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Speaker 1: This one.

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live, presented by Kaleida Health.

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Speaker 1: Bill's Football.

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Speaker 2: It's woven into the fabric of Western New York. A

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Speaker 2: voice shapes the way we experience our greatest moments and

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Speaker 2: how we relive our most unforgettable memories.

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Speaker 3: Now he's gonna run Tie Roun on the run of

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Speaker 3: the fifteen ten nobody and fuddle him into the end zone.

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Speaker 4: Touchdown, Paully Michael. They did the game.

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Speaker 3: Shandy's gonna scorre, Shandy's gonna scorre touchdown.

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Speaker 1: The Bill's winning in over time.

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Speaker 2: That's what John Murphy has been for the Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 2: for the past thirty five years. Murph has been the voice,

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Speaker 2: the voice for fans who turned the TV down and

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Speaker 2: the radio up, and the voice pumping throughout the halls

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Speaker 2: of Highmark Stadium.

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Speaker 5: He headed to the ends up ten yard line, five

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Speaker 5: yard line, touchdown, touchdown five Jackson.

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Speaker 2: What a run in our darkest days of the drought.

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Speaker 2: Murph still shine bright picked.

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Speaker 3: Off by birth at the thirty five Tarry's bird in

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Speaker 3: full flight at the.

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Speaker 6: Twenty fifteen ten five touchdown Tarry's birth.

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Speaker 1: But he saw it through.

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Speaker 7: There were champagne courts popping high fives, people hugging loved ones,

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Speaker 7: plenty of kisses and tears, lots of tears all over

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Speaker 7: Western New York. One week ago today, New Year's Eve,

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Speaker 7: and a New Year's Eve that will never be forgotten.

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Speaker 7: It was the day the Bills buried the playoff drought

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Speaker 7: of red leader day in franchise history.

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Speaker 1: And he was there for the new beginning.

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Speaker 7: And Josh Allen enters the game for those first round

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Speaker 7: draft pick seventh overan on the draft. Steps on to

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Speaker 7: the field with eleven twenty two left to play in

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Speaker 7: the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what he can do.

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Speaker 7: Martin Alan back to throw, gonna run it and keep

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Speaker 7: it himself to the forty, jumps.

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Speaker 3: Over a man at the forty five and he gets

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Speaker 3: the first down. He is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: For the first division title in twenty five years, the.

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Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills are champions of the AFC East for the

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Speaker 3: first time in twenty five years.

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Speaker 7: A big step, but just one step on their.

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Speaker 2: Way to a Super Bowl steep and for our climb

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Speaker 2: back to title contention.

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Speaker 7: Guns at downfield, picked off, intercepted at the forty.

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Speaker 3: Five yard line, picked up by man Malano headed.

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Speaker 4: To the end zone.

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Speaker 3: He is in Touchdown Buffalo, Matt Mlano, touchdown Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: They are rolling him now.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on a standout career, Murphy. We can't wait to

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Speaker 2: have you back soon. As this chapter comes to a close,

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Speaker 2: the story of the Buffalo Bills remains unfinished, but your legacy.

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Speaker 1: Is forever in green in our history.

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Speaker 2: Touchdown, touchdown, Buffalo.

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Speaker 6: Touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, Buffalo.

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Speaker 8: All right, welcome into a Thursday edition of One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 8: As Steve did a marvelous job on the voicing of

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Speaker 8: that tribute to John Murphy, our good friend and colleague

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Speaker 8: for a long, long time.

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Speaker 1: We can get into that in just a second.

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Speaker 8: As John has decided to step away from his position

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Speaker 8: as play by play broadcaster on the Bills Radio Network

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Speaker 8: for the Buffalo Bills after twenty just over twenty years

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Speaker 8: on the mic as the play by play announcer, we

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Speaker 8: will certainly miss those calls, and that's why we're kind

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Speaker 8: whole generation of Bills fans that know only John Murphy's

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Speaker 2: Good and good for them too, Murph, and a lot

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Speaker 2: And John, you know, to his credit, like we said

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Speaker 1: Through some Dark Times franchise.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, what a rough time it was. And

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Speaker 1: He was great. I mean he still is. He's just.

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Speaker 2: Buffalo guy through and through, knows everybody in the business,

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Speaker 8: Broadcasts, right, and you know, for us, And I think

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Speaker 8: New Year's twenty twenty three, and he has made progress.

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Speaker 8: But I think he, you know, came to the decision

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Speaker 8: announcement was made this morning. And he came to the

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Speaker 8: that if you want to hear from Murph himself as

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Speaker 8: to how he kind of came to this decision. You know,

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Speaker 8: that want to know more about, you know, what it

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Speaker 8: And I know that a lot of people have Murph

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Speaker 8: because you started after your well even before your playing

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Speaker 2: Right, it was under It was with Rick Azar and

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Speaker 2: He started, We did we did show together. I can't

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Speaker 2: something something Buffalo Bills or whatever, whatever it was. Somebody

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Speaker 8: Sure, So you know I have I owe a you know,

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Speaker 8: And you know, we would do a weekly show together.

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Speaker 8: You know, we were just talking about the next game,

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Speaker 8: But we did a weekly show there on Channel seven

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Speaker 1: So whatever this happens, you know, you think about it.

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Speaker 2: I got a chance to the next time I was

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Speaker 2: The only guy available that fits that kind of profile

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Speaker 2: to go do the games with Murph.

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Speaker 1: It's Murph, except you're all doing it. You're doing them

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Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, home man away right in the booth. They're

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Speaker 2: It was the weirdest thing ever. And even the and

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Speaker 2: We were in one the only lit room in the

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Speaker 2: I got a hot I got a stock and cap on,

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Speaker 2: because we've got the windows open then and we're just

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Speaker 2: but doing it alone. It's like one interview after the other.

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Speaker 2: This practice game when it's not gonna be the you know,

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Speaker 2: That's what it was like for all those weeks, and

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Speaker 2: we you and I were talking to and as is always,

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Speaker 2: everybody's got a favorite call, yes, and we should. Well,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, iconic moments and and uh bless his heart for

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Speaker 1: It was great. It was fun thinking about it and

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Speaker 8: Of these you you asked the internet to help you,

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Speaker 1: Now I remember, yeah, that was the one on Channel seven.

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Speaker 8: as always by Kalida Health, official healthcare system of the

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Speaker 8: factor here and players will attest to it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that. But the people you hired that

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Speaker 2: you just fired should be on the board and say

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Speaker 2: and if they're not banging the table saying change the surface,

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Speaker 2: they're not doing their job. If they are doing that,

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Speaker 2: you're firing them. Anyway, we're talking about something else. We're

447
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Speaker 2: talking about corruption, right, we're corruption. I mean, you can't

448
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Speaker 2: hire somebody to fix it. They tell you how to

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Speaker 2: fix it and you fire them, which is what it

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Speaker 2: could be if that's the case. But yes, you're right,

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Speaker 2: there's the people have been screaming out it since before

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers snapped his achilles on that field. That's just

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Speaker 2: like that's just like a cherry on the cake. He's

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Speaker 2: not the only guy.

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Speaker 8: Well, Duyne Smoot, who the Bills signed a free agency

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Speaker 8: just last week, suffered an achilles injury on that same

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Speaker 8: field at Medlife Stadium in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: So that's Christmas Eve, that's right.

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Speaker 2: So if you bring people in to fix stuff like

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Speaker 2: that and they don't put that on the menu, yeah,

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Speaker 2: fire them. But if they're sitting there pound on the

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Speaker 2: tables saying hey, we're gonna do this, this, this, and

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Speaker 2: also also change the field, and the ownership says em now, well, okay,

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Speaker 2: thanks for stopping by it. You can you can walk

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Speaker 2: out of there with a clear conscience. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: in this we don't know, but you're right. And I'll

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Speaker 2: say this too. Injuries happen in the NFL as much

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Speaker 2: or more than any other professional sport. I get that,

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Speaker 2: but there are some teams over the course of a

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Speaker 2: long stretch of years who are more afflicted with finger quotes,

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Speaker 2: random injuries than others. That's when you got to say, okay,

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Speaker 2: we got to and and credit to the Jets for saying, hey,

473
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Speaker 2: we got to do something. This is why us. I

474
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Speaker 2: credit them for trying to fix it. But some of

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Speaker 2: the things that seem obvious from our end maybe doesn't

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Speaker 2: seem obvious to them. But I'll say this, there is

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Speaker 2: something systemic in these teams. I've said it before about

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Speaker 2: the Chargers, and they're constantly in that state. They're constantly

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Speaker 2: their stars are injured injuries and on another thing too,

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Speaker 2: it's exaggerated. Their roster is notoriously top heavy. There's the

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Speaker 2: good guys, they got in their stars on their team.

