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The whole kickoff thing could be interesting. Lots of opportunity for innovation - feel like some teams are going to be trying some wild things early on - and lots of things likely to be copied (and needed to be accounted for) as the season goes on

High Level Meetings sure - but what kind of car do they drive?

VIP have the best shot at autographs since they have access to fence on the field that players may wander over to (my avatar pic). If you don't have VIP they usually have a few players designated to sign in the stadium after practice is over. Not sure if sometimes a player or two will come over the the bleachers when it is over - I leave by then but seems like I've seen clips of that. Sometimes players will sign going to/from the field if you can get a spot on the fence outside of the tunnel entrance. Sometimes a few will stop at the tunnel coming off the field but that can be a mob scene (and most direct access even for that is the VIP section on the field). One year my son got his hat signed by Beane by yelling 'Go UNCW Seahawks!' (both Beane and my son went there) from the top of the tunnel and got his attention and tossed his hat down then Beane signed and threw it back. That was back when things weren't so crowded - some people may still try to toss things (or even dangle things from strings) but not sure that would be recomended if it's really crowded (someone hit Josh with a box they tossed down in Highmark tunnel when he wasn't looking last year or a couple years ago and he was not happy). Things are way different than it used to be in terms of access. You used to be able to hang along the fence all around the field and be close to the players (and there was only a fraction of fans). One year Willis McGahee was hanging around with some RBs running sprints after practive and we called him over and he just walked up and signed my son's shirt. Now the fences are further back and the VIP takes most of the close access. I'm just glad I don't have to worry about the whole autograph thing anymore. IMO the experience is much more enjoyable and stress-free if that is not on the agenda.

This is the classic look I'm expecting

Same. Remember playing 'The Button down mind..' - the Abe Lincoln and baseball bits. RiP

51-3. Never experienced anything like it - just a big party by halftime - people screaming "We're going to the Super Bowl!" to each other in giddy disbelief. After all the years of suffering the unthinkable was actually happening. It was like a dream. Just an unbelievable experience Dishonorable mention for "memorable" - the 6-3 Cleveland game - the worst live sports experience of my life - sitting up at the top corner of the upper deck freezing our a$$ off watching the "football game". My son was 11 yrs old and had swine flu and went anyway and still talks about how it damaged him. Bills and the NFL should give reparations + additional $$ for pain and suffering for those brave souls who lived through that tragedy

Funny - on a random note, it was driving me crazy when they were playing that stupid Beyonce country song and just wouldn't stop, and it was so weird (and annoying) how it started with Schoen purposely and inexplicably starting the song on his phone before starting discussion with Daboll. I saw this today in a "social media reacts" article on the episode which someone had tweeted - now at least it makes sense if true - they were totally screwing with HBO 😛 (who then as the tweet says got the most for their money by continuing to play the song over some Vegas dealer video/animation 'explaining Giants free agency')

The thing that stood out to me was how completely out of place and in over his head McDaniel seemed when the adversity came. I know he has his supporters, but to me just completely fails to check the 'Leader of men' box

That's crazy stuff. I read an article recently about a couple motorcyclists that died of heat exposure in Death Valley that once heat index of 99ºF is exceeded, ambient air no longer helps provide relief - ie. wind blowing from riding etc doesn't cool you down, never considered that before

Surprised haven't seen any info on this at all - don't even see anything on bb.com with pics of rookies showing up etc

Obviously never been to Dave & Busters

No shade at you - but the Jordan 'cut' story is not the big deal it sometimes is made out to be - as a sophmore he tried out for varsity and was placed on JV instead - which is a pretty typical scenario for a sophmore. He was skinny and 5'10 and had a growth spurt after

It always surprises me how good highmark looks in these videos off in the background

I'm also waiting - glad that it seems so far they haven't sent any notifications yet so there's still a chance

I think it's funny whenever I go visit Buffalo the first day I see people in Bills gear and my first reaction is wow a Bills fan and to say 'Go Bills!' then I realize where I am 😛 The other fun thing is when I'm driving and someone passes me and is gesturing and giving thumbs up and I'm thinking wtf then realize they saw the Bills sticker on my car Was at the beach this weekend in NC - kid next to us had a Bills hat - talked to his Dad who grew up in NC, but his Father was from Buffalo - those are the ones I like the best the fans that go through generations growing up outside of Buffalo

It's kind of amazing last year in the media all the ridiculous pre-season hype Jets were going to the SB and this year with pretty much the same team the forecast is so much less optimistic even assuming Rodgers is healthy

Was just joking around in the spirit of the lighter side of the thread (which I thought your comment was) - no offense intended

Men's or Women's?

I opened one of the gifts my son got for me and it was a candle. I'm like "Thanks(?)" - then he said to open the box and read the fragrance: Candle gift

Interesting there is a 72hr window to accept tickets after notification on 6/26. Presumably tickets that don't get claimed would get thrown back into pool, subject to another lottery draw? (rinse and repeat?) There is no mention of how that follow-on process would work - assuming there is one

Bills related - after my brother and I left for college and the Buffalo area, we've gone back every year since late 80's to take my dad to a game around his bday the beginning of October. Once our sons were 6-7 yrs old we started taking them also - been 3 generations for 20 yrs now. My Dad's 90 now and we all look forward to it every year (even after living through some of the worst games in Bills history - including the 6-3 Cleveland game) For the proud Dad brag - My kids played a bunch of sports growing up. For my son one of the coolest memories I have was from a little league all-star game - he was playing shortstop and it was the bottom of the 9th and there were men on base with two outs. Batter hits a line drive that went off the 2nd baseman's glove and pops up in the air, and out of nowhere my son runs full sprint and dives flat out and catches it to end the game. It was one of the best plays I've ever seen. Kids go nuts and carry him off the field. For my daughter - she played three sports in HS at a high level that all require different skills with a ball (volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse) - was a conference all-star in basketball and lacrosse, and earned 10 varsity letters altogether. This is in an area where almost all kids specialize in one sport from an early age, at a HS that routinely was one of the best sports programs in the state, winning multiple state championships every year in different sports - where it was difficult in most cases to even make a team. It was such a unique thing around here to be a high caliber 3 sport athlete the Raleigh paper did a feature article on her (she was also an honor student). I played 3 sports in HS and always thought it was very cool she did that - especially given how much more rare and difficult it was for her vs my experience.

Greggo Williams - what an arrogant doosh, almost made me hate loving the Bills Coy Wire - this is kind of out of left field but I grew an intense hatred of Wire, not just because he was so awful week after week, but also because there were so many fans at the time who inexplicably thought he was so great. But he could jump out of a pool Billy Buffalo - Billy Buffalo must die Train Horn - enough said (edi: "Shush!, literally")

Exactly - I was going to respond that the "lean on Breece" post implied that there was actually a legitimate OC in place - if Hacket asked Rodgers to hand off to the RB all game Rodgers would just ignore him - or give him the middle Goldfinger

Rondell Bothroyd says hello

Waiting for the Rondell Bothroyd hype video to drop