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S4 E16: Bills = Family · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Fifteen decrease.
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  Speaker 2: You can see you breath.
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  Speaker 1: Out in the.
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  Speaker 2: Lake Effect recontables and guitar would Tree, Where's would you.
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  Speaker 1: Have to be?
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  Speaker 2: And to Ron Elvis in the lay, Panchow.
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  Speaker 3: Remembers that you need to know.
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  Speaker 2: I want you out here now, your family?
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  Speaker 1: Where's would you have to be? Where else would you be?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into the Nicol City Crew. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: Rob Crippen. Please like us on Facebook and follow us
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram and Twitter at nicol City Crew. This episode,
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  Speaker 2: along with all of our episodes, are presented by Crippen
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  Speaker 2: Legacy Entertainment here on Spreaker and stream Yard. We're so
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  Speaker 2: glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: Bills and NFL content again today, and as always, these
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  Speaker 2: are my Bill's thoughts set out loud.
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  Speaker 3: It's so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Was sick? I can like, Where's what.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be?
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get straight to it. I am really
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  Speaker 2: really excited for tonight's episode. The off season just drags
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  Speaker 2: on and on, and I'm getting sick of fighting people
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  Speaker 2: about Stefan Diggs on Twitter. And I guess he just
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  Speaker 2: came up with that little GQ article earlier that came
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  Speaker 2: out this week, so everybody got riled up about that,
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  Speaker 2: so I was fighting with people. I am just so
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  Speaker 2: happy that all of that is done. Football is back
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  Speaker 2: officially tonight and the Bills play on Sunday one o'clock
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  Speaker 2: against the Arizona Cardinals at the Row. I am just
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  Speaker 2: so excited joining me tonight as always my co host
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  Speaker 2: writing Shotgun Adam dump Truck Repsick. Check him out on
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  Speaker 2: z y K at The Crew DT. We made it.
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  Speaker 2: The off season is over. Football is back, man. We
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  Speaker 2: finally made it. Man, Godly, it's been so.
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  Speaker 3: Long, exhausting, exhausting off season.
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  Speaker 1: Round what's on?
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  Speaker 3: Nickel City Rob Mafia, everybody? Nickel City Crew Kick Off
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  Speaker 3: special tonight. Right, We're here Week one, first day at school,
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  Speaker 3: get their new shoes out, get them close out there
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  Speaker 3: and sun on them.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, we're as we roll. We
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  Speaker 1: say it every year.
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  Speaker 3: It starts off week one, and then before you know it,
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  Speaker 3: it's Christmas, New Year in the Super Bowl, and next
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  Speaker 3: week when we do our show, it's gonna be game
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  Speaker 3: day week two, you know, So we're already kicking and
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  Speaker 3: rolling and man, yeah, I'm so sick of everything this
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  Speaker 3: offseason round. We just got to get We just got
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  Speaker 3: to let the pads start hitting each other, man, and
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  Speaker 3: get out there.
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  Speaker 2: And do it.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, get out there and do it. I'm pumped up.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a good weekend. But Sunday coming up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to get into it, happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Week one. We're back.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. Man. It's so funny because you were saying
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  Speaker 2: it last week. How you know you're just getting that
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  Speaker 2: energy that Ju says the season starts to come. And
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  Speaker 2: it's funny because I was talking to you this week
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  Speaker 2: and it was like literally like a it was like
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  Speaker 2: a switch, like flip for me on Monday, and like
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  Speaker 2: I woke up Monday in a better mood. I was
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  Speaker 2: just ready to go, and like I was texting you
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  Speaker 2: and like, man, like we were making plans and tailgate plans,
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  Speaker 2: and I was just I was just in a whole
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  Speaker 2: different type of energy and I was really appreciating that.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you as well the viewers for joining us
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  Speaker 2: tonight again. Tonight kicks off Kansas City and Baltimore. I
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  Speaker 2: think DT just told me that the game got pushed
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  Speaker 2: back a little bit due to some rain or something
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  Speaker 2: like that, so we'll try to squeeze this episode in
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  Speaker 2: before as everybody gets ready to watch Week one and
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four season kickoff. I was really excited
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  Speaker 2: for tonight's episode DT, and I told you about it
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  Speaker 2: because it's the way. The reason I named it was
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  Speaker 2: because the bills, you know, they mean family for me personally,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that they do for you as well.
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  Speaker 2: And you know I had no choice in it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was born into it. DT five, six, seven, and eight.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, as everybody knows for the Super Bowl run
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I remember my earliest memories of the
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  Speaker 2: Bills were just you know, riding home from church, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my parents and listening to the Bills on the radio
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  Speaker 2: with Van Miller and then running into the house as
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  Speaker 2: soon as I got home. You know, I went to
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  Speaker 2: those black churches where you know, they hold extra late.
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  Speaker 2: My mother was popular at the church, so we had
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  Speaker 2: to wait for her to finish saying goodbye to everybody,
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  Speaker 2: and like I was like, I was like, oh my, like,
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  Speaker 2: please come on, get in the car so I can
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  Speaker 2: at least hear the game and we lived out in
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  Speaker 2: the country, so it took us some time to get home.
