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Thought the best quote today was from Beasely BTW - I don't get Sal's "This jugs machine video is real" comment in his tweet

Does Beasleys shirt say 'Tricky Dicky'? Looks like it has him (#11) on it - I googled and didn't find any links to him

Thought Tremaine looks thicker too

Did he have a puppy?

When I saw the title I thought it was going to be b/c they didn't call him Prime Time - so it's not as bad as I was expecting

After a Bills game, just after Thurman Thomas was announced for Hall of Fame, I am walking to my gate at the airport and the area was mostly deserted (might have actually been the next day) and Thurman is walking all by himself from the other direction. I shook his hand and congratulated him on the HOF and he was very nice. My son has actually gotten selfies and been on flights after games on separate occasions with both Croom and Shaq Lawson - in each case there was some issue they were going home for right after the game. He also got a selfie with (retired) Fred Jackson in the airport after a game. Also - my son went to UNCW and one day he was in class and one of his friends who knew he was a Bills fan said 'Brandon Beane is here today' (UNCW is Beane's alma mater) and told him the building where he just saw him. After class my son booked over to the building and literally was just wandering around halls looking for Beane and he found him! My son was wearing a Bills hat that he always wore - and he said when Beane saw him he just lit up - he LOVED seeing a random Bills fan far outside Buffalo - seemed genuinely happy to see a fan and interact. He was there with his family and was super nice (think this was within a year of him getting job - he might have been there to accept an alumni award). Years and years ago I spent a night drinking w/ Matt Kofler - he was married at the time to a girl I went to HS with. I remember trying to be cool and not ask too many Bills questions - but it's also not like there were "glory days" stories to tell from his era .. He seemed a nice guy (RIP) I've told this story before: Years ago I went to Jimmy V charity golf tournament which was right next to where I lived, and James Lofton was in one of the groups. Things were winding down, and as I was headed out I saw Lofton on a tee. For some reason I got the great idea I was going to run home and get a camera (oh the days before cell phones) and get a picture with him. I soon realized the distance was longer than I estimated, and I was not quite in the shape I thought I was. By the time I got back I was dying - could hardly breathe and sweating my a$$ off. I stumbled toward Lofton and will never forget the look on his face when he saw this heaving, sweaty, crazy-looking person approaching. Barely able to breathe I blurted out "JamesisawyoucatchalotofballsatrichstadiumthoseweregreatdaysGoBiils!canigetapicture" and he accomodated me as one might accomodate an insane person while fearing for their life. He showed a lot of poise in that situation 😛

It's crazy to see all lined up how many passes were from running around without a clean pocket

This seems like as good a place as any to ask - has there been any rumblings if fans might be able to attend TC at the stadium - or when an annoucement might be forthcoming? Planning to go up to Buffalo 1st week in Aug w/ my son w/ hopes to go to TC w/ my Dad.

Yep - first thing I thought of. We used to play street football in the neighborhood and we all loved to tip-toe the curb ("sideline") and yell "Bobby Chandler" when we made the grab

Not the frozen kind - heyyy-ooohhh A while back I randomly came upon some "most extreme" type show that detailed some of the engineering for earthquake protection - was amazing the extent of some of what they put into it

There was also tons of engineering/expense poured into the stadium (pun intended) to make it earthquake resistant

There is someone in this thread who literally used the phrase "science worshipers" wth?

I read this thread during high level meetings

These are the exact two points that I've been thinking about a lot reading some of the responses in this thread (from people on both "pro" and "anti" vax side) Last month I was back in Buffalo and ran into an old friend from the neighborhood I grew up in (57 yrs old), who I hadn't seen in years. Three years ago he was diagnosed with liver and pancreatic cancer. He went to live in a hotel near the Cleveland Clinic for a year - getting chemo and radiation off and on and literally slowly dying waiting for a liver donor. His weight went down to under 100 lbs, and eventually he was told he had two weeks to live if a donor couldn't be found. Ultimately his wife's best friend stepped in and gave him part of her liver. When I saw him it was two years since his operation, and he was just getting back to 'normal'. As part of the transplant they also removed his pancreas and his stomach. He takes a daily cocktail of drugs and immunosuppressants, which he will have to do for the rest of his life. After all he'd been through, his outlook on life was so upbeat and positive - it was truly inspirational. He is one of the at risk people who will remain vulnerable even with the vaccine. It is not as simple as saying "I don't want to take it, - if you want to protect yourself just get it yourself" The mutations are the other thing that I'm not sure most people fully consider. The more people that contract the virus, statistically the greater chance of a mutation eventually developing from a single blip in mother nature's cosmos that the existing vaccines might not protect against (as I type this, the virus is replicating billions and billions of times in millions of currently infected people). It's not as simple as saying "just let all the healthy unvaccinated people get it, we'll be fine - and we'll develop herd immunity, and everyone who is vaccinated will be perfectly safe". The less people who actually get infected, the lower the possibility of a variant emerging that the current vaccines do not protect against (imagine what will occur if that happens)

One thing that I see as a possibility from all this is unvaxed players who feel the same as Beasley on the surface agreeing to the terms, but just not following certain parts of the protocol. How much in depth policing can actually be done. Especially in terms of personal human contact, it would seem to be largely an "honor" system (assuming players aren't posting pics with strippers). The policing/punishment aspect of this really seems like it could become a mess.

You must be one of the 'TBD without Ads' elites

The Line Of Scammage

But he also ran a wrong route 😮

Hopefully there will be so many updates it will just stay at the top

My friends and I all loved Fergy - and like you said my Dad always complained about the body language etc. Stupid adults 😛 One memory from high school I will never forget was in 10th grade, in school after the draft my geometry teacher Mr Miner, out of nowhere, at the beginning of class just started going through the Bills draft (on the chalk board!) and I'll never forget how high he was on Joe Cribbs - just was going on and on about how good he would be. It was crazy because you would never even have known the guy was a Bills fan - never spoke a word about the Bills all year - but on that day he was dissecting the draft in front of the class and going on and on about Joe Cribbs.

Was also at this game w/ my Dad and my brother. Will always remember the piece of goal post being carried up to Ralph's box. What a fun time. Also remember some people tossed a piece over the side of the stands - I guess no one got killed...

Nitpicking, but "permanent" isn't the right word there

RocknesAra - wow. Dude must have an alias on this board

Up close is pretty relative - the access has gotten further and further away over the years - esp w/o a VIP pass. I remember the "old" days at SJF where you truly could line the fences around the fields and really be close (not Fredonia-close, but still close). I was lucky to get VIP for a few of the last SJF camps I went to - can say the times I wasn't VIP I definitely did not feel like I was close to the players. Times have also changed wrt the fan base - I've always viewed the SJF camp as marketing move by Russ (unapoligetically using his alma matter) to try to reach/expand the fanbase eastward into the state, back when they were desperate to try to do anything to grow the fan base. That is not a problem in these times. It will be interesting to see if fans are allowed and what access might be given to the public. If there is any access I can't imagine it would be any worse than SJF. For me selfishly, I'm fine not having to schlep my way over to Rochester with my 86 yr old Dad taking school buses to/from the facility. The trump I'm sure for the Bills is all the new state-of the art facilities they have on-site now - how could they not want to be there.

Thanks for posting all this crack/porn