MattM

“John-a-tthon!!! John-a-tthon!!!”

Originally from Rochester, now in Westchester Cty. Plenty of Bills fans in the NYC area, but my funniest Bills fan encounter occurred about 30 years ago when I lived in Tokyo. I joined a gym there and one of the Japanese regulars was a guy named Shingo-san who every session was draped head to toe in Bills gear thanks to the new NFL store there. He told me in his limited English and my “ma-ma” (their “so-so”) Japanese that originally he liked the logo and colors, but had become a fan via their 2 am on Wednesday night’s NFL highlights show, which I religiously taped. Sadly, that was the year the Cowboys blew us out in the Super Bowl—nothing worse than watching your team get annihilated on a Monday morning and then having to go into work. Still, great city and great times. Thems were the days....

For the Super Bowl? Like a baby, unabashedly....

I’ve been torn about this since it’s become apparent that our team has its best chance in decades this year. While I still strongly suspect the Chiefs will be a bridge too far for us or anyone else in the AFC, it would be just our luck as fans that this crappy year is the year we go. I’ve always said I’d go if they ever go back to the Super Bowl, having been too young and poor during the prior SB runs to go. Always “Guesstimated” the normal price in the $5-8k range per ticket for a Bills SB. But I’m not sure that I’d want to go if they make it this year and if the price got too high. Combination of the factors listed by others— Covid risk in getting there and in attending Likely very expensive due to cut on supply and pent up demand, even in a pandemic Desire to watch the game with my immediate family and friends (now that my dad has passed, no obvious one person to take). Now if I win the season ticket holder lottery for face value seats, that might be tough to pass up. Let’s hope this concern becomes more real as the playoffs advance! (Touching every piece of wood in the house.)

I was at that game as well. Painful, but fun, considering I was with my dad (who has since passed) and a couple of old friends and their young kids (one has 4 boys and brought all 4). We had a great time catching up, but the game itself was brutal to watch. I was also at the SF game by myself the day of the South East Asian tsunami, having flown up from my in-laws in Santa Barbara as a Christmas gift—we won that one, but I went the whole day up and back without hearing about the devastation of the tsunami until I was back to their house in SB. Very weird day....

Go Texans, indeed—push that Fins’ first round draft pick clear out of the Top 10!

Special teams player of the week (touching wood).

Boettger and Bates

I was at Columbia in upper Manhattan in the mid-80’s. You are spot on on some of that, but a bit off on Trump and racism, in my opinion. He’s made enough statements on nearly a weekly basis that show exactly who he is. Witness this week’s baseless claims about Philly and Detroit or his recent MN rally where he complimented his nearly all white crowd on their “good genes.”

Other than the fact that he just got 80 plus percent of the black vote. Or are they just all uninformed? and as I said, I could literally go on all day about his policies’ effect on people of color (as could anyone paying attention even remotely closely), but it’s a beautiful day here today and I need to be productive now that my time lifting is over. have a good day celebrating Biden’s victory!

What color is the sky on your world? I’m busy today, but how are those 535 kids without parents at the border doing? You gonna adopt a bunch of them? Enjoy your weekend celebrating your new President-elect

so what did Trump mean in all his various overt and subtle racist comments over the years? Birtherism, Central Park 5, DOJ settlement, sh&thole countries, etc? Just another day in the Fox facts free zone....

He never called them predators—read the fact check. Trump used clips of him using the word predator, but never showed the full Clip to link that term to minorities. The full clip showed he wasn’t singling out any ethnic or racial group when using that term “The context of what Biden said shows that he was talking about people hypothetically becoming predators, and it shows he did not single out Blacks, African Americans, or any other racial or ethnic group.”

So much of what conservatives “know” is just false. To quote Dear (former) Leader, SAD.... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statesman.com/news/20201102/fact-check-did-joe-biden-call-black-youth-rsquosuper-predatorsrsquo%3ftemplate=ampart

The guy who in another thread just used the term “the predator minorities” in describing the ‘94 crime Bill is calling Biden racist in defense of Donald Trump. Wow—thats’s rich.... From the other thread— Biden creates 94 crime bill which leads to mass incarceration for the predator minorities. leading to huge racial divide in the country and having to reform those mistakes decades later. blame trump for the racial divide and elect the guy who actually is the reason for the problem. classic. i guess in a way it's smart to elect the g....

They showed the sideline discussion after the play and Diggs was saying it was on him.

Gilliam

I meant for the bar—if you liked Pittsford Pub, why not just go there? It’s Rochester, so almost nothing is more than a 20 minute drive from anything else.

I grew up in ER and still hit PG’s whenever I go back home. The original owner (his daughter owns it now since her dad unfortunately passed on) was a Browns fan, however. Can’t help you with Greece, however, other than the aforementioned “stay on the East side” advice....

Seamless, as usual! Many thanks!

Does this make the Bills take any extra precautions bringing him over? https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/09/01/panthers-g-chris-reed-lands-on-covid-19-list/

Except that they have almost no real jurisdiction anywhere, which is why they need to play nice with all of their member countries, including China.

Yup—I live in Larchmont, next door to NewRo. I’ve been to the one that’s in the New Roc City entertainment complex (back when we could go to movies). Totally agree that Wegman’s will wipe the floor with them. Harrison’s about 15-20 minutes from us. Worth it to me, but I don’t usually do the shopping, so it may require special trips (but unlikely to include 2 am bulk candy runs after a night of drinking, although you never know)....

I totally agree—and can’t wait. They will eat Super Stop & Shop’s lunch, but might have more trouble with Trader Joe’s and a local upscale place called DeCicco’s that has an actual sports bar in my local store—up above the shopping floor. I watched some March Madness there last year (back when we had sports) while my wife shopped, Homer Simpson-style. Life doesn’t often get better than that...,.

We’re finally getting a Wegman’s down here in Westchester in a couple months. One of my old East Rochester boyos also lives nearby—pre-Covid we were planning to get up really, really early on grand opening day to be among the first to enter. Absolutely love Wegmans. And I love the fact that the guy who was the night manager at the Perinton store 35 plus years ago when we were kids buying beer and then again bulk candy 3-4 hours later after consuming said beer is still working there and now managing the whole place. Make a trip there every time I’m home....