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  Speaker 2: It took us like a good thirty minutes to get
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  Speaker 2: all the way back out to Pendleton, And like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I just remember those Sundays and just watching the games
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. And like my dad, it was funny, DT,
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  Speaker 2: because I know you've got stories as well with your family,
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  Speaker 2: But like my dad was, he was a Bills fan,
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  Speaker 2: but he was a closet Bills fan. He used to
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  Speaker 2: love to talk about Jim Kelly and say that he
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  Speaker 2: threw too many picks. And then it was funny this
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  Speaker 2: year when they were talking about Josh Allen overrated. It
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  Speaker 2: was kind of ironic because I remember my dad, Oh
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  Speaker 2: he's a bum. He's a bum. But I mean he
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  Speaker 2: went to four straight Super Bowls and my dad was
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  Speaker 2: such a big part of my life growing up with
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  Speaker 2: the Bills, and they threw a party. I remember that
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  Speaker 2: for Super Bowl twenty five. I remember crying like a baby,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just it's just been so crazy and
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  Speaker 2: how integrated the Bills and my family have been from
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. And then you know, it's funny because you know,
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  Speaker 2: things just start to transition as you get older and
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  Speaker 2: you have more options and different things like that. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know everybody from those Super Bowl teams,
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  Speaker 2: and like I could remember, you know, quoting the Rosters
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  Speaker 2: and different things like that, because they just they left
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  Speaker 2: such an impression on me. And like I was interested
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  Speaker 2: to know what your earliest Bills memories were, because for me,
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  Speaker 2: it was definitely those car rides home back home and
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  Speaker 2: just listening to Van Miller and the radio and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. And then like I said, just watching with
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  Speaker 2: my dad and then seeing him get excited and he
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  Speaker 2: would go, oh, when you know Thurman would break out,
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  Speaker 2: and when Andrew would break out, and I would be
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  Speaker 2: saying to myself, like, yeah, you're a real fan, like
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  Speaker 2: you always that casual which you really love the Bills,
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  Speaker 2: and like that's like my first memories DT, and I
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  Speaker 2: was interested to hear yours because this is what it's
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  Speaker 2: all about, man, just being a fan, being a part
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  Speaker 2: of the bafia has meant a lot to me and
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  Speaker 2: my family for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean look at us, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Family by now, and and you know our whole crew
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  Speaker 3: shut out, our hotel crew and and you know everybody
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  Speaker 3: in between.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that that that's true, you know, from
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  Speaker 1: the from the jump, from the start.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't grow up in Buffalo, you know, just out
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  Speaker 3: in the outskirts and down in Jamestown.
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not like I grew up in the you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the town itself. But obviously was a close enough
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  Speaker 3: a close enough second. Had a little bit of Steelers
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  Speaker 3: fandom down in.
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  Speaker 1: My area as well.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of eerie, Pa, It's a lot of Steelers fans,
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  Speaker 3: so we're kind of on the border between the Steelers
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  Speaker 3: and the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I'm right there with you.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have any other choice. My uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the same time of deal with my dad is kind
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  Speaker 3: of a closet, you know, tough to watch a game
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  Speaker 3: with him because he's just you know, it's just like
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  Speaker 3: a little negative about it, and I can't I can't
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  Speaker 3: be having that in game day. But you know, my grandfather,
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  Speaker 3: he was the Bill. He was the Bills fanatic, you know,
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  Speaker 3: top to bottom, and we were very similar. I was
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  Speaker 3: close to him and had season tickets when my grandma
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  Speaker 3: got season tickets from you know, since I could remember
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  Speaker 3: and that one to two games a year, I would
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  Speaker 3: get the invite, you know that was a big, big day.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about it all leak in school leading up to that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're probably like third fourth grade leading up
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  Speaker 3: to that. And Eric molds white, Eric molds jersey with.
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  Speaker 1: The blue with the blue shoulders.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and a Bills flag and I would I would
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  Speaker 3: put I would put the Bills flag around my neck
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  Speaker 3: like a tape and and and like right with my
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  Speaker 3: mom's met scara, you know, something on my cheeks, like
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever player you know, Takeo Spikes.
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  Speaker 1: Or sixty one or whoever, whoever we were we were
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  Speaker 1: rooting for.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll never forget my first game. We we parked
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  Speaker 3: over at Twin Oaks. Shout out Twin Oaks Motel, no
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  Speaker 3: free ads. We don't go out there nowadays, but the
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  Speaker 3: Twin Oaks still they're still rocking. And uh hit Aunt
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  Speaker 3: Millie's and Silver Creek for a breakfast on game day.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We we pick up my my grandma and Grandpa's friends
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  Speaker 3: Gary and Barb and in Falconer, New York. And we'd
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  Speaker 3: had to to Aunt Millie's and Silver Creek get good,
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  Speaker 3: get good home style breakfast in US and you know,
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  Speaker 3: to the tailgate we go. And I remember walking in
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  Speaker 3: and you know, seeing the Mafia for the first time
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  Speaker 3: and smelling at charcoal and people openings, and it was
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  Speaker 3: just like, this is home, baby, this is home. Like
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  Speaker 3: the air just felt right, and uh I remember it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, vividly. This this is It's crazy how strongly
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  Speaker 3: I remember. I can't remember, you know, what I had
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  Speaker 3: for lunch today, but I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: You walking, I'm walking through.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the lots basically right where the new stadium
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  Speaker 3: is being built is where walking through and somebody was
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know, you know at the time, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: somebody was shot gunning a beer and so you know,
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  Speaker 3: they they crank it up and you know, I'm there
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  Speaker 3: fourth they got no idea what's going on and spike
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  Speaker 3: it down.
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  Speaker 1: But they didn't. They didn't finish it all right, so
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  Speaker 1: it was still had the pressure in it. So the
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  Speaker 1: rocks just did it. And it's just on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: it spraying, you know, the beer fountains just spraying in
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  Speaker 1: the in the park. We just kind of stepped over
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  Speaker 1: it and kept it moving. And little did I know
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  Speaker 1: that I would be from that in that part a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time and time and time again. It bears.
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  Speaker 1: It was bears in Buffalo obviously.
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  Speaker 3: We sat in the season tickets one thirteen tunnel side,
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  Speaker 3: right right next to the tunnel roll thirty five, and
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  Speaker 3: we're right on the end there, got on the jumbo tron,
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  Speaker 3: the guys, the band when we used to when bands
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  Speaker 3: used to come in before we had the.
