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9 minutes ago, Einstein said:

Saw this on social media.

 

$5 tickets. 7 pre-season games. 2pm games.

 

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I went with my dad to the NY Jets and Chicago Bears games that year.

I remember my dad had that card and us deciding on what games to go to.

 

Thanks for the memory.

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Opening the season with straight home games? And finishing with four out of five on the road?

 

Opening Sunday was not until after Labor Day?

 

Playing Green Bay in the pre-season and again in the regular season?

 

Playing the Rams of the NFC West as well as two teams from the NFC Central?

 

Opening at home on MNF?

13 minutes ago, djp14150 said:

When they moved to Indy they stayed at 1 pm local time which crested oddball of a later start after clocks changed.

 

But they didn't move until the 80's.

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15 minutes ago, chongli said:

Playing Green Bay in the pre-season and again in the regular season?

 

This happened recently, 2018, against the Bears, they played at Chicago in the last week of Pre-Season, then in Buffalo the first week in November. 

 

Interesting side note for that year, in Pre-Season they played the Panthers, Browns, Bengals, and Bears. If they could have gotten either the Broncos or Bucs instead of Panthers, it would have been all B teams. 

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32 minutes ago, Beast said:

John Leypoldt kicked a 52 yard FG on the last play of Washington pre-season game to win it on my 7th birthday. 

 

I was 7 as well that year. But I don't think I officially started following the Bills until the next season.

 

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48 minutes ago, chongli said:

 

"Irregardless" is one that drives me crazy. Also, the tautological syllable in "preventative".


“Preventive” is enough you are saying?

 

I’ve no issues with either sentence you wrote, but what bothers me more is the current use of the verb “do” these days as a catch all for any action.

 

“Yeah, I’ll do a martini with a lemon twist.”

”I’ll do the rigatoni.”


it used to be that men would use that verb as part of locker room talk. 😀

 

 

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22 minutes ago, Rat-boy said:


“Preventive” is enough you are saying?

 

I’ve no issues with either sentence you wrote, but what bothers me more is the current use of the verb “do” these days as a catch all for any action.

 

“Yeah, I’ll do a martini with a lemon twist.”

”I’ll do the rigatoni.”


it used to be that men would use that verb as part of locker room talk. 😀

 

 

 

Yes, "preventive" is fine for me, haha

 

Your mentioning the use of "do" nowadays is a point well taken. How about "goes" instead of "says"? As in, "he goes 'how do you like that?'"

 

And the use of the past tense of "write" ("wrote") instead of the past participle "written" (as well as other irregular verbs)? My doctor, who is about 20 years younger than I am and Brown educated, said something like "he has wrote". I had to bite my lip from saying anything, lol. I also once emailed a journalist about his usage of something similar, and he actually (and obliviously) defended what he wrote as correct.

 

Don't get me started on "lay" vs. "lie" either. Or "submit" in mixed martial arts ("John submitted him").

 

Sorry, I can go on and on, as I expect you can.

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7 hours ago, Rat-boy said:


“Preventive” is enough you are saying?

 

I’ve no issues with either sentence you wrote, but what bothers me more is the current use of the verb “do” these days as a catch all for any action.

 

“Yeah, I’ll do a martini with a lemon twist.”

”I’ll do the rigatoni.”


it used to be that men would use that verb as part of locker room talk. 😀

 

 

 

I've always thought the same of "Commentator".  Why are we not just using Commenter? 

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9 hours ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

I went with my dad to the NY Jets and Chicago Bears games that year.

I remember my dad had that card and us deciding on what games to go to.

 

Thanks for the memory.

Exactly the same games that my dad took me to.  The Jets game was a hideous weather day.  The Bears game was a gorgeous day.  Seems like that first preseason game, the HOF game was a strike game with scabs and rookies if memory serves?

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2 hours ago, cwater10 said:

Exactly the same games that my dad took me to.  The Jets game was a hideous weather day.  The Bears game was a gorgeous day.  Seems like that first preseason game, the HOF game was a strike game with scabs and rookies if memory serves?

 

LOL that Jets game was nuts.  Namath had a bunch of INTs, and nobody could throw the ball.

That is so funny we both went to the same games.

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12 hours ago, LeviF said:

Three home September games??? A man can only dream!

 

Haha the dream.

 

2013 was the last 3 home games in Sept stretch NE, CAR, at NYJ, BAL. 2015 was close as the third home game was the Giants October 4th with IND, NE, at MIA, prior and last year was also close with the third home game against Houston October 3rd with PIT, at MIA, and WSH prior. The NFL tries to balance it out so I would think in 2023 Buffalo will probably have four home games by Oct 31st plus we have 9 homes game total next year.

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9 PM start for the home opener against the Raiders…

1 hour ago, corta765 said:

 

Haha the dream.

 

2013 was the last 3 home games in Sept stretch NE, CAR, at NYJ, BAL. 2015 was close as the third home game was the Giants October 4th with IND, NE, at MIA, prior and last year was also close with the third home game against Houston October 3rd with PIT, at MIA, and WSH prior. The NFL tries to balance it out so I would think in 2023 Buffalo will probably have four home games by Oct 31st plus we have 9 homes game total next year.

hopefully one of those 9 isn’t over in Europe… 🤢

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2 hours ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

My dad would work overtime on a Saturday, and it would pay for us to go to 2 games, parking and some concession stand food and drinks.

Endzone seats, of course.

 

Making memories. That is awesome. 

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5 hours ago, Charles Romes said:

The juice goes for 2000 in a 14 game season and only one Monday night. 

That was the previous season.  He was hurt about mid-way through the Oakland game.

2 hours ago, Big Turk said:

What is up with 7 pre season games??  

 

So basically when the NFL went from 14 to 16 games they just reduced he preseason games from 6 or 7 to 4?

 

Did not know that...

Correct.

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