Tipster19

I'm talking DEFENSE baby! I just threw the popcorn, kicked the dog and looking to take no prisoners! I'm looking for a defensive/ST TD in the first 3 minutes, Roscoe to be big on offense/ST and McKelvin to electrify the crowd with his returns. The Wizard of Poz steps up big and Mitchell to be the MVP of the game. Sh--, throw in Edwards to Evans for a backbreaker!

Of course it is but this thread's intention is to give inspiration and enjoyment to masses of Bills' fans who are wallowing in misery because of the latest swoon. This game is going to be our highlight thus far.

I don't think that I have made predictions of the outcome of our games too much but I do have come to expect the Bills to bow up on these type of games. What I say doesn't have any effect on the game's outcome but being a long time fan does give me the encouragement of making such a bold statement. If fans are nervous or afraid of tonight's game or of this team then I offer my condolences to them because being a Bills' fan is NOT a very easy or comfortable thing to be but I wouldn't trade it or want it any other way. When we win the Super Bowl it will be the greatest feeling I have ever had outside the birth of my children. I remember when we were losing Super Bowls after Super Bowls and there were some "fans" who didn't want the Bills to go back to the Super Bowl because it was too embarrassing to keep on going there and losing them. For a moment I was confused on what being a Bills' fan was but then I said "Hey, that's not me, that's THEM"! I was never one of THEM. So tonight I'm gonna get real excited, get in my favorite spot on the couch, give a brief (yeah, right!) history desciption of the Bills to my 17 yr old son and get some POPCORN and watch the SHOW! I hope you enjoy this game half as much as me. If so you're gonna have a great night.

I'm right with you on this thinking. I think tonight you get your wish. GO BILLS!

Amen Brother!

Then save it. One game, one season, sh--, one decade doesn't sway my loyalty, hope or belief in this team/organization. Mention the Bills to my friends, family and more importantly my children and the response and sentiment is the same and that is that I bleed blue win or lose. I usually am pretty realistic on the outcome of our games and in this game we are going to answer the bell. Jump on board now because this is when it counts, not halftime or tomorrow morning.

It proves one thing, it proves that we are not going away lightly and neither am I. I've been licking my wounds with this last mini slump and now I'm done with it. I'm moving forward and cheering for this team like I haven't cheered in a long time. I forgot where it came from, I think Timmy Russert, but I'm picking myself up and dusting myself off, just like I expect this team to do tonight. Why? Because I'm from Western New York and that's just how we're built. GO BILLS!

For one night I'm going to quit worrying about the status of our play-off quest and just enjoy this @$$ kicking. As in many on this board I've been a fan of the Bills for a very long time and watched plenty of games, live and on tv. Buffalo has always been a team that plays big on these primetime home games and tonight won't be an exception. While everyone has been questioning their heart in these last few games, and maybe rightfully so, tonight we are going to see one amped up team. I expect the Bills to not only win this game but more importantly destroy the Browns. Go Bills!

I don't live up there anymore. I wanted to hear it from the locals who actually are in it and not from inconsistent national weather reports. Thank you!

Thanks Philster, I appreciate it.

I'm mostly concerned about the wind. Thanks.

What does it take for this organization to regain it's swagger again? Before you know it it will be two decades since we were a successful team. I watched the Arizona/San Fran game last night and was amazed at how deep the Cardinals are at the WR position. We can't sport 2 good ones and they are 4 or 5 deep. I'm so sick of our conservative play in the last few years and being the only one in our division that plays a 4-3 defense. When we were a 3-4 we were highly exciting to watch and had a ton of success. What happen and who actually changed us to playing the 4-3? I think that the only way to amp up this team and get them to show some emotion is to get about 12 MNF games worked into our schedule. Want I wouldn't do to get the Bills to make a trade for Anquan Boldin. The guy is a true beast and even better of a leader. He's often referred as the leader of that team, even by Warner. When was the last time a WR was the leader of a team? I've had enough of our vanilla offense. It's time to infuse some kind of excitement, whether it's a wildcat package, no hudddle or something else. We are also lacking a presence on defense like a Ray Lewis. sh--, watching Drew Brees in pregames is more motivating than watching 4 quarters of the Bills staggering around on the field. Where are the leaders on this team because it's certainly not our head coach.