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Speaker 2: Behind those guys, they've got you know, paper tigers, Yes,

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Speaker 2: they got they got some Division two athletes kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: So when the stars get hurt and those guys are

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Speaker 2: left stand and they got nothing to do, and they're

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Speaker 2: in the top ten draft again, right, So there's some

487
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Speaker 2: of that going on as well. I think some teams, though,

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Speaker 2: you can you got to start to say, listen, what

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Speaker 2: else could it be that they don't spend enough time

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Speaker 2: or enough money in preventative training.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. I don't think there's no

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Speaker 1: word that that field surface.

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Speaker 2: That's a great call by observation by you, though, Brownie.

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Speaker 2: That start with where you play your games.

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Speaker 8: Well, it's well known and the Giants have had their

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Speaker 8: share of injuries too, maybe not quite as many as

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Speaker 8: the Jets because they play on the same field, but

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Speaker 8: I know visiting teams to a man do not like

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Speaker 8: playing on that surface. It is one of the lowest

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Speaker 8: ranked surfaces every year in the NFLPA surveys.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know what happens is their met life,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know where they have anciliary events up

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Speaker 2: there a lot.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they do have other events.

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Speaker 2: That tends to where the surf is out really quick,

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Speaker 2: really quick, and you can you know, it's like anything

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Speaker 2: when you put the stuff in and again it's like great.

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Speaker 2: Then okay, you get one winter on it where it's

509
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Speaker 2: outside all the time. Okay, it starts get a little worse.

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Speaker 2: But then when you have a rock concert and you're

511
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Speaker 2: throwing plywood on the thing, covering it up, uncovering it.

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Speaker 2: You got sixty gazillion machines running across the thing carrying stuff,

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Speaker 2: it wears out quick and you got to replace it.

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Speaker 2: Even though it's artificial, you got to replace it faster.

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Speaker 2: And if some teams, particularly state owned venues, they don't

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Speaker 2: want to do that.

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Speaker 8: Now we have to take a break here, but when

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Speaker 8: we come back, we're gonna play for you the one

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Speaker 8: on one interview with John Murphy who just spoke with

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Speaker 8: WB and Susan Rose. It aired on WB in this

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Speaker 8: morning here in Buffalo. We're gonna replay that interview for

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Speaker 8: you here next on one Bill's Live presented by Colida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 7: We're down to a minute forty left in overtime tie

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Speaker 7: at seven.

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Speaker 1: Snap McCoy waits patiently driving up the middle. Shavy's gonna score,

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Speaker 1: Shavy's gonna go touchdown, touchdown, touch down, Buffalo, the Bills.

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Speaker 3: Winning hit over time with Shawn McCoy crop twenty one yards.

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Speaker 7: Out, rivers back to throw, waiting, waiting.

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Speaker 3: Going for all of it, down the right sideline, the

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Speaker 3: pass up in the air.

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Speaker 7: It is knocked down, in complete, knocked down, in complete.

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Speaker 3: My God knocks it down, and the clock shown zero.

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Speaker 3: The Bill's advance. The Bills win it. The Bills win

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Speaker 3: it in the last second. The Bills win it twenty

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Speaker 3: seven to twenty four. Unbelievable finish, all right.

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Speaker 8: That is h Murph calling the end of the Bill's

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Speaker 8: first playoff victory in twenty five years over the Colts

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Speaker 8: in the first home playoff game in just as long

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Speaker 8: a period of time, in front of sixty eight hundred

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Speaker 8: lucky fans and a very exuberant Steve Tasker next to

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Speaker 8: him in the booth.

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Speaker 1: I just broke that unwritten rule.

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Speaker 2: Yees, yeah, dope, she shut up.

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Speaker 8: I remember Alex van Pelt, so Murph still would do that.

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Speaker 8: Murph's first year of calling games, Alex van Pelt was

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Speaker 8: his color commentator. He had recently retired, and we knew

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Speaker 8: he wanted to get into coaching, but this was kind

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Speaker 8: of something for him to stay close to the game.

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Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, yeah, I'll do games with Murph. Sure,

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Speaker 1: you know. And so.

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Speaker 8: His first year, Alex would get so excited, you know,

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Speaker 8: much to your point you can't help it. And he'd

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Speaker 8: be like you like you to hear hear guttural cheering

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Speaker 8: behind Murph.

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Speaker 1: For most of the two thousand and three season. It

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Speaker 1: was pretty funny. But yeah, that was that was a

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Speaker 1: big one.

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Speaker 8: We had not experienced a playoff victory in quite some time,

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Speaker 8: so that was a biggie for sure.

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Speaker 1: We want to take.

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Speaker 8: This time, as promised, to turn to the interview that

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Speaker 8: WB and Susan Rose had on had one on one

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Speaker 8: with John Murphy in his home recently and it aired

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Speaker 8: this morning on WB. We get calls, you know, pretty

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Speaker 8: frequently over the past year. How's Murph doing? What's going on?

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Speaker 8: And here's Murph himself on the decision he made to

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Speaker 8: step away from radio play by play duties.

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Speaker 9: John, So, here we are. You know when I met

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Speaker 9: you you were doing news on w B I in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that was a long time ago. More

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Speaker 4: than almost forty years ago, right.

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Speaker 9: Right, that was the first time I met you, and

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Speaker 9: then I stayed in news. You went off to sports

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Speaker 9: and great, great, all kinds of great things went your way.

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Speaker 4: So much success.

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Speaker 9: I mean, it's like it's been in a blink of

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Speaker 9: an eye.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been really lucky. You know, I have an

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Speaker 4: opportunity to the build for nineteen years and they've been great,

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Speaker 4: and I've been pretty extremely lucky, very very lucky.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: All right, So in the last sixteen months, your life

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Speaker 9: has kind of taken a d tour. It's been a journey.

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Speaker 9: Tell us about that journey and where you are. Now.

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Speaker 9: How's your recovery going from from the stroke.

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Speaker 4: It's good. I mean I've locked a lot of weight.

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Speaker 4: I work out every day. I feel good. I just

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Speaker 4: can't talk, and that's what's holding me back from being

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Speaker 4: on the radio. I just can't talk, and it wouldn't

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Speaker 4: be fair. I thought I might make it back last

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Speaker 4: year and didn't, and I tried end this year and

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Speaker 4: not gonna happen. So it's slow progress, but it's progress,

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Speaker 4: and hopefully, you know, by September I'm able to talk

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Speaker 4: a little bit.

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Speaker 9: So you say it wouldn't be fair. Wouldn't be fair

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Speaker 9: for what well.

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Speaker 4: The people who want to know how the Bills are doing.

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Speaker 4: You know, it won't be fair to the Bills game,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 9: So are you stepping away then from the Bills broadcast?

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Speaker 10: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Yes, for good to miss last year and then a

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Speaker 4: mission this year. It's too much to miss.

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Speaker 9: How hard was that decision?

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Speaker 4: It's hard, you know. I wasn't that hard until the

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Speaker 4: last day or I began to think about all the

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Speaker 4: things that would miss. I'll miss a great deal, miss

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Speaker 4: of people for its of all the great, great people

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Speaker 4: that work for the Bills, and I worked for the

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Speaker 4: Bills over the years, and it's over with them, the

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Speaker 4: great people at gr Radio and working with them. I'll

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Speaker 4: missing people more than anything.

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Speaker 9: The decision was it? Did you make it on your own?

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Speaker 9: Did you have help making the decision?

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Speaker 4: I talked to my wife Mary about it, and she agrees.

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Speaker 4: You know, she says, if you don't like getting imp

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Speaker 4: of your feeling like you're being compies, don't do it.

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Speaker 4: And I think they kind of carry the day. You know,

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Speaker 4: I just felt like too much. I'm I'm making good

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Speaker 4: enough progress to come back vul the way I want

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Speaker 4: to do it then the way I want to be.

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Speaker 9: It sounds like you made it maybe a few days

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Speaker 9: ago or or maybe longer. Are you kind of at

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Speaker 9: peace with it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I am? I am. I made it probably the

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Speaker 4: last month or so. Just things that are going on,

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Speaker 4: and here comes a new season already, you know, and

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Speaker 4: it comes up past and it just won't do me

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Speaker 4: good to try to come on and do it half

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Speaker 4: you know, halfway. I can't do that.

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Speaker 9: And your recovery is still going on, right, I mean, yeah.

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Speaker 11: Can you do?

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Speaker 9: You think you'll be doing you know, more recoveries as

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Speaker 9: time passes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think by September. I hope.

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Speaker 4: I hope to provide and or a comment in the

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Speaker 4: booth and radio booth in September for home games and

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Speaker 4: maybe game two. But only my voice is better, you know,

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Speaker 4: but you know, we'll see was he that works out?

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Speaker 4: But yeah, my recovery continues totally, but it continues.

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Speaker 9: And you're continuing with the speech therapy.

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Speaker 4: Yes, twice a week, and I got a program bring

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Speaker 4: HQ to down with my cognitative deficiencies, and it does help.

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00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 4: Is hard tasks and you know, doing speech therapy and

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Speaker 4: a little bit of occupatial therapy.

