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I kept waiting to see that too. I got the feeling that the Bills plan, especially in the second half, was to chug out first downs and keep the clock moving. Hey, after all these years, I will take the win 😄 but you make a good point. Glad my team is still alive and hope they can keep moving the sticks.

The only "official" Bills jersey that I have is Kyle Williams - #95

I grew up in Hamburg, and went to an AHL BISONS game vs the Hershey Bears in Buffalo about 1969. I moved to Rochester and went to Red Wing games, but no one else wants to go anymore, so I drifted away from the Americans and the Sabres. I mostly watch the Stanley Cup finals.

Ah, the Booth Lustig move. Youngsters can google it. 😆

I gave up on the Rochester Red Wings (AAA baseball) when they moved from Silver Stadium in the city to the new stadium downtown and for many other reasons I drifted. In the late 80's I lived 5 minutes from Silver Stadium. We got Knot Hole Club tickets and we went to many games with all four children. They were the farm team of the Baltimore Orioles and I was a fan of players, like Cal Ripken, Jr. You could park a couple city blocks from the field for free, and walk with families and baseball fans safely There would be an all star day annually where past Red Wings (some that were still active in MLB) that was discontinued. MLB has kind of given up on Rochester, IMO They needed a new stadium badly, but the old one was like The Rockpile - lots of sentiment. The new stadium was beautiful more expensive and parking was not free. The kids activities replaced attending many games. We go to games occasionally, but it is not like a football tailgate They became the farm team for the Minnesota Twins and today for the Washington Nationals, who I have no interest in. I basically am a diehard fan of the Buffalo Bills (since the Rockpile) and have liked the NY Yankees (since Maris and Mantle), but I only follow football and baseball. I wish I was interested in college and professional football basketball and hockey, but it is not the same excitement for me. Edit: I do love March Madness and the World Series.

I went to the last preseason game this year (with two daughters and four grandchildren). Most people sat because it was a practice game and there were a LOT of kids. Some foolish people were *obsessed* with starting a "wave" in the second half, most likely out of boredom. * The wave is about as current as dialup internet AND * You do NOT do the wave when the Bills have the ball! I explained this to the grandchildren so they grow up informed.

Bill Gray's Great Plate is not great.

Nick's was often a trouble spot because after bars closed at 2AM, it was one of the few places OPEN for hungry partiers to eat and continue their party out back. With current hours of 11-7PM most days I feel saying you can avoid hospitals or stitches. Just drink lots of water after you finish your plate.

Traditional Garbage Plate Society meeting starting at noon on Friday September 6th at Nick Tahou Hots in Rochester. Let's see if we can get a mob gathered! https://garbageplate.com/ Attending: Rockpile

My daughter has tickets for tomorrow and did not realize she wanted to get parking near the stadium. There is no way we were getting Hammers early enough. Tickets for Lot 4 yesterday were $114 each. We have younger children that have would have a problem walking from the private lots on Southwestern and Big Tree to the stadium and the appreciating kids day activity! We also probably need to be able to leave early, when kids have had enough. This sucks. AT WHAT POINT IS THIS CONSIDERED SCALPING? !!! @##$%$#^&%%&

One time when staying in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, we took a bus to Mislmaloya. From the beach there we rode horses up the trails of the Sierra Madre along a river where people still washed their clothes in a river. At the top was El Eden, before it was commercialized and there was a guy wearing a Bills shirt. Apparently it was swag that was unused after the Bills lost in a Super Bowl, and the shirts ended up in third world charities. The man did not speak English or even know who the Bills are. LOL

YOU DID IT! The MS Walk was in Canandaigua on Sunday May 19th at Sonnenberg Gardens. We surpassed our goal of $1500 because of our many generous sponsors. I want to sincerely thank YOU for your kindness. The weather was great for a walk in the beautiful gardens, and we ventured down to the lake / pier to chill afterwards. Again, thank you! Rockpile: $ 1,525 Family Rocks Team: $ 100 Total 2024 $1625 Total Sponsors Since 2004: $ 29,596 Donors: IF I MISSED ANYONE, please let me know. Thank You: Lou P Karen R Donald D Julie L John N Marcie D Kevin N * TBD Margie Hart Patrick H GG * TBD AiO * TBD Tim F * TBD ? H J G Deb L Diane * TBD Todd * TBD Bob B Darlene M Trevor W Jay R * TBD Jack * TBD

This is Gianna and me getting ready to do the MS walk several years ago. She is 9 years old now and will be with us at the MS Walk again!

I have four children and eleven grandchildren, and we are all still very close. I look around me and see so many families in chaos and bitterness. You have to look for blessings in this life, and mine has always been family first. Thanks for the kind thoughts. Sorry for your loss. I have been down that road, too. Best friends are family. God Bless.

