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  1. On 9/25/2020 at 9:36 AM, JetsFan20 said:

    Reminds me a lot of 1998. I can see the Jets shocking the world after a slow start and winning the AFC East. 
     

    The Jets have the talent and coaching acumen to do this. Joe Flacco will be back next week and go on a Vinny T like run.

     

    Id take an offense of Gase, Flacco, and Frank Gore over anything else in this division. 
     

    Fear the Jets 

     

    Bless your heart.

  2. 2 hours ago, JGMcD2 said:

    I lived in Massachusetts for 4 years and I’ve know this for a long time, but my lord Patriots fans as a whole are extremely low class. 
     

    I’m a huge Bills fan  but I work for a professional sports team so the whole obnoxious cheering and crap talking has been out of my toolbox for a few years now. I keep my mouth shut and try to soak in every aspect of the game... I enjoy that portion of it. Picking up the finer details and analyzing things in real time- it just comes with being a professional. Point being, I don’t invite being attacked.  
     

    On ten separate occasions, TEN, I had people shoving and soliciting me to fight them. Ten different situations where it was 3-5 on 1 during my experience at Gillette with people attempting to fight me. I was appalled. I can MORE than handle myself but it’s not worth 25 to life for what the end result would have been. 
     

    I’m just shocked... disgusted. The cops/security/game day staff seemingly turned a blind eye to it all. I know we have a bad reputation in  Buffalo but I’ve NEVER experienced situations like these. 

    My experiences at gillette have been exactly the same. It's the reason I'll never go to another game there (except for, maybe, a playoff game... maybe).

  3. On 12/5/2019 at 1:39 PM, Chandler#81 said:

    Most know me as an older than dirt Bills fan since their inception. I’m so old -‘How Old ARE You, Chandler?’- my granddaughter just got her Learners Permit?! I can recite most players throughout the teams’ history. Ditto for the Braves & that other team. My purchased jerseys are all throwbacks; Perrault, Hasek, Kemp, OJ, Jimbo, Bruuuuce, Thurman & Chandler#81. 

    (Santa knows I want a custom Clippers MacAdoo throwback) 

     

    Mostly, my unwavering fandom has reaped such ridiculously few rewards, it can be argued I’ve truly wasted a large portion of my life. This can not be effectively challenged, anyway. Yet, through the dearth of decades long futility, my foolish heart remains true. The highlights are so few, they can be rattled off in a few short sentences. Stealing Kemp from Sid Gilman’s waiver wire and the 1st AFL Playoff game vs Boston. A powerhouse was born. Back to Back to Back AFL Title Games with 2 wins! OJ/NFL Merger/A Playoff loss to Pittsburgh. Chuck Knox/Division Champs ‘80/WC ‘81. Strike!/Polian/USFL castoffs/Levy.

    In Spring of ‘88, I made the single largest sports bet of my life; $500 the Bills would make the Playoffs that season. (Wife STILL doesn’t know..?) 11 games in brought the payday. This second powerhouse team reached 5 AFC Title games with Back to Back to Back to Back AFC Championships! -along with four other games.. ? A few more playoff years ensued with early outs, culminating with the Music City Debacle. 

     

    Then, a generation of nothing. Just TWO powerhouses in 60 years?!

     

    A steady montage of players & coaches which read like -well, toilet paper. RCW lived too long, frankly. Finally, new -if startlingly naive- ownership came aboard. A 1st year winning coach quit as a result and ushered in a 2 year circus. Abruptly, the clown show was dismissed (for cruelty to the mafia animals) and 2 unknowns hired to gut and rebuild the franchise -mostly to the horror of its fans. An other-worldly playoff in their 1st season didn’t deter the mission they sold the neophyte owners on. Through shrewd Drafting from the bevy of ‘name’ players traded coupled with the largest FA haul in team history, their new team has now won 13 of 16 games since this preseason began and sits on the precipice of another playoff season with true promise for their third powerhouse. Only those few who share my foolish addiction knew this though, as the team was rightfully placed in television purgatory from its insidious generation of ineptitude. This ALL changed quite recently with the quickly becoming legendary ‘Thanksgiving Day Beatdown in DTown’. League officials quickly huddled and Suddenly 4 straight games are being broadcast nationally, showcasing my lifelong albatross. 

     

    Which brings us to today. Regardless of what actually transpires, lying directly ahead is the legitimate OPPORTUNITY and possibility for the Bills to win out and be the #1 Seed in the AFC, garnering a 1st Round Bye and Home Field through the Playoffs for the first time since my daughter (mother of driving grandgirl) was 9 years old!

     

    Far more importantly, whether it’s this season or a near one, this HAS to be the time! Now well into my third, I don’t have another generation to wait. I’ve stood graveside by too many Bills fans who never realized our collective dream of an NFL Title. As such, I dutifully carry their hopes in the now famous phrase uttered by Tim Russert: “Please, God, before I die. Just one time!” 

    Go Bills!

     

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  4. 2 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:

    Yep. A quirk if the schedule that the Bills faced NE, then TEN and MIA that obviously have connections to NE and roots in that system. They’ve struggles with it, but not sure say Schwartz is gonna deviate from his wide 9 and put that in. Lots of coaches are married to their systems , including the Bills coaches. 

     

    If Schwartz decides to run a wide nine against the Bills, Josh Allen should have 150 rushing yards. The lanes for a mobile QB against that particular defensive alignment are massive.

  5. 3 hours ago, NoSaint said:


    Was it Fred that did that very thing - giving himself up before the end zone to seal the win?

     

    If you're talking about the win against that Patriots in 2011, he tried to score and it was called a TD. However, it was overturned and placed at the one, where the Bills took knees to run the clock down and kicked the chip shot FG as time expired to win.

     

    *Disclaimer - my memory can be a bit... uh... cloudy. Yeah, cloudy is an appropriate descriptor.*

  6. 5 hours ago, WickedGame said:

    I can't believe there hasn't been more discussion of Mariota's illegal forward pass last week. Talk about karma! Sure, it wasn't EXACTLY the same, but it was a pretty darn similar scenario.

     

    I love that this year feels like an "Exorcising the Demons" tour. We may not win 'em all, but the match-ups sure feel like an opportunity to break a few curses (and yes, I realize "curses" are just a bunch of voodoo hocus-pokus mumbojumbo...)

     

    The second I heard the call I turned to my wife and said, "About 20 years to effing late..."

  7. 57 minutes ago, Bills!Win! said:

     

    I see this a lot. Someone explain pls 

     Lamp is an acronym. L.A.M.P.=

     

    Look

    At

    Me

    Post

     

    The term is generally used derisively by posters in a thread who feel the a fellow poster is attention-seeking. It is also occasionally used, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, in a thread title when a poster has had a pretty cool experience or interesting thought that they would like to share, even if it is tooting their own horn a bit (see my thread, linked below, about winning a chance to hang out with Andre Reed and get pregame field access at Gillette on Christmas Eve back in 2017). You'll notice that I use LAMP as a disclaimer in the thread title, indicating up front that it is, indeed, not much more than a "look at me post."

     

     

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