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Speaker 9: Right, So stepping away is doesn't mean retirement necessarily. I'm

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Speaker 9: guessing it almost sounds like you still want to do

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Speaker 9: some some work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't know what I'm going to give lights

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00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 4: up until maybe the vision of a year before i'm

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Speaker 4: fully back, But I think I'm going to step away

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Speaker 4: and really concentrate on my recovery and then get to

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Speaker 4: work on doing something else, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 9: Any idea what that? How you could continue to contribute

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Speaker 9: on the radio in any way with the bills. I mean,

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Speaker 9: you've been such a part of it for so long.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I only have ideas on that. I'm over

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Speaker 4: the edeshs, but I have any ideas.

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Speaker 9: You know, all of this does it kind of make

661
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Speaker 9: you reprioritize what's going on in life when something like

662
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 9: this happens.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean I have two grandchildren now I have

664
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Speaker 4: to do voys both in the area, and I enjoy

665
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 4: them all great deal. I enjoy my grandchildren a great deal,

666
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 4: and if nothing else, I'll spend more time with them.

667
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 9: I look back, and you've done everything I was thinking.

668
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 9: You've done buys, baseball, You've done basketball games, bills, football,

669
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 9: you've had your own show radio TV, you're an author.

670
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 9: Any any regrets on all you've done, I.

671
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 4: Would end down something hows No, I mean no, I

672
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 4: have no regrets on what I've done broadcasting. I mean

673
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 4: I could have done something, hows I think? But I

674
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 4: think I made the right choice in getting broadcasting.

675
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 9: You're a natural. I think a lot of people would say,

676
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 9: I don't know about that. You know, for more than

677
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 9: two decades, you've been the soundtrack of Bill's broadcasts, right, Yeah,

678
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 9: and you're also kind of the link to legend Van Miller.

679
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's important to me. I think, you know, to

680
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 4: be closer, ID have a van to work Evan for

681
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 4: sixteen years before I took over to play. I mean

682
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 4: I understand what the job is undertown to do the

683
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 4: job right, I think, And not that I was doing

684
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 4: it like Van right away, but ever a while. You know,

685
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 4: you're your own pace and your own systems, and I

686
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 4: think I carried on of a van very well.

687
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 9: What advice would you have for you successor.

688
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 4: My rights would be, uh, just to work at you know,

689
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 4: I mean I worked even two years ago. Last season

690
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 4: I did, I was working seven or eight or nine

691
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 4: hours a week game, ready for the game, you know,

692
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 4: and then watch a ton of video in there, watch

693
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 4: on the screen and watch three or four games of

694
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 4: the opponents, watch the Bills a game over again, and

695
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 4: that that helps a lot. Just to work at you know.

696
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 4: Just don't think you're mailing in because your voice of

697
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 4: the Bill isn't work at.

698
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 9: You know, you've always shown that, You've always demonstrated how

699
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 9: knowledgeable you are for every game. You've always been so prepared.

700
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 9: So in the past season when you had to sit back,

701
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 9: when you didn't have that front row seat, how hard

702
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 9: is it to be in at this new position.

703
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 4: It sucks, It's terrible, but you know, I wanted to

704
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 4: be part of it. I'm glad I went. I'm glad

705
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 4: to go again and they'll have me. But it's hard,

706
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 4: you know, and you're it and you think maybe, well

707
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 4: you would have done differently, but you can't do it,

708
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 4: you know, you just accept what's what's on the air.

709
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 9: And thousands of broadcasts. You've done, thousands of games. I

710
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 9: think when you add them up all for these years,

711
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 9: and especially with the Bills, do one or two games

712
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 9: stand out to you?

713
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 4: Well, the most memorable Bills game was a playoff game

714
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago in Kansas City when they

715
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 4: had the league with thirteen seconds left and lost, And

716
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 4: that was a tough game to take. It was. It

717
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 4: was so momentous. I didn't really accept what it meant

718
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 4: until it took me a day or two. I came

719
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 4: home and watched the table. Really, I don't like God

720
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,919
Speaker 4: they lost that game because it was back and forth.

721
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 4: There was game wing typtown for homes and game win,

722
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Speaker 4: t Namber Josh, You're back and forth, and in the

723
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 4: end Kansas City won. But it didn't hit me a

724
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 4: couple of days later they lost that game. That was

725
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 4: probably the biggest shock in the most memorable game. I

726
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 4: did you know, if.

727
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 9: The Bills do go to the super Bowl again, will

728
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 9: you I don't know.

729
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 4: I think they'll go. I think in the next couple

730
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 4: of years ago, maybe on that this year, but they'll

731
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 4: be there, you know. There with Josh they can do anything.

732
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 4: You know, they'll build around Josh. Maybe take a half

733
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 4: a setback that year, but I think they'll be okay.

734
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 4: I think that with Josh you can do anything you want.

735
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 4: You know.

736
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 9: Murph stroke occurs very often too often. Really, what what

737
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 9: message do you have for people that are going through

738
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 9: this like you.

739
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 4: I'm hanging in there, you know, keep working, figure out

740
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 4: what you want to do. Might not be exactly what

741
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 4: you want to do, but do something else. I mean,

742
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 4: you know, I'm lucky. I have such a great family

743
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 4: and it is only good friends and keep me motivated

744
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 4: to work. And I work, you know, And just because

745
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 4: my family and friends tell me, do I work at?

746
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 9: Will you be continue to be in the broadcast both

747
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 9: it wouldn't be a Home Bills game without you in there.

748
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 4: It will, but I hope, uh, I hope, so we'll see.

749
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 4: I hope do a contribute in some way to a broadcast.

750
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 9: Yep, we uh. You brought so much joy to Bill's fans. Nice,

751
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 9: thank you for all you've done. And it's not it's

752
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 9: not good bye, Murph, it's just a sity around right

753
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 9: right right.

754
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, and thank you all the Bills

755
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 4: fans too have been great.

756
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: All right.

757
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 8: So that's John Murphy with Susan Rose from WB in

758
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 8: that aired this morning on WB and sister station of

759
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 8: w g R here in Buffalo, and we just thought

760
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 8: we'd replay it for our listening audience. Just you know,

761
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 8: people have asked, you know, how's Murph, what's going on

762
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:28,959
Speaker 8: with Murph?

763
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: How's he doing?

764
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Speaker 8: And this was an opportunity for you to hear directly

765
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 8: from him, So we just wanted to kind of pass

766
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 8: that along to you.

767
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: And my message as well.

768
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 2: When he came back into the booth and started watching

769
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 2: the games next to me back there, it was obvious

770
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 2: he was exactly the guy I remember, and as you

771
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 2: can tell too, the only reason and what what what

772
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 2: a bad a bad luck to happen to a guy

773
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 2: who just needs to speak clearly? I mean, uh, and

774
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 2: it's difficult for him. He is the same guy that

775
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 2: I that I've always sat next you for thirty years.

776
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: He's the same guy. You can see it, you can

777
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 2: hear it in his voice. He's the same guy. And

778
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 2: he just doesn't speak as clearly as he needs to speak.

779
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 2: And that's that is an absolute gut punch for those

780
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 2: of us who enjoy listening to him doing Bill's games.

781
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, but he would sit in there in the booth

782
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 8: for the home games, and you know, we were We're

783
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 8: happy to have him, you know, sitting up there and

784
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 8: just kind of taking it all in, and I think

785
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 8: it helped him I shouldn't speak for him, but I

786
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 8: got the sense that it helped him feel connected. He

787
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 8: was still connected to everything, and I know the guys

788
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 8: in there were happy to have him, So yeah, it

789
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 8: was it was just kind of cool that he was,

790
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 8: you know, you still he was still around, to Susan's point, right,

791
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 8: so that was kind of cool. You, I'm sure, have

792
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 8: plenty of thoughts or memories on you know, some of

793
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 8: Murph's best calls. You're more than welcome to chime in

794
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 8: with any of those at your leisure at eight o

795
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 8: three oh five point fifty one eight eight eight five

796
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Speaker 8: fifty two five fifty.

797
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: Share whatever you want to share. Tell us.

798
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Speaker 8: You know, there are some times, you know, over the

799
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 8: course of a long broadcasting career like that of Merph's,

800
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 8: where someone will say, I know exactly where I was

801
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 8: when I heard, you know, Murph make call a B

802
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 8: or C. Maybe that's something that's happened to you, and

803
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 8: if so, feel free to share it with us today

804
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 8: this is kind of Murph's day, so we're just trying

805
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 8: to honor that. So eight oh three oh five point

806
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 8: fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five point

807
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 8: fifty is the number to get on board. We'll take

808
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 8: a break here and be back with more in just

809
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 8: a moment. On one Bill's Live presented by Collida Health,

810
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Speaker 8: It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

811
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 7: First and ten from the Kansas City nineteen yard line.

812
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 7: Josh takes a shotgun, snap, looks, looks, steps up handftime,

813
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 7: fires to the end zone.

