Albany,n.y.

They were about 10x $500 on the secondary market even back in the fall. You were either getting pop-ups from some scam or one of those places that lets you prepay with different prices depending on what team you buy. At those sites if your team gets in you get the tickets at the price you gambled that they would make it, if another team gets in, you lose your money. I'll be at the game if I am physically able to go, hopefully with Petrino if he can make it.

I have a Josh Allen jersey, do you? I'm just saying that in his 3rd season Mahomes is more advanced than Josh was in his 2nd. That's a fact. It doesn't mean Josh won't win the Super Bowl after his 3rd season. So, if you haven't already bought your Allen jersey, you better go out & buy one already, otherwise stop telling fans who already have one to buy a KC one when they state the fact that at this point Mahomes is better.

Nonsense! The 2017 Bills had a decent OL with Wood & Incognito still around. They also had a younger Shady at RB. They won 9 games & made the playoffs. If Mahomes was the QB, they would have had a ton of early picks in 2018 to shore up the O-line (after Wood & Incognito) left & get a WR or 2. If Mahomes was playing in 2017 the Bills would be Super Bowl champs today.

It will be their home game vs Houston, the NFL loves a repeat of champions Super Bowl run & Houston is the last team that played them that is on their schedule. It's almost a lock that the KC @ Buffalo game will be a night game.

Super Bowl party at Al Cowlings' house.

3 PM Stubhub prices: $6,100 on Chrome, $7,000 on Edge both after $500 off list price. This is the opposite of earlier days when the tickets were cheaper on Edge than Chrome. Still nowhere where they were a week ago on Saturday.

Even with the $500 off they're still $1,000 more than a week ago. They may end up lower in the next 24 hours, but I doubt they'll fall another thousand dollars. At some point the last possible moment means you have to travel to the city & get near the stadium where Stubhub sets up their distribution center. What time of day do you mean by last possible moment?

When I went to the Derby in 2014, I checked out all the Rally Bus locations & it came down to Florence (Cincinnati airport) & Indianapolis. I chose Indianapolis because the walk from the motel to the Rally Bus pickup point at a Walmart was shorter. In Indy, I could book a Super 8 1 block from the bus pick-up. In Florence the pick-up point was at a shopping mall and the walk to/from the nearest motel was a lot longer than in Indy. I live about 40 miles from Saratoga so I don't need to stay anywhere, but I rarely go up there, maybe once a year, because it's easier to bet at home, without all the distractions of a day at the races.

From the time WWII ended until many years later, there were always rumors & stories that Hitler was still alive. The last time I heard one was in the 1980s on the Mort Downey TV show when some guy got on and said he met Hitler in California years after the war. Nowadays we don't hear those stories anymore but I'm in my 60s & I heard tons of them when I was younger.

I don't know where the $5,750 comes from, my guess is that's pre-fees, which range from around 17-25%. I looked at Stubhub minutes ago & the cheapest seats were over $7,300 with fees included. There are virtually no seats less than 7 grand when fees are added. There's no way Stubhub is coming down enough to match their $4,600 prices of last Saturday. Sorry Estro, there's no way prices will come down thousands on Stubhub from the over $7k they are right now. As the game gets closer the number of available tickets diminishes, making it tougher for the price to come down at an internet site. Even the no-fee Tickpick has one pair at $6,500 and the rest are all in the $7,000 & up price. Don't get fooled by pre-fee price quotes. The tickets are up in the $7,000 get in range and are not falling much unless one plans to go outside the stadium & find a scalper with tickets left after the 1st quarter, they're not going down significantly. If the Bills make it, my advice is to buy either the Saturday or Sunday 1 week before the game. I track prices every year and my data stems from years of tracking prices. The only year that went against recent trends was 2015 in Arizona & even that year tickets went through the roof the closer it got to the game with nothing less than $10,000.

I've been to a lot of pizza places that also have a sit down restaurant. You can sit down and be waited on or you can take out pizza. It certainly isn't a KC thing, I ate at one in Albany a couple of months ago and we ordered a pizza pie.

Get in price up to $7,000 3 days before the game. Time to buy was last Saturday.

What kills your premise is that the Bills didn't pick up Watkins 5th year option, a pretty good indication that he was not in their long term plans. It would be impossible for a team to not pick up the option and then turn around and tell the player he's a big part of their future and they want him there long term.

I still have the final edition. 9/19/82. Three months later I moved out of WNY (I was living in Kenmore) for the final time & never lived there again. The death of the Courier and the end of my time in WNY were very close. I've come back many times for Bills game weekends, but it will never be the same. Which paper?

There are ways around that, like staying 2 hours away (or less) & driving in the day of the game, then driving back to your pregame location. That's similar to what I did the year I went to the Kentucky Derby. I found a Rally Bus to the Derby out of Indianapolis, a little more than 100 miles from Louisville, flew into to Indy Friday night, took a cab to a motel a block away from the bus pickup point, got up Saturday morning, took the bus to the Derby, got back to Indy around 11 PM, took a cab to the airport Sunday morning & flew back to NYS Sunday. I flew out of Newburgh rather than Albany since my friend who joined me at the Derby lives in Beacon and flights were cheaper out of Newburgh so he won the airport based on price. After I got back to Beacon, I drove home. I also did something similar when the Super Bowl was 2.5 hours from my house when they played the game at MetLife stadium. I got up in the morning, drove to NJ, parked at Stubhub's parking, took a Stubhub chartered bus 5 miles to the game, got a motel in northern NJ near the NYS line (Holiday Inn, not a cheapie) for $115 and drove home after I got up. Unfortunately, I should have just driven home after the game since after I checked in I watched the news weather forecast & NY/NJ was getting a snowstorm and to beat the snow I got up in the middle of the night & left before 4 AM to beat the snowstorm. Also flying into an airport a couple of hours from the event site will save you hundreds in airfare & car rental $. When I went to SBXXV, I flew into Orlando and rented a car in Orlando then stayed in Orlando motels my 1st & last nights and drove down to the motel in Treasure Island that was included in the Disney package .

