non Habs related: my trip to Buffalo this weekend

mperra (Admin) · Guru

non Habs related: my trip to Buffalo this weekend

habjo · Member

Hi Mario

I think on saturday night most people just shovel out there cars.I looked at the weather and your in luck saturday is the only day in the 8 day forecast without snow.Enjoy the game.

Habjo

superhab · Guru

You should head out to Anchors bar, they are the orignal buffalo wings. i assume it would be busy on game days so you might want to leave early. other that that there is the gallaria mall, and thats pretty much all i know.

davidb · Guru

I hope NE is smashed

brooklynhabfan · Guru

David, do you hate the Red Sox as well?

Nil d · Guru

habjo wrote:

Hi Mario I think on saturday night most people just shovel out there cars.I looked at the weather and your in luck saturday is the only day in the 8 day forecast without snow.Enjoy the game. Habjo

Hi Habjo: Good to see you're still around. How's the fishing this year? It's lobster season on my side of the Bay. What are you catching these days?

Nil d

PS: I've been to Buffalo once, about 15 years ago. Without peer the ugliest city I've ever seen!

ray · Senior Member

mperra (Admin) wrote:

I'll be in Buffalo this weekend (Saturday and Sunday) to catch my first ever LIVE NFL game. Defending Supor Bowl champs NE Patriots play the Bills. Now, what is there to do in Buffalo on a Saturday night? Any good sports bars? if so, where? Thanks in advance. Mario

Mario, Jim Kelly has a sports Bar in town and the Anchor bar is amazing for wings. TGIF is a good place just to have a few cocktails and a place called Cobblestones, not much to look at but the crowd is 25-35 and is where most out of towners go before games (hockey or lacrosse) There is one street just down from the Hyatt hotel that has nothing but bars. More for young people but the whole street must have close to 15 bars. Outside of town there is a Hooters, but it also depends on where your staying. Rich stadium is about 30 minutes outside of Buffalo. Kinda like the Corel centre in Ottawa, have fun, but if your a Pats fan be aware, they are the meanest fans there.

brooklynhabfan · Guru

Nil d wrote:

habjo wrote:

PS: I've been to Buffalo once, about 15 years ago. Without peer the ugliest city I've ever seen!

Worse than Sydney, NS?

habjo · Member

Hi Nil d

I am as of last week instead of riding the waves riding the couch. Theres really nothing going on here till spring.Planning a trip to Montreal and then to Florida. Have gone to some AHL games and listening to Habs radio CJAD. And being really nice to the Mrs. so I might get some new Shrine additions this Christmas.I read your post about memoribilia and thought back those many Christmases ago I received my Forum seat definately a big part of my Shrine.

Habjo

Nil d · Guru

brooklynhabfan wrote:

Nil d wrote: habjo wrote: PS: I've been to Buffalo once, about 15 years ago. Without peer the ugliest city I've ever seen! Worse than Sydney, NS?

Sydney is actually not looking too bad these days. They have a lovely park downtown, as well as a waterfront promenade and some new hotels. Maybe Buffalo has those as well nowadays, but all I remember was slag heaps and boarded-up businesses.

brooklynhabfan · Guru

That's good to hear. i was there a decade ago or so, arriving on a rainy night, and even though I've lived in some dodgy areas of NYC, it all looked a little concerning to me

Buffalo, however is, and will always remain a future ghost town, with little chance of recovering. Too much drain, too much trouble to get anyone to invest or move there. Same goes for Rochester now that Kodak is doin' the Titanic

habjo · Member

I have never been to NS I have been 6 miles off of Yarmouth NS running from a hurricaine out on georges bank the summer of 79. The old man wouldn't go ashore he new us boys to well it would have been a couple of days before he could round us up the scallywags that we were.We would fish for 21 -25 days go home for 1 and sail again.

Habjo

Nil d · Guru

habjo wrote:

I have never been to NS I have been 6 miles off of Yarmouth NS running from a hurricaine out on georges bank the summer of 79. The old man wouldn't go ashore he new us boys to well it would have been a couple of days before he could round us up the scallywags that we were.We would fish for 21 -25 days go home for 1 and sail again. Habjo

And Yarmouth would have been a bad town to let you scallywags loose in! They'd still be looking for you! I was working and living in Yarmouth in 1979. Actually not a bad town; they have their challenges when big employers (textile mill, tin mine, etc.) close down, but they always manage to rebound. The fisheries is one of the staples over the years, believe it or not. The junior hockey team sells out their every game - 1,300 fans - and the NY Islanders had their training camp there this year - I went to an intersquad game. (The Islanders won.)

davidb · Guru

I hate all local sports teams Pats, Celtics, Sox, Bruins especially the Bruins

Nil d · Guru

davidb wrote:

I hate all local sports teams Pats, Celtics, Sox, Bruins especially the Bruins

To what are you replying, david?

habjo · Member

Nild your right on the money there I'm afraid.Yarmouth looked like a beautiful tropical paradise through the eyes of a land deprived 21 year old.

Habjo

habjo · Member

Yet another thing we agree on David.

Habjo

Nil d · Guru

Nil d wrote:

davidb wrote: I hate all local sports teams Pats, Celtics, Sox, Bruins especially the Bruins To what are you replying, david?

OK, I see it. You mention above that you hate the Patriots, so I guess you are adding that you hate the other teams as well. Good for you! Actually, I like the BoSox, hate the Bruins, and have no opinion on the Celtics or Patriots.