814
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 6: Con touchdown, touchdown, Buffalo. Are you kidding me? Are you

815
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 6: kidding me? Gabriel Davis again, are.

816
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: You kidding me? Unbelievable? The Bills get the lead back again.

817
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 8: That was the back and forth AFC Divisional Playoff Bill's

818
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 8: Chiefs twenty twenty one playoff season, which was already January

819
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,760
Speaker 8: twenty twenty two by then, and the Bills had taken

820
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 8: the lead or is it time?

821
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, they took the lead again.

822
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 8: Five lead changes in the last two minutes of that game.

823
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 8: It was unbelievable. And we had just been coming out

824
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 8: of the grips of COVID at that time. Steve I

825
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 8: was fortunate enough to travel for that game commercial to

826
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 8: cover it, and.

827
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: It was like a ping pong match. It is unbelievable.

828
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 2: It's like a ping was sitting right sitting right here

829
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: in the control room and Maddie and I were going

830
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 2: to do the postgame. Maddi Glab and I were gonna

831
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: do the postgame, and certainly they win. The Chiefs scored

832
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 2: before that, and I was like, and it was like

833
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: a minute twenty or whatever. It was like a minute

834
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 2: forty nine is a minute, it's got thirty eight or something.

835
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 2: They took him less than ninety seconds to go the

836
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 2: link of the field score a touchdown, leaving thirteen seconds

837
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 2: left on the clock, and I thought wow, and I,

838
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 2: you know, obviously, like everybody else, I thought, wow, the

839
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 2: game's over. And you know, now it's one of those

840
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 2: now it's like wide right, right, the game. It's a

841
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 2: thirteen second game, right, it's the game. It's one of

842
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 2: those games that has a name, a loss that has

843
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 2: a name, the home run throwback, wide right, thirteen seconds.

844
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 2: There's a couple of them in our in our library, right, Yeah,

845
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 2: that's that's yeah. And Murphy nailed that one too, And

846
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 2: that was to me, that was an unexpected touchdown. I

847
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 2: knew that, you know, it was time left and all

848
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 2: that we were gonna have to do.

849
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: But man, oman, what yeah, a lot of people are

850
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: thinking field goal.

851
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, just just keep it going, just stay alive,

852
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 2: and certainly Josh makes that throat a game in man

853
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 2: o man what And.

854
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 8: That was the fourth touchdown of the game, which is

855
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 8: which is why Murph was expressing the same degree of

856
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 8: disbelief in his call that all of us were experiencing

857
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 8: at the same time, like, holy cow, he just scored again,

858
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:30,760
Speaker 8: fourth touchdown?

859
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?

860
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:31,959
Speaker 4: Yeah?

861
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: And that's what Murph said, like five times because he

862
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: was just as shocked. Amazing.

863
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 8: But if you've got one, uh, that's you know, near

864
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 8: and dear to your heart, feel free to share it

865
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 8: with us.

866
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: At eight h three zero five point fifty one.

867
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Speaker 8: Eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty the number

868
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Speaker 8: to get on board and we go to the phones,

869
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 8: and leading us off today is Tom out on the

870
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:53,919
Speaker 8: west side.

871
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Tom?

872
00:43:55,920 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 11: Hey, guys, The game nearer quoting is probably the greatest

873
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,399
Speaker 11: game that he ever called, all because of the back

874
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 11: and forth and it was so exciting, so oh god.

875
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 11: And then that the coin toss. You know, you can't

876
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:19,479
Speaker 11: forget the coin toss, but anyway, and Steve the throwback game,

877
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 11: I'm going to go to my graves saying that that

878
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 11: was a forward pass. You're not gonna laugh, but I

879
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 11: believe it was a forward pass. Anyway. I remember, I

880
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 11: remember Van Miller and the Pandemonium game, and I thought, oh,

881
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 11: we're never going to have a better announcer than that.

882
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 11: And when Van retired, I thought, who are we going

883
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 11: to get now? And John had a step in and

884
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 11: he worked his way in, built his way up, built

885
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 11: everybody's trust and got the experience and he became a

886
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 11: really great announcer. So now I I gotta I gotta

887
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 11: say hats off to Chris, because the torch is being

888
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 11: handed to you, buddy, and now it's your turn to

889
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 11: run with it. And I hope you do just as

890
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 11: well on the booth.

891
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I appreciate the sentiments, Tom. I know that,

892
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 8: Uh you know, Odyssey has got to go through their

893
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 8: process and they'll do that. And today is you know,

894
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 8: it's about Murph. It's about Murph today. So yeah, that's

895
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 8: kind of what we're gonna focus on more than anything else.

896
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 2: You're right though, And it's uh, you know, you go

897
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 2: back and all those things, uh, you know, the moments

898
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 2: that you remember, and certainly the NFL is full of

899
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 2: moments that all of us remember for different reasons. And

900
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 2: you know, Murph's a big part of of an entire generation,

901
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 2: just like you said, and.

902
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: You know, so it's uh, it's yea.

903
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 2: These things happen, and uh, you know, we kind of

904
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 2: have to get our minds around, uh.

905
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 1: What to do with uh with what we have left

906
00:45:58,920 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: to do.

907
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 2: But you're he's right, I mean, what happens going forward

908
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 2: that There hasn't been no announcement yet, but certainly on

909
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 2: a day when you got to say goodbye to Murph,

910
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 2: We're gonna spend our time doing that.

911
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 8: Let's go back to the phones and we go to

912
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 8: Bob in Lancaster.

913
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Bob?

914
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 12: I just want to bring up the human side of

915
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 12: John besides being a great announcer. I was at Saratoga Racetrack.

916
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 12: I have the picture still in my phone July twenty eighth,

917
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:40,280
Speaker 12: twenty twenty two, and John happened. He was in the paddock,

918
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 12: he had a sport code on, he was dressed up.

919
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 12: I mean, obviously he was connected somehow. And my buddy says, oh,

920
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 12: you know, go say hello to him. You're you're the

921
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 12: Bills fan. Of course I had a Bill's shirt. On

922
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,439
Speaker 12: and I walked up and he was like, I knew

923
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 12: him for twenty years. We talked for twenty minutes.

924
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 13: He was telling me.

925
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 12: How he was at Saratoga because his brother in law

926
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 12: is an attorney from Albany, and he he was they

927
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 12: were in the paddock. The attorney had a friend that

928
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 12: had a horse in one of the races. But he

929
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 12: just spent twenty minutes talking about the builds and how good.

930
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 12: And we saw a tent Kansas City Chiefs pop up

931
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 12: shelter and he looked and you said to him, I said,

932
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 12: look at that, there was a chief's tent. He said,

933
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 12: come on over, Let's go get him. Let's go beat

934
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,879
Speaker 12: him up. I mean, he's just just such a human guy.

935
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 12: I mean, just a great guy.

936
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: Yeah.

937
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 8: Thanks for sharing that, Bob, appreciate it. Yeah, I mean

938
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 8: that's the one good thing that you know, I think,

939
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 8: you know, you look for silver linings when something like

940
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 8: this happens to a friend and a colleague, and you know,

941
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 8: Murph still very much as his sense of humor and personality,

942
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 8: and that's you know, that's huge because that makes up

943
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,439
Speaker 8: a lot of who Mirf is. Never short of being

944
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 8: able to crack a joke. He's got a long list,

945
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 8: and you know, maybe, I'm sure he always had his

946
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 8: own special brand of sense of humor. But it wouldn't

947
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 8: surprise me at all if Van Miller and all of

948
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 8: his jokes over the years kind of rubbed off on

949
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 8: Murph a little bit, because those two guys both have

950
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 8: tremendous sense as of humor, So I'm not surprised your

951
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 8: experience was that with Murph. We are going to take

952
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 8: a break here, but we're going to be taking more

953
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 8: of your phone calls in our number two. Got anything

954
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 8: you want to share about favorite call of Mirph's, feel

955
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 8: free to share it here at eight oh three oh

956
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 8: five point fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two

957
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 8: five fifty the numbers to get on board as we

958
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 8: take more of your phone calls. Next here on One

959
00:48:50,120 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 8: Bill's Live presented by Colid of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

960
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: The One Bill's Live presented by Calida Health.

961
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 14: Hey, Murph, Ryan Fitzpatrick here with Billy the Buffalo.

962
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 4: He Yo, Murph, what up though that?

963
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 7: Stevie Johnson wanted to say thanks to congrats on thirty

964
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 7: plus years working on the Bills game day broadcast.

965
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 15: Hey, This is Strman Thomas, and I'd like to congratulate

966
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 15: my friend John Murphy on everything he's all already done

967
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 15: as he transitions to new and exciting role.

968
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 2: Hey Murph, I'm here to say thank you. Thank you

969
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 2: to a friend of mine for thirty years. Thanks for

970
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 2: being a mentor example. Thanks for being a great co worker,

971
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 2: a co host. Thank you for showing me the ropes

972
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 2: of how to be on radio and TV every single day.

973
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 2: I cannot thank you enough, Murph.

