Ned Flanders

Hard pass

Dang, way too early for ST steals and deals folks...mid-late August is when DTV turns on the coupon machine. Let's revisit then, shall we? Besides, I always wait for @nuccito make his call and I just follow his lead.

News item: https://www.nbcnews.com/media/apple-early-talks-stream-nfl-sunday-ticket-games-rcna1380

Remember this well also; believe it was a Saturday game.

As good a team as any of the 90-93 teams but only dumb losses to Tampa Bay and Indy down the stretch kept us from home field throughout...and I remain convinced that an AFC championship at Rich would have gone the Bills way, and then who knows???? Ah, the "what ifs." The beauty, and agony, of sport. Also, I remember getting tickets for this game at my local Marine Midland bank in Rochester. Other than the Bills ticket office, I think this was the only other ticket distributor. Does that sound familiar or is my feeble mind playing tricks again...which is the probable answer.

Still wear my blue Chandler 81 on many a fall Sunday.

Hard to believe, but the '74 MNF opener did not sell out in time and we had to listen on the radio. Many in WNY did not get to see the fantastic finish.

Too early for DirecTV talk...all the Sunday Ticket deals and such take place next month in the annual " Need to Make the Call to DirecTV" thread.

Not to pick nits, but I think that's Dee Hardison singing "I've go a feeling..." at 3:03, not Isiah Robertson.

Received the same fine treatment there in 2010. Pack fans were gracious the entire weekend and probably a little more so after they kicked the snot out of us on Sunday afternoon. All in all, a great bucket list stop, full of history and great tradition, and I encourage all to get out there sometime.

That was a great YouTube clip with the NFL Films music. Great find, thanks for posting. I was at the game vs. New England when OJ scored four TDs. As has been mentioned, the '75 team was marred by lost opportunities and a porous defense. 8-6 could have easily been 11-3 with some help on the defensive side of the ball.

Another great more in-depth AFL series, Full Color Football, the History of the American Football League, all episodes on YouTube.

Sam Spence, the man behind much of the great NFL Films music, belongs in the Hall as well.

I was in Green Bay for the 2010 Bills game and the day before, took the Lambeau Stadium tour. Now Buffalo doesn't have as much a history as the Packers, and Orchard Park isn't the Mecca Green Bay is, but we've got enough to put together a nice museum and a regular stadium tour. I think fans, especially on Saturdays before game days, would come to the stadium and enjoy a tour and a decent museum...I don't think it would take a lot on the Bills end, and if you end the tour at the team store, they'll surely reap the profits.

This is true, Facenda never uttered the term...it was mimicked by Chris Berman, using his best Facenda imitation. Ed and Steve Sabol, together with John Facenda, formed the Holy Trinity at NFL Films...they were the right people at the right time, and their talents turned the NFL, not into America's pastime, but into America's passion. My generation, us old geezers in our sixties, began our love for the game thanks to this magnificent trio.

Brookshier comparing Miller to Gale Sayers... Tough day for the ticket "sellers" along Mile Strip...

May want to start buying stock in Hammer Lot Properties, LLC.

Great museum. Was down to NOLA a couple of times for work and only got to spend four hours there once when it was just the D Day museum. As you said, it's expanded to include all of WWII now...I'd love to see it some time.

It's going to be a long two weeks between the last preseason game and the opener.

I seem to recall the Bills were up 14-0 to Atlanta and in the second Colt game in 1980.

Odd, they never mentioned he played lacrosse during the game telecasts...

Great Escape Bridge on the River Kwai A Bridge Too Far The Longest Day The Dirty Dozen Kelly's Heroes Saving Private Ryan See a theme here? Also, Goodfellas, The Natural, Bull Durham, Caddyshack, Animal House and many more

I've always thought this. I was at the Colt game at Rich after the great win in San Diego. When the Bills were coming out onto the field, a bunch of us were standing over the tunnel, all chanting "Six and O!" The Bills offense never really got going in that game, and you're right, winning either game in 1980 over a mediocre Baltimore team would have given the Bills homefield throughout.

I was there and part of the field stormers after the game...I of course remember the goal posts coming down and people ripping up pieces of turf to have as souvenirs (the next week's home game against the Jets, you could see where the patches were laid). Really an unforgettable game, one of the top five I've been lucky to be at, and dang, was it ever hot!

I was at the Cleveland Thursday nighter...never had worse abuse as a visiting fan than that game.