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S3 E15: FAM Appreciation Week!!! · Nickel City Crew Podcast

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Fifteen degrees. You can see you a breath out here in the lake effect,
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breaking tables like a tree. Where else would you have to be?
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And Doran, Elvis and the lay Pancho remember that you need to know.
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Hold you out here now, your family? Where else would you happy?
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Where else would you? Welcome into the Nickel City Crew. I am your
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We're so glad that you're joining us for some of your Buffalo bills an NFL
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County again today and as always, these are my bill's thoughts are set out
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loud. It's a vibe so ridiculous to stop. Plus eighty three was sick.
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The show connects me. Where else would you like to be? All
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right, let's get straight to it. I'm excited about tonight's episode like I
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always am, and it's one of those episodes that it's really important to me.
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It's been important to me just to kind of find a way to show
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my appreciation and to show my gratitude for everything that has happened. You know,
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it's been It's been funny because last year I forgot to do the episode
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the first season that we started. We did it and I had such a
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great time with it, and I was like, man, I cannot let
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another season go by without coming out with the FAM Appreciation Week. This is
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the FAM Appreciation Week. We are are really thankful here at Nickel City Crew
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for the listeners, the people that have been a part of the show that
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have kind of made this thing kind of happen. And it's funny because I
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started it by myself and then you guys all know the story. You know,
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DT kind of joined in maybe seven months in and then it was just
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like, man be my co host, rock with me, you my boy,
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Like, let's let's do this thing together. And it was a situation
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where things just kind of took off from there. We are now simulcasting every
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single week on the Buffalo fan Base podcast network. Justice General Radford over there
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runs the site in We just are so gracious as to have the opportunity to
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meet another platform and to meet more listeners, to kind of get our thoughts
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and opinions out there and get our content out there. So we've had really
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a great time doing this here with the simulcast with Buffalo fan Base and coming
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up on Saturday, we're gonna be doing the Ranger for Buffalo fan Base and
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I know the k Gun Report. It's gonna be a fun time. I
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think we'll be on from like two thirty to three thirty. If DT can't
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be there, I know I'm going to still be there as well representing the
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crew. So it's been a fun time. You know, the Mafia for
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me, Nickel City Crew, it means family, it really does. You
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know. I have a literal bills baby from the Mafia, Like I mean,
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I couldn't make it anymore family than it is with that, you know.
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I mean Quincy's mother is is uh, you know, a cousin of
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one of my my good friends and I used to throw the tailgates with and
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it just I mean, the Mafia means family, like I just, there's
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no way around it, man, Like you know the tailgates, the you
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know, the atmosphere, the camaraderie, you know, the traditions that everybody
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has when they come out to the stadium, when even if they don't go
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out to the stadium. Even if you're at your house, you throw a
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party. You've got a projector outside and you've got people over. The neighbors
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are over. What are the case. Maybe you guys get a sheet and
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some wings and everybody comes through. The bills mean family. The bills,
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uh, you know represent family to me. And you know, I'm really
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really excited about tonight's episode, really really excited about this season coming up.
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You know, for a long time, it was so crappy that the bills
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were so crappy, that the tailgates were half of the reason and half of
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the fund that you had going out there to the stadium. And that's really
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when I met my co host, to be honest, was was during some
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of those dark drought years. Joining me tonight as always my co host Adam
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dump Truck rupsick Ill at the Crew Check him out on Instagram at Adam rupsick
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r U p c z e y K. I'm at the crew DT.
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It's it's family appreciation week, man, I mean the Mafia's family DT.
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I don't I don't know what you're lay it out, man. That's that's
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straight up, rob, that's straight up and and you know the mafia's family,
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the crew's family to us. And you know at this point, I
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you know, I call you family. Rob. We've we've developed such a
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great relationship, such a great friendship over the years. You know, I've
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appreciated every second of it. You kind of you know, this is worked
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great. This podcast is a way for us to you know, it's there
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therapy in a way. You know, we get it out, we get
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it through it. It doesn't always have to be bad, uh, you
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know, venting all the bed stuff, just just getting it out and talking
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bills and you know, kind of just being being super comfortable with you and
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with our listeners and everybody in between. It's fun to kind of as we
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grow, our following grows and everyone you know, our friends and close friends
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and family are listening, and more people are listening now and now and and
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and we're getting out there. So so we're improving, we're getting better.
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But but at the end of the day, uh, you know, I'm
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with my brother Rob, with you man, and I enjoy it. It's
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been I thank you for this opportunity and everything we've done. I think we've
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we've grown so much and appreciation. We it's the family for real, And
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it's the chills talking about it because it's so close Rob as we get seeing
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up to this seasons, we pop out on the grasslin and get that first
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inhale of the you know, of of everything the charcoal and uh and everything
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in between. It I getting the chills thinking about it. It's it's literally
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light and brought us together as one. So let's go how town begins.
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Let's shout out to the fan tonight. We are gonna have a lot of
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good guests and listeners on and I'm excited to drop it up with everybody.
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Let's right, yeah, man, I mean, I'm really I mean,
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I'm really really excited. And you know, like I said, one of
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the things that about this was that I wanted to connect with people. I
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wanted to connect with the mafia. I wanted to make sure that you know,
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everybody understood that you know what the Bills mean to me. You know
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again, you know, me driving up doesn't make me more of a Bills
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fan than anybody else in Western York or anybody across the country. I meet
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people all the time across the country DT that are you know, Rabbit Bills
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fans just like me. They may not go to the games, but they
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it means something to them. You know. My dedication comes from the fact
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that I just literally don't know what else I would do with myself on a
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Sunday morning if I were right well, I mean that's just that's just the
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way that it gets down for me. Now again, you know, most
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people won't spend thirteen hundred miles you know, six fifty theres six fifty back.
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Most people wouldn't do that. I consider myself, you know, a
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little bit you know, nutty or whatever the case may be. But that's
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a part of the mafia. And there's probably people all across the country who
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have their own different traditions and they're they're frying turkeys or they're doing their you
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know, their cookouts, so what do the case may be, and their
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house looks like a bills you know, a tailgate lot, what the case
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may be. And like, I just respected so much because you're absolutely right.
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DT. As we get closer to kick off, it kind of just
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brings it all back into focus about what this all means to us, what
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this all means for us, and you know what, I'm just really excited
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for the season. And again I'm I'm really excited for tonight's episode because it
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was a way to give back again. I didn't want to skip this season
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because it just means a lot to me. So without further ado, man,
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let's bring on our first guest that we've got tonight, and it was
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it's perfect that he is on first, because I mean it literally was,
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you know, shout out again to to Jay Spence, the king over at
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Buffalo Rumblings. He hooked me up with with with our guests and listen,
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just as General is a straight up dude. He's cool as a fan.
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I mean, salute to the General. He's cool and and not only is
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he cool, but you know, he he accepted me with open arms.
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And what he gave us the opportunity to do. DT would say, hey,
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listen, you get your brand out on Nickel City Crew simulcast over here
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at Buffalo fan Base, and we're gonna make this thing built together. And
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he's done everything that he said he was gonna do. He helps promote the
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show for us, he helps keep us locked in with their various listeners.
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They've got a lot of great content creators over there at Buffalo Fan Base.
