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My 7th grade English teacher had a son that worked in advertising, or something along those lines, for Shout. His name appeared in the credits in the back. Anyway, my teacher would get free issues from his son and eventually pass them along to me, knowing I was a Bills fan. Eventually my mom got me a subscription for Christmas. I think I still have the comeback issue and Kelly and Levy's retirement issues packed away somewhere.

Looks like we have a similar idea. I just continue on 20A all the way to Mt. Morris. I live in Elmira.

Obviously it depends on which way you're coming from. I always come into Orchard Park on 20A West. With that said, I normally park on the corner of 20A and California Rd. It's only $10 to park there but it's about a mile walk to the stadium. It's easy to get out of there after the game if you take a left onto California Rd instead of getting back on 20A. Then it's a right onto Ellis Rd. Take that to the end and right onto Taylor Rd. Left at the fork on Taylor and continue on New Taylor Rd until the end. It comes out on North Buffalo Street/rte. 240. Take a right and take that a couple blocks until you come back to 20A. Left onto 20A. I go that way and bypass a lot of traffic

I think Rich Gannon is far worse

I'll have to check out Locked on Bills... Not technically a podcast but Hashtag Sports on YouTube is pretty entertaining. I ran into one of the hosts at a training camp practice this year. Super nice guy. He told me they started the YouTube show as an excuse to get out of the house. They are also doing play by play of the games this season.

Trent won the fade/garbage can competition when I went to a training camp night practice in 2010.

I like the choice of Eric Wood. I'm surprised the Bills didn't play it safe and go with Tasker since he's leaving CBS.

Didn't Flacco unfollow the Broncos on Twitter after they drafted Lock?

Josh Allen didn't sign until July last year.

That's the fastest I remember a first round pick signing in a long time. He definitely wants to be there. This pic instantly made me a fan.

Is he still alive? He seemed old during the Super Bowl years. I loved his post game shows back then.

It was Stevie Johnson, not Andre Reed. Stevie was always a bit of a knucklehead. I'm not saying he's a bad guy though. I just asked the question because it seemed like too much of a coincidence.

I had a similar thought and mentioned it above... Great minds!... I also started watching in 1988. ?

Did Stevie know he was going to have to back out and offered the spot to Pancho to make himself look good?

Does anybody know how or why he became a Bills fan? He is from Texas, right? Always curious how out of towners become Bills fans.

I bought my house going on 2 years ago. It's a small 3 bedroom ranch. However, one of the big selling points was the finished basement. My plan was/still is to turn one room into a theater room and another into a game room/man cave. The centerpiece being my autographed Thurman Thomas jersey. I also hung up plaques of Thurman Thomas, Jim Kelly, and Mike Piazza, a framed Rat Pack poster, and an autographed picture of Natalie Gulbis. I also bought a pool table and an electronic dart board. Unfortunately, my basement flooded last summer. Major setback on those plans.

Hard hitting reporting right there!

I don't think I've ever called into WGR. But back in the early 2000s, when WNSA was still around, I called their shows a few times. I don't think I ever even listened to WGR when WNSA was on the air. It was a sad day when that station was shut down. I also called into the Bills pre game show and got on the air. It was at the end of the season before they drafted EJ Manuel. They were discussing what the Bills should do at QB and I called in and have my 2 cents. I'm not sure who was carrying the games at that point but it was before WGR got them back.

I'd never seen that before. Good stuff!

A couple of people have mentioned Tom Cousineu. I knew he went to the CFL rather than playing for the Bills. However, I only discovered recently that when the Bills finally traded him to the Browns, the draft pick they got in return is the one they used to draft Jim Kelly. People had to feel like "here we go again" when Kelly went to the USFL... A couple people also asked about what pieces were in place when Kelly was drafted and when he signed. Even though everyone was upset with him for jilting the Bills, it really worked out for the best and was meant to be. Had Jim Kelly signed with the Bills in 1983, they probably wouldn't have been bad enough in 84 to get the number one pick in the 85 draft. They selected Bruce Smith!

Having Edmunds, Milano, and Barr as the starting LB crew would be pretty scary. Alexander could be moved around and used as a situational pass rusher

I thought of that phantom PI call when he didn't get flagged today. Here it is...

TO, Roosevelt, and Zay Jones... why not?

I was there too. In addition to the barn burner of a game that it was, I also remember the Bills committing a crazy amount of false start penalties.

He definitely had charges brought up against him and was banned from the stadium. I could be wrong but I think the guy may have lost his job as a result too.