Buffalo Boy

It was on Sept.15 . My Birthday. My son, wife and I were in the upper deck front row where the winning TD was caught! My best Birthday ever. Spent the weekend fishing with my boy and capped it off with that game. My picture on here is from that game😁 Had seasons that year with my buddy. What a great ending to a tough slog of a game. Same story here. It was my father’s birthday and he wanted to get a jump on traffic.

Literally was about to start this thread as I wait for my son ( who’s working all day as a med scribe/college grad living here while applying to Med school) to take a shower before I finish pressure washing the last bit of house before chilling in the pool. He and I celebrated last Sunday. Luckiest Guy Ever, right here. These are also repeats: My first game was Sept.7,1980. My father had been bugging nine year old me about going to a Bills game. He was a pretty mean ( verbally) drunk and I had a typical blue collar rough upbringing. He and I never did anything together but even as a kid I could hear the plaintiveness in his voice as he kept asking me over the course of a few months. I finally said yes just to get him to stop asking as it meant nothing to me. We road a bus from Transit Hill plaza to the game. I assume this was a stipulation from my Mom as she didn’t want him driving. He was a different guy, actually a patient Dad, who was equally excited and nice. We sat seconds row, upper corner, the old row N( crazy how i remember that) Well, that was the Bills beating the Fins for the first time in a decade game. The old man took the time to explain the game to me and never pricked on me once. The place obviously was in meltdown mode from the start that built into a crescendo that saw the field stormed and goal post torn down. Nine year old me was HOOKED!!!! He took me to every game those two years that Knox was coach. I only missed the Steelers/Bradshaw 15 passing yards game with a fever. The old man will be dead 40 years this October. In the meantime, I married my best friend and we had one amazing child, my son. I tried my damndest not to put him down or mess him up. I was tougher than most Dad’s I know but always as a lesson, spoken like an adult with another adult, even when he was a toddler. Happy Father’s Day and Peace to all of you.

Man, I thought long and hard about this one too

I assume four picks like The Mountain itself: 1. Dick Jerkron Though misguided, I had false hope for all the other coaches during the drought. I had none for Dick. I remember Levy being foisted upon us as a desperate attempt by Wilson for relevancy. Levy talking about him being a Yale guy and how smart he was🤮🤮🤮. The coach who made me cancel the NFL Ticket before he even played a game. Money well saved. 2. Flutie Hated him then, hate him now. I use to call chucking the ball into the dirt in front of the receiver a Feragamo…. Flutie supplanted Vince with that noodle of an arm. That stupid jump throw or fake jump throw. That smugness that belied a team carried by Phillips/Cottell defenses. 3. Sammy Watkins I was teaching a class that night and told my wife to call me if we jumped up to pick someone. I would have been home in time for the original draft spot. I wanted an LT. Don’t even remember who but I did NOT want to trade two firsts for a WR. There is a picture of me taking the call….. infamy. 4. Mark Kelso A trend setter. Wearing the poofy helmet shell Decades before it came into vogue. You knew he was going to allow the pass, miss the tackle or get steamrolled.

My bet is, they actually don’t know where he is or what he’s doing and they are CTA if it turns out he does something egregiously stupid. However, for all the offseason fun of treating him as a punching bag, an upright Rogers with a good rushing attack and that D can beat us twice…..🤷‍♂️

And the other half of us were mortified it might happen.

Blah….blah blah blah….. BLAH!!!!

Defensive Backs/CBs and Safeties

Frank Reich 1 Kenneth Davis 2 Butch Rolle 3 Rookie James Cook 4

Ben Doh Ver

Josh is the only thing putting us in that position. He is picking the team up, and the coaching staff , and carrying them on his shoulders. That is not “ Super close” that is Super human quarterback play. IF he could get anything that resembled next level coaching to assist him we would have a chance. He doesn’t. You all can see it. The Chiefs were in full control of that last game. We were struggling to be in the position we were in. And he accomplished that in an era when you could still hit the QB.

Two to three more playoff losses to them, in my estimation

WHO is arguing that the Defense hasn’t completely $#|¥ the bed against them repeatedly? Name names🤔

This!!!!

My buddy Dale went there in that time frame. I visited and we hit up a kegger 🤢🤮😀

Some of you are like Carrie Fisher😂😂😂

First game September 7, 1980 Bills Dolphins with my Dad as a nine year old. Had never watched football. He was a mean drunk…. Except at Bills games…. The only place he was actually my Dad. He’ll be gone 40 years this October. And I still suffer acutely from the affliction called Bills fandom.

Which begs the question: If one can’t afford to live because of these onerous taxes ( which to some degree provide a benefit) how can one enrich a corporate racket that provides less benefit? Rhetorical question.

Beat the LA Raiders 51-3 they said….. Giants don’t stand a chance they said…. 😵😵😵

I lost my Arse as a 21 year old living in LA when the Bills lost to the Giants in the SB. It took me four months to dig out of that and I’ve never placed a bet since. A tough but excellent lesson on not pissing money away on chance. NC just opened up to online sports betting in March. In the first three weeks $659 million was wagered?!?!?! A ton of these people are the ones moaning and groaning about how broke they are and yet they throw their money into the trash for the thrill of it. I HATE that the NFL is in bed with these betting rackets. I also believe it is only a matter of time before games are influenced due to it. To believe otherwise is to ignore the whole of human history where riches are involved.

I’d be shocked but happy!

Don Majkowski??? From Depew but same dif

Sloppy out of the gate. Speed means nothing without accuracy. I hope Milano comes back close to form but that is another assumption that many seem to be taking as fact. In the end, I expect them to fold like paper tigers in the biggest end of season game.

Dick Jerkron and Steve Grogan. The coach that made me cancel the Sunday ticket before he even played a regular season game.( Shrewd move and money well saved) If we knocked out the starter and Grogan came in, we were probably losing to the Pats.