Week 13 - 49ers at Bills Game Week Thread

[Whites Bay]

1 hour ago, Big Turk said:

 

You won't until a day or so before the storm hits. Those forecasts are based on normal mesoscale weather models not the microscale ones needed to predict lake snow effectively. The models those places are using have no idea what is going to happen. This is a localized event and they don't have the models for that.  Additionally, much of this isn't known yet due to how localized these bands are and a small shift in wind direction can change the band placement completely and be the difference between places 5 miles away getting nothing or getting multiple feet.

 

It's coming...they just can't give you all the details on a daily basis yet.

Non-game note (because I'll be settled in across from a blazing fire in the woodstove with a bottle of beautiful Cabernet)...but serious UGH for traveling.  I'm thinking about thousands of people converging on the same airports and rental car stations (BUF, ROC, SYR) trying to get home on Thanksgiving Sunday.  It will be bad enough traveling on that day...now add 4+ feet of snow and high winds.  Just a nightmare of cancelled flights.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

29 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

Can't wait until the new stadium gets built so we won't have to worry about this bs anymore.

haha. Oh wait. Paying a little more for a dome will “take the fun” out of football. 

[The Helmet of]

12 hours ago, Beast said:

They’ll be off today.

And yesterday? No need to get an extra practice in for the big game? Maybe an edge on the incoming opponent? 9 days off?!

 

Off for Thanksgiving too?  And the snow may disrupt practice. McDermott knows better than I do so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I know he has an awesome record coming off the bye.But this is a superbowl contending team.  Hope they come out sharp for a national audience.

Edited November 27 by The Helmet of

[boyst]

1 hour ago, BillsFan130 said:

I'm with you. They have a very good offence and a solid defence . With a play caller who seems like he's finally figured it out 

Denver figuring it out, too. I'd love the world where Denver and Miami make it but Baltimore doesn't. 

[Beast]

Just now, The Helmet of said:

And yesterday? No need to get an extra practice in for the big game? Maybe an edge on the incoming opponent? 9 days off?!

 

Off for Thanksgiving too?  And the snow may disrupt practice. McDermott knows better than I do so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I know he has an awesome record coming off the bye.But this is a superbowl contenting team.  Hope they come out sharp for a national audience.

They won’t be off on Thursday. They don’t work at a bank.

[Doc Brown]

4 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

haha. Oh wait. Paying a little more for a dome will “take the fun” out of football. 

Just the money for shoveling out the snow alone would negate the money saved not building a dome.

Edited November 26 by Doc Brown

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

 

 

[Norcalbillsfan]

6 hours ago, Logic said:

Raiders fans are definitely the biggest exceptions to my west coast vs east coast generalization. 

In my experience, most Raiders fans I've met are fiercely loyal, proud, are NOT fairweather fans, and proudly display their team's colors all year round. 

I'd tend to attribute it to the fact that the Raiders spent most of their existence in Oakland, a city which has a very blue collar east coast kind of feel to it. Then again, I know plenty of Raiders fans aren't from Oakland and have never been there. Being a Raiders fan is an identity unto itself, going back to the 1960s. Tough, hard nosed, fierce, rule-breaking, outlaw football. "The autumn wind is a raider", and all that jazz.

Anyway...It's interesting being an east coast Bills diehard living in mellow, west coast, soccer fan country. People think I'm crazy. That's okay -- I probably am.

 

Raider nation is truly a fan base that deserved better than what they got in moving to Vegas.  My friend is a 15 year season ticket holder, and 2 tickets in Vegas cost double than the 4 tickets he had at the coliseum. And the airlines price gouge hard on flights to vegas before raider games. All the middle class blue collar raider fans got priced out. Really sad.

 

I will say josh allen has made alot of west coast bills fans. I see 17 jerseys pretty often, rural Fresno area (joshs hometown) is covered in bills and wyoming jerseys.

[ColoradoBills]

5 hours ago, Fleezoid said:

 

My friends and I made up some rules to make the game playable:

 

Whoever was on offense had the power switch. You could turn the game off to get forward progress if the player started turning. 

You could help the player run straight by brushing the players forward on a tablecloth to straighten the feet under the base.

 

On a passing play, when you get an open receiver, you’d stop the game to throw the ball. The ball could even hit the ground first as long as it bounced or slid into the receiver.

 

Only way we could get reasonable passing game.

 

Yes, the offense had the power switch, and we stopped the game to pass.  It was impossible to pass while it was buzzing.

We would brush the players on the field but didn't know about the tablecloth thing!

[Kelly to Allen]

15 minutes ago, Norcalbillsfan said:

Raider nation is truly a fan base that deserved better than what they got in moving to Vegas.  My friend is a 15 year season ticket holder, and 2 tickets in Vegas cost double than the 4 tickets he had at the coliseum. And the airlines price gouge hard on flights to vegas before raider games. All the middle class blue collar raider fans got priced out. Really sad.

 

I will say josh allen has made alot of west coast bills fans. I see 17 jerseys pretty often, rural Fresno area (joshs hometown) is covered in bills and wyoming jerseys.

I think the bay area became untenable for a lot of reasons. But I love the raiders fans. Kind of a vagabond fanbase that is unique 

[scuba guy]

2 hours ago, Big Turk said:

 

That's not positive, it's the exact opposite actually. A watch issued this early is because they are expecting it to be really bad and are giving people lots of notice to prepare for it.  Watches are issued prior to 24 hours of the storms expected arrival at which time it will become a Winter Storm Warning or Lake Snow Warning.

