UConn James

Please let New Orleans bring out the Old Gold to match their awesome throwbacks. Why they went with a black alternate helmet last year is just beyond me. Like pairing a $5,000 bottle of wine with a peanut butter & jelly sandwich on wonderbread. Haven’t heard anything about us adding a red helmet Kelly-era throwback. Maybe they’re waiting until the new stadium? But why?

Well… my alma mater UConn team wins with some regularity and two in a row now, so yeah much more enjoyable for me in the same way that having an ice cream sundae is better than getting kicked in the nuts, repeatedly.

🎵 UConn Husky, symbol of might to the foe 🎵

I’m assuming that something happened in pre-game or the previous game that carried over to the puck-drop? Coordinated thing when everyone starts fighting *right away.*

But then we won’t get to have games blacked out by helium Mylar balloons let go by children!

Ughghh

Perhaps this rumor note for the iOS 18 release (usually in mid-Sept.) can calm the snarling dogs?

I also wonder how it will affect McDermott’s penchant to keep 3-4 guys solely for special teams tackling. iirc Matakavitch and Neal were released. Maybe he had word this was gonna happen since he’s now on the competition committee?

Sooo the focus of this thread really shifted from the original dirt, concrete, and steel that’s in the thread title to PSLs and ticket prices. Might it be best to create a separate thread for these and other Bills PSL & ticket & the stadium experience store concerns? Bc I keep clicking on this to see any construction updates only to find another page full of the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth about how it’s going to be too expensive for average Buffalo fans and everything is going to change. I just wanna see life size Tonka-type and cement trucks, cranes, and steel here. Please.

So does Jeep have to make all of their parts able to be put into a Ford? It’s fairly asinine that they have to be subject to sharing / interfacing their proprietary technology with competing companies. Should EasyBake ovens have to be pair-able with the kitchen playsets that every little girl gets? Does BMW get sued for jumping up and down in their commercials how much better they think their drivers are than others? When in reality BMW drivers likewise shame less expensive car owners, yet they are the ones who are known pricks who speed and weave through traffic? As Augie writes above it’s just a phone. It’s like… “this is what our product does. It is not all things to all people. Research what you want and then decide to buy… or not.” After much kvetching by the EU courts, they have changed to USB-C charging ports starting with the 15 series on phones.

We’ll see what McGovern is made of at C, but for me the Jerry Ostroski experiment is still pretty fresh in mind. He was moved into the spot and would just get absolutely bull-rushed into the backfield. He looked the part, sure, but it was just terrible results. Better draft a guy who has *actual* starting experience at the spot more recently than / & beyond the level of high school.

Shortening standard time to ~4 months under GWB was a half measure. Make DST permanent! Afternoon sun in the winter rather than at 6am. Keeping standard time and/or continuing to change the clocks increases energy use / consumption.

The boys have been playing pretty well since I ordered my primegreen (royal / home) jersey from the team site. It arrived yesterday and looks so sweet. I will say the last time I got an authentic Bills jersey via bills store, they broke the curse and made the playoffs the next season. Happy to have a quality jersey from adidas before the league changes to Fanatics next year; we’re seeing how the Fanatics changes and cheap production value is going with MLB jerseys. With this, I think I’m all set for my jersey closet, most of them with my favorite number 15 and my last name on the back. Super win today, boys! Resilience! Probably too little too late, but….

Hulk mode was activated unexpectedly?

Looks like someone doesn’t believe in the football gods. Predictions like this anger them.

It wasn’t [only] Tom Brady that made BB “great.” The real downfall of his evil empire was when Ernie Adams retired. Just my 2 pennies.

Sabres announced some major KeyBank Arena upgrades. A new roof & over-ice video board.

I’d like to see how he does with a new DL coach. Eric Washington was given a lot of prime resources and we saw little return until Ed came on this year.

I ordered an authentic adidas Primegreen jersey tonight on the team page with my own last name on back (because I can’t be traded or leave in FA) and #15 in the regular royal blue set that is truly beautiful & traditional after our jersey designs were so bad for so long. Can say that I was a bit tempted on a Tage Thompson since he’s a fellow UConn alum, but I had to stay with my protocol. Been considering it for awhile to add to my favorite team jersey collection and have heard that the Fanatics branded jerseys the league is switching to (and what will be available to fans) next season are terrible quality. So it was getting to crunch time to just get it done. I was watching on ESPN+ and ordered in the 3rd period after we went down 2-1. Little while later the evener and then the OT win.

Godspeed in recovery!

“Covered by roof canopy.” Good thing rain and snow always fall at a perfectly perpendicular 90* to the ground. 🙄

Yep. Most of all for me it’s that every other commercial now during games is like “Gamble your hard-earned money away on sports outcomes!” 😠

Black for black’s sake (BFBS) is THE worst trend in uni styles. Bills really ought to get rid of the black outlines on the unis. As the uniwatch page put it, the Bills since 2011 are a blue and white team with red accents. The black (or… dark navy some people say, but I own a pair of game used pants/shorts and it certainly looks black to me and it’s a distinction without a difference) is a copied element from the Cowboys’ hack job that is their white uni set that has black outlines on the sleeve stripes but not ANYWHERE else, to go along with the three different shades of blue they use (the uni pants just recently were switched to the steely blue from the infamous seafoam green). It’s maddening to uni fans. Or for anyone who “roots for the laundry” as Seinfeld said about the age of free agency and such. It *might* make sense from a chromostereopsis standpoint of red adjoining blue creating a blurry affect, which ostensibly is the case on the blue jerseys… but on the road set we have black outlines between the red on the numbers & sleeves and the white jersey. And it’s between the blue and the white on the helmets. Such inconsistency. In the era of HDTV this is not needed. Even in the Kelly era with SD, this was not needed. It was just red, white, and blue. Simple as that. And the freaking collars that have changed 6-7 times with the different Nike templates (the toilet bowl ring, then it did meet at the V, then it didn’t, then it did, then it met but was just a grayed fabric, and now there’s an elongated V with the Fusion template)… please lose them!; just make the collars the same color as the jersey already. TPegs was part of the Sabres redesign that simplified those jerseys, kicking out the grey pinstriping and changing the dark blue back to the classic royal. Why we can’t do similar for the Bills and make a B+ uni set an A+ is beyond me. Maybe we can hope for it with the new stadium?

Loved his work — acting and directing several episodes — on “The Mandalorian.”

Marcus West joined in 2022, which is recent enough to give him leeway in my mind re: the DL’s lack of development given all the prime resources that’ve been devoted to it. I mean… we’ll see.