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  Speaker 1: What are they called now? I try to forget about
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  Speaker 1: them because I missed the Jills, but whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but when we.
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  Speaker 3: Used to have bands come in, you know, like a
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  Speaker 3: high school band or college band would come in right
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  Speaker 3: and they were up in the front roads in that
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  Speaker 3: section when they played a halftime and.
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  Speaker 1: Then bailed out of there.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so security guards came around the section all the
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  Speaker 3: kids and moved us down the front row right on
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  Speaker 3: that right on the edge of the you know, right literally.
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  Speaker 1: On the edge of the on the walls.
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  Speaker 3: Reamers Mine had a toddy right right in front of me,
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  Speaker 3: Jay Reamers, right right the beautiful men. And I just
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  Speaker 3: remember watching that clock and not wanting it to tick down.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to stay in that stadium literally forever. I
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  Speaker 3: never wanted to leave, and you know, going back and
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  Speaker 3: bragging at school about the game and going and everything
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  Speaker 3: like that. And then remember I had a great first experience.
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  Speaker 3: But then my second experience, I met Ralph Wilson and
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  Speaker 3: the concourse. Literally, yeah, my grandpa's a big, big photographer.
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  Speaker 3: I loved taking pictures, you know, it just came as
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  Speaker 3: an outdoorsman. So I always had great, a great camera
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  Speaker 3: roll and always had his camera on him. And we're
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  Speaker 3: walking through the concourse and no ship, just Ralph Wilson
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  Speaker 3: just walking. I think he had the security or something,
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  Speaker 3: but he's just walking through, like wasn't in a private area,
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  Speaker 3: just walking through, and I like, that's Ralph Wilson. I
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  Speaker 3: got a picture of my grand the house.
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  Speaker 1: It's just me as you know, as a.
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  Speaker 3: As a I still got the baby face cheeks, but
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  Speaker 3: the baby face kids in that molds Jersey in that
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  Speaker 3: cape and my grandfather is Sequio Spikes Jersey and we're
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  Speaker 3: just with Ralph Wilson and it looked like he's a
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  Speaker 3: wax figure. It didn't even look like he's a real person.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, you know. So you know, and just
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  Speaker 1: continued on and on, and then you know, grow up into.
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  Speaker 3: Through My grand grandfather had the tickets and then he
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  Speaker 3: passed away. And that was right about the time I
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  Speaker 3: was in college with Stephen Burt and h Brandon and
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  Speaker 3: we were like, let's get these tickets. It's it's affordable,
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  Speaker 3: we can do it. Our buddy DJ lives in Buffalo,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, we'll get into.
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  Speaker 1: The rest, but the rest of right, So that's rooted.
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  Speaker 1: It means a lot to me, you know.
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  Speaker 3: This team is I learned to love him like a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people in the worst of their years and
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  Speaker 3: through the route and didn't know any better. And so
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  Speaker 3: that's why it's such a good feeling now. And and
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  Speaker 3: now I live in Buffalo and so like I'm seeing
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  Speaker 3: all the things that like I'm missing, I know what
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  Speaker 3: you mean around me. But I come out on my
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  Speaker 3: porch and take a deep breath on a Sunday morning
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  Speaker 3: and everyone's got their flags out in their jersey and
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  Speaker 3: you go to Wegmans and it's loaded, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: a great vibe and I almost feel like it's become an.
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  Speaker 1: Identity of mine.
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  Speaker 3: I like go home and I'm like talking to family
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  Speaker 3: and I'm just talking about the mills, you know, like yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I'm just like, yeah, we gotta we
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  Speaker 3: gotta talk about this week.
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  Speaker 1: So it's, uh, it's awesome. I love it. It's been
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  Speaker 1: part of my life.
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny that you said that, Yeah, it's deep rooted,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, because even the vibe part, because the
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  Speaker 2: vibe leads me into my story with the season tickets,
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  Speaker 2: because that is that's it, like to a t like
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  Speaker 2: that's how it was growing up. And you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: You described it perfectly, like you know, living in the city.
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  Speaker 2: There was a buzz you know, if you will, around
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  Speaker 2: the city when the Bills were playing and and like
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  Speaker 2: you said, Wegmans and that all just everything about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's there's a vibe to it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: And I moved down, you know, to to Charlotte and six,
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  Speaker 2: So I moved like literally a week after the ice storm.
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  Speaker 2: So if you for those of you remember six in
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  Speaker 2: the fall, there was a major ice storm. I mean
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: there was just you know, ice was on the streets,
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  Speaker 2: on the doors, cars, everything, And when it thought out,
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  Speaker 2: I left like a week later and moved down to Charlotte.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so funny that you said vibes because by
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, DT like it was like a
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  Speaker 2: real thing, Like I missed the team, like I missed
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  Speaker 2: those sundays. I missed even the Saturdays and getting ready
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  Speaker 2: or what are you okay, what are we gonna get?
