Ned Flanders

Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner!

Marine, a nice t-shirt also, at half the cost... Ice jerseys link

I'm sorry, but it IS the case... NFL official link

NFL has SIX days in week 17 to move a start time...thus, may not know until Monday.

The "Suicide Onside" was the official call in the Bills' playbook.

Wait until next week, Glenn...NFL can move the start times on SIX days notice for week 17.

Same could be said for any league, any sport college or pro, yet the NFL, the "King of the World," is the only league with a non-sellout blackout "policy." And it's the only league that schedules games and in turn asks its fans to come and sit their butts outside in December and January. (save for the few college games in early December, i.e. Army/Navy)

Out-f'n-standing Marine!

It was a lock. The division and the home playoff game were clinched the week before vs. Miami.

This is true...don't live in the area anymore, so I can't rate the print/electronic media campaign, but you're right: the Bills seem to push tickets through training camp, and that's it. Bob Lamb used to rail on the Forans when they ran the ticket operation (do they still?) and his accounts always brought a chuckle.

Just read the article, and only one word comes to mind: unacceptable. How in this computer-driven age can a will-call transaction take more than 2-3 minutes, at the most. And moving just 1700 tickets on game day results in this type of snafu? Please. Maybe they should go back to selling tickets out of shoeboxes...I remember back in 1995, not really that long ago, the day before the Jets game, I went to the ticket office to pick up a few...the young lady proceeded to go and dig some tickets out of a shoebox.

BTW, nice avatar!

Don't understand how the Jets beating Oakland benefits the Bills...some crazy ninth level tiebreaker?

Isn't that Krispy Kreme territory? They've closed a bunch of KK's up here in northern Virginia...there used to be one on Leesburg Pike in Bailey's Crossroads that I frequented frequently, but alas, that has gone the way of Carrols restaurants. I know KK has had some financial difficulties in recent years, but I believe they're still king in the South.

And I believe the deal back in 1973 with Rich was $1 million for twenty-five years! Which back then, was the norm.

that every freakin' game, waves a huge yellow-neon rag WHEN THE BILLS are kicking a FG or EP? Jeeziz, do it when the other guys are kicking, but do you really need to get on TV that bad that you need to wave that thing when our guys are kicking?

Amen to that, brother. This rivalry goes beyond Kelly vs. Marino or Saban/Knox/Levy vs. Shula/Johnson. It’s our way of life vs. theirs…it’s Labatt drinking, blue collar, lunch-bucket-toting snow shovelers vs. sun-baked, Heineken drinking, stone crab chewing beach bums. There’s 20 straight games worth of payback to be dispensed and despite the Bills’ recent success vs. the Fish, 1988 on, I’ll still consider this a rivalry until the ghosts of Pat Twilley, Norm Bullach, and Jim Kiick are vanquished! Oh, and that Mercury Morris non-fumble and the personal foul on Pat Toomey were complete bull#@$%&

Little bit of trivia...Tim Horton's was the model for Stan Mikita's in "Wayne's World."

But Rock, wouldn't you have rather played Cincinnati yesterday? They're much closer than Miami...and they would be a better rival, and the Miami rivalry is dead, and...

Recently, saw "Little Miss Sunshine." Saw it got several Golden Globe nominations...I thought it mildly amusing in parts, but overall, I found the comedy forced and contrived. It's no "Caddyshack," by any means.

This is a damn shame that we let Sammy get away...a great ST and spot player, and an overall good guy.

First of all, it won't happen. Think Baltimore wants to move? Ummm, no. Second, what is the motivation? "I can go to these games because Pittsburgh and Cleveland are close to me!" Yeah, right. Plenty of tickets available in either city. This is simply a moronic statement. Third, "...we avoid the blackouts because Cleveland and Pittsburgh fans will travel to Buffalo." And the New England fans the past few years have been a pleasure, right? Bottom line, stop the talk of moving out of the East. BEAT the Patriots, Dolphins, and Jets on a regular basis again and the rivalries will flourish. A rivalry is based on a long history of competitiveness between two entities. I’m sorry, but the Bills haven’t really held up their end of the competitiveness issue the last several years. The talk of moving and finding new rivals is nothing more than an admission of failure. Stop it now.

This is the biggest part of the joke...this is a "policy" in word only...notice how many times this so-call "deadline" has been extended through the years. "The four o'clock flip-flop?" Yeah right. Even in the Glory Years, I remember extensions being given based on "...it being the holiday season." Look, all Ralph needs to say is that "I insist this game be televised," and that's that. There is no rule, there is no law, there are no deadlines. The stipulation imposed by Congress over 30 years ago gives the league and individual teams plenty of wiggle room here, including letting a team, Jax, put tarp on their upper deck corner seating. Remember the Syracuse viewing area magically in the 75 mile-viewing area a couple of years ago? Was this league "policy" or the league following the "law?" This is a "policy" that changes week to week, year to year. It's a lame joke...the NFL, "King of the World," yet the only sports league left with a blackout "policy." Amazing....

Excuse me, but the years 2000, 2002 and 2004 are on the line for you...