974
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 10: Congratulations on a tremendous career. It's been such an honor

975
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 10: to serve with you in just a small portion of

976
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 10: those three decades of excellence.

977
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 14: Just to put it in context, how long it's been

978
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 14: since I've been a Bill. My daughter, Maizie was born

979
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 14: two weeks after my career in Buffalo ended, and there

980
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 14: she is. We're still all huge Bills fans here out

981
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 14: in Arizona now. But when I think about the soundtrack

982
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 14: of my career, there it's in your voice, and I

983
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 14: know that there are a lot of legends of Buffalo

984
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 14: that feel.

985
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 4: The same way.

986
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 16: The decades you've called, whether it's color or play by play,

987
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 16: You'll always be a Buffalo legend and big in the

988
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 16: community and beg with the Buffalo Bills, and just want

989
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 16: to congratulate you on a great career.

990
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 3: Thirty plus years working on a Bills game day broadcast.

991
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 4: Salute to you, brother.

992
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 14: Everything that you've done for the city of Buffalo and

993
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 14: for the team the.

994
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: Bills has been amazing.

995
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 14: And I also truly appreciate the friendship that we've.

996
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 4: Forged over the years.

997
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 2: I've been a broadcaster for twice as long as I

998
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 2: was a professional football player, and you've been a part

999
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 2: of it from the word go.

1000
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 16: You're going to be missed here and still look forward

1001
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 16: to seeing your round. All the best, buddy, but looking

1002
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 16: forward for what's to come from you, and thank you

1003
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 16: for all the amazing memories.

1004
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 10: You're one of the best to ever do it. Congratulations.

1005
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 4: I'll see you around Western New York soon. Go Bills forever.

1006
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for all you've meant to me,

1007
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 2: to my career and to my family. Thanks Murph.

1008
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 15: One of the stories that I love telling him about

1009
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 15: John is that when he replaced Van Miller to be

1010
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 15: the voice of the Bills, I said, you are replacing

1011
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 15: a living ledgend Now, John Murphy pride, no one can

1012
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 15: replace man. I'll tell you what, buddy, no one can

1013
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 15: replace John Murphy.

1014
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 6: Touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, Buffalo.

1015
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 8: All right, So that's a tribute from a bunch of

1016
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,280
Speaker 8: former Bills players. And then you also heard current GM

1017
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 8: Brandon being current head coach Sean McDermott also expressing their sentiments,

1018
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 8: uh for a great what was a great play by

1019
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 8: play broadcasting career? His career obviously involved color commentary with

1020
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 8: Van for was it fifteen sixteen years prior to that?

1021
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: And you heard.

1022
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 8: Steven there too with some nice sentiments as well. So

1023
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 8: if you have any sentiments you want to share, feel

1024
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 8: free to do that. At eight oh three oh five

1025
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 8: fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty,

1026
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 8: then I'm gonna get on board. Maybe you got a

1027
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 8: favorite call that you want to recollect. We had a

1028
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 8: caller earlier who had the pleasure of meeting John one

1029
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 8: on one all the way down at Saratoga Racetrack at

1030
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 8: one point in time, So feel free to share anything

1031
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 8: and everything that you want. Got open lines for you

1032
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,479
Speaker 8: at eight oh three five fifty Let's go to John

1033
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 8: and Snyder next. What's up John?

1034
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 13: Hey, how's it going?

1035
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 4: Guys?

1036
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:19,320
Speaker 13: I have a similar story about the personal side that

1037
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 13: people don't see about Murph. And my son was fortunate

1038
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 13: enough to get selected to do an internship with ESPN

1039
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 13: in Cleveland, and he was kind of figuring out what

1040
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 13: to do, should he accept it, what should he expect,

1041
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 13: And we had a mutual friend who knew Murph, and

1042
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 13: Murph was kind enough to invite my son out to

1043
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 13: the stadium and it was really impactful for a nineteen

1044
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 13: year old man to come in and have John Murphy,

1045
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 13: you know, had he was greeted at the beginning of

1046
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 13: the stadium and they you know, brought him through the

1047
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 13: same kind of game a tour. He sat down with Murph,

1048
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 13: and Murph kind of went through the whole thing is about,

1049
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 13: you know, what it takes to get into the sporting

1050
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 13: good or the sporting side of the business, and really

1051
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 13: encouraged my son to, you know, go for it with

1052
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 13: full heartedly and really put for you the best effort

1053
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 13: and if they ever ask you to do any event,

1054
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 13: you just jump in and do it. Doesn't matter if

1055
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 13: you've got something else going on, cancel that and be

1056
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 13: the one that always, you know, jumps in and is

1057
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 13: willing to help out for all the different events, and

1058
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 13: my son followed through with all that and had a

1059
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 13: great experience and grew a lot during his time with

1060
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 13: ESPN Cleveland. And it probably wouldn't have happened if Murph

1061
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 13: hadn't encouraged him and kind of shown him the way

1062
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,439
Speaker 13: of how to handle himself during that time. So again,

1063
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 13: behind the same things from mirf that people would never know,

1064
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 13: but it was great that he did it all right.

1065
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 1: Thanks for sharing that, John, John One, You're right.

1066
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 2: And one of the things about it, you know, when

1067
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 2: you get a presence in a role in broadcast industry,

1068
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 2: young people who see it. And let's face it, we've

1069
00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 2: guys like Brownie and I are sitting here. I'm sure

1070
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 2: Brownie does. I've got guys that I remember watching as

1071
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 2: a kid who inspired me to be a part of

1072
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 2: this business, who said, man, that is so cool. I

1073
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 2: want to do that. You know, I want to be

1074
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,839
Speaker 2: a part of something like that. And you get into

1075
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 2: the business because of it. It's not just you know,

1076
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 2: your job to it's not your job to inspire people,

1077
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 2: but your job is.

1078
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: Inspirational to people.

1079
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 2: And most of us, Brownie included, I think and I

1080
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 2: know I feel this way. You kind of have a

1081
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 2: mantle to wear. You kind of have to be a

1082
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 2: There is a responsibility that goes with being in these

1083
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 2: chairs and the play by play chair for the Buffalo

1084
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 2: Bills and the analyst chair of the Buffalo Bills, because

1085
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 2: young kids formulate ideas about life from you, and certainly

1086
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 2: some of them want to get into this business, and

1087
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 2: I think all of us feel the responsibility to do

1088
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 2: what we can to help them, at least inform them

1089
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 2: and let them decide. Murph is, like I said in

1090
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 2: my little piece, my video piece that you saw maybe

1091
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 2: at the beginning, you know, he he answered a lot

1092
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Speaker 2: of questions for me that I had, and him and

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00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 2: other guys with along with him. And then you never

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00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:15,240
Speaker 2: forget those people who who are worthy of being asked

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00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 2: for advice and willingly give it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well said Steve. Well said, Let's go to Tyler

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00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 8: and Lewiston next.

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00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 1: What's up Tyler?

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Speaker 17: Hey, how's it going, guys. There's a couple of couple

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00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 17: of things I wanted to share about Murph listening to

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00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:35,400
Speaker 17: you guys for quite a while, I'm a driver for

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00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 17: a living, so I listened to a lot of the

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00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 17: radio there was back when COVID hit there was Stephen

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00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 17: murph On and there wasn't a lot of talk, a

1105
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 17: lot to talk about, and it was just your guys' banter,

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00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 17: going back and forth. And you guys are talking about

1107
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 17: beers and your favorite beers and the Budelises of the King,

1108
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 17: and some waitress was offering him a craft beer and

1109
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 17: he wasn't taken, and he was just laughing and saying,

1110
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 17: you know, I want to get the heavy hitter you

1111
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 17: go with the Budweiser and the guy that's always been around.

1112
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,839
Speaker 17: Just something made me laugh that day, just the way

1113
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 17: that you guys are going back and forth. And one

1114
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 17: of my favorite calls of his one time. It was

1115
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 17: during the drought era. I can't remember exactly who it

1116
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 17: was that I would say it was either a part

1117
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 17: or a kickoff and it was Spiller or the otis

1118
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 17: the night Game, and just the way he was screaming,

1119
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 17: my boy, he did it, My boy did it, My

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00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 17: boy did it. We didn't have a lot to cheer

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00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 17: for back then, but you would have thought that we

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00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 17: were playing for the super Bowl. The way that he

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00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 17: paid that call. It was just something I forget.

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00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the play you might be thinking of

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00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: his Leotis McKelvin punk returning against Dallas on Monday night

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00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 2: in the stadium.

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00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 17: I don't think it was then. I think it was.

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00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 17: It was a little bit later on than that. No,

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00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 17: it's it was. It was one of them. It was

1130
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 17: either Spiller or the Otis. And I think it might

1131
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 17: have been Spiller back when he got like the AFC

1132
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 17: Player of the Month for special teams or something, but

1133
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 17: definitely forgutable one.

