Ned Flanders

Most likely a multi-year contract with little interaction by Danny in 2001/2002.

Word I heard was that Danny became very close with Doug Flutie and his family (remember Flutie's Favorite Subs?). Danny then became disenchanted with Ralph in 2000, when Flutie was benched for the Tenny playoff game and pretty much the 2000 season. Danny vowed to have little or nothing to do with the team after that point. Again, this is all hearsay, but it is odd that Wegmans has little to do with the one entity that puts, and keeps, Buffalo on the map.

The decal on the helmet that year was bigger than in years past...a very solid look. I also like the red socks with the white pants and blue jerseys, another good look.

Losing the finale to a mediocre Colt team and with Washington's Chip Lohmiller missing a short game winning FG at Cincy the day before, cost the Bills home field advantage in 1988. I'm convinced that if the AFC championship game was in OP, the Bills would have went to their first Super Bowl in 1988.

1976 Don't forget Ed Rutkowski

Happy birthday, Dave Edmunds

Always good stuff. In the 1969 opener, the Rockpile crowd actually cheered the Jets during introductions for beating the Colts in SB III. The Jets win was for the entire AFL and all AFL fans appreciated it. I believe by 1969, NFL Films was handling the AFL as well. With the merger agreement, AFL Films was absorbed by the Sabol family.

Remember the play well...told my mother that if 49ers get the touchdown, I was throwing myself into the Christmas tree. Alas, the holiday was saved.

Ah, my bad. Blacked out in WNY? Wouldn't have thunk it.

The Jets with draft picks are like a mule with a spinning wheel...no one knows how he got it, and dang if he knows what to do with it.

It wasn't sold out in time to be broadcast in WNY? And being that is was against the Rams, the game was surely broadcast in the LA area.

Any game in those gawd awful monochrome dark blue uniforms is automatically disqualified. The 2011 game against the Patriots to go 3-0 is the only choice...and it was done in the classic royal blues with the white helmet.

Yes and his pronunciations need some work. Fred "Smer-loss?" I was at the game, took a bus from Ester's in Rochester...stayed in the stadium for a little while then hightailed it back to the bus lot; it would have been a long walk home.

Correct. Al Meltzer, Rick Azar and Ed Rutkowski made up the Bills radio booth for several years between Van Miller's stints.

9:50pm...I know it's a Saturday night, but jeeziz, that's a late one.

Odd that there was nothing said in the release regarding Sunday Ticket...NFL still has two years to suck off that teat, so they'll just continue to suck that thing dry and hopefully, find a suitable out-of-area partner.

From what I'm seeing, these deals don't start until 2023...I could be wrong, which is often the case.

The great John Facenda and you can almost hear Curt Gowdy, Al DeRogatis, Jim Simpson, Charlie Jones and others calling the action. Al Davis wanted the AFL and the NFL to come to peace but he also wanted the leagues to remain separate, similar to MLB. I sometimes wish that was the case; there's a lot of good history in the AFL.

I thought I read, maybe even on this forum, not too long ago that DTV has ~16 million subscribers and only about two million of those subscribe to ST. True, ST is DTV's one big hook, but it's also a loss-leader. I'm surprised DTV didn't jump the NFL ship this year when all the TV deals were getting done...DTV can only hold on to this albatross for so long.

Players already have agreed, reluctantly, to the 17th game...it was in the last CBA. I don't like it...the NFL is a "less is more" scenario. To me, the appeal of the 17th is simply not there. Not happening. Although the league has started the regular season on Labor Day weekend in the past, the NFL has stated it's strong desire not to do so again.

Really disheartened to hear that DTV will most likely hang on to ST for two more seasons... Called to cancel DTV after the season ended and they offered me another $20/month discount...I folded like a cheap suit. I'll call again to cancel in August and will be asking for a ST discount. If that doesn't work, I've got a kid in college this year and will buy the $99 streaming package instead.

Sometimes when I'm channel surfing, I get sucked into this show...and always sorry I did. Often times just the stupidest little thing, either mechanical or pilot error, brings these jets down. It's almost enough to quit flying.

That's about the number, actually a small percentage of DTV subscribers get ST. Heard today that the NFL REALLY wants to get the new TV deal done before free agency starts in mid-March so they can get a better idea of their finances going forward. ESPN is holding out though and MNF is in danger...I think the World Wide Leader will capitulate though, and pay the king's ransom.

From your keyboard to God's ears...

Be well Kenny!