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Looks Like I Was Right About The Jacobs Family All Along.

The Jacobs family at a benefit for UB / picture by buffalo.edu

Donald Trump’s hair and smirk by Gage Skidmore

With respect to Real Estate, Speculation, and Hair Product guru Donald Trump. Man he does use a lot of hairspray to keep that coif, from moving. He will not be the new owner of the Buffalo Bills, or any other NFL Franchise for that matter. I have my reasons for thinking this, but the key…

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Yeah the Bills Schedule Sucks!

Yeah the Bills Schedule Sucks!

courtesy of guardianlv.com

I know it’ been a few decades since the Buffalo Bills were perennial Super Bowl contenders, but for F sake, what does the NFL have against us. I mean we sell a lot of tickets, and merchandise,  and pay for most of the updates to The Ralph. We don’t askfor much, but instead we get shit on once again.  Wanna see how bad it is?  Here we go!

  We open on the road, and that…

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Yeah Dyngus Day Was a Success. If You Missed It, Why I Ought Aaaa...........

The Parade Is Coming To a Close! / Craig Wheeler

You missed a great time on Buffalo’s East Side Monday, if you missed the Dyngus Day Parade. Over a 100,000 people attended the annual parade, here on Buffalo’s Old Polonia District. Betty Crocski’s Food Truck had a two-hour wait in line for some of Buffalo’s best polish fare! There were water cannons, pussywillows, squirt guns, candy and beads…

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Screw It Buffalo Is Back! Don't Be Afraid To Say It!

Screw It Buffalo Is Back! Don’t Be Afraid To Say It!

“There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.” – Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius. No he Did Not Live In Buffalo! courtesy of livius.org

The quotation above was taken from the movie “Gladiator”, and odds are Marcus Aurelius never really uttered those words. But if you lived in Buffalo anytime in the last 60 years,…

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Good Friday Means A Lot To Me! Miss You Grandpa!

Good Friday Means A Lot To Me! Miss You Grandpa!

My grandfather on the right, playing horseshoes with his neighbor

Courtesy of the Buffalo News

Years ago, Good Friday meant a trip to the Broadway Market to get our Easter Lillie’s, Easter Candy, Butter Lamb, Horseradish, and of course polish sausage! I still remember bumping around all those different stores asking my mom to buy me this and buy me that. The smells, and all the people, when the…

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What The Hell Is Dyngus Day You Ask? Well Let Me Tell You!

The Monday after Easter Sunday, is typically a post Lenten party held by many people of Polish decent. Śmigus-Dyngus (also known as lany poniedziałek, meaning “Wet Monday”), is commonly celebrated on that Monday in Poland, and many heavy Polish communities in America. Buffalo commonly has a Dyngus Day Celebration that is one of, if not the largest in the US. We here in Buffalo take our Dyngus…

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Food Truck Tuesday's Are Back In One Month @ Larkin Square!

Food Truck Tuesday’s Are Back In One Month @ Larkin Square!

Food Truck Tuesday is a phenomenon that is major metropolitan cities such as Phoenix, Austin, and San Diego. Did you know that Buffalo has a FDTuesday as well? It does, the tradition here started last May, and is now a highly anticipated event. During the rest of Spring, and throughout the Summer most of Buffalo’s Food Trucks will be located over in the Larkin Square area of the city. If you…

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This Week Is My Christmas, Easter, & Columbus Day! It's Masters Week!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play Golf in Heaven? I mean the most perfectly manicured greens, and fairways. No divots anywhere, the trees looking as if they had been placed there by the hand of God! I imagine that’s what it’s like playing at Augusta National, home of The Masters. This week 97 of the world’s best golfers will play in The Masters, with my apologies to the The…

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How Bad Have The Buffalo Sabres Been This Year? This Bad!

How Bad Have The Buffalo Sabres Been This Year? This Bad!

This year has been particularly rough for any Buffalo Sabres fan. They have been a study of futility this year, with their 48 losses so far this year they are on pace to hit the illustrious 50 loss mark. The last time they were anywhere near this bad was in 1987, when they finished the season with a then team record of 44 losses. One can only cringe at the thought of how bad it could have gotten…

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My Buffalo's - Polish Heritage.

My Buffalo’s – Polish Heritage.

  Postcard of the Broadway Market 1915

Buffalo NY, is rife with Polish Customs and traditions. It’s been this way since before the turn of the 20th Century. At the time in the mid 19th Century, Buffalo was one of the fastest growing cities in America. It was taking in more and more immigrants, and growing at a preposterous rate. From a city that numbered just over 42,000 people in 1850, the city…

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It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year......... Restaurant Week!!!!!!!

It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year……… Restaurant Week!!!!!!!

Send my apologies to Christmas, but for me the most wonderful time of the year in Western New York is…….. Restaurant Week! It’s a week in the Western New York, where everyone can get out and sample some of the area’s finest cuisine. It’s on from March 31st – April 6th, meaning you have FIVE days to get you but out there, and eat some of the area’s best fare. Eating out five straight nights,…

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I Was An Expert At College Basketball, Not So Much Anymore......

I Was An Expert At College Basketball, Not So Much Anymore……

These two Brackets should have been taken as a sign of things to come.

Yes the Final Four is almost set, after this evenings games we will have our four teams that will be playing for the National Championship. I kinda checked out of this last Sunday, after losing Wichita State, Syracuse, and oh yeah Kansas. Those three I had at least making it to the Elite Eight, two were Final…

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Blogging Can Suck, Don't Let It!

Blogging Can Suck, Don’t Let It!

Let’s face it, if you’re not one of the top ten in Google, Bing, Yahoo, or any other search engine, you’re content is probably not getting looked at. Which is why writing blogs, and keeping them relevant to you, and your material is so important. Writing Blogs can some times be a difficult to put together. Between Google, Keywords, and SEO Optimization, you could be thinking how do I do this?…

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Are The Bills Going To Leave? Not Likely!

Are The Bills Going To Leave? Not Likely!

Now that Ralph Wilson is no longer the owner of the Buffalo Bills, Who is? His survivors include his wife, Mary, and his daughters Christy and Edith, and the thought for a long time around the area, as well people reportedly in the know, is that they will sell to the highest bidder when he passed. Ralph as the beloved icon as he is, wasn’t a fool by any means. He kept the Bills in Buffalo, but…

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Now that Ralph Is Gone, What Next?

Now that Ralph Is Gone, What Next?

Now that Ralph Wilson Jr., has passed away, the argument will heat up like never before. We all expected this day to come, and now that it has all of Buffalo will be on edge. I’m saddened and even shocked by his death, and would like to thank him for all he has done for Western New York. This blog written in January, I’ve decided to dust off and bring back out because of today and it’s meaning.…

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Social Media Is The Key!

Social Media Is The Key!

How many of you use Facebook, Twiter, Instagram, Google Plus, WordPress, ……………

You get the idea of where I’m going with this. I try to tell new agents that the key to my early success, was Networking myself on these free sites. That’s right I said FREE, which is exactly why you need to be connected on these websites. It costs nothing to create an account, and maybe a little bit of time for you,…

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