tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280111392024-03-14T08:15:39.373-04:00Notes from an Inquisitive MindWhatever interests me will hopefully interest youUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger799125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-58751011867373463882023-05-06T07:32:00.011-04:002023-05-07T20:25:20.867-04:00The 50th Anniversary Reunion of the CCHS Class of 1973<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDbD179VHY3veyyNFxWYWRKRPcspne_uj9wGqPTL9N7Bl86yVtP8Wb3gewAJzmy-QjYD03k_s00aGUhvshBUFEHu5_Y_Dqtak-TqPqXGSQSctSdWwAIafQxGdaRUJiQRYYWA6itbdX4LFHCQzDFawtCM4yIo7KYgu4htJe8jAByDXb3EWaSo/s772/087%20-%20Porters.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Testing" border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="772" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDbD179VHY3veyyNFxWYWRKRPcspne_uj9wGqPTL9N7Bl86yVtP8Wb3gewAJzmy-QjYD03k_s00aGUhvshBUFEHu5_Y_Dqtak-TqPqXGSQSctSdWwAIafQxGdaRUJiQRYYWA6itbdX4LFHCQzDFawtCM4yIo7KYgu4htJe8jAByDXb3EWaSo/w400-h316/087%20-%20Porters.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Greetings. There were some comments expressed that it was difficult to get news of the August reunion outside of Facebook. This might help solve that. Pass the word to all of your friends. <br /><p></p>We have reopened our website for the <a href="http://clarence1973.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Clarence Class of 1973</a>. Please head there for the latest information. <br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-65696937445239180722023-02-19T09:03:00.009-05:002023-03-10T19:41:20.754-05:00Paul Wieland: Forever Young<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftnurNjrE35QtsYN-6uUOrbnkaO1dwyQUGYk2tq7Z8_D-tEpNCEV-Qn27MUWyle_V3-viz_Xyk9MIWL-o1T4hsx-vRhchovx8tl8qd5AToLn873n1bKggSGI85Ap8PsHaZTS-Fx8Ucg-x11mp4-Fpc-mjcaFZTNhoSV0xuSQ5kxLbtP3HkHc/s650/Book%20Signing.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="650" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftnurNjrE35QtsYN-6uUOrbnkaO1dwyQUGYk2tq7Z8_D-tEpNCEV-Qn27MUWyle_V3-viz_Xyk9MIWL-o1T4hsx-vRhchovx8tl8qd5AToLn873n1bKggSGI85Ap8PsHaZTS-Fx8Ucg-x11mp4-Fpc-mjcaFZTNhoSV0xuSQ5kxLbtP3HkHc/w400-h198/Book%20Signing.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I'm with Paul Wieland and Seymour Knox IV here.<br /></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> <br /></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The many friends of Paul Wieland probably all had the same reaction
when they heard the news of his death earlier this week. They were
saddened, of course, over the loss of someone so vibrant and memorable.
But then, the stories about Paul came to mind … and it was hard to do
anything but smile at them.<p></p>
<p>You see, Wieland grew older, but in many ways never grew up. He
always could go into something of a rage over a perceived injustice, yet
still see the humor in any situation. We all should be that lucky to
have a friend like that.</p>
<p>Paul grew up in Buffalo, attending Bishop Timon High School, and
attended St. Bonaventure University. He learned to love college
basketball while good-naturedly hating the other Little Three teams (Canisius and
Niagara) in the process. After graduation, he had some odd jobs before
landing at the Courier-Express. Then Paul moved down the street to the
Buffalo Evening News. I don’t remember hearing much from him about those
days, although Paul was quite descriptive about how intimidating a meeting
with the bosses there could be.</p>
<p>But one story always stuck with me. Back when newspaper newsrooms had
actual people in them (as opposed to the remote staffs of today),
people used to call and ask for random bits of information. One time,
Paul overheard a call asking about the nation’s longest river. Was it
the Missouri or Mississippi? Wieland asked to have the call transferred
to him. “River Desk,” he said solemnly. The question was repeated. While
looking up the answer, Paul stalled for time by saying it was nice to
get a call because so few people wanted information on rivers.</p>
<p>Wieland probably would have been happy working at The News for life,
adding a touch of whimsy to the paper’s output as well as to the lives
of those at the paper whenever possible. Then he found out that one of
his bosses had inserted a made-up quote into one of Paul’s news stories,
crossing a major line of behavior. That started him job hunting. While
he was offered positions at some other newspapers, taking them would
lead to a pay cut in a sense since other cities had higher costs of
living. So he accepted a job in public relations for General Motors.
It’s hard to imagine Wieland in the stuffy corporate world, but the job
came with more money and a perk – a company car. Done.</p>
<p>Sure enough, Paul lasted two years with the suits. Then he heard
that the new NHL team that planned to play its first season in 1970-71
in Buffalo was looking for a public relations person. Chuck Burr was the
original PR Director, but the Knox brothers (who led the team’s
ownership group) thought that wasn’t working out. Wieland accepted the
job on one condition – a company car. Done. If you look at the Sabres’
first-ever media guide, Paul is listed as the assistant PR director …
but he soon moved up a step.</p>
<p>There he bonded with new general manager and coach Punch Imlach, who
soon had a problem that needed solving. Roger Crozier often missed
practice with stomach problems, and the team needed a spare goalie.
Wieland, a beer league goalie in earlier days, stepped in as a
replacement. Paul’s worst moment came when he went to make a poke check
one time, and accidentally tripped Gil Perreault. The young star went
crashing into the board, and Wieland had instant dreams of ruining the
rookie’s career before it got started. Luckily, Gil popped right up …
and beat Wieland on his next 10 shots during practice. As for after
practice, Wieland learned a lesson about his “teammates” – “They weren’t
too good, but they sure could drink,” he said years later.</p>
<p>Now comes the part that would be the lead to any story about
Wieland’s life that’s not personal in nature. The Sabres had a problem
in the 1970s – all of their tickets were sold. That meant the house was
filled with the same people night after night, more or less. That’s not
a long-term formula for success. Besides, it also meant revenues would
be flat with little room for growth.</p>
<p>Owner Peter Gilbert of International Cable proposed that his outlet
carry a few Sabre games on his system. The Sabres agreed, but they
didn’t want the broadcast to look like the primitive coverage that was
used for, say, high school games. Therefore, they wanted to produce
their own broadcasts – and Wieland would head up the operation. Gilbert
agreed, and the broadcasts were instantly popular. You can connect the
dots from there to the point where major league teams in all sports
became involved in broadcasting directly. That led to the creation of
regional sports networks, which became a huge business. The model is
still evolving today, and it all started with the Sabres.</p>
<p>Paul made NHL history in 1973 when he became the first PR director to
draw a penalty on the opposing team in the playoffs. The goalie in him
thought Ken Dryden’s pads were too big, so he quietly strolled into the
Montreal Canadiens’ locker room and personally measured them. Yup, too
big. He told the Sabres’ coach Joe Crozier to save the information for
the right time. That turned out to be near the end of regulation time in
Game Five, with the score tied. Referee Bruce Hood didn’t like it, but a
rule was a rule – and the Canadiens opened overtime shorthanded. Alas,
Buffalo didn’t score on the power play … but the Sabres did win the game
on Rene Robert’s goal.</p>
<p>Wieland’s wit moved front and center in 1974, when the NHL draft was
taking place in Montreal. The proceedings were threatening to drag into
infinity, and boredom always was Paul’s enemy. Imlach asked what he
could do to annoy NHL President Clarence Campbell, and the answer from
Wieland was to draft a player that didn’t exist from an unlikely
country. Thus, in the seventh round, the Sabres selected center Taro
Tsujimoto of the Tokyo Katanas (swords). The joke lasted through
training camp, and Taro probably will be part of Sabres’ history
forever.</p>
<p>Wieland’s sense of humor soon became famous around hockey circles as well as
Western New York. I’ve written about Paul’s famous April Fool’s Day gags
that usually were treasured by those who knew him. Here’s the story:</p>
<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="9ENQS20S6r"><p><a href="https://www.buffalosportspage.com/april-fools-day-with-the-sabres/">April Fool’s Day with the Sabres</a></p></blockquote>
<p></p>
<p>There were other instances where his wit popped up. A
tradition started in 1976 that featured an extra paragraph, silly in
nature, in the section of the press guide that dealt with media
services. In 1977, it read, “Because of the extreme height of the press
box, there are skydiving exhibitions on the eves of holiday games.
Special arrangements can be made for such exhibitions by calling the
Sabres public relations office at least 48 hours in advance of your
visit.” (Footnote: When I started writing the Sabres’ media guide in 1987, I made
sure to continue that tradition. In 1988, I wrote, “Press box seats will
be filled on a space-available basis. Gate-crashers in the press box
will be forced to watch reruns of ‘Gomer Pyle’ for four hours.”)</p>
<p>Paul’s habit of playing a role in odd times in Sabre history
continued on February 12, 1977. Goalie Gerry Desjardins was injured, so
the team recalled Don Edwards from the minors … and Imlach ordered coach
Floyd Smith to start Edwards. That didn’t sit well with backup goalie
Al Smith, who skated on to the ice, waved at Seymour Knox and said, “See
ya, Seymour,” and left the building.</p>
<p>Assistant general manager John Andersen put out a call for Wieland,
who was planning on broadcasting the game on cable as usual. Wieland
signed an amateur tryout contract and began dressing for the game as
Edwards’ backup. But the team couldn’t get all the details done before
the lineups were signed, thus ending Paul’s NHL career before it
started. That was OK with him. "Can you imagine if I had to go out and play against NHLers?” he told
me years later. “I was just a beer-league goalie. They would have
really embarrassed me.”</p>
<p>One time Paul noticed the college stickers that adorned the rear-view
windows of cars. He saw a financial opportunity, and had “Buffalo
Sabres Universally” stickers printed and sold. He once told me, “I can’t
believe that I can come up with an idea like that, and the Knoxes will
say, ‘Go ahead and make them.’” During a really boring preseason game in
the early1980s, Paul started writing fake and silly coupons on paper and throwing
them over the front of the press box into the crowd. Fans took them to
the concessions stands and asked for their redemption, drawing stares
from the workers and head-shakes from their bosses. I should know. I
sat beside Wieland that night, writing and throwing. </p>
<p>I was hired for the Sabres’ public relations department in 1986, with
Paul’s stated reasons for hiring me ringing in my ears for days:
“You’re a good writer, you know hockey, and you’re bleeping nuts.” High
praise indeed. Working on television production was becoming a full-time
job for him, so he was more of an overseer of the communications
department rather than my direct boss. In other words, I was allowed to
say no sometimes when Wieland asked me to take the afternoon off because
he needed another player for a doubles match in tennis.</p>
<p>Still, everyone in the Communications Department including new PR director John Gurtler bonded pretty
quickly, establishing friendships that would last for the rest of our
lives. We chuckled together about some of the absurdities of life in the
NHL, and complained when the City of Buffalo turned off the heat to our
offices once the playoffs were over – usually before the end of April,
unfortunately.</p><p>Paul eventually spent more and more time on the television side of the hockey business. At one point the Sabres' games were on Channel 49, which was owned by the team. One night, the hockey game ended at 10:20 p.m., and Paul figured he'd have the announcers fill time until the bottom of the hour. But no - he was order to dump out immediately and go to local programming. Wieland was absolutely horrified to hear a recording saying "We now return to our scheduled programming" - in this case the last 10 minutes of "Gomer Pyle." Paul was outraged: "This is a bleeping Gomer Pyle station!" From then on, Channel 49 was always called "The Gomer" by Wieland. It caught on, at least internally. <br /></p>
<p>By the time the early 1990s arrived, things had started to change in
the hockey business. The money involved was rising rather quickly, and
everyone was starting to take things more seriously. The staff grew in
size, ending some of the intimacy that Paul had enjoyed in the Sabres’
early years. That seriousness put pressure on the entire Sabres
organization, especially as the first-round playoff losses of that era mounted,
which meant the team’s fabled sense of humor that Wieland had created
was at risk. “All the things we did only enhanced our reputation in the
community,” he told me once. “We never took ourselves too seriously.”
The April Fool’s Day broadcast soon became one of the casualties. Boo. <br /></p>
<p>It might not have been the last straw for Paul, but maybe the company
car was. Gone. He also had some problems with some of the ethics of
team leadership, just like he had at The News in the late 1960s. It was
time to get out of the hockey business. Paul was off to Massachusetts to
run a public television station for six years, where he did some
production work for some major outlets on the side and watched his Boston Red Sox during free time in the summer. <br /></p>
<p>But when it was time to retire from that job, Wieland saw it as an
opportunity to move back to the Buffalo area. He landed a job as a
teacher at his beloved St. Bonaventure, working for Dean Lee Coppola –
better known as “Mel Moonlight,” a nickname given by Paul for all of Lee's
freelance work involving the Sabres back in the 1970s. Based on the social media postings
I’ve seen lately, Wieland touched a lot of lives as a faculty member. I
remember him excitedly telling me early in his tenure, “One of my kids
said in a survey that I was his favorite teacher of all of his
instructors at St. Bonaventure. That’s quite a compliment.”</p>
<p>Paul finally left his teaching job in 2017. I remember writing up
something of a tribute to his career for the party that was held in
Ellicottville; such messages are always better when they get to be read
by the subject while they are around to see it. We met for lunches and
bumped into each other every so often, such as when he had a book
signing of one of his literary efforts. My last encounter came on my
birthday in 2021, when I happened to spy an extra seat next to him at
the induction ceremony of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. It
was a great present. He was in considerable pain at that point due to a
variety of ailments, and was laughing about the idea that he was allowed
to smoke medical marijuana for relief. I asked about another lunch
meeting during 2022, but he wasn’t up for it immediately. “I’ll let you
know,” he wrote.</p>
<p>The news of Wieland’s death was shocking and sudden, then, but not
surprising. No doubt all of his other friends, like me, were left
wishing for one more two-hour lunch to share some laughs and review good
times. Paul combined smarts, humor and wit to carve out a unique niche
in the local sports community. That’s an act that’s impossible to
follow.</p>
<p><i>(Follow Budd on Twitter @WDX2BB)</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-45085899040137359802022-05-24T11:30:00.000-04:002022-05-24T11:30:26.492-04:00Our turn<p><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(Mensana, the monthly newsletter of the local chapter of Mensa, usually doesn't discuss the events of the day in its pages. However, we thought it was necessary to address the mass shootings that took place in Buffalo earlier this month. For better or worse, I volunteered to come up with something. Maybe you'll like it.)</i><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">It was difficult to escape the aftermath of the mass shootings in Buffalo on Saturday, May 14. But it wasn’t
for a lack of trying. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">After a difficult week for everyone in our area, my wife and I drove to a social event with friends and others
in Northern New Jersey. Usually when word gets out at such functions that we’re from Buffalo, someone
says something clever like “Has the snow melted up there yet?” But this time the questions were different -
numerous and serious. People wanted to know how close we were to the site of the incident, and how we
and others in this part of the world reacted to it. That was no different from what happened earlier in the
week, when people from various parts of our lives checked in. We even heard from a friend in Perth,
Australia, which is as far as you can go from Buffalo and still be on land. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Like everyone else in Western New York, my reaction was shock, but not surprise. There are too many
shootings like this one in America, of course, because one is too many. But every so often, one pops up in
another city or town. One friend of mine works at Virginia Tech University, and spent a terror-filled day
there. Another friend of mine lived up a hill from the supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, that saw a similar
attack. These incidents arrive like, well, a virus – in unexpected places without warning. It was, simply
enough, our turn. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">On the way back, we drove past the town of Conklin, which is located on Interstate 81 south of Binghamton
near the Pennsylvania border. It used to be the home of the Buffalo shooter, who won’t be identified so he
doesn’t receive any publicity, even here. As we drove back to Buffalo, it was easy to imagine the assailant
driving that same route over the course of nearly four hours, intent on returning to a Buffalo neighborhood
that he previously scouted for a high percentage of African American citizens. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">No one goes on that sort of drive lightly. Yet this 18-year-old managed to drive that distance while staying
angry enough to complete his horrible mission. Where did all of the hate that fueled that drive come from?
Certainly none of the shoppers in Tops that peaceful Saturday afternoon did anything to him, so we’ll never
be able to understand his motivation. That means we’ll never be able to put this completely behind us,
even when we just stop at a store for a gallon of milk and some bananas. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">We have argued as a society over the causes of such actions, and what we should be doing to try to prevent
them. It’s fair to say, though, that the current approach isn’t working. Maybe we need to start by figuring
out why people hate others who are merely different from themselves. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">In the meantime, we’ll be waiting for the next incident.
