Guffalo

I think he missed his calling as a fluffer for the rodeo.

Lindsey goes back to jail...now

I think every team has its characters and Fireman Ed is a recognizable clown that is shown at all Jets games, he is kinda douchey (mostly because he is a Jets fan), but he is camera worthy among the locals here. I do hate to admit, it is a powerful sound when he gets the fans going, that stadium sounds like the RWS used to back in the early 90s. That brings me to our Chefs, Elvis and Scott (the bald guy with the mohawk that paints the Bills helmet on his head). They are established crowd favorites that are recognizable and a nice segue for the networks as they go in and out of commercials. Kenny is a fan favorite that is experienced by the fans in the parking lot, I love his tailgate as does everyone that attends. Passionate fans who seem (at least to the viewers) to be cheering their team on. What I like is the originality of their gameday personas. I have seen the last few years a new guy who has been taking up camera space at Bills games and I am embarrassed that he is a Bills fan, "Buffalo Bruno" or something like that keeps showing up in his pajamas, painted face, football on his head and his kids Bills baby blanket as a cape. One of the most unoriginal, hack costumes I have ever seen. I just don't get his schtick, it looks like he went to goodwill and collected crap and painted his face and off he went, each time a camera approached him he just screams like a 10 year old girl encountering a slug between her toes. I just don't get the guy, seems like a camera whore with a shoestring budget.

Before the obligatory "Would ya?" question is asked... Yes for contestant #1 and No for contestant #2

After that I would have expected that he would have changed his avatar to the crapping elephant

Way to go Psycho!! Happy b-day!!

I turn 50 in November, feeling it lately.....

Thats giving yourself way too much credit. I like him, but as they point out, he is in some spooky company as a QB with a losing record (first rounders). But then again, there are plenty of 1st round can miss guys that have fallen on their faces coming from winning programs. Hopefull we will not be drafting #1 because of our schedule. I would prefer to trade Marshawn or Freddie for a first rounder which happens to end up as the first pick of the draft..............Excuse me while go pick my lotto tickets

Maybe they go with her to see their father

How are we supposed to hate the Packers when they do something like that?

Ok so you are a veteran of pain, humiliation and unfettered dissapointment, you are hired. Send Mead a bottle of wine, watch your spelling and grammar, and be please prepare a large plate of Rettatta for the next game (hint, if you start today, it may be ready by Sunday) Welcome aboard

Tom Landry and Joe Gibbs were not screamers either and they seemed to get the job done. Jerry Glanville had tons of rah rah going for him and it didin't seem to do much for him. Sure I hate opening the season at home with a division loss, but it's hard to assess the coach on one game that was lost by less than a touchdown.

Just to have your own "Fabio" moment?

Hey, aren't you banned or something?? (I keed) If the NFL is trying to sanitize the game day experience, cleaning up this stadium will make it as drab as the local economy. Whenever I bring visitors, the highlight of the parking lot tour is the Pinto and the Ketchup ceremony. every visitor I have brought up here compares the experience to what they see at the Meadowlands (or a few Pats fans) Foxboro. In all cases, they wish thier fans had as much fun as the Bills fans have before and after the games. They say it is like having 50,000 freinds all in one place. Changing the Buffalo game day experience would turn the true Bills fan away and the team might as well start packing for a new city. I doubt the "refined", golf clapping fans that NFL wants to see exists in Buffalo and if so, probably are not interested in this current collection of players wearing the uniform. If the product on the field were to change, (it can't get worse) the more restrained, NFL approved fan may outbid the unwashed masses for the tickets, but this year, taking away the only entertainment withn 1 mile of the stadium makes no sense.

Buffalo Chop House always seems to please...

Truck is packed and ready to go, Pat is taking the truck from work, she will be meeting me north of the city, hope to be in Buffalo/Ft Erie by 1:30 am. Sorry looks like I will miss the garabage plates Friday afternoon.

You would love his theme song

Sid who?

My brother in law lives down in SC, he is a big Bills basher, as they used to live in Miami. His his two daughter went to Clemson. Moments after the pick, he called and said this team will not regret it. Yesterday we recieved a text message from them (we NEVER have contact with them except for funerals and weddings) they said they were excited to watch CJ rip up the dolphins. To convert my brother in law from Dolphin to Bills fan means this kid may just be something special.

Could they be the visiting teams returned tickets? Good job on getting a great price, timing is everything.

He did the Bills stuff but that wasn't his main job, he was in print sales at Holling Press on Washington street downtown. They did the programs from the early 60's till mid 70's. I used to get a game copy every Thursday before the game when he got home. I had the full 1973 season (by then it was a national NFL distributed program) with regional inserts for the teams playing locally, national adds on the first and last 10-12 pages, with the local ads and lineups inserted in the center. As for his cartoons, he did some submissions for a local hockey team that I thought was before the sabres, it was a viking or nordique kinda thing they asked him to do, but nothing really came of it. Most of his other stuff was one off stuff for the local Jaycees, fundraisers, people would ask him for caricatures for retirements and special occasions.

I have a better shot of that one, but the file is too big to post. If you look at the bottom of the cartoon, in the grass, you will see the artists name, Weil. It was done by my father, Kevin B. Weil. The one Jack took a shot of in the Hall of Fame is the original submission Dad did in late 1959. Once it was approved, he did the home covers from 1960 to 1963/64. He also did artwork inside the magazine, placing the players face shots onto cartoon bodies in various positions. Some of his artwork was used over some of the entrances to the Rockpile. He would get $35 per cover and as a kid I would watch him draw these, since we share the same name, my job was to find where he hid our name every week. He would hide it in the grass, the cleats, jacket fringe etc. For Fathers day this year I contacted the Hall of Fame, they wouldn't let me get the flag, nor could they let me reproduce it, but he did give me the JPEG of the original that they used to create the flag. That was the file I tried to attach, but its too big to load here.

Congrats on the gift that you will wrap and unwrap for 2 1/2 years!! Great news, best of luck

its back

Agreed, but pictures can be misleading, this one depicts a pool ball rack with an arrow in it, clearly indicating that a good first shot at the point of the rack will scatter the balls all over.