I don't know, but today (Tuesday afternoon) there's a $700 difference. Edge has the lowest priced tickets at around $5,500, Chrome at around $6,200 for the same tickets. It looks like Saturday, 8 days before the game, was the best day to buy this year Prices have gone up by $1,000 and more since Saturday. So if the Bills make it next year, I'm buying on Saturday afternoon.

He's saving the owners money by multitasking. Pretty soon the Texans will be the NFL's only team with no assistant coaches.

The Bills & Jets will be taking over the AFC east this season. I'd be surprised if they both don't make the playoffs with NE battling Miami to stay out of last place. We have the advantage with McDermott over Gase in NY, but the Jets are not going to have another season like 2019 where their QB goes down with mono, their top free agent on D has a lost season and their rookie (now 2nd year ) DT is banged up & underachieves. The Jets will be a formidable opponent this upcoming season, with Darnold, Mosley, & Q. Williams at full strength, NE, not so much.

Every time I see a post quoting QB stats I cringe. Eli Manning was one of the best big game clutch players of his generation. Rivers, on the other hand choked away many opportunities. Eli had a lot of mediocre games, but with the game on the line in games that mattered, he was money. The only time I'd use money and Rivers in the same sentence would be : Rivers made a lot of money during his NFL career.

Rosen's future is not in the NFL. Miami will dump him pretty soon. They brought him in on a flyer with minimum risk since in their trade down they got another 2nd round pick. Then in a rebuild year, they thought so little of him that they decided pretty quickly that he was not their QB of the future after seeing him play in a few games and instead of trying to develop him, they benched him in favor of the guy who gave them the best chance of winning a few games. Since the coach had a free pass, he didn't have to win any games to keep his job. If he saw anything that gave him hope of developing Rosen, he would have played him rather than sat him. Instead he went with Fitz & I guarantee Miami takes a QB in the 1st round. That leaves Rosen out the door since there's no way they're keeping the rookie, a veteran (either Fitz or Rivers) & Rosen. I wouldn't be shocked that as soon as Miami drafts the rookie QB, Rosen is either traded for a late round pick, or if there are no takers, released outright before camp.

The Bills have as much of a chance of signing Hill as any one of us has of stealing Giselle away from Brady.

I've been tracking the get in cost of SB tickets this week on StubHub!. Before the championship games the price with fees (which are around 24% higher than the list price) was around $6,000. It dropped to $5,000 shortly after the games were played. I looked today and on 2 browsers I got 2 different answers. On Edge StubHub!'s get in tickets were going around $4,500 to $4,600. On Chrome they were $5,000. So one thing I learned is not only to time the market (Past history predicts tomorrow evening will have the lowest prices), but check on multiple browsers when looking to buy. Since I'm not in the market for tickets this year, all my monitoring is for future reference when the Bills make it.

Guys my age who were around for the old AFL are in the minority. You kids need to stay off my lawn and stop rooting for the NFC team in the Super Bowl.

If the Bills aren't in the Super Bowl and the Patriots are, I'm rooting for the Patriots. Why you ask? The answer is quite simple. The Patriots are our AFL brothers, just like the rest of the old AFL teams are. Old fans like me remember the days of competing leagues when the NFL was always the enemy. Now if I have a chance to root for an old AFL team, now in the AFC against an old NFL team, now in the NFC, I'll be damned if I'm going to root against a former member of "The Foolish Club". We old guys remember the joy every AFL player and fan felt when the Jets won SBIII. Listen to some old AFL players talk about it, the Jets victory was considered an AFL victory for everybody involved in the league. It becomes a little different when an old NFL team that moved to the AFC the Steelers, Colts, and Ravens (since they are the old Browns) are in the game, then it depends on who their opponent is. The only time I'll root for the NFC is if I can win money if they win the game. The last time that happened was when Seattle beat Denver & I was in a post-season pool and needed Seattle to win the game. In the 1990s the AFC, as we Bills fans painfully remember, was getting their butts kicked by the NFC every year. When Denver finally broke the AFC's losing streak I was as happy as if the Bills had won. I remember going to work the next day with a smile nobody could get off my face. So that's why a Bills fan can root for the Patriots in the Super Bowl and a Bills fans should look back in history if that person doesn't understand that rooting for the AFC team in the Super Bowl makes a lot more sense than rooting for the NFC team to win the game. For similar reasons, it's completely understandable that a self respecting Rams fan can root for the 49ers.

You are the 1st one to get it. I was thinking something similar but from a different angle. When I go to a Super Bowl city I want the tourism mixed with the anticipation of a future game and the day I do my sightseeing and do things like the NFL Experience is Saturday, the day before the game. Once the game is over half the fans will be too disappointed to want to do things football related. I know Saturday is when I'm doing my most spending. This is especially true when the tourism is in a different area than the game, like Super Bowl 50 when the big football and non-football big events were in San Francisco. Saturday we went to the NFL Experience in SF, restaurants in SF, etc,Sunday down to Santa Clara. It was a similar thing when the game was in NJ and the big events were in Manhattan for the tourists.