slipkid

I second Schwabl’s* for beef on weck and a swing by Mighty Taco. I make sure to grab a royal sub from John and Mary’s whenever I’m visiting family in the area. I’ve found wings, cheap tacos and even an occasional beef on weck in other parts of the country. But Buffalo is the only place I’ve found a royal—maybe the best, most simple sandwich I’ve ever eaten. edit—*I actually prefer Charlie the Butcher for just the beef on weck, but Schwabl’s is the place to sit and eat one, especially around the holidays. Be sure to top it off with a Tom and Jerry.

I moved to teach at a small university in rural Minnesota in September 1991 and met this cool woman who seemed a little “stalky,” but I just chalked that up to my own awesomeness. We started dating casually. She was decidedly not a sports fan, let alone a Bills fan, so I tested her. When she didn’t really understand why we couldn’t spend Sunday afternoon together, I had recorded and made her watch “wide right.” She didn’t know the outcome nor much at all about football, and I didn’t tell her how it ended. She saw me well up as the kick sailed and hugged me. I also had the Denver crazy comeback recorded, and she agreed to watch that. I told her about the Washington Super Bowl. As we sat together on the sofa in January 1992 and watched Bubba McDowell cruise down the sideline, I clicked over to “Saturday Night Fever.” She didn’t get it that the game was over. “What about the Bronco game?” I clicked back in time for the Bills’ first TD. At the end of the game, my first decision was to get two tickets to the Super Bowl in Pasadena. (My father worked with attorneys who represented the Bills and could get them at face value—$250, I think—Monday morning.) After two excruciating (but not really close) road games in Pittsburgh and Miami, my future best man and I were on a red-eye to LAX. The first decision didn’t work out as I had hoped. One out of two ain’t bad.

Yep. That second half drive Colts TD drive drove me nuts. They just wouldn’t stop blitzing someone on third down and long, and Rivers is good enough to find the TE sitting down in the zone. It left Tre’ hanging out to dry. Rivers is good at that, and Frazier should have known better.

Thanks for this. 14:3&—Is Diggs wearing a Buffalo Braves hoodie?

Wow. Total whiff on that SF loss. How could you miss conjuring their injuries?! I’ll give you Tennessee, but by your post, it should have been a one-score game. I’ll grade your prediction as a B+. 😀

Got ya beat. I was at the 1965 game when I was eight days old! I stormed the field and tore up some turf to give to my father.

I’m pretty sure that was Ray Bentley; Darby the Dinosaur was his lead character in the books, though, so you were on the right track. And Doronbos is a magician.

I did, but I left it in my hotel room in Vegas when I went down to play some slots.

Meh. My childhood hero brutally murdered two people.

The Germans? I’ll forget about it—you’re on a roll.

Pederson took some heat for not going for the win in OT against the Bengals because ties almost always cost the team in the end. It turns out ties actually help your chances when everyone in the division has a losing record. Did he know something back in the beginning of September?😀

And I forgot to mention Joe D. The best pulling guard in the league at the time (imho, a bit better than than Reggie) and a great advocate for former players thereafter. The concussion protocol can largely be traced back to Joe D.’s work.

I would like to go with OJ, but you know . . . I loved JD Hill and Bobbly “toe tap” Chandler. And I always rooted for Tony Greene. Dad would say, “He’s too short,” but irc, he led the NFL in interceptions in 1977 or 78.

John Leypolt. My first game at Rich with Dad. Bills won a snoozer against the Jets, 9-7. Then again, I was freezing at Rich (something like 30-below wind chill) and watched Christie hit two, including the game winner, in another 13-10 “thriller” over the Jets. That must have been like kicking an ice cube.

Yep. But then again, the NFC East’s in-conference schedule is the NFC West, maybe the best division top to bottom.

This is kind of a “bye-week-thought/fodder.” I apologize if this has been brought up (I haven’t seen it), and it really doesn’t mean much when playoff seedings shake out, but the AFC North is a combined 8-1-1 against the NFC East with the loss and tie belonging ti the Bengals. Is it fair to suggest that the records of the Steelers, Browns, and Ravens have a lot to do with their putrid NFC schedule? Or is the opposite the case—the NFC East looks bad because they have played excellent teams in the AFC North? Obviously, both are probably true, but I think it’s much more the former than the latter.

Definitely mine and yours. But the kid said he is 32–likely 2 maybe 3 at that time. I’ll take the forward lateral so-called “Music City Miracle” from his memory banks.

Good bump IMHO. He was great today, and the Bills have shown we don’t have to get within the thirty to likely score points. That opens things up on second or third and long from the 35.

It had enough leg to maybe be good from almost 70, but it would have been wide right at that point. Heck. It probably would have doinked the other way from 54. But hats off to him. It can’t be easy for a rookie NFL kicker from Georgia Southern to shake off his start to the season.

Yep. I was really down on him early. The right hash mark thing has bugged me all season.But I’ll happily indulge in some crow if he continues this trajectory.

Whoa. You’re quick—edited.

I mentioned this to my buddy during the game, but three 50+ yard field goals in one half has to at least tie for a record, if there is such a record. I looked for confirmation but came up empty. Anyone more familiar than I with the NFL research interwebs have an answer?

I was a doubter and still get nervous watching every extra point and FG from the right hash. But he seems to be more comfortable. That little “wiggle” still bugs me.

I’m pretty sure I saw a James Spagnola in one of Fox’s military promos. TV rooting on the Bills. Did anyone else see that? if I am correct, welcome aboard the bandwagon, Spaggs. Thank you for your service and go J-E-T-S!