Whose turn will it be then? </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-66682080629801537392022-05-12T12:50:00.008-04:002022-05-13T18:24:04.738-04:00Book Review: Newsroom Confidential (2022)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq5uii9-R57ditlRYcugy0TGTzUuTv1EqEbYuPYo4vpSZtvB97Ms8uBscguI4E9d-7h0vheBVGVbQKzVa_HfnfU0DQQnLt7uDGRddi3ZsdyCIiqHuIESzGq_FyGfoknU5HTHL7j7FKvh7tsdRRFjvC7LU8ar0XqoMr2Gf50-6QJZHqDyTdamA/s499/Sullivan.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="329" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq5uii9-R57ditlRYcugy0TGTzUuTv1EqEbYuPYo4vpSZtvB97Ms8uBscguI4E9d-7h0vheBVGVbQKzVa_HfnfU0DQQnLt7uDGRddi3ZsdyCIiqHuIESzGq_FyGfoknU5HTHL7j7FKvh7tsdRRFjvC7LU8ar0XqoMr2Gf50-6QJZHqDyTdamA/w264-h400/Sullivan.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><p></p><p>Ever read a published autobiography of someone you know?</p><p>It is an odd feeling. A couple of college friends of mine have published books that are more like memoirs, revealing pieces of themselves along the way. For the most part, I was pretty clueless about those pieces, so it was interesting to learn about those previously unknown aspects of their lives (at least to me).</p><p>That brings us to "Newsroom Confidential," by Margaret Sullivan, the media critic from The Washington Post. Almost everything except the skeleton of her life's work was new to me. <br /></p><p>Margaret, you see, was my boss at The Buffalo News for several years. She moved on to bigger and better things, as her current title indicates. When I had the chance to obtain an e-copy of the book well in advance of the publication date, I jumped at the opportunity. The price I had to pay was a review of the book, so here it is.</p><p>Sullivan grew up in the Buffalo area and quickly landed at The Buffalo News after college and a short stint at the Niagara Gazette. But I first met her through softball, oddly enough. I was working for the Buffalo Sabres at that point in the late 1980s, and I played on a softball team that mostly consisted of Buffalo News employees. We weren't too good, but we were literate. </p><p>Sometimes the team would go out for food and drink after games, and significant others would show up. One of our players was married to Margaret at the time, and she joined us occasionally. It was always interesting talking to her on such occasions, even in a large group. So I started paying more attention to what she was writing in the newspaper, which at one point was a regular Sunday column that usually was the best thing printed on that particular day. I remember at one point Margaret received a promotion that would force her to give up the column. I said to her, "I certainly understand why you won't be writing the Sunday column any more, but I'm going to miss it." Her reply was along the lines of "Yes, it is a good opportunity for me, but I appreciate the compliment." You're heard of the smartest person in the room? Margaret always was the smartest person in the bar after games. </p><p>Eventually, I landed at The News in the sports department, ready to begin a run that lasted 23 years. Sullivan wasn't the editor in chief yet, but she soon took that step to be the boss of the newsroom. I probably could count the number of contacts with her that went beyond "hello" on two hands ... if not one. She worked during the day and I worked at night; besides, the sports editor preferred to run his own little fiefdom, and did so effectively. </p><p>Naturally, the part on life in Buffalo is the portion of the book that was of great interest to me as a former employee. I can report that only a couple of people came off as a little less than honorable. Most of those chapters are devoted to some of the issues that came up at the newspaper in that era. To be honest, I can't imagine it would be particularly interesting to those in the "outside world." But I'm not a fair judge of that, under the circumstances.</p><p>When Sullivan left The News to go to the New York Times in 2012, no one seemed to be too surprised. It takes plenty of effort and ambition to be the editor of a newspaper, and Margaret had plenty of both qualities. She admits that her personal drive played a big role in the end of her marriage, something that many of us guessed could happen back in the day. </p><p>At the Times, she became the Public Editor. As jobs in journalism go, this is an odd one. Sullivan was an independent voice in the newsroom, asking questions about how the Times went about the business of daily journalism and answering them on line and in print. It can't be easy to be the "scold" in the office - showing up at someone's door or in someone's email when something may have gone wrong in the process. I suppose an agent for the Internal Revenue Service knows the feeling. <br /></p><p>The chapters on her years at The Times vary in interest level. Some significant and interesting issues came up along the way, and Sullivan reviews them here with depth and thoughtfulness. It's also fair to add that the material on the inner workings of the New York newspaper such as comings and goings seemed like "inside baseball" - more interesting to those inside the building than outside of it.</p><p>Eventually, Sullivan was worn down by that job - easy to see why - and jumped at the chance to work in the Washington Post's Style section as a media critic. It's quite fair to say it's a good niche for her, as she combined the smarts and the writing ability that were on display in her days as a columnist in Buffalo. Many of her columns have received national attention, in part because she has written points of view that no one else is saying.</p><p>And as you'd expect, the most interesting parts of the book are discussions about the issues came up in the five-plus years since she joined the Post. Obviously, Donald Trump hovers over much of those stories. His time in the Presidency busted several norms, to put it nicely, and caused journalists to examine how to do their jobs more effectively. We're still trying to figure out what the new rules should be. <br /></p><p>Most of the autobiographies by journalists that I've read usually concentrate on the author's encounters with others. (Sports writer and broadcaster Dick Schaap prided himself on how many names he dropped in his book.) That's because reporters usually interact with interesting people on the outside world. I'm not sure if the autobiographical format was ideal for a story like "Newsroom Confidential," which is not like that. Most would rather eat and digest the hot dog rather than learn about how the sausage was manufactured. But, to further strain the analogy, some of the book is still pretty tasty.</p><p>In other words, Margaret is still the smartest person in the bar. We can always learn something from people like that. <br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-25354811642328537712020-11-10T21:51:00.002-05:002020-11-11T13:05:00.782-05:00At the finish line, sort of<p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Saturday morning marked a perfect storm for the climax of the endless Presidential campaign. The actual voting had taken place on Tuesday, but a number of issues (mail voting, close state elections, etc.) delayed the announcement of an outcome until Saturday - even if the outcome was apparent by then. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">I was in the shower when my wife yelled out the news - "Pennsylvania had been decided." I finished my business and headed to the television for confirmation. Sure enough, the analysts had decided that Joe Biden had done enough to claim victory. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">The news came at exactly the right time for an unprecedented celebration, mostly because of the timing. Usually we find out the identity of the next President around midnight on a Tuesday at the earliest. This time, there was an entire Saturday afternoon in front of us, with nothing but blue skies and warm temperatures in the Northeast waiting. So the news reports soon switched to scenes from big cities, where there was literally dancing in the streets. I can't remember anything like it in the political scene. Note: It is not a good sign about your public standing when people react to your upcoming unemployment by acting as if we had just finished World War III.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">One such scene came in Washington, as the White House soon was surrounded with celebrants. One person, perhaps Puerto Rican, symbolically threw a roll of toilet paper over the fence and on to the lawn, and thus completing a circle. Speaking of that, Lafayette Square was again full of people. The last time that area was in the news, it was because the authorities in June had kicked peaceful protesters out of the area with gas and riot sticks in order for President Donald Trump to walk a block to a church for a bizarre photo opportunity. Perhaps some of those same protesters were back five-plus months later to celebrate Trump's loss. It was a case of payback, American style.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">World reaction followed suit. While reports that fireworks in London and bell-ringing in Paris were used to mark the outcome have been mostly discredited, they did fit the story line. More to the point was the language used by political figures. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo tweeted it out nicely - </span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">"Welcome back America!" - as if she anticipated America's return to full status in the world community again. Maybe the system of alliances that has worked so well since World War II is ready for a comeback. <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Since then, Biden has made a couple of speeches about the moment as he prepares to take over the executive branch of the government. Trump, meanwhile, has refused to concede because of alleged corruption in the voting process. We should have seen this coming, since he warned us about it in the campaign - raising the question, "How did he know ahead of time?". He made similar claims during the campaign of 2016 - remember the story of people getting bused into New Hampshire to vote illegally for Hillary Clinton? - only to file them away when he actually won the election. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">These claims have produced some comic moments. The highlight came when Rudy Giuliani gave a news conference about some alleged problems in Philadelphia not at the Four Seasons Hotel, but at Four Seasons Model Landscaping in an industrial part of that city. This led to predictable but hysterical comments about "Lawn and Order" and "Make America Rake Again." People with my sense of humor will be driving by the place for a quick photo for years to come. <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">There has been very little evidence backing Trump and Co. up on this. Still, Republicans for the most part have refused to accept Biden's almost inevitable victory. (On Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo even said, "</span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,”</span> which probably won't age well even if he was trying to be funny.) Perhaps all of them have forgotten just how difficult it is to fix an entire state election result. Biden is leading by five figures in four of the battleground states. Someone could fudge a handful of votes here and there, but to coordinate an effort in that many places would be more than daunting. Election counting in this country isn't exactly designed to handle a very, very tight decision smoothly - look at Florida in 2000 - but most of the time, especially when there are a large number of votes, we come up with the correct winner. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">We can only guess at the reasons why so many are not accepting the inevitable result. Trump no doubt is smarting over this loss to Biden, and will take a look at running in 2024 - even if he'll be 78. If he wants to run again, he'll have to keep his supporters fired up and believing that he'll be back to make up for this injustice. Yes, the risk is that our faith in free and fair elections - one of the bedrock principles of a democracy - may be damaged in that process, but Trump hasn't paid attention to such issues in the past. Maybe Grover Cleveland used such a technique to win non-consecutive terms, even without a Twitter account. However, I'm sure his rallies weren't as well attended.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">The legal defense fund led by Trump for the fraud investigation is interesting for the fact that the money mostly will go to Trump's Political Action Committee and the Republican party. Maybe Trump can throw himself rallies for four years to keep himself occupied and relevant. On the other hand, he is facing nine figures in personal debt as well as some serious legal troubles in the future. Can he pardon himself before January 20? It's an interesting legal question, since even Biden is unlikely to be as generous as Gerald Ford was when it comes to transgressions by a Presidential predecessor. <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">There are a couple of points about all of this that have been overlooked. Let's face it - Trump probably should have been reelected this year. His path to victory as of February appeared to be pretty clear. All he had to do was address the nation and say, "Put on a mask." Trump knew the dangers involved in the Covid-19 virus, based on the taped conversation with Bob Woodward. Instead, he played down the threat ... and then doubled down on his actions when he criticized those who took precautions in various forms. Trump didn't change his message as the virus came roaring back in the fall, even as thousands who had connections to his mostly maskless rallies became carriers and hundreds of those people died. "Come to my rally and risk your life" is never a good look. Trump couldn't even keep the White House safe from Covid-19. That approach to reelection might have been a tipping point, thanks in part to media reports that kept the death toll fresh on our minds. A large majority of those 230,000 deaths could have been avoided, which hardly seems like a good talking point. <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Meanwhile, Biden finally has reached the White House after years of trying. In one sense, a difficult job awaits him. Even if Democrats claim the Senate through run-off elections in Georgia, the margin will be very tiny and it will be difficult to get much of substance passed. Trump had two years of having the House and Senate in his favor, and his only piece of major legislation was a tax cut that made rich people richer and gave the economy a small and perhaps unnecessary boost. Senate leader Mitch McConnell can't wait to figure out a way to block the next Supreme Court judge nomination - whenever it is. The progressive wing of the Democratic party will figure it deserves a bit of a reward for its role in the election result, but some of their ideas will be difficult to sell to the rest of the legislators and the public. That could lead to some good-sized arguments if Biden doesn't run in 2024. Joe was about the only person who could do bring the coalition together, and the challenge will be to make sure it holds. <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">As for the Republicans, they'll start searching for a way to win the Presidency the next time. Leaving Trump out of the picture for a moment, there will be those who think they can follow Trump's act by simply repackaging his policies slightly but putting more of a smile with it. That will be a tough balancing act. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley, Lindsay Graham and even Pompeo may be anxious to try. Mike Pence could be on that list, but he may simply head back to Indiana to follow Dan Quayle's trip into Hoosier obscurity and life as an historical footnote. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">In the meantime, maybe Biden's position isn't so bad after all. The first several months will feature the tasks of the distribution of a vaccine and the restoration of the economy to full power. That's not an easy job, but it probably will have bipartisan support. But Biden may become a success simply by cutting down on the chaos. You probably can make up your own list of easily obtainable goals. At the top of the list: Don't lie to the American people. In other words, run the government with honest and quiet efficiency. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">As John Lennon once said, "</span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span>We're only trying to get us some peace." That would be enough for many of us.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span><span><i>(Follow Budd on Twitter @WDX2BB)</i><br /></span></span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-19670640110913500082020-10-09T09:36:00.000-04:002020-10-09T09:36:49.800-04:00Buffalo's Biggest Free Agents: No. 1-20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnq-m6V42k3RbYk1BMxuyZ94eBMsU47m6j15xPXT03nsx8N-tRHG4VpIaz-cesxJoSlTfvHFcegvYeKLJRzSnKm5QqhEiTl5hiRMiH_cn6Ztu9M3EPHX4kfz5sUa8DOu4C29475A/s400/Introduction.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="400" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnq-m6V42k3RbYk1BMxuyZ94eBMsU47m6j15xPXT03nsx8N-tRHG4VpIaz-cesxJoSlTfvHFcegvYeKLJRzSnKm5QqhEiTl5hiRMiH_cn6Ztu9M3EPHX4kfz5sUa8DOu4C29475A/w640-h317/Introduction.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Visit <a href="https://www.buffalosportspage.com/category/buffalo-sports-by-the-numbers/" target="_blank">Buffalo Sports Page</a> for the complete list of selections.</p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1. Jack Kemp – Signed
by the Bills in 1962<br /></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2. Kent Hull – Signed
by the Bills in 1986</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3. Steve Tasker –
Signed by the Bills in 1986</b></p><p>
</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 97.8pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4. Mario Williams – Signed by the Bills in 2012</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">5. Cookie Gilchrist –
Signed by the Bills in 1962</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6. Elbert Dubenion –
Signed by the Bills in 1960</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">7. Ted Washington –
Signed by the Bills in 1995</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8. Robert James –
Signed by the Bills in 1969</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9. Ollie Carnegie –
Signed by the Bisons in 1931</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">10. Booker Edgerson –
Signed by the Bills in 1962</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">11. Fred Jackson –
Signed by the Bills in 2007</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">12. Steve Christie –
Signed by the Bills in 1993</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">13. Pat Williams –
Signed by the Bills in 1997</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">14. Bryce Paup –
Signed by the Bills in 1995</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">15. Ron McDole –
Signed by the Bills in 1963</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">16. Jason Peters –
Signed by the Bills in 2004</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">17. Mark Kelso –
Signed by the Bills in 1986</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">18. Takeo Spikes –
Signed by the Bills in 2003</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">19. Terrell Owens –
Signed by the Bills in 2009</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">20. Doug Flutie –
Signed by the Bills in 1998</b></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibsK8z_GjMfTSLIDdz87TTUFhvbtzHpYKy37PQbkbPo4t4kCbAA4EuW-HGdi6GvMIL5f8rfZG598mb7Q21Mr2Rd492EmBGyS7kf8iScGuaE32ZA-BRdq_2mWivin8M7AvKH7U2Ow/s400/Introduction.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibsK8z_GjMfTSLIDdz87TTUFhvbtzHpYKy37PQbkbPo4t4kCbAA4EuW-HGdi6GvMIL5f8rfZG598mb7Q21Mr2Rd492EmBGyS7kf8iScGuaE32ZA-BRdq_2mWivin8M7AvKH7U2Ow/s0/Introduction.jpg" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Visit <a href="https://www.buffalosportspage.com/category/buffalo-sports-by-the-numbers/" target="_blank">Buffalo Sports Page </a>for a full recap of the list.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">21. Scott Norwood –
Signed by the Bills in 1985</b></p>
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Signed by the Bills in 2002</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">23. Ville Leino –
Signed by the Sabres in 2011</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">24. Ernie Warlick –
Signed by the Bills in 1962</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">25. Derrick Dockery –
Signed by the Bills in 2007</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">26. James Lofton –
Signed by the Bills in 1989</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">27. Luke Easter –
Signed by the Bisons in 1956</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">28. Christian Ehrhoff
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Signed by the Bills in 2015</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">30. Ryan Fitzpatrick
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Signed by the Bills in 2001</b></p>
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Signed by the Bills in 1989</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">39. Steve Freeman –
Signed by the Bills in 1975</b></p>
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Here's one that caught my eye. "List five famous people you've either met or have been within a few feet of, but ONE is a lie. Which one is it?"<br />
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One of the few advantages of reaching your 60s is that you can fill out such lists pretty quickly, particularly if you've done a little traveling over the years. Why, I once saw the Rev. Al Sharpton in the Atlanta airport. My family bumped into Bob Hastings, Lt. Carpenter in "McHale's Navy," while touring Disneyland. He couldn't have been nicer, even if he did talk about being hot and thirsty on that summer afternoon. I've met a couple of astronauts. <br />
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Could I come up with four such real encounters, and a fake one, in a few minutes? Absolutely. I even could do 10.<br />
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Jimmy Carter<br /> Bob Costas<br /> Mario Cuomo<br /> Phil Donahue<br /> Robert Kennedy<br /> Sandra Day O'Connor <br /> Arnold Palmer <br /> Pete Rozelle<br /> Leon Spinks<br /> Mike Tyson<br />
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I mentioned that I had only shaken hands with one of them. My Facebook friends could guess that too. The first person that answered guessed Jimmy Carter for the handshake, and she was right. Jimmy spoke at Syracuse University in 1975 when he was running for President. Larry Pantages and I attended it, and hung around to shake his hand and wish him well. Come to think of it, we both said, "Best of luck, Governor," to which Larry said later, "Couldn't you have come up with something a little different?"<br />
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Let's go through the guesses in the order that they were posted, and see how everyone did.<br />
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* Arnold Palmer - I went to the 1968 United States Open at Oak Hill in Rochester with my father. I convinced my dad that we should be part of Arnie's Army for a few holes. But I got a good look at Arnie along the way.<br />
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* Sandra Day O'Connor - Jody and I paid a visit to Williamsburg some years ago. They were getting ready for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding, and a big-time committee was formed to get ready for it. One of the leaders of that committee was O'Connor. We looked up and she was walking toward us on some sort of official visit, surrounded by men in suits. Jody recognized her first. Downright tiny.<br />
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* Phil Donahue - I think this dates back to 1966 or so. We were driving from Elmira to Chicago, and made an overnight stop outside of Cleveland. Our family was having breakfast when Mom recognized Donahue, who was a syndicated talk show host out of Dayton then, sitting at the table. If we needed confirmation, well, two sons were sitting with him. One of them wore a football jersey with the word Donahue on the back.<br />
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* Robert Kennedy - When you are a Senator from New York, it helps to show up in the small towns once in a great while. Bobby Kennedy came to Elmira once to speak at the Mark Twain Hotel. Mom grabbed my sister and me, and we headed for the main entrance. We were part of a small crowd that watched him get out of a car, walk briskly into the hotel, and wave to us in the process as people applauded. I've still got a letter that Kennedy sent to my father about some safety-related legislation; it's even personally signed (I think).<br />
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* Pete Rozelle - This goes back to my radio days, when I spent some time covering Bills' news. Rozelle had a news conference either before a game or at halftime, so I got pretty close to him. The quote I remember is that he talked about how other networks were counter-programming well to cut into Monday Night Football's ratings. "They're showing TV-movies like, 'I was a Teen-Age Hooker Who Found God' to get people to watch," he said.<br />
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* Mike Tyson - I was covering the Sabres when I was checking out of a hotel near the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, around 5 p.m. That's when I look up and see Mike Tyson troll through the lobby; he had been preceded by some flunkies. Mike was scheduled to be the commentator on a fight card at the Cap Centre the next night on Showtime. Tyson is one of the widest men I've ever seen - built like a cube. By the way, boxing fans will be impressed that Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, "The Fight Doctor," was at the next table from me during breakfast that morning.<br />
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Those were all of the guesses, and they were all wrong. Let's go through the other contenders:<br />
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* Leon Spinks - The Sabres and I were in St. Louis for the pregame skate, and Leon was working on the custodial staff of the arena. When work got out that Spinks was in the building, everyone crowded around to shake his hand and pose for a photo. This was almost 25 years ago, and I can report that Leon could be barely understood, even then. Boxing ... a tough business.<br />
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* Mario Cuomo - I should have replaced him with someone else, since it would figure that he would have been in Buffalo at some point. Cuomo did something of a town hall at a downtown location, and my radio station broadcast it live. I was asked to help out with the production, and thus got a good seat to hear the Governor. He was superb at it - couldn't stump him, very articulate, etc. I was extremely impressed. I also made sure to shake hands with Senator Chuck Schumer turned up at the Allentown Art Festival, surrounded by signs that read, "Come meet Chuck Schumer."<br />
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That leaves one name - the fake one - on the list: Bob Costas. I think people assumed that I met him somewhere along the line because we both went to Syracuse, although I just missed him there. The closest we've come is that we were both listed on the program of the Daily Orange's 100th anniversary (it's the student newspaper) in 2003. Somehow, I think that his check was bigger than mine.<br />
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Upon reflection, I naturally came up with more names. Jim Kelly hosted some sort of gala athletic competition at Pilot Field around 1994 that featured Donald Trump and Fabio as guests. I covered it for AP and was part of a group interview of both. Fabio had better hair. George Foreman stood near me for a couple of minutes in the Bills' press box as he waited for a halftime interview with the ABC crew. He was bigger and wider than Tyson. I had a one-on-one conversation with Wayne Gretzky after a preseason game in Buffalo. Gordie Howe used to be part of a small media lunch in the Sabres' offices once a year after he retired in the 1980s. He'd tell stories and even refilled water glasses at one point. Magic Johnson was spotted outside the Bills' locker room after the game; he was thinner than I thought. I once sat at exactly center court at the media table for a Bulls' exhibition game in Buffalo, which meant I could have shaken hands with Michael Jordan without any effort from either of us. Warren Buffett came to The Buffalo News as part of a party for the opening of the new presses. I shook his hand, posed with him for a photo, and thanked him for what he had done for the community.<br />
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Cue the Marmalard to play "Reflections of My Life."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-70300794919248699452020-07-21T08:29:00.000-04:002020-07-21T08:29:00.142-04:00Buffalo's Biggest Free Agents: No. 41-60<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Signed by the Bills in 1962</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">42. Shane Nelson –
Signed by the Bills in 1977</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">43. Teppo Numminen –
Signed by the Sabres in 2005</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">44. Jordan Poyer –
Signed by the Bills in 2017</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">45. Scott Chandler –
Signed by the Bills in 2010</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">46. Sam Adams –
Signed by the Bills in 2003</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">47. Kyle Okposo –
Signed by the Sabres in 2016</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">48. Dan Brouthers –
Signed by the Bisons in 1881</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">49. Tom Day – Signed
by the Bills in 1960</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">50. Rian Lindell –
Signed by the Bills in 2003</b></div>
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Signed by the Bills in 2017</b></div>
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Signed by the Bisons in 1878</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">53. Mark Anderson –
Signed by the Bills in 2013</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">54. Ray Bentley –
Signed by the Bills in 1986</b></div>
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Signed by the Bisons in 1886</b></div>
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Signed by the Bills in 1993</b></div>
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Signed by the Sabres in 1998</b></div>
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Signed by the Bandits in 2018</b></div>
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Signed by the Sabres in 1995</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.buffalosportspage.com/category/buffalo-sports-by-the-numbers/" target="_blank">(Here's the full list)</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-3822430771618619112020-06-11T07:50:00.003-04:002020-06-11T07:50:44.263-04:00Buffalo's Biggest Free Agents: No. 61-80<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Visit <a href="http://buffalosportspage.com/" target="_blank">Buffalo Sports Page</a> for a full recap of the careers of these players.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">61. Kenneth Davis –
Signed by the Bills in 1989</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">62. Marlin Briscoe –
Signed by the Bills in 1969</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">63. John Brown –
Signed by the Bills in 2019</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">64. Cole Beasley –
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">65. Jim O’Rourke –
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">66.
Larry Centers – Signed by the Bills in 2001</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">L</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">67.
