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Albany,n.y.

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  1. No way. Moon was in Canada and signed with Houston as a coveted free agent & Krieg was 3rd string as a rookie. I wish people wouldn't just start throwing names out there without looking it up before they post. A real QB who was on a practice squad who had a decent career is Matt Hasselbeck who cleared waivers & started the 1998 season on the Packers practice squad.
  2. Josh won't be waiting until his contract is up. It's a 4 year deal plus a 5th year option. If he wins Super Bowl MVP before year 4 the Bills will have to pay him in his 4th season. He will be Super Bowl LV MVP.
  3. The 3rd that was traded to Baltimore in the Edmunds trade was the 3rd they got from Cleveland for Tyrod Taylor. The Edmunds trade has nothing to do with the Darby trade. The Philly pick was used to draft Harrison Phillips.
  4. They can move an offensive lineman there, that will fatten them up at CB.
  5. I already groaned your similar post on a different board where you call yourself Mr. Bluto. What I see is an immature loser posting similar messages on multiple boards under different names.
  6. They called it Gazoo, not Gizmo. It was nicknamed after the Great Gazoo character in The Flintstones:
  7. I lived about a mile & a half away from the stadium (Lakeview Ave off Abbott Rd) and walked to & from that game. I got home & everything was soaked. I went to the next home game, a loss to the Jets and never went to another game the rest of that season.
  8. It says streaming is only available in Indianapolis: We'll also stream the game on FOX59.com and the FOX59 app (streaming available in the Indianapolis market only).
  9. Not Rainman-even with the log I messed up my streak, it ended in 2007 not 2008. I edited my post & corrected it, it was 147 straight games & I even have a note in the log about the end of the streak. If I didn't start compiling the log in the years I went to every home game, I could never do it from memory, especially now that I'm considered a senior citizen. I barely remember the details of most of the games with the exception of some playoffs &, the Super Bowls, my 1st game in 1973, the 1980 opener-my 1st & only time on the field while some people were tearing down the goalposts on opening day-only in Buffalo, a 1985 game in Philly where the Bills were up 17-0 going into the 4th quarter & lost 21-17, of course the comeback game & the 1990 AFC Championship 51-3. Most of the other games are pretty much a blur so I'm glad I wrote the scores down. I used media guides for scores when I started the log.
  10. I only went to a few games in the 1970's, 7 total, so it was pretty easy to remember each game & yes, I kept programs & stubs. in 1980 I moved back to the Buffalo area and stayed until 1982, I saw all the home games in 1980 & only missed 2 games in 1981. I only saw 1 game in 1982 due to surgery in August , the strike and moving in December. Unfortunately I sold 19 of my programs in a garage sale at my parents house in the early 1980s-I kept only my 1st game from 1973, the Miami streak ender from the 1980 opener & my finale as a WNY resident 11/21/82. From late1982-late 1987 I lived in Long Island and only went to 9 games, from 1985 on I kept every program except 1 that was stolen during a game. Around 1999 or 2000 I compiled all my data & started keeping a log. I fill it in every time I go to a game and the score. I had seasons from 1990-2011 and rarely missed a home game (I only have been to 1 preseason game 8/8/97 vs Minnesota-I did not include it in my total). I went from October 21, 1990-November 4, 2007 (oops, I originally had this as 11/17/2008) without missing a game (regular season & playoffs) all while living in the Albany area. The 1st game I missed was because they flexed the NE game Thanksgiving week to Sunday night & my father ended up in the hospital & I had to take my mother for eye surgery that Monday in Long Island. As it turned out it was both of their last Thanksgivings, so ending the streak was for even a better cause than I realized at the time. I've slowed down to 2-3 games a year since I gave up my seasons after the 2011 season. Usually only 1 game in Buffalo and a road game or 2 . It's been pretty easy for me to keep track with all the programs, ticket stubs, and now the log. I'm thinking of converting it to an Excel file, but I've been pretty lazy doing it.
