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Ned Flanders

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  1. Mark Pike

     

    Tasker was the heart of the special teams during the glory years, but ask Marv and I'm sure he will tell you that Mark Pike was every bit as valuable.

     

    Big play: After the Kenneth Davis TD to bring Buffalo to within 25 during the Comeback game, the "suicide onside," where Christie recovered his own kick, was setup by a crushing block by Pike on the nearest Oiler...allowing Christie to gobble up the ball.

     

    Mark Pike gets my vote as the most underrated Bill of all time.

  2. All this hoopla about the Bills selling out their first four games is sorta misleading.

     

    Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of seats are being held back for prospective season ticket buyers...and after the first pre-season game, those tickets will become available.

     

    The weird part is, with the Bills reporting that there are no tickets for the first four games, how do they market the remaining tickets when they become available?

     

    Instead of crowing that the first four games are sold out, the Bills should announce that currently limited single-game tickets are available, however, in mid-August more tickets may become available.

     

    I'm surprised Leo Roth, a veteran beat writer, fell for this...it's something the Bills have been doing since the Super Bowl runs.

  3. I'm trying to find copies of scripts voiced by John Facenda for NFL Films.

     

    I wanted to have some fun with some writing I am doing, and wanted to look over the classic NFL Film Highlight reel scripts that Facenda narrated for some inspiration.

     

    I tried googling for the past hour but got no joy.

     

    Anyone got a clue where transcripts/scripts might be found?

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    Don't have the script, but at the very end of the 1980 Bills highlight film, Facenda says, as Fergy limps off the field in San Diego, "Buffalo lost this game in San Diego, but like the setting sun, the Bills will rise again."

     

    In the same film he says, "Joe Cribbs is a working man, in a working man's town."

     

    And of Super Bowl V, Fecenda starts off: "Super Bowl Five was fiercely fought, but fatefully flawed."

  4. Driving up to WNY July 4th week with two little ones, and have been looking into those portable DVD players, with dual screens that fit over the front headrest...been reading up on them and some get decent reviews.

     

    Just reluctant on pulling the trigger...anybody have any experience, good or bad, with these machines?

  5. To be honest having the NFL Network isn't what it's cracked up to be. Outside of the games they will be showing this season and the periodic old games that I might have some interest in seeing, there's not much to it.

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    Agree...I've said it a hundred times, with the NFL Films vault at their disposal, they do a piss poor job at showing old games, highlights, interviews, etc.

  6. OK, nobody comes back...here's what you do:

     

    Opening Scene:

     

    Tony: "Christopher, remember that big F'n Russian you guys let get away in the woods a couple of years ago? Well, he's back, and he just whacked Paulie."

     

    Christopher: "No F'n way! Christ, I've gotta find him before he finds me."

     

    And there, my friends, you have enough to fill eight episodes and at the same time close the biggest story line still open. :doh:

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