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Singletary is under-used in general, and especially deep in enemy territory.

You edited your original post, the one to which I originally responded, to correct the error that you had explicitly excluded humidity. The temperature at game time was 89 degrees. I don't care what the heat index was; that is normal playing temperature with or without humidity. I should have stuck to my usual policy regarding your posts and responses. I'm sorry. Take care.

Fair point!

Yessir it does seem so, doesn't it? I had the same recollection. And that is OUR faulty memories! 1990: December 22. 1991: September 1. 1992: October 4. 1993: September 26. 1994: October 9. So in the early 90s, it only happened once. The rest of the home games against Miami were either in summer (1991) or very early autumn.

I am serious--and your post, before you edited it, said *excluding* humidity. I wish I had not cropped it so closely. Anyway, I know what a heat index is. I've lived in the South. It was 89 degrees and pretty humid. It's not exactly unheard of for professional athletes to compete in such conditions. Even amateur athletes do so on a regular basis.

Me too.

This, on the other hand, has happened. Well, games have been moved, at least. But that's because it was impossible / impracticable to travel to the stadium, and not because playing conditions weren't ideal. I'm with you; play the games in the weather. LSU manages to play Saturday at noon, you know?

It was 89 degrees. Stop it.

I'm going to need to see those Talking Phone Books, then. I haven't followed the Bills since I was 5, like I have the Sabres, but I've followed them since I was about 16 or so, and I don't remember seasons where Buffalo had a noticeably heavier autumn home schedule. Could it have happened a couple of times? Sure. But I don't think it was a general practice. In 1975 (WELL before I was 16, and even before I was 5, thank you!), they had three home games in the second half of the (14 game) season. 42% of the home schedule. In 1985, they had four home games in the second half of the season. 50%. In 1995, they had four home games in the second half of the season. 50%. I did not find an instance where the NFL Bills did not host a home game after Thanksgiving. Bears: 1975, 42%; 1985, 37.5%; 1995, 50%. Jets: 1975, 42% (and two of the away games were in cold cities in November and December); 1985, 50%; 1995, 50%. Giants: 1975, 57%, with one away at Green Bay in late November; 50%; 1995, 50%. New England: 1975, 42%, with a trip to Buffalo as well; 1985, 50%; 1995 50% (with two trips to cold cities, including Buffalo, in the second half of the season). Green Bay: 1975, 42%, with a trip to OUTDOORS Minnesota as well; 1985, 50%; 1995, 50%. The data doesn't support your memories (this is a phenomenon that happens to me all the time, too). I don't know when the "Talking Phone Book" brand was first used, but I don't think that brand goes back as far as 1975 (although the company that published it does). Even in 1975, there is only a slight bias against cold cities hosting games, and that's almost 50 years ago now--we've made one or two advancements in climate control and health since then.

?? I'm over 30 and I definitely never watched Ted Williams play.

A letter on the chest won't stop the Sabres from trading him and may even bump his value, like Pominville (yes I realize he was named captain before his UFA year). And I do think the Sabres would retain salary for the right return.

Sounds like there were a few Sabres fans there. Nice.

It's a nice preseason win and a good audition for some of the kids. Nothing more to read into it.

The conditions were no more dangerous than a normal September game at many SEC / ACC schools. The league can't have a schedule where the Bills only host in September and October and the Dolphins only host in November and December. Someone is going to have to play in Miami in September, and someone is going to have to play in Buffalo in December, and it really doesn't matter who.

There is only one team that could have performed that well under these conditions, and the Bills are that team. They'd better pull it together fast, though, starters or not, because Baltimore is going to be a tough out next week.

That is as close to a true tryout lineup as the Sabres probably can get. Cozens, the crusty veteran.

Does anyone, though? For preseason? Nicely done, and I guess that explains the market in DC.

This is big. The cheap seats on Stubhub for Sunday's game are about $60 right now. (For preseason?!) And yeah, I was thinking of going.

He's the battle-scarred veteran. The two ideas aren't incompatible, from that angle.

Sorry. 8th out of 15.

Roy Kent is the fictional team captain in the first season of Ted Lasso. The character is heavily based upon Roy Keane, who was a real-life captain of Manchester United and Ireland.

Yeah, that's what Roy Kent is supposed to be in the show.

Roy Kent is basically Roy Keane.

The bullet joke wasn't that funny...