Archives for August 12, 2008

‘”[The Bills] mean an awful lot,” former Erie County executive Dennis Gorski has said. “We’re not Toronto, New York, Chicago or Montreal. We’re, by numbers, relatively small. We’re considered a small-market community, and the Buffalo Bills have been the only way in many instances that we’ve been able to compete with the glitzy communities.”‘

‘”Roger Goodell,” Godfrey said on that sunny spring afternoon, “thinks Toronto is a fertile place for the National Football League.”‘

‘Halliday claims he has been warned by a Rogers Centre official that he will not be allowed in the stadium for the next Argos game if he is wearing his anti-Bills T-shirt. While the shirt supports the Argos and the CFL, don’t forget that Rogers, the stadium owner, paid $78 million to bring eight Bills games to the city over the next five years. “We’ll be at the next Argos game with our shirts,” Halliday said. “Let’s see them try to kick me out.”‘

‘Fans across the region can watch the game in high definition on the Bills Television Network. Affiliates of BTN include WKBW-Buffalo, WHAM-Rochester, WTVH-Syracuse, WSEE-Erie,PA and Citytv in Ontario, Canada.’

‘Bills Playbook is a new online game that gives fans the opportunity to guess what plays the Buffalo Bills will run each week during the season. Registrants can visit the website at http://bills.vibesinzone.com/inzone/ to pick the plays for the upcoming Buffalo Bills football game. Upon making correct selections, fans will be given game piece(s) to scratch off. If they match three like prizes, they win that prize.’

‘”That was the most important thing when I went home during the break I talked to myself, talked to my trainer, talked to my high school coach and tried to work on consistency and not dropping balls,” said Huggins. “I’ve dropped two, but I’ve been coming out every day and working on it every day looking the ball in and squeezing it and catching it.”‘

‘Buffalo now has just three healthy offensive tackles left in training camp in Langston Walker, Kirk Chambers and seventh-round pick Demetrius Bell.’

‘The team hasn’t issued an update on the severity of his injury.’

‘”I give them a big presence, a big target, someone who is going to give them his all and someone who will stay here all day until they figure it out,” said Hardy, who will be on the field on Thursday when the Bills meet the Pittsburgh Steelers in an exhibition game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.’

‘”There is no orientation, and it’s a bigger learning curve,” he says of pro football. “If you don’t perform, if the GM doesn’t think highly of you, you can be out of a job.”‘