Augie

I remember watching the Italian Job with our boys at home. Good movie, good memory.

I had a tennis buddy who was an Assistant DA. He said the head guy used to work for him in private practice, but he had some skeletons in the closet so they flipped rolls. Anyway, he was found loving one of his co-workers on his desk at the Christmas Party. Yeah, that ended that….back to private practice he went.

Still remember seeing Kelly’s Heroes at the drive-in in Hamburg with our next door neighbors. That’s the first role I thought of, but there are so many. Positive vibes!!!

You’ll just have to dance without one for now.

Wow, what a loss. He played some great roles, and made the most of them. RIP

I think we’ve found all the people who left WNY! 😂 We moved to Sarasota in 1993, and my parents came to visit. We went to dinner Saturday night and my parents ran into a couple they used to work with. We went to church Sunday morning and they ran into more people they knew. I then take him to a serious dive bar to see the Bills game on giant projection screens and the place is almost pitch black. (Cabana Inn for anyone familiar.) My dad stands up to go to the restroom and bumps into a guy he hadn’t seen since high school 50 years earlier! And somehow they recognized each other in the dark after all that time. That was all within 24 hours.

Throw in Solomon with 15 sacks and we got this easy. I may have a fever, don’t hold me to this. 😋 He really is a guy I am strangely intrigued to see play.

I wore a Bills shirt on a cruise one time. You’ve probably seen the blue tee shirt with the red buffalo on the chest. Someone came up and said something about the Bills, and an older lady who was part of our group said “Oh, that explains it, I thought you must really like your Red Bull!” .

Living in Atlanta I may or may not get a Go Bills. We were in Hilton Head a few weeks ago and I got 5-6 one day. The next day I saw a guy with a Bills hat and he said he’d had 5-6 people already give him a Go Bills. I told him that sounded about right. We were in Italy last year taking a small boat with 4-5 other couples to and around Capri. We are all aboard, but one couple is running late and we have to sit in the marina until they showed up. I try to be very punctual, to the point of erring on getting there stupidly early, so I’m getting annoyed. The last couple arrives, and he’s wearing a Bills shirt. No more angst, we hit it off! I saw a young boy last week wearing a Falcons shirt in ATL, a somewhat rare sighting. It occurred to me that I may see as much Bills gear in ATL as I do Falcons gear. You’ll see UGA, GT or ‘Bama stuff everywhere, but the Falcons are an afterthought.

If something makes somebody else happy, and it’s not hurting anyone in any way, why the hell should I care?

To be accurate, I clicked on the thread but not the link. Sometimes I actually draw the line on links.

Don’t sell us short! We will trash him now for not doing it sooner. We can trash him for paying too much in compensation. We can trash him…oh hell, I don’t have time to do the whole list….. …

Click Bait. Proposed trades are the worst kind of click bait.

I’m not arguing, because I have no idea, but where did you get this impression? This is the first I’ve heard it. Do you have a link or anything? Maybe I missed it and this is common knowledge, or maybe this is how things get started.

There’s a little part of that in all of us. Except the people who secretly hope for 0-17. 😋

I think 4-5 is about right, so I went with 1-4. I like our offseason more than most and I’m strangely intrigued by our draft. What I’m most interested in is to see who votes 9-32. I’ve got a few posters in mind who might be the first to tell you how awful we are.

It’s probably with your wallet.

So just move on.

Have you worn it out yet?

Games? It felt like seasons! It got him to the Pro Bowl, where he learned a major lesson in Keep Your Head On A Swivel. 😱 I liked the Maytag Repairman kind of punter, but a kicker getting worn out making PAT’s.

As mentioned, I took my oldest to a Bills home game when he turned 16. He had been to a Bills game in Tampa just a few weeks earlier. At the tailgate I asked him how a game in OP compared to a game in Tampa. He struggled to find words to describe what a different creature a Bills home game is. His fandom was cemented.

Now….today…..what will my grandchildren see?

The world is changing. The advent of AI is going to eliminate all kinds of things, most of which I can’t even imagine. People who can weld or plumb a house will be more valuable.

That is awesome! Many of my favorite memories were from the gym or a field somewhere. That was our life for about a decade, the wife would get one boy to his game while I got the other where he needed to be. I hardly saw my wife on the weekends sometimes, as a lot of this was AAU/travel team stuff. I loved it when they had success because it made them so happy. But I honestly believe the very best of those times was at the hotel pool with a stack of pizzas after a day of games. The kids are laughing and playing, the parents are having drinks poolside, and life was good. I saw the Tom Brady tuck rule fumble at a poolside bar in Ft Myers with a bunch of parents who became close friends. I remember it like yesterday. Those were good times for sure. Next will be seeing the grandkids play. Life marches on. .

So, I’m walking around Costco with my wife this morning when my phone rings. The caller ID says something it hasn’t said in more than 6 years, my son is calling. The son who passed away in 2018. I froze, and rushed over to show my wife the caller ID. Now we are both frozen. I’m almost confused about what to do, but I answered. Some lady now has his old phone number and was looking for a guy named Leo. Or, Michael just wanted me to hear from him on Father’s Day.