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61 and sunny in San Francisco. Goign to 50 tonight. Typical winter, except it is usually rainier. It's been a dry winter, maybe it will be nice for all those coming out here next week for the game. I'm looking forward to some Buffalo snow when I get back next week. Although, I recall, last year it was in the 60s one day. Some friends went and played gold at OP Country Club.
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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.
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.
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This is the Mighty Warrior that was sent from Bengalsville to scare us? I was worried about the game, but, tonight I will sleep very well.
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That whistleblowing is going to ruin a good thing in a place where not too much is going on. He broke the code. Even if it was his job, he should have said nothing.
"Boss there, was nothing to see there. The only reason to go there is to get directions to get away from there."
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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.
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Isn't this guy from Buffalo? You can't get too mad. He speaks the truth mostly and it's good writing. As a native son, he knows Buffalo.
I wish Bruce had shut his fat yap, but that was Bruce for you.
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She is fine with me. I'd hit it twice.
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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.
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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.
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Miss Thursday the 2nd! Who loves you baby! SF Bills Fan, that's who.
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I'd take a threesome with Kate and the snob Shannon. For that matter, someone needs to give Shannon a good rogering just to shut her up.
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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.
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Have sex with as many women as possible, massive intake of substances and tons of booze. Hopefully I wouldn't get killed by someone that held a grudge for something I did in the past. There would be lots of that going on, I would imagine.
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A Christmas Story
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Don't get the wings there. They are terrible.
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I remember discussing this stock with soemone on this board at Halloween when it was 3.90. Wish I'd gotten some then. This is headed to double digits soon.
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I'm a fan of Duffs (with all due respect to Anchor Bar). Duffs opened southtowns location on the West Seneca/OP border, so it is easy to get them when I'm back.
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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.
You are right, good memory. We still were screwed.
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Yeah, Feely just stopped. Didn't even try. It was laughable.
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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.
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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.
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That Raider game bothers me to no end. I'm still bitter and if that costs us the playoffs, I'm going to be extremely angered.
[SUW] Favorite Christmas episode of a
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Festivus is great.
The Simpsons episode where Bart trys to get a tattoo that says "Mother" as a Christmas gift to Marge and Homer gets no Christmas bonus so they go to the dog track to win gift money and money to get rid of the tattoo is a classic. That's the one where they get Santa's Little Helper. In case you all wondered where that dog got it's name.
Also, Bart gets caught while getting the tattoo and pulled out of the shop so that the incomplete tattoo says "Moth".