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna go to Wegmans and we're gonna go grab
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  Speaker 2: this for tomorrow. And like I was down here in
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte and like I had none of that, like no
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  Speaker 2: connection to the team other than you know, listen to
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  Speaker 2: the radio and stuff like that, and podcasts hadn't really
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  Speaker 2: blown up too much like that at that time in six,
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  Speaker 2: and like I it was a physical like I missed
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  Speaker 2: my team. I missed being around the people. I'm in
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  Speaker 2: the buzz leading up to Sundays, and you know, it
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  Speaker 2: was funny. I just was like, you know what. I
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  Speaker 2: talked to my ex wife and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: we're both from Buffalo, and I was like, man, we
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  Speaker 2: I looked at the season tickets. They were the second
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  Speaker 2: cheapest season tickets in the league behind the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't beat it with a stick the price,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, man, we can kill two birds
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  Speaker 2: one stone. Take the kids up there and see, like
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  Speaker 2: it's it's all it all works, and like that was it.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Six We had the season tickets and I just never
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  Speaker 2: ever looked back, like I excuse me in two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and nine, and like I loved I missed them so
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  Speaker 2: much that I got the season tickets and that everybody
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  Speaker 2: down here in Charlotte would look at me crazy and
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: like what you have season tickets to the Bills but
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  Speaker 2: you live here. I'm like yeah, and then like you
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  Speaker 2: drive up for the games and I'm like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: do you know it, Like it was just one of
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: those crazy things where I just needed to be around
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  Speaker 2: that energy that you're talking about, which leads me to
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: beating you DT because that's why I named the episode
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  Speaker 2: the way that I did. Yep, you're good, all right,
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  Speaker 2: My bad, so basically, and I clicked the wrong button.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: But the mafia I getting excited, Like the mafia means family.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: And you know I met you when I had season
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: tickets for a few years, and like it was funny
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: because you know, I would tell stories of like you know,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: tailgating and all that type of stuff and tell everybody
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: down here in Charlotte like how fun it was and
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. But you know, I grew up, you know,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: right in the suburbs and then I you know, went
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: to church in the inner city, and like I was
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: hanging out with my cousin downtown, and all of a sudden,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I'm on the corner of Allen Street and Delaware, and
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I see you and we're walking across the street at
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: night time, going to hit up the clubs and going
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: to hit up Alan Street and the bars and stuff
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: like that. And just like you said, you just can't
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: stop talking about the bills, and like I can't stop
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: talking about the bills. So it was like just a
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: casual conversation. So Nicol City crew, imagine DT and I
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: just walking across the street, crossing over Delaware on Allen Street,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: walking down, and it was no big deal, and you know, hey,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: you know, what do you think about the bills and this?
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: And then I can't remember the exact conversation, but you know,
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: we were just just chopping it up for a quick
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: minute because we were going in the same direction, and
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: you and I weren't in the same crew, we weren't
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: rolling together or anything like that. And I see you
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: at the bar later that night, at one of the
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: bars on Alan Street, and so we bought each other
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: a shot and had a couple of drinks and whatever
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: the case may be, and good conversation. I didn't really
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: think anything of it, didn't trade numbers, didn't you know.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if I caught your name or
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: anything like that at the time, Like, you know, just
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: just another Bills fan. And that's kind of how the
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: mafia works, Like it doesn't. You don't have to be formal.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Everything could just be informal because the Bills are the
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: connective tissue. And that's exactly how I felt when I
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: met you. And it was so funny because the next
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: morning I get to my tailgate spot. We tailgate at
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: California Southwestern in the Grassroots right in front of the stadium.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I've been there ever since I've been a Bills fan
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: in respects to tailgating. And it was the craziest thing
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: because I get out of the car. My boys are
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: there saying what's up to people? And I looked to
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: the right and I'm like, that's the motherfucker from last,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Like that's the dude from last.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, what up?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Man? And it's so funny. And the story I always
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: tell is that I didn't even like know your name,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: like necessarily, like your real live Like I didn't know
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: your name was Adam, And like I think I called
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: you a different name for a little while. You were
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: so cool you didn't even correct me, and like that
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: still blows my mind because I would not even let
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: somebody call me the wrong name. Like if I say
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Rob and people like Rod, I'm like, no, Rob r Ov,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Like I'll spell it out for him, because I'm not
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: letting mess up my name. And it was so funny
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: how chill you were. You didn't even correct me. And
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: we saw each other and literally, man, like it's been
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: we've been rolling since then, Like it's it's such a
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: crazy story because we didn't even take the initiative to
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: like trade numbers or anything like that the night before
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: and it just popped up and you were like, literally
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: right there it was. It's the craziest, man. That's how
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: you know it's supposed to be.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: That's why I.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I mean to go deeper into that.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: That's it wash, you know, let's talk about let's let's
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: talk about some.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Grip here right you're driving.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: And shout out to five over five hundred before go
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: shout out over five hundred people on Kickoff night watching tonight, man,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you guys on all platforms. Go ahead, man, I.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Love it, man, I love it some grit, some grit.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I mean Buffalo blue collar grit, city grit team, you
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: know everything like that. You're driving eight hours both plays
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: to just come up for the weekend. And on my
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: situation at that time, I was working in Syracuse, fresh
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: fresh college, living, living with the with the boys, you know,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Stephen Brandon, you know the spot, and we would we
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: would plan out the season. You know, we were going
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: to we were going to eight.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Every game. We weren't missing one. In the summer. We
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: we pick out of a hat to see who was
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: driving to each game, Okay, responsible for like okay, I
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: got you got two games, you know, I I'm driving
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: this one in this one. And then those situations.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I always said, my buddy Mark, I think he met
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Mark a few times. He lives on Florida shut on Marboni,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: one of the one of the greatest duds I've ever met.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: He Uh, he would come up because he had a
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: lot of friends in Buffalo, so he you know, so
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: he ride with us, Sarah, he go out with us,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: you know, for the weekend, and then he would be
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: sleeping in didn't care. You know, he's not built fans,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: so he'd be sleeping in and then get an uber
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: down to the lot and then drive us home.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Swind Yeah, I swindled so I didn't have to drive
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: too much back. And I don't know if I wasn't
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the best driver back then, you know, when they came
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to that.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: So we'd leave Friday night, Friday night, get out, I
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: get out of enterprise, shout out, shout out the pree
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: machine six six pot thirty.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Late we pile in the car, you know, for the
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: two days. We go to our boy DJs that lived
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: over by do you built on the armory over there