Mitch Morse – Signed by the Bills in 2019</span></b><br />
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Signed by the Bisons in 1881</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">69. Iubo Petrovic –
Signed by the Stallions in 1979</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">70. Sam Gash – Signed
by the Bills in 1998 and 2003</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">71. Trey Teague –
Signed by the Bills in 2002</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">72. Quinn Early –
Signed by the Bills in 1996</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">73. Jordan Leopold –
Signed by the Sabres in 2010</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">74. Star Lotulelei -
- Signed by the Bills in 2018</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">75. Stephen Hauschka -
Signed by the Bills in 2017</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">76. Paul Maguire –
Signed by the Bills in 1964</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">77. Lawyer Milloy –
Signed by the Bills in 2003</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">78. Jaroslav Spacek –
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">79. George Wilson –
Signed by the Bills in 2005</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">80. Rick Dudley –
Signed by the Sabres in 1971</b><br />
<br />
<i>See the full list by going to <a href="https://www.buffalosportspage.com/category/buffalo-sports-by-the-numbers/" target="_blank">Buffalo Sports Page.</a> </i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
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<i>(Follow Budd on Twitter @WDX2BB)</i><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Visit <a href="https://www.buffalosportspage.com/category/buffalo-sports-by-the-numbers/" target="_blank">Buffalo Sports Page</a> for a full recap of the careers of these players. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">81. Richie Dunn –
Signed by the Sabres in 1977 and 1985</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">82. Randy Burridge –
Signed by the Sabres in 1995</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">83. Dwan Edwards –
Signed by the Bills in 2010</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">84. Brian Gionta –
Signed by the Sabres in 2014</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">85. Dave Andreychuk –
Signed by the Sabres in 2000</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">86. Bennie Anderson –
Signed by the Bills in 2005</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">87. Glenn Bass –
Signed by the Bills in 1961</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">88. Chris Spielman –
Signed by the Bills in 1997</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">89. Chris Mohr –
Signed by the Bills in 1991</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">90. Hal Chase –
Signed by the Buf-Feds in 1914</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">91. Chris Villarrial
– Signed by the Bills in 2004</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">92. Tim Vogler –
Signed by the Bills in 1979</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">93. Drayton Florence
– Signed by the Bills in 2009</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">94. Gary Bromley –
Signed by the Sabres in 1971</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">95. Ed Rutkowski – Signed
by the Bills in 1963</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">96. Steve Montador –
Signed by the Sabres in 2009</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">97. Alan Branch –
Signed by the Bills in 2013</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">98. Vontae Davis –
Signed by the Bills in 2018</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">99. Paolo Rossi –
Signed by the Stallions in 1980</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">100. Robert Daughrty
– Signed by the Buffalo Bisons (NBL) in 1946</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Gregg Mace loved to show off the tourist attractions<br /> in the Harrisburg area. This is from 1981.</b></td></tr>
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Let's start with one basic fact. Gregg Mace, my friend of more than 44 years who died on Saturday, loved to go to sporting events of any kind. I think he loved them more than anyone I've ever met. Give him a game to watch on any level to attend - high school to pro championship game - and he was happy. And he saw a lot of games in his 65 years.<br />
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Is it any wonder, then, that most of my memories about Gregg involve games? They serve as a reminder of the length and quality of our friendship. <br />
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Gregg and I met in late March of 1975. We were both students at Syracuse University. He was involved with the student radio station, WAER, and I worked at the student newspaper, the Daily Orange. We both flew out to San Diego when the Orangemen reached the Final Four. It was an easy way to become friends, as we discovered we had so much in common. He was good-natured and fun to be around. Besides, we looked a bit like each other at the time. "Say, who is that good looking guy?" one could say about the other. (This did not last, thanks to some premature graying hair on his part.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>I don't have any photos of Gregg at the 1975 Final Four<br />in San Diego, but a shot of our hotel for the weekend<br /> survives. It's been remodeled since then. </b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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The next fall, we started to run into each other frequently at football games and the like, and became closer. Gregg and his three roommates were all radio-television types, but they put up with the visit of a newspaper person at their apartment once in a while. They were all smart and fun, and you could tell they'd do well.<br />
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Fast forward several months - I remember watching the 1976 Democratic Convention one summer afternoon, and seeing Gregg standing behind Dan Rather. I called him the next week at home - and Gregg told me that WAER letterhead had led to a press credential to the entire show in New York that year. Gregg was really good at using that stuff. As sports director, he wrote every major college and pro team asking for media guides and news releases. Gregg received more mail than any other employee of the radio station - and that still was true <i>10 years later. </i>My friend Paul Peck was at WAER in 1987, and knew Gregg's name because of all of the mail. <br />
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By our senior year, Gregg and I started having "adventures" together. Two quickly come to mind. It was a dull winter Friday night, and Gregg suggested that we head to downtown Syracuse to watch the Blazers play. That team was in the North American Hockey League, which supplied some stories for a movie called "Slap Shot" a little later. Syracuse was playing Broome County, and Gregg said on the way down there, "These games usually are kind of boring."<br />
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We got to the War Memorial, and the Blazers had proclaimed it "Noise Night." Broome County's fans filled up a few buses for the trip up from Binghamton, and apparently alcoholic beverages were served along the way. The game was filled with noisemakers, goals, fights (on and off the ice) and other bizarre occurrences. I remember a Blazer diving into the penalty box in order to avoid a pounding from one of the tougher Dusters. Syracuse scored two goals in the final two minutes to win, 7-6. I said to Gregg, "That was the most exciting hockey game I've ever seen!" He answered, "Honest, they usually aren't that good.' We talked about that game occasionally for decades.<br />
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In the spring of 1977, Syracuse qualified for the NCAA basketball tournament. Its first round game was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana against Tennessee - right at the start of an 11-day spring break. Gregg, Bill Epps and I hatched a scheme to drive to Louisiana to cover the game for our respective media outlets. We figured we'd see the game, watch Syracuse lose (the Volunteers had Bernard King and Ernie Grunfeld that year), and then spend the rest of spring break on a Florida beach looking for girls in bikinis. Remember, it was winter in Syracuse then.<br />
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Off we went in Gregg's car - changing drivers every two hours and buying the local newspaper every time we stopped. The back seat was filled with sports sections by the time we reached Alabama. I believe once we crossed the Mason-Dixon Line, we spoke in bad Southern accidents and started to address each other as "Colonel Bailey," "Colonel Mace" and "Colonel Epps." <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The WAER Sports team uncovered many<br />developments in its full coverage of the Orangemen. </b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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We made it to Baton Rouge, and had a frog's leg lunch sponsored by the NCAA that featured some coach from the University of Detroit as the main speaker. It was Dick Vitale, I can still recite his jokes. The game offered a surprise - Syracuse won in overtime. Therefore, it was off to Lexington, Kentucky, for the next round (which meant more newspapers) instead of Clearwater Beach.<br />
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Let me assure you that there were no bikinis in view in Lexington in March. But we did stop on the way at a place in the French Square in New Orleans that featured women wearing less than a bikini, so I guess we rebounded nicely. Gregg thought a photo outside the establishment could be a good recruiting tool for potential male members of WAER Sports. We also stopped on the drive north in Knoxville at the University of Tennessee. The three of us hopped a fence to get into the mammoth football stadium, and ran around the then-novel artificial turf before 85,000 empty seats. <br />
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In Lexington, we all got a tour of NBC's production area from their unit manager. We all even played a game of pickup ball at Rupp Arena in our dress shirts, ties and socks (no good shoes on the court, please). Alas, Syracuse got smoked in the NCAAs by Cornbread Maxwell and North Carolina-Charlotte. The three of us headed back to Syracuse, stopping in Cleveland to watch a Barons' NHL game while waiting for an ice storm to subside. Yes, even then Colonel Mace found a game to watch.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>"Quiet. I'm putting" That is Gregg's roommate,</b><br />
<b>Roger Vanderhorst, waiting for his turn.</b></td></tr>
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Gregg was a good-sized part of my life that year in college, and not just because he ate a lot of late-night pizza at the Varsity with me and our mutual friends. When he needed an emergency talk show guest on the air, I was on the top of his call list. We didn't have many listeners, or calls, but we had fun. When Gregg wanted to play Putt-Putt once spring sort of arrived, I was instantly ready to go along.<br />
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Graduation - mine, not his (too many games, I think) - arrived in May of 1977. I recall visiting his family in August of 1977, noteworthy for the fact that both Elvis Presley and Groucho Marx died that week. We saw the Redskins, Phillies and Colts within a week. The following spring, I met up with Gregg in Washington to take part in a workshop that could have led to jobs as press secretaries for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. We lasted for about two days, and then both realized that if we made the cut we'd be sent to some place where a Republican didn't stand a chance of winning. We bailed early to see a game - naturally - between the Spurs and the Bullets in the NBA playoffs.<br />
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Finally, we got on some sort of career path. Gregg thought it was pretty funny that I popped up in radio for a while before moving on to public relations and newspaper work. I thought it was funny that he was the only one driving <i>toward </i>Three Mile Island during the nuclear meltdown, because he was doing weekend sports at Ch. 27 in Harrisburg. We both stayed in touch reasonably well, with email and social media making it easier to do so in later years. When I happened to see Gregg on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" when the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke, I called him up and he told me how it was a little odd to be doing national reports about subjects like sexual abuse involving a football coach. No matter what the circumstances, we always could pick up where we left off the last time. Kids, that's more rare than you'd think. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Gregg was too busy to clean up his apartment<br />when his wedding day arrived in 1983 -- <br />at least that was his story at the time. </b></td></tr>
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There were a few trips to Harrisburg along the way. I did go to his wedding there, gawking at the absolute mess in his apartment on the morning of the ceremony. All of the guests noticed that when they drove to the ceremony, they went past a billboard with giant photos of the Ch. 27 news team - meaning we had to see Gregg's head at 50 times its normal size. Another time as my friend Glenn and I drove around Harrisburg with Gregg, we were astonished at how many people would smile and wave upon recognizing him. Glenn and I started shouting at pedestrians, "Look! It's Gregg Mace!" in fun. He'd wave and say "Thanks for watching!" brightly. <br />
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My last contact with him came in August, when I wondered if he'd be at the Buffalo-Penn State football game. He wasn't going to be there, and the trip fell through at my end. There was silence about his activities until Friday, when I saw a Tweet from his son saying that Gregg was very ill and needed prayers. While his closest friends knew about his various health problems, I had no clue. Gregg died on Saturday. As Bill Russell said when Wilt Chamberlain passed away, "I am unspeakably injured." <br />
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Since then, the outpouring of love and grief on social media from Gregg's many friends and viewers has been enormous. That raises a couple of concluding points. There are always people like Gregg Mace in the media of smaller markets, pros who stay put for decades rather than working their way up the ladder. If they are class acts like Gregg, they go out of their way to be helpful to others and those in their communities - even though they probably could have gone on to bigger things professionally. Their contributions are made one person and one story at a time, and are priceless. The effort adds up over 40 years. <br />
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It's obviously sad to see Gregg leave us, and many, many people will miss him in different ways. If there's any consolation to this, it's that this was someone who did exactly what he loved for his entire adult life, and did it well while making the world around him a happier place. We all should be so lucky. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-29067566527542968922019-08-12T07:28:00.006-04:002020-05-02T08:34:52.506-04:00Buffalo's Biggest Trades: No. 1-20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Go to <a href="http://buffalosportspage.com/" target="_blank">Buffalo Sports Page</a> for full details of all of the trades.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 1: December 9,
1976</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Braves trade Bob McAdoo
and Tom McMillen to the New York Knicks for John Gianelli and a reported $3
million.</i> <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 2: April 24, 1982</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Tom Cousineau to
Cleveland for a first-round draft pick in 1983 (Jim Kelly), a third-round draft
choice in 1984 (Rodney Bellinger) and a fifth-round draft choice in 1985 (Matt
Darwin). </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 3: August 7, 1992</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Stephane Beauregard
and a fourth-round draft choice in 1993 (Eric Daze) to Chicago for Dominik
Hasek.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 4: December 2,
1981</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Jim
Schoenfeld, Danny Gare and Derek Smith to Detroit for Mike Foligno, Dale
McCourt and Brent Peterson.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 5: October 25,
1991</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Pierre
Turgeon, Uwe Krupp, Dave McLlwain and Benoit Hogue to the New York Islanders
for Pat LaFontaine, Randy Wood and Randy Hillier.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 6: October 31,
1987</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Greg Bell, a
first-round draft choice in 1988, a first-round draft choice in 1989, and a
second-round draft choice in 1989 in a three-way deal with Los Angeles and
Indianapolis for Cornelius Bennett.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 7: February 28,
2014</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Ryan Miller
and Steve Ott to St. Louis for Jaroslav Halak, Chris Stewart, William Carrier,
a first-round draft choice in 2015, and a third-round draft choice in 2016. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 8: October, 1991</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bandits trade Brian Nikula to
Detroit for John Tavares.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 9: March 24, 1978</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade O.J. Simpson to San
Francisco for a second-round draft choice in 1978 (Scott Hutchinson), a
third-round draft choice in 1978 (Danny Fulton), a first-round draft choice in
1979 (Tom Cousineau), a fourth-round draft choice in 1979 (Ken Johnson), and a
second-round draft choice in 1980 (Joe Cribbs).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 10 – June 16,
1990 </b>- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Phil Housley,
Scott Arniel, Jeff Parker and a first-round draft choice in 1990 (Keith
Tkachuk) to Winnipeg for Dale Hawerchuk and a first-round draft choice in 1990
(Brad May).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 11: April 30,
2014</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a first-round
draft choice in 2014 (Tavon Austin), a first-round draft choice in 2015, and a
fourth-round draft choice in 2015 (Ibraheim Campbell) to Cleveland for a
first-round draft choice in 2014 (Sammy Watkins).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 12: July 8, 1995</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Alexander Mogilny and
a fifth-round draft choice in 1995 (Todd Norman) to Vancouver for Michael Peca,
Mike Wilson, and a first-round draft choice in 1995 (Jay McKee).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 13: February 2, 1993
</b>- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Dave Andreychuk,
Daren Puppa, and a first-round draft choice in 1993 (Kenny Jonsson) to Toronto
for Grant Fuhr and a fifth-round draft choice in 1995 (Kevin Popp).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 14: March 14,
1967 -</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Daryle
Lamonica, Glenn Bass, a third-round draft choice in 1967 (Bill Fairband), and a
fifth-round draft choice in 1967 (Mike Hibler) to Oakland for Tom Flores, Art
Powell, and a second-round draft choice in 1967.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 15: March 4, 1972
</b>- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Eddie Shack to
Pittsburgh for Rene Robert.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 16: March 23,
1999</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Mike Wilson
to Florida for Rhett Warrener and a 1999 fifth-round draft choice (Ryan
Miller).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 17: September 12,
1973<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Braves trade Elmore Smith to the Los Angeles Lakers for Jim
McMillian.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 18: April 9, 1985</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade the first-round choice
in the supplemental draft (Bernie Kosar) to Cleveland for Chip Banks (did not
report; replaced with a first-round draft choice in 1985), a third-round draft
choice in 1985 (Hal Garner), a first-round draft choice in 1986 (Ronnie Harmon), and a sixth-round draft choice in 1986 (Floyd Dixon).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 19: February 24,
1965</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Cookie
Gilchrist to Denver for Billy Joe.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 20: March 11,
2003</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Chris Gratton
and a fourth-round draft choice in 2004 (Liam Reddox) to Phoenix for Daniel
Briere and a third-round draft choice in 2004 (Andrej Sekera). </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 21: October 24,
1976</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Braves trade Moses Malone
to Houston for a first-round draft choice in 1977 and a first-round draft
choice in 1978.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 22: July 1, 2001</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Dominik Hasek to
Detroit for Vyacheslav Kozlov, a first-round draft pick in 2002, and future
considerations.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 23: December 31,
1987</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> - The Sabres trade Paul Cyr and
a 10th-round draft choice in 1988 (Eric Fenton) to the New York Rangers for
Mike Donnelly and a fifth-round draft choice in 1988 (Alexander Mogilny).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 24: April 16,
2018</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade their
first-round draft choice (Vita Vea) and two second-round choices (M.J. Stewart
and another pick that was later traded) to Tampa Bay for a first-round draft
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 25: July 1, 2018</b>
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2019 and a second-round draft choice in 2021. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 26: June 7, 1972</b>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 27: July 3, 2003 </b>–
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first-round draft choice in 1983 (Tom Barrasso).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 32: March 10,
1980</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Jerry Korab
to Los Angeles for a first-round draft choice in 1982 (Phil Housley).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 33: August 2,
2018</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Cliff Pu, a
second-round draft choice in 2019, a third-round draft choice in 2020, and a
sixth-round draft choice in 2010 to Carolina for Jeff Skinner.</i> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 34:</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">February 28, 2018</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bandits trade Callum Crawford and a
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fourth-round draft choice in 2018. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 35: June 24, 2001</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Michael Peca to the
New York Islanders for Tim Connolly and Taylor Pyatt.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 36: October 5,
1979</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Rene Robert
to Colorado for John Van Boxmeer.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 37: February 14,
1998</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a first-round
draft pick in 1998 (Fred Taylor) and a fourth-round draft choice in 1998
(Tavian Banks) to Jacksonville for Rob Johnson.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 38: June 26, 2015</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Nikita Zadorov,
Mikhail Grigorenko, J.T. Compher and a second-round draft pick in 2015 to
Colorado for Ryan O’Reilly and Jamie McGinn. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 39: June 10, 1970</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Tom Webster to Detroit
for Roger Crozier.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 40: June 6, 1983</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Tony McKegney, Andre
Savard, J.F. Sauve and a third-round draft choice in 1983 (Iirvo Jarvi) to
Quebec for Real Cloutier and a first-round draft choice in 1983 (Adam
Creighton).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 41: April 28,
1987</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a first-round
draft choice in 1987 (Alonzo Highsmith) to Houston for a first-round draft
choice in 1987 (Shane Conlan) and a second-round draft choice in 1987.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 42: December 19,
2002</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bandits trade Ken Montour
and a third-round draft choice in 2004 to Columbus for Mark Steenhuis. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 43: April 17,
2009</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">- The Bills trade Jason Peters
to Philadelphia for a first-round draft choice in 2009 (Eric Wood), a
fourth-round draft choice in 2009 (Shawn Nelson) and a sixth-round draft choice
in 2010 (Danny Batten).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 44</b>: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">November 12, 1988</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Tom Barrasso and a
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 45: June 9, 1982</b>
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Dunn, a second-round draft choice in 1982 (Rich Kromm) and a first-round draft
choice in 1983 (Dan Quinn) to Calgary for a first-round draft choice (Paul Cyr)
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 48 – February 1,
1976</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Braves trade Gar Heard and
a second-round draft choice in 1975 (Al Fleming) to Phoenix for John Shumate.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 49 – February 14,
1995</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Grant Fuhr, Philippe
Boucher, and Denis Tsygurov to Los Angeles for Alexei Zhitnik, Charlie Huddy,
Robb Stauber, and a fifth-round draft choice in 1995 (Marian Menhart).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 50: July 18, 1985</b>
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Angeles Rams for Vince Ferragamo and a third-round draft choice in 1986
(Leonard Burton).</i></div>
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for Don Luce and Mike Robitaille.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 52 – April 29,
2013</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Kelvin
Sheppard to Indianapolis for Jerry Hughes.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 53: August 1,
2017</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bandits trade Ryan Benesch
and a third-round draft choice in 2018 to Colorado (Dennon Armstrong) for
Callum Crawford and Alex Buque.</i></div>
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2015</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Tyler Myers, Drew
Stafford, Joel Armia, the rights to Brendan Lemieux and a first-round draft
choice in 2015 (Jack Roslovic) to Winnipeg for Evander Kane, Zach Bogosian and
Jason Kasdorf. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 55: December 26,
1988</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Adam
Creighton and future considerations to Chicago for Rick Vaive and future considerations.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 56: March 14,
2018</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Tyrod Taylor
to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for a third-round draft choice in 2018.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 57: April 25,
2013</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a first-round
draft choice in 2013 and a third-round draft choice in 2013 (T.J. McDonald) to
St. Louis for a first-round draft choice in 2013 (EJ Manuel), a second-round
draft choice in 2013 (Kiko Alonso), a third-round draft choice in 2013
(Marquise Goodwin), and a seventh-round draft choice in 2013 (Chris Gragg).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 58: October 18,
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draft choice in 1978 (Rick Robey) to Portland for Moses Malone.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 59: September 1,
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and Adrian Dantley to Indiana for Billy Knight.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 60: March 18, 1997</b>
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Millar to Edmonton for Miroslav Satan.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 61: December 27,
1973</b> - <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Tracy Pratt
and John Gould to Vancouver for Jerry Korab.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 62: June 11, 1976</b>
- <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade the rights to free
agent Peter McNab to Boston for the rights to free agent Andre Savard.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 63: May 11, 1970</b>
– <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Braves trade Bailey Howell to
Philadelphia for Bob Kauffman.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 64: April 22,
1980</b> - <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Bob Chandler
to Oakland for Phil Villapiano.</span></i>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 65: March 6, 1989</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Calle Johansson and a
second-round draft choice in 1989 (Byron Dafoe) to Washington for Clint
Malarchuk, Grant Ledyard and a sixth-round draft choice in 1991 (Brian
Holzinger).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 66: March 10,
2000</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Michal Grosek
to Chicago for Doug Gilmour and Jean-Pierre Dumont.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 67: October 27,
2013</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Thomas Vanek
to the New York Islanders for Matt Moulson, a first-round draft choice in 2015
and a second-round draft choice in 2015 (Brendan Guhle).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 68: April 3, 2013</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Jason Pominville to
Minnesota for Johan Larsson, Matt Hackett, a first-round draft choice in 2013
(Nikita Zadorov) and a second-round draft choice in 2014 (Vaclav Karabacek).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 69: April 2, 1976</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Walt Patulski to St.
