Squirrel Winter shirts and hoodies are now available.

[Just Jack]

Who's getting one?  I'm considering it.

 

Sqirrel Winters - Buffalo Bills T-shirt – Store716

 

Squirrel Winters - Buffalo Bills Buffalo Sabres Hoodie – Store716

Edited November 21, 2022 by Just Jack

[Gugny]

9 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

Who's getting one?  I'm considering it.

 

Sqirrel Winters - Buffalo Bills T-shirt – Store716

 

Squirrel Winters - Buffalo Bills Buffalo Sabres Hoodie – Store716

 

Just ordered a shirt!

[blacklabel]

Haha this is funny. I know the family, great people. Big on nicknames, another family member goes by Tweet lol. 

Edited November 21, 2022 by blacklabel

[YoloinOhio]

10 minutes ago, blacklabel said:

Haha this is funny. I know the family, great people. Big on nicknames, another family member goes by Tweet lol. 

His real name isn’t squirrel?! I’m disappointed haha 

[Einstein]

Did they purposefully make the shirt as bland as possible?

[without a drought]

25 minutes ago, Einstein said:

Did they purposefully make the shirt as bland as possible?

Yes, what are you missing.

[Chief Loves Bills]

Done. Brilliant idea.

[Big Turk]

West Seneca Police Dept?  

 

 

[Albany,n.y.]

I hope he's being compensated & it's not some corporation getting all the money using his name for free. 

 

Judging from what the o-line usually gets for Christmas, I'm sure he'll get something pretty nice from Josh.  

Edited November 21, 2022 by Albany,n.y.

[LabattBlue]

Am I the only one who doesn’t know who or what is squirrel winters, let alone spend money on a tshirt with his/its name on it?  😂

[DrDawkinstein]

Am I the only one that thinks it is totally ridiculous that with the Trillion$ the NFL has, the Billion$ the Pegulas have, the Million$ the franchise has, and the Million$ these players have... they have to rely on Joe Blow from down the block to dig the players out and get them to the game?!?

 

Pegula needs to invest an easy $1M in a couple of humvees with plows, and a small fleet of snowmobiles, and keep them handy for when this happens again.

 

It shouldn't be up to neighbors risking heart attacks to get these Millionaires' driveways cleared.

[BruceVilanch]

3 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Pegula needs to invest an easy $1M in a couple of humvees with plows,

I was stationed in Great Falls MT, we did winter convoy training and got stuck A LOT in humvees. also, they are iceboxes that don't heat up, and they are the most uncomfortable vehicles for anyone over 6 ft tall. 

[DrDawkinstein]

1 minute ago, BruceVilanch said:

I was stationed in Great Falls MT, we did winter convoy training and got stuck A LOT in humvees. also, they are iceboxes that don't heat up, and they are the most uncomfortable vehicles for anyone over 6 ft tall. 

 

Then some other big, kickass all terrain vehicle. Heck, make it a fleet of backhoes and bulldozers. Terry can afford it.

[boyst]

I don't get this reference. Help. 

[Just Jack]

20 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

Am I the only one who doesn’t know who or what is squirrel winters, let alone spend money on a tshirt with his/its name on it?  😂

 

1 minute ago, boyst said:

I don't get this reference. Help. 

 

The Squirrel Winters Game: Bills Mafia goes nuts for Josh Allen’s neighbor - newyorkupstate.com

 

"During the CBS broadcast of the game, Andrew Catalon and James Lofton were discussing how Josh Allen credited two of his neighbors, both farmers, for plowing his driveway out so that he could get onto Saturday’s flight. Catalon then mentioned the neighbors by name as Mark Braun and Squirrel Winters."

[chongli]

[Blank Stare]

Done! Great shirt!

[Fallser]

From Football Morning America  - https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/11/21/travis-kelce-bills-peter-king-fmia-week-11/?cid=nbcsports#saved-by-the-squirrel

 

When the power went out in Bills coach Sean McDermott’s house Friday night, the generator kicked in, but then the generator went out. So McDermott, snow above his waist, went out to try to fix it. “An NFL head coach in a blizzard, trying to fix his generator,” he said Sunday. “Crazy.” Finally, a repair guy came around 10:30 and fixed it so the McDermotts could go to bed. Good thing, because the power went out again. This time the generator worked through the night.

The Bills set up a system to get all the coaches and players to the stadium so they’d be able to fly to Detroit late in the afternoon on Saturday. A couple of players had to walk, with luggage, a half-mile to get rides to the buses.

