Ned Flanders

Here's one with a good ending...the wife was pulled over for speeding down here in Fairfax, VA about a month ago...as the officer approached the vehicle, he saw the Bills license plate frame...he told my wife he was from WNY and a huge Bills fan...she got off with a warning.

This ONE just came out last month.

I didn't have a huge problem with it at the time...thought it was early in the game, just get the points. Does not excuse not getting the TD, however. With three shots from inside the five, you should be able to get the TD.

This is where having D* comes in handy. Commercial break = change to Red Zone Channel. Always some action and no commercials.

Rivalries are not exclusive to teams that are "winners." Winners are just given more air-time on ESPN. Think Army-Navy is not a rivalry, just because Army has stunk up the joint for, oh, the last decade? And I think OSU-Mich will always be a "rivalry" regardless of won-loss records....just ask people in Columbus and Ann Arbor. I still fail to comprehend the young lad's assertions that 80% of those watching NFL games are between the ages of 15-30. I'd like to see some citation there....and that moving to the AFC North will somehow instill an instant rivalry with the Browns and Steelers. You think those in Cleveland and Pittsburgh are clamoring for the addition of Buffalo in the division? Me thinks not, but that's only my opinion.

That's the key...Bills stop Brown, they win. Brown runs wild, it will be a long afternoon. I share your concern.

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Why don't you check with the person(s) who got you the on-field pass rather than depend on the mooks on this board? Sorry, just jealous of your wealth... Enjoy the game, if you take pictures, please share!

Baseball has always been their bread and butter...it started primarily as a baseball publication many years ago...it's only relatively recently...30 years or so, that they started covering football with any depth. Now, they're into the four major team sports plus NASCAR (they still doing NASCAR?) I still have a copy from 1970, with Brooks Robinson on the cover...sigh....

Nice list...but no Bills-Fish list is complete without the 1980 opener.

It depends on what the definition of the word "IS" is... Look, rivalries are about tradition and history, with a bit of demographics thrown in...It's more than rooting against the Fish, it's rooting against the whole Miami lifestyle...South Beach, art deco and stone crabs cause me just as much angst as Marino, Csonka, and Cox. I'm sorry if my "living in the past" does not live up to your standards of fandom. You're saying that the Bills-Fish rivalry is "not the same anymore," when you have no sense of what the rivalry actually "IS." I know you're the target audience for the NFL...it's proven in the ads I'm force-fed every Sunday. But like many who have already responded, I have to add, that to declare the Buffalo-Miami rivalry dead is pure nonsense.

Yes, and tickets in Pittsburgh and Cleveland are always plentiful...

In 1980, the Bills were 5-1 and went down to Miami...and laid an egg. In 2008, the Bills are 5-1 and heading down to Miami...let's hope history doesn't repeat itself.

Looks like it...where are we with Dr. Z this week?

The classic NFL Films music, the play, the Murph call...if this doesn't get you fired up, the pilot light is OUT.

Correct...my feeble mind strikes again 1980 Bills

Gary Marangi....I think

Losing to the lowly Colts TWICE that year cost us home field and a shot at the Super Bowl. The Fergy ankle injury didn't help. Like many here, I've watched the 51-3 game many times...at half time, with the Bills up 41-3, Paul Maguire says something like "All this team needed was home field advantage." He was alluding more to the 1988 team (which would have had home field if not for late season loses to an again-lowly Colt team and Tampa Bay), but he was making a case for the 1980 team as well.

Another fine example of how Americans adapt, overcome, and improvise:

Thoughts? If WGR reported that we're in October, well, let's just say I'd check the calendar.

Crafty reporting there...

One night on the NFL Network last week, one of the talking heads said the W-L record for west coast teams coming east since 2000 was something like 28-71. One of the dopes who picked the Chargers said something like "big deal, after Sunday, that stat will be 29-71." It's a big deal for teams traveling to either coast...but it's a big country and a nationwide league. Either cut the conferences into time zones and not have teams travel outside their time zone, or just deal with it. I usually don't feel sorry about teams we're playing, but you had to feel a little bit for the Chargers and all the traveling they've done this year...they showed a graphic during the game of all their travel this year; going to Miami, Buffalo, London, etc.

He's been an NFL ref for quite some time now...and he was the ref that called the ball down just outside the end zone on a Chargers punt that the Bills challenged.

I wonder how his cab ride from the airport went?

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