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I can't make any promises, but I took both of my boys to Bills games when they turned 16. They are now hooked. The best part is I get texts from them almost daily, all year. The allure of tailgating at the age of 16 (with friggin' Jets fans saying "give that guy a beer!) may have been part of the appeal. Game day is special.
My young one might just sh*t himself game day. The older one is a quiet, studious non-athlete but even he gets into football and the Bills. The real hero is Mom for being fully on board and actually pushing for both Wrigley and the Bills. She could care less about sports except she knows how the rest of the household feels.
I don't want to subvert this thread, but a great young one story. We watched the 30 For 30 on the XFL and when it was over he told us he wanted a He Hate Me jersey for his birthday. Mom made that happen too.
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With regard to the posters who mentioned their sons interest/disinterest, this is a big year for me. Mine are 11 and 14 and full-on Bills fans, the young one more so than the older one. Coming up for the Broncos in September, it will be the first football game for both.
Not wishing away the summer, in fact I'm looking forward to my/our first visit to Wrigley next week, but training camp means that we're that much closer!
Go Bills!
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Yeah, man. My son is stoked. This is not my kind of music. At all. But after seeing Lamb of God a couple years ago, I can at least say they've got some talent.
We are in section 303. Would have liked the floor, for my son's sake, but I'm happy to be away from that.
Cool that you're taking your son despite your ambivalence.
I always despised my fathers "thats not music!" comments.
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That's because they were told to keep going west. They couldn't go any further so they had just stopped.
Didn't Reagan have a quote that went went something like: "If Columbus had landed on the West Coast the Northeast would still be woods"
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Hate it. Except for Cape Cod, I hate everything about New England. I even used to hate the Hartford Whalers...which, given how nondescript and unremarkable they were, was faintly amazing. It was like hating the color beige.
They played in a shopping mall...nuff said.
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Boston the city rocks!
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These might be past your travel tolerance but since you mentioned Maine, maybe not. These are all with a 2 1/2 year old in mind...that's a decade or so away so I could be out of touch.
Lancaster, PA area
- Dutch Wonderland (ooooold school amusement park catering to younguns)
- Hershey Park (surprising number of kiddie rides plus a small zoo)
- Strasburg railroad (might get lucky and get a Thomas the Tank Engine weekend)
- Amish stuff (we never did this, but probably some cool stuff)
- Gettysburg not too far away, but I doubt that's appealing for the youngun.
Mystic CT
- aquarium (Belugas!)
- cool little seaport "town"
- nearby is Essex CT with steam trains and possibly Thomas the Tank Engine
- nearby is New London CT and submarine stuff
Eastern PA
- Sesame Place
- Crayola Factory (Easton, PA)...honestly this was so/so for us...maybe my kids were cranky
- Franklin Institute (kids museum) is great...Philly is a surprisingly good city
- NJ aquarium (Hippos!)
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Good luck!
Thanks. I was salivating when I saw Nankers pix earlier. That's some good eating.
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It's not very often that this gets to come out:
I'm late to the party but first the Manero Mosh and now this?
I'm not big on the cookie monster vocals, but one band that crushed it for me was Opeth on Ghost Reveries.
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Hitting the Great South Bay tomorrow on my friends boat in search of stripers.
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I cringed when I saw the thread title, but couldn't help myself and dropped in expecting the worst...sometimes I can't look away from the train wreck.
Super cool story. Amazing how small the world can be sometimes.
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it was my room. it stank.
At least you had an excuse.
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that's nothing. i have a manure spreader that's from sears and robbuck via david bradley.
That was in your room growing up? Sweet.
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The best seats are the ones you're in on gameday.
Unless its made of porcelain.
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I still have my strategy football game. It's pretty beaten up but usable and to this day a great game. In my 40's I'd have epic, drunken matches with a friend on overnight ski trips.
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I used to get football jerseys from the Sears catalog. I remember getting an Oilers/Pastorini jersey because I liked the colors.
Also got a Bills jacket somewhere around 5th grade through Sears. The elementary school football cognoscenti were impressed.
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Come early to Hammer's Lot and they will have a blast. They can see the Pinto.
I'll have my
fun regulatorwife with me so doubtful I'll get there early enough to get the rental in Hammer's Lot, but I'll make a point of taking the fam' for a walk-through.A few years ago I ran into the Pinto crew at the Meadowlands before I even knew of them!
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You will like those seats.
Which game?
Broncos. It will be the first game for my two sons and only my third home game.
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Your best bet, both price-wise and in consideration of line-of-sight, is to try to find something in the first 8-10 rows of the upper deck. You can probably forget about finding anything between the 30's, since those are most likely all season tickets.
However, if you scored something on the 15-20 yard line, that would still be pretty solid.
Thanks for the assist. Just finalized plans for my first trip to Buffalo since 2000 and ended up in section 332, row 8 based in part on finding this thread and post.
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Know Jeff! Know peace!
No Jeff Know peace?
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What do you guys do when you and a woman have a mutual attraction but the woman is a radical vegetarian and is actively trying to convert you?
It sounds as if you may not be on board with radical vegetarianism. If so, don't let this linger. The two of you should talk this out over a nice steak dinner.
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Those were the days, weren't they? Life was simpler then. June was in the kitchen fixing dinner. Wally and the Beav were watching TV. Ward was sitting at the table reading the paper. The worst thing you had to worry about was that crazy Eddie Haskel inviting himself to dinner. There were no crusades. Maclin was at the forefront of everyone's mind. The foul odor of asparagus pee was embraced. Discussion of beer and food prevailed. Maybe we would circle back around to Maclin, maybe not. Gas was 75¢ a gallon at the pump. We shared stories of walking to school uphill both ways in the snow.
Now look at things. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! How I long for the old days.
This thread is like a sitcom clip show episode since Maclin left town. Nothing new but plenty of entertainment and re-hashed disagreements.
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I don't really trust people that talk about themselves in the third person, but that's just me.
On the other hand, my very frugal uncle used to talk about himself in the third person. If McBean is frugal and that is why Maclin left without signing, I'm ok with that, or should I say, "Dulles is ok with that."? For a couple years, our front office seemed to be like the parent who always lets the kiddos come home with a new toy on every shopping trip. McBean seems to be more like the parent who isn't prone to impulse spending. Case in point: our new LB. We wanted him, but they waited to see what the market really demanded. I like that type of negotiation.
This comment reminded me of a few years back when the Mets current GM held onto his young talent at the trade deadline instead of making a splashy move. Mets fans were rewarded with a World Series appearance a few years later that was based in large part on the young talent that was retained.
I'm still in favor of bringing Maclin in, but it should be done on sensible terms. Won't be able to judge the FO on this until he signs somewhere, but they didn't make an impulsive offer despite moving quickly to bring him in for the visit. Both are encouraging signs to me.
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If the player wants a 1 year deal there's nothing we can do about it. You can't force him to sign.
From the Bills point of view a 1 year deal would be consistent with some of their other moves: re-structuring TT making it more palatable to cut ties after the season, not picking up Sammy's option and trading down for the extra first rounder next year.
Favorite football related movie
in Off the Wall Archives
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Not a football movie, but the football game in M*A*S*H was pretty good.