Louis for a second-round draft choice in 1976 (Joe Devlin.).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 70: September 10,
1973</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Braves trade John Hummer,
a second-round draft choice in 1974 (Leon Benbow), and a second-round draft
choice in 1975 (Larry Fogle) to Chicago for Gar Heard and Kevin Kunnert.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 71: January 26,
1974</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Dennis Shaw to
St. Louis for Ahmad Rashad</i>.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 72: February 17,
2012</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bandits trade first-round
draft choices in 2013 (Logan Schuss) and 2014 (Shane MacDonald) to Minnesota
for Anthony Cosmo. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 73: September 3,
1960</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Al Crow to
Boston for Wray Carlton.</i> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 74: January 14,
1972</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade a
second-round draft choice in 1972 (Larry Sacharuk) to the New York Rangers for
Jim Lorentz.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 75: May 11, 1971</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Ron McDole to
Washington for a third-round draft choice in 1973 (Bob Kampa), a fourth-round
draft choice in 1973 (Jeff Yeates), and a seventh-round draft choice in 1973
(John Ford).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 76: October 14,
1974</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Gerry Meehan
and Mike Robitaille to Vancouver for Jocelyn Guevremont and Bryan McSheffrey.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 77: November 23,
1977</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Braves trade John Shumate,
Gus Gerard, and a first-round draft choice in 1979 (Roy Hamilton) to Detroit
for Marvin Barnes, a second-round draft choice in 1978 (Lew Massey) and a
fourth-round draft choice in 1978 (Larry Harris).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 78: March 11,
1999</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Matthew
Barnaby to Pittsburgh for Stu Barnes.</i> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 79: April 29,
1980</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a first-round
draft choice in 1980 (Jacob Green) to Seattle for a first-round draft choice in
1980 (Jim Ritcher), and a third-round draft choice in 1980 (John Schmeding).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 80: March 10,
2000</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Wayne
Primeau, Brian Holzinger, Cory Sarich and a third-round draft choice in 2000
(Alexander Kharitonov) for Chris Gratton and a second-round draft choice in
2001 (Derek Roy). </i></div>
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Here's a recap of part of the series I'm writing for Buffalo Sports Page on Buffalo's biggest trades. You can go to <a href="http://buffalosportspage.com/">buffalosportspage.com</a> for the more complete versions of each deal.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 81: May 29, 1986</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a second-round draft
choice in 1986 (Garry James) and a third-round draft choice in 1986 (Tom
Rathman) to San Francisco for a first-round draft choice in 1986 (Will Wolford)
and a 10th-round draft choice in 1987 (Jim Ellis).</i>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 82: October 5,
2010</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Marshawn Lynch
to Seattle for a fourth-round draft choice in 2011 (Chris Hairston) and a
conditional draft choice in 2012 (Tank Carder).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 83: April 21,
2001</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade their
first-round draft choice in 2001 (Kenyatta Walker) to Tampa Bay for a
first-round draft choice in 2001 (Nate Clements) and a second-round draft
choice in 2001.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 84: October 1,
1975</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Larry
Carriere, a first-round draft choice in 1976 (Greg Carroll) and cash to Atlanta
for Jacques Richard.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 85: February 26,
2008</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Brian
Campbell and a seventh-round choice in 2008 (Drew Daniels) to San Jose for
Steve Bernier and a first-round pick in 2008 (Tyler Ennis).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 86: June 30, 2017</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Tyler Ennis, Marcus
Foligno and a third-round draft choice in 2018 (Jack McBain) to Minnesota for
Marco Scandella, Jason Pominville and a fourth-round draft choice in 2018
(Linus Lindstrand Cronholm ).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 87: March 10,
1992</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Kevin Haller
to Montreal for Petr Svoboda.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 88: July 15, 2013</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bandits trade first-round draft
choices in 2015 (Randy Staats) and 2016 and a third-round draft choice in 2017
(Frank Brown) to Minnesota for Ryan Benesch and Andrew Watt.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 89: February 15,
1996</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Craig Muni
and a first-round draft choice in 1996 (Daniel Briere) to Winnipeg for Darryl
Shannon and Michal Grosek.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 90: October 11,
1991</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Darrin
Shannon, Dean Kennedy and Mike Hartman to Winnipeg for Dave McLlwain, Gord
Donnelly, a fifth-round draft choice in 1992 (Yuri Khmylev) in 1992 and future
considerations.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 91: April 30,
1985</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a first-round
draft choice (acquired from Cleveland) in 1985 (Ken Ruettgers) and a
fourth-round draft choice in 1986 (Tim Harris) to Green Bay for a first-round
draft choice in 1985 (Derrick Burroughs), and a second-round draft choice in
1985 (Chris Burkett).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 92: May 1, 1984</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a first-round draft
choice in 1984 (Jackie Shipp) to Miami for a first-round draft choice in 1984
(Greg Bell), a third-round draft choice in 1984 (Sean McNanie), and a
third-round draft choice in 1984 (Speedy Neal).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 93: December 2,
1981</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Bob Sauve to
Detroit for a conditional first-round draft choice (Sauve was returned to the
Sabres after the 1981-82 season).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 94: April 7, 1995</b>
- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Petr Svoboda to
Philadelphia for Garry Galley.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 95: March 12,
2018</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Cordy Glenn, a
first-round draft choice in 2018 (Billy Price), and a fifth-round draft choice
in 2018 (Andrew Brown) to Cincinnati for a first-round draft choice in 2018 and
a sixth-round draft choice in 2018 (Ray-Ray McCloud).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 96: April 24,
2004</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade a second-round
draft choice in 2004 (Julius Jones), a fourth-round draft choice in 2004 (Sean
Ryan), and a first-round draft choice in 2005 (Marcus Spears) to Dallas for a
first-round draft choice in 2004 (J.P. Losman).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 97: June 26, 2015</b>
– <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade a first-round draft
choice in 2015 (Colin White) to Ottawa for Robin Lehner and David Legwand. </i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 98: January 30,
1986 -</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sabres trade Larry
Playfair, Sean McKenna and Ken Baumgarter to Los Angeles for Brian Engblom and
Doug Smith.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 99: March 26,
2007</b> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bills trade Takeo Spikes
and Kelly Holcomb to Philadelphia for Darwin Walker and a seventh-round draft
choice in 2007 (Stevie Johnson).</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No. 100: September 1,
1977</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Braves trade George
Johnson, a first-round draft choice in 1978 (Micheal Ray Richardson) and a
first-round draft choice in 1979 (Cliff Robinson) to New Jersey for Tiny
Archibald.</i></div>
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Honorable mention, in chronological order:<br />
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<b>November 25, 1970</b> – <i>The Sabres trade Mike McMahon to Los Angeles for Eddie Shack and Dick Duff. </i><br />
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<b>July 26, 1971</b> – <i>The Braves trade Herm Gilliam and Don May to Atlanta for Mahdi Abdul-Rahman and Jerry Chambers.</i><br />
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<b>April 19, 1973</b> – <i>The Bills trade Edgar Chandler, Wayne Patrick and Jeff Lyman to New England for Jim Cheyunski, Mike Montler and Halvor Hagen.</i><br />
<br />
<b>June 7, 1977</b> – <i>The Braves trade a first-round
draft choice in 1977 (Marques Johnson) to Milwaukee for Swen Nater and a
first-round draft choice in 1977.</i><br />
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<b>September 1, 1980</b> – <i>The Bills trade Joe
DeLamielleure to Cleveland for a second-round draft choice in 1981
(Chris Williams) and a third-round draft choice in 1982 (Eugene Marve).</i><br />
<br />
<b>November 16, 1995</b> – <i>The Sabres trade Doug Bodger
to San Jose for Vaclav Varada, Martin Spanhel, Philadelphia’s
fourth-round draft pick in 1996 (Mike Martone), and a future first-round
draft choice. </i><br />
<br />
<b>March 8, 2007</b> – <i>The Bills trade Willis McGahee
to Baltimore for third-round and seventh-round draft picks in 2007
(Trent Edwards and C.J. Ah You) and a third-round draft choice in 2008
(Tavares Gooden).</i><br />
<br />
<b>June 25, 2011</b> – <i>The Sabres trade Paul Byron and
the rights to Chris Butler to Calgary for Robyn Regehr, Ales Kotalik and
a second-round draft pick in 2012 (Jake McCabe).</i><br />
<br />
<b>August 11, 2017</b> – <i>The Bills trade Sammy Watkins
and a sixth-round draft choice in 2018 (Sebastian Joseph) to the Rams
for E.J. Gaines and a second-round draft choice in 2018 (Duke Dawson).</i><br />
<br />
<b>November 28, 2018</b> – <i>Acquired Corey Small and
conditional second-round picks in 2020 and 2022 from Vancouver for Mitch
Jones and conditional second-round picks in 2020 and 2022.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-87022236686061203162019-05-13T16:09:00.000-04:002019-06-05T19:54:34.038-04:00Planes, trains, automobiles and a boat<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I was walking toward the Eiffel Tower on my first day in
Paris. Apparently my subconscious mind already was working hard on my lead to
this blog because I started singing this to myself:<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I was a free man in
Paris. I felt unfettered and alive. There was nobody calling me up for favors.
And no one's future to decide.”</i></div>
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That’s Joni Mitchell’s song about her trip to Paris with the
president of her record label. David Geffen didn’t like the way the words portrayed
him, but he probably changed his mind when “Free Man in Paris” was released as
a single and became one of Mitchell’s biggest hits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We spent 16 days on a vacation that wound its way from Paris
to Nice in France with a side trip to Monaco. About a week was spent cruising
down the Rhone River in a group of about 40 other Americans. It have written up descriptions of the places we saw and posted them on my travel
blog, <a href="http://buddroadtrips.blogspot.com/">buddroadtrips.blogspot.com</a>. But
as usual, I took notes about what we noticed about our trip along the way and
asked our new friends who joined us on the tour for their thoughts too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learn a lot about where I have been that
way. Therefore, this admittedly lengthy report is not about what we saw, but
about what we experienced.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The City of Lights</span></b></span><br />
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* There’s no easy way to
cross the ocean by plane and be anything but tired. We flew from Buffalo
to Charlotte, sat around for four hours, and flew to Paris with a 6:55
a.m. arrival time. The best way to say how tired I was is that some days
later I was asked if there were movies on the flight. “I watched two of
them – one was about Bill Murray, and the other was … um … I have no
recollection of what the other one was,” I answered.<br />
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* They really celebrate
their holidays in France. On the morning of May 1 (Labor Day or May Day),
the usually crowded streets were empty. Few businesses were open, except
for some restaurants that probably catered to tourists. We missed a couple
of planned visits to attractions because of that. A week later, we were in
town for V-E Day, yet another holiday that closed many businesses.<br />
<br />
* Meanwhile on May Day, thousands
gathered to protest government policies. More than 100 were arrested. Some
of the metro (subway) stops were closed for security reasons.We couldn’t
get near the Arc de Triomphe; access was blocked by well-armed military
troops. In fact, the nation is on its highest alert for security, and
military types were very visible in almost all potentially crowded areas.<br />
<br />
* If you are interested in
fine dining, Paris obviously is the place to be. We saw not one, but two
Five Guys hamburger places there. McDonald’s and Starbucks were
everywhere, while Burger King had a small presence. More seriously, there are cafes and
restaurants all over the place, with a few on almost every block. For
an expensive city, food prices were actually quite reasonable. However, soft drinks were outrageous, unless you think a bottle of Coke Zero without ice cubes is worth as much as 4.50 Euros. Footnote - It
is a tough place to buy a salad, for whatever reason.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The roof of Lafayette Commons was spectacular.</i></td></tr>
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* The malls of Western New
York aren’t doing well, but they have evolved into something quite
successful in Paris. Population density may have something to do with
that, of course. In any event, Galeries Lafayette is the big shopping spot in the big cities, and it has a fabulous building in Paris that was near our hotel. The
building features an atrium with a beautiful roof and a skywalk with a
glass floor. It helps that there are plenty of tourists in the area, and they
seemed anxious to spend money. There was a line to get into the Chanel and
Louis Vuitton sections of the building. That was a mall first.<br />
<br />
* Paris needs a little work
on its cheap commercialism. You couldn’t find an original or interesting
t-shirt in the city limits. <br />
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* Visitors hear about the
problem of pickpockets almost everywhere in Paris, as well as in Lyon and
Nice. Theft from tourists almost sounds like it provides a good-sized
portion of the GDP. If you are planning a trip, take appropriate measures
like the purchase of a money belt.<br />
<br />
* My friend from another cruise, Gail Alderton, once said to me, "You <i>must </i>go to Paris." She was right. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Turning the tables</span></b></span><br />
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Jody’s knowledge of her high school French lessons paid off nicely
throughout the trip, as she could understand a bit of what was going around us
and point us in the proper directions. Meanwhile, my elective of Spanish in
those school years was of no use. But then we ran into a family from Argentina
at the shopping center in Paris, and my shaky knowledge of that language came
back to life briefly.</div>
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After I explained that I spoke “muy, muy poco” (very,
very little) Spanish after taking three years of it in school, we talked a
little in a combination of Spanish and English. The three women were delighted.
When they said they were leaving Paris that night, I said, “Que lastima!” (What
a pity!), which I think I learned in my first month of lessons in seventh
grade. And when we split up, I said, “Adios! Buena suerte (good luck)!”, putting a big smile on their faces. </div>
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You’d be surprised how much fun it
was.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rolling on the river</b></span><br />
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* Cruising usually is
associated with the big ships on the oceans. This was not one of them. Our
boat this time was about a third as crowded as the one we took in Central
Europe last year, with about 42 passengers. One nice feature was that the
rooms were downright spacious by cruise standards. In other words, you
could turn around in the shower without opening the door.<br />
<br />
* Grand Circle
sometimes brings in guest speakers to its event, and we had a couple of
unusual ones. The first was Jean Nallit, a man who worked on the French
Resistance during World War II. As a forger, he saved the lives of several
Jews who were slated to go to the death camps. Yes, he’s 96 now, but he’s
still doing OK. It was remarkable to hear a first-person account of
experiences, which included a stay in a concentration camp. When he was
released, he was so thin (76 pounds) that his mother didn’t even recognize
him when they were reunited after the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By any definition. Nallit is a hero. Also, two people from the “Yellow Vest” protest groups took time to
talk with our group and answer questions about their activities. The protesters seem to have some energy, but no obvious place to direct it and
no clear leadership. Apparently, they get on Facebook and say, “Where
should we protest on Saturday?” Unless they set up a clear path for
progress to a particular destination and find some leadership, it’s hard to
believe they will do more than cause honked horns by drivers who can't get by them.<br />
<br />
* Some of the boat tours
through Grand Circle feature variety shows from the crew. We had such a
small boat (13 crew members or so) that such a show was impossible, so
they took questions for more than an hour instead one night. They were
mostly Eastern Europeans (Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia) and in their 40s, so I asked how the end of
Communism had changed their lives. That hit a nerve. The answer from about
four crew members ran for about 20 minutes and had plenty of passion. It
was clear that they didn’t miss Communism, where everyone you meet is a
potential spy for the government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, there was a sense that they miss the safety net of the old
regime. Many people have realized that there’s not much opportunity for
advancement in the Old Country, and the people there need to flee to the
West for a better life. That "brain drain" has left those Eastern European countries
behind economically. I also asked about influences on their culture:
movies, television, music, sports, etc. They all quickly answered that
everything in those areas came from America.<br />
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* A story: Jaroslav, the hotel manager, talked about how a woman came up to him at the front desk and asked, "How does the ship get its power when it is not in port?" He was feeling silly that day, so he said, "We have a <i>long </i>cord that is plugged in at the city of origin, and it unrolls as we go from city to city." <br />
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* Grand Circle markets its
tours to Americans, so again the conversations weren’t as international in
nature as the ones we’ve had on a big ship. However, this was a bright
group, and some interesting chats did take place. Within a period of a couple
of days, I talked with different people about the lessons offered by
France’s military defeat in colonial Southeast Asia in 1954, inter-faith
marriages, and abusive sport coaches. A woman asked me whether I had ever interviewed one of my boyhood idols. I told her about one such interview - it was difficult it was to talk to Carl Yastrzemski at a baseball game in Toronto for that reason. No one had ever asked me that question before. <br />
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* Speaking of marketing,
Grand Circle’s approach to touring apparently appeals to those in the 70-79
age-group, as we say in the running community. Some were older than that, and a
few were well above that. Those most senior of senior citizens didn’t take
part in all of the programs, but had a good time by all accounts. At the
other end of the spectrum, we weren’t the youngest this time like we had
been in 2018. A family reunion of nine was part of the group, and four of
them were sons and their significant others. I told one of the young
ladies that if they ever wanted to talk to someone who didn’t remember the
Korean War, we were there to help. She laughed. Without them, though, we would have been the kids on board again.<br />
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* The food was quite good,
with an emphasis on French cuisine. Remember, this is from America’s
fussiest eater, so it’s high praise. I think I could come to like Crepes
Suzette on a regular basis. We made sure to do plenty of walking during
the day and not drink too much alcohol in order to be able to
fit into our clothes upon returning. Others weren’t so, um, dedicated –
but that’s part of the attraction for some. To each his or her own. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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* Let’s salute our program
director, Martin, for his effort throughout the trip. He worked extremely
hard for all 16 days (plus a post-trip extension that we missed) without
missing a beat, even when he was a bit sick for a while. Martin was always
in good humor and full of enthusiasm, and knew the highlights of the
visited cities forwards and backwards. He even put up with me when at one
point I started to snore loudly when he started to sing a lullaby into
the bus’ p-a system on a drive. (That got a surprisingly big laugh, by the
way.) You couldn’t tip him enough for what he did; let’s hope he received
enough to take a nice vacation of his own somewhere.<br />
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was mentioned along the way that there are three ingredients that are
crucial to French booking: butter, butter and butter. You didn’t need to
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* There appears to be three
basic industries in France: The manufacturing of bread, wine and cheese.
They were ever-present throughout the country, and according to all
reports were always good. A friend of mine reminded me before the trip
that “If you haven’t had a bottle of wine by 11 a.m., you are playing
catch-up the rest of the day.” <br />
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* As you’d guess, English is
fairly common in the tourist areas of Paris. Most merchants can at least
get by. It was less common for the other portions of the journey.<br />
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* You’d expect plenty of
tributes to the heroes of World War II, and they were present throughout
France. It’s interesting, though, that World War I is still well
remembered in many places in the form of monuments, street names, heroes,
etc. France obviously suffered incredible losses in the earlier conflict,
but the tributes are noticeable for someone coming from an American
perspective. World War I doesn't come up much on this side of the pond. <br />
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* Europe has much more
smoking than the United States, and the French seem to be the leaders in
that category. It’s a great country for walks as long as you can find some
clean air to breathe along the way.<br />
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* As best as we could figure
out from the road signs, the speed limit on the big highways goes down a
bit when it rains. That’s not a bad idea. However, it is interesting – if not
scary – to consider that wine is sold at Thruway rest stops. Driving is
not cheap in France. We spent an afternoon with a French family, who said
it costs about 75 Euros to fill the tank. Whew. Many cars are indeed tiny,
particularly in urban areas where the streets are not exactly boulevards.<br />
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* Speaking of driving, the
French certainly love their traffic circles. There are about 30,000
scattered around the country. The rotaries force drivers to pay attention - according to a book I once read on traffic - so the accident rate drops in such spots. However, the Arc de Triomphe
features six roads coming into a circle without a yield sign in sight. We
went through the area on the way to Versailles, and we needed a “discomfort
bag” like they hand out on airplanes. <br />
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* You’d think France would
be a little less stingy with the size and number of its napkins. There weren't many paper towels in the bathrooms either. <br />
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* We took a high-speed
bullet train out of Paris (right) to get to the boat on the Rhone River in Central France. It
supposedly hits 180 mph at certain points, and it was funny to see it swiftly pass the cars on the big highways along the way. I can report the
ride is smooth and comfortable. <br />
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* When we were riding on the
subway in Lyon, we were serenaded by a street musician who was playing an
accordion. So much for the old saying, then, that a gentleman is “someone
who knows how to play the accordion … and doesn’t.” The music seemed
almost continental in that setting. <br />
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* Does every city in France
have a carousel?<br />
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* While in Viviers, we were
introduced to a French game called pétanque. It’s a great deal like bocce,
as players have to get large balls next to a small target ball by throwing
it a good-sized distance. As my friends have said, I’m a good athlete
when my feet aren’t moving (which covers most sports, by the way).
Therefore, I got the hang of the game quite quickly. I wonder if there is a professional league I can join.<br />
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* One key observation from
Jody: She was surprised and disappointed that users of the hair dryers must hold the "on button" in order to prevent it from turning off. <br />
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* There’s one common problem
in the cities of France: what my mother used to call “dog stuff.” One
local tour guide said that residents often let their dogs run around the
city streets, and – using a nice phrase – don’t monitor their “production.”
Martin called the gifts from our four-footed friends “landmines,” and we
all learned to look down frequently while walking. <br />
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* The French people say they
don’t consider Jerry Lewis a god. So let’s put that one to rest right now.
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* For those who like to
count the countries they’ve visited, which covers almost all of us, the
idea of a morning trip to Monaco was irresistible. It’s less than a square
mile in size, a postage stamp in the world community. You don’t need a
passport to enter the country. However, if you want to get that document
stamped, you can do so. The Tourist Information booth at the train station
will be happy to add a bright red color to your otherwise drab passport
page. <br />
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* At one point, we got off
the train in Nice after coming in from Monaco, and found ourselves in the
midst of a Saturday protest by the Yellow Vests. There were drums and
whistles by the few hundred people involved, not including the police
presence. They marched several blocks to the big town square, and we never
felt threatened walking behind the group. However, they sure messed up
traffic patterns for a while. <br />
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* At the end of the trip, I
had to use the business center of a hotel to check in for our flights
home. When I started to use the computer, I quickly discovered that I was
typing something close to gibberish. No remarks please – it was because it
was a different keyboard. A few of the letters were in the “wrong”
position (z was where the w usually is for us), and the numbers could only
be typed by hitting the shift key.<br />
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When we got on the plane from London to Chicago, as part of
the illogical trip home from Nice to Buffalo , we were happy to see that we had
boarded a 747. I told a flight attendant that
it was a first, and she said, “Rows and rows.” We sat in Row 52, and there were more people upstairs. That’s one big
plane; I still don’t know how it gets off the ground.</div>
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Our seats had a video screen, and British Airways offered a
wide variety of movies to make the eight-hour trip go faster. I saw three, and
was almost willing to go on to Los Angeles for a couple of more. In looking
over the vast listings, I saw that “Whiplash” was available – starring J.K.
