KnightRider
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We used Apple a few years back to go to Iberostar in Punta Cana a few years back and loved it. There were definitely kids there, but most I think were European. It was early February when no school in the US is out on purpose.
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I remember their 25th anniversary logos. Hard to believe I've rooted for them for the majority of their existence. The team stunk then, too.
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Let me ask a related question. What kind of start to next season would make you feel good? If the Bills start out 3-0 or 4-0 again, can anyone really think that they're starting a playoff run?
Thanks, I really didn't need to hear that.
45-ish. Fan since '77. My article summed up the feelings.This season was different.
That was a very well written article, or it at least expressed my feelings, well.
I'm 38. My grandfather was a charter season ticket holder. My mother was at the AFL championship game. I first became infected in September of 1980 when they beat the fish and the goalposts came down in the opener. My parents took me to the Jets game the following week, and I was hooked.
When I was 12 or 13, Knox first moved training camp to Fredonia, I was psyched! I'd stay with my grandparents, who lived about a mile from there. Then came the first tough years. Cribbs bolted to the USFL, Fergie left, Kelly went to the USFL, Perry friggin Tuttle (a little TE humor), and the Bills were a disaster. Everyone hated Wilson because he was too tight. Then came the Golden Age. I convinced myself that Wilson wasn't that bad. That opinion held until probably this year, although I started wondering about him when he hired Levy as GM. I am sad to say that the last few years I haven't invested as much emotionally until this year. I thought we were finally entering the "next" Golden Age. That's why this year hurts so badly.
SDS at some point said he isn't so much a fan of the Bills. He said he was a fan of the fans of the Bills. That's where I am right now. I wish I could be more of a fan of the Bills. I just can't be Charlie Brown anymore. With Dick as coach, Lucy isn't even holding the ball down anymore before she pulls it away.
It's time for Ralph to sell at least controlling interest in the team to insure the team stays in Buffalo. That may be the only thing that would get me truly excited about the team again outside of a division championship and deep run in the playoffs.
Great thread, btw!
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Hermie sounds right, but I try to block just about everything related to that character out of my head.
It's Hermey according to imdb. I just watched it with my kids. First time for them, and first time in 25+ years for me. Great stuff...
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There's a guy I went to school with, named Dennis Abraham. He played center in high school, I played nose. If you are looking for an up and comer, he started with the Bills in the mid 90s, and followed John Butler to San Diego. He's Director of Pro Scouting for them according to their website.
Given his rise in the Charger organization, he is going to be some team's GM soon.
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Very interesting article...
There is no question property tax rates are lower in Boston, and I pay less money in Boston's Metrowest than my parents in Brockport, for a comparable to slightly better property.
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You can deny it all you want, but there is a huge segment of this board that totally marks out for white players. I'm not turning it into a whole big racial thing, but I'm just calling it like I see it. Owen Schmidt is another name that comes to mind.
Yes you are. Your statement is the equivalent of, "Just kidding; But seriously."
If you want to smear the board, stand up like a grown up and defend your position, or shut up.
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I was at that Miami game, stormed the field but did not climb the goalposts, and it was one of the great Bills games I attended. But what exactly is your point? Those Knox teams were tough and played hard, but put some YouTubes of the Kelly years on this thread if you want to really make Bills' fans sick to their stomachs. Why not show the Raiders' AFC Championship blow out? Or feature the no - punt 49ers win from 1992! Sure it's great to see Joe Cribbs, Fergy, insane Dobler and the Bermuda Triangle again. But to see actual NFL Hall of Famers playing together on one team during one era,
show some steams of the 1988 to 1996 Bills!!
The whole game is uploaded... I watched it. If only that had been a Superbowl game...
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So Marshawn dropping the ball on 3 and 9 is Jauron's fault?
May be they should have run on first and goal. But it's the COACH'S fault that Losman threw it RIGHT to the defender?
C'mon, people! If you're so hung up on the importance of the coach, then you should be at arms over the fact that the PLAYERS make 2-3 times as much money as Jauron!
At this point, yes. The guy can run and block most of the time, but he can't catch.
WRT what the coach is being paid, you point out the obvious. Jauron, if he were a good coach, would be paid on par with the average player.
