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I looked, but all of his tweets were deleted.

I'm actually from Dunkirk. Dunkirk Dave is their famous groundhog. Bob Will, a special education teacher in middle school there raised him: https://www.dunkirkdave.com/ Here he is eating a pumpkin pie on Groundhog Day this year: https://www.facebook.com/groundhogdunkirkdave/posts/559630579515195

NFL Capsules Week 5: https://nflcommunications.com/Documents/2023 Football Information/Capsules/Week 5 Capsules.pdf [scroll to third game] Position No. Name Exp. 2022 Crew College Occupation R 14 Shawn Smith 9 n/a Ferris State Finance U 92 Bryan Neale 10 same Indiana Sales Consultant DJ 84 Jay Bilbo Rookie n/a [unknown] [unknown] LJ 45 Jeff Seeman 22 Cheffers Minnesota Brokerage Sales FJ 109 Dyrol Prioleau 17 same Johnson C. Smith Manager, Law Firm SJ 18 Clay Reynard 4 same California-Davis Customer Service Rep BJ 105 Dino Paganelli 18 same Aquinas Educator RO n/a Mike Wimmer 21 same NYU Producer RA n/a Sebrina Brunson 4 same Florida Atlantic Felony Probation Officer https://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/285502/the-perception-and-reality-behind-nfls-in-season-official-firing The NFL fires an official and opens Pandora's box. What's next? "The timing couldn't have been worse. Referee Shawn Smith's crew was struggling Thursday night, hours after we learned that the NFL is now willing to fire officials during the season for poor performance. Smith's crew initially enforced a penalty incorrectly on the opening kickoff of the Houston Texans' 42-24 victory over the Miami Dolphins. It missed an obvious trip on a first-quarter punt, called a questionable unnecessary-roughness penalty that gave the Dolphins a first down, and took away the catch of the year by Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins because of a mild push-off. The natural question for fans, players and coaches alike: Would Smith and/or his crew be fired?" [end] Good link for referee biases and teams that are screwed over yearly: https://time2play.com/blog/referee-bias-in-the-nfl/ Of the 24 NFL crews, Shawn Smith is the 11th most aggressive referee: "Additionally, Shawn Smith was the most associated with roughing the passer penalties (68.4%)"

I was shocked when I read this today. He was a former Pro Bowl tight end for the Patriots and 49ers. He won a SB with San Franciso in 1984. I remember watching him as a child in the 80's. He died in a plane crash in Lake Placid. He was an avid aviator. Boston is getting hit hard in the past few days (this and Tim Wakefield). WTF?

He did three NFL Network games last year (Munich and two Saturday). Not sure how good he is as an announcer.

I don't know--6:30 AM seems a little too early for me, lol! [I'm on the West coast.]

Josh Allen nominated for FedEx Air Player of the Week:

FLEX ALERT: In Week 6 (October 15, 2023), Detroit at Tampa Bay has been flexed from 1 PM to 4:25 PM to be the featured game on FOX. This replaces Philadelphia at New York Jets, which was the previous feature game. Jets are still Jetting, lol. Now 1-3.

