PASabreFan

Rick's ashes are flashin'.

Flames logo looks like Gallo's head at the end of Buffalo 66.

That period of hockey happened.

A bit lol. Billy came through in the clutch tho.

I don't know. I'm watching it now. Just got to Dennys.

Pegulian just sounds right.

I dunno. I thought of you when he said it.

I'm off today (sure, I'm off every day; to be more precise, I officially own my testicles from 230 to 1030 today). I started a pot of homemade minestrone soup while listening to some Best of Paul Simon. It feels shockingly cold today, and I have no knife skills, and I have no roly poly little batfaced girl, but things should work out for a tasty bowl or three during the first intermission tonight. I had to go to Walmart to get soup stuff and test strips and lancets for my elderly diabetic cat. The Salvation Army bell ringer let my ears have it as I approached, and that shook me, but not as much as what I saw inside. There's something wrong. People in scooters checking out their own giant plastic jugs of Ragu and box after box of Hostess Christmas Tree Cakes. I joked with a guy in an Eagles Starter jacket but secretly wished coal, if not a slow and painful death, for the rest of humanity under the fluorescent lights. Am I any better with my Aveeno moisturizer and Peanut M&Ms? Maybe I should look in the mirror. I did. I completed a Six Month Smile/Eff You, Orthodontist program 10 years ago, and now my teeth are slowly retreating to their original positions, a dental drop pass on the power play -- and I still won't smile. Soon you can call me UP AL. After Kodachrome, an ad for a newfangled glucometer played on YouTube. Geez, I didn't even take my phone into the store. At least They don't seem to know my cat has the Wilford Brimleys, if not the Marty Wilfords. Celery seed? Why the ***** not? I have nothing to lose. And garlic powder, just to make Eleven and Weave clutch their pearls. It'll all come out in the wash, but is there really similar hope, hope, maybe the best of things, for our teams? The Bills still have Josh, who might yet fulfill The Dream of My Father, who shook his Gator Produce keys to four straight Super Bowls. The Bills led XXVIII at the half until my sister in law stole and hid the keys, and my dad secretly hated her for it until he drew his last breath on a substantial morphene drip. He got married after the big war, young, in a Catholic Church, then after the inevitable divorce, could not marry my mother in one. The rest of his life, he waived off not only the faith but every priest who tried to visit him in one of his many hospital stays. After his last words to my mother were... You're My Sweetheart... my older brother called in the amiable Father Leo to give my unconscious dad The Last Rites. Wait. Where am I? I mean, where was I? Oh yeah, the soup. Cannellini beans and ditalini pasta (but not too much, otherwise it'll be Minestrone Mush and please don't look that up on Urban Dictionary) still to come. Sabres, too. Hope? I have the Gator keys now, and they were in the kangaroo pouch of my Sabres hoodie the last time they won. Maybe I'll put them in there again tonight. I miss my dad and Rick and myself, but I have reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.

Also Chris Brown reports the Bills have to finish ahead of the Pats to win the AFCE.

I can't believe I never knew about the movie Buffalo 66.

You no longer complete me. I mean, we don't complete each other. Of course your reply was exactly the point of my question, which wasn't really a question. I would still wipe Bison french onion dip from the corner of your mouth and taste it.

This seems logical.

We had a nice thread about it. You not only closed it, you deleted it.

No one butchers the language more than you. So that was rich.

Would a loss tonight mark the lowest point in Sabres history?

The only working theory I've come up for these phenomena (and some date back decades, like Buffalo's woes in Pittsburgh) is that each successive group of players is infected by those who stick around and are "in the players ears," like the broadcast crew, trainers, medical/therapy folks, equipment managers and the like. Is the chatter going into Pitt, "Oh man we never play well in that building." Not a great theory, tbh. As Rummy said, there are unknown knowns.

Because? Say it. They sho... shou... Flames 6-3-1 in last 10.

You missed my sarcasm. The Bills needed KC to implode before now. The Bills have been close to imploding themselves, and other teams have cut line. Sports is grossly unfair. As is life. Grandfather dies, father dies, son dies is the natural order. If the Bills aren't in the Super Bowl this year, something is wrong with the universe. Also, proof there is no God.

Yeah, awesome, great timing for the Bills.

Asking for a friend... does he coordinate the D?

None. Weave nailed it.

It's hard to win on the road.

I will argue it. I wouldn't even say Colorado SHOULD beat Buffalo. A video popped up in YT last night. I'm sure it was old. But Forton clearly was leading the draft room discussion.

I wouldn't flame that, but it was FIRE.