Ralph is the one constant in this organization over the last ten (should I put 50?) years. It's time for him to sell.
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What an awesome game! When I went to UB, I think that the football team was one step above intramural. How far they have come! Man, it would be awesome to see a bowl win!
Well, said!
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Sounds to me like our fearless leader will be on WBEN...
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Nice post. I always thought growing up through the 80s really defined a true fan. Sadly, growing up through the aughts, it is probably even tougher to be a Bills fan.
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The point is that there is a mass frustration tonight and you seem to be dictating what people are allowed to vent about. Loosen up and just let it go.
Or you could just post it in the gameday thread. Just because the Bills s@#t the bed doesn't mean you should take a crap all over here. Keep it in the GDT...
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Awesome!!! At least until the last sentence. "Coming in 2009."
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Good topic and an outstanding performance by Fergy. But the real killer is that we win that game if Charley Romes doesn't drop a sure interception that Fouts put right in his gut on the play before the winning TD pass. That was my first real taste of of feeling our Buffalo teams being snakebit. The play I am speaking of is at 7:30 of the video here.
Wow, I haven't seen that since it was live, and I was ten at the time. I even remember my parents turning down the TV and putting WBEN on.
To answer the question, if Fergy wasn't hurt, yeah, I think we would have won that game. He threw 3 ints, and we still had trouble running the ball.
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That's right, you guys are a bad joke. Bottomline, a 5-1 record doesn't mean a good team, a good offense means a good team, and Ronnie Brown has more talent in his left thumb than probably the whole Bills roster, maybe besides Evans.
But I'm out of here, I think I proved my point. By the way, this is like the shittiest fan site ever. It says Est. 1996, so it's been around 12 years and this is all you got? I'm sure Jack Kemp up there, or whoever, would be proud.
Definitely a Bills fan impersonating a Dolfan...
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Crazy as it seems after last night, but the game in Denver really worries me. We never play well, there.
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I like Carucci's "Break out the party balloons!"...
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Based on Polian's record, we can expect to see McCargo in the Pro Bowl a year or two from now, while TG retires as a Kansas City Chief or with another team he ends up getting traded to next year, now that Brandon has officially given up on getting him. When Russ became CEO or whatever his actual title is, he should have given himself one rule never to break, DO NOT TRADE WITH BILL POLIAN.
Even Bill takes a flyer here and there. The guy was going nowhere here, so the Bills made the best of it.
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Thanks for the link.
I played on an Akron team that used to get pummeled by both teams. I can remember wishing we had him as our coach...
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I was addressing another point.
Total Percentage Of Passing Plays
1985: 53.2%
1986: 51.8%
1987: 50.7%
1988: 44.9%
Avg: 50.2%
1988 was so low because that was when Thurman Thomas arrived onto the scene. So the pre-1988 Bills were a lot more pass heavy than the SB Bills and the current Bills. That's because the Bills in the two latter groups had Thomas, Henry, Mcgahee and Lynch at RB.
Those high percentages may also have had to do with the scoreboard saying we needed to play catch-up...
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*sigh* indeed. Charlie Romes....i do remember that well. And Fergie trying despartely to bring them back in the last two minutes on that ankle. That game was my first real Bills heartbreak.
I was just going to say (I typed it, canceled it, and read the new posts) that they'd have had a hard time with the Raiders since Fergy was playing on one leg, but wasn't sure my memory was correct. I was 10, and that was my first heartbreak, too...
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I think they definitely would have won at least 1 more if they beat the Giants.
The thing I think about is what may have happened the season before if Ronnie Harmon hadn't dropped the
ball in Cleveland. The Bills would have gone into Denver for the Conference Championship game. Sure they were young, but anything could have happened.I personally think we'd have had a better chance to win it all in 1988. If we hadn't wilted in the second half of that Cinci game, I've liked our chances against the 49ers. In 1989, we'd've still had to win in Mile High. That's always a dicey proposition.
I'm thinking of it more like 1988.I totally agree. OK offense, great defense, clutch kicking and special teams. That line describes the Bills in 2008 (so far) and 1988.
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I've held off from saying the same thing. I owned Dell laptops for over a decade, until last spring when I bought my first Apple. Yes they cost more, but the thing just seems much more stable. And the support is great, imho.