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  1. For the record, Ralph prefered Miami originally because he was familiar with the area. He owned and still owns a winter home in the Palm Beach vicinity. The city of Miami did not want the upstart AFL as a tennant for the old Orange Bowl and rejected his application for a lease. Miami did not want a new league for two reasons - The city had a bad experience with collecting rent from the old Miami Seahawks of the old All-America Football Conference in the mid-to late '40's and two- at the time the University of Miami did not want to share the stadium.

     

      Ralph was offered by AFL founder Lamar Hunt  the choice of several cities - Atlanta, Louisville, St.Louis, Cincinnati and Buffalo. A Detroit sports editor friend of Ralph's suggested Buffalo - similar to Detroit on a smaller scale - and arranged to have him meet the then sports editor of the Buffalo News, Paul Neville who sold Ralph on Buffalo, a good football city that lost it's bid to be absorbed into the NFL when the old AAFC folded after the '49 season.

     

        Buffalo at the time had what was considered a functional stadium, War Memorial -  later dubbed, "The Rockpile", which hosted NFL exhibition and college all-star games throughout the '50's.

     

        Ralph took a chance with a $25,000 franchise fee and the rest is history.

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    Very accurate account here. When it came down to the final choices, it was us vs. Louisville. I've always been surprised Louisville doesn't have a major league team of some sort. It's like Richmond and how Columbus, OHand Memphis once were. I'd say they are a good candidate for the NBA. Not an NFL town in my opinion.

  2. I hate to admit it, but I haven't rooted harder for the Dolphins ever. They almost got Denver too. Denver is the scariest team we face in the running for a playoff spot. The Raiders did us a huge favor a few weeks back when they beat those guys by blocking that field goal. At the time, I didn't realize it.

  3. The guy that organized this for McDonalds is the dad of buddy of mine that comes to the North Star out here. He owns some McDonalds in Buffalo. My friend just got tickets to fly back because M & T is havign a big party for at the stadium for them.

    The tickets go to area servicemen and their families. Good move, and a nice gesture.

     

    My guess is that those are seats would have normally gone to the Browns fans, but since this is a bad year, they aren't making the trip to fill the void. That won't be the case with the Steelers fans.

  4. Good story about that. My friend and former fraternity brother, Rob Cantrell was on the first season. We traveled around Thailand and he lived in my place for 6 months when he got back, just before he went to LA to be a comic. We'd sit around and he'd try out jokes he made up on me. He's a pretty whacked guy with an odd sense of humor.

    He was on the radio on a morning show here today. He is at a comedy club here all weekend. I recommend seeing him if you get a chance. He can be hilarious. He toured with Jay Mohr after the 1st season of Last Comic and does pretty big shows that involve acts like Dave Chapelle and Tenacious D.

  5. Great show, I thought Charlie was a goner.

    A few episodes back, the French woman and Sayid heard roaring outside the dugout and she told Sayid that they would be lucky if it were only the bears. What's worse than a rampaging polar bear? Very curious about the creatures on the isalnd.

    Sayid heard voices all around him when he was running through the storm escaping the French woman. That was creepy. There seem to be many more people on the island than just the French woman and Ethan.

    Locke is great. He's a collection agent for a box company? Locke Box. Get it? Ha.

    I can't wait for this show to return. I guess it is January 5th. Long time to wait.

  6. If I'm not mistaken, I believe the "just give it to them" game was the year when the Jets won the division, and we had to play Miami at Miami and lost when Flutie was sacked at the 5.  That was the year the refs screwed us in the NE game (and the Miami playoff game) and gave the Jets a gift with the Testaverde "TD sneak" that was clearly over 1/2 yard short, effectively giving the Jets the division and getting Dennis Erickson fired.

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    You are right, good memory. We still were screwed.

  7. It seems like we tend to be on the receiving end of bad calls more than other teams. Obviously, I'm a fan and my judgment is clouded, but it just seems that way. The New England game a few years ago was one, then we got the Raiders game this year. The New England "just give it to them" game meant we had to go to Tennessee that year (we all know what happened there) and this Raider game might cost us the postseason. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

  8. I was there that day and, at the time, I didn't realize the calls were blown. Obviously, the Raiders didn't show replays of any of those. I couldn't tell on the TD, as it was a big jumble at the line. The kick return that they called holding on, I didn't know that it was a bogus call until I saw analysis on TV. I DID see the safety that was not called properly. I even yelled out that the flag meant that it should have been a safety. Gannon was claerly in the endzone! It just boggles my mind that they didn't make the correct call! Were these guys from Oakland! Even the Raider fans knew that it was a safety.

  9. If we win out, it will be a great achievement and I think it will go along way toward a good year next year. It's always a big positive for a team to finish strong. This team seems to improve every week. It would be painful to miss the playoffs, but if we do go 10-6 and still find ourselves out, I wouldn't be awfully disappointed. I'd love to make the playoffs this year, but I think this team has got some very good years ahead. We will be a playoff team next year.

  10. I'd like to think we can win. I would imagine that Belichick would devise a plan that would stop Willis and force Bledsoe to beat them. That's what happened last time and we saw the result. I was surprised becasue the Pats run D is a little soft. The Bills have played much better since that game. If the game were in Buffalo, we'd have a chance. But, think how sweet it would be if we made the playoffs and knocked the Pats out? I got to get my head out of the clouds.

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