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00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know, I'm just I'm reminded of the

1135
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 8: fact that anytime li Otis did something big, it was

1136
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 8: always le Otis my man mcelvin's right when Murph was

1137
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 8: calling him. So, uh yeah, those two guys were electric players,

1138
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 8: fantastic elite athletes. Uh so when they did something big,

1139
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 8: you often got a big call at of Murph for

1140
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 8: one of those and uh the other one he had

1141
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 8: was that people will remember is anytime Tradevius White did

1142
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 8: something big, it was trade a, particularly after an interception.

1143
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 8: So you know, there were some trademarks that I think

1144
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 8: people will fondly remember as well. So eight oh three

1145
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 8: oh five point fifty one eight eight eight five fifty

1146
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 8: two five fifty is the number to get on board

1147
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 8: if you have something in mind that struck you when

1148
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 8: you heard the news break today that Murph will be

1149
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 8: stepping away from radio play by play duties.

1150
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: Maybe there is an.

1151
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 8: Immediate play or a call that came to mind when

1152
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 8: you heard that news today. Feel free to share it

1153
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 8: with us at eight oh three five fight five fifty

1154
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 8: two five fifty, that's the number to get on board,

1155
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 8: or you can hit us up on the tweet sheet

1156
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 8: at one Bill's Live And why don't we turn to

1157
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 8: that now, because I know we did get a bunch

1158
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 8: of responses on that tweet sheet. Brought to you by

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00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 8: Corgan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the

1160
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 8: Buffalo Bills, and Kevin Conners, who has been a guest

1161
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 8: on the show a couple of times, leads us off.

1162
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 8: He's a sports center host and an ardent Bills fan.

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00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 8: He chimed in with this. John Murphy is a legend,

1164
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 8: the soundtrack to so many unforgettable moments for Bills fans.

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00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 8: He also happens to be one of the most generous

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Speaker 8: and kind people in broadcasting. Congratulations Murph on an amazing career.

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Speaker 8: Yeah we had I'm trying to remember the last time

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00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 8: we had Kevin on. I want to say it was

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00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 8: last It might have been right before the season last year.

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Speaker 1: Did we have it? It's been a while, it has

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01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: been a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking it was almost covid that we had

1173
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 2: him on.

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01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: Oh we've had him on since said yeah, yeah, have

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01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: you and I had him on?

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01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 8: Yes, and for some reason, I don't know why, right

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01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 8: before the seasons ringing a bell in my head. I

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01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 8: might be a year off. It was before the twenty

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01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 8: two season. Well, but I know we've had him on.

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01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 8: Still a friend of the show though, yes, still a

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01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 8: friend of the show.

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01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 8: Buffalo Bison's on the tweets sheet says congratulations to John

1184
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 8: Murphy on a tremendous broadcasting career. This is the Bison's organization,

1185
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 8: by the way, as the voice that brought so many

1186
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 8: amazing moments to the great sports fans of Buffalo and

1187
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Speaker 8: Western New York.

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01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 1: Congrats Murph.

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Speaker 8: And for those that don't know, Murf did do Bison's

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Speaker 8: games at one point in time, so not just the Bills,

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01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 8: he did some Bison stuff too. As we're putting a

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01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 8: photo up for our MSG viewers, Pete Webb of him

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01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 8: alongside Pete Webber who called Bison's games for a long

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01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 8: time and is now down with the Nashville Predators in

1195
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 8: the National High Hockey League calling their games. So yeah,

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Speaker 8: I mean, Murphy is a Buffalo broadcasting institution.

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Speaker 2: He has been in every medium for every you know

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01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 2: sports team, uh, every local outlet. I mean, he's he

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Speaker 2: has been around two generations.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, you could say that. You absolutely could say that.

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01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 8: I hadn't thought of it. I was strictly thinking of

1202
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 8: him in the play by play sense, and I was thinking, oh,

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01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 8: a whole generation of fans. But yes, if you if

1204
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 8: you add it all together, it's yes, it is more

1205
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 8: than one generation.

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01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 2: Absolutely total, total Buffalo guy. That's it's and it's fun

1207
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 2: to think about.

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01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: Let's head back to the phones and go out to

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01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: Bob in Hamburg. What do you got for his Bob?

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01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 17: I like Murphy, he brought her really fun to the game.

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01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 17: But the guy that replaces him right next to Steve, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, thanks Bob. I appreciate the sentiments. Uh, I appreciate it.

1213
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, but it's it's a mirf day. Let's

1214
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: focus on Murph. Yeah, you're right, and it's right.

1215
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 4: It's hard.

1216
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean, change is hard.

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01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 2: And I know that Murph as as we as you

1218
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 2: heard at the beginning of the show we or the

1219
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 2: beginning of this hour, we played the interview with him

1220
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 2: and Susan Rose, and.

1221
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: He struggled with your decision.

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01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 2: He's John was a really good broadcaster, a really good

1223
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 2: broadcaster in every sense of the word. And he was

1224
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 2: a great play by play guy. And to say to

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01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 2: step away from that role in your life had to

1226
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 2: be really difficult for him. And I think we can

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01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 2: all tip our hats to the courage and the and

1228
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 2: the grace that he's shown in doing it. That's hard, Uh,

1229
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 2: Just like it's hard to retire from being a pro athlete.

1230
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 2: It's it's hard retiring from a job like this when

1231
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 2: you're especially when you're so good. The more experience you have,

1232
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 2: the better you get at it. John had an enormous

1233
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 2: amount of experience and in every different aspect of the business,

1234
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 2: right and you know, to be forced by a medical

1235
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 2: condition to step away from it, Man, what a difficult

1236
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 2: thing for him. And your really heart goes out to him,

1237
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 2: and that's where we find ourselves. But it's so fun

1238
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 2: too to think about. And the only positive part about

1239
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 2: this entire scenario is the fact that he's gonna be

1240
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 2: sitting next to me probably this fall. I mean he's

1241
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 2: gonna he's still hanging around still here, right, I mean

1242
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 2: we can still hug him and have a pop with

1243
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 2: him and you know that kind of stuff. So it's

1244
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 2: it's great. So it's just unbelievably tough a break as

1245
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 2: this is. I'm glad I still you to see my friend.

1246
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:43,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 8: Dan Horde, who is the play by radio play by

1248
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 8: play voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and is actually a Jamestown,

1249
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 8: New York native, chimed in with this tweet. Ambassador is

1250
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 8: the perfect word. Van Miller was my broadcasting hero and

1251
01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 8: John Murphy was the perfect announcer to succeed him. From

1252
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 8: the moment you tuned into one of his broadcasts, his

1253
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 8: love for the job and the bills was crystal clear.

1254
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 8: A phenomenal broadcaster and friend. That's really nice coming from Dan,

1255
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 8: who you know, we who we both know and we've

1256
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 8: had on the show and is a great Guy's.

1257
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 2: The guy, he's the guy was mentioning a minute ago.

1258
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 2: He works with Dave Lapham and Dave can't shut up

1259
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 2: in the background. Dave, Dave is just a total fanboy

1260
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 2: in the booth man. He is cheering for the Bengals

1261
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 2: hard at every turn.

1262
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:30,560
Speaker 1: And former offensive lineman Yeah.

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01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 2: And Dan is there trying to do play by play

1264
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 2: and Dave just won't shut up, and he's like, yeah,

1265
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 2: oh you know, you can just hear him, and so

1266
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 2: you know, so Dan Horde knows the job and uh,

1267
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,800
Speaker 2: it's not Yeah, and everybody's kind of chiming in and

1268
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 2: giving their paying their respects to Murph today.

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01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the phones and go to Ryan

1270
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: in Lockport. What do you got for us? Ryan?

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Speaker 13: Hey, guys, I just got a quick Murph story. He's

1272
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 13: a longtime family friend and we were together in San

1273
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 13: Antonio for the Final Four a few years ago and

1274
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 13: we're walking down the street. My father just happens to

1275
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 13: make a comment, geez, we didn't we have didn't see

1276
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 13: that many celebrities today, is like we did the last trip.

1277
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 13: And Murph's reply was, what am I nothing? So we

1278
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 13: start we start busting the shops like we're not talking

1279
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:25,439
Speaker 13: about local b celebrities and all this and that's going on.

1280
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 13: We walked one more block if that, and a shout

1281
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 13: from across the street, Hey, Murph, we didn't live it

1282
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:34,479
Speaker 13: down the rest of the week.

1283
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can imagine never the end of it.

1284
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: That is great. That is quick essential murf too. That

1285
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: is a great story. That is Thanks for share and

1286
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 1: appreciate it.

1287
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:51,439
Speaker 8: But that's the other thing too though, So Murph would

1288
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 8: give you a line like that. But I genuinely believe

1289
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 8: he enjoyed it more if you gave it right back

1290
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 8: to him. So his so Ryan and whoever else was

1291
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 8: with them giving it right back to Murph. Murph likes

1292
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 8: that even more, like when he sends a barber your way,

1293
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 8: if you send one back, I think he enjoys it.