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: next UH off on Niagara Street. We'd roll in, We
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: get our we get our drinks, were playing, you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: drinking card games. Still kind of on the clock. Go
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: out on Allen Street. Three four in the morning, sleep
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: on a floor a couch. Who knows what we were
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: sleeping on.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Wake up, go to the.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Lunch, you know, maybe see something in the city and
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: then start start getting after it again. Go out again Saturday.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Saturday night and seven am, we're up.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Getting our layers on, getting ready to head out to
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: uh head out to the Ralph and get there, you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: before the sun comes up and join the tailgate with
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: you all. And yeah, that first day I think it
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: was I think we were talking big Charles Clay talk when.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: We were yes yes because yes, yes, because because I
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: got you difficult.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: That's how you yelled at me. You yelled at you
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: across the lot, you know, from you Charles, and then
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you got me. You got me to Charles Clay Jersey.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Red one, I remember that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we did that.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: First year was funny because those kids boy scout something
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: some sort of team.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, chocolate.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: They would come around, Yes, Nichols around Yeah, week one.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: You buy one and and you come up and like
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: you walk up and we do like an interview with
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the kids like it was in the postgame interview too.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: You get to chocolate bars and you come up. And
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: then by the end of the year, it was like
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: week twelve.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: And he told you to stay healthy, your.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Squad laughing, give me over, laughing with your squad. Friday
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the Turkey and yeah, it was awesome. But those the
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: grit of that you driving both ways and us putting
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: in that forty eight hour you know, degenerate shift and
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: then getting in that car driving back to Syracuse and
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: then working on Monday, my boss, and at that time
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: can vouch for that.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I was zombie for a couple of days, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: So I.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Can't be doing that shit anymore.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I need my eight hours.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I need I need my California, California. Yeah, your beauty rest.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: It's funny, my memory fall. Yeah, it's funny because you know,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: like I I came up for him. Yeah, I came
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: up for him. But like you know, at the time,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: you know, it was like you know, kids and stuff
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: like that, and like, you know, it was like a
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: situation where, you know, as I got older, like you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I couldn't make it for all, like the Winter Games
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that, if it was too cold or
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: what are the case may be, So I would sell
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: them back. And I looked at it like, man, the
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Bills already got my money, you know what I mean,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: So like I don't have anything else to prove. So
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: if it was a bad weekend or something like that,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: you know, like I missed the snow Globe game against
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Indie and stuff like that, so I would sell them back.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: But I looked at it like I never looked at
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: it like I was a bigger Bills fan than anybody
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: in Western New York or any other Bills fan that
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: spread out across the country. It just means that I had,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: like I just had a different level of dedication, Like
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: there was no plate. Like the words of Marv Levy
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: really like those resonated with me in my life, Like
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: there was no place I'd rather be than right there
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: at the raff on a Sunday. If the Bills were
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: at home, I wanted to be there, like period, And
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: there was just no everything that you talk about, like
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: with the smells and stuff like that, Like that's all
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: what lured me in to make me a season ticket
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: holder was the smell it was getting out there, you know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: as it's sunrise and like and it's just smelling the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: fires and stuff like that and seeing the people out
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and everybody's got their setups and then you know how
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: it is in the grasslots, everybody's around the perimeter first,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: and you know you're looking at people all across the
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: parking lot and they're all getting their stuff set up,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: and like that was that was it for me, you
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. And you hit it on the head, DT,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: because a lot of Bills mafia, you guys remember it,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: like the drought was shitty, Like I mean, O nine was,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: you know, the fiftieth anniversary year, So that was the
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: year I signed up. And and that's you know, one
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: of the things that nostalgia got me as well. You know,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: they had the website was running the Buffalo Bills dot
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Com was running like the greatest players in Bill's history
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: at every single position, and you know, you could vote
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: on it and stuff like that. So I was, I was,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: you know, I was. I was hooked in to all
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: of that type of stuff, and that's really what pushed
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: me over the edge to go ahead and get them
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: along with the price. But like I never looked at
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: it like I was a bigger Bills fan, but it
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: just I just didn't want to be anywhere else DT,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't. So yes, the nine hour drive thirteen
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: one hundred miles round trip, like it was no sweat,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't even you know, it was not even
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a big deal. But people look at me like I
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: had six heads up, like, man, I love my squad,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Like why would I not want to see him play
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: live in person? Like yeah, the TV's got a great product.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: But back then, like I, I was really dedicated and
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I definitely didn't want to be anywhere else on the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Sunday if the Bills were playing at home. And that's
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: how it for me.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Now, it's funny that you say that, because you know,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I never skipped any years except for the years that
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: my kids were born. My three Kings, Bobby, Nate, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Quincy were in eleven, thirteen, and nineteen, so you know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I skipped those particular seasons and I would just pick
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: right back up the next year with my season ticket
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: representative their one Bill's Drive. And it's funny because we've
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: got breaking news DT for Nicchol City crew. You know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I'm skipping my season tickets this year. I'm going to
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: see you on Saturday, and I'll be up there for
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: the home opener because it's like a Bill's holiday. I
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: don't want to miss it. But Nicol City Crew, I've
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: got Princess coming, my first girl. Me and my girlfriend
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Jody are welcomed my first girl, Princess Ivy. Ivy is
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: coming in the building next month. She will be in
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the building and like I am, I'm really excited. My
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: girlfriend Jody, she's really excited and we just can't wait
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: to welcome her. Their brothers are already ready. I told
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: them the Kings, and they're excited. They're amped up to
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: be big brothers. Bobby's already telling the he's gonna kick
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: asks if they mess with her. It makes the same way,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: so I can't I can't wait. You know, she's already
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: got like a little mini fortress around her. So yeah,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I've got two girls coming in respects to Princess Ivy
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: her sister Flow. So now I've got two daughters and
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: then three boys. So I'm skipping season tickets Nickel City
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: crowd I got. I had to call him I season
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: ticket lady this year, and I was like, I'm having
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: a baby. I'm out, Like those are the only times
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I've ever skipped. And she's like, well, Ron, we hope
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: you come back next year. And I'm like, oh, yeah,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I'll be back next year because I'm probably not going
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to that new palace and the respecially those PSLs, so
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I'll hop back on next year. But DT, man, you're
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: about to be an uncle. What's up again?