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And I'm just I'm grateful for the opportunity to simulcast because you know, it
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helps us get our audience out and helps us get our word out. So
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salute to the General. Holler at Justice General Radford, Holler at him on
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Twitter, Instagram at JA seventeen MVP. Thank you for joining us. A
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nightmare. I mean, if if this is family Appreciation Week, I mean
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the Buffalo fan Base CEO, I mean the Don corleone up to see.
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I mean, come on, man, I mean, what else can we
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do? We had to get you on, man. I appreciate you joining
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us. Man. Oh man, I appreciate that intro. That was awesome.
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But yeah, man, thank you guys for having me one again.
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It's always a good time any time I get to chat it up with you
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guys. I'm super excited to be here. Man. Thank thank you guys
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for having me. It's been super dope having you guys on fan base,
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and I'm super glad that my guy Jase Benz put that connection together. Yeah,
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man, we really appreciate it because I don't really have an idea what
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it would be like if I if I didn't have this opportunity to kind of
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get my stuff out there. And again, you're helping us reach abroad our
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audience, so we really appreciate you our next guest. It's funny because DT,
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man, the tailgates are just it's just something different, man, because
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you meet people and then that's how you and I met DT, and like
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it's crazy and your tailgates are crazy because you right in the same spot that
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I always used to tailgate for years and years and years, and then I
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met your boy, Big Ben Fanel, and listen, it was something where
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like, dude was cool, food was everywhere. I mean, just total
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hospitality. I mean every time I came to the tailgate, it was total
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hospitality. You made me feel like I was one of the family. And
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I mean it was really just so much love in the air and the and
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that that's really why I keep rocking over there, DT, is because of
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the fact that Big Ben Fanel shouting at us from eerie Pa. I mean,
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he comes up, he drives up earlier in the morning himself, brown,
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They come on down, they bring their families and it's just a great
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time. Man. Like last year, remember the game, DT, you
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were gone for Christmas with your family. We had, man, we had
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we had a blower back there we had Ted's. Man, we're getting warm
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back there. I mean the DJ was back everything. We are professional,
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we are professional tailgators. Man, it was it was so beautiful. Man.
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Listen quarterback, former quarterback at Edinburgh, I mean how that the crew
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big Ben Fanel, I mean how at the crew? Man? What's good
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with you? Man? It's happened to have you on Man Family Appreciation Week?
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Man, what's good by tailgate? Brother? What's up? What's going
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on? Nickels City? Good to be here, bro. Yeah, I
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just got done with practice, so yeah, offensive coordinator right at that?
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Yeah, can senior high right? Cash? Yeah, make cash, Randy
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Mark, I love it. I love it. Man. Listen, Man,
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we've been really really cool man to hang out with at the tailgates.
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Your family's great, your friends are great, and we've had a great time
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enjoying the tailgates with you guys over the years. And I just wanted to
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give you a shout out to let you know man, that we really appreciate
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just again, the mafia band. Mafia means family. That's how we started
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out the show. You've been that man for us, man, Thank you,
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thank you. That means a lot. Yeah, Like DT said,
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plenty of times. It's all about the vibes. So he put out good
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vibes there, and you know, have a great time. I'm out there,
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you know, spinning the ones and twos, and you can find me
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slinging the rock with you down in the corner of the Yeah. Absolutely,
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man, I mean that's what we've done. We can boil up the cannon,
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let her fly everyone. Yeah, you were big time quarterback back at
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the day, man, so I'm really really excited to have you on as
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well. So listen, fellas, I wanted to chop it up as more
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guys get ready to enter the the crew tonight and get ready to enter the
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cast, Listen, I wanted to know some stories about how you guys became
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Bills fans. That will kind of wait and see if we can get everybody
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else on. But a first listen, Justice, what are your thoughts as
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we get ready to come up on this twenty three season. Man, we
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are right around the corner. DT talked about it, man, we are
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literally right around the corner. Man, give me some of your thoughts on
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just general. I know we had NFL cutdown date nearly one thousand young men
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across the NFL lost their dreams yesterday to join an NFL roster. Salute to
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all those guys and their families, the dedication, the things that have gone
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into this because I know that we look at it there's just sometimes just names
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on a sheet when you know, the tweets come out, But these are
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families, These are young men who are really chasing the dream. And for
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almost a thousand of them, yesterday it came to a screeching halt. So
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as we look forward to the fifty three, we've got it. There's some
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tinkering going on, justice, but give me your thoughts man on the twenty
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three season. Boy, it starts off with a banger in the meadowlands and
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then it really doesn't let up. Man, I mean, this is gonna
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be a hell of a season. Man. It's it just makes you feel
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better, you know, in this football season right like you know, Mondays
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don't suck as much, you know, especially with this a victory Monday,
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right when you got Monday night football to look forward to, and then in
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the middle of the week you get Thursday night football. Though. It just
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it helps the week go go move forward, you know, a lot faster
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and a lot more enjoyably. Exactly. You know, you got your college
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football on Saturdays and then you know, for the most part of your team
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plays on Sundays. It's just, you know, the vibe in the country
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is just better. You know, like people when weren't happy. You know,
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it's not like fighting over stupidity and stuff like that. You know,
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it's you know, and if you are fighting, it's because, like we
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play you this weekend, I hate you for these seven after that, you
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know, we're all in. So you know, I'm super excited about this
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season finally starting back up, and we've been waiting for a long time and
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we are blessed enough to have a really, really good football team and to
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have you know, supreme expectations because not everybody gets that. And I'm sure
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all of us know you know what it feels like to go into the season.
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Oh, this is the year we might make the play. Yeah,
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yeah, we used to do that, yep. And so this is the
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year we might win the Super Bowl. And that's a pretty cool. Yeah,
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man, that is really cool. That is really cool, Big Ben.