 

Early models showing 4-6+ feet 

So in Rochester we call this the Wegmans report just go and spend lots on money on food.  And the storm never comes

Edited November 27 by scuba guy
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[Sierra Foothills]

On 11/25/2024 at 10:02 AM, K-9 said:

Another in a line of Bills players to author children’s books along with Ray Bentley and Stevie Johnson. Nice.

 

Former Bills DE Mike Hamby co-wrote with Bentley... Darby the Dinosaur maybe?

 

7 hours ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

You got that right!  Most frustrating game I ever played.  For you youngsters, this is the game.

 

 

 

 

We had the Coleco and Tudor versions of electric football. They were different in many ways including the Coleco QB/Kickers throwing a magnetic ball on a masonite field whereas the Tudor QB (as seen in the video) threw a felt ball on a steel field.

 

When you were bored you could adjust the speed control so that the players would start vibrating wildly and falling over, which was kind of fun.

 

Our Tudor players came all white, which we painted to be Bills home unis and all yellow, which we painted to be the Packers home unis.

 

[JDubya76]

On 11/25/2024 at 12:58 PM, Scott7975 said:

Popped up in my feed so thought I'd share with everyone else that is missing Bills football like me. Not gonna lie, I had a few tears when they showed that Bass 61 yard kick again. That must have been a great moment for him.

 

 

Brown’s pbp makes me hate the fact that I am not deaf, he’s awful. I would rather listen to Spero “Zap Brannigan” Dedes and Beth Mowins making sweet love on full stomachs than listen to Chris Brown.

[ColoradoBills]

18 minutes ago, Sierra Foothills said:

 

Former Bills DE Mike Hamby co-wrote with Bentley... Darby the Dinosaur maybe?

 

 

We had the Coleco and Tudor versions of electric football. They were different in many ways including the Coleco QB/Kickers throwing a magnetic ball on a masonite field whereas the Tudor QB (as seen in the video) threw a felt ball on a steel field.

 

When you were bored you could adjust the speed control so that the players would start vibrating wildly and falling over, which was kind of fun.

 

Our Tudor players came all white, which we painted to be Bills home unis and all yellow, which we painted to be the Packers home unis.

 

 

We had the Coleco with the magnetic ball.

[stevewin]

9 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

This is BS. Where is the documentary about the vibrating football game I grew up with?  You punks have no idea how difficult it was to throw a pass with that spring arm and felt 

A few years ago I finally took the vibrating football game from my Dad's house that had been there for over 50 years (my parents kept many of our old toys for years at their house for grandkids - choking hazards and other safety issues be damned - including original old school metal jarts )  Rescued may be more appropriate- I was moved to take action after I believe he mistakenly got rid of the slot hockey game from the same era that I told him to never get rid of

 

I also made sure many years ago to grab the football, basketball (including Buffalo Braves) and hockey cards my brother and I both collected in the early 70's. We had  complete or almost complete sets of football cards years 71-74 (I'll always remember Frenchy Fuqua he was the only player missing from one year).  They had sat there for years as a kind of neutral zone so my brother and I didn't have to address the issue of who would get them or how to split - i think he thinks they are still there 😛

Edited November 27 by stevewin

[BigAl2526]

I'm hoping the town picks up leaves one last time.  Our trees drop their leaves very late (four silver maples and one Norway maple.  We just picked them up again yesterday for what will be the last time.  We put them on top of the piles next to the street that we made last week.  There are still a few leaves on the Norway maple.  We'll have to mow those in the spring.  When developers built the homes in our neighborhood back in the 1960s, they planted silver maples because they grow fast.  I can give you a whole list of reasons why they make terrible trees for street planting.  The late leaf drop is just one of them.

 

On to a football response:  In September, I would have rated San Francisco as one of the three toughest opponents Buffalo would face all season.  Now, it is in the category of a "should win" game for the Bills.   That, of course, depends on the Bills playing a tough clean game, keeping penalties and turnovers (on offense) down.  It does look like weather is going to play a significant role on Sunday. 

Edited November 27 by BigAl2526

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

2 hours ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

 

So we get a ref that looks like Brock Purdy? 

[Comebackkid]

 Leanard Floyd leaves buffalo to chase superbowl asperations with SF.

 

Maybe not the best choice

[Dan]

1 hour ago, JDubya76 said:

Brown’s pbp makes me hate the fact that I am not deaf, he’s awful. I would rather listen to Spero “Zap Brannigan” Dedes and Beth Mowins making sweet love on full stomachs than listen to Chris Brown.

Gotta say I watched the first half of the season highlights linked upstream… yeah.  His voice is grating and really takes away from the plays!  Not to mention he doesn’t really call the play as it’s happening.  Overall it was not pleasant.   They need an upgrade.    I wanna like him.. he’s been with the Bills for so long …but he’s not really good at PBP. 

[PoundingDog]

20 minutes ago, Comebackkid said:

 Leanard Floyd leaves buffalo to chase superbowl asperations with SF.

 

Maybe not the best choice

Floyd said openly that he follows money.  Nothing wrong with that! 
Player agencies remind these guys constantly their youth is very limited. If someone offers 1 more guaranteed dollar, it’s a good bet he’s advised to take that offer.