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: His family?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Its family all the way around, those equal families.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Congratulations Jody in the family.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: That's that's that's awesome, man.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: You know the King's now got I got someone to
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: protect and and someone to look after. And yeah, you
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: know I remember, you know, you broke the news to
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: me obviously before before this breakdown, and we were.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Sending that the meme of uh, bad boys. You know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: when when the dude comes to.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: The when the dude comes to the reggie, Reggie.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Comes to the door.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: So maybe they can be you and me someday with
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: absolutely uh their first date and we can we can
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: shake that dude down.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: But absolutely, And that's what we're talking about, right Rob.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: The mafia, the family, how how it feels like a family.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: The whole neighborhood, the whole community is the family, and
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: then it really does actually incorporating that into your actual
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: family is.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing, man. And you know, I can't
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: wait to have kids of my own to join yours
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and enjoy the make our own team basically all the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: way around.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: This funny story with that the season tickets that Stephan
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Brandon and I had up in through twenty nine for
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: for these years. The lady next to us has seven kids, right,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: her husband have seven kids, and they bring a different kid.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: They have three seats, and they bring a different kid
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: to everyday. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like that would
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: be you know, that's like kind of.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Right, some.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Cycle them through gets every game me right, So that's
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: I'm proud of you. I'm proud to hear that, Nicolay
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Crewe big news coming and uh beautiful thing.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm nervous as hell, you know, for sure, you know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: with three with three boys. You know, I'm not sure
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: what you know, Barbie's and and uh, you know, you know,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: all the different stuff that comes with the Peppa Pig.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: You know, I think I don't even know, you know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: cocoa melon, all that type of stuff. You know, the boys,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: some of the boys did some of that stuff too,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: but you know, girls are just a different beast. But
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I'm excited, can't wait. The boys are excited to meet
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: their little sister, and they already love Flow as well.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: So it's we're I mean, we're one big, happy family, man.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: And like I said, the Bill's equal family to me.
• 27:45
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• 27:47
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  Speaker 2: was interested because you were talking about your fandom and
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  Speaker 2: how it started, because I looked up Panama the other
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: day and I was like, Panama is you know, west
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: of Jamestown, and I'm like off of eighty six, and
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I'm like, how did this kid from all the way
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: at Panama City, little tight end become like a Rabbit
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Bills fan, and he's all the way you know here,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: and I'm meeting him on Allen Street, you know what
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I mean that night, Like I was wondering out like
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: so it was, it was all shaped from a young age.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Even out there they had they had Bills Maffield was
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: represented out there in Panama City.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but like I said, it was a little split,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: you know, because you had the the Steelers. You were
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: in Steelers Country, sure, and the Steelers were a lot
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: better than the Bills then. So you know, if you
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: were picking Bandwagon, it would have been a lot easier
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: to rule with, you.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Know, ross, you know, and get it done. But you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: just something about it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: And like I said, my grandfather was obviously a big,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: big factory, you know, big big sports fan. We you know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: when I was you know, kindergarten, first second grade, we
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: would be going, he'd be following the Panama.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: High School, you know, the varsity games.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: We'd be driving all over God's Creation to go to
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: these games, you know, on Saturday afternoon, just because he
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: loved ball, just watching ball, just watching sports, you know,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: going to all the basketball games, winning the fifty fifties
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: and before I was even near high school to play,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: you know, just sports were.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Just the thing.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: And then my grandfather, you know, definitely was a big
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: part of and you know, the bills were part of it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: So I just jumped on that and tagged along, and
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: you know, it was a it was a family affair,
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: just like you said, a family affair, the you know,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: from the and then kind of getting getting my mom
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: was always in.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: My mom actually big news the City Crew.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: She's gonna be out of all this. She's been to
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: a few preseason games with like midget football and stuff
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: like that when we would go up, but never been
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: to a regular season, never.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Been to a reason.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: So so this year it's gonna be a year my mama,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Mama dump trucks first game game. This year we're gonna
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: pick one maybe.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: You know, mid season something something and getting there and
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: sure the experience. So I mean, this year and obviously
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: she's taken on and loves the podcast and everything, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: you know it's like I want to get in, I
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: want to meet your friends. I want to see what's
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: going on out here, so that you can't say nothing
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: it's a family fair. It's all there, and follow it,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: follow the family.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And then never gave up, you.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Know, never gave up the the years of like, man,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: maybe I should just like another team and like get.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Somebody halfway deep. I'm in it all the way. High school,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm in it all the way. And then college.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: It was a good time because I got to you know,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I was with I met my friends and blessed for
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: all that I and most of them were Bills fans,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: so I was able to kind of stick to the Bills.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: And then all those I spoken about it last week's episode,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: all those downstate kids, all those.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Jets fans, and that just pissed me off, you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: so I so that kind of dug me in on
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the Bills a little more.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: And then you know, obviously the playoff, birth and the rest.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Of the rest of history.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll never not be a.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Bills fan the rest of my life, no matter what,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: no matter what bon Jovie does, no matter what happened,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I will never not be.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: A Bills fan.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: And I couldn't even I can't even imagine a world, man,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I couldn't even imagine even what skeeping season tickets this year.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: You know, it's the same thing. Like even when all
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: my my kings were born, I was still watching all