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We had been waiting to take a river cruise on the "Great Rivers of Europe" since January, when we signed up through Grand Circle Cruise Lines. It would be three weeks of August fun, visiting five nations in 21 days - some of them slated to be viewed on a luxury boat moving at a leisurely pace through beautiful scenery. It would be the longest trip of our lives. <br />
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Then came the email a few days before we headed to Amsterdam. Due to a drought in Europe, water levels had dropped to unsafe levels in certain portions of the planned route. So everyone would be hopping on a bus for a couple of nights and taken to a hotel. All right, the packing and unpacking of three weeks' of clothes would be a pain, but we'd adapt.<br />
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But once we got on the boat named Rhapsody, we were told that conditions had become worse. The ship could get no further up the river than Koblenz, Germany. Two nights off the boat had become six. Details to come.<br />
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And that's when about 127 people became "boat people": refugees from their homes on the Rhapsody. When those six days were over, those same 127 people looked rather tired as they boarded the Adagio - located on the other side of the Continental Divide from the Rhapsody. One tourist had broken an arm along the way, and another had bumped his head after fainting because of dehydration, suffering a few bruises. The Program Directors may have been even more tired than the tourists, because they had to deal with everyone's endless questions as an entirely different itinerary was created essentially on the fly. They were remarkably poised under the circumstances.<br />
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No one was looking for sympathy because they had to haul luggage a few times and stay at four-star hotels in fabulous German cities. Still, it was a different experience than what was anticipated - sometimes better, sometimes worse. We finished in Prague with a crash course on European history, geography and culture. <br />
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When someone asks me, "How was your trip?", words such as excellent and fascinating comes to mind but don't quite cut it. I like to come up with a full story - mostly to get some easily forgettable observations down on paper before they pass away. This time, I asked some of my fellow passengers what they noticed along the way, and they came through nicely with suggestions for this article. Thanks to them for the help. I'll eventually have thoughts on individual places on my travel blog, <a href="http://buddroadtrips.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">buddroadtrips.blogspot.com</a>. Some notes could be essays in themselves, others are shorter subjects, and some are trivial to silly, but all reflect on what for us what a unique experience.<br />
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One last rule - a long vacation means a long blog. Don't say you weren't warned. <br />
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<b>BUT FIRST, A RELEVANT JOKE </b><br />
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the French are the cooks<br />
the German are the mechanics<br />
the Italians are the lovers<br />
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the German are the policemen<br />
the English are the cooks<br />
the French are the mechanics<br />
the Swiss are the lovers<br />
and the Italians organize everything.</blockquote>
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<b>THE CRUISE</b><br />
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* The first thing you'll notice about the passengers on a Grand Circle cruise is their composition. I was told that I'd probably be the youngest passenger on the boat, and that seemed to be true. The vast majority were over 70, prompting someone to say that a Grand Circle boat was actually an "elderly hostel" in disguise. I'm not sure how comfortable anyone under the age of 60 would be in these circumstances.<br />
The group consisted of almost all Americans; I think there was a stray couple from Ontario along for the ride. Many guests were predictably from the Sun Belt. Everyone seemed to be in the same demographic - not truly wealthy but comfortable enough to take a trip like this. (To put it another way, we heard stories about washing clothes in the sink that matched our experiences.) This was good and bad. It certainly made initial conversations easier, as many had been around the United States a lot and had stories to share. One woman from Chicago often came to Buffalo in the past to see relatives that lived on - wait for it - our street!<br />
But I didn't feel like a great fit with many of those on board, perhaps because I'm still doing a lot in "retirement." I'm a little more in the present than some retirees, and that's a bit of a potential barrier. Besides, some of the other international trips I've taken have featured people from other countries. Conversations with those tourists have been fascinating. There was none of that here, and I missed it. <br />
The group had its quirks. For example, attention spans could be a little short. Announcements were made one minute, and then asked to be repeated by someone the next. Elsewhere, I saw some passengers in place in a hotel lobby, patiently waiting for a departure time that was more than an hour away. They weren't going to miss that bus. <br />
The touring encompassed plenty of walking, and I'd bet that many of those on board - some of whom needed canes - probably overestimated their ability to handle the physical load. The strain of the extra bus rides probably didn't help either. They must have been really tired upon returning home. <br />
I didn't see many signs of the passengers acting spoiled or privileged. An exception - one person thought it was pretty funny that a staff member accented the wrong syllable of a word during a public announcement. I was tempted to say, "How would you do on pronouncing the biggest words in your fourth language?"<br />
Eventually, though, people found other passengers that were a good fit in personality, and joy grew exponentially. We laughed at one person's reaction to going on a subway for the first time in her life, and watched her delight when she found out the line went under the river in Prague. ("REALLY?!?") When we were back from our adventures on the streets of the latest city, others couldn't wait to hear them - sort of like what the ideal mom does when the kids come back from doing something special. ("Tell me all about it!") Departure Day is always a bit emotional in such circumstances, with plenty of "If ever you are in Altoona ..." moments heard during goodbye hugs. <br />
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* On the big ocean liners, there is plenty of pressure to spend extra money. Go to the fancy restaurants to order big meals. Buy drink packages, Go look at jewelry. Check out the casino. Go on elaborate outings in port.<br />
There wasn't much of that here. Beer, wine and soft drinks were all covered. They'd sell you some mixed drinks at the bar if you insisted on it. I'm not sure if the unlimited availability of such beverages was a primary attraction for this crowd, but not too many people passed up beer or wine with lunch or dinner. The food was more than acceptable; I only had to go off the menu for a hamburger once, And passengers' birthdays were properly celebrated with sparklers placed in cakes. <br />
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* Speaking of comparisons, the two types of ships had similar rooms. The river boat's rooms featured twin beds that folded into the wall to reveal a couch of sorts underneath. It was rather uncomfortable as a place to rest during the day, and we learned quickly to ask housekeeping to leave the bed down at all times. <br />
That was very necessary early in the trip for me thanks to a pesky cough and some sneezing. I skipped some events in favor of naps. Going on a long international trip? Bring some cold medicine just in case, or be prepared to figure out how to buy Nyquil in a Cologne pharmacy. <br />
<br />
* The idea behind these trips is for groups to take outings around the port city during the morning, have them go off on their own in the afternoon, and then sail to the next city overnight. That plan was derailed when we were off the boat, as solo wanderings were cut down by necessary bus trips between locations.<br />
We spent three nights in Frankfurt and three nights in Nuremberg. They are wonderful cities, and it was a joy to get to know them a bit this way. But a side-effect was that there was no break in the action, as the group visited a different city every day until we arrived in Prague for a trip extension (three full days of touring there). Some people skipped some activities just to catch a breath. The stops tend to blend together in memory now, with one German historic district looking like the next. <br />
<br />
* Much of the crew from the two boats was from Eastern Europe, particularly in the countries formerly known as Yugoslavia. Their English was a little weak in spots, but they seemed good-natured enough - particularly when they put on a little show for the passengers. <br />
<br />
* A tip of the hat goes to Grand Circle for setting some interesting discussions and presentations. We heard from an expert of Jewish history talk about the Holocaust, a political scientist who briefed us on the current situation in Germany, and a refugee who had gone from Syria to Austria in order to find hope over the course of more than a year. We also saw a glass-blowing demonstration - he sold a lot of stuff afterwards - and visited a house for coffee and cake to chat about Germany life. (To that last point, shame on the other visitors in our group of 10 who didn't bring some sort of gift along to our hostess.) <br />
<br />
<b>A MEMORY</b><br />
<br />
We had been scheduled to cruise down an interesting part of the Rhine, with castles and charming towns along the way. But the water was too low for our boat, so we had to take a commercial trip instead. At the end of the three-hour voyage, which was slowed by the low levels of water, our group gathered at a restaurant for an authentic German dinner in Ruedesheim.<br />
<br />
The food was rather bland and tasteless, even for me, but the highlight was the promised German folk band. I will forever maintain that this band played the oddest set in music history. "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You" was followed by "Take Me Home, Country Roads." There was "The Happy Wanderer." A polka version of "The Birthday Song." "Sweet Caroline." Some songs in German popped up once in a while. When "The Chicken Dance" broke out and a line extended around the restaurant, people outside of the facility came rushing to the door to see what the heck was going on. They were turned away. <br />
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The night closed with the band playing that German beer hall favorite, "Hallelujah."<br />
<br />
<b>THE CULTURE</b><br />
<br />
* Even today, it is still hard to escape the presence of World War II in Central Europe.<br />
Many of the cities we visited were more than 90 percent destroyed by Allied forces in an effort to destroy morale among the Germans. Whether it was necessary or not at that stage of the war (early 1945) is one for the historians. But the rise of the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945 still hangs in the air in that nation, more felt than seen.<br />
<br />
* No one yelled out "American swine!" as our tourist group went by. Even so, conversations with people who lived across the sea from me certainly indicated that the current administration in Washington is less than popular in Central Europe these days.<br />
I got the sense that the political polarization in America was packed with the luggage by those on the cruise. In other words, some were hesitant to give comments about developments in America, even as Michael Cohen was accepting a plea bargain. It was easy to tune out the world to a degree, since CNN International and CNBC Europe usually were the only useful television channels that were available. But wi-fi was available on the boat and in most city locations, so information was as close as a smartphone. Therefore, when an initial conversation indicated that people were on the same sides of the political spectrum, the words came tumbling out. <br />
I did have one moment of conflict, at least internally. We were in Room 600 of the building where the famous Nuremberg trials were held after World War II. The room is still used, and over the judges' heads on the wall was a Catholic cross. The guide pointed out that Bavaria was a Catholic region, and that part of the country had recently allowed such symbols in its court rooms.<br />
With that, a woman in front of me started to applaud, as did a few others in the room. I was very tempted to say to her, "What part of the separation of church and state don't you agree with?" But it certainly wasn't the time or place for that. <br />
<br />
* Germany is cooking right now economically. Admittedly, we stuck to generally prosperous areas, but the Germans are clearly doing something right. It was particularly noticeable in Frankfurt, a city I knew almost nothing. It is becoming Germany's New York while Berlin is the nation's Washington. <br />
Germany tried to achieve a superior place in the world through guns in the 20th century on two occasions, and failed spectacularly (thankfully). It might have better luck wielding checkbooks in this century.<br />
<br />
* Speaking of politics, it's interesting that right-wing parties are gaining strength in Germany and left-wingers bordering on Communist tendencies are in key positions in the Czech Republic. Didn't they learn anything from the past?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Yes, they sell a lot of beer in Germany.<br />I finished this particular glass</b>. </td></tr>
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* Do you like cheap beer? Central Europe is your ideal destination. In some places it was cheaper than Coca-Cola or bottled water, particularly when calculated by the ounce. It was all local brands too. As one person in Germany put it, "You can drink Budweiser, or you can drink beer."<br />
As for soft drinks, the marketing department for Pepsi needs to work harder in Germany. I don't think I saw anything but Coke in the whole country. Soft drinks were served somewhere between chilly and cold, but never ice cold, and portions were surprisingly small at restaurants. <br />
<br />
* Someone came up with a rule for the service in restaurants - the farther the trip went along, the smaller the smiles of restaurant workers became. The pace of service was quite slow too, and it was tough to find someone to order a second drink. But the attendants sure were fast at clearing your plates, not even pausing to ask permission.<br />
And if you choose to eat outside, which almost everyone in Europe did during a record heat wave, be prepared for company in the form of yellow jackets.<br />
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* There aren't many places to buy clever t-shirts in Europe yet. Give credit to the person in Austria who came up with one with the outline of a certain hopping animal from the Southern Hemisphere with the caption "No Kangaroos in Austria." Luckily a store called Blue in Prague is filled with original items; head there for all your shopping needs.<br />
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* The rock band Kraftwerk came to mind as we drove on Germany's famous Autobahn. ("Fun, fun, fun ...") There were speed limits on the relatively crowded sections, ranging from 50 to 75 mph depending on conditions. It's a modern, efficient system. <br />
Even the rest stops had their interesting quirks. Change is needed to access the pay toilets, which caused some purchases at the 7-11-type store nearby. There visitors could check out the magazines, which in a couple of cases had topless women on the cover. You don't see that on the New York State Thruway. <br />
Now that I've put the 1970s song in your head, here's a video:<br />
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* The entire trip was spent in the Central European time zone, which is six hours ahead of East Coast time. This came with some oddities. When I got up at 7 a.m., the West Coast baseball games still were not over. When I turned on the TV at 3 p.m., the only American channels were usually CNN and CNBC Europe. The stock market hadn't even opened yet.<br />
<br />
* Europe has cigarette machines in public places (ID needed for purchase), women with green hair, too much graffiti in most cities, bicycles by the droves (especially in Amsterdam), much more public smoking than America, far more hats with Yankee logos than ones for the Red Sox (boo!), plenty of McDonald's and Starbucks (with a Mexican restaurant in Prague), diesel gasoline that costs less than regular, a 25-cent deposit on bottles (Germany, where the Green Party has essentially won the argument about the necessity for saving the environment - America take note), toilets with two buttons - one for each, um, use, plenty of bookstores and ice cream stands, and no seedless watermelons. <br />
<br />
* The flight from Prague to Philadelphia took nine hours and 18 minutes, and we went back six hours in time in the process. Therefore, August 25 lasted 30 hours for me - the longest day of my life. Literally.<br />
<br />
Early in the flight, someone tried to adjust some overhead luggage - and a bag came out of the container and hit me squarely on the head. Ugh. Luckily it was a soft-shell case. But if someone wants to introduce a Constitutional Amendment forcing airlines to enforce tougher rules about the size of carry-on items, he or she has my support. It is a jungle out there, particularly on the big international flights.<br />
<br />
<b>A TRUE STORY</b><br />
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The Hotel Manager said he was asked if the crew stayed on the boat over night. He asked for the question to be repeated out of disbelief, and it was done so.<br />
<br />
"No, they stay in nearby hotels," he answered sarcastically. "We fly them in on helicopters. They arrive on deck at 5 a.m. to start preparing for the day."<br />
<br />
The Hotel Manager thought little about it for a couple of weeks. Then he heard from his boss, who called to roar, "What is going on with your ship?" The HM didn't know what he meant, and the Boss explained that he had gotten a survey back from an unsatisfied customer.<br />
<br />
"The food was great, the crew was wonderful, and the cities were beautiful," the note read, "but I will never stay on a Grand Circle boat again. I never got enough sleep because of the noisy helicopters that were landing on the deck at 5 a.m. to let the crew off."<br />
<br />
<b>HIGHLIGHTS</b><br />
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We try to accumulate memories on trips like this. There were a bunch of them here.<br />
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* We toured Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam, and saw first-hand how she and her family hid from the Nazis for years - only to be captured and executed when the Allies were almost within sight of the Netherlands.<br />
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* We were surrounded by hundreds of years of history just by walking into the courtyards of the Heidelberg Castle. The immense complex has been around in one form or another for almost 800 years, perhaps before the Magna Carta was signed. It's been unused since 1764 - before the American Revolution - but still fascinates to this day. (By the way, travel writer Rick Steves puts down Heidelberg as a waste of time. He is wrong.)<br />
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* We stood in the area in Nuremberg where the Nazis put on tremendous rallies in order to generate support for their policies, and then sat in the courtroom where they paid for those policies.<br />
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* We listened to one of the world's largest organs of its type belt out some religious music in a 30-minute concert at a church in Passau, Germany. <br />
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* We heard the music of Mozart and Strauss in a live concert in a beautiful music house in Vienna. Yes, they played "The Blue Danube," where we slept on the boat that night. The next morning, I saw the building where the Congress of Vienna took place in 1814-15. <br />
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* We stood by the building in Bratislava where the Peace of Pressburg was signed in 1805, which marked the demise of the last piece of the Roman Empire.<br />
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* We walked in Wenceslas Square in Prague, almost 50 years to the day from when Soviet tanks came to crush the sliver of freedom that Czechoslovakia had tried to carve out. It also was in that very square in 1989 when Vaclav Havel announced to the people of that country that the Communist government had resigned.<br />
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* We had breakfast in Vienna, lunch in Bratislava, and dinner in Prague on the same day - three meals in three world capitals. This is a record that will never be broken.<br />
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That's a lot of memories, and it doesn't even include the personal moments with new friends accumulated along the way. Good thing I didn't have to declare them at customs. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-12910886845222431642018-08-26T05:01:00.000-04:002018-08-26T05:03:55.730-04:00Buffalo's Uniform Numbers - Part 1Uniform numbers aren’t merely a way of identifying players in sports. They can be a game.<br />
<br />
Admit it, Buffalo Sports Fan. You hear about the number 12 on a
shirt, and you can still picture Jim Kelly. Same goes for Bruce Smith
and 78. Gil Perreault and 11. (In the case of Bandits’ fans, John
Tavares and 11.)<br />
<br />
From there, you can start making up lists. Who is the greatest Sabre
or Bill to ever wear a particular number? From there, it’s an easy jump
to an All-Western New York team of numbers.<br />
<br />
That’s what we tried to do this summer for Buffalo Sports Page. We went from 99 to 0, one day at a time.<br />
<br />
Some were
easy, some were tough. If you play this game yourself, you’ll find out
something about the way you rate players. For example, do you value
longevity or brilliance? That’s a question that comes up for No. 89,
when discussing the merits of Steve Tasker vs. Alexander Mogilny. A
similar argument comes up at No. 25, when Luke Easter’s stay in Buffalo
is compared to Dave Andreychuk’s. If you think coaching a local team
helps an individual’s case, then you probably believe Lindy Ruff
deserves to be No. 22.<br />
<br />
I believe that top college athletes deserve a nod when possible, so
they are listed. Some players just don’t fit because they wore two
different numbers during their career (Brad May, I’m thinking of you.)
And I’m willing to give extra credit to some obscure Buffalo numbers,
like my pick for No. 19. I tried to mention someone from almost every
relatively major team that’s called Western New York home.<br />
<br />
I did something like this more than 20 years ago, and the reactions
were fun to read. One guy from Arizona wrote to yell at me for not
including more athletes who were well-known before 1960. He didn’t give
his age. But yes, the more recent players are more likely to be picked. Others apparently liked to play along this time around, based on some of the reason. I found that the list got much stronger, as some of the weaker numbers have been filled in during that time.<br />
<br />
By the way, the last addition to the "others" list was Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights. <br />
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Not sure when I will try this again - I don't think there's a book in it. But you never know.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">0 – Tony Meola,
Blizzard.</b> He was the goalie on three U.S. World Cup teams, and signed with
the Blizzard during the 1994-95 season. However, Tony left the team after two
months to star in an off-Broadway play. “Tony and Tina’s Wedding.” He can be
heard on satellite radio as a soccer commentator now.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">00 – Martin Biron,
Sabres.</b> The then-rookie wore Double-0 in 1995-96. Soon after that, the
NHL’s computer system wouldn’t allow an entry of 00 into its database. Biron
switched to #43 for the rest of his time in Buffalo. Always a good interview,
he now talks for a living as a broadcaster.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 – Roger Crozier,
Sabres.</b> We usually associate this number with goalies, and Crozier was the
first one the Sabres ever had after acquiring him from Detroit. Injuries cut
short his career, but his acrobatics were entertaining while they lasted.
Others: Don Edwards, Sabres; Jim May, Stallions; Jhonas Enroth, Sabres; Stephanie
Reid, UB; Bobby Olive, Destroyers. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 – Tim Horton,
Sabres.</b> He played less than two years before his death in an auto accident,
but his impact on a young team was immense. That’s why his number is hanging at
the top of the KeyBank Center. Tim played 24 years in the NHL and is in the
Hockey Hall of Fame. Others: Steve Christie, Bills; Dan Carpenter, Bills; Ian
Llord, Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3 – Pete Gogolak,
Bills.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He only played two seasons
with the Bills, but he started two revolutions. Gogolak was the first
soccer-style kicker in pro football, and within 20 years everyone was doing it.
Then when he jumped to the NFL’s Giants, he sped up the process that led to the
merger. Others: Billy Dee Smith, Bandits; Phil Scaffidi, Niagara; Jaylen Adams,
St. Bonaventure. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4 – Jerry Korab,
Sabres.</b> The rugged defenseman came into his own when he was acquired from
Vancouver, and was part of several good teams in the 1970s. Jerry also finished
his career in Buffalo, returning here after his trade to Los Angeles. Others:
Rhett Warrener, Sabres; John Kidd, Bills; Ernie Buriano, Stallions.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">5 – Mike Ramsey,
Sabres.</b> The defenseman arrived in Buffalo in 1980 fresh from winning a gold
medal for the U.S. Olympic team. He stayed through 1992-93, and might be the
best all-around defenseman in franchise history. Others: Tyrod Taylor, Bills; Jason
Woolley, Sabres; Jim McMillian, Braves. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6 – Ollie Carnegie,
Bisons.</b> He joined the Bisons in 1931 and stayed through 1942 – 1,273 games.