  11. One of the responses to the First Bills Game thread got me thinking of this topic. I'll start: I've been to 257 Bills games, both home & road, including home playoffs & all 4 Super Bowls. Their record in those games is 152-105. In addition to Bills games I've been to 14 other NFL games including Super Bowls XLVIII (in NJ) & 50 (Santa Clara/SF). The stadiums I've been to are: Rich/Ralph/New Era in Orchard Park; Giants Stadium & Met Life in NJ, Hoosier Dome in Indy, Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Both stadiums in Foxborough, Levi's Stadium (SF/Santa Clara), Oakland Coliseum, Stub Hub (LA Chargers) Qualcomm (SD), M&T in Baltimore and the Bills 4 Super Bowl sites in Atlanta, Pasadena, Minneapolis & Tampa Bay. The only 1 left is the Rose Bowl, the other 3 have been replaced.
  12. December 9, 1973: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197312090buf.htm I went with a friend at Fredonia & I drove. I think we stopped off at his parents' house in West Seneca before the game. It was wet, either snowing or raining and the blanket I brought was soaked by the end of the game. When we got back to the dorm I threw it in the dryer. OJ went wild rushing for over 200 yards on his way to 2,000 that year. We sat in the endzone, my seat was Sec D, Aisle 3, Row 13 Seat 14-I still have the program and the ticket stub. The ticket cost $7 and the program was $1.
  13. OP: If you want to remain free, don't open your door to anyone in a white coat.
  14. I'm going to both games. 1st game is a bus trip mixed with Jets & Bills fans. 2nd one I'm driving down because the guy I'm going to the game with lives about 50 miles from the stadium & he's not coming up here to take a bus trip. Years ago we had a guy at work who had Jets season tickets 1 row from the top of the stadium. I'd buy 2 seats from him & go with a friend to the Bills games. The 1st time I got to the seats I noticed there was an empty space behind us that was where the Jets placed a security guard. It was the safest place in the stadium to be a fan of the Jets opponent.
  15. I doubt it. The last printed media guide I have is from 2008. In 2009 I tried at the stadium store & couldn't find one & printed it out. I haven't seen a printed one in 10 years and only printed out the 2009 edition. The NFL must be big in saving trees, their annual publication NFL Record and Fact Book hasn't been printed & sold since 2014 and they don't like printing tickets anymore. The media guides & the Record & Fact Book are available for free at the NFL website, but I, like you would rather buy a printed version. For the record, the 2019 fact book isn't available yet. Now there might be a way to get a printed media guide: If you can find a media member who has a printed version, you can ask them to get you a copy if you're at training camp, It's a long shot, but it might be your best chance other than spending a ton of ink & paper printing out from the digital copy. Edit: When I had seasons I used to buy a program at every game. I'd go to the Bills store, buy the program & bring it back to car to keep it in pristine condition. They stopped selling programs after the 2002 season & went to the free mini programs. Now all they give out is a folded sheet with minimal gameday info & players photos. Some teams still sell the programs. My most recent full sized gameday programs were purchased at Raiders & Chargers games. I have the program from the "Nathan Peterman disaster" game at the L.A. Chargers.