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I mean, what are your thoughts? Man? You you take the
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time, you get up early, you know, I leave on a Friday
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or a Saturday, I drive up six hundred fifty miles. But I mean
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you still you got your own level of dedication. Man, you gotta get
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up early and Erie, that's a nice ninety miles solid. You gotta fight
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traffic sometimes. You get up early, start your day early. You prepp
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the night before, and then you get there before the sun rises, and
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man, I mean before the yeah, before the collectors come in. I
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mean we guys know early we beat the workers of the lot. Yeah,
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we beat the workers. Man. What are your thoughts been on the twenty
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three season. I know you're excited for I think it's like what Justice was
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just saying. You know, we've kind of reached that pinnacle now where we
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just expect greatness basically, So I think it's time to put up or shut
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up. So yeah, yeah, I think that's the That's the sentiment with
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the Mafia too, is like, all right, we're finding Dandy winn in
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Divisions, but let's go make some noise in the postseason now. Yeah,
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man, it is time to get the get that that that you know,
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that ball over the hill or something, you know what I mean, whatever
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you want to say, you know, I know, stuff on Dicks talked
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about that in his mini camp press conference. I know, he was one
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of the hot topics this summer. DT. You know, it's funny because
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the way that they treated stuff on Dick sometimes gets me upset. And that's
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why we did the miseducation episode. Then we had to you know, remind
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everybody to be careful what they wish for a couple weeks later and listen this
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season, I mean, the pressure is on pressure bus pipes. I mean,
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the whole theme of even the Nickel City Crew itself. DT has kind
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of been following this narrow to the loong. This is a big year,
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DT, Like this is a year where I mean, you know, kind
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of like Big Ben said, put up or shut up, like this is
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the team's there, the talents there. I mean, what's up. I
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mean it's time to go get something done. Yeah, I'm the excuse is
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a running out. We've talked about this a few times and there can only
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be so many crazy things that happened. The thirteen seconds was you know,
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once in a lifetime. All everything the team went through and to fall short
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last year, you know, once in a lifetime. So how many once
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in a lifetime excuses do you have, you know, with a generational guide
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and Justice said it best right the it's not Super Bowl or bust, but
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I'm with you, Rob where you know you gotta get there, the chips
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gotta fall, and you know you gotta get to that game. It takes
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some luck, it takes some bounces. The roster cuts today pretty chalk as
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we go through them. Nothing real, you know, eye popping in any
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direction. I rather wasn't expecting that. I don't think any anybody in the
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mafia was. But too we got two weeks from this weekend and then three
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weeks still, you know, the home opener when you know we straight up
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in the holidays. So it's exciting. We're running out. But I don't
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want to be doom and gloom here. But you know, we got to
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start shifting into that in Super Bowl or bust type of situation. The regular
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season, I think we can, you know, work around. It's it's
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a lot topper schedule, the FC stack where in all different directions, but
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everybody plays that stack schedule. You know at the top, Kansas City guys
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play all these games. Cincinnati's got to play all these games, and you
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know each division is going to eat each other up in those regards too,
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so not as much of you know, each week is doom and gloom and
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you gotta win everything just getting the dance and play your best football. Then
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so the will I'm gonna be a little less off the gas aroout the season,
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but then way more on the gas than I ever have been once we
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hit the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's interesting because we were
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talking about a DT at the end of the episode Justice. I'm trying what
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I'm fighting against right now General to be honest, and I'm being completely transparent,
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even it's a big ben I'm fighting again. Enjoy. I got to
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enjoy this thing because what I'm doing now General is I'm so focused on the
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playoffs. I'm so focused on the end result. I'm so focused on how
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the season is going to end that I literally had to check myself and help
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DT and ask him to help me at the end of an episode a couple
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of weeks ago, like brother talk me off the ledge because like I'm thinking
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about like what, like how I was more obsessed, basically general, with
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how are we going to lose or how is the season going to end?
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Even if it's not a super Bowl win. And like I don't want to
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do that, man, Like I don't want to just skip on this great
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season. I mean even week one just shows you right there. I mean
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I've been watching NFL hard Knocks, General, and like the Jets look for
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real and you know, it's great production and and like that's gonna be fireworks
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from week one. I don't want to miss the season, General, But
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boy, am I ready for the playoffs already? And I am I am
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having a tough time balance in those things. Man. Yeah, I was
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saying, I think that that is something that unfortunately, as his bills fans
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have been uh as you can say cursed, right, then we did so
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well in that and so like we we broke the playoff curse, right and
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then we then we missed the playoffs, but we got our franchise quarterback the
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next season, you know, but you're right exactly, and then we kind
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of ease our way back into the playoffs and then the next season boom and
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championship game and it's just like, oh my god, we're going to do
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it any second, Like this is gonna be our year, right exactly.
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And I think that, uh, if we would have had an opportunity where
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it was like okay, second round, oh, you know, divisional round
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departure. I think today we look at it and we're going like, okay,
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you know, we're ready to win the super Bowl now as opposed to
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all our super Bowl windows clothes, because I don't think our super Bowl windows
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closed, but I think that people are. So I think we're in pace,
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you know, I think we're impatient because exactly, I think that you
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look at Harry Rodgers one two chips, one or two chips. He's got
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one, okay, meaning he's got like two chips. You know, a
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big guns got two chips. You know. So it's like, you know,
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would you ask Pittsburgh or Indie or Green Bay if they would have rather
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not had those quarterbacks at all? You know, or would they rather have
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you know, going on that right on exactly going on that right and I
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bet you all of them would say, I'm glad that we had him as
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our quarterback for as long as we did, and you know, we appreciate
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those two chips. And I'm not necessarily saying that Josh is only gonna get
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us one or two chips, because I do think you'll get us more.
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But even if it isn't the case, like we still have to appreciate greatness,
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well, we have it when we're experiencing it, because one day,
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guys, we're gonna have a quarterback to throw forwards six and then and then
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we're gonna be like, holy kow, I missed the days of seventeen big
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goodness. That's funny. I mean, think, Ben, you're a former
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quarterback. I mean, listen, I'm trying my best to enjoy this season
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because you know, General is right, We've got a crazy quarterback. DT
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always talks about him as General generational, and I'm worried that. Like,
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I'm just I'm always focused on the ending because I think General is onto something.
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We come after Sugar, Hi Josh. You know Houston playoff game and
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then all of a sudden we're right on the precipice in the ANC Championship game.
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You've got the iconic picture of stuff on digs with the hands on his
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helmet, that one NFL photo of the year with the confetti falling down in
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casey. I'm just man, I'm like so ready that I can almost taste
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it, and I just don't want to skip over the regular season because I
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enjoy hanging with y'all. I enjoy chopping it up with y'all and having fun
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on Sundays. Well, boy, I was ready for the playoffs and I
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just don't want to skip the season. Man. Hey, like DT said
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earlier, it's like once in lifetime stuff. That Houston playoff game, man,
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just mass chaos. I mean yea, yeah, yeah, I mean
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Josh is balling out, he's catching tuddies, he's doing the smoke dance and
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like he's feeling good, and then like what just happened? We get stung
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again? Yeah, I don't know, like yeah, like just the saying
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maybe we're cursed. I don't know. We've seen a lot of once in
22:29
the lifetimes. I don't know. I've come to come to the realization.
22:33
We just got to enjoy the ride. I think us as a society,
22:37
everyone's inpatient. Nowadays. It's all quick, quick, quick, give me,
22:41
give me, give me, okay for every the roses man, Like,
22:47
I think it's pretty good ride. Like we were too young before with
22:51
the good days of the nineties with Kelly and those guys. So I think
22:55
I'm gonna save her this ride. We got what hopefully another twelve years with
22:57
them. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that's a great. That's a great
23:06
because if you if you take a look at those guys from like the haities
23:08
and nineties, those guys who were able to witness that, right, they're
23:11
probably like, Kelly, can't even win us super Bowl every year, can't
23:15
even went on, right, But when Brian Brohm is your starting quarterback,
23:25
J Kelly J Absolutely, it was a long time. Lightning lightning in a
23:30
bottle. It was a long time because DT, listen, you have you've
23:34
spoken to that too before, And I showed DT because like we the drought
23:38
was was so shitty that like I was, I mean big Ben's right.
23:42
I was five six, seven and eight for the Super Bowl runs, so
23:45
I wasn't able to experience. I wasn't able to go and hang out in
23:48
the hot tub with those guys that are singing that song. And I gotta
23:51
feel it. Buffalo's going to the super b Bowl. I'm at my house,
23:55
So like, I want to be a part of that. That's the
23:57
main reason why I said that I'll take us well birth before me getting greedy
24:02
and saying I want to super Bowl win DT, because I just want to
24:03
represent the conference in the Super Bowl. I want to wake up on Sunday,
24:07
Super Bowl sudden. You know, my team was getting ready to play
24:08
a six thirty tonight and I've got to figure out all the different things that
24:11
I'm getting ready to plan for the day. And those balloons outside of my
24:15
house looks like a damn you know what I mean, a maniac house.
24:18
Like I can't work for something like that, And like, I think something's
24:22
to that DT because the drought really sucked a lot of energy out And for
24:26
those fans from the ninety, like Justice said, I mean, it was
24:27
a long gap for them. For the rest of us, we were kids.
