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Watched the ND-USC game at BTI the Saturday before the Jets game and a local was complaining about the prices being jacked up every home game weekend...stumbled across the street to Danny's around 9:00 or so and that place was a morgue, the eight of us doubled the population.
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If you see Rod Smith would you please tell him I still hate him? Thank you.
Jeeziz...it's been 25 years?!?!?
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Open note to both USMCBillsfan and Ned Flanders.... I'm "writing" this on Veterans Day and by any measure, this is HARDLY enough, but simply Thank You for your service and steadfast dedication while you are on Active Duty! I'm ex-USAF and really cannot comprehend what type of struggle you endure, day in and day out, so I hope I speak for others here when I extend that thanks to ALL the servicemen in harms way!
Thanks for the props, but I'm no longer on active duty....got out over 25 years ago.
All the credit and thanks go to those currently deployed...God speed.
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Which leads to the question: Did the AFL circa 1960-69, black-out home games, even if sold out?
As you recall, the current NFL rules only go back to 1972...meaning prior to that year any game, no matter if it was sold out months in advance, was blacked out in that team's home market...Giants, Packers, Colts, etc fans only saw their team on TV if they were on the road. Hence, Ray Scott was the "voice of the Packers" since Packer road games only went to Wisconsin and various other markets...every market but the home team in many cases.
If the Pack was playing the Bears at long-sold-out Wrigley, the entire country may have gotten the game, except people in Chicago!
It took the Redskins' success in the Lombardi year, 1969, to wake up national politicians to pressure the NFL to televise sold out games. Skins games were sold out, like now, but you had to be in the stadium to see it. Pols were pi$$ed and put the heat on Rozelle and the black out rules as exist today, were born.
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“Word definitely got around: If you are going to shoot at the Marines, it's going to be the last day of your life,”
Capt. Brian Gilbertson, outside Husaybah, Iraq
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Gee, I wonder if we can get Al Derogatis out of retirement?
Perspective - he was #1 on Dr Z's all-time announcers in the "analyst" category. He sure was ANAL!
From the SI 2004 archives: It IS a good read so click here!
I actually thought DeRogatis and Curt Gowdy made a good pair...so much more professional than the carnival barkers they have today.
BTW, do you know that Don Criqui has been in the booth now almost 40 years?!?!?!
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Granted, Simpsons is one of the all-time greatest, but I think it lost some its edge when Phil Hartman died and took two of the best cameo characters, Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz, with him.
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I never knew there were so many Rudolph spin-offs...
And I wonder where I can find the Kenny G Christmas special: "Happy Birthday Jesus, hope you like crap."
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I'm partial to the episode regarding the "Leftorium" myself....
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the non-sellout game was televised via satellite in Rochester (this was before they changed the blackout rules)
Hate to be picyune, but me thinks the pub got the game from Syracuse via some very large rabbit ears...the blackout policy in effect today goes back to 1972. Rochester was in fact officially blacked out, along w/ the rest of WNY, for the Comback Game.
There was a gin-joint on Lake Ave in Charlotte, long since gone, that use to put out a large sign whenever the Bills were blacked out, advertising that through their antenna, they had the game. This went on for a couple of seasons, until Syracuse was put in the Buffalo-Rochester market because a very small slice of the Syracuse viewing market was found to be within the 75 mile radius of RWS.
The more I tap the keyboards, the more I remember: Fat Moes on Dewey Avenue (still there?) got a tape of the game the day after and made big plans to show it that night...advertised big-time on Wease, etc. NFL suits got wind of showing the taped game and put their lawyers on the case and Fat Moes was shut out. Made for good controversy.
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OJ (wearing Bruno Maglis?) telling Bob Costas at halftime: "...the Bills just look out of it, and I don't know how they can come back." (Or something like that)
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At 3-5, EVERYONE'S job is in jeopardy...from TD to the guy selling Labatts in the concourse, right down to the hockey kids selling candy bars in the parking lot.
In a 3-5 environment, NO ONE is safe, as well it should be.
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Suggest getting the DVD from Fezmid or the NFL Films version via the Bills proshop.
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Thanks...sometimes we lose sight of the fact of just how good that '90-'93 team actually was, and need to face the same fact that we will never see a team as dominating playing in Orchard Park again in our lifetimes.
I think that on Sunday, rather than flipping through the games on the Ticket, I'll pop in the tape from the '92 AFC championship vs Miami...and maybe next week, when KC is in town, pop in the '93 championship game with those same Chiefs.
It's sad to see the troubles facing this year's 3-5 bunch and think back, and actually see on tape, the teams, and more importantly the MEN, who brought Bills fans soooo close to final glory.
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Why did you make me Google this...I'm forever scared.
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King starts off, "I was at The Expansion Bowl between Houston and Cleveland on Sunday,"
Why on earth was a national pro football writer for perhaps the weekly sports journal of record, SI, in Houston to see a game between the Browns and Texans?!?!?
What could you possibly witness at this event to merit the trip...how do you convince your editor that this is the game you need to be at?
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But there's a warm wind blowing the stars around...
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Jerry Gray's defense is the squirt gun that shoots jelly....
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Talked about this at length in another post...Jets fans and 4:15 start=Perfect Storm.
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These are the types of situations where the NFL Network can chime in and broadcast the game live...but no, they don't think that way.
The way I heard it explained is that the Sunday Ticket package is for Sunday games ONLY (and the occasional full slate of Saturday games, like this year)...check-cashing whore Tagliabue could have stepped up on this one, but in typical fashion, folded.
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Same here, Lori. Jeeziz, I like beer, the Bills, and a good time as much as anyone, but what I witnessed last Sunday was WAY over the line...Buff News said 128 were "escorted" outta RWS. I've got to believe 127 were from the scoreboard endzone area.
SI.com Article About Browns' Move
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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"There has to be interest in keeping a historic team like the Browns in Cleveland. With Akron/Canton and Columbus nearby, the team has to make its fair share of money. Sellouts are the norm, and the fan base is rabid, as I have seen..."
I just tweaked your quote a little and made it sound 1995ish...little scary, huh?
Buffalo is NOT safe by any means...with last week's announcement regarding LA, the Bills may not be the choice to move to Hollywood, but I fear, needlessly I hope, every year that the Bills will bolt for greener pastures.