  16. Here's the problem beyond just the 3 teams (NYG, WAS, DEN) that took rookies over Rosen before pick 62: NE, who, like it or not, may be the smartest guys in the room made no attempt to deal for Rosen even after a 1st rounder was off the table. You would think picking up a QB who was a top 10 pick a year before and has 3 more years left on a pretty cheap contract would be good insurance for a 40 something Tom Brady. They passed. They later took a flyer on QB Jarrett Stidham in the 4th round (pick 133). The Raiders may or may not think Carr is their long term future, but they preferred Nate Peterman & Mike Glennon on the roster than any thoughts of trading for Rosen-NATE PETERMAN !!!! Who did the LA Chargers pick to back up Rivers? Not trading for the young prospect who was a top 10 pick who would be insurance against an aging Rivers, but Tyrod Taylor on his 3rd team in 3 seasons. They later took a flyer on QB Easton Stick in the 5th (166). That raises the number to 6 teams, including the smartest guys in the room, who saw enough to not bite on using a 2nd round pick on Rosen. 5 of those teams drafted QBs, 3 before & 2 after. Teams that also picked QBs, beside those 6 were Carolina (3, 100), Cincinnati (4, 104), Philadelphia (5, 167), Jacksonville (6, 178) & Baltimore (6, 197). All those teams thinking of backup QBs and none thought enough to outbid Miami's low offer for a former top 10 pick. Even Arizona didn't want Rosen around unlike when SD drafted Rivers (actually traded Eli at #1 for Rivers at #4 plus extra picks) and kept Drew Brees for a couple of seasons. Arizona couldn't have been more transparent unless they put the word BUST over Rosen's photo on their website prior to the trade. The Dolphins didn't outsmart anyone, no matter how incompetent the guys in Arizona are. All the guys in Arizona proved is their own incompetence as they wasted picks 15, 79 & 152 of the 2018 draft for 1 year of Rosen, pick 62 in 2019 & a 5th in 2020. I guess the way they felt about Rosen they feel lucky that they got pick 62 & next year's 5th.
  17. http://www.nfl.com/static/content/public/static/pdf/media-guides/BUF-Media-Guide.pdf
  18. 1st round QBs, especially top 10 picks are considered gold. They don't get traded or released after 1 season. In the 50+ years since the merger, the only 1st round QB traded a year after he was picked other than Rosen was Kelly Stouffer and the only reason he was traded was because he refused to sign with the Cardinals & sat out his rookie year. Stouffer (6th overall pick of 1987 draft) was traded for a 5th in 1988 & a 1st & 5th in 1989. Rosen was traded for pick 62 of the 2019 draft & a 2020 5th, basically pennies on the dollar for the 10th pick the prior year. If Arizona thought Rosen had any long term future they 1) Wouldn't have hired a coach who wanted nothing to do with Rosen & knew he could have his pick of any QB in the 2019 draft & 2) Wouldn't have been willing to trade him for so little. Also the fact that Arizona didn't get more shows there wasn't a lot of interest in Rosen around the league. Clearly the NYG, Washington & Denver all thought that choosing a rookie QB was a better choice than a Rosen trade. Arizona may have helped devalue Rosen by tipping their hand on Murray, but most of his devaluation was caused by what the rest of the league saw on film. If Rosen pans out for Miami, what it will say is Miami outsmarted the rest of the NFL. As I've said in the past when the Bills picked up guys who if they worked out, the Bills would have outsmarted some of the best GMs in the NFL now applies to the Dolphins: They're not good enough to be considered the smartest guys in the room. At least Buddy Nix admitted as much in a press conference.
  19. QB stats are as worthless as used toilet paper. My house is brick.
  20. The Cardinals will be drafting their 3rd straight 1st round QB & hiring their 3rd straight new head coach in an attempt to keep their fans hoping. Stop with the low expectations, 11 wins won't get us home field through the playoffs. 14 wins or bust!
  21. I've been to 3 games in their stadium. The 1st time I was in the upper deck, the last 2 times I got seats in the lowest level because getting to the upper deck in that stadium is the worst hike I've ever had in any stadium. I remember seeing an older overweight woman on the stairs to the upper deck and I thought she was going to die trying to get up the stairs. It's no surprise that they're having trouble unloading those upper deck seats.
  22. He gets to throw passes to you in your back yard while Josh is playing in front of a sold out crowd at the stadium.
  23. He's on their radar ever since the weed with Blount incident. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000381295/article/steelers-bell-blount-charged-with-pot-possession
  24. It's original broadcasts are on each Tuesday night at 10 PM EDT on HBO. The 1st episode is August 6th.
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