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That's the Sabres hockey I miss watching 😢

You can enjoy and appreciate every minute of Josh Allen's career and also really want the Bills to win a damn Super Bowl lol. They don't have to be mutually exclusive thoughts. For me I will say this, when I start getting super frustrated about our lack of playoff success and some of the shortcomings I think about the Sabres and what the alternative could be. Puts things in perspective real quick. This is definitely a very good era for Bills football.

I've seen a couple different insiders report on this before and it always felt very plausible to me. The Bills felt like his camp wasn't completely upfront and honest about what his situation was and felt like they were embarrassed in front of the Nation over this story. I get being pissed he signed with KC but he was never coming back to Buffalo and I agree with the Bills front office on this one.

Although I don't put all of the blame on coaching you have a fanbase that's currently questioning why we can't get past the Divisional Round with Josh Allen at Quarterback so I get why it's such a major talking point around here

Buffalo is STARVING for some playoff hockey at this point...it's mindblowing the Sabres are suddenly approaching Bills playoff drought territory

Very sorry to hear about this. This year has felt particularly brutal for Bills fans passing away way too young 😢

When he's healthy he can be a force. My only concern with him is he going to be the type of guy that is constantly dealing with nagging injuries? The injuries he's had so far could just be flukey but I get nervous because of his body frame. Sometimes those big guys like that can deal with nagging foot problems. We'll see

But that's a completely different "IF" or hypothetical conversation. That 1990 Bills team is the perfect example of where you can say they were the best team in the league that year and deserved to win the Super Bowl. If those Bills and Giants teams played each other 10 times the Bills are probably beating them 7 or 8 times out of the 10. But I just can't do that for a team that has failed to make it out of the Divisional Round 3 straight years and hasn't advanced further than the AFC Championship game during this era. 49ers, Lions, and Ravens fans can all make the same claim they were the best team in the league this past year(not saying they would be right either) but they didn't catch the breaks to win the Super Bowl.

Great movie although I didn't truly appreciate it as much when I first saw it as a kid versus years later when I started working my first office jobs

Yeah although my post was focused on the NHL because of watching the Jagr ceremony last night I completely agree it's across the board with all leagues. I have already completely tuned the NBA out and each passing year my interest in the NFL goes down. It's a shame because I have always been a big sports fan but I could see myself becoming just a casual observer someday at this rate.

I watched the Jaromir Jagr jersey retirement game last night and all of the clips and highlight videos brought back so many memories of the NHL I grew up watching. Those Pens teams with Mario and Jagr. The Red Wings teams with Yzerman, Federov and Shanahan competing against the Avs teams with Sakic and Forsberg. The tail end of Gretzky's career. The scrappy hardest working team in hockey Sabres teams. Hasek, Roy, Brodeur. The Legion of Doom with Eric Lindros. The crowds were so much more passionate and exciting. I miss when the NHL used to look like this but also feel so grateful this is the NHL I grew up on. One of my best friends from childhood was the biggest hockey/Sabres fan I knew. He used to watch all 82 games of the season every year and we got together a few years ago to catch up and I was sad to find out he doesn't even follow the NHL at all anymore.

How can you say that when you have seen how they look when they play against Cincinnati?

Can we hang a banner for being Hypothetically the best team in the league the last 4 years according to Bills fans on message boards and Twitter?

Thanks for the perspective, this is what I was looking for. I haven't watched an NBA all star game in over a Decade I'd guess. I was reading online the slam dunk contest has become a real joke though.

Well at least now the new stadium isn't going to be built on top of an ancient burial ground like it is now so there's that!

That's pretty funny, I used to watch Step by Step when I was a kid and I knew the family were huge Packers fans but I can't remember any Bucks references offhand lol I was into the Cleveland/Golden State rivalry for a bit and that was really the last time I was watching the NBA outside of paying attention to the Bucks winning the championship a few years later.

It's funny how you perceive things in your mind. I was born in 85 so I was 5 years old in 1990 and I do have some vague memories of back then and can remember the Super Bowl years but seeing as I wasn't around in 1980 that opening day game against the Fish always felt like ancient history to me. This is the first time I ever put it together that game and then the first Super Bowl appearance were only a decade apart...and the way time flies today a Decade really doesn't seem that long anymore.

So I used to be an NBA fan at one point but have really tuned out in recent years. The last time I had any remote interest was when the Milwaukee Bucks won a title. Thought it was a cool story because they were like the Buffalo Sabres of the NBA when I used to really be an NBA fan and I always liked Giannis and it was just fun to see a small market team win a title instead of the usual bigtime markets of the NBA. But anyways my question is what the hell happened with them since they won the title? Seems like everything has completely unraveled over there. I saw recently they fired their coach and brought in Doc Rivers and just saw even he has gone 3-7 in his first 10 games. So what happened??

It's extremely hard to win Championships. You need to have the talent, the coaching and for everything to go right in a season. The Bills are a very good team but they haven't been able to put it all together yet. I disagree with those that think the Bills have the best roster in the AFC and that only injuries or McDermott prevented us from going all the way. I still think there's work they could do to improve the roster. McDermott needs to continue to evolve as a coach or they need to eventually move on. I still think the Bills can be a Super Bowl team with Josh Allen but there's work to do. Right now they truly feel like a Philip Rivers Chargers or Patrick Ewings Knicks team to me. Good enough to win their division, get a ticket into the dance and make some noise but haven't been good enough to go the distance and win the whole thing.

Ugh I didn't even realize that was announced...but yeah sadly I doubt they are finished yet. I could see myself going down to maybe only attending one home game a year if that at the new stadium

My buddy's brother in law knows an attorney that has some tie-in's to the Bills and she told him they are already way over the stadium budget and the prices for tickets will be even more than they were originally anticipating and that's part of the reason why they are dragging their feet releasing the new prices. Not sure how accurate this info is but doesn't surprise me in the least.

Really curious to see what the season ticket market is going to look like once the new stadium opens. I talk to as many people as I can around town to gauge where they are at and the majority of the responses are "I'm waiting to see what the damage is going to be" but I know some people are ready to hang up their seasons regardless and that's where I'm at. Gonna enjoy the next two seasons but after that I'm done and I will have no regrets not going to games anymore.

So has everybody just given up on the Sabres too? It took me awhile to find this thread LOL

The jokes on them when fans aren't willing to sustain paying these prices for Bills games for a team that can't make it out of the Divisional round 😂

The first show that jumps out to me is Freaks and Geeks. That show was amazing. I have no idea how it didn't make it past 1 season As a kid I remember being really into the cartoon Duckman but it never really took off like the Simpsons or Family Guy. There's probably tons of cartoons like that out there that never really took off