Each Wednesday during the NFL season I’m compiling power rankings of the best Buffalo Bills players for 2017. The rankings are cumulative and not based solely off their last game. Here’s my rankings after Week nine; a 34-21 Thursday night loss to the New York Jets as the Bills offense was completely under siege. The … Read More
YEAR RELEASED: 1982 NOTABLE TRACKS: “Hurts So Good”, “Jack and Diane”, Hand To Hold On To”, “Thundering Hearts” ALBUM MVP: “Jack and Diane” WHY I LOVED IT: I’d be lying if I said I was a big a fan of heartland rock of most my friends and I liked many more 80’s rockers than John … Read More
The Buffalo Sabres have a long way to go if they want to get back in the thick of an Eastern conference playoff race, but Tuesday night was an excellent start. Buffalo put the embarrassment of a four goal shellacking at Dallas Saturday behind them by defeating the Washington Capitals, 3-1 at the Keybank Center in … Read More
YEAR RELEASED: 1980 NOTABLE TRACKS: “You Better Run”, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”, “Treat Me Right”, “Hell is for Children”. ALBUM MVP: “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” WHY I LOVED IT: Is this one of the greatest albums in the history of rock and roll music? No, but it’s one of the biggest … Read More
YEAR RELEASED: 1986 NOTABLE TRACKS: “Walk With This”, “My Adidas”, “You Be Illin”, “It’s Tricky”, “Proud to be Black”, “Peter Piper” ALBUM MVP: “Walk This Way” WHY I LOVED IT: Simply put, “Raising Hell” changed the rap game for good. Younger fans of hip hop may think I’m embellishing the significance of this album but … Read More
YEAR RELEASED: 1984 NOTABLE TRACKS: “Caribbean Queen”, “Suddenly”, “Loverboy”, “Mystery Lady” ALBUM MVP: “Caribbean Queen” WHY I LOVED IT: There’s a handful of songs from the 80’s I love so much you could literally have the same track on an album a dozen times, call it an album and I’d sit here lauding it. If … Read More
Rather than pump out an overnight reactionary post on how unreservedly dreadful the Buffalo Bills were last night, I decided to sleep on it before jotting anything down. I tend to be an overly emotional knee-jerk reactor as it is and didn’t want to be too low on the Bills over one game, the same … Read More
At least one Buffalo pro sports team picked up a road victory Thursday night. The Buffalo Sabres, fresh off five days of rest put a beating on Arizona over 52 minutes before holding on for dear life over the last eight to defeat the Coyotes, 5-4. Both teams stunk in the first period before Oliver … Read More
YEAR RELEASED: 1982 NOTABLE TRACKS: “Rio”, “Hungry Like The Wolf”, “Save a Prayer”, “My Own Way” ALBUM MVP: “Hungry Like The Wolf” WHY I LOVED IT: Duran Duran became huge during in the infancy of the MTV video era, in no small part due to their good looks which made the group teen pop magazine … Read More
Each Wednesday during the NFL season I’m compiling power rankings of the best Buffalo Bills players for 2017. The rankings are cumulative and not based solely off their last game. Here’s my rankings after Week eight; a 34-14 victory over the Oakland Raiders to improve to 5-2 on the season. (last week’s rankings in parenthesis): … Read More