1294
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:11,560
Speaker 2: Well, Murph is like, I think he's like one of

1295
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 2: eight siblings. Well yeah, so that itself, you kind of grow.

1296
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 2: He's got alligators. I mean alligators wish they had the

1297
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 2: thick skin that Murph does. Right, So he when he

1298
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 2: dished it out, you know, that was one of the

1299
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:27,919
Speaker 2: fun things about him. He's a total total bro and

1300
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:30,200
Speaker 2: could take it as well as he dished it out.

1301
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 2: And you're right, that is that's a quintessential story. Thanks

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01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 2: for sharing it. Yeah, Murph obviously grew up in Lockport,

1303
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 2: so he's got a ton of lifelong friends that are

1304
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 2: still here in the area, so it's nice to hear

1305
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 2: from one of them.

1306
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 1: Let's go to Mark in West Seneca. What do you

1307
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 1: got first?

1308
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 18: Mark, Hey, guys, I don't have any personal stories between

1309
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 18: me and Murph. Essentially, I just wanted two things about it.

1310
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 18: First of all, somebody who and everybody has these stories

1311
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 18: in Buffalo. I'm older, so I was there from the

1312
01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 18: opening of the stadium in Orchard Park and was there

1313
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 18: with season tickets for more than thirty years. Okay, and

1314
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 18: over that time this was with Van, but even with Mrph.

1315
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 18: Most importantly with Murph, I was the guy that had

1316
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 18: to bring the radio to sit and stands, and the

1317
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 18: people around me couldn't watch the game like myself unless

1318
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 18: we had a big radio on, getting the play by

1319
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 18: play from Murph in real time as we were watching it.

1320
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 18: And it was like it had to happen. It had

1321
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 18: to be that way. And if for some reason I

1322
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 18: came to the game and I didn't have that radio

1323
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 18: for everybody to listen to around me, everybody was like,

1324
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 18: where's the radio, where's the radio? Turn the radio on,

1325
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:49,959
Speaker 18: you know, And it was just absolutely amazing that he

1326
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 18: was so much a part of the game for us,

1327
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:55,960
Speaker 18: not only when you're at home listening to it on

1328
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 18: the radio, but when you were there. And and secondly,

1329
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 18: and as much as I just loved Murph as a

1330
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 18: play by play guy and he enriched my life as

1331
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 18: a Bills fan, I just am ex. I do have

1332
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 18: a couple of friends who are now personal friends with

1333
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 18: him and his wife, and I've had her and I've

1334
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 18: heard some really really good things that most importantly, his

1335
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 18: health is doing well. He's making improvements, and I just

1336
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 18: pray and wish for him that he's able to live

1337
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 18: the rest of his life out with his family and

1338
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,640
Speaker 18: his wife to the fullest, because the man certainly deserves it,

1339
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 18: so God bless them. And I'm happy to hear about that.

1340
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, very well said thanks for the coppiation.

1341
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:42,679
Speaker 4: Mark.

1342
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, And like we said earlier, that's that's probably the

1343
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 8: silver lining that kind of came out of all of

1344
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 8: this that you know, cognitively, Murph is fine. I mean,

1345
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 8: you heard the interview last hour with Susan Rose that

1346
01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 8: we air that we re aired here last hour, and

1347
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 8: we were commenting on how you know, his sense of

1348
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 8: humor is absolutely still there.

1349
01:09:03,760 --> 01:09:04,640
Speaker 1: I mean I talked to him on the.

1350
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:08,839
Speaker 8: Phone yesterday and we're laughing because we're cracking jokes and stuff,

1351
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 8: and we'll send texts. I mean, we're on a text

1352
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 8: loop sometimes sending certain things we spot on Twitter that

1353
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 8: we think are funny and we think the other person's

1354
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 8: gonna find it funny, we send it, we send it

1355
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,479
Speaker 8: off to each other. So just kind of something that

1356
01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 8: we do because in a lot of ways we I

1357
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 8: think we share a similar sense of humor. I might

1358
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:31,679
Speaker 8: be a little bit more cynical than you two. But yeah,

1359
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 8: so that doesn't surprise me at all. But it's I

1360
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 8: think the fact that Murph is still Murph is probably

1361
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 8: the most important thing.

1362
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is. It's fun to think about. But

1363
01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 1: you're right.

1364
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 2: The thing that the ring's true with all this, with

1365
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:48,679
Speaker 2: Van and with Murph and even now with Brownie doing

1366
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 2: the games, at least for the time being, you get

1367
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 2: guys who really love it and they're really good at

1368
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 2: it and take it really seriously. And it's not just

1369
01:09:57,520 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 2: doing the job right. You also have they also have

1370
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 2: all of them have this sense. And Van had this sense,

1371
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 2: and Murph had this sense. I know Brownie does. You're

1372
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:09,440
Speaker 2: it's a responsibility because you think about the Bill's Mafia,

1373
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:13,680
Speaker 2: you become as just whether they like you or not,

1374
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 2: you're part of the family. You're the play by play

1375
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 2: voice of the team. You become ipso facto and adopted

1376
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 2: son of every family in Western New York when you're

1377
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 2: that voice. And it's a responsibility. You guys, you know

1378
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:32,719
Speaker 2: you feel a responsibility when you're sitting in that chair.

1379
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 2: I know it. I've heard Brownie talk about it. I've

1380
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:36,599
Speaker 2: heard Mirp talk about it, and I knew Van felt

1381
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,640
Speaker 2: the same way. You're talking to family when you're on

1382
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 2: that mic. So it's something that is not taken lightly

1383
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 2: by these guys, and it's it's a responsibility that goes

1384
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 2: with the job. That is, I think sometimes and even

1385
01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 2: for us now talking about Murph the way we're talking

1386
01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 2: about them today, it's a responsibility that not a lot

1387
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 2: of us, you know, acknowledge, but I think we have

1388
01:10:57,960 --> 01:10:59,680
Speaker 2: to when you sit back and think about it, it's

1389
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 2: really one of the important factors about the entire thing.

1390
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, gotta take a break here. We'll be back with

1391
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 8: more on Murph, so stay tuned for that. It's One

1392
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 8: Bill's Live, presented by Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's radio.

1393
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 7: The snap Tyron looks, looks, takes a long look.

1394
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 4: Now he's gonna run.

1395
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 3: Tyrone on the rod at the fifteenth ten nobody can

1396
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 3: fuddle him into the ard zone.

1397
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:25,919
Speaker 6: Touchdown, touchdown, turn on Taylor a twenty yard.

1398
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 5: Scrabble for the Buffalo touchdown, eighteen seconds left, fourth and

1399
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:50,680
Speaker 5: one of the sixth The snap fits, looks, lookspiders right over.

1400
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:51,719
Speaker 19: That's on touchdown.

1401
01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 6: Touchdown, David Nutson, touchdown, Buffalo.

1402
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: I can't believe it.

1403
01:11:57,080 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 19: I can't believe it.

1404
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:07,760
Speaker 1: Check all right.

1405
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,920
Speaker 8: That was John Murphy's call of the week two win

1406
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:16,679
Speaker 8: in twenty eleven, thirty eight thirty five over the then

1407
01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 8: Oakland Raiders with a touchdown pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick to

1408
01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 8: David Nelson, a member of the Goon Squad, which is

1409
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 8: what they were called back then, or what they call themselves,

1410
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 8: I should say. And then you heard Ryan Fitzpatrick screaming

1411
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 8: like a young girl.

1412
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:34,719
Speaker 1: Yes, after that, he was so excited.

1413
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 8: And that's when the Bills got off to a three

1414
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:39,799
Speaker 8: and oh start in twenty eleven.

1415
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 1: They routed the.

1416
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 8: Chiefs in Week one in Kansas City forty one to seven.

1417
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 8: In Week one, you could have knocked anybody over with

1418
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 8: a feather after that. One week two they come home,

1419
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 8: they beat the Raiders thirty eight thirty five.

1420
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:56,599
Speaker 1: And a barn burner of a game.

1421
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 8: And then in week three they beat the New England

1422
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 8: Patriots for the first time in the drought since two

1423
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 8: thousand and three on a last second field goal by

1424
01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:11,480
Speaker 8: Ryan Lindell, which was only made possible because Fred Jackson's

1425
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 8: run to the end zone was officially marked down at

1426
01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 8: the one yard line, which then allowed them to kill

1427
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 8: some clock on a couple of kneel downs and then

1428
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:22,840
Speaker 8: kick the game winning field goal to win twenty four

1429
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:23,719
Speaker 8: to twenty one.

1430
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,719
Speaker 1: Three And oh, start, how do you remember that? I can't.

1431
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:30,719
Speaker 8: Well, that was the first time there was a glimmer

1432
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 8: of hope that the season was going to be super enjoyable.

1433
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been a Buffalo guy now for going on,

1434
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:38,799
Speaker 2: you know, thirty eight thirty I'm going on thirty nine years.