24:32
I mean, we don't even we weren't even able to participate. Bitter
24:36
bitter Swede of trying to savor. And you know, I'm the most optimistic
24:40
on you know, I kind of when we go back and forth, I'm
24:41
optimistic and leading towards I love. I loved getting together. I just love
24:47
the season and cherishing it. And you're right, you know, sometimes we
24:51
as society it's a little too critical, a little too impatient. I mean,
24:56
look at you got coaches getting fired after winning Super Bowls and and you
25:00
know the next year getting fired for a situation. So that's just the I
25:04
feel like society we're in when it comes to that. But the fact of
25:08
when we're saying seventeen generational and you know, he's addicting and all that,
25:14
give him a little more credit, I guess would be uh, some some
25:18
self work on my end of maybe it isn't you know, don't get so
25:22
impatient. It's not super Bowl or bust. Give seventeen more credit of whenever,
25:26
as long as we have him, we got that chance, you know,
25:27
And because there has to be bounces, there has to be luck that
25:30
goes your way to win the Super Bowl. We we talk about that all
25:33
the time. So if we have seventeen, he we talk him up.
25:37
He's generational, he's once in a lifetime, he's addicting to watch. So
25:41
if we have him, we have a chance. And not get so deep
25:44
into Okay, the roster has to be exactly perfect, and it has to
25:47
be exactly this because I mean last year that basically was the case. I
25:52
mean it's still saying this year and you know, we were the overwhelming favorite,
25:55
and how many times does the overwhelming favorite really pull it outright? So
26:00
that's almost Yeah, we want to start getting away from that you know talk
26:04
and just knowing as long as we got him, there is that chance.
26:07
And so yeah, that'll be some self work on my end and Nicol City
26:11
crew will work on that of savor and taking it to end and all the
26:15
beautiful things we talked about, the family, the mafia, all of us
26:18
coming together, meeting each other through you know, through this, Uh,
26:22
to really cherish that as opposed to, oh, we got clipped by the
26:26
Dolphins. What's what do we gotta do? What we gotta do to get
26:30
over the things in that nature. But yeah, like I said, so
26:33
maybe a little off the gas during the season, but all on the gas
26:36
when when we hit the postseason, I'm not gonna. I don't care if
26:38
we're the seventh seed, get in. Get in, yeah, and then
26:41
let's see what happens after that. I totally agree with that. And one
26:45
of the things that you said that just struck a chord with me is that
26:47
just as we have got to get you out brother to a tailgate, I
26:51
don't care if it's the first home game or what I mean. Now,
26:53
the first home game is I mean, it literally is DT is right.
26:56
It is a holiday, Like I mean, I think I might pack Mary
27:00
Bills. I might pack for that game coming up, like right before the
27:03
Jets game. Like, I mean, my bags will be packed for that
27:06
game because it is a holiday. And I pick up my outfit. I
27:07
got a tailgate outfit and then a separate game day outfit what I would to
27:11
wear into the stadium. Listen, we have got to get you out there,
27:14
General, my treat. We've got to get you out to the tailgate.
27:18
Man, We've got that. I mean, we can hang out and
27:19
have a good time. Because I'm really honest when I say that. Big
27:23
Ben and his wife and like I said, Seth Brown out their eerie.
27:26
They all do it really, they do it really, big man, so
27:30
you would enjoy it. Listen. I wanted to know your stories, fellas,
27:33
because it's interesting to me. You know, this is fam Appreciation Week.
27:37
How are we all here? Why are we doing this? I mean,
27:38
we got General in this car and his brother in law's how we got
27:41
big Ben just coming off from practice? He tired his Hell yeah, DT,
27:47
DT worked all day. I worked all day. Why are you on
27:49
this damn podcast tonight? Like, listen, how did you become a Rabbit
27:53
Bills fan? Justice General please tell us your story, man, tell us
27:57
your Bills story, because I'm really interested in it. And regardless of other
28:02
guys join us tonight or not, I wanted to make sure that we get
28:03
everybody's story. How how are you here justice running the Buffalo fan base?
28:08
I mean the editor, this, the CEO that you know what I mean?
28:11
The H nine got me? What's up? Man? Holler at me?
28:15
Now, that's that's if you know, if you know, But how
28:18
at the crew? Man? Let us let us know what's going on?
28:19
Man? How did you become a Bills fan like this? So it's funny,
28:23
right because I remember distinctly there's this picture of me as a baby,
28:30
like a full Buffalo Bills sweatsuit. Okay, and I was like one of
28:36
the wind breaker type of suits. It was really nice one. Okay yeah,
28:38
sure, yeah, all right, So you know it's always been,
28:42
you know, something that has been a part of my identity. Funny enough,
28:48
I remember the first time I remember watching the Bills. He's a city
28:52
mirror. Oh my god, I'm not. Oh I have been in nineteen
28:57
ninety nine. I was right after Yeah, I cried watching water Floor Model.
29:08
It was around my fifth birthday and I'm just watching my dad be like
29:12
depressed, and I'm like, wow, I don't really want to watch this
29:15
anymore. But do you remember, distinctly Marshawn Lynch was running This was a
29:22
few years later, Marshawn was running football and I watched someone trip him behind
29:26
his right and I called it up and I was like, he just tripped
29:30
him, Like I can't be leaving, and you know, before you know
29:33
it, and the flag was thrown, and all right before you know that,
29:38
the flag is thrown and they called him for tripping and my dad goes,
29:41
that was good. That was a good eye. And ever since then,
29:45
I've just done nothing about analyzed still actually doing it. Wow, Wow,
29:52
I just this is just You've been locked in ever since, family,
29:55
family watched the games all that. You've been locked it ever since. Absolutely,
30:00
that's what's up, big big Ben. You're you're all the way in
30:03
Erie. I mean, what made you even want to do this? Man?
30:06
Like, what what got you locked in? Because you're a PA kid,
30:08
so I mean you could easily have been a Steelers fan or something like
30:11
that. I mean, it's not far from from from Picksburgh's not far from
30:15
Erie, man, I drive to that, but I'm driving back the Charlotte
30:18
man. How did you hook up with the Bills Man? What is your
30:21
Bill's story? Big Ben fanel Man let the crew. Yeah. Where we
30:25
live here in southern Erie County and Pa Western Pa kind of grew up edge
30:30
of Bill's territory. Literally the last county you could go one mile south.
30:33
Here you get Pittsburgh games. We so we still got Buffalo games on TV.
30:38
Okay, And my first memory is five years old, probably like you,
30:44
watching the Giants beat us in the Super Bowl. I can't I can't
30:48
lie, I can't lie. I was a Giants fan. What okay?
30:53
I saw? I like the Bill's jersey better that game. Okay, we
30:57
were in that day. Remember I was so mad they missed that kick.
31:02
I'm so mad. My dad told me, oh, they're a pretty good
31:04
team. They'll probably be back next year. And if you know me,
31:07
I'm stubborn. So okay with rap I was still till I die from that
31:11
moment on Oh Wow, and the and the and it literally grew into that,
31:15
I mean, and the fandom just started from that. I mean,
31:18
you know, hard working, blue collar that just fit my personality, that
31:22
fit the area. I'm from Yes, I love that period. I love
31:26
that buffalo attitude mentality. That's how I played when I played ball. That's
31:30
how I coach all the above, head down, keeping most of the grindstone
31:37
complaining, and then hey, later on. You know, I'm lucky enough
31:41
to meet my wife here in college and her mom used to babysit Jim Kelly.
