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Sherlock
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Registered: Apr 2006
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2014 NFL HOF Game
After a few months of R & R, I'm ready to throw out the first bet of the 2014 NFL preseason.
Time for all of us NFL junkies to get their first fix of the year.
Who cares if it's just preseason - it's NFL FOOTBALL and that's all that matters.
This year's HALL OF FAME GAME at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio, pits the New York Giants against the Buffalo Bills.
The HALL OF FAME GAME is one of the few games where sentimentality sometimes creeps in.
I've seen it happen before in this game and I have a feeling that it just may happened here again tonight.
In March of this year, 95 year old Ralph Wilson, the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, passed away.
He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League (AFL), the league with which the NFL merged in 1970.
He was the last of the original AFL owners to own his team and he was inducted into the HALL OF FAME in 2009.
Also, factor in Jim Kelly's health problems and that this year, his WR Andre Reed is being inducted into the HALL.
Plus, according to Forbes magazine, the sale of the Buffalo Bills has evolved into an event Ringling Bros and Barnum & Baily would have been proud of.
The Bills haven't been in the Playoffs for 15 years and have had only one winning season during that time.
I may be way off base with all of this but this may be a case where sentimentality is an underlying factor.
I'll take a shot with the Buffalo Bills -3.
Good Luck Everyone
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