Colorado Mike

Same here. I remember as a kid seeing him a lot on TV and he always seemed to have himself in the right position to make these great over-the-shoulder catches without turning for the ball or breaking stride.

He used to crack me up with his antics, then have me shaking my head, even as a young lad, when I'd see a big gain wiped out by a penalty

Despite my screen name I now live here too and am taking the same approach. My (somewhat limited) experience is the longer you hold out the better price you'll get, but there's something to be said for certainty in knowing you already have them. If I do find something really good tomorrow or later for local transplants like us I'll be sure to share the knowledge with you.

drove from San Antonio to Tampa (without a ticket) for Super Bowl 25. Managed to get one about an hour before kickoff

I'm in Chamblee - only been here 6 years. Been to a couple of good Bills Backers bars not far from me, one in Norcross and one on Buckhead. Met Andre Reed at the latter a few years ago. Of course, as one might suspect from my participation in this thread, I have Sunday Ticket every year and typically watch almost every game at home. The wife and I also get regular comments from other Bills fans when sporting Bills clothing. At least a "Go Bills" if not a full blown conversation.

also in the northern ‘burbs

I told my wife and son "watch, we'll squib kick it here to run a little more time off the clock and avoid the possibility of a big return". When Bass kicked it out of the end zone I was surprised, but with only 13 freaking seconds left I of course still thought we should be o.k. As a Bills fan for over 50 years I should have known better to think that.

You could be on to something. In my simple observational opinion, ever since he's been on the team I thought he's looked no less than decent while on the field. Granted, much of that limited playing time was preseason against lesser talent, but whenever pressed into regular season duty, not just last week, he's looked good to me. Beeen saying to my son for a while now I'd like to see him in there.

Yeah, I too heard him call Allen "Tannehill" and neither Levy nor his cohorts corrected it. He had a similar gaffe earlier. Early on he was also belaboring the point about Bills fans not really taking over in town or in the stadium and how overblown that was by others.

The wife and I are driving in from Atlanta in about two weeks and catching one of these practices has been in our plans and would be one of the trip highlights. I plan to try tomorrow @ 10:00am to score some tickets to the 7/31 practice as soon as the link goes live for non-season ticket holders. But, if any season ticket holders here believe it not to be too uncool for me to ask for the presale code, please PM it to me so I can try today. It'd be greatly appreciated.

Not particularly rare of anything, but for me it's Marshawn Lynch and was that crappy road design with the yoke on the shoulders. His behavior frankly made me a bit embarrassed to even wear it, but this many years removed, and not being in WNY myself, it's kind of safe to do so now 🙂

Same here. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and it was cool meeting old bills like Pete Metzelaars, Joe D. and Steve Tasker, having McBean come chat at the fence, etc. AFAIK no Bills were seriously hurt, either.

Also one of my all-time favorites. Playing sandlot football as a young boy I used to declare "I'm Bob Chandler". I think of him as one of the masters at sidelines and end zone toe tap inbounds. Like someone else said, very similar to Fred Bilrtnikoff. I seemed to recall he died way too young and just went to Wikipedia to confirm, and discovered something I hadn't known: "Chandler's niece Sarah George Chester and her daughter Payton were two of the nine victims, along with Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, on board the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas, California on January 26, 2020." Bob Chandler

I was a 14 year old lad there with my dad and older brother. Great memories, other than our dad forgetting where we parked in the stadium lots and us wandering around looking for it for what seemed like forever until enough cars were gone to finally spot ours.

Thanks T&C!

Very interesting topic, and timely, as the wife and I will be coming in from out of town in about a month. We don't get up there often, and have never gone there other than for a game. I was just thinking about seeing if they offer tours or to what extent they'll let you come on-property on non-game days. Lots of good input and stories in this thread. Hopefully there'll be a training camp practice open to the public.

I'm the eternal optimist, but I was impressed with him in the second half of the 2019 season, albeit from a small sample size. Without going to look up up the stats, it seemed like he caught just about everything thrown his way and his RAC yardage was pretty good. I'm looking for some decent contribution from him this upcoming season if he's on the roster.

I was a student @ UB at the time, and as soon as that game ended, two friends and I decided to fly People's Express airline to Newark to spend a few days in NYC to celebrate and gloat over that Bills victory. Lots of memorable stories from that trip. IIRC, Frank Lewis had a big game.