31:47
So it's kind of like destiny. Okay, she you know, we
31:51
got wet. Yeah, this is Vanel in the building. That what's up?
31:57
So her mom looked yourself autographed jersey from how she called Jimmy. You
32:02
know they're on the first name nickname basis here. Oh that's pretty sweet.
32:08
Like, hold up, hold up your mom babysat Jim Kelly. She's like,
32:12
yeah, is that a big deal. I'm like, yeah, that's
32:14
big. Yeah, that's a big damn deal. That's what's up, man.
32:19
That is really cool. It was a Western Western PA quarterback. I
32:22
was like, I'm not. I mean, so it was Jim Montana,
32:24
Joe Nameth, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino, you named Mario. Ben Fanell
32:29
was next, right. Yeah, that's what's up man, No, man,
32:31
I mean, that's what's That's how it works. Man, that's why
32:34
I was talking about the NFL guys earlier today. You know that their dreams
32:37
ended. So that's really really good man, that's a cool story. Joining
32:40
us now on the on the podcast, you know mean, I mean,
32:43
I'm happy to have him, man, I need to know your Bill's story.
32:45
A little bit late and up, I late, but never too late.
32:49
Man. Listen, Man, shout out to my man, Big Mike.
32:52
He helped me out last week in in DT stead DT was again busy
32:57
working and Big Mike helped me out. Big Mike Davis shout out at Big
33:00
Mike underscore Barber seven one six. I mean you heard the name. Everybody
33:07
knows you? Yeah, yeah, built in Buffalo podcast network. Now everybody
33:15
knows you are last week I mean not not everybody can rep naked. I
33:20
mean that was a great line. Everybody gotta come on, got a kick
33:22
out of that line. Listen, how did you become up a Rabbit Bills
33:25
fan? Big Mike? As you're joining them, because we were talking about
33:29
just our stories and and and you know, Justice went through his and and
33:34
Big Ben went through his. We'll get to to dts and ours. But
33:36
I wanted to know your story, man, because now you with me here
33:38
in Charlotte, put your Buffalo born and bread I think, or or Syracuse
33:43
area right where are you from? Buffalo? Okay? So then how did
33:46
you what's up? How did you? How did you get into this?
33:50
Man? Because joining these podcasts and doing this and taking the time out of
33:52
your night, man, I mean it means that you care. So how
33:54
did how did you become a Rabbit Bills fan? I feel like I was
33:59
cheerful the Bills in the womb and like my family, my grandfather's a Bills
34:04
fan, Okay, always been a Bills fan, Rest in peace my grandmother.
34:07
So it's just been all my uncles. So I feel like that's what
34:13
I grew up and came into the world and as a Bills fan, and
34:16
I never left, you know what I'm saying. Yeah. The only other
34:21
thing I've been a fan of is when Joe Montana and Jerry Rice with a
34:25
combination back in the day. That was just glorious to watch. But other
34:30
than that, I've been a Bills fan, true blue. Man. I
34:32
can't. I can't escape. It's That's why I got it on me because
34:36
I can't. It's been me. It's always gonna beat me no matter what.
34:39
So that's what's up. Yeah, that's what's up. Yeah man,
34:43
I mean I love that because you're down here now, Charlotte, and I
34:45
know when you moved down, we made sure that we got out to the
34:47
preseason game. We had a good time, and I wanted to show you,
34:50
Charlotte, show you the city a little bit. And now you got
34:52
your barber shop and you know what I mean. I came through, showed
34:54
love, brought my boys through and my kings through there to show you some
34:58
love and stuff like that. But it's important because I don't think big Mike
35:01
I can drive down the damn street here Charlotte without hitting somebody that I that
35:07
you see the bills on their car, and like, I mean, just
35:09
so y'all know, justice DT, Big Ben. Charlotte has the most Western
35:14
New Yorkers. It is ridiculous down here. It's wrong out here, it
35:16
is wrong. It's nuts. Man. Over well over two hundred and fifty
35:21
thousand families have moved down to Buffalo, I know, down to Charotte.
35:23
Excuse me, I know back in oh six when I first moved down,
35:25
they had a party each year to celebrate all the people that had moved,
35:30
and they did an article in the paper. It was like over one hundred
35:31
and fifty thousand people families had moved down here, and it seems like it's
35:36
way more now. I mean, I went to the barbershop today and saw
35:38
two buffalo emblems on people back of people's cars. We down here, fellas
35:43
deep, we down here, deep in Charlotte. Man, feel like I'm
35:46
at home and ain't. I don't really run into too many Panthers fans,
35:50
but that's needless to say. Yeah, they're more casual. That's funny,
35:55
man, Yeah that's man. Yeah, they real quiet. Many coaches,
36:05
Yeah, DT, DT, because you're Panama City, So that's that's right
36:10
by Jamestown, right. I mean, what's what's up, tight end,
36:15
Panama City? I mean what I mean, what's up? Man? How
36:17
did you? I mean, because you you can you rival me? Now?
36:22
I mean Big Mike might have me on the tats. I don't have
36:23
any tattoos or anything like that in the bills, but everything in my house,
36:27
everything on my car is bills. Everything everything is bills. I mean,
36:30
DT, you could rival me, man. You got the tats just
36:34
like Big Mike, and you've got I mean the passion, man, your
36:37
passion is It's deep, man. It's one of the first things that attracted
36:39
me to you. Man friendship wise, was like, man, this dude
36:43
loves the Bills like I do. Yeah, like like Mike, you know
36:45
you coming in basically woomed up. I mean, don in the Southern tier,
36:51
you know, definitely in the Southern Tier, though closer down to the
36:53
big Bat and the erie and that Pa vibe than you know. I was
36:59
the Buffalo growing up, but uh, it wasn't even a choice. Never
37:01
even thought about, you know, any other team, the Browns or the
37:04
Steelers or anything like that. My grandfather, Recipees, was die hard Bills
37:10
fan, you know, and had season tickets literally my whole life, you
37:15
know, growing up and when I became you know, of age, if
37:17
you will, and back then becoming of age, it is probably a little
37:21
different than of age nowadays, going to going into one of them, even
37:24
though you were. You brought the boys and you know, they had a
37:27
good time. But that's probably about the earliest lot. I was younger than
37:30
that, you know, stepping over beers, dan stepping over people. You
37:35
know, the people say mafia kind of piped up over the last couple of
37:38
years. But it's always been like that, let's do Now it's just the
37:42
social media. The social media now everybody sees it. But but yeah,
37:45
I saw it all growing up, you know, as a as a little
37:49
I think I went to my first game I was five years old, Bears
37:53
Uh, Bears Bills one Doug Flutie to Tuddy and yeah, and it was
38:01
and I remember, you know, I don't think it was that game in
38:05
particular, but it was. No, it was a Lions game. A
38:07
couple of years later, I remember we were in one thirteen. It was
38:12
my grandpast season tickets right next to the tunnel, on the right side of
38:15
the tunnel, and the band uh played. There was a band that played
38:20
at halftime and then they left. So the security guard like came and like
38:23
got all the kids in the section, brought them all down, and I
38:25
was like row and you know, just remember like looking up at the at
38:30
all the clocks and the jumbo trons and like I don't want this clock to
38:35
tick down, Like I literally want to stay in here forever, you know,
38:38
and and it just I was so you know, I couldn't wait to
38:43
get back and to school and show off like tell the story of the game.