A retired farmer from Orchard Park, Dave Winter, aka “Squirrel,” has a John Deere tractor with an eight-foot-wide bucket on the front, good for clearing eight-foot-wide swaths, like driveways, in short order. So Squirrel was out in Orchard Park Saturday afternoon being the good neighbor he is, when he came upon a neighbor at the end of one of the longest driveways in town. A small plow was no match for this driveway, with maybe 55 or 60 inches. “Oh, quarter-mile long, I’d say,” said Squirrel. “Maybe more.”

Squirrel stopped. “I said to my neighbor Norm, who was there, ‘You need a path blown through?’ He said, ‘I don’t know, ask that guy.’ Well, I don’t know that guy, an older gentleman, but he says he went to school with my cousin, and so I asked if he needs help here and he says, ‘Sure!’ So I did the driveway, cleared a good path there, and I get up to the garage and the door opens and Josh [Allen] is standing there. Probably the whole thing took a half hour. Got out, shook his hand. Told him, ‘Good luck tomorrow.’

“I introduced myself. ‘Dave. Dave Winter. When you think of snow, think of me, Winter.’ I says, ‘We got that red machinery shop, the farm just down the road.’ Looked like he was in a hurry. Didn’t have time to chit-chat. So that was it.”

“What would have happened if you didn’t come along?” I asked this man known as Squirrel.

“Oh, my guess is they woulda put him on a snowmobile, taken him down that long driveway and out into the street, and somebody woulda come and got him,” Squirrel said.

When the Bills finally boarded buses after 4 for the trip to the airport, the two main roads were closed. So the Bills had to crawl through town streets that had been plowed. “Classic western New York towns,” McDermott said. “Orchard Park, West Seneca, a few more.” Depew, Lancaster, Cheektowaga. “It was so great. People on the side of the road, giving us the thumbs-up, taking pictures, waving, cheering. Just awesome.”

Ever hear of barn-raising? In Amish communities, when a farmer needs a barn built, or some other project done, people from miles around come in for two or three days to do the building or the job. That’s Buffalo. That’s what happened here, with the Bills, and with the neighbors. Raise your hand if you need help.

“This weekend is a reminder that there’s a lot of good in this world, still,” McDer

[PetermansRedemption]

42 minutes ago, Albany,n.y. said:

I hope he's being compensated & it's not some corporation getting all the money using his name for free. 

 

Judging from what the o-line usually gets for Christmas, I'm sure he'll get something pretty nice from Josh.  

It looks like they had him pick a charity and a portion of the proceeds are going to that charity. 

[Big Turk]

48 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Am I the only one that thinks it is totally ridiculous that with the Trillion$ the NFL has, the Billion$ the Pegulas have, the Million$ the franchise has, and the Million$ these players have... they have to rely on Joe Blow from down the block to dig the players out and get them to the game?!?

 

Pegula needs to invest an easy $1M in a couple of humvees with plows, and a small fleet of snowmobiles, and keep them handy for when this happens again.

 

It shouldn't be up to neighbors risking heart attacks to get these Millionaires' driveways cleared.

 

And have them sit unused when there are driving bans in place?

[SectionC3]

This is a serious thread.  Here's the article about the guys who dug Josh out.  

 

https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nfl/bills/neighbors-step-up-to-ensure-bills-qb-josh-allen-played-in-sundays-game-squirrel-winter-marc-braun-norm-marshall/71-3b123715-feca-4eb3-8dcf-5b2b4e7045ca

 

The best part isn't that somebody dug out our quarterback.  It's that at least one of these guys was driving around being a Good Samaritan and helping others in a time of need, without any expectation of compensation.  

Stuff like this makes Buffalo the City of Good Neighbors.  I'll contrast that with an experience in my neighborhood, in which a local d-bag decided to profiteer and charge his old folks neighbors $100 to use his lawn tractor/snowblower to dig them out.  (We all know who is NOT getting invited to the next block party.)

 

So, bottom line, this Squirrel story is pretty cool.  He's a good guy getting his "15 minutes" for doing people a gratuitous solid.  There's a lot more "Squirrels" out there (looking at you, OP Fire and OP Highway), and maybe we can all take a moment and thank these guys and try to emulate them when we have a chance.  

[DrDawkinstein]

19 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

And have them sit unused when there are driving bans in place?

 

Sure, just like his Yachts when he isnt in Florida and Jets when he isnt traveling.

[boyst]

I am like squirrel. I've also been warned by DOT what I do is illegal because I damage the road.