Yes, the rules were different then. Ollie remains the International League’s
all-time leader in runs batted in, and his Buffalo number is retired. Others:
Phil Housley, Sabres; Jim Schoenfeld, Sabres; Chris White, Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">7 – Rick Martin,
Sabres.</b> A No. 1 draft choice of the Sabres in 1971, he took no time to
become one of the league’s best goal scorers. Martin had two 50-goal seasons in
Buffalo. Only a knee injury kept him out of the Hall of Fame. Others: Doug
Flutie, Bills; Emily Pfalzer, Beauts; John Tucker, Sabres; Art Clark, local
auto racing. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8 – Brian Moorman,
Bills.</b> A member of the Bills during the early 2000s once said the team’s
best athlete was the punter. Moorman was a track star in college, and a
two-time All-Pro for the Bills (2005 & 2006) during a long career. Others:
Doug Bodger, Sabres; Jim Lorentz, Sabres; Tony McKegney, Sabres; Marvin Barnes,
Braves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9 – Randy Smith,
Braves.</b> He wore No. 32 as a basketball player at Buffalo State, but
switched to No. 9 during his time in the NBA here. Smith eventually became an
All-Star. Randy was one of the best athletes in a league that was filled with
them. Others: Mark Steenhuis, Bandits; Derek Roy, Sabres; Rudy Pikuzinski,
Stallions; Roy Hobbs, Knights. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">10 – Craig Ramsay,
Sabres.</b> He showed up during the 1971-72 season, and stayed through 1985.
The left winger was one of the best defensive forwards in the league (winning
the Selke Trophy in 1985), and he once played in 776 straight games. Others:
Dale Hawerchuk, Sabres; Marta, Flash; Carli Lloyd, Flash; Guy Trottier,
(hockey) Bisons; Pat McCready, Bandits.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">11 – Gil Perreault,
Sabres. </b>The original Sabre was one of the most exciting offensive players
of his era. The NHL Hall of Famer stayed through 1986, and he was crucial in
making Buffalo a successful hockey franchise. Others: John Tavares, Bandits; Bob
McAdoo. Braves, Scott Norwood, Bills; Drew Bledsoe, Bills; Steve Atkinson,
Norsemen.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">12 – Jim Kelly,
Bills.</b> The quarterback might be the most significant player in team
history, leading the Bills to four straight Super Bowls during an 11-year
career here. In a sense, the team is still trying to replace him. He was a
first-year inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Others: Joe Ferguson, Bills;
Charlie Cordas, Stallions; Christine Sinclair, Flash. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">13 – Ken Murray Jr.,
St. Bonaventure.</b> There are good reasons why his number is hanging above the
Reilly Center court. Murray was the first 1,000-point scorer in school history,
and was an All-American in 1950. The shooting guard was drafted by the Chicago
Stags of the NBA. Others: Jim Horne, UB; Alex Morgan, Flash; Eusebio, Stallions.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">14 – Rene Robert,
Sabres.</b> The right winger arrived in a very one-sided deal with Pittsburgh
for Eddie Shack, and became a part of one of the last great lines in hockey,
“The French Connection.” Rene stayed here until 1979. Others: Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Bills; Bill Butler, St. Bonaventure; Frank Reich, Bills; Bird Averitt, Braves. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">15 – Jack Kemp, Bills.
</b>The quarterback was acquired on waivers from San Diego, and guided the
Bills to AFL championships in 1964 and 1965. Jack moved from the football field
to Congress after the 1969 season. Others: Jack Eichel, Sabres; Ernie
DiGregorio, Braves; Iubo Petrovic, Stallions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">16 - Pat LaFontaine,
Sabres.</b> He brought offensive excitement when he was acquired from the
Islanders in 1991. Pat scored 148 points in the 1992-93 season – still the team
record. The KeyBank Center might never have been built without him. Others: Ric
Seiling, Sabres; Rich Kilgour, Bandits; Drew Willy, UB.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">17 – Mike Foligno,
Sabres. </b>Acquired from Detroit in deal involving popular players Jim
Schoenfeld and Danny Gare, Mike carved out a niche of his own during a long
stay here. Foligno wore No. 71 after he was traded to Toronto. Others: J.P.
Dumont, Sabres; Ryan Benesch, Bandits; Floyd Smith, Sabres. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">18 – Danny Gare,
Sabres</b>. This second-round draft choice started on the checking line with
Don Luce and Craig Ramsay, and wound up as a two-time 50-goal scorer. Gare was
sent to Detroit in a huge 1981 trade. After retirement, Danny did some work on
Sabres’ broadcasts. Others: Michal Grosek, Sabres; Kyle Orton, Bills; Naaman
Roosvelt, UB; Kay Stephenson, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">19 – Johnny Bench,
Bisons.</b> The future Hall of Famer played one game here in 1966, breaking a
finger on a foul tip at War Memorial Stadium. A year later, he hit 23 homers in
344 at-bats, and was off to the majors for good. Others: Tim Connolly, Sabres; James
Starks, UB; Cory Conacher, Canisius; Zeke Sinicola, Niagara. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">20 – Don Luce,
Sabres.</b> Acquired from Detroit, Don became one of the best two-way forwards
in hockey. He and Craig Ramsay were superb penalty-killers; they were often
called by the other’s name during their time together. Others: Joe Cribbs,
Bills; Robert James, Bills; Abby Wambach, Flash. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">21 – Willis McGahee,
Bills.</b> He was a superstar coming out of U. of Miami, but a knee injury
allowed him to slip to the Bills in the 2003 draft. He had three good years here,
and was traded to Baltimore after he suggested the team should move to Toronto.
Others: Brian Spencer, Sabres; Drew Stafford, Sabres; Christian Ruuttu, Sabres.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">22 – Fred Jackson,
Bills. </b>He came out of minor-league and indoor football to sign as a free
agent with the Bills in 2006. By 2009, Fred was a 1,000-yard rusher. Jackson
spent eight seasons here, and was one of the most popular Bills of his era.
Others: Lindy Ruff, Sabres; Nate Clemens, Bills; Willie Evans, UB; Tony
Masiello, Canisius. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">23 – Calvin Murphy,
Niagara.</b> The 5-foot-9 guard was arguably the most exciting player in
Western New York college basketball history. The three-time All-American
averaged 33.1 points per game, and had a fine NBA career after graduation.
Others: Chris Drury, Sabres; Steve Priolo; Bandits; Rudy Pikuzinski, Blizzard;
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">24 – Booker Edgerson,
Bills.</b> He was one of the defensive backs on the great Bills’ teams of the
1960s. Booker is a member of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame and the
Bills’ Wall of Fame. He earns points for community work. Others: Bill Hajt, Sabres;
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">25 – Luke Easter,
Bisons.</b> The African-American slugger probably would have been a Hall of
Famer had he been born a decade later. Even so, he hit 113 home runs in three
seasons with the Bisons (1956-1958), and was immensely popular. Others: Dave
Andreychuk, Sabres; LeSean McCoy; Bills; Roland Hooks, Bills; Essie Hollis and
Earl Belcher, St. Bonaventure. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">26 – George Saimes,
Bills.</b> After a great career at Michigan State, Saimes became the best free
safety in the history of the American Football League. George is on the Bills’
Wall of Fame and was selected for the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.
Others: Thomas Vanek, Sabres; Charles Romes, Bills; Derek Plante, Sabres. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">27 – Michael Peca,
Sabres.</b> He was considered the heart of the Sabres teams that had some
success during the late 1990s. Michael won a Selke Trophy as the NHL’s best
defensive forward during the 1996-97 season. He was traded to the Islanders. Others:
Larry Playfair, Sabres; Teppo Numminen, Sabres; Ken Irvin, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">28 – Bob Sauve, Sabres.
</b>The goalie is best remembered for back-to-back playoff shutouts in Montreal
in 1983. That feat has never been duplicated. Bob spent nine seasons in
Buffalo, and won 119 games along the way. Others: Donald Audette, Sabres; C.J.
Spiller, Bills; Thomas Smith, Bills.</div>
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Pominville, Sabres.</b> He’s been part of the franchise since he was picked in
the 2001 Entry Draft – if you don’t count those five years in Minnesota.
Remember his short-handed goal in Ottawa to eliminate the Senators from the
playoffs? Others: Mario Clark, Bills; Ken Montour, Bandits; Derrick Burroughs,
Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">30 – Ryan Miller,
Sabres. </b>He was the team’s No. 1 goalie for almost nine years, and he might
have been the best in the world for part of that time. The trade of Miller
broke some hearts, and the team has yet to recover from it. Others: Tom
Barrasso, Sabres; Ray Hall, Canisius; Jeff Manto, Bisons. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">31 – Bob Lanier, St.
Bonaventure.</b> The greatest Bonnie of them all, he led the team to the Final
Four of the NCAA basketball tournament in 1970. What if he hadn’t gotten hurt
in the Regional? Bob had a great NBA career as well. Others: Daren Puppa, Sabres;
Jairus Byrd, Bills; Swen Nater, Braves. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">32 – O.J. Simpson,
Bills.</b> There’s never been a more exciting player in the history of the
Bills, and his 2,000-yard season in 1973 will never be forgotten. Of course,
his life after football has been a sad one for those who remember him as a
player. Others: Rob Ray, Sabres; Jim Veltman, Bandits; Fred Hilton, Braves. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">33 – Benoit Hogue,
Sabres.</b> This quick playmaker was drafted by the Sabres and spent three
seasons as a regular. Then it was off to the Islanders in the Pat LaFontaine
trade. He helped the Stars win a Stanley Cup in 1999. Others: Ronnie Harmon, Bills;
Sam Gash, Bills; George Wilson Braves.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">34 – Thurman Thomas,
Bills. </b>There wasn’t much Thurman couldn’t do on a football field. He could
run, catch and block. No wonder he was the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1991,
and is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Others: Cookie
Gilchrist, Bills; Jim Braxton, Bills; John Shumate, Braves.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">35 – Matt Gantt, St.
Bonaventure.</b> The 6-5 forward was more than a supporting player for Bob
Lanier with the Bonnies’ great 1969-70 team. A great leaper, he jumped center
against Artis Gilmore at the start of the semifinal game. Others: Mika Noronen,
Sabres; Carwell Gardner, Bills; Cornell Warner, Braves. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">36 – Matthew Barnaby,
Sabres.</b> He was an unforgettable character in Buffalo, a tough and emotional
player. Matthew wore out his welcome eventually and was traded to Pittsburgh
for Stu Barnes, but fans remember him well. Others: Pat Kaleta, Sabres; Randy
Mearns, Bandits; Nick Vitucci, Stampede.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">37 – Nate Odomes,
Bills.</b> The cornerback was a second-round pick in 1987, and he took part in
all four of the Bills’ Super Bowl appearances. Odomes left as a free agent for
Seattle in 1994, and finished an eight-year NFL career with 26 interceptions.
Others: Curtis Brown, Sabres; George Wilson, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">38 – Mark Kelso,
Bills.</b> The Eagles drafted the safety out of William and Mary in the 10<sup>th</sup>
round in 1985, but he found a home for eight seasons with the Bills a year
later. Kelso had 30 career picks. He’s now serving as an analyst on radio for
the team. Others: Jeff Nixon, Bills; Adam Creighton, Sabres.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">39 – Dominik Hasek,
Sabres.</b> He might be the greatest goalie in hockey history, and we saw him
at his peak. The Dominator won two Hart Trophies here as the league MVP, and
led the team to the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals. Other: Bill Gerrie, Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">40 – J.D. Hill,
Bills. </b>The first-round pick of Buffalo in 1971 was a dangerous wide
receiver during his five years here, averaging more than 14 yards per catch in
each season. He would have been even more dangerous in today’s game. Others:
Robin Lehner, Sabres; Troy Cordingley, Bandits; Ed Rutkowski, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">41 – Stu Barnes,
Sabres.</b> The forward was dependable and consistent during his four years
here. He had always worn #14 before, but couldn’t here. So he flipped the
numbers on his back – but still wrote #14 on his equipment. Others: Phil
Villipiano, Bills; Ken Sutton, Sabres; Jamie Mueller, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">42 – Tom Stith, St.
Bonaventure.</b> He was a two-time All-American for the Bonnies, and was the
second overall pick in the NBA draft in 1961. Sadly, his pro career came to an
abrupt end because of tuberculosis. Others: Butch Byrd, Bills; Richard Smehlik,
Sabres; Walt Hazzard, Braves. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">43 – Darris Kilgour,
Bandits.</b> An original Bandit, Kilgour won three championships in his first
five years of pro play. He went on to have a Hall of Fame playing career, and
then coached indoor lacrosse for more than a decade. Others: Tony Greene,
Bills; Martin Biron, Sabres; Juan Mendez, Niagara. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">44 – Elbert Dubenion,
Bills.</b> The wide receiver came out of Bluffton College, and became a
standout in the early years of the Bills. In 1964 he averaged 27.1 yards per
catch. Elbert was memorably nicknamed “Golden Wheels.” Others: Alexei Zhitnik,
Sabres; Andrew Nicholson, St. Bonaventure; Anthony Cosmo, Bandits; Larry Fogle,
Canisius. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">45 – John Hummer,
Braves.</b> The Princeton forward was the first draft choice in the history of
the Buffalo Braves, as the team passed over local favorite Calvin Murphy. He
was traded to the Bulls for Gar Heard. Others: Hagood Clarke, Bills; Dmitri
Kalinin, Sabres; Derek Keenan, Bandits.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">46 – Khalil Mack, UB.</b>
It’s fair to call Mack the greatest football player in Bulls’ history. Come to
think of it, he is one of the top five defenders in the NFL right now. Khalil
was the fifth overall pick by Oakland in 2014. Too bad he didn’t just move down
the road to the Bills. Others: Leonard Smith, Bills; Keith Moody, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">47 – Curtis Brown,
Bills.</b> The running back from Missouri went in the third round to the Bills
in 1977. He needed a year to become a regular, but was part of a couple of
playoff teams in 1980 and 1981. Later in life he suffered from dementia. Others:
Zach Bogosian, Sabres; Kirby Jackson, Bills; Peter Tavares, Bandits.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">48 – Daniel Briere,
Sabres. </b>He came to Buffalo in a deal with Phoenix for Chris Gratton, one of
the all-time steals for the Sabres. Daniel peaked in 2006-07 with a 95-point
season, and then left for Philadelphia as a free agent. Others: John Pitts,
Bills; Roosevelt Leaks, Bills; Marty O’Neill, Bandits.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">49 – Booth Lustig,
Bills.</b> He’s remembered as the place-kicker who replaced Pete Gogolak, who
jumped to the NFL’s New York Giants after the 1965 season. One of the game’s
great characters, Booth also kicked for the Dolphins, Steelers and Packers. </div>
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<i>Be notified of new posts on this site via Twitter @WDX2BB.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-34355148129911002102018-07-18T08:51:00.002-04:002018-08-26T05:02:54.329-04:00Ten Surf-Stopping MoviesJohn Fraissinet recently challenged me on Facebook to come up with "Films That Made an Impact on You the First Time You Saw Them and Remain on Your Watch List to This Day." I have shortened the title to the one above. The idea is that if I am surfing the channels on television and come upon it, I'll stop and watch it at least for a while. They are, of course, older films. There are plenty of new ones I like too, but these have been part of my life for a while. <br />
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It's also a chance to go into depth with stories about movies and me that in some cases you never heard. The first two are from my childhood, and the rest are presented in chronological order of release. Here goes:<br />
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<b>1. Good Neighbor Sam (1964) </b>- Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider. Like most kids in my generation, some of my first movies were seen at drive-ins. Mom and Dad were in the front seat, while sister Jane and I were in the back. My parents were hoping the kids would fall asleep during the first motion picture, so they'd have peace and quiet in the second. (Note: when they started falling asleep before the kids did, we knew it was time to end this sort of family outing.)<br />
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Anyway, this was a simple comedy in which Lemmon had to pretend he was married to the woman next door so that she could inherit a fortune. There was lots of silly chase scenes and other obvious laughs, which we all - emphasis on all - enjoyed. You really do feel like a family when you are laughing at the same thing.<br />
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By the way, the flip side was shown when we went to see "The Ugly American," starring Marlon Brando. This was made in 1963 about an ambassador going to a Southeast Asian country and realizing that unrest there was more complicated that capitalism vs. communism. Do you really want to take your 11- and 7-year-old kids to that? Probably not. Jane and I made fun of how boring it was for months. But in hindsight, considering what we know about Vietnam now, it might be interesting to see at this point.<br />
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<i>Movie Quote: "Good, clean-living, family type men, don't go around making love with their next door neighbors on the street corners." </i><br />
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<b>2. A Hard Day's Night (1964)</b> - The Beatles. This was supposed to be a quick movie based on the Beatles' incredible and quick rise to fame - a sort of "day in the life" format. The songs are great, naturally, and the boys are in full charm. It's hard to resist all that. <br />
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Remarkably, director Richard Lester did something more with it. He used the quick-cutting techniques that had just become popular, and adapted it to movies for the first time. It was a perfect match for the subject, and the movie became significant in an historical sense.<br />
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My sister and I saw this at the Brockton (Mass.) Theater during a visit to our grandparents. We were dropped off a few minutes late, and were both thoroughly charmed in moments. My sister was at a great age for those Beatles, and no doubt would have done some serious screaming at the Ed Sullivan Show if given a chance. We watched the movie once, and convinced ourselves that we should stay for the start of the next showing. We did that, and kept watching ... until it was over the second time. My mother even came in to the theater and walked the aisles looking for us - unsuccessfully. "Oh, I thought someone looked familiar," my sister said later. I don't recall any punishment involved.<br />
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If you like your filmed music in concerts instead of actual stories, it's tough to do better than "Stop Making Sense." It instantly made me a Talking Heads fan.<br />
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<i>Movie Quote: "Are you a mod or a rocker?""Um, no. I'm a mocker." </i><br />
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<b>3. Duck Soup (1933) </b>- The Marx Brothers. I had never watched a Marx Brothers' movie until I went to college. When I finally saw one - I believe "Animal Crackers" was finally released after being held up in legal limbo for years - my immediate reaction was, "Where has this been?" I think Jim Cummings, who was on my sophomore floor at Syracuse, was responsible for this discovery, and I thank him to this day. <br />
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I caught up with the rest of the films eventually. Almost all of them hold up well, as the New York City boys attacked almost all of our institutions with vigor for the rest of their days. While I took to Groucho immediately because of his word play and because I was more familiar with his work than the others ("You Bet Your Life"), I came to appreciate Harpo's work overtime. As Groucho once said after Harpo's passing, you can hear his sweetness in his voice.<br />
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While some prefer "A Night at the Opera," "Duck Soup" was always my favorite. Director Leo McCarey compressed everything into 70 minutes, making it race along and thus matching the mood. This was Zeppo's last movie, as he became an agent. Oddly, future Marx Brothers movies always had a Zeppo-like character in it, even thought it was played by actors like Allen Jones. <br />
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<b>4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)</b> - Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur. It's at heart a "stranger in a strange land" story. An Eagle Scout finds himself appointed to the United States Senate. Stewart is nicely cast as the Scout leader in question, but the real star is Frank Capra's story and direction. It's impressive how Capra stacks up the cards against good old Jeff Smith, one by one, only to see those cards tumble and crush the bad guys.<br />
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By the way, I distinctly remember my first viewing of this. It was in the basement auditorium of the HBC building at Syracuse University, as Ben Walker (who is headed for the Baseball Hall of Fame as a writer for AP), his friend Mary Gianchetti, and I saw it one Friday night in 1976-77. It was a double feature with "The Great McGinty," which isn't bad either as political movies go but was something of a letdown after seeing the first film.<br />
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You could slip "It's a Wonderful Life" onto this list here too. Same Stewart and Capra, same house of cards, same happy ending.<br />
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<i>Movie Quote: "Yield? Oh, no. I feel fine! The Constitution of the United States!" </i><br />
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<b>5. Pillow Talk (1959)</b> - Rock Hudson, Doris Day. Hudson and Day did a few movies together back then, and they all seemed to be pretty much variations of the same theme. Hudson and Day meet, and they have to overcome impossible odds to get back together again. And they do. "Lover Come Back" is the best of the others.<br />
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The dialogue is always snappy in these movies, and the supporting characters are usually in great form - particularly Tony Randall. There are even some unintentional laughs along the way, as some of the lines are a little dated at this point due to changing times.<br />
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This one hit me unexpectedly. I never heard of it when it was part of a "Film Forum" class I took at Syracuse, in which we watched a movie every Tuesday night. The audience and I laughed a lot. By the way, "Creature from the Black Lagoon" was also part of that series in Gifford Auditorium, which I took as a pass/fail course.<br />
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"What did you today in college, son?" "Oh, watched a movie."<br />
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<i>Movie Quote: "Cry? I never knew a woman that size had that much water in her."</i><br />
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<b>6. Blazing Saddles (1974)</b> - Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman. Yeah, like I could ever turn the channel after seeing this one. It's an all-out assault until the last handful of minutes, where the writers probably had a little trouble figuring out how to end it.<br />
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I'd group this movie with "Airplane," "Slapshot" and "Animal House." Every generation has those rites of passage when it comes to comedy movies. Those were mine, and "Blazing Saddles" came first and so gets listed here. <br />