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the games and locked in and cooking out at the house.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: So we'll do that same thing this year. And it's
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: so funny because, uh, you know, Joker would just no,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: there's just no other choice. And it was funny because
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: you know my you know, my girlfriend, she's not the
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: biggest sports fan or anything like that, but like she
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: already knows that. She knows that, like there's no there's
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: no getting around it. Like they got to be baptized.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: So I talked by little daughter flow like the shout song.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: She knows it now, like she knows the words, and
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: she says, hey, hey, like I mean just baptized them
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: into it. So like there's no getting around it. Man,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Like the Bills equal family, and so that's the way
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: it's got.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Bobby and Nate to the Patriots game two years ago.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: That was their first game, yep, and their first regular
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: and I and I called the called them the kickoff return,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: called it on the on the way to the tailgate
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: we went to breakfast, yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: And I like I had like an emotional uh you know,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I was in I was sitting with Bannon anak shout
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: on bank, we'll see them, so they rade a rock.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: I was sitting with them in their seats, and he
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: took it back.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And it all because I.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Remember, you know, telling you guys in the car about it,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: and just like and then it set in like Rob
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: brought his voice in this game.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: And I sent you a text message and I was like,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you called them like it's just like the emotion of.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Like, I can't wait till I can bring, you know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: my voice in the game.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: And have that experience with them. And because I knew,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: like I just across the stadium how pumpk Tuckie guys
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: were like, you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Know, I was like, don't truck. I was like, don't
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: truck said it. He called it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: He said, just that excitement, you know, that genuine excitement
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: is what you can't replicate, you know, And just like
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: growing as it.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Was amazing, losing losing it, you know, it was amazing.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I don't envy you for that. I'm proud of that,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: but I want to I can't wait till I can
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: have that moment. And uh, I'm sure it was awesome.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: No, it was amazing. You're absolutely right on the way
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: to the stadium. Nicchol City Crew builds Mafia dump truck. Literally,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: uh you know, he literally says, you know what, I
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: feel like there's a return coming today and like I'm
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: just driving and I'm not paying much attention to whatever
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: the case may be. And like I said, it was
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Bobby and Nate's first game, so they were all amped up.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Breakfast at Pancake House was perfect right there at op
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: and you know, and then yes, when Nahi Heines ran
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: that back, just everything tomorrow Hamlin being back in the building,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: you making that prediction for whatever reason you wanted to
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: make that prediction, and then like to see and then
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: he's running to us, like running right to because we're
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: on this scoreboard side and he's and we're in the
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: end zone and I was just like I can't, I
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: could not believe that he was about to score touch
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, d T, I not just look at
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Nate and Bobby. I'm like Uncle DT called it and
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: they were just going crazy. And Nate is a mini
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: me for sure. He's a Bill's fanatic. Bobby's a little
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: bit more chill, but Nate is, uh, he's up on Sundays,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: He's yelling at the TV just like me, and I
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: definitely I can't. I really just can't. I can't imagine
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: my life without the bills. Shot out horns and hooks.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Lots of good memories, including the Dallas game last December,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: and looking forward to going to Seattle next month. Enjoy that.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Horns and hooves. That's pretty sweet. That's a that's a Now,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: that's a cross country gyp. I'm not driving that shit.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm dedicated, but I didn't go to away games.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: But that that's crazy. I shout out the horns and hoofs.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: That's what's up, you know. As we begin to wrap
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: up tonight DT the first ever for the twenty twenty
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: four season, Nickel City Crew Tailcate report, it is back presented.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: It is back presented by twenty six shirts. Listen. You
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: know it's funny because I drive up Saturday. I gotta work. Unfortunately,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: you and I would come up like you did. I'd
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: come up on Friday, spend a couple of days and
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: stuff like that, and then leave on Monday. But I
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: gotta work, so I'll come on Saturday, leave early in
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the morning, and then I'll be up in the in
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: the town right around the afternoon two of three o'clock,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: depending on how early I can hit the road. And
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: then I just you know, it's funny when you're when
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: you live out of town, you gotta hit the rounds.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: And it's like a you know, a president, You're going
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: to kissing babies and shaking hands, and you know, you
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: gotta go see all my people. So I gotta go
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: see a couple of cousins. And my best friend aces
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: up there and he's got a baby as well, a
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: little girl, now, you know, so I gotta go see
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: it for a couple of people. But DT, we are
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: just we're just gonna go on cruise control in honor
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: of Princess Ivy, in honor of you know, of the
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: fact that you know, it's it's it's sad, but it's
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: it's for a great reason. It's sad that I'm not
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: gonna have to season tickets this year, but again, I've
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: only ever skipped for them, So kids are a great
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: blessing from God. So it's all good. Like, well, let's
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: let's take it these Let's get a couple of breakfast pizzas.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I guess I think we'll get some subtrays and we're
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: just gonna just chill. Man. I want to be out
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: there early, but Nickel City Crew Tailgate Report. Let's we're
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: gonna just easy riding, go to tops, get some breakfast pizzas,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: and then just get to the stadium and easy riding.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: There's no no hoopla, no frying turkey this week. No
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: shoot them up like Barry Bonds. I'll save that for
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: down here in Charlotte this year. Man. I think we're
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: just gonna chill, easy ride. I like you, Joe, you know,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: take it in, take it in.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I like your slight of hand. And it's gonna tell
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the listeners. Will try to be modest Sunday, but we
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: talked about that air when.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: We get out, when we get out of that car
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: together someday morning, we're gonna take.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: That breath of Chris Charcole, a big man on the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: big man on the ones.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: In here getting us pumped up, and you yeah, we'll
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: be chilling and then we'll then we will be Yes,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: it's week one, after all, it's home opener.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's holiday. It's the vibe we got.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: We got a good crew coming with us, the first timers,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: you know, some at least first timers to our whole setup.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: In our tail game experience, and yeah, you know, we
