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Only a douche would keep responding, so I'll stop. Bet you won't, though.

Not really. Just correcting your misinformation. LOL!!!

Technically he doesn't have a number right now. The NFL forbids 00 to be issued as a jersey number.

12 is the only number officially retired. The unofficially retired ones are 78, 34, and 32.

I'm all for a downtown stadium IF it can be a multi-use facility that can bring people into the city more than 7-9 times a year. The author does not mention what this new downtown Gateway would be used for, outside of Bills games, and presumably Bisons games, since he wants it to be on the site of Coca-Cola Field. That suggestion alone, that Coca-Cola Field could be razed/renovated/expanded to accommodate his vision, is absurd. Does he want a AAA baseball team that averages maybe 10k a game to play in a 70k-seat football stadium? CC Field is working just fine as it is- why fix what ain't broken? I'll give him points for thinking big, and I agree that sinking $200 mil into a 40 yr-old stadium in the suburbs might not be the best investment, but he needs to come up with at least some ideas what a downtown stadium can be used for outside of Bills games. I'm surprised the News published this, given its lack of details.

Marcus Easley from UConn, Batten from S Dakota St and Kyle Calloway from Iowa. That it for the northern aggressors.

Kuechly- pronounced "KEEK-lee"

Very insightful.

I remember way back in '88 when the Bills D emerged as an elite defense with Smerlas, Smith, Bennett, Talley and Conlan. The News had a Name the Defense Contest. One of the finalists was "The Bill Collectors," because "they make you pay." The winner was "The Blizzard," because "you can't get through."

The Bills are gonna draft a football? With the 10th pick in the draft it better be great!

Based on that my guess is the Bills will wear the retro 60s unis this year, with the 3rd jersey being the blue one they wore with the standing bison helmet.

I don't think the Bills have a 3rd jersey in their immediate future. This year's fashion statement is the unveiling of the previously sequestered blue pants.

Ummmm obviously this is virtually unenforceable, unless all the gates have photos of people not allowed. "Do not let this person enter." Kind of like the old "Do not accept a check from this person" photos at the grocery store. However, perhaps the threat of revoking season tickets might get some people's attention. It's unfortunate the gameday experience has deteriorated over the years due to the boorish crude behavior of some fans.

Not for mature adults who should know how to behave in public. It's the drunken macho louts who ruin the gameday experience for everybody. One and done.

Why should an unruly fan ever be allowed back into a game? One strike and you're out.

To say the Bills "knocked it out of the park" with Sheppard (not "Shepard") is way premature.

Yes, that was the point. And that a Buffalo bowl game would not be a good reason to build said dome.

Thanks for that info. If domed stadiums aren't used for conventions, then what exactly is any new domed stadium in Buffalo going to be used for? 7 or so Bills games per year. Concerts? Unlikely. The days of stadium concerts are over. Super Bowl? Keep dreaming. Lack of hotel rooms dooms this. NCAA Final Four/Regionals? Don't hold your breath for a Final Four, but Regionals are a possibility. However, the First Niagara Center has already hosted a few subregionals, and appears to be in the NCAA's rotation of sites, without a domed stadium. UB football? UB has its own on-campus 30K-seat stadium, and can't even come close to filling that. A Bowl game (Blizzard Bowl/ Niagara Bowl/ Buffalo Bowl)? There's too many of those now, plus any new bowl game will be relegated to lowest-tier status. Not a whole lot of revenue generated there, with the potential of being a money loser. What other events can be held in a dome that would attract out-of-town dollars? I'm hard-pressed to think of any. Monster truck rallies, anyone? If the future owner of the team wants a new playpen, fine. He/She/They can pay for it themselves, because I doubt it's gonna be used more than 10-20 times a year.

I'm all for Kuechly just to see how many different ways people can misspell his name. But, yes, it looks like with any of these players the Bills will at least get an upgrade in talent. Pro Bowl upgrade? Maybe not, but at least an upgrade.

I remember the News did a study of convention centers in midsized cities, and Buffalo's came up woefully undersized compared to cities like Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati. And that was in the 90s. If a downtown dome could be used to increase convention floor space, then by all means make it happen. Do conventions use domed stadiums? As far as the Ralph goes, I believe there was talk a few years ago about how the structure was aging. Do wider concourses increase revenue? No, but they do increase gameday comfort. If the Ralph can be maintained indefinitely with regular upkeep, fine, but if it's aging to the point of becoming a money pit, then start planning its replacement.

Agreed. The "weather advantage" is BS. Didn't stop the Dolphins from winning 10 straight games up here in the 70s. Hell, didn't stop the Dolphins from winning up here last year.

Names in bold have a link to a brief info page on the player.

If the proposed Lancaster dome had been built, it would've have been outdated and most likely replaced years ago. I believe the seating capacity for football was somewhere around 60,000, and it was going to be configured for baseball as well as football, making sightlines less than ideal.

To me this sounds like it makes the least sense.

In other Council matters Tuesday, Pat Freeman, sports director at WUFO 1080-AM radio, gave a presentation calling for the construction of a domed football stadium in downtown Buffalo, rather than making renovations to the current Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park. Freeman was invited to the session by Majority Leader Demone A. Smith. buffalonews