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After watching "Blazing Saddles," I couldn't wait to tell Kevin Chase about it. So the next time I saw him, I launched into a 20-minute recap of it - including many of the lines. (In hindsight, I probably was imitating Carol Burnett, who as a child used to act out movie scenes for her grandmother.) I think after my performance, he probably didn't need to go see it, but did anyway if only to know what I was talking about. Later, I was talking to college friend Joe Flack about it - and he said he had entered the theater thinking it was a standard Western. Imagine his surprise at the sung words, "I get no kick from champagne." He never got up to speed.<br />
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I should mention that I once rode a bus with the Sabres from Hartford to Boston, and I brought a copy of "Slap Shot" for viewing. Every player knew every line of the movie. They made fun of Donald Audette's accent when the goalie described a trip to the penalty box - "And then you go free."<br />
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<i>Movie Quote: "Mongo only pawn in the game of life."</i><br />
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<b>7. Network (1976)</b> - William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, and many others. OK, the real star of this movie is Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote the screenplay (and won an Oscar for it). It's one of the best pieces of writing in cinematic history. Chayefsky did plenty of work in television in the 1950s, including "Marty" - which was soon turned into an Academy Award-winning film with Ernest Borgnine. The writer was frustrated as how television had evolved by the mid-1970s, and a comedy script turned into something bigger and with more anger. Watch it now, and see how on target Chayefsky was.<br />
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Meanwhile, the cast is all terrific. You'll never forget Finch's "I'm mad as hell and I won't take it any more" speech. Dunaway's character is believed to be based on Lin Bolen, who was in NBC programming department in the 1970s. Bolen, who died in 2018, supposedly was the person who brought "The Magnificent Marble Machine" to daytime television. I'm not sure if veteran game-show host Art James ever put that one on his resume. <br />
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To learn more about the movie, read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1250062241/sportsbookreview" target="_blank">"Mad as Hell</a>." There's lots of great information there about how the cast and story came together.<br />
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<i>Movie quote: "Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park."</i><br />
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<b>8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)</b> - Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon. Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon. I know I like this movie more than
most, even though it's generally listed in the list of top 100 movies of
all time. The most memorable person associated with this one is Steven
Spielberg. He had announced his arrival as a first-tier director with
"Jaws," and then solidified his spot with this movie of how would we
react if aliens turned up on the front door <span class="text_exposed_show">of our planet. Luckily, we bring curiosity, intelligence and kindness to the meeting instead of guns. </span><br />
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The run-up to the final 45 minutes does its job nicely, but the end of
the story is particularly good. Spielberg once said if people come out
of this film looking for their car keys instead of looking up, he'd be
in trouble. He need not have worried. The director has had quite a
career since then on a wide variety of films - and I've seen just about
all of them (with the exception of 1941, which even Spielberg admits
didn't work well).<br />
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On a personal level, I loved this one from the start. I first saw it in the theater. Then when Karen Sacks was looking for company to see it, I quickly volunteered to go again for the special edition. And when it popped up on HBO, I brought my VCR to Mark Derringer's apartmente to record it. (Who could afford an actual copy back then?)<br />
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Years after seeing the movie for the first time, when possible vacation spots were discussed, I argued successfully for passing by Devil's Tower in Wyoming - the setting for the ending - on a trip to that part of the world. I had never even heard of it until seeking the movie. It was great. They even show the movie on Friday nights in the campground next to the mountain.<br />
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In the sci-fi category, "2001 - A Space Odyssey" usually makes me stop and watch too, and not just because it was the first movie I ever saw with a girl (trust me, no one would call it a date). "Them!" usually lures me in. The 1954 movie is about giant ants that invade the Los Angeles sewer system. It has B-movie production values, but it is done extremely well.<br />
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<i>Movie Quote: "If everything's ready here on the Dark Side of the Moon... play the five tones."</i><br />
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<b>9. The Natural (1984) </b>- Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kevin Lester, etc. This is a baseball fable, with a happy ending surgically attached to a rather dark novel. I never bothered with the book, because this worked out just fine for me. Redford is quite believable as Roy Hobbs; he wore No. 9 in tribute to his boyhood idol, Ted Williams. The cast is absolutely full of good actors.<br />
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Even so, War Memorial Stadium is the star of the show for me. I spent a lot of time watching baseball in that building, and the movie crew received permission to fix it up to look like it was 1939. It made for a magical summer. Besides, Glenn Locke, Pete Weber, Mark Derringer and I turned up at 1 a.m. of an all-night shoot, and watched Redford round third a few times in the climatic scene of the movie. (I believe there was alcohol involved that night).<br />
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And now, when I work at Bisons' games, I sit next to one of the stars of the film. Lester was the baseball advisor of the movie, and was promised a key role even if he wasn't allowed to get a speaking part. Remember when a note arrives in the dugout, and Hobbs finds out that he has a son? Lester passes him the note. The former Williamsville South athletic director sure can act. He has a roomful of stories about that movie that I should get down on paper some time.<br />
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I tend to like baseball movies, any baseball movie. Heck, the original "Babe Ruth Story" can still get me to watch. (Pete Weber and I still laugh at the scene where Ruth staggers into a hospital, obviously very ill, and a fan says, "Had one too many, Babe?') "Bull Durham" is terrific, and "Field of Dreams" always makes it dusty in my room. I'll even watch "Fear Strikes Out" - if only to see the scene where there are palm streets behind a short fence in what was supposed to be Fenway Park.<br />
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<i>Movie Quote: "Pick me out a winner, Bobby."</i><br />
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<b>10. Dave (1993) </b>- Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. The motion picture just hit a chord with me. Kevin Kline is Everyman who makes a few bucks on the side because he looks a great deal like the current President of the United States. When a stroke leaves the real President close to death, Dave is brought in to follow orders and continue the President's work. Ever think about what you might do if you were President, even for a little while?<br />
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Kline is really good in the title role, and you couldn't ask for a better First Lady than Weaver. Charles Grodin adds a lot along the way too. It's something of a romantic comedy in the Capra tradition, and everyone - including some fun cameos - helps make the story more believable. It's not a great movie, but it still makes me stop and watch it go by.<br />
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That last sentence could be applied to a slightly earlier movie, "War Games." I like the way the story builds to the climax. Besides, as an original owner of "Pong," I went for the idea that a video game could threaten the world.<br />
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If you like Presidents in your movie, here are two otheer personal favorites. "Fail Safe" was overlooked because it came out just after "Dr. Strangelove" (which you need to see too), but it was well done and believable. I really should read the novel of "Seven Days in May," which is about a military takeover of the United States. The movie version, though, works quite well.<br />
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<i>Movie Quote: "What is with President Mitchell lately? I mean has this guy been having too many "Happy Meals"?</i><br />
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<b>Others: </b>I hated to leave <b>Citizen Kane</b> off the list, because it's one of my favorite movies, but it didn't come with any great personal stories. Still, I own a DVD copy. It's entertaining in so many ways. Next time you watch it, think about how the life of Charles Foster Kane parallels the life of Orson Welles (and not just William Randolph Hearst). ... <b>Two English Girls</b> from Francois Truffaut blindsided me. It's the story of a romantic triangle that blows up and shatters everyone. As my wife said about the plot, "How Truffaut!" ... The <b>Rocky </b>movies sometime make me stop and watch, although I don't sit and watch all six of them at a time. As they progressed from one to five, they became less entertaining - which meant we forgot that the original had all sorts of charm. ... Bill Murray Division: <b>Stripes </b>and <b>Groundhog Day</b> can sweep me along, but oddly <b>Caddyshack </b>is on almost everyone else's list but mine (liked it, didn't love it). ... <b>Titanic </b>and <b>Nashville </b>can keep you riveted in their epic stories rather easily. Speaking of Robert Altman (Nashville), <b>M*A*S*H'</b>s holds up very well today too.... Juvenile Division: I would watch <b>Dumbo </b>and <b>Babe </b>again the next time I had the chance. I was unprepared the first time I saw Dumbo (only a couple of years ago) about how touching it is, and Babe remains one of my wife's all-time favorites. <br />
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I had wanted to do an update of a story on Buffalo's best uniform numbers for sometime. But, for one reason or another, it never got done.</div>
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Until now. Buffalo Sports Page is getting it done. </div>
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Here for posterity (?) is the list of the bottom 50 numbers. I'll have another post on 0 to 49 later. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">50 – Al Bemiller,
Bills. </b>After winning a national championship with Syracuse in 1959, Al
joined the Bills in 1961. He stayed nine years, and never missed a game. Bemiller
stayed in Western New York after retirement in a number of roles. Others: Ray
Bentley, Bills; Jim Cheyunski, Bills; Sam Pellom, UB.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">51 – Jim Ritcher,
Bills.</b> He came out of North Carolina State as an All-American center, and
was Buffalo’s top pick in 1980. Jim stayed through 1993, moving to guard along
the way. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Others: Brian
Campbell, Sabres; John Tracey, Bills; Shawn Williams, Bandits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">52 – Preston Brown,
Bills.</b> The linebacker was a third-round pick by Buffalo in 2014, and didn’t
miss a game in the next four years. In fact, he didn’t start in two of those 64
games. He left as a free agent this winter to sign with the Bengals. Others:
Mike Smrek, Canisius; Curtis Blackmore, UB; Tom McMillen, Braves. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">53 – Greg Sanders,
St. Bonaventure.</b> He came out of a Washington, D.C. high school (coached by
John Thompson) and became the Bonnies’ all-time leading scorer. Greg was a
standout on the 1977 Bona team that won the NIT. His number has been retired.
Others: Will Grant, Bills; Mike Montler, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">54 – Henry Nowak,
Canisius.</b> Nowak graduated as the Golden Griffins’ all-time leading scorer
and rebounder. Nowak was drafted by the NBA’s St. Louis Hawks, but he went to
law school instead. Nowak ended up serving 18 years in Congress. Others: Fred
Crawford, St. Bonaventure; Eugene Marve, Bills; Dale Schuelter, Braves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">55 – Paul Maguire,
Bills.</b> His pro football career started when the AFL began in 1960 when he
played in Los Angeles. The Bills added him in 1964, and he won two
championships. After retiring after the 1970 season, Paul moved smoothly into a
long broadcasting career. Others: Jim Haslett, Bills; Jochen Hecht, Sabres; Rasmus
Ristolainen, Sabres; Jerry Hughes, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">56 – Darryl Talley,
Bills.</b> The linebacker was a second-round pick by the Bills in 1983, and he
stayed through 1994. Talley is considered one of the best players in his
position during his era, and was a big part of Buffalo’s Super Bowl teams.
Others: Sam Cowart, Bills; Keith Ellison, Bills, Archie Matsos, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">57 – Tyler Myers, Sabres.</b>
The 6-foot-8 defensemen didn’t need much time to make an impression after he
was a first-round pick in 2008. He won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s top
rookie in 2010. But his play slipped after a while and eventually he was dealt
to the Jets. Others: Lucius Sanford, Bills; Lorenzo Alexander, Bills; Steve
Heinze, Sabres. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">58 – Mike Stratton,
Bills.</b> He ranks as one of the great linebackers in Bills history. Mike was
picked as an All-AFL first-teamer for six straight years, and is on the Bills’
Wall of Fame. He’s best remembered for a hit on Keith Lincoln in the 1964 AFL
title game. Others: Shane Conlan, Bills; Isiah Robertson, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">59 – London Fletcher,
Bills.</b> This was one of the best free-agent signings in Buffalo’s history.
Fletcher joined the Bills from the Cardinals, and he led the NFL in tackles in
his first season (2002). London stayed five years before going to Washington.
Others: Sam Rogers, Bills; Shane Nelson, Bills; Paul Guidry, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">60 – Jerry Ostroski,
Bills.</b> For a tenth-round draft choice, the offensive lineman worked out
quite well. He played in 106 games over the course of 10 years, and started at
guard, center and tackle along the way. A knee injury ended his career in 2001.
Others: Kraig Urbik, Bills; Dave Behrman, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">61 – Bob Kalsu, Bills</b>.
Kalsu made the ultimate sacrifice for his country during the War in Vietnam.
The All-American for Oklahoma was a starting guard as a rookie for the Bills in
1968. Then he joined the U.S. Army. Kalsu was killed in action on July 21,
1970. Others: Maxim Afinogenov, Sabres; Willie Parker, Bills; Dusty Zeigler,
Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">62 – Jeff Yeates,
Bills.</b> The defensive lineman played for his hometown team after suiting up
for Cardinal O’Hara in Tonawanda. He spent parts of three seasons with the
Bills, and then had a long stay with Atlanta. This is the first number,
counting up numerically, that has never been worn by a Sabre. Others: Ervin
Parker, Bills; Dick Cunningham, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">63 – Tyler Ennis,
Sabres. </b>The 5-9 forward was a first-round draft pick in 2008. Ennis had his
best season as a rookie, with 49 points, and he finished with three 20-goal
seasons as a Sabre. After two injury-filled years, Ennis was traded to
Minnesota. Others: Adam Lingner, Bills; Geoff Hangartner, Bills; Tom Montour,
Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">64 – Harry Jacobs,
Bills.</b> He was the middle linebacker for the great unit of the Bills’ glory
days in the mid-1960s, teaming with John Tracey and Mike Stratton. They played
62 games together, a pro football record. Harry played in all ten of the
American Football League’s seasons. Other: Richie Incognito, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">65 – Mark Napier - Sabres.</b>
The veteran forward requested this number because of his involvement with “65
Roses,” a group involved in the fight against cystic fibrosis. Napier had his
best days with Montreal, but finished his good-sized career in Buffalo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others: John Davis, Bills; Tim Vogler, Bills;
Dave DiRuscio, Bandits.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">66 – Billy Shaw,
Bills.</b> The offensive lineman came out of Georgia Tech as a 14<sup>th</sup>-round
draft pick. He was all-AFL seven times, and helped the Bills win two
championships. Shaw is the only member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame who
never played a game in the NFL. Others: Jerry Crafts, Bills; Mike Thompson,
Bandits; Ed Ellis, UB. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">67 – Kent Hull,
Bills.</b> He was one of the most beloved members of the Buffalo teams that
reached four straight Super Bowls. Hull was signed after a stint with the New
Jersey Generals in the USFL, and then played 11 years – starting all but one
game. He retired after the 1996 season. Others: Reggie McKenzie, Bills; Joe
O’Donnell, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">68 – Joe
DeLamielleure, Bills. </b>The offensive lineman was an All-American at Michigan
State, and went in the first round to Buffalo in the 1973 draft. “Joe D” stayed
here through 1979, and then played for the Browns. He was inducted into the Pro
Football Hall of Fame in 2003. Others: Mike Williams, Bills; Langston Walker,
Bills; Corbin Lacina, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">69 – Larry Costello,
Niagara.</b> He played 69 minutes for the Purple Eagles in a famous basketball
game against Siena in 1953. That prompted him to change numbers from #24 to
#69. Larry was a second-round pick of Philadelphia in 1954, and was a player or
coach for more than 30 more years. Others: Will Wolford, Bills; Conrad Dobler,
Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">70 – Tom Sestak,
Bills.</b> He was a 17<sup>th</sup>-round pick by the Bills out of McNeese
State, and found a home as a defensive tackle right away. Tom quickly became
one of the most dominating defenders in the game. His career was cut short by a
knee injury, and that’s why he’s not in the Hall of Fame: Others: Eric Wood,
Bills; Joe Devlin, Bills; John Fina, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">71 – Jason Peters, Bills.</b> He was one
of the great undrafted rookie signings in Bills’ history. Peters was raw coming
out of Arkansas, but eventually developed into an All-Pro offensive tackle. His
relations with the team soured over contract issues, and Peters was traded to
the Eagles in 2009. Others: Mike Kadish, Bills; Mack Yoho, Bills; Brandon
Goodwin, Bandits. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">72 – Ron McDole,
Bills.</b> The defensive end had one of the great nicknames in team history –
“The Dancing Bear.” McDole was a Bill from 1963 until 1970, and combined size
and speed to become a top defender. The Bills traded the 32-year-old to the
Redskins in 1971, and he played eight years there. Others: Ken Jones, Bills;
Art Still, Bills; Luke Adam, Sabres.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">73 – Gerry Philbin,
UB.</b> He was a four-year starter on the defensive line for the Bulls, earning
several honors. Philbin was a third-round pick of the Jets in 1964, and he
became a two-time All-AFL pick and played a key part in New York’s Super Bowl
win over the Colts in 1969. Others: Jon Borchardt, Bills; Earl Edwards, Bills;
Cory Bomberry, Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">74 – Jay McKee,
Sabres.</b> The defenseman was a No. 1 draft choice of the Sabres in 1995. He
arrived on the roster a year later, and stayed 10 years. Jay became known as
one of the best shot-blockers in franchise history. He finished up his career
with St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Others: Glenn Parker, Bills; Donnie Green,
Bills; Jeremy Thompson, Bandits.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">75 – Howard Ballard,
Bills.</b> He wasn’t really as big as a house, but at 6-foot-6 and 325 pounds,
he earned that as a nickname. The 11<sup>th</sup>-round pick was something of a
project as an offensive tackle when he was drafted out of Alabama A&M. He
made two Pro Bowls before going to the Seahawks. Others: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marcellus Wiley, Bills, Jay Thorimbert,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">76 – Fred Smerlas,
Bills.</b> The defensive tackle’s selection in 1979 showed the Bills were
serious about improving their defense, and he worked out perfectly. The Boston
College graduate made five Pro Bowls, filling up plenty of space in the middle
of the line along the way. Others: Andrew Peters, Sabres; Wayne Primeau,
Sabres; John Miller, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">77 – Pierre Turgeon,
Sabres.</b> He was the second player ever taken first overall by the Sabres
(1987). Turgeon was very good at times in Buffalo, but might be best remembered
as the centerpiece in the deal that brought Pat LaFontaine here. Pierre did
finish with 500+ goals. Others: Ben Williams, Bills; Stew Barber, Bills; Cordy
Glenn, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">78 – Bruce Smith,
Bills.</b> Buffalo had the first overall pick in 1985, and wisely took the
defensive end from Virginia Tech. He merely set the NFL sacks and led the
Bills’ defense in four Super Bowl appearances, terrorizing QBs along the way.
Bruce might be the best defensive end to ever play football. Others: Jim
Dunaway, Bills; Dave Foley, Bills; Jordan Durston, Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">79 – Ruben Brown,
Bills.</b> The offensive guard wasted no time becoming the best player on the
Bills’ offensive line as a rookie in 1995. A starter from Day One, he played
nine years here and made eight Pro Bowls. Brown finished his career with the
Bears, and started all 181 games of his career. Others: Dick Hudson, Bills;
Eric Pears, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">80 – Eric Moulds,
Bills.</b> It took Moulds a couple of years to grab a starting spot at wide
receiver. Once he did, though, he was invaluable to the Buffalo offense. Eric
caught 675 passes in his 10 years as a Bill, including a total of 100 in 2002.
He also caught nine balls for 240 yards in a 1998 playoff game. Others: Jerry
Butler, Bills; James Lofton, Bills; Geoff Sanderson, Sabres. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">81 – Miroslav Satan,
Sabres.</b> The forward played for five different teams, but his best work was
done here. Satan spent seven full seasons as a Sabre and had at least 20 goals
in all of them – topped by 40 in 1998-99. He led the team in scoring six
different times. Others: Bob Chandler, Bills; Peerless Price, Bills; Roger
Vyse, Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">82 – Frank Lewis,
Bills.</b> The wide receiver spent the second half of his career here after a
stint in Pittsburgh, and he still could catch a deep pass once he put on a
Buffalo uniform. Lewis had his best year in 1981 at the age of 34, catching 70
balls for 1,244 yards. He finished with 269 receptions as a Bill. Others: Don
Beebe, Bills; Josh Reed, Bills, Marcus Foligno, Sabres.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">83 – Andre Reed,
Bills.</b> He is Kutztown University’s contribution to the Pro Football Hall of
Fame. Reed was a fourth-round draft choice in 1985, and he became an immediate
starter. Once Jim Kelly showed up a year later, the Bills had a throw-catch
combination for more than a decade. Others: Lee Evans, Bills; Chet Mutryn, AAFC
Bills; Sherman White, Bills; Darrick Branch, Destroyers.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">84 – Ernie Warlick,
Bills.</b> The tight end only played in four seasons in Buffalo, but they were
good ones. Warlick won two championships with the Bills. Twice he averaged more
than 20 yards per catch, amazing for a tight end. Warlick later became a
popular sports broadcaster in Buffalo. Others: Scott Chandler, Bills; Keith
McKeller, Bills; Brandon Francis, Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">85 – Kevin Everett,
Bills.</b> The tight end was drafted out of Miami (Fla) in the third round in
2005. In the opener in 2006, Everett suffered a severe neck injury on a kickoff
that was considered “life-threatening.” He was forced to retire, but beat the
odds to walk again. Others: Walt Patulski, Bills; Jay Riemersma, Bills; Charles
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">86 – Marlin Briscoe,
Bills.</b> He had a very odd-looking pro football career. Marlin is best
remembered as one of pro football’s first African-American quarterbacks
(Denver, 1968). When he moved to Buffalo a year later, he was a wide receiver.