The wife and I are in the Atlanta area these days, often one of us has something Bills on and we either hear that or say it all the time. Probably happens about once/week on average. Sometimes followed up with a short conversation but mostly just the "Go Bills"

As for moving to an apartment that won't allow a dish, I'm no lawyer, but it's my understanding they can't prohibit it, but what they can do is say you can't attach it to their building. That happened to me back in '99 and as I already had a DTV dish I brought with me from our last house, I went to Home Depot and bought a bucket, a bag of QuickCrete, and a 4' length of white PVC the same diameter as a DTV pole and made my own dish setup on my apartment patio without attaching anything to their building. Of course I did surreptitiously drill a hole through their wall to run the cable inside ?

I've had ST for over 20 years, both in TX and CO and this has always been my understanding as well. About 4 years ago I moved to metro Atlanta and just on a whim I checked to see if I could get the streaming option where I live now instead of getting their satellite service and their site said I could. Kind of amusing since I live in a single family residence and not only can I get their satellite service at my house, the previous owner had not one, but two DTV dishes for regular DTV plus some international feed. I'm in no way disagreeing with you, just saying I think I got "lucky" with a streaming exception. They still want me to pay close to $300 for it, though. I've been paying that but might try the college plan router this year.

I too was at that game and in 8th grade at the time! Yeah, late night for sure for a kid in school, and made even later because my dad forgot to make note of where he parked in one of the big lots and it took forever to find our car, having to wait until most of the others had departed.

John, thanks for the confirmation about the pool. That's funny about the bleachers souvenirs. Sounds like the kind of thing I'd have done if I wasn't so young, though I think dad would not have been amused.

When I was a young lad our dad took my brother and me to a few Bills games there and some Bisons games as well. Considering that was a long time ago and I was rather young, I could be mis-remembering but I seem to recall some times at the Bisons games a ball would occasionally land in some pool or fountain and the announcer would say "splash". I also recall being at the last Bills game played there and seeing fans after the game tearing down the goal posts.

Seat, singular. I was living in San Antonio at the time and watched the AFC championship against the Raiders on tv with my brother and girlfriend, telling them before kickoff that if we win, I'm going to the Super Bowl. AFAIK it was the first and only time the Super Bowl was the very next weekend. I had no ticket but my girlfriend and I drove all day Wednesday from SA to Tampa where she had an aunt and uncle we could stay with. For the next several days I was all over town, asking pretty much everyone how I could score two tickets. I attended events that had drawings for tickets, etc. but no luck. The day of the game we drove down to the big sombrero about 4 hours before kickoff with lots of cash in my pocket. A couple miles outside the stadium we were already passing people holding "need ticket" signs and we hadn't even thought about making one. We asked a vendor for an empty 12-pack carton and made our own crappy sign, then wandered around the stadium asking people if they had two tickets to sell. We had to be careful because the Tampa PD made it well known that not only were they busting scalpers, but also anyone attempting to buy a scalped ticket. I actually witnessed an undercover cop do exactly that. Eventually we ran into a guy selling upper deck corner seats for $1200 each. That was really extreme for 1991 and I couldn't haggle him down so I passed. After some more time passed some guy who saw our crappy "need tickets' sign offered us is nicer sign because he just scored tickets and didn't need it anymore. Now armed with two signs, we decided to split up to cover more ground and meet back at a certain spot every 30 minutes. We did that at least a few times with neither of us having any luck. Then, after moving a couple streets farther away, walking by myself and close to giving up about an hour before kickoff, I thought I heard a guy I just passed say he had a ticket. So I stopped and asked if he just said what I think he did and he said yes. I asked him if he was a cop and he said no. I asked why he was selling it and he said something about having a business relationship with Miller Brewing who gave him two tickets and his wife didn't want to go, so he already sold one and just had the one left. We moved more out of sight between some parked cars and I asked to see it. He showed it to me and it was legit since it had the hologram on it. I asked how much and he said $500. I asked where's the seat (not that it mattered at this point) and he said he honestly didn't know. I had come prepared with a map of the big sombrero seating chart torn from the yellow pages and my jaw dropped when I saw what a great seat it was. Paid him $500 cash and met back up with my girlfriend and said I had good news and bad news. She totally understood (she's not from WNY but super supportive) and said it's fine, she'd go watch the game at her aunt and uncle's house and come back and pick me up after the game. As a side note, I ended up marrying her and we're coming up on our 30th anniversary. Funny thing was my seat was on the Giant's side of the field and other than one couple who were sympathetic 49's fans, I was surrounded by Giants fans giving me grief all game. Also, it turned out MC Hammer and his entourage were sitting a few rows behind me, and Jeff Hostettler's wife was two rows right in front of me. As soon as the game was over a TV crew came into the stands to interview her and I can be seen in the background on TV (still have it on a VHS recording) in my Bills regalia and my Alice Cooper eye paint a la Ray Bentley.