Buftex

I have been collecting pretty steadily for almost 50 years... my interest wanes sometimes, but not much. I have an obscene quantity of Buffalo related stuff (Bills, as well as Sabres and Braves! Old Celtics too.)… now I just pretty much buy exactly what I want on EBAY. Doing breaks can be fun if you hit something big...but way too expensive to justify, if you don't. I will occasionally buy a blaster box at Target, but like you, have noticed the shelves are completely empty. I think there was a resurgence in collecting, just since the pandemic started. People were stuck home, with lots of time on their hands. I know, I was furloughed for 5 months, I spent a lot of that time going through old boxes of stuff...selling some valuable old stuff, so I could buy overpriced new stuff! Been collecting Bills Mosaic cards the last few weeks...the products today are really nice, but almost too much. My tactic with newer stuff is to wait a while to buy it. It is always way overpriced when it's new...but when the next season rolls around, the value drops. In 2018, rookie Josh Allen cards were selling for somewhere between $50-80 on average. I didn't buy a single one. Now, I have about 40 different ones, all purchased between the 2018 and 2019 seasons, for a fraction of those prices. Typically, I sell off my extra stuff...I sell records/CD's as well. I just bank that money in my Paypal account, and use it to buy stuff. It works out pretty well.

Yep. Rescheduling games is much easier, where there are no fans involved.

Right. We already knew, going into this season, that it just wasn't going to be "fair" for some teams. Hopefully there isn't a lot more of this (remember how baseball's season started out, and then calmed down), but if nothing else, it will serve as a reminder that this pandemic thing isn't really over yet, even if people want to act as if it is.

It's coming from INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!! https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-spouts-off-in-secret-recording-who-gives-a-fk-about-christmas-stuff?fbclid=IwAR095qjQ6UnUjIbOTpDF4LOMMIEY8yZicnoDzi821qacjz45uN4GNHCchTw

I know all that...but Trump is obsessed with polls. His have been mostly bad for four years...he has been trying every trick in the book with no results. His supporters love him more, but the number who don't support him is greater...

He has been getting tested daily with an instant test that he has been touting...but many doctors have doubted its accuracy. Apparenty Hicks was symptomatic, and tested negatve the day before, with symptoms.

Oh, i know he has been careless. But the fact that he broke the story, with a mostly coherent tweet, just doesn't seem to add up. But, like I said... his biggest contribution to the world is that any conspiracy theory is plausible. His poll numbers are tanking, and the first debate did not help him...

Credit Trump for making me very suspicious of this story. This gets him out of a debate perhaps, and gives he and his cracker-jack team a little time to figure out new wrinkles in their plan to steal the election.

He would probably be safe just limiting to when he is asked.

I have been embarrassed for you plenty of times.

I rate this statement as mostly true....except the part about Biden "making statements that destabilize his". We all know, Biden was not the first choice of many on the left...but second to last overall. Nobody went in to that debate wooed over by Trumps' idiocy. He didn't let Biden speak enough to make any de-stabilizing statements...I know, all the conservative trump-suckers think him dis-avowing the "Green New Deal" was a big deal...it wasn't. He has been disassociating himself from the GND from the outset. People who aren't totally lost (ie: those not bowing before Trump) know that Trump is about the worst thing to happen to America since 9/11. They aren't as myopic a group as you might think.

There was the national narrative, which I recall some here echoing, that the Bills "gave up way too much" for him, especially after Arizona got Hopkins for close to nothing. Personally, I never thought they gave up too much for a guy who clearly filled a need the team has had since the Eric Moulds/Peerless Price days.

When I was a kid, my best friend and I would always make up juvenile lyrics for the pop songs of the day...it was "I am woman, hear me roar, with boobies too big to ignore". We had lots of other silly things like that, but this one in particular, was pretty epic in its' simplicity, and how antithetical it was to the meaning of the song. I remember my friends mother getting really exasperated, saying "That is extremely, extremely inappropriate young man!".

And where, once again, I think you are full of crap.

So, you are not a Bien racist, just a regular Trump racist?

You are right...I suspect "Proud Boys, stand down and stand by" will be his great tv moment.

If we had a dollar for every time he said he would release his taxes soon... As for the debate, Trump was every bit the embarassment that he has always been. Mr Alpha-male, shouting down everyone, spewing his tired lines, over and over. Bidnen was steady. This isn't Trump vs Biden, but "Vote" VS "Don't Vote". Trump fanatics have proven over and over again, that he could shoot somebody on 5th Ave, and they will still love him. Nothing is going to change dramatically after this debate.

This x1000! I love Bills fans, and I know the last 20 years have been really rough, but I am just struck at how miserable we have become... so leery of success. In my near 50 years of living and dying with this team, the bad times have far outweighed the good...just enjoy it when it things are going well.

After watching the MNF game, I was struck by how Sammy Watkins has become the Cole Beasley of the Chiefs.

You know, I agree the Super Bowl half-time performance was pretty bad. However, I saw them live, after that. I was very reluctant about going, but a friend purchased a ticket for me. They were actually pretty terrific. I was very pleasantly surprised. They weren't the same Who I saw back at the Aud in 1979, or at Rich in 1982...but they still rocked. Ringo's kid was a much better replacement for Keith Moon than Kenny Jones ever was. I am so glad I went to that show, despite my trepidation. Daltrey sounded as good as you could have expected in modern times....of course, he had to cancel a few shows scheduled after ours, because his voice was shot.

I remember being at a museum once, and there was this super detailed, super ornate recreation of a little town with a tran...it was built with something like 100 million wooden match sticks. The guy who created it (it took him over a decade) was there. He seemed like a hell of nice guy...but all I could thing was "man, why would somebody devote so much time and energy to something so pointless?" Not to say I haven't wasted a ton of time on pointless things....

You hate your children, and your country?

You are right, of course. Recusing destroyed the political career of a perfectly bigoted, sycophant GOP poster boy, like Jeff Sessions...