38:45
And I went to the game, and you know where my mule jersey
38:49
and vibe out that way. And then as I got you know, through
38:52
through high school and through the drought, it was never really that exciting,
38:57
but always had tabs and and we went to a couple of games a year
39:00
and got into college and you know, our guys that you you have everyone's
39:05
met obviously at the tailgates with the Brandon and Stephen and and their diehard Bills
39:09
fans, and we're roommates. And my grandpa passes away and the tickets,
39:14
we got the tickets, and my dad looks to you know, have him,
39:19
and he's really not into it much and you know, not trying to
39:22
roll that game. And so he's looking, all right, we're gonna sell
39:23
it, and I said, nah, no, let's And I was in
39:25
college at the time. So we we took him over and had him.
39:30
Since it's been you know, eleven years, I think we've had him,
39:34
you know, with our spots, So yeah, life long. It's obviously
39:37
intensified now that I live in Buffalo and feel that vibe and you know,
39:43
I love like I don't know I would I'm not saying I would have pittered
39:47
out if I lived through this my whole life, and you know it would
39:51
have got old or anything like that, because I don't think it ever would.
39:52
But it's been a great five years living in here, man, feeling
39:55
the vibe of the city. I know exactly what you're trying to say,
40:00
and I think we can all collectively, you know, pat you on the
40:04
back. Then we probably still would be Bills fans. But boy, and
40:07
that ship was getting hard. I mean that it was getting tough. Definitely,
40:09
definitely. And now you kind of come out on the porch and you
40:13
know, take that breadth of fall air and you see all the Bills flags
40:16
out, you walk into a Wegmans. Everybody's got their jersey on game day.
40:20
I mean shit. A couple of weeks ago, I had a little
40:22
work breakfast, took place out for breakfast and the preseason game. It was
40:29
the Steelers that that day, and everybody in the restaurant is wearing Bill stuff
40:35
at like, you know, nine in the morning, six thirty preseason game
40:37
and everyone's like, all right, it's game day. It's game day,
40:40
you know. So so that I love it, and you know, just
40:44
being around like minded people with that, and and you know, and obviously
40:47
you said that you guys are a little far away in Charlotte, but you
40:50
still kind of got that love with the with the you know, the North
40:53
down here. Yeah, and bet you can kind of give them that little
40:58
like you know, all those Steeler fans local that little like you know what,
41:04
that little edge. So yeah, I love them, always, will
41:07
love them deep place in my heart. Obviously I've made some great friends with
41:10
you guys about it, and great family. My family will be mafia.
41:14
My kids, I don't care. They're gonna be mafia. Like they don't
41:17
got a choice. They can have a choice pretty much everything else in life.
41:21
But yeah, they're not not not not with the squad. Yeah,
41:24
man, not with the squad. I mean I appreciate that that. I
41:28
mean, I appreciate all of you guys to that. As we begin to
41:30
wrap up, I want to get your season predictions and some records on on
41:34
the record. I mean, you know, you guys know my story and
41:37
uh, you know, it's it's cool, man. I just love hearing
41:38
all y'all stories because like that is that I'm a little bit of a combination
41:43
of a little bit of every I got a little bit of General to me.
41:45
I got a little bit of DT. I got a little bit of
41:46
Big Mike. I got a little bit of you know, Big Ben,
41:49
because you know, I was a buff a little worn to raise kid and
41:52
grew up and then you know, my thing was that I was in the
41:54
suburbs. So but I went to church right on Jefferson, right where the
42:00
the tragedy was, you know where the massacre Wasn't mean I know that we
42:02
chopped it up. Justice General helped me out with that episode last year.
42:06
After that, you know, horrible tragedy in the tops and what was it
42:08
was crazy? Because yeah, and I would be at that tops And what
42:14
was crazy is that, Like I mean, I have to go and you
42:16
know it's far. I mean Pendleton, you got no Pendleton is not around
42:21
the corner. So you gotta you know, you gotta jump on Miller Sports.
42:22
Then you gotta get on the one, and then you gotta go all
42:24
the way to downtown Buffalo. So what was I doing after church? If
42:29
anybody knows anything about black churches, we let out late, you know what
42:31
I mean, And that's is how it goes. Then we gotta get there
42:34
for Sunday school in the morning, and my mother was not playing about that
42:37
ship. And then Sunday school it was church. And then after church,
42:42
you know what I mean, she talking to everybody, and she get hugs
42:45
to everybody, and me and my dad in the car, and literally that's
42:47
how I became a Bills fan. I'd be in the car with my dad
42:50
and you know, uh, you know, he would be on and then
42:52
it would just the radio's on, and then that's it. Van Miller's on
42:55
and Van Miller was my soundtrack as we took our you know, we took
42:59
ourselves to all the way back out to Pendleton and it was a nice little
43:01
drive. And then by the time we got home, it's second quarter or
43:05
something. I'm running in the house and I'm turning the TV on and I'm
43:08
trying to, you know, catch up with the game on live TV in
43:10
that respect. So that's how became a Rabbit Bills fans man. And like
43:14
I always blame it on you know, blame it on the alcohol, Jamie
43:16
Fox. I mean, I blame it on the nineties. Those teams ruined
43:21
me. And what they did was seeing that's the problem. It's Andre Reeve's
43:24
fault and this terminator's fault and this Bruce's fault right behind me. Like those
43:28
motherfuckers when they were doing on the field looked so damn cool that by the
43:32
time I became older, I was like, man, that's not only is
43:35
that my squad, but like I'm rolling with them boys, like I'm rolling
43:38
and I'll never forget. It's crazy that you said your first memory was,
43:42
you know, music to the Miracle General, because like, I mean,
43:45
that's nuts to me, because like I remember that game vividly and remember watching
43:49
on a floor bottle TV at my parents house and like them home. It
43:53
was like I was crazy. I'm thirty. I just turned thirty eight a
43:57
couple of weeks ago, and like that was my memory, Like I remember
43:59
why in that damn game. I remember being mad about that game, and
44:01
like it was just crazy. So I moved down to Charlotte and No.
44:05
Six and you guys all know, man, I mean three years later,
44:07
I was literally like Pooki in New Jack City. I was scratching myself like
44:10
a like a crack addic. I could not I could not be away from
44:15
everything the DT was talking about. I mean, because I mean I was
44:17
in Charlotte, and nobody was acting like that down here. You know,
44:20
that got you know, you see some Bills fans every now and then back
44:22
then, but it wasn't like you go to a restaurant and everybody's dressed up.
44:25
Yeah, man, that's what I miss. That's that's all I met.
44:30
I was like, literally, season coming around, I'm like, oh
44:34
my god, I couldn't have three years in Big Mike. I was like,
44:37
I can't. I can't do this shit no more. I went online
44:39
and the Bills back of the time, it was the Bills and the Cleveland
44:44
Browns and the Packers. We were the cheapest season tickets in the league.
