but no luck on that game. I was at the game...my first game as a season ticket owner! What a way to start!

I was in Houston when the Bills played the Texans in 2006. It was the game where JP Losman opened the game up with back to back drives with back to back 83 yard touchdown passes to #83 Lee Evans. JP had about 220 yards in the first quarter of the game, but the Texans slowed him down considerably after that. It was an ugly game the rest of the way, but the Bills were down 21-17 with a little over a minute to play, no timeouts...they had to go about 60 yards for a td. JP put together a nice drive, got them down to Houston's 15 yard line. With 9 seconds left, he rolled out, and find the newly re-signed Peerless Price (taking Eric Moulds place, who was now a Texan) for the winning touchdown. It was awesome. The winning touchdown grab by Peerless was right in front of us. I have been to a fair number of Bills road games, that was the only one that had such a dramatic finish. I was sporting my brand new Price jersey, which I had only gotten in the mail the Friday before the game. I really thought the Bills were finally going places!

I was at work...I had planned on taking a long "lunch" to watch the game, but the bar I would normally go to for that was shut down because it flooded. I was stil kinda new to the city (NY), so after checking out a few other places in relative walking distance, and striking out, I gave up. Came to find out a week or two later there was a sports bar I didn't even know about, about 5 short blocks away I could have gone to! BTW- my boss at this particular job (Tower Records) was a huge sports nut... Broncos, NY Rangers and St Louis Cardinals for him...so he understood my addiction. He was cool with me taking a 3- 3.5 hour lunch, and staying two hours later. That job was a blast. The store was massive, we got tons of perks from record lables. We also happened to have a pair of season tickets for the NY Rangers, NY Knicks, NY Mets and NY Yankees. So, even though I didn't make a ton of money (especially living in NY), on my days off, I was almost always going to a game of some kind. If not a game, a free concert. I got to see so many sports legends from the late 80's to early 90's..good old days.

I am probably not the only one here who can make a similar claim, but I have only missed one Bills game (either in person or on tv... and not including pre-season) since 1980. The one game I missed was October, of the 1989 season...Bills got trashed by the Colts. It was the infamous "bickering Bills" game, where Jim Kelly called out House Ballard afterwards for missing the block that got Jimbo knocked out of the game. I did see the game, well after the season was over. I purchased the game on VHS from a guy who advertised "classic games" in the back of Sports Collectors Digest. It was hardly a "classic". Not sure what it says about me that I was willing to pay money, to spend a day in May to watch a game that had been played 8 months earlier, knowing that my team was going to get destroyed 37-14. But that is the depth of my Bills depravity... in certain company I am embarrassed to admit it. Not here! If my math is correct, I have missed only 1 of the last 686 regular season/playoff games played by the Buffalo Bills. Their record in that time is 338-348. In that time, I have attended about 100 games live. I realize, I got nothing on Pinto Ron...but it still takes some effort. Of course, I saw plenty of games in the 70's (I was born in 1965), but in those days, it was nearly impossible to see home games, unless you had season tickets. No satallite...no NFL Ticket...no Reddit streams...it was a lot of work! I moved to NYC in 1988. I had a job at a record store...if I had to work on Sunday, it wasn't uncommon for me to take a 3 and half hour "lunch" so I could slip around the corner to watch the Bills game at a bar. Once, I was in Los Angeles for my sisters wedding. Coincidentally, the Bills were playing the LA Raiders that weekend, in Buffalo at 1pm. That meant they were playing at 10AM Los Angeles time. As there was a bunch of family flying in for the wedding, and the two families hadn't really met yet, the grooms father arraigned for a Sunday morning brunch/party at his country club. I disappeared during the brunch, and found a room down some dark corridor of part of the club that wasn't open....there was a massive tv in there. I found the remote, jacked around with the tv, and watched the Bills/Raiders game. There were so many people at the party (two large families) only my immediate family seemed keenly aware that I had disappeared for 3 hours. I made a brief appearance at half-time, glad handed the newest additions to my family, and lured my brother back to my secret room, for the second half. He brought some beers with him. Bills won! Needless to say, my sister was po'd at me...but she got over it.. we laugh about it now.

I had season tickets from 1980-1987. It never got quite to that point for me, but there were points during the 1984-85 seasons, where my poor little sister got dragged along to about a half dozen games... most in really miserable weather conditions. She only got to see them win one game (20-0 against the Oilers, cold, miserable, rainy day). My buddy who I owned the ticket with had no interest in going those years.

Tina Turner "Help" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h08L0Plf6GU Ike & Tina Turner "Come Together"

Not bad! But you know I love the Stones. Ringo's version has a good "swingin' 60's" sound....the Stones version (the original studio version) always sounded a little like Mick was embarrassed to be singing it. It really wasn't a song that fit the Stones style, in my opinion. Too poppy for them.

Can't figure out how to post videos anymore...but if you ignore the crummy 80's production sound, Tina Turner does an amazing version of "Help!" Sinatra has a really nice version of "Something" as well. I will never say either is better than the original (it's the Beatles for chrissakes!), but they both have interesting takes on the songs (especially Tina), and both can sing pretty much anything and sound great! I'd also throw in Siouxie & the Banshees version of "Dear Prudence".

It may have been usurped by the corporate name for the stadium!

I am as big a Stones fan as there is...but the Beatles version is better!

I know this is a joke...and I am as obsessive as any Bills fan...but I have never understood how adamant people are about their preference for face-mask colors. To be honest, I barely even notice it.

Your wet dream will come true!

I was hoping for something a little more conservative and old fashion...like Haggar Wrinkle-Free Slacks for Men Stadium.

And yet, playing running back, he authored (with DeSean Watson) one of the modern-Bills era's most painful moments. Tough guy.

From 1972-1976, Azar was the play by play guy for the Bills. I may be wrong, but I believe this was merely a case of the Bills radio broadcast rights going from WBEN (Van Miller) over to WKBW (Rick Azar) for those years. Van was doing Buffalo Braves games durning those years. RIP Rick. Always liked him. Was cool to learn that in recent years, he had a jazz radio show.

Oh, not knocking it...but I also don't knock adding a little more muscle to the offense.

I got the first Pfizer dose on January 22nd...second dose on February 10th. The first dose made me really tired...really, really tired. I slept about 12 hours straight the night I got it (normally I am lucky to get more than 5 hours of sleep), and I had really wild, vivid dreams. Second dose was very uneventful. No after-affects. I realize, that seems contrary to what most have experienced. I know one person who got their first dose in Buffalo, and was able to get their second in Florida (St. Pete). You probably already know this, but be sure to get Moderna for your second dose too!

This is the second time I have seen this posted in recent days... I respect Hamilton as a an observer of the Sabres...but how the ***** would he know that the Pegula's "regret" giving Beane and McDermott as much authority as they have? Did either of the Pegulas' tell him this?

You white supremacists are so persecuted...poor thing.

Yes they do, right after somebody mentions a mass murder somewhere else...like clockwork.

No question, with Diggs. I will say though, looking at Sanders highlights, I was impressed by his willingness to make contact, after the catch, to gain more yards. Not knocking Diggs at all, but it was hard not to notice last season that he likes to avoid contact as much as possible.