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Bowen Byram is re-upped for 2 years, $12.5M total, avoiding arbitration. Can’t imagine he’s happy to be stuck in Buffalo but he’ll likely be trade bait this season or next off-season, then gets to be UFA in ‘27.

My takeaway from that is Mr. Polka saying that the stadium’s life is “30 to 50 years.” If the stadium life is 30 years I think most people would be 🤬. This stadium had better last 50 years at a MINIMUM.

✅ Can a mod clean up this thread from the sidetrack and can everyone just DROP IT wrt discussing JK’s past? TOTALLY not the time or place.

Krabbe’s is no longer untreatable if diagnosed in time. Their charity, Hunter’s Hope, was/is active in promoting this testing to be required and for insurances to cover it. A couple-few years ago they did testimony in front of Congress to try to get a federal mandate but it did not get included. Currently, only 12 states require testing for it.

"Don't take Pillagex if you're allergic to Pillagex."

It would be great if they could wear those at some point this season too. The white 64-65 throwback didn’t get officially dropped, they just stopped wearing them a few years ago. And just to note on the helmet announcement… because the regular jersey set is somewhat similar they may decide to simply wear the red helmet with them, rather than doing a full Kelly-era throwback set. The league announced this offseason that teams are allowed to have 3, or in a couple of possible cases, up to 4 different helmet shells / colors and that an alt helmet can now be paired with a primary jersey set. We’ll see if any of this comes to pass.

BR has always seemed to be a reliable news outlet, right?

There’s been nothing in the rumor mill on uni sites about a red helmet alt, even tho the league is now allowing 3 or in some cases 4 helmet shells. Literally everyone wants it for a couple of games per year but the team just isn’t doing it. In the final year of Rich/Ralph/Highmark this is truly stupid and heartless. It’s what they should have done from the start. Only nitpick is that there should be a thin white border around the W on the helmet. They have the yellow bordered with white down the helmet stripe, it needed to be done on the logo too for balance & consistency.

I was uneasy about McGovern’s shift to C (iirc from the press at the time he hadn’t played the position in a game since high school?) but his play showed just how much of a liability Morse was becoming. Amazing the difference when the interior of the line doesn’t get blown off the LOS and pushed backwards into the QB.

Exactly my humor. 🤖 (Note: I am on the autism spectrum.)

Bingo. I believe that’s from a Seinfeld quote. I have one Kelly jersey from back in those days. My others, that I’ve sewn 🧵 myself, are with my last name. I’ll never get cut from the team, you know?

To salvage something out of it, I’d take a seam ripper to the BILLS wordmark. (I’ve never been a fan of those things anyway.) It looks like there’s no NFL shield on the collar either? Can order a patch one on the eBay and iron on and sew. I learned how to use the sewing machine during COVID times and have done customizing on a fair few Red Sox jerseys (ordered the name letters & numbers on eBay from a guy who uses the exact team font and I assume it’s done with a Cricut machine?), a Kelly era jersey whose vinyl numbers peeled, etc. I also do the odd repair to clothing, dog toys, and other items; hey it saves money.

Well… consolation is that if he does develop into a decent player history shows that the Sabres will trade him for some hot dog water, whereupon he has a relatively high chance to soon win a Stanley Cup.