Albany,n.y.

I was there, here's my program & ticket stub.

OK. Now I know. So I watched the WCPG vs Houston again & even 27 years later it's still great to see the amazing comeback.

I found out about it the Tuesday after the Super Bowl, a few days before it was announced. We were on our way back from the Super Bowl and had a stop in Atlanta before going back to Albany. I called a friend who at the time was a teacher at St. Francis HS where Polian sent his sons and it was all over the school that Polian was fired. If the same thing happened a few years later I would have posted the news 2-3 days before it was announced . I would have probably been met with doubters not believing me without a link, just like the scoopers of today get when they get news that is days before it is announced. PS: When I was at the Atlanta airport I bought an Atlanta sweatshirt and wore it throughout the year & any time someone asked why I have an Atlanta sweatshirt I would tell them it was because in January 1994 I'd be going to the Super Bowl there. I did.

After reading through this, I'm shocked how many of you think you'll be dead before February 2021.

I'm a gambler chasing his losses. I already went to 4 Bills SB losses. I have to keep going to Bills Super Bowls until they win one.

He'll "retire" after nobody wants him.

They were about 10x $500 on the secondary market even back in the fall. You were either getting pop-ups from some scam or one of those places that lets you prepay with different prices depending on what team you buy. At those sites if your team gets in you get the tickets at the price you gambled that they would make it, if another team gets in, you lose your money. I'll be at the game if I am physically able to go, hopefully with Petrino if he can make it.

I have a Josh Allen jersey, do you? I'm just saying that in his 3rd season Mahomes is more advanced than Josh was in his 2nd. That's a fact. It doesn't mean Josh won't win the Super Bowl after his 3rd season. So, if you haven't already bought your Allen jersey, you better go out & buy one already, otherwise stop telling fans who already have one to buy a KC one when they state the fact that at this point Mahomes is better.

Nonsense! The 2017 Bills had a decent OL with Wood & Incognito still around. They also had a younger Shady at RB. They won 9 games & made the playoffs. If Mahomes was the QB, they would have had a ton of early picks in 2018 to shore up the O-line (after Wood & Incognito) left & get a WR or 2. If Mahomes was playing in 2017 the Bills would be Super Bowl champs today.

It will be their home game vs Houston, the NFL loves a repeat of champions Super Bowl run & Houston is the last team that played them that is on their schedule. It's almost a lock that the KC @ Buffalo game will be a night game.

Super Bowl party at Al Cowlings' house.

3 PM Stubhub prices: $6,100 on Chrome, $7,000 on Edge both after $500 off list price. This is the opposite of earlier days when the tickets were cheaper on Edge than Chrome. Still nowhere where they were a week ago on Saturday.

Even with the $500 off they're still $1,000 more than a week ago. They may end up lower in the next 24 hours, but I doubt they'll fall another thousand dollars. At some point the last possible moment means you have to travel to the city & get near the stadium where Stubhub sets up their distribution center. What time of day do you mean by last possible moment?

When I went to the Derby in 2014, I checked out all the Rally Bus locations & it came down to Florence (Cincinnati airport) & Indianapolis. I chose Indianapolis because the walk from the motel to the Rally Bus pickup point at a Walmart was shorter. In Indy, I could book a Super 8 1 block from the bus pick-up. In Florence the pick-up point was at a shopping mall and the walk to/from the nearest motel was a lot longer than in Indy. I live about 40 miles from Saratoga so I don't need to stay anywhere, but I rarely go up there, maybe once a year, because it's easier to bet at home, without all the distractions of a day at the races.

From the time WWII ended until many years later, there were always rumors & stories that Hitler was still alive. The last time I heard one was in the 1980s on the Mort Downey TV show when some guy got on and said he met Hitler in California years after the war. Nowadays we don't hear those stories anymore but I'm in my 60s & I heard tons of them when I was younger.