Briscoe caught 133 passes in three years as a Bill. Others: Mark Brammer,
Bills; Dave Washington, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">87 – Paul Seymour,
Bills</b>. He may have played tight end for the Bills in 1973, but he was
best-known as a blocker and not a receiver. Seymour was a big part of the
offensive line that helped O.J. Simpson rush for 2,003 yards that season. He
only missed one game during a five-year career in Buffalo. Others: Butch Rolle,
Bills; LaVerne Torczon, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">88 – Tom Day, Bills.</b>
“Tippy” spent seven years as a Bill, and was an excellent defensive end during
that time in the 1960s. He also was something of the center of the locker room,
quick with a joke and a laugh. Day wore #88 for three seasons – winning two AFL
crowds in that uniform. Others: Pete Metzelaars, Bills; Reuben Gant, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">89 – Steve Tasker,
Bills. </b>It’s not easy to make a name for yourself playing special teams, but
Tasker did that. He played in seven Pro Bowls in 12 years as a Bill, and was
named the game’s Most Valuable Player in one of them (1993). Since then, he had
a fine career in broadcasting on a national and local level. Others: Alexander
Mogilny, Sabres; Lou Piccone, Bills. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">90 – Phil Hansen,
Bills.</b> The defensive end was used to winning, playing on a pair of Division
II national champions for North Dakota State. Then Hansen was drafted by the
Bills in 1991, and contributed to three Super Bowl teams in Buffalo. He’s on
the Wall of Fame at New Era Field. Others: Chris Kelsay, Bills; Ryan O’Reilly,
Sabres; Clark Gillies, Sabres.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">91 – Jeff Wright,
Bills. </b>The nose tackle had a short career but a significant one. He arrived
in 1988 as an eighth-round draft pick from Central Missouri State, and left in
1994. In between, Wright played in four Super Bowls and had 31.5 sacks. After
retirement, he went into the cattle business. Others: Manny Lawson, Bills; Ken
“Baby” Johnson, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">92 – Dhane Smith,
Bandits. </b>Buffalo hasn’t had that many Most Valuable Players on its teams’
rosters over the years. Smith is on the short list, earning that honor for his
spectacular 2016 season. Dhane broke a variety of team and league records for
scoring that season. He was a top draft pick in 2012. Others: Ted Washington,
Bills; Ryan Denney, Bills. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">93 – Pat Williams,
Bills.</b> He was undrafted coming out of Texas A&M, and it took some time
to figure pro football out. But by 2001, his fifth year, he was ready to claim
a starting job. Williams held it for four seasons, and then jumped to the
Vikings as a free agent. Others: Doug Gilmour, Sabres; Bobby DiNunzio,
Blizzard; Anthony Malcom, Bandits. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">94 – Aaron Schobel,
Bills.</b> You almost had to be in Buffalo to know how good Schobel was – or at
least played against him. The second-round pick in 2001 had 78 sacks in 133
games as a Bill. He retired in 2009 after nine years, and never played with any
other team. His quiet exit was in character. Others: Mario Williams, Bills;
Mark Pike, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">95 – Kyle Williams,
Bills. </b>Here’s one of the great draft bargains in Bills’ history. He was a
fifth-round pick in 2006, and has started every game at defensive tackle since
his rookie year ended. Williams has become a beloved figure among Bills’ fans,
who were thrilled when he finally reached the playoffs last season. Others:
Bryce Paup, Bills; Sam Adams, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">96 – Leon Seals, Bills. </b>Here’s a defensive end who arrived in
Buffalo with a memorable nickname, “Dr. Sack.” He came out of Jackson State as
a fourth-round pick in 1987. Leon stayed in Buffalo for five seasons, and two
of them were Bills’ Super Bowl teams. Others: Jeff Posey, Bills; Torell Troup,
Bills; Erik Flowers, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">97 – Cornelius Bennett, Bills. </b>He came to Buffalo in a spectacular
three-way trade with the Colts that also involved the Rams. Bennett was famous
described as “Mickey Mantle in cleats” by then-Bills general manager Bill
Polian. The linebacker played in five Pro Bowls during a nine-year stay here.
Others: Corbin Bryant, Bills; John McCargo, Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">98 – Ron Edwards, Bills.</b> The defensive tackle came out of Texas
A&M in the third round of 2001 and spent five seasons with the Bills. He
started every game in 2002, and saw spot duty in other years. Then it was on to
the Chiefs, where he was a regular for four of the next five seasons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others: Larry Tripplett, Bills; Dwan Edwards,
Bills.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">99 – Marcell Dareus, Bills.</b> The defensive tackle was the third
overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft. The Bills moved him right into the lineup.
Dareus peaked in 2014 when he was named a first-team All-Pro. But his play slipped
and eventually he was traded to the Jaguars in 2017. Others: Marcus Stroud,
Bills; Hal Garner, Bills; Delby Powless, Bandits.</div>
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<i>About a week ago, I was told after a Buffalo Bandits game to stop in the coaches' office to see John Tavares. I quickly figured I had been traded and asked, "Should I bring my playbook?"</i><br />
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<i>John had something else in mind. He had been selected for induction into the Western New York Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Since he could not attend the dinner since he was coaching the team that day, he needed a replacement to accept the honor and say a few words. I was delighted to do so.</i><br />
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<i>I was told that my speech should be part introduction and part acceptance. After writing and then delivering it, I figured I should share it with other fans of this legendary Bandit. So here it is: </i><br />
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John is a little busy this afternoon serving as an assistant
coach, so he asked me to accept this award. He doesn’t know it, but John and I
are both members of a very exclusive club. We both saw John’s first game with
the Buffalo Bandits in 1992, and we both saw John’s last game with the Bandits
in 2015. The only other person I know that’s in the club is Rich Kilgour of the
Bandits. So I’m in good company.<br />
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The memories of that first game should live on for years to
come. No one was sure what to expect when the Bandits opened for business in
January of 1992. When the gates opened at Memorial Auditorium, no one knew how
many people would turn out. We were all shocked that the start of the game had
to be delayed 20 minutes because of the long lines to buy tickets at the box
office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A total of 9,052 showed up for
the game. John has told me that he looked at the crowd that night – the largest
he had ever seen for a lacrosse game – and remembered that he was getting paid
$100 a game. John did the math, and decided the scalpers outside were making
more money than he was.</div>
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That game started a love affair between the sport and the
community that exists to this day. Buffalo is the unofficial capital of indoor
lacrosse of the United States, and John is a big reason why. He won four
championships, was the league’s most valuable player three times, and holds the
league record for games, goals, assists and points.</div>
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John played for so long that he welcomed an entire new
generation of players to the sport. If they were afraid to approach the game’s
“living legend,” they quickly learned to include him in the good-natured
kidding that teammates share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could
get off a one-liner faster than a one-timer. And when John retired, he was
generally considered the greatest player in the history of the National
Lacrosse League. </div>
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But John was never about individual accomplishments. He
preferred to talk about team achievements. In addition, he was all about
“growing the game” – which gives him something in common with all of the other
inductees today. John loves this game, and wants to see it achieve greater
popularity in the years to come. Therefore, I’m sure John would want to
congratulate the other inductees. And on a personal note, I’m thrilled that my
former co-worker Tom Borrelli is one of those other inductees. Nobody loved
lacrosse as much as Tom did. </div>
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John Tavares has received a bundle of honors since he
retired, but he said the one that may have meant the most to him was when he
had his number retired by the Bandits. Buffalo has become a second home to him
since 1992, and he couldn’t be happier whenever he is saluted by a hometown
audience. So I pass along his sincere thanks for this honor, and I’m honored
for the chance to accept it on his behalf. Thank you. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-10622366963338191942017-08-05T09:14:00.000-04:002017-08-09T17:30:41.016-04:00"Will write for food" - Thoughts on retiring<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Aren't newsrooms supposed to be beehives of activity?<br />Here's the view from my desk before the start of work.</b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Retirement. It's not just for old people.<br />
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After all, I'm not old - I think.<br />
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Yet, here I am - retiring from a nearly 24-year stop at The Buffalo News. I gave my two-week notice on July 24. This is my last day.<br />
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It's quite a shock to type that in some ways. After all, I've had a lifelong relationship with newspapers in general, and I do mean lifelong. Let me tell you about the journey. I gave the short version of the story to some of my coworkers yesterday; you get the long one now.<br />
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Start with a family story: When I was four, I went to the hospital when I had my tonsils out. (I looked up the date in my "baby book" - May 27, 1960. Do they still have baby books?) My grandmother hired a private nurse for me in the hospital, because that's what grandmothers who liked to spoil the youngsters did. Mom got a phone call from the slightly panicked nurse.<br />
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"Budd says he wants me to bring him a newspaper," the nurse said. "I asked him why, and he said he wants to see how the Red Sox did. What should I do!?" <br />
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"I think you should buy him the newspaper," said Mom, realizing that not all four-year-olds could read box scores - but this one could.<br />
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I read box scores and stories through childhood, and provided a clue about my occupational dreams by becoming the editor of my junior high newspaper in Elmira. Do they have junior high newspapers any more? When we moved to Buffalo in 1970, my daily reading material jumped several notches in quality. Now I was reading Larry Felser, who was in the Sporting News every week for football, and columnist Steve Weller, who was close to Jim Murray-class when it came to funny. Farewell, Elmira Star-Gazette. Hello, Buffalo News. It was like I was called up to the majors.<br />
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Like six million other kids, I was the sports editor of my high school paper, and like several hundred other kids I went off to Syracuse in search of a career in journalism. I must have been the only student at Syracuse that subscribed to The Buffalo News for four years. <br />
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I sort of stumbled into radio after graduation, in part because I could write. I paid my dues as a reporter, covering 142 events in one memorable year. I got to know the reporters from the Courier-Express and The News in those press boxes, hoping I could figure out a way to join their ranks - if I could get good enough. People like Jim Kelley, Milt Northrop and bunches of others set the bar pretty high. For a moment, it looked like it might happen. The sports editor of the Courier-Express told me that he wanted to figure out a way to get me on the staff soon, and I told him I was ready when he was. But sadly, this was the late summer of 1982, about a month before the Courier started on the road to folding. No sale. <br />
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I plugged along, left radio for a job with the Sabres for a while, but was out of work in 1993. That's when I got a part-time, temporary job from the News. That turned into a full-time, short-term temporary job when Bob DiCesare went on paternity leave - thank you, Bob. When the buzzer sounded on that position, it was hinted that I might have a good chance to land a full-time position when one opened up. After a stay at the Cheektowaga Times in the summer/fall of 1994, a spot at The News opened up - I'll always remember you, Lowell Keller - and I got it.<br />
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I didn't do every possible job in the sports department in almost 24 years but it wasn't for lack of trying. I covered the Sabres, the Bandits, running and high schools on the outside, and did rewriting and editing as well as serving as the "slot man" and "night sports editor" in the office. I also wrote Buffalo's sports history one day at a time, book reviews for the features department, a couple of travel articles, and jokes for a feature called "Five Spot." Coworker Greg Connors used the baseball term "five-tool player" to describe my work, while editor Mike Connolly called me a "utilityman." That puts me somewhere between Willie Mays and Ben Zobrist. I did very little writing about my two favorite sports, baseball and basketball, but I hit almost everything else. No matter what the subject, it was always a thrill to see my byline in the paper, or to write a clever headline that made people smile and attracted attention to a story. <br />
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This business can take a toll, though, no matter how interesting it is. The work schedule changed with the sports calendar each week, so I couldn't plan anything that was more than a couple of weeks in advance. Lisa Wilson once told me that we spent more family birthdays, anniversaries and holidays with each other in the office than we did with our respective spouses. I must have set a Ripken-like record for most Healthy Choice frozen dinners consumed in a career - probably 2,500 or so. Plus, you may have heard that the newspaper business is a little different these days, with instant deadlines and few true days off. I asked co-worker Kevin Noonan once why he was retiring, and his answer was, "It's time." Now I know what he meant. <br />
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Luckily for me, writing is a skill that can be done on an occasional basis. I can write some more books and cover games, etc. as a freelance writer, and I will. But I don't <i>have </i>to do anything. "Gee, I'd love to cover that girls lacrosse game, but I'll be in Paris that week."<br />
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In the meantime, let me salute a few people. Sports editor Howard Smith changed my life for the better when he hired me. I went from a guy who just missed landing a civil service job at City Hall as a clerk/typist to a sports reporter/editor who was earning a good salary. I'll always be grateful for that. Howard was succeeded by Steve Jones, one of those bosses who was such a good guy that you'd run through a wall for him. Steve came up with the idea of writing a daily item on local sports history, which was amazingly popular by my standards and turned into a book. Steve also let me cover the Bandits when Tom Borrelli died - still miss you, Tom - and that turned out to be a great experience. For starters, the people were terrific - everyone in the league couldn't be more cooperative. Then, there were some bonuses. For example, I covered playoff games. I must tell our Bills and Sabres' reporters what that's like. And I just might be the only sportswriter in town who covered professional athletes who earned less money than I did. <br />
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More recently, I've shared the high school beat for the last two years with Miguel Rodriguez. We haven't been Woodward and Bernstein on the job; more like Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. Yes, I'm Felix. If Miguel isn't the hardest working person in the building, he's in the top five. And he's always good for a food tip before you visit the concession stand at a high school football game. Then there's Jim Wojtanik, who arrived just after me and probably has worked with me more than anyone else. Day after day, Jim has concentrated on getting the section out on time and without mistakes. He's never failed to be a professional. Jim also was the unofficial morale officer, the guy who ran the office pool for the Kentucky Derby and bought pizza when staff birthdays came along. He's indispensable. Who knew I could respect a Yankee fan so much?<br />
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They are part of a larger group of sports department workers. You know some of them by their bylines. You don't know the clerks who take phone calls, the photographers who take such great pictures for stories, and the layout people who package everything to look so good. They all made my work better, and it was appreciated. <br />
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Getting back to financial matters for a moment, I probably wouldn't be ready to retire from The News without the fabulous work by the members of my union. I received $6 per hour from the Cheektowaga weekly. The negotiating team made sure that union members had a good salary through the years to go along with a lot of professional satisfaction. (Footnote: One longtime union leader and old friend, Phil Fairbanks, gets serious extra credit for introducing me to my wife.)<br />
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Finally, the whole editorial staff doesn't simply have writers, editors, photographers and layout specialists. They are miracle workers who make magic happen all the time. When I mentioned I was working for The Buffalo News to a stranger, he or she immediately assumed that I would be fair and professional. The reputation of the rest of the staff always preceded me. Allow me to tell a couple of stories about this group that are typical.<br />
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One night at 9:45, a story came on the wire about the Bills that was new and noteworthy. Remember, in this town, if the team's kicker gets athlete's foot, it goes on page one of the sports section above the fold. I called Vic Carucci, told him what was going on, and what our deadlines were. Ninety minutes later, he had confirmed and written the story clearly and fully - with quotes. I could tell that story about any other reporter on the staff, with just the subject switched.<br />
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There are heroes in the office too. One night I was monitoring Twitter on a Friday night when my feed exploded at 6:30 with the news that Ryan Miller hadn't taken the ice for the pregame skate a block away. Therefore, a trade seemed likely. Jim Wojtanik looked skyward for a moment, may have said a bad word, and tore apart the sports section to reflect the deal that was confirmed a short time later. The story was fully covered by our reporters at the game, who had to do it while keeping an eye on that contest that was taking place at the same time. We all came back the next night, and again I spoiled Jim's night at 5:30 p.m. by telling him there were reports that Pat LaFontaine had resigned from the Sabres' front office. Here we go again - same new layout, same great coverage. The Sabres should work so well together.<br />
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The point is that this sort of effort happens constantly at newspapers. It's not called "the daily miracle" for nothing. Reporters and editors like to complain, but they always come through when it is necessary - and it's always necessary. It was always a privilege to work with such people, and they often inspired me to at least try to go that extra mile. <br />
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No matter what happens to me in retirement, I'll admire the work of my now ex-co-workers at The Buffalo News from a distance. As you know, journalism matters now more than ever. Wherever the stories and photographs from The News are located - paper, tablet, phone, etc. - I'll find them and continue my 47-year reading streak.<br />
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It's been an interesting ride. I'm glad I was able to take it. <br />
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<i>Be notified of new posts on this site via Twitter @WDX2BB.</i> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28011139.post-6061214442662507302017-05-15T21:23:00.002-04:002017-06-17T20:44:54.571-04:00Past meets present<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Was I ever this young? Apparently so. Say hello<br />to my third-grade class in Pines Lake. Wonder what<br />happened to everyone else over the years?</b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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If you ever doubt that it's difficult to out-run your past life, I have some proof to convince you. It's an unlikely story spanning more than 50 years.<br />
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I received an email from a woman named Casey in Delaware last week. She had forgotten about the names of some of her elementary school teachers way back in the early 1960s. Casey did, however, remember a teacher she didn't have - Miss Bosland of Pines Lake Elementary School in Wayne, New Jersey. So she headed for the nearest search engine and tried her luck.<br />
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There, she found a link to a newspaper article. The beginning was this: <span class="timestamp post-date" content="1998-12-08" data-time-type="article-pub" data-time="913176060" itemprop="datePublished">"</span>My first-grade teacher, Miss Bosland of Pines Lake
Elementary School in Wayne, N.J., once told my mother that I was a vast
storehouse of worthless information.' Thursday night I will appear on the game show 'Jeopardy!' Still think the information is worthless, Miss Bosland?" This was how I started <a href="http://buffalonews.com/1998/12/08/alex-and-me-a-game-show-odyssey/" target="_blank">a preview</a> for my appearance on the game show for the Buffalo News.<br />
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I assume Casey said "Eureka" or some similar thought. With my email address at the bottom of the story, she sent me a note. Casey explained that she had attended the same NJ school from 1960 to 1966, and wondered who my teachers were to see if they could jog her memory.<br />
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I wrote right back and said, "You've come to the right place." Heck, I've still got a couple of report cards from that school. I went over my teachers, including Miss Bosland - who I discovered in a visit to Wayne in 1996 or so had just retired. Casey and I figured out that we were in the same classroom and did indeed have the same fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Link - but maybe not at the same time. Pines Lake had something called split session around the time, which meant one group went to school in the morning and another went in the afternoon. My guess is that attendance was done by geography, so kids in the same neighborhood stayed together, more or less. I'm not sure if that was the case in this particular year, but we do remember some of the same people. By the way, that classroom had the unforgettable advantage of having its very own bathroom; I don't think I ever heard the reason why.<br />
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This all prompted a furious exchange of emails between us for the next couple of days. We both remembered Mrs. Rodda, the school principal. Her biggest impression came during school lunches, when she walked into the cafeteria with a scowl on her face because there was too much noise. (Seven-year-olds making noise at lunch? I'm <i>shocked</i>.) Casey had another memory of the usually sour-faced principal. When President Kennedy was shot and killed in 1963, a sobbing Mrs. Rodda came into each classroom personally to tell the children about it. (Me, I was home after school, eating lunch as my mother watched "As the World Turns.")<br />
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Casey mentioned that she was in some sort of Christmas pageant as a singer. I responded with a distant memory of being "the funny elf" in some sort of similar activity. Maybe we were costars. I had just rediscovered the picture shown above and sent it to her. She sent me a shot of her third-grade class on the same auditorium stage, along with some memories of the people that I had identified in my photo. Where have you gone, Elizabeth Cleary (bottom row left) and Terry Spivak (next to Elizabeth)? I'm in the top middle of the photo, wearing a red bow tie and sport coat. Pretty snappy, I'd say, for eight. <br />
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A few other memories popped up as well. Like everyone other kid in that area, we both loved to go to the Old Barn Milk Bar for burgers and onion rings at dinner and/or ice cream. Especially ice cream. A cone was a quarter. Yum. One of my Police Athletic League baseball teams was sponsored by the Old Barn, and we received a free cone after wins. Too bad we didn't win more games; it was a much better sponsor than T-Bowl Drugs. The Old Barn itself was eventually sold to a car dealer. Sigh.<br />
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Casey filled me in on the name of the junior high school, Schuyler-Colfax, which apparently had nothing to do with the crooked vice president of the 1870s but with his ancestors. We both played the harmonica in elementary school, which may have been my last first-hand exposure to a musical instrument. And I thought about my speech teacher, Miss McCullough, at school. Not only did she teach me to say "leaf" and not "weaf," thus enabling me to go on to a brief career in radio, but she was the first African-American I ever met. There sure weren't any in the student body. <br />
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Wayne was a place back then where the truck would come down the street at dusk and spray pesticides in the air to cut down on the bugs. I'm surprised <i>everyone </i>hasn't gotten cancer by now. It was where Chicken Delight ("Don't cook tonight!") and Charles Chips were, not to mention the Good Humor Man. My neighborhood was filled with young businessmen who were on their way up and had plenty of kids. I'm sure all sorts of things went on there that I didn't know about and may not want to know about now, but - with a playmate at almost every house and a beach on the lake down the hill - it was a happy spot for the youngsters to grow up - swimming in the summer, skating in the winter. <br />
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Casey, by the way, did ask how I did on Jeopardy, so I scanned a three-page note about the experience that I had sent friends at the time and fired it off to her. We ran out of stories after a while, so we agreed to save the others' email. Since she was from Delaware, I told her to drop in on my Syracuse U. friend at the Delaware Historical Society for the greatest tour ever of the area. Some day, I hope, robin will get an unexpected visitor who knows a lot about where one of her college friends went to elementary school. <br />
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My memories of that time (we moved there in the summer of 1961, and moved out four years later) are mostly snapshots, but it was nice to have a few more such thoughts "developed" from my new and unexpected friend.<br />
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