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    Is it time to narrow the goal posts?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Not only is it time to narrow them, but the goalposts need to be placed on sliding rails that move from left to right/right to left between the numbers. In addition, they need to be mechanized as to randomly raise and lower themselves as they conduct their side to side movement.

     

    Setting it all to music would be the topper.

     

    GO BILLS!!!

     

    Also, they should be charged 50 cents per kick..............

    It's time to sit/trade EJ

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    I'll catch hell for this, but why not let Tuel get a rep every now and again? I think he'd be a great change-of-pace guy. Might serve to spell/motivate EJ a little. He's not much of an athlete, but Tuel gets rid of the ball fast. -I like that.

     

    Once Marrone/Hackett add some much-needed targets to this LAME offense, I wouldn't mind seeing Tuel thrown into the mix. -Not too much... Just enough to keep EJ competitive, and give opponents something to ponder.

     

    Ponder plays for the Vikings.....

    Does Gronk make Troup the worst Bills 2nd rounder

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    If the draft was today and I didn't know what i know now I would have drafted Troup 100 times over. If the Bils would have drafted a TE over a DT in the early rounds we would have been pissed.

     

    When are people going to get over Gronkowski. We could have picked him but didn't. If we had picked him do you think he would have become what he is now with the Bills?

     

    Agree 100%. The bills would have wasted his talent. They'd probably be trying to switch him to right guard. Chan is good with X's and o's but a poor evaluator of talent

    A Few Thoughts About The Game

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Anybody else feel that maybe Fitz has been injured or just maybe he is not strong enough to go a full season throwing as many passes as he does. I read on this board how he seems to be putting more body into his passes causing him to be erratic. Perhaps his arm strength has faded after the fast start. Would be interesting to see how he does after resting more - say after the bye week etc. Thats the only explanation that seems possible after watching him the first five games of the year and his major dropoff now....

    Why Pay Fitz so early?

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    Plain and simple the Bills gambled on Fitz. When we were on the winning side of things they feared his value was going to drastically increase as the season went on. So they signed him to as low a contract as possible at that period in time. Same thing was done with Dick Jauron.

    Anyone with NFL sunday ticket, can you answer this:

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Does anyone know if you are watching the game on a laptop via Sunday Ticket, are the blackout rules dictated by your physical location or the home address on the Direct TV account?

    Blackout rules apply to the home address not physical location. I went to visit relatives in Phoenix once and set up my dish. Received no local channels and the ticket was blacked out. Called DTV and the Rep stated that the rules apply based on home location on record not physical location of the dish.

    your brush with greatness

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Being a recently discharged Vietnam veteran at the time, I was hired by the Veterans Administration as a contact representative at the VA office in Philadelphia. The supervisor who hired me was a WWII Marine by the name of Carlton Rouh. I never knew at that time that he had been awarded the Medal of Honor for actions at Iwo Jima. I later transferred to the Buffalo office and had spent time working at the VA Syracuse office that was headed by Forrest (Woody)Vossler who had also been awarded the Medal of Honor during WWII. I never knew it at the time but found out years later. I also had the opportunity to work on the claim of the only WNY area Vietnam Medal of Honor winner.

    RIP Cookie

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by bobm

    From the article: "Former Bills cornerback Booker Edgerson claimed Gilchrist was "just as good or maybe even better" than Hall of Famer Jim Brown"

     

    I saw both play, quite a bit in fact. Cookie Gilchrist at War Memorial Stadium and when the Bills played away, the Bills and Browns on TV. In fact for those not around yet the Browns were the team seen on TV week after week in the WNY TV viewing area for years starting about 1955 or 56. Both Gilchirst and Brown were punishing runners down after down. In the December 8th, 1963 game against the NY Jets at War Memorial Stadium (which the Bills won 45-14) Cookie ran for a punishing 243 yards and scored 5 touchdowns. To this day still one of the greatest rushing feats by any Bills player in the 47 or 48 years I have been fortunate to see the Bills play.

     

    Even though the historic Civil Right legistration had been passed a year earlier; bigotry, discrimination and worse were still prevelent throughout our land. But worse, much worse in the South were the KKK controled many local and state governments. New Orleans and in the larger sense, the state of Louisiana were among the most corrupt in our nation. I remember seeing signs in many sourthern states like "whites only" in many places; water fountains, bathrooms and picnic areas to name but a few. Few if any whites were ever convicted in the south of 1965 for mudering blacks. Sometimes the KKK would kill whole families by burning their houses down while they slept and if they ran out, they were shot by the KKK. It was against this backdrop that Cookie Gilchrist started a boycott against playing the 1965 AFL Allstar game in NO. The article says "a bar" but in fact any black person was not even allowed to enter the many "whites only" bars not only in New Orleans but throughout the deep south. A very dark time in our nations history for sure.

    I hope it is true that Ralph Wilson saw Cookie and just wish that both he and Lou Saban were put on the Bills wall of fame before they passed on. Sad and ironic that the two men who were among the best at what they did for the Buffalo Bills (even though the two often feuded) are not in any way acknowledged for bringing the only football championships for the Bills team and Bills fans everywhere.

    RIP Cookie

     

    I remember he also had about a 50 yard run near the end of that game that was called back by penalty....

    your brush with greatness

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by bobm

    in 1965 while working at a gas station on Porter ave near the peace Bridge entrance I put gas in Cookie Gilchrist's car and also sold him a can of Spitfire. On another day, I put gas in Jack Kemp's car. He said to me "Fill it up".

     

    On a related note, Al Hirt once stopped and asked me for directions to Kleinhans Music Hall.

    Cut List

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Byrd looks for picks and doesnt play his man. hes been doing it all year and yesterday was just another example of it

     

    Yeah - I believe most of his picks last year were on overthrown and tipped passes and he's now playing for an overthrow or tip instead of the receiver.

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