Another Fan

song never gets old

Al Bundy Walter White Jesse Pinkman Adrian Monk Jim Ignatowski i just finished Breaking Bad. Guess I’m more biased cause it’s fresh in my mind

I only kept in touch with a limited number once I finished high school. But they all died out for me. You know what you have in common with people then changes over time kinda thing… Not complaining. Life is meant for new people to enter How about you

Why not he just watch ESPN then if he wants to see people acting dumb for attention

I loved Keelin Curnuck and Shawnae Jebbia.

Would rather electrocute myself

In an odd way it's one of my favorite top 10 Bills games to watch. Or skim through. The team didn't play that great that night but still good enough to win. It's a very sort of the run of the mill/average game for the Bills of that era. It'd be like kind of a video yearbook of an average day in high school/grammar school. Perhaps nothing memorable per say about it but it'd be best at showing what your average day looked like back in the day.

Well it was a week 3 game so it was just 3-0. But I think some of the celebration came because at the time it looked like the Patriots stranglehold over the division was starting to weaken. They had lost to the Jets in the playoffs the year before and now the Bills it looked like got the NE monkey off their back. Years later I wonder if I had looked at it more objectively versus as a fan I could have picked up that team wasn't built for long term success?

Week 3 against the Patriots, 9/25/2011. The day the fifteen game losing streak against the Patriots ended. Besides it being like a really great day, the date always stands in my mind as well as it was my first trek to a Bills game. Couldn't beat it. Random fans coming up high-fiving me at the end of the game because I had on Bills gear, one fan behind me even hugged me. Complete but organized pandemonium after Lindell hit that winning field goal. If anyone goes to the Buffalo History Museum this game is displayed as one of the greatest in franchise history. Obviously not the greatest but still.... After this play the stadium felt it was gonna collapse in the upper deck how hard people were cheering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-QbwCO_bXg It's the Florence pick 6 that day, I displayed it as a link due to copyright issues. All these years later while it's still special it's kind of bittersweet. The game unfortunately never led to any long term success, especially with that core group of guys. Still had to wait another 6 years for the drought to end. But I think it's probably still the last big celebration like that at The Ralph? I mean even with this success of recent years: 2017: last game was in Miami, it was more a celebration of the Bengal play 2019: the big wins came on the road against Pittsburgh & Dallas 2020: the pandemic

I like Bruce Hornsby and it looks like he worked with her quite a bit over the years. Not a song I'd listen to often but a very good one

My grandmother died earlier in the year and my dad got Covid along with his brother and sister. He tested positive before the funeral and didn’t attend service. I’m still not sure the whole time line of events. Condolences. Sorry it sounds you can’t attend as well?

Well Beane worked with Sandy in Oakland I believe. I respect all that saber metric stuff it’s just not my thing. Imo it takes the heart out of the game I get the passion fandom stuff too. Baseball in the early 2000s waned on me in general too some extent. Even then I thought the game seemed too corporate and I thought even before it hit the fan, why did guys seem much bigger in the 2000s than the 80s? But I did love reading stories of the 80s Mets teams. When I started working full time I got into Buffalo football again. Pretty hard core at times. Ironically the Gailey era was probably the height of my fandom. Even now with the team good sports fandom kind of waned. It just feels engrained me though to still follow. I think part of it at my age (mid 30s), I’m older than most the players now and understanding the business aspects. Kinda disappointed in Pegula

UCLA: nobody Miami:Jim Kelly ND Joe Montana Ole Miss: Eli USC: Mark Sanchez

I skim the boards after a game but don’t really read too deeply into it toward the end of the week when the emotion dies down. On kind of the other side I thought after Josh got the big multi million dollar deal any fans who dared to question if it was the right time got shot down. Even if they had fair points. Its fan boards though. I’m pretty sure they’re all like that

As did I. I still recall the funny sports cards in there I was a big enough nerd to watch this as well at times

@Gugny @SinceThe70s Hi Guys, Just curious if you are going to watch this series I might check it out eventually. From my local library though I've read The Bad Guys Won, Doc's bio, and Darryl's bio Finding My Way. I mean I think I've heard most of the stories of that club. Cootersgate for example lol. The plane ride back after Game 6 in Houston. I'm not feeling it at the moment. But if you guys recommend I might start

2014- road opener against the Bears. Pretty much nobody including myself thought the Bills had a chance to win that day. This was right after the Doug vs Doug screaming matches in training camp. The Bears were supposed to be a contender that year but it never happened. Anyway I remember Chicago went ahead 7-0 and I decided to go out for a jog.... I wanted to do something constructive versus being aggravated. Get exercise. To my surprise when I returned in the 3rd quarter the Bills were actually winning! I thought about not listening to the game anymore as I might have been a jinx now. But yeah the game went into OT with that memorable run by Freddie where he stiffed the Chicago defender down to reach the goal line. It was cool that it was Buffalo's first road win as well in Chicago. Meaning they had then beaten every team on the road at some point in franchise history.

Scott pulled himself together enough when it mattered but umm that game did him no favors to fans who say he was a solid kicker overall. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this is the only road victory the Bills had against the Raiders? I still don't think they won in Oakland... this was the L.A Raiders

Emotional intelligence on the field I think is his strong suit.

It's gonna take more than one year to reverse 20 years of one-sided games to a neutral fan. An analogy would be the Twins and the Yankees. The Twins couldn't and can't beat the Yankees to save their lives. As a fan of neither team it would take more than one year of Minnesota success against them for me to believe the Twins could compete with the Yankees

Since everybody is backing Tom to the 5th power, I would say this for Jimbo: He took much more massive hits than Brady in his day. During the drought I remember watching the 1995 playoff game vs the Steelers. You know kind of nostalgia for when the team was still solid. Jim took like a massive shot that day from a Steeler defender I forgot who. Van Pelt had to go in for him. I've honestly never seen Brady take a hit like that in his career. And this coming from a poster that would have been a Reich over Kelly guy if message boards were around then

??????? For me not quite there yet lol

Was just going to post C but you beat me to it. If you have a bad center the run game suffers and you'll have people in the QB's face all day. Kent Hull was always a favorite Bill of mine for that reason. Underrated player/understated gentleman. R.I.P coming up on 10 years already

Granted I don’t know what it’d be like to live there permanently but it’s one of my favorite neighborhoods to visit as well. Good food. Nice area without people being snooty, etc….