Ned Flanders

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?

More Scroll down the page a bit...

From the Keith Hernandez episode: George: "You like gum? I gotta a gum guy." The NASA pen episode: "Take the pen...go ahead, take the pen. I know the guy that makes 'em. Take the pen, Jerry. TAKE THE PEN."

Funny, I was there in Jan 1993 wearing Bills colors, but it was us who had the last laugh that day...

After the 51-3 drubbing of the Raiders in Jan 1991, the Rich Stadium carpet was replaced and the old one was sold in bits and pieces...with the money going to charity. At least that's what I remember Dick Enberg saying during the telecast...

"Where's the beef?"

Wasn't Leonard Smith a mid-season pick up also?

You mean like This? And This.

Compared to college football fanatics, I think NFL fans (Steelers, Bills included) do little traveling...it's just that so many northeast natives now live in other cities in close proximity to an NFL franchise. Granted, Steeler fans bought up gobs of Bills tix in 2004 in the midst of their 15-1 season, but it's only a three hour drive from Pitt. I know a lot of you traveled to the desert last weekend, but don't you think the majority of the Bills fans there in AZ were within a two hour drive? And Tucker's statement about Skins fans? Pleeeze...they're often as quiet as church mice.

Started following football around 1968 as a ten year old lad...was first a Raiders fan then a Vikings fan, liked the Cowboys for a season or two... BUT on Sept 30, 1973, that all changed when I attended my first pro game at the brand spanking new Rich Stadium. I'll never forget walking through the tunnel and first seeing the bright green Astroturf...and OJ running wild and three John Leypoldt FGs to beat the Jets. I've been in the tank ever since...