Thank you to all for the kind thoughts and prayers. Also thanks to those who contributed to the GoFundMe. We used to get the family together and come to games, especially for the TBDAHOT (home opener if you did not know). LONG time ago two of my daughters were TBD raffle ticket girls (Baby Rock and Pebbles 😄). Old timers will remember. Luckily my youngest daughter has a lot of support from both sides of the family. I cannot tell you what it is like to get this kind of news. Since I am retired I am a primary taxi for school, daycare, and dance. Jamie was like a son to me, and my daughter is getting stronger every day. None of us knows where this new normal will lead, but it has a good foundation. There is a hole in that foundation will never be filled. So we look to the future and pray, What else can we do? Again, thank you and I pray you are blessed with a strong family that pulls together when sh*t happens. Rock

It freaked me out when I was diagnosed in the 90's. I remembered being a kid seeing an adult who was really suffering from the effects of MS. At first I thought my life was over - and I still had four kids at home. I was lucky there was a treatment for my type of MS, that mostly slowed me down. I would periodically get an "attack" but they would hit me with IV steroids and Prednisone to put it back in remission.

It's time for my annual request of my friends at Two Bills Drive to sponsor me in a fund raiser to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. I do not post a lot anymore, but I have been lurking since day one of this web site. I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH MS THIRTY YEARS AGO! Many of you know I was diagnosed with MS way back in 1994, but thanks to advances in treatment that get better each year, I can live a relatively normal life. There was a time when a diagnosis of MS meant getting measured for a wheelchair, but things have greatly advanced since then Since 2003 we have raised about $26,500 thanks to YOU! We are hoping to reach $28K this year. As of today, we have been sponsored for over $1,000 as a team. I would estimate that TBD has been responsible for close to 75% of the funds raised in the past. Please support me by clicking on FAMILY ROCKS!! Any amount helps! 100% of your donation goes to the MS Society. God Bless and Thank you all! Rockpile

The Pro Bowl is a commercial venture by the NFL. It used to at LEAST be a player vacation in Hawaii. In the earlier games after the AFL/NFL merger, we used to always root for the AFC, even though we knew it was only an exhibition game.

For me it is slightly annoying to sign up to Paycock for $6.00 when I will just cancel before the next payment, just so I can watch the game. I'll have some friends over and it will be a cheap Saturday night. It will be interesting to see if streaming services make any money after paying the NFL fees and the admin costs of all the signup/cancellation data flood. It is more annoying to me that the NFL does not use the same 75 mile OTA and cable blackout rules "map" they identified when they could not sell out home games. I am much more concerned that the price of one ticket to GO TO THE GAME starts at about $200 even for a nosebleed seat.

I caught a show or two in the first few seasons and did not know what the "fuss" was all about. So, I watched all of Season 4 to find out. This was the year Carrie Underwood won. You could see as the season progressed, how much they were grooming her to be a star. Her hairstyle, vocals, clothes, performances, and even off stage mannerisms became more professional. They succeeded in making her a star. I have not watched it since. Interestingly, the guy who came in second place, Bo Dice was a very long haired southern rock and blues style (Allman Brothers, Lynard Skynard) musician, who just made the age limit for contestants at 28 yeas old. I liked his stuff, but it was obvious Underwood was the "favorite". I actually saw Bo Dice as lead singer for Blood Sweat and Tears around 2016 at the Rochester Jazz Festival, and they were great! NO one from the original BS&T is still with the band, but the name and the show go on.

No squirrel?

How many days to a Garbage Plate?

I was staying in Mystic, CT for a wedding. It is average pizza, but a cool little town .

We went to see Bonnie Raitt at the Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre as a main event of the Rochester (NY) International Jazz Festival on June 27th. The audience loved her and she loved us back. She nearly brought me to tears a couple times. Highlights were "Just Like That", that she credited to John Prine's influence on her. Her cover of "Burning Down the House" by David Byrne/Talking Heads was full of fun energy. Her cover of Dylan's "Million Miles" was refreshingly original without taking away from the original. It was one of the best shows I have ever seen! Been a Bonnie Raitt fan for 50 years!

Going back to about 1994, in the the days when usenet newsgroups were the easiest form of internet group chat, we had a group that met to talk Buffalo Bills. We were always getting chastised for being off topic, as we discussed other things outside the "Bills Window". I met SDS there, as well as a few others who are still hanging around here. Two Bills Drive was a work in process and we were there from day one. I will point out that I mostly did "testing and suggesting" the site before release looking for bugs and improvements. I its infancy, I remember writing a few articles for TBD and I also wrote an "on this day in Bills history" calendar for 365 days. It is hard to believe that there was a time when Scott needed material to fill the page! I joined this group as soon as it started. Since then: I was diagnosed with MS (in remission now but still a nuisance). Four children graduated high school. Two have Master's Degrees, one is a bank manager, and one is a stay at home mother of four. All are married (one got divorced). I am still married to Yvonne / Mrs. Rockpile (41 years) I retired on disability at 62. I have eleven grandchildren, ages two to twenty-seven. The oldest is getting married this fall. Her brother is already married, he was deployed to Germany with the National Guard. He is a policeman, his wife is a deputy sheriff and also in the Guard. I just turned 70 and life is good! I have met many of my best friends here, and will not "name names" in case any are accidentally left out. TBD is still my Bills home.