44:47
Back then. My seats were well under a thousand dollars for two and I
44:52
was like, well shit, I mean I told my ex wife, I'm
44:54
like, we could afford this, and I was like, man, eight
44:58
hundred dollars. I was like, we could do this. And I got
45:00
season tickets and I literally have never looked back. I have never not had
45:04
season tickets other than the birth of my three kings in eleven, thirteen and
45:07
nineteen. Like, other than that, man, you know where you gonna
45:09
find my black ass every single Sunday I have to be there. It is
45:14
that Marv Leavy song. Man, where else would you rather be than right
45:16
here right now? I wouldn't want it. I just it's the crisp air
45:21
like DT was talking about. You get that breath on Sunday morning and I
45:23
look around and I see the stadium and the lights are coming on and it's
45:27
just like, man, this, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
45:30
Man. So I appreciate y'all tonight. I know that Dion was trying to
45:32
join in, Man, we can't seem to get him on. Man,
45:35
But listen, I appreciate everybody's time. Tonight. We gotta go around,
45:38
Robin. I gotta get your predictions for the season. Again. This is
45:42
the Appreciate FAM Appreciation week. Man, I've had such a blast again.
45:45
Check out Justice General Radford. He is the CEO. He runs everything over
45:52
at Buffalo Fan Base Man. He helps out the other content creators, helps
45:54
us promote the shows. Again, salute to your General for allowing us to
45:59
simulcast Man and On on your platform. Because, to be honest, but
46:02
again, I wouldn't know what to do without doing this. And then to
46:06
get a chance to get to a bigger audience. I know, me and
46:07
DT we really appreciate it. Shout out j A seventeen at excuse me at
46:13
J seventeen, MVP. What's you got for the season? Man? What's
46:15
the what's it? What's be realistic? Either, don't don't give me no
46:19
crazy stuff like you did last year. Now give me something realistic. First,
46:22
first of all, I want to say shout out to J Spence seven
46:27
before. Yeah, you know, once I met you, you know,
46:30
and then I saw how you and DT worked and how also you guys were
46:35
together, and and of course the voice. I really had no choice,
46:37
you know, I'd be a fool to turn this down, Like, what
46:40
are you talking? All right? Realistic? You remind me of that man
46:45
on will Smith Joint. Was that Oh my god, you know what I'm
46:54
talking about? The weather? Hillary? Yeah, yeahs or whatever? Yeah,
47:02
he was he was bunch. I can't remember his name. Yeah.
47:09
I'm gonna get you for that, big Mike. I got you realistic season
47:15
prediction because the schedule. Can we all agree that the schedule is tough for
47:22
this year? Is that is? That? Is everybody an agreeance on that?
47:25
Like the schedule a little bit tougher? This is definitely better quarterbacks that
47:29
we're facing. It's tougher, and that's why I'm not gonna say what I
47:32
said last year, which was I'm gonna be humble, and I'm gonna say
47:37
sixteen and one. Okay, I think I think we might. I think
47:44
we might, you know, f one off. We want to fuck off,
47:47
right, Okay, But if you take a look at last season,
47:52
we lost to the Miami Dolphins in a very flute game. He lost in
47:55
the Jets in a very flute game. We lost the Vikings and very fluke
48:01
Eretically, theoretically we could have, we should have. We're not defeated last
48:10
year theoretic three losses by eight points. It's it's unprecedented. I mean,
48:15
I'm getting not not even just it wasn't like any team just controlled the game
48:21
like they were flukes. Right, the Jets, ye, okay, fair
48:27
enough, but what his elbow? But his elbow got hit fair enough?
48:32
Exactly? Yeah, just dropping that past. Everybody was dropping, Yeah,
48:38
exactly. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say sixteen and one. I think
48:43
that we might give one up, or it might be like weeks eighteen and
48:46
like we don't just don't care anymore. But I genuinely don't think there's a
48:52
better football team in the league. When the Buffalo Bills are playing a not
49:00
sloppy brand like if they're if they're efficient, it's over. Okay, give
49:05
us the one BARTI now, wow, Big Ben fanell uh you listen,
49:09
you can check him out. I gotta get what Give me your handle,
49:13
man, give him your handle, because you guys got all these crazy handles.
49:16
Man on the Instagram. Whatever you got Vanilla Ice two fourteen that's on
49:23
the X Hit me up fire. Yeah, I did not expect that.
49:32
Oh that's so funny. Man, listen, give me give me your thoughts,
49:36
Big Ben. I really appreciate you hanging out tonight with us. Man,
49:38
what do you what's the record? Give me something that's that's realistic.
49:42
Don't give me. Don't give me sixteen and one. I mean, but
49:45
I'm no justice. He's on brand I about seventeen. Oh yeah, I'm
49:51
I'm messing him. That's all I wanted to say. Hey, first off,
49:55
though, we got two of our tailgate boys that are down there in
49:59
Charlotte with you, Okay, Kurt Dorian and Big Joe nez Is on Big
50:04
Country Okay, well then they need to tell them how that. Man,
50:07
You need to tell them how that me and Big Mike. So we can
50:08
go and catching the way game we'll go to. We'll go to Tavern on
50:12
the Tracks, which is the Big Bills bar down here that that everybody frequents
50:15
from the mafia. So yeah, hey, just not as long as it's
50:17
not a playoff game, because they don't bring luck for playoffs. Oh yeah,
50:21
no, no, if it's a playoff game, you won't see me.
50:22
No way. I used to be at the game. I'm gonna be
50:24
hunkered down. I can't handle that playoffs stress. Now. I want to
50:28
be real realistic. Uh. Schedule, I think we might lose uh maybe
50:32
four games, so like a twelve and four in that area, thirteen and
50:37
four or something like that. Wow, okay, wow. The only the
50:40
only thing is because the schedule is tougher. The you know, you saw
50:45
the arms race that the Fast is doing because we got Josh, so they're
50:49
building up. Yeah. The AFC in general is just a jug quarterback everywhere.
50:53
It's tough sledding. We're playing the number one teams and all the divisions
50:58
you know. Uh, and basically like earlier you know, shit happens during
51:02
the season. So yeah, yeah, thirteen and four is a hell of
51:09
a record. I'd be Big Mike, what you what you got? Man?
51:12
I mean, I appreciate you coming in and stepping in and joining us
51:14
before we closed up. Man, What do you got for prediction? Man?
51:16
I mean, and again I appreciate you last week helping us out,
51:20
man and filling it for DT. Absolutely, you know that you know how
51:22
we rock. But I feel like I'm on the same lines. Is a
51:28
big band, you know, and I feel like you know what it is.
51:34
No matter what anybody says on this platform, huh, we all predict
51:39
the trophy. So no matter what the number is, I like that.
51:45
That trophy is what we are after. So no matter what the record is,
51:49
as long as we raise it up, I'm happy. I like,
51:55
I don't care. Yeah, I like that super Bowl fifty vibes. I
52:00
like that a lot, Big Mike, DT, what you got for us?
52:02
Man? Just just yeah you were as DT. What have you had
52:06
with the record? Man? I like that vibe though, Big Mike,
52:09
I can get around that. I can get around man, like I've been
52:12
talking about, you know, through this it's I'm gonna be chilled in the
52:15
season and then get it. Let's let's put it with the pedal on in
52:19
the postseason and just get in, just get in. Right. So two
52:22
years ago, when you know we were seven and six at one point in
52:25
this season, everyone's paying that's some of the best football, literally anybody's ever
52:30
seen in the history of football, those first two playoff games. So kind
52:34
of ramping up into that. I'm not saying you have to have a season
52:36
like that to get to that peak playoff performance that though you saw from the
52:40
Bills that year. But if it's gonna be something like that, you know,
52:44
I'm cool with it. So I'll go twelve and five, twelve and
52:47
five. With the situation of this this division is getting better and better.