....it was 1973 and my admiration for the Bills was just beginning and watching OJ Simpson rushing for over 2,000 yards rushing in a single season. I was just a young kid not fully comprehending the magnitude of such a feat. ....big changes occurred with the hiring of Chuck Knox and trading OJ to the San Francisco 49'ers. ....getting tortured unmercifully by my older brother year after year for being a Bills' fan. ....working in a pizzaria in the late '70s/early '80s proudly wearing my Bills' hat. ....going to a MNF game in 1981 against the Dolphins on bus trip from Rochester with our favorite local bar. I took the sheets off of my parents' king- sized bed and made a sign out of it. It went something like "We're no babies and we don't need no Cribbs because we come from the school of hard Knox". It was fandemonium because we stomped them. What a great night that was! ....watching later that year in the post season a gimpy Joe Freguson gallantly tough it out in a losing cause against the San Diego Chargers. ....seeing us draft a Jim Kelly and then wondering what we did to deserve him not wanting to play for us. ....suffering thru the Hank Bullough Era and seeing our stars quit against a team like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. ....going to the Jim Kelly/Bills home opener in the 1986 season against the New York Jets. Once again another lost but man what an exciting game that was! Finally we got hope again. ....watching Bill Polian accumalate more of those great players of the '80s and '90s teams and realizing that Darryl Talley is my favorite all time player. ....the 1988 season we finally arrived as a true contender. The Bengals were just a little too much for us in the end but I couldn't wait for the next season to begin. This is when I also realized just how big Boomer Esiason really was. In the AFC Conference Championship game Bruce Smith went to tackle him and Boomer was shoulder to shoulder/eyeball to eyeball with him. ....being in the endzone seats in the 1990 AFC Conference Championship game against the Raiders and watching Darryl Talley intercept a pass for a TD and return it pretty much right in front of me! What a rout! ....watching my brother-in-law slip and fall down a slope on a muddy day leaving the Ralph after a win. I forget which game it was but he was so drunk and he was going to show me how to cut thru the crowd on the outside of the exit ramp. He was wearing white sweats and was covered with mud from head to toe. I couldn't stop laughing my @$$ off. What an idiot! ....witnessing the refuse to lose mentality of this team in the 1990 season against the Broncos and the Raiders in back to back wins. We were getting our @$$e$ handed to us in both games, especially the Bronco game, when the Bills exploded for 24 points in a 1 minute/17 second span. The next week against the Raiders I think something like 21 points in a 3 or 4 minute span for another big time win. It was magical and I never see much of those two ever mentioned. It's too bad because it was some of the most exciting football I ever saw. ....going to every post season home game during our Super Bowl runs but pussying out and not going to the Greatest Comeback. I wanted to but the problem was that my buddy was a diehard Houston Oiler fan and HATES Buffalo. I wasn't confident that we were going to win and I wasn't going to ride all the way up and back to Buffalo and listen to his mouth, especially during the game. It was a no win situation for me. He's a true bad@$$ and even if we won I couldn't rub it in because he would of killed me, literally. To compound matters more that game was blacked out. I had to listen to it on the radio but it didn't squelch the elation I felt when I heard it. ....seeing my favorite team win the AFC four consecutive years. I was disappointed and heartbroken when they didn't convert just one of those Championships into a Super Bowl win but I was always proud of them just the same. ....feeling how proud I was when I watched Thurman score that 31 yd TD, it was also the 1,000 point scored in Super Bowl history. What an emotional game that was for me. I even punched a hole in my wall, not out of anger but pride. ....afraid to dream in that first Super Bowl when it came down to that FG. I'm not kidding, I felt that it was against us. That wasn't really Norwood's comfort range and it was on grass. I was devastated and watching any great length of that game still puts a lump in my throat. What I won't forget is when the Bills win their first Super Bowl how I will think and feel. It will be fulfilling my life. I think about the Bills EVERY single day. They are a fiber of me for decades now. I swear that they must be a part of my DNA. What I won't forget is the pictures and images of my sons when they were little boys dressed in their Buffalo Bills' pajamas, knowing that the Bills hold a special place in their hearts no matter where they are in this world because of their dad. The Bills are important to them because of me and THAT gives me great joy. When they think of the Bills, they think of me. How great of an honor is that?

