ExWNYer

Kudos to everyone for all of these submissions. I don't know that this was the most frustrating for me. In fact, I'm sure it's probably not but everything is magnified when you're a kid. I was so in love with my Buffalo Bills that every loss/failure hurt like crazy. My submission for this thread is the 1973 season...the year that O.J. Simpson ran for 2,003 yards behind Lou Saban's 'Electric Company'. For context, this was the Bills' first winning season since I was old enough to remember following them. I was 9 years old when that season began, 10 when it ended. The team got off to a great start that year, going 4-1. Those four wins matched their entire total for the previous season which had been preceded by a one win season. The loss that kept them from going 5-0? Week 2...at San Diego...a 34-7 thrashing to a Chargers team which had lost it's opener, 38-0...a blowout loss to a team which then proceeded to lose 6 of its next 7 games with the one non-loss being a tie....a blowout loss to a team which then ended its 7 game winless streak by beating a bad New Orleans team (finished 5-9) and then dropping its final four games to finish...2-11-1. To make matters worse, the Bills lost to that same Saints team, at New Orleans, 13-0. That Saints loss came during a horrible mid-season stretch whereby the Bills stumbled to a 1-4 record, leaving them at 5-5. They then got hot again, winning their final four games to finish 9-5...and missing the playoffs by one game. Back then, the three division winners and the one non-division winner with the best record in each conference advanced to the playoffs. Had the Bills beaten the 2-11-1 Chargers and the 5-9 Saints, they would have finished with a 11-3 record and claimed the Wild Card over the 10-4 Pittsburgh Steelers. An 11-3 finish would have left them with the second best record in the entire AFC, second only to the 12-2 division winning '0 for the '70s' Miami Dolphins. As 'Billsy' a season as any. The '73 and '74 playoff Bills (both 9-5) along with the '75 Bills (8-6) were an oasis in an otherwise vast 1970s desert. BTW, the '75 Bills started 4-0 before finishing 4-6 (which was another extremely frustrating season). Hot starts followed by epic collapses...sound familiar, Bills fans? Here's to (hopefully) a bright future going forward.

He hasn't signed with the Bills yet or played a down for them so I don't know if you're counting 2020 7th Round DB Dane Jackson and the obscure Sabre (and mostly Amerk) of the same name?

I couldn't see them signing him until Tuesday.

I'm sure there are plenty of Canadian Bills fans who wish that 'The Amish Rifle' had been banned long before it was...

Best...and worst...juke move in NFL history:

If table jumping is their thing, have at it. As long as it's not hurting anyone else who's not involved, I couldn't care less. It's Darwinism, 'Bills Mafia' style. lol ?

Agreed about his dad. He was a royal POS. But maybe...and hear me out here...just maybe he hates his dad and wants to stick it to him by signing with the Bills! ??

All of this stuff is great for the players but not great for the mid-major schools, IMO. I think it will end up benefiting the P5 schools and hurt everyone else.

Beane wasn't there then. Cox played for DL coach Eric Washington. That's the real connection here but, you're right, it will still trigger the response mechanism of the "Oh, great...just another former Carolina player" crowd.

They are like the couple who wake up one day after 20 years of marriage, roll over, turn to one another and say... (Brady): "I want a divorce." (Belichick): "Me, too." (Brady): "So, divorce then?" (Belichick): "Divorce." (Brady): "Oh...and I'm banging your brother in Tampa." (Belichick): "Of course, you are..."

I gather somebody's Madden game broke from overuse during quarantine...

Damn. Sorry, Gug. I see it on my Chromebook. I'm no tech wiz like a lot of the young'uns on here. I uploaded the image this time...any better or still no?

This is my girl, Misty, a black lab/beagle mix. This was taken January 2019 when she was a little over 10 years old, watching me work from home. She will be 12 on October 15th. We got her her in 2008, the same year my mom passed from cancer. Misty was the sixth of six in a litter of labs given away by the owner (her sister, Penny, was the 5th and is owned by my sis). Her dad was a pure bred black lab and her mom was a lab/beagle mix. The two got out and do what dogs do and an unlikely family was born. Her dad's owner (breeder) was not happy but we were. She's brought a lot of love into our lives and is as sweet as she appears in her photo. ❤️

So Korean BBQ?

TBD poster 'teef' minus the hat...

My wife and I were at that game. I have no desire whatsoever to relive it. The Bills choked it away and we were sitting about three seats down from a mouthy, d-bag Cowboys fan (is there any other kind?) who was running his mouth the whole time. Ugh. What a frustrating loss.

Any truth to the rumor that this will be his Topps card?

That's the Canadian term for DB...

18th rated CB by The Draft Network, 6' 0", 180 lbs Projected as a slot DB.

Yes. Ernest T(yler) Bass. ?

Never you mind, Augie! I expect a full write up from you for Fromm and Bass...on my desk...by tomorrow morning. And no, I don't mean the backwoods law firm of the same name around the corner from you.

Great hands WR!

I am and he is.