 

I go clear the intersection with my bucket, and plow the roads and area at a turn as well as a few neighbors, including a police officer. 

 

DOT has told me to stop.

[QCity]

1 hour ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Am I the only one that thinks it is totally ridiculous that with the Trillion$ the NFL has, the Billion$ the Pegulas have, the Million$ the franchise has, and the Million$ these players have... they have to rely on Joe Blow from down the block to dig the players out and get them to the game?!?

 

Pegula needs to invest an easy $1M in a couple of humvees with plows, and a small fleet of snowmobiles, and keep them handy for when this happens again.

 

 

I don't know what you're smoking, but it's too strong for you.

 

 

Also regarding the topic, you might want to point out that the profits from these shirts goes to the 716 Store, not any of the people that dug the players out. 

[NickelCity]

2 hours ago, Einstein said:

Did they purposefully make the shirt as bland as possible?

 

I was just thinking "Nice. A shirt that's not so gaudy you could actually wear it"

 

Lol. To each their own. 

[MPL]

Man, I feel so bad for the other guy that helped shovel... the guy who no one will remember (myself included)... simply because his name is not Squirrel Winters. 

[cgang]

That’s amazing.  Just ordered  a sweatshirt!  Thank you to all first responders and good neighbors that have helped each other out (including the guy that plowed my 78 year old mom’s driveway!)

[Just Jack]

58 minutes ago, QCity said:

Also regarding the topic, you might want to point out that the profits from these shirts goes to the 716 Store, not any of the people that dug the players out. 

 

***A portion of the proceeds on the sale of this shirt will be donated to Langford-New Oregon VFC on behalf of Squirrel.

[hondo in seattle]

2 hours ago, BruceVilanch said:

I was stationed in Great Falls MT, we did winter convoy training and got stuck A LOT in humvees. also, they are iceboxes that don't heat up, and they are the most uncomfortable vehicles for anyone over 6 ft tall. 

 

Agreed.  Not cool in the summer, not warm in the winter, not ever comfortable.  And they do get stuck.

 

Once in Korea, my driver and I were driving a narrow dirt road that was bordered by a 4-5 foot drop.   I told my driver he was too close to the edge, but he insisted he was fine.  I said him, "Okay.   But if we fall off the edge, you have to get someone to two us back up."  Sure enough, the side of the road crumbled and we ended up stuck with two wheels over the edge.  

 

Another time in the Arabian Desert, a different driver was swearing that it was virtually impossible to get stuck in a Humvee.  Based on my experience in Korea and elsewhere, I disagreed.  But he was persistent, confident that his driving skill combined with the capabilities of the Humvee made it impossible for us to get stuck.  I let him drive over a big sand berm, built as a defense wall, to prove his point.  Only it didn't.  We ended straddling the berm with four wheels dangling in the air.  Stuck.  

 

It is hard to get a Humvee stuck, but possible.  Maybe the Bills need to provide players with snowmobiles?

 

Or put Squirrel on the payroll and give him the addresses of all the players and staff?  

[DrDawkinstein]

1 hour ago, QCity said:

 

I don't know what you're smoking, but it's too strong for you.

 

 

So I'm nuts to think that the folks with the high-ranking connections and unlimited resources should have a better plan than "I hope the neighbors dig us out"?

 

If anything, the Bills should be digging their neighbors out. Mario Williams did this with his Bobcat. Got Jim Kelly and a few other people cleared, delivered them all groceries. THAT is how it should be done.

[BattlinBill]

Heck yea!!!! Just ordered mine, this shirt is a classic! You know if someone recognizes it down here in Southwest Florida then they are a true Bill's fan indeed!😀

[zow2]

6 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Am I the only one that thinks it is totally ridiculous that with the Trillion$ the NFL has, the Billion$ the Pegulas have, the Million$ the franchise has, and the Million$ these players have... they have to rely on Joe Blow from down the block to dig the players out and get them to the game?!?

 

Pegula needs to invest an easy $1M in a couple of humvees with plows, and a small fleet of snowmobiles, and keep them handy for when this happens again.

 

It shouldn't be up to neighbors risking heart attacks to get these Millionaires' driveways cleared.

 

Eh, Joe Blow from around the block digging out players makes for better human interest stories and "Bills Mafia" lovefest stuff...  The National media eats it up.

[HOUSE]

My credit card is not working 

[Gugny]

1 minute ago, HOUSE said:

My credit card is not working 

 

What's the name, number, expiration date, billing zip code and CVV?  I can give it a whirl.