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: gotta show them a good time.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: And I just think the vibes are gonna get us
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: and we're gonna we're gonna really enjoy it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: But we are professional tailgaters.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: I think telling people this, I consider myself a professional tailgater.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: I can look at my watch at any time from
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: seven am to.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: One pm to kick and know exactly.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Where I need to be vibe wise wise, you look
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: at the watch, it's nine thirty. Oh, all right, got
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: to take a few walk. Maybe I'll get a water and.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Me go over, go over to the food table.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: For a while. Or oh damn, it's ten o'clock. I've
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: been talking too much. I gotta go, you know, hit
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: a beer missile or play or play play some type
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: of drinking game. Because right, so we have professional tailgaters.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: I told everyone that's with us this week, don't worry,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: enjoy yourself. I'll keep eyes up, you know, if I see,
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: if I see we start wavering, I'll bring us back.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I see we're not waving enough, I'll get us wavy.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: So I love it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: We are professional tailgaters at Nickel City Crew, and we
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: will be doing that Sunday, but it's it's holidays, We're
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: gonna be getting after it.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I mean I gotta let lose, I gotta
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: let my hair down. I'm only coming up for this
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: one game, so i gotta definitely take it in for sure.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: But I met easy right against it, like the tail
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: getting prepared food. I know that we we will definitely
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: get after it, and I'm definitely looking forward to it.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: So I'm really excited about that. Now. That says the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: weather change as we close up tonight says the weather
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: change DT was eighties today in Buffalo and it's gonna
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: be like sixty two. What happened? Y'all supposed toy're supposed
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: to bring the good weather for us? Man, what's up?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Straight ball weather? Yeah, ball weather man. I mean, yeah,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I've been.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: I've been. I've been hawking this uh hawking this weather
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: literally every day.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Hour by hour phone every day.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: It was a little sprinkled looking.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: In the morning, but now it's kind of transitioning to
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: a clear morning gonna be cool, which I kind of like,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: you know, wake up with that Chris there and and
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: then by you know, ten eleven o'clock, it's gonna you know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: it's gonna start feeling real comfortable.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Hopefully that sun's creeping out and then you know, you're
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: getting your own, your own.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Type of jacket on with the with the whatever whatever's
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: in the cup, and you know, and we walk in
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: there at one o'clock ready to go.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna turn out to a real
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: nice day.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: It's probably about a month early, right, this is probably
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: the weather we're looking at it like the October.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that's what I meant by that. Yeah, usually
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: it's still hot. You know, for that first game, you
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: can wear shorts. I'll break some shorts just the case
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: it actually sneaks up.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: But I think it's gonna be a nice warm up day.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: It's gonna feel cooler right.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Out of the gate.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Then it's really gonna be the rest of the day.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: And once that sun creeps out you get into that stadium.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, we're in the stadium in negative twenty and
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: you don't you're cold in the tailgate, but you're not
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: really cold in the stadium, right because all most people
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: in the bosom and the you know. So I think
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be a good, comfortable day. We won't be
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: sweating our ass off, but we won't be you know, or.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Anything like that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: No, you're right about that. Well, I really enjoyed tonight's
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: episode DT. I thank you.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: We also wanted to get down memory lane and talk about,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: you know, why we do what we do, and then
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: how we became the Bills fans that we are and
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: in our incredible story of how we met. And again
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: we were not making it up. Yeah, that's exactly I did. Yell, oh,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: that's Charles Clay for sure that I literally didn't get
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: your number the night before, and I could not believe
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: my eyes when I saw you the next morning because
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: we were getting after it pretty well the night before
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: on Allan Street and it was a really fun time
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: for sure. And again, Bill's equal family. I consider you family,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And you know, I just
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine, you know, being without you, man, So
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you. I appreciate you being a part of
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Nickel City crew and my co host. We've been rocking.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: You've been rocking with me man since like episode seven,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Like I mean, you've been rocking with me. And I
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: was like, man, you might as well just be my
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: co host because you keep coming on and we both
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: love broadcasting growing up as well, and we're interested in it.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: So I really appreciate you DT. You're like a brother
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: to me. Man, I appreciate it.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it, love it, Rob, I mean, and
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: we can say it all the time. This is you know,
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: this show itself is awesome and therapeutic and some good
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: for us just personally in general. But yeah, a great
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: connection of lifelong friend and brother too, Rob. I you know,
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: I can't literally can't make the ship up, and you know,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: and often we got great things in our future ahead,
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: and I'm really excited, you know, for our families to
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: grow and Steve.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: To grow and grow the show, yeah, all of it.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And you know, and you know, have that post super
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Bowl Nickel City Crew special and all that's gonna happen
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: and it's gonna be a good time, and yeah, it's
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: I couldn't ask for a better situation.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's been perfect. It really has been perfect.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Shout out almost eight hundred people watching tonight, and we
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: did look at that. We got you right on time.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I'm looking right down at the TV and the game
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: is about to kick off. So Nichol City Crew, we
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: did you right. We didn't keep you too long. We
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: got you ready for the twenty twenty four season kicking off,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Casey Baltimore. I'm really excited, DT. I will see you Saturday, man,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: and out there, please spread love not hate. These were
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: my Bills thoughts set out loud, hit him. Want to
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: go Bills, DT. The off season is over. No more
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: fighting about Diggs. I'm so sick of y'all mother fuggers.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I'm so sick of fighting people on Twitter my Digs.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: It's over. I'm not talking about it anymore. Man. Let's
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: get to the season Sunday. It's it's let's go. It's
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: on game week one, and I love it. Go Bills,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: I love it, I love it. I love it.