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I can think of 60 million reasons why he should retire a Bill

Whataburger is more fast food than 5 guys but there's some similarity. More jalapenos is what im saying

Ha, I wish Allen would bring WhatABurger to Buffalo too. Whenever we're visiting the wife's fam in Alabama we always go there. They make a jalepeno burger that's better than any fast food burger you can get in Upstate NY

ah, even the elderly can play. We've played with my folks who are in their late 80s and they really enjoyed it

We started our kids on Catan when the older was 9 and the younger was 5. There's a couple things you can do to simplify the rules, but they got it quick. They're 22 and 17 now and we still play!

Agreed. I never felt like he was all in here, and really not in NE either. Obviously a tremendously talented player but seems like there's some other place he'd rather be

If josh Allen gave every bills fan a billion dollar he could still afford to build a dome stadium downtown with enough parking to tailgate for everyone in New York am I mathing right? We will never know!

Depending on where they put it downtown, it seems (from passive observation coming downtown for high level business meetings, i dont live there any more)like they could bulldoze some eyesores and create some dedicated tailgating parking lots. There might not be enough room to recreate the entire OP atmosphere, but like i said earlier, if the stadium was downtown, and people in North Buffalo/Town of Tonawanda could take the subway down, there would be a lot fewer people doing tailgating anyways. Or, they would be doing it in the UB North lot then drunkenly taking the subway to the game

Fantastic metaphor for Upstate NY

I'd expect Governor Hochul would be at least as willing to help Buffalo as Cuomo?

Years back, when the subway was originally envisioned, they were going to build a spur out to Tonawanda. If that existed (lol) a downtown stadium would be great. Short of that, parking is bad enough for a Sabres game, not sure where you put everyone

Yes. They said for another billion dollars they can make the grass align properly

you asked for it... here's what $1.1B gets you.

Agreed 100%. It makes no sense to lay out that kind of money for something that's just a little better than what's there already. I'd expect for that much we could at least get a retractable roof.

I want to see that $5 billion stadium.

same place that at least half of the $1.1B is going to go

Just call it infrastructure

Anything is possible, but i've been selling into State and City/County Governments for 25 years and they generally aren't that clever, though given the magnitude of this i'd assume they have their A team engaged

for real. anything we do in NYS is double in cost of doing it anywhere else. Lots of palms to grease along the way and just wait until you see the MWBE requirements.

The net is actually in the other direction - upstate is largely subsidized by downstate. In fact, a rather shocking percentage of the State budget comes directly out of what a fairly small number of Wall St types pay in income taxes Having said that, i'd be all in on an independent upstate. We'd be a little poorer but a lot freer. This whole stadium thing was bungled - I assume that someone high up in PSE thought that leaking this would help their negotiation. All it's going to do is create a lot of ill feeling. The County/State already have a number that they're willing to get to, and this sort of public pressure isn't going to move that number much if at all Last point, in case it hasn't be brought up before, Robert Kraft paid for (and/or arranged for private financing) 100% of Gillette Stadium. This was pointed out to me by a Pats fan buddy of mine, so i looked it up, it's true. He also paid for improvements to local roads and assorted infrastructure to support the flood of traffic caused by the stadium. I can't believe I'm sitting here saying "I wish Kim & Terry were as generous as Robert Kraft" but here we are

Yes, l have a grand investment idea. Build another 50,000 hotel rooms in Buffalo for the every 25 years they get the superbowl. It's literally foolproof

Ugh, this was the first season my son was old enough to really pay attention. So much hype! 'Building a bully' indeed I'm enjoying your season overviews, kind of in the same way i enjoy picking at a scab

It is. Definitely check it out, the last couple times we've gone down there it's been hopping, probably the best place right around here to go have a couple pops and some food

There's a Druthers here in Schenectady now, right on the River, really nice place. I havent tried the wings yet because too busy stuffing the fried pretzels and all in IPA down my throat

So in your opinion, what makes them Buffalo Wings is the medium in which they're heated, not the end result? The only things that can be called Buffalo Wings are deep fried in mel-fry, with sauce that is 4 parts Franks Red hot, 1 part butter? seems rather limiting but if it's that important to you i guess