 

[CheshireCT]

6 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Am I the only one that thinks it is totally ridiculous that with the Trillion$ the NFL has, the Billion$ the Pegulas have, the Million$ the franchise has, and the Million$ these players have... they have to rely on Joe Blow from down the block to dig the players out and get them to the game?!?

 

Pegula needs to invest an easy $1M in a couple of humvees with plows, and a small fleet of snowmobiles, and keep them handy for when this happens again.

 

It shouldn't be up to neighbors risking heart attacks to get these Millionaires' driveways cleared.

 

Does seem totally ridiculous. Was it simply a fact that all plows were being used elsewhere?

 

But yeah, I'm guessing these good samaritans end up with some envelopes filled with cash. If they don't that's a big shame.

[muppy]

6 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Am I the only one that thinks it is totally ridiculous that with the Trillion$ the NFL has, the Billion$ the Pegulas have, the Million$ the franchise has, and the Million$ these players have... they have to rely on Joe Blow from down the block to dig the players out and get them to the game?!?

 

Pegula needs to invest an easy $1M in a couple of humvees with plows, and a small fleet of snowmobiles, and keep them handy for when this happens again.

 

It shouldn't be up to neighbors risking heart attacks to get these Millionaires' driveways cleared.

I think an event like this is a super random event,  I wouldn't be against the team having an emergency snow mobile drivers list to call on if needed for the vicinity of Orchard Park.  But to house an emergency force themselves? Cost vs benefit ration Im thinking nah.

 

But also you are not going to be able to take the "good neighbors" out of Buffalonians. It is who they are. 

 

I don't know who Squirrel Winters' is but I take it hometown hero. I love that 🙂

[Just Jack]

51 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

What's the name, number, expiration date, billing zip code and CVV?  I can give it a whirl.

 

Thanks Gugny for helping out fellow fans.  We should get a shirt made up for you. 
 

Gugny’s Credit Card Testing Service

[Big Turk]

Squirrel is front page news and interview material apparently...only in WNY does this happen hahaha 

 

 

Leading story for Peter King.

 

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/11/21/travis-kelce-bills-peter-king-fmia-week-11/?cid=nbcsports

 

 

2 hours ago, CheshireCT said:

 

Does seem totally ridiculous. Was it simply a fact that all plows were being used elsewhere?

 

But yeah, I'm guessing these good samaritans end up with some envelopes filled with cash. If they don't that's a big shame.

 

The only people who think it was ridiculous are the people who have probably never even seen a foot of snow in their life let alone 6 or 7 feet at once.

Edited November 22, 2022 by Big Turk

[Buffalo_Stampede]

8 hours ago, SectionC3 said:

This is a serious thread.  Here's the article about the guys who dug Josh out.  

 

https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nfl/bills/neighbors-step-up-to-ensure-bills-qb-josh-allen-played-in-sundays-game-squirrel-winter-marc-braun-norm-marshall/71-3b123715-feca-4eb3-8dcf-5b2b4e7045ca

 

The best part isn't that somebody dug out our quarterback.  It's that at least one of these guys was driving around being a Good Samaritan and helping others in a time of need, without any expectation of compensation.  

Stuff like this makes Buffalo the City of Good Neighbors.  I'll contrast that with an experience in my neighborhood, in which a local d-bag decided to profiteer and charge his old folks neighbors $100 to use his lawn tractor/snowblower to dig them out.  (We all know who is NOT getting invited to the next block party.)

 

So, bottom line, this Squirrel story is pretty cool.  He's a good guy getting his "15 minutes" for doing people a gratuitous solid.  There's a lot more "Squirrels" out there (looking at you, OP Fire and OP Highway), and maybe we can all take a moment and thank these guys and try to emulate them when we have a chance.  

Anyone rocking one of these in 2022 is someone that gets stuff done.

 

 

[danc]

2 hours ago, muppy said:

I think an event like this is a super random event,  I wouldn't be against the team having an emergency snow mobile drivers list to call on if needed for the vicinity of Orchard Park.  But to house an emergency force themselves? Cost vs benefit ration Im thinking nah.

 

But also you are not going to be able to take the "good neighbors" out of Buffalonians. It is who they are. 

 

I don't know who Squirrel Winters' is but I take it hometown hero. I love that 🙂

And where do you park this fleet of plows that is far enough away that it doesn’t get buried in 6 feet of snow but can get there despite driving bans and 6 feet of snow.