It can't hurt. Being a hardcore fan for almost 4 decades of the Bills and hating on the Dolphins more than any other team I figure if I start pulling for these pukes it might affect the crap results that we turn out year after year. I think that the only thing that is older than me is the ineptness of the Bills.

It's great to read that more of our former superstars still have such strong feelings towards our current team. While it's been well documented on how former players like Kelly, Thomas, Tasker and other notables feel about their association with the Bills, I never knew how Andre and Bruce felt. I guess by induction time to the HOF will answer that question for me with Bruce. Go Bills! http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nf...l-insider_N.htm

The outcome of yesterday's game was what I was concerned with. Losing to them and the Patriots and Jets winning now has this division all bunched up. Initially the Patriots were going to be our biggest obstacle but now this whole division could be .500 against each other. We need to answer the bell in these next 2 weeks or we'll be in a nice little hole.

I posted back about Miami being a dangerous team and got promptly flamed for it. I'm wondering what the opinion is on the morning after. I see most of the threads today are bashing our players but I haven't noticed too much mentioning the play of the Dolphins. http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showt...=68797&st=0

Living in Florida I thought that it would be interesting to share with the folks back home what one newspaper is saying down here about tomorrow's game. Fort Myers is on the west coast and is almost directly across the state from Miami. Time wise it's about 2 hours away. http://www.news-press.com/article/20081025...421/1010/SPORTS This is a late addition to this post so I'm editing it. I thought adding Lee Evans' perspective would not only make it more interesting but also provide what we might expect in tomorrow's game from our side of the ball. http://www.buffalonews.com/452/story/473646.html

The Chargers have big WRs (Jackson and Floyd) but now it's time for us to break out with our big WR. Go Bills!

When I said Boomer, I meant Norman "Boomer" Esiason the Bengals' QB.

I'm not sure if you realize it but they did use the no huddle first in 1988 and then we tweaked it in the following years.

Ouch! This was on the episode of the 1988 Lost Rings. When they were concluding the highlights of the '88 season/play-offs, the Bengals were facing the Seahawks and that was when Joe Nash was faking being hurt so they could slow down the no huddle. This was when Boomer said that at least they were doing it on the field and not like other team(s) who were trying to do it in the Commissioner's office and then use it and go to four Super Bowls. Then Wyche went on and said that we used it the next year and that's when we (the Bills) "invented" the no huddle. As Wyche was saying this they were showing him in the pregame warm-ups spouting about how our coach should be ashame of himself. He did conclude that Marv and him are good friends to this day and that he kids him about it. I guess that if I were a Bengals' fan I would feel the same way but it still was embarrassing to hear the way they sneered about it. Wyche should be grateful that he was given a job after the way he had a melt down as a coach in Cincinatti and in Tampa. As for Boomer, I never did much like that jerk when he played in Cincinatti or in New York even though he was a good QB.

I agree. Does anybody remember when we played the Raiders and Broncos at home in back-to back weeks in the early '90's? Both times we came roaring back to win both games. In one, against the Broncos I think, we scored 21 or 24 points in a 77 seconds. In the other game we scored the othe point total (21 or 24) in just 2 or 3 minutes. Three minutes is a ton of time, especially for a home team.

Yeah, well the Kool-Aid I'm drinking is laced and I'm feeling no pain. We're going to kick the Raiders' balls around their necks and make 'em look like they're wearing bowties! Bills in a laugher, 37-9.

I might face bankruptcy and I might face foreclosure but I know what Bills that are going to get paid! Go Bills!!! *Response edited due to graphic violence and profanity. This response is now rated PG.