[Note: This week is the second International Series - London game, Sunday, October 8 at 9:30 AM ET on NFL Network] [Note 2: Doubleheader this week is CBS.] [Note 3: There is a MNF ManningCast this week.] [Note 4: Remember: the TNF game is free and legal to all on Twitch--no Amazon Prime account needed.] [Note 5: Remember: all MNF games this season are also simlucasted on ABC unless there is a separate game on ESPN, as is Week 14.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2023&wk=5 https://archive.506sports.com/wiki/2023_NFL_Season NFL Week 5, 2023 - October 8, 2023 NATIONAL BROADCASTS: TNF - Amazon Prime Video/Twitch Thursday, October 5 - 8:15 PM ET: Chicago at Washington Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit, Kaylee Hartung [Simulcasts: WFLD (FOX/32) Chicago and WTTG (FOX/5) Washington.] International Series - London - NFL Network Sunday, October 8 - 9:30 AM ET: Jacksonville vs. Buffalo at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, England, UK Rich Eisen/Kurt Warner/Jamie Erdahl [Simulcasts: WFOX (FOX/30) Jacksonville and WUTV (FOX/29) Buffalo.] SNF - NBC Sunday, October 8 - 8:20 PM ET: Dallas at San Francisco Mike Tirico, Chris Collinsworth, Melissa Stark MNF - ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 Monday, October 9 - 8:15 PM ET: Green Bay at Las Vegas Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters [ManningCast on ESPN2] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBS Early Sunday, October 8 - 1 PM ET: Baltimore at Pittsburgh (2) Ian Eagle, Charles Davis, Evan Washburn New Orleans at New England (3) Kevin Harlan, Trent Green, Melanie Collins Tennessee at Indianapolis (5) Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta, Amanda Renner ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBS Late Sunday, October 8 - 4:25 PM ET: Kansas City at Minnesota (1) Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, Tracy Wolfson New York Jets at Denver (4) Andrew Catalon, Tiki Barber, Matt Ryan, AJ Ross ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOX Single Sunday, October 8 - 1:00 PM and 4:05 PM ET: New York Giants at Miami Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma, Shannon Spake Carolina at Detroit (2) Chris Myers [replaces Joe Davis this week, who is doing MLB], Darryl Johnston, Pam Oliver Houston at Atlanta (3) Brandon Gaudin [replaces Adam Amin this week, who is doing MLB]/Mark Schlereth/Kristina Pink Philadelphia at Los Angeles Rams (LATE) (1) Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen, Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi [Tom is unconfirmed as of now] Cincinnati at Arizona (LATE) Kevin Kugler, Mark Sanchez, Laura Okmin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bye Week: Cleveland, Los Angeles Chargers, Seattle, Tampa Bay ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, the regular season home opener was September 1, 1973, Jets at Bills. I found this:

I just wanted to say I heard the term "quarter pole" twice on the radio today. First, Greg Papa, the 49'ers play-by-play guy said that in his analysis of how the season has gone for the team so far. Then on Fox Sports Radio, someone I am not familiar with also used that term after today's games (probably heard it on the Brian Noe and George Wrighster show). Well, it's not the "quarter pole" yet but the "3/4-pole" approximately (? I guess it depends on how long a horse race is), since quarter pole refers to the horse race when there is 1/4 of a mile left. I want to thank @4merper4mer for mentioning this last year. I was not even familiar with the term, but it remained with me all this time. I learned something new then!

Haha...I'm not saying, but you might be on to something. 😉

Not on the fish forum, but a Dolphins fan claiming to be a Bills fan posted this on twitter: [I've blurred his name so as not to give him publicity] Keep dreaming!

Of course, a troll claiming to be a Bills fan posted this ridiculous statement on twitter: [I've blurred out his name so as not to give him publicity] Real classy and illogical.

[Has this been posted ? It was not in a search.]

UPDATE: FOX-Late: Des Moines and Ottumwa IA: NE-DAL to AZ-SF (Fri) Map has been changed. Kowtowing for Brock Purdy.

It's also in ESPN+: The better question is how many people on the west coast or farther are getting up at 6:30 AM to watch the game?

Another minor update, with more markets switching to MIA-BUF: CBS Single: Madison and La Crosse WI: DEN-CHI to MIA-BUF (Fri) Map has been updated. Yeah, some schedule guides are slow to update, but the Bills game is definitely on! The local station guide, as well as zap2it are usually more reliable, but not always.

Thanks for that! I've been busy today, or slacking, whatever you want to call it, lol. Here is your tweet in graphic form: Here are the updates, including the FOX one I posted yesterday upthread. Maps have been updated. UPDATES: CBS Early: all MI stations; Green Bay and Wausau WI; Des Moines IA; Fargo ND; Mankato MN; Cape Girardeau and Kirksville MO; all MT stations: DEN-CHI to MIA-BUF (Thu) Erie PA; Amarillo, Wichita Falls and Sherman TX: PIT-HOU to MIA-BUF (Thu) FOX Early: Oklahoma City and Tulsa OK; Fort Smith AR: WSH-PHI to TB-NO (Wed) St. Louis MO: CIN-TN to WSH-PHI (Thu) Grand Rapids, Lansing and Marquette MI: WSH-PHI to MIN-CAR (Thu) Anchorage AK: LAR-IND to MIN-CAR (Thu) Very nice! An intelligent, well-written letter with cited info to back if up. You represent well for the Bills Mafia.

Because the Tampa Bay game is on at the same time on FOX, so CBS chose to air the late game (Vegas-Chargers) instead of the early Bills game to not go against the home team and lose viewership.

And if the Jets win and we lose, the Jets will be ahead of us with the head-to-head tie-breaker.

CBS 17 in Raleigh is showing MIA-BUF: https://www.cbs17.com/tv-schedule/