I don't know where the $5,750 comes from, my guess is that's pre-fees, which range from around 17-25%. I looked at Stubhub minutes ago & the cheapest seats were over $7,300 with fees included. There are virtually no seats less than 7 grand when fees are added. There's no way Stubhub is coming down enough to match their $4,600 prices of last Saturday. Sorry Estro, there's no way prices will come down thousands on Stubhub from the over $7k they are right now. As the game gets closer the number of available tickets diminishes, making it tougher for the price to come down at an internet site. Even the no-fee Tickpick has one pair at $6,500 and the rest are all in the $7,000 & up price. Don't get fooled by pre-fee price quotes. The tickets are up in the $7,000 get in range and are not falling much unless one plans to go outside the stadium & find a scalper with tickets left after the 1st quarter, they're not going down significantly. If the Bills make it, my advice is to buy either the Saturday or Sunday 1 week before the game. I track prices every year and my data stems from years of tracking prices. The only year that went against recent trends was 2015 in Arizona & even that year tickets went through the roof the closer it got to the game with nothing less than $10,000.

I've been to a lot of pizza places that also have a sit down restaurant. You can sit down and be waited on or you can take out pizza. It certainly isn't a KC thing, I ate at one in Albany a couple of months ago and we ordered a pizza pie.

Get in price up to $7,000 3 days before the game. Time to buy was last Saturday.

What kills your premise is that the Bills didn't pick up Watkins 5th year option, a pretty good indication that he was not in their long term plans. It would be impossible for a team to not pick up the option and then turn around and tell the player he's a big part of their future and they want him there long term.

I still have the final edition. 9/19/82. Three months later I moved out of WNY (I was living in Kenmore) for the final time & never lived there again. The death of the Courier and the end of my time in WNY were very close. I've come back many times for Bills game weekends, but it will never be the same. Which paper?

There are ways around that, like staying 2 hours away (or less) & driving in the day of the game, then driving back to your pregame location. That's similar to what I did the year I went to the Kentucky Derby. I found a Rally Bus to the Derby out of Indianapolis, a little more than 100 miles from Louisville, flew into to Indy Friday night, took a cab to a motel a block away from the bus pickup point, got up Saturday morning, took the bus to the Derby, got back to Indy around 11 PM, took a cab to the airport Sunday morning & flew back to NYS Sunday. I flew out of Newburgh rather than Albany since my friend who joined me at the Derby lives in Beacon and flights were cheaper out of Newburgh so he won the airport based on price. After I got back to Beacon, I drove home. I also did something similar when the Super Bowl was 2.5 hours from my house when they played the game at MetLife stadium. I got up in the morning, drove to NJ, parked at Stubhub's parking, took a Stubhub chartered bus 5 miles to the game, got a motel in northern NJ near the NYS line (Holiday Inn, not a cheapie) for $115 and drove home after I got up. Unfortunately, I should have just driven home after the game since after I checked in I watched the news weather forecast & NY/NJ was getting a snowstorm and to beat the snow I got up in the middle of the night & left before 4 AM to beat the snowstorm. Also flying into an airport a couple of hours from the event site will save you hundreds in airfare & car rental $. When I went to SBXXV, I flew into Orlando and rented a car in Orlando then stayed in Orlando motels my 1st & last nights and drove down to the motel in Treasure Island that was included in the Disney package .

I don't know, but today (Tuesday afternoon) there's a $700 difference. Edge has the lowest priced tickets at around $5,500, Chrome at around $6,200 for the same tickets. It looks like Saturday, 8 days before the game, was the best day to buy this year Prices have gone up by $1,000 and more since Saturday. So if the Bills make it next year, I'm buying on Saturday afternoon.

He's saving the owners money by multitasking. Pretty soon the Texans will be the NFL's only team with no assistant coaches.

The Bills & Jets will be taking over the AFC east this season. I'd be surprised if they both don't make the playoffs with NE battling Miami to stay out of last place. We have the advantage with McDermott over Gase in NY, but the Jets are not going to have another season like 2019 where their QB goes down with mono, their top free agent on D has a lost season and their rookie (now 2nd year ) DT is banged up & underachieves. The Jets will be a formidable opponent this upcoming season, with Darnold, Mosley, & Q. Williams at full strength, NE, not so much.

Every time I see a post quoting QB stats I cringe. Eli Manning was one of the best big game clutch players of his generation. Rivers, on the other hand choked away many opportunities. Eli had a lot of mediocre games, but with the game on the line in games that mattered, he was money. The only time I'd use money and Rivers in the same sentence would be : Rivers made a lot of money during his NFL career.