Augie

Yeah, that’s probably it. I’ve gotten to where I hate just watching the news.

I know my rights! I don’t have to answer that! Decades ago, a big buffoon moved in down the street. I know he totaled at least 4 cars, and he swore he’d never live to be 25. Nobody was taking the bet. Anyway, he worked PT at a convenience store near our neighborhood. He used to put cases of beer in the snow outside the back door of the store. Good times…. Do you ever wonder what happened to people you used to know? That might be an interesting tale.

Sometimes talent just enables bad behavior and lack of accountability. It can be a double edged sword.

Snow skiing was totally demoralizing as I watched 4 year olds gliding effortlessly all around me!!! 😂 .

Do the Marines issue matches?

I played rugby in college, and we had a strong program. Our Old Boys won the St Patrick’s Day tournament where teams come from about 40 states to participate. Some of our guys used to go to Europe for tournaments, so we thought we were kinda hot stuff. Then one season a new guy shows up, and humbling does not adequately describe things. He was a DB for the Redskins and managed to just hang around on the fringe for a couple seasons. He never made an active roster. I remember thinking if this guy can’t make an NFL roster, those guys must be a different species or something! Not only was I not good at hitting a baseball, but I remember taking the kids to the batting cages and it hurt my hands to make contact with the ball. I took zero joy from that experience. Maybe deep down I didn’t want to hit the damn ball!

Byrd had his 40 INTs in 98 games. Tony Greene is second with 37 INTs, and it took him 128 hames. Byrd by a country mile! He absolutely should be up on the wall. I wonder why that has not happened. Butch Byrd lived in our neighborhood and my mother managed the property so he’d come by sometimes. I did a little egg demonstration showing him and my dad that by if you applied equal pressure all around the egg, it could not break. Apparently my pressure was not quite equal, because I shot a raw egg all over Butch’s nice suit. And I’m alive to tell the tale. That alone should get him on the wall! 🤣

Feel free to come by for lunch. If I’m not in the break room, check the camping section. I may be napping.

I live in that break room.

Was he 42, and Warfield 24? I have some crazy old memories from the Rockpile. We may B word and moan, but the Bills have given us many years of enjoyment on many levels.

I get an email every morning with titles just like this!

He’d do it again! 😂

….but he was a fine “punt catcher”, that Chris Watson was…..

Butch Byrd. All time leader in interceptions with 40 in 98 games in a time when there was much less passing. Tony Greene is 2nd with 37 INTs in 128 games. Byrd returned 5 of them for TD’s. He also covered Paul Warfield of the Dolphins in some classic matchups. My sister used to babysit his kids so I watched some games at his house, I traded football cards with his son and he was a great guy, but that doesn’t influence my decision. It doesn’t have to. .

OK, I don’t want this to get weird, but my wife wore her “Married Into This” shirt just yesterday. I’ve only seen her wear it a couple times since I saw one in London and sent her a pic. She had one for herself and our DIL before I got home. But she never wears tee shirts. Hmmmmm I have Golden Retrievers to protect me!!! Yes, that would be very different.

Weren’t we all? That is insane, but believable. .

A therapist we know says there are studies on this, and I have come to agree. She had a friend in Atlanta who bought a new house and moved farther away. They went out to see the new place and have dinner, but she knew the stats say if it’s more than 20 minutes it’s not likely to be a long term thing. That’s about the breaking point.

I live in Atlanta, so it takes me a while just to get around “my neighborhood“. I see downtown and the stadium daily going to my grocery store. Seeing it and getting there are two very different things. Years ago I was staying at the Hampton Inn on Main St in Williamsville for a game. I learned that they had an employee event leaving from the downtown hotel. A built-in tailgate for an out of towner! They had a shuttle take me downtown early on Sunday morning. I will grant you, a Sunday morning, but it was almost spooky to see so few cars! More like a zombie movie than Atlanta, even on a Sunday morning. Anyway, it was amazing, the people (Marilyn?) were awesome and I nudged my way into taking my son on their employee trip the next year when he turned 16. He was in a boot at the time due to a hoops injury, but when we went to the Creekside and I explained he just turned 16 and I brought him from Florida to see the Bills live at home*. People begged us to visit their tailgates. That’s Buffalo for you. *Footnote, he saw them just 2-3 weeks earlier in Tampa. I asked him how the experiences compered. His words were “there is no comparison.”

It’s funny, but I look at that list and say those places are all over the map! Then I remember how incredibly easy it is to get around Buffalo compared to so many cities. It looks like this year we can spend some more time checking things out.

That sounds like me, I have to add meals between my meals to eat all the local stuff I want in just a few days. Different people will tell you different things, but Scwabl’s is very close to the airport and I’ll often get my beef on weck fix there before even checking into my hotel. It’s a step back in time and the guy is right there carving. If you do find yourselves at Schwabl’s, somebody has to try the German potato salad. It’s amazing and it tastes like what my mother used to make. I could go on and on, but Ted’s is a great hotdog joint, and something you don’t find just anywhere. BTW - After we saw Sagrada Familia in Barcelona I was done. Even the Sistine Chapel was just “nice” after Sagrada Familia and the light pouring in thru that glass. That pretty much checked off that whole topic. It’s funny, I’m probably as into this thread as you are. My wife took a package at work and retired last week unexpectedly. It’s awesome! (So far😊) We now have time to go and see and do all the things I want when we come up for a game. She’s only had in-and-out trips in the past, like yourself it sounds.

I get that! We were in Europe and I had to draw the line…..no more museums or cathedrals for me. The wife went about crossing important sites off her list while I would wander off the tourist beaten paths and see where the locals lived, ate and played.

Did you ever get a good pizza at any of those spots? I bet there was one in there somewhere. That’s where I’d keep going. You can’t say Dominoes is more consistent than these dozens of others places who are all over the board. It’s like flavors of anything, be it ice cream or pizza, there is something somewhere for everyone, and some people like those places or they will go away. I had an attorney as a client once. One of his sources of income was he was on a retainer with Dominoes so he could not sue them any more over accidents caused by the 30 minute delivery guarantee. He had a pretty sweet deal, getting well paid NOT to do anything. He was a clever guy, and it was the first (and only) time I had financed a waterfront lot to be held in someone’s IRA. .

Frequent flier miles? 🤷‍♂️ They know what their intentions are, and we don’t. I don’t know what, if anything, this means. It’s all smoke and mirrors at this point.

Yeah, but, other than that…….. 😊

Yes, I know. It is odd in several ways, imo.