52:52
I'm getting two losses out of the division. You go four and two in
52:54
the division, you lose one of three to that big three stretch of the
53:00
Eagles, the Bengals, and the Chiefs. I think you go to the
53:02
one in there, you get a lost, you have a f up game
53:07
to get you to four, and then you know it's that a couple big
53:14
games on it. You know that Chargers game on the road, and you
53:16
know you never know. So conservatively twelve and five with that team type of
53:22
vibe of two years ago, where you know, start peeking at the right
53:25
time, get healthy at the right time, and and let it ride.
53:28
You said, the best my game. It doesn't matter what the record is,
53:31
where it will be all left that trophy. Mike is messing because when
53:37
I was trying to records, Man, I'll try to get records that way,
53:40
I could hold you all feet to the fire if the gates. But
53:43
but big Mike is so there right because I take to the top. Baby,
53:46
I don't get let's I really don't give a shit. I don't give
53:51
a way of playing what the numbers is, I won't remember one. Be
53:55
like, I don't even know what the record was. I have no idea.
53:59
I am so ready. I am so ready, fellas what I need
54:04
you to do? Here And shout out to at Deon Brown on Instagram.
54:07
He's listening in. He's having some some technical issues, but I mean literally
54:10
one of like one of the first members of the crew, one of my
54:14
first listeners. So shout out to Deon Brown over there. And Kevin Moore
54:16
holding it down, a good father, working hard, and he was trying
54:20
to join the show tonight. He listen. I go to his house all
54:23
the time during the season, and I wake up early, and I promise
54:27
you, I'm in the best moods when I'm there in Buffalo getting ready for
54:30
a home game. So what I'm gonna say is that I don't give a
54:32
damn about the record, but boy, I can taste this thing. I
54:36
need all of you, got all six of y'all tonight to help me,
54:39
help me enjoy the season. If I get off track, I'm giving you
54:43
all full permission to get me back on track. I want to try to
54:45
do. I want to try to enjoy this season because no get you right
54:51
week too. I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you, I'm looking.
54:57
It's not your fatalistic fellas. It's not like I'm saying, like,
55:00
how are we going to lose? It's just I want to represent the conference.
55:04
I want to wake up on Super Bowl Sunday and my team is playing
55:07
at six thirty and who the fuck ever is on the halftime show and I'm
55:10
cooking wings and I got half my wings in buttermilk, and I got another
55:14
half of just getting ready to just Oh. I just want to do.
55:16
I want to do it all. I want to do it all, and
55:20
I start suing them wings here comes. I love it. I love it.
55:27
Man. If I get off track this season, man, y'all get
55:30
me back on track. Helped me to enjoy this season because I do again.
55:34
I'm not a bigger fan than anybody else, but I get in my
55:37
car on a Friday and Saturday, I'll drive nine hours and I could do
55:39
it in a flash with no sweat. I know, big Mike, I
55:45
know it was one of the health fast we got. This dude should be
55:47
driving for like the Walmart eighteen wheelers, because I mean, how do you
55:54
do it? Dude? I was like, Man, I have no problem.
56:01
Man. I stopped the same gas stations, man, and I get
56:04
up there and I do it for y'all. Man, to be honest,
56:07
I do it for the man because again, the drought was so shitty that
56:09
there was no other reason that I was doing the other than to be around
56:12
my people's and again, worlds, would you rather be? So I really
56:15
appreciate y'all tonight, everybody, your time taking it out of your day and
56:19
your families. Man, I appreciate y'all tonight. Man. Listen, man,
56:22
spread love. Have you guys been to a game with Rob We say,
56:30
okay, out of all the years and I've been to football games,
56:34
this man is the fastest walker I've ever been around. Oh no, people
56:39
like that man. I'm excited. I didn't know. I didn't I had
56:45
the right shoes. This man is like be line. It feels like he's
56:57
got a wire connected to the stadium. Pre game, being dumber, a
57:01
little sideways pre game. So right, but you were thinking go slow.
57:07
We were all tilted, and he's like, let's go. Priority's priority.
57:16
That anxiety. That anxiety kicks in quick when you get into that cattle trough
57:21
man trying to get you. See, I'm not trying to miss the quest
57:23
of the game. I mean I just drove up nine fucking hours, like
57:27
I gotta drive back nine hours tomorrow. I'm trying to see what I'm coming
57:31
with them. Get that last that last chugg d DT brom coming with him.
57:39
Stop watch you killing me like I'm running the forty Okay, y'all killing
57:43
me? Six minutes and fifty seven seconds from the park, a lot to
57:46
the seat, Oh about four beers. Oh my goodness, this man had
57:52
called me. Trevor from fresh fresh Prince asked, Hillary's boyfriend now, and
57:55
now you're killing me with with my pace man. Listen, but I'm trying
57:59
to compliments man, neither am. I love it, man, I love
58:02
y'all. Man again, Thank you to Justice General. Check him out.
58:06
Thank you the Big Mike, the barber man, Mike Davis. Check him
58:09
out, Big Ben, you got his handle, Check him out. You've
58:12
already known me and DT locked in. We're gonna be right back at you
58:15
next week. We've got great news as we close up tonight. The Godfather,
58:20
the Michael Corleone, the man himself from Bills Mafia, del Rey.
58:25
We'll be coming on after week one. Can't wait, man, that's a
58:29
really a huge on for us here at Nickel City Crew. We really can't
58:31
wait for it. He's gonna be coming and joining us, talking about some
58:34
of the initiatives he's got going on. Will break down the New York Jets
58:37
game after that great Monday night matchup that we hope the Bills will go ahead
58:40
and take care of. So I'm really excited, DT. I mean,
58:43
we're moving up. We got the literal co founder of the Mafia coming on
58:46
Nickel City Crew. Man, I couldn't be. I couldn't be proud of
58:50
the show again. Shout out to you, Man Justice for helping us promote
58:52
on the simulcast. Man, I got, I got nothing but love for
58:55
y'all. Man, I've free this worked out perfectly. Man, I got
58:59
an eight tonight. I'm this is this is perfect. I love y'all.
59:07
Man, I love y'all. I'm mad that this reved you up for your
59:12
date. That's only a Bills fan. See see we're not man. We
59:21
look at us, all of us, five six degenerates. I mean,
59:22
I got literally d I've been on half the show just listening it. Just
59:25
texted me. He gave me the Trevor line. It was Trevor Big Mike,
59:30
Trevor, Hey, boyfriend, and what a snazzy dresser the compliment.
59:37
You know, y'all killing me man, love You know Rob. Rob's gonna
59:40
be like, hey, on his date, Hey, talking about digs,
59:45
running glance routs and stuff. So oh my god, like, oh yeah,
59:50
step on that corner and he breaks inside on the back of He's gone
59:52
it. What are you rocking about? Why are you aroused? I mean
59:58
I'm just thinking, just was talking about the Bill. Yeah, she's gonna
1:00:01
be like I thought. I said, did you want GUACAMOLEA? Never mind?
1:00:07
Cool? Oh my goodness, man, y'all are killing me tonight.
1:00:10
Man. I appreciate everybody's time tonight man taking time to your schedules. Tonight
1:00:15
y'all killing me with the last man again, as always been pleased. Remember
1:00:19
out their spread, love not hate. These were my bills thoughts set out
1:00:22
loud. Everybody better hit him with a go build fam. Appreciate Bills.
1:00:28
Let's go Buffalo Bills. Can't wait, see y'all soon enough, Go Bill's baby,