1435
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:43,680
Speaker 2: Thirty eight years, I guess, And so what you know,

1436
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 2: we've been here through all of it, and you think

1437
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 2: about what all the roller coaster that we all rode

1438
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 2: on that drought, mostly from the from the time, from

1439
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:57,240
Speaker 2: the moment, from the moment the home run throwback goes

1440
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:02,800
Speaker 2: to the moment when Tyler Boyd goes over the goal

1441
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 2: line in Baltimore.

1442
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 8: Think about that ride, bro, we were in the desert.

1443
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 8: We were in the desert for a while.

1444
01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 2: That moment, that moment was maybe the most the coolest moment.

1445
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 8: You're talking about twenty seventeen. Now, yeah, yeah, I'm talking

1446
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 8: to the drought.

1447
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 2: Yes, they hadn't done anything, and no guarantee they're gonna

1448
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,679
Speaker 2: do anything. That moment might have been the coolest moment

1449
01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 2: in Buffalo sports history because you had to pay such

1450
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 2: a price to make it happen. That might be the

1451
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 2: best moment in Buffalo sports history. Think about it, and

1452
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:48,480
Speaker 2: I've lived through some cool ones. Think about why because.

1453
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: Of the seventeen big statement.

1454
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:52,600
Speaker 2: I know, right, I didn't think about it until I

1455
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 2: said it, But it might be because, and here's why.

1456
01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 2: Seventeen years of build up, of struggle, of angst, of

1457
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:09,320
Speaker 2: bad breaker, of absolute hopelessness at times, right, seventeen years

1458
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 2: of that, then having to get a game against a

1459
01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 2: division and you win that game and you're still not guarantee,

1460
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 2: but your guys gut it.

1461
01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:19,439
Speaker 1: Out and they did.

1462
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 2: Everything they could possibly do. And here's why it's the

1463
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 2: great moment. Through the length of the drought, You've got

1464
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:32,480
Speaker 2: a fan base that becomes mafia, that actually becomes stronger

1465
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:36,320
Speaker 2: because of the suffering that we all went through together,

1466
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 2: because of the commiserating together, because of the futility of

1467
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 2: our efforts for so many years. And then to have

1468
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:47,839
Speaker 2: your team do that one thing, play above their station

1469
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 2: all season, and to do finally the one thing they

1470
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 2: can give them a glimmer of hope. Then, and then here's.

1471
01:15:55,960 --> 01:16:02,679
Speaker 1: Why all of us, all of us watch it happen together.

1472
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 2: In the locker room, in the ticket counters, in the

1473
01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 2: concourses of the stadium, in the bars, in the restaurants,

1474
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:11,679
Speaker 2: in our homes.

1475
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: We're all watching it happen together. That is why.

1476
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 2: I think that's probably the best moment in Buffalo sports history.

1477
01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should. We should have a poll on that.

1478
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: It was universally shared yes by the Bills.

1479
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:33,920
Speaker 2: Name, instantaneously simultaneously, not yes, insiously and simultaneously together.

1480
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 1: That's why.

1481
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 2: And I think that moment really galvanized what we know

1482
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 2: as the Bill's Mafia today.

1483
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:44,680
Speaker 8: I think it made it a national yes phenomena. I

1484
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:48,679
Speaker 8: think Bill's Mafia had, you know, amongst the Bills fan base.

1485
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 8: People knew what Bill's Mafia was and were and wanted

1486
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:54,799
Speaker 8: to be a part of it.

1487
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:57,120
Speaker 1: Even though the team was not winning.

1488
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:01,600
Speaker 8: And then that happens, and that's when you drop the

1489
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:08,000
Speaker 8: plunger and Bill's Mafia went national as a recognized national entity.

1490
01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's kind of how I see that day. Yeah,

1491
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 1: it was. There's nothing like it.

1492
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 8: And and that's the thing think about it.

1493
01:17:18,040 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 1: That was a bar in New York City. Though yeah

1494
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 1: I've been there.

1495
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 2: I've been there, my son took me there one y

1496
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 2: it there, There's I think of another thing like that.

1497
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 1: I mean, that's.

1498
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 2: That is a quintessential moment that is only Buffaloes to enjoy. No,

1499
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,520
Speaker 2: there's been championships won by their teams, even in simultaneously

1500
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 2: done like that was. That is a purely Buffalo moment.

1501
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 2: And well that's why I'm that's why I put it

1502
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:51,519
Speaker 2: all the way up there. It's way up there because

1503
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:53,599
Speaker 2: it's a moment and it's not a game. It's like

1504
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:57,280
Speaker 2: not fifty one to three, right, nothing like that or

1505
01:17:57,320 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 2: the comeback game. But it's a moment where it's the

1506
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 2: and the fans are as big a part of it

1507
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 2: as the players were.

1508
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:06,639
Speaker 1: And what made it even more buffalo was we come

1509
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 1: back on the team plane and we land at about

1510
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 1: one thirty in the morning because the Bills Dolphins game

1511
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 1: was a was a late game. It was later than

1512
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 1: one thirty, wasn't it. I think we landed right around

1513
01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:19,000
Speaker 1: one thirty.

1514
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 8: And it's two degrees, there's snow, and there's about five,

1515
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 8: I would say, between five hundred and one thousand people

1516
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 8: at the airport.

1517
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:37,240
Speaker 1: Waiting for us.

1518
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 8: Look how cold man people are standing out there on

1519
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 8: New Year's Day. It's two degrees and it just doesn't matter.

1520
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:50,360
Speaker 8: It just doesn't matter.

1521
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: It was insane, insane, right, That's I don't know.

1522
01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 2: That's I might nominate it.

1523
01:18:57,800 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: And it's up there. It's gotta be, I think.

1524
01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:02,519
Speaker 8: I feel like I just I feel like Bill's history

1525
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 8: needs to be combed over a little bit more thoroughly

1526
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 8: to know for sure.

1527
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:08,680
Speaker 1: But it is up there.

1528
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:08,920
Speaker 17: Yeah.

1529
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:10,839
Speaker 2: And I know that it's a little bit of recency

1530
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 2: bias because we're all we're all victims of that because

1531
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 2: there's back times, back in the sixty four sixty five

1532
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 2: in AFL Championship, people tremendous.

1533
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:20,400
Speaker 1: Phill talk about when the goal post came down and

1534
01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:20,640
Speaker 1: you won.

1535
01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 2: The Pandomonium was a great moment. That's another one.

1536
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 1: And after a lot of struggling, right, and that's right,

1537
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:29,639
Speaker 1: and I say it. You know.

1538
01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:36,880
Speaker 2: That one of the reasons why this moment is in

1539
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 2: my in my view better than those is because of

1540
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:42,560
Speaker 2: the technological simultaneous.

1541
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:45,920
Speaker 8: You had social media, you had you know, instantaneous video and.

1542
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so now the pandemonium when people were storming the.

1543
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:55,599
Speaker 1: Field carrying the goal posts out over the set, that's.

1544
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:57,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's got to be up there, right, that's got

1545
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 2: to be up there. Because because it was you know,

1546
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:03,519
Speaker 2: eighty everybody was right. Everybody who was there was there.

1547
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:05,800
Speaker 2: I mean, they shared it all at the same time.

1548
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:08,640
Speaker 2: And it took an unbelievable play to you know, like

1549
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 2: a block field goal by Freddy who knocked it down

1550
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:15,719
Speaker 2: and Nate picks it up, and you know, everything's different

1551
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 2: from that moment. I think one thing too about this,

1552
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:23,320
Speaker 2: about the drought Breaker was the fact that now it

1553
01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:27,240
Speaker 2: really was an enormous new chapter because we're in the

1554
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 2: we are light years oh yeah, light years away from

1555
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 2: what we the team was.

1556
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 1: Then the playoffs five years in a row.

1557
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 2: We're winning a playoff game every year, and that's that's

1558
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:37,879
Speaker 2: a special streak.

1559
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 8: Let's go back to the phones, though, and we go

1560
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 8: to Pat in north Tonawanda next.

1561
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 1: What's up, Pat?

1562
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 4: Hey?

1563
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 17: How you doing? Guys? Good? I just wanted to talk

1564
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 17: about the time that and I don't know Murph or

1565
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:53,719
Speaker 17: anything like that, but he did something once I really

1566
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 17: cemented my my my life for the man. Do you

1567
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 17: remember Steve one Burline. He was coaching the Cleveland Clavilliers

1568
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:05,480
Speaker 17: and he got fired.

1569
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:07,240
Speaker 1: Oh John Beeline, Yeah, coaching.

1570
01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:11,719
Speaker 17: He went out of rent on one of those lives.

1571
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:16,439
Speaker 17: And I just thought to myself, that's his friend, and

1572
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 17: he was he was gonna say have to say about it,

1573
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 17: and it just showed me the loyalty of the man,

1574
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 17: and uh, you know, it kind of reminded me of

1575
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 17: I think a lot of loyalty. And I mean I'm

1576
01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 17: an old part now, so it don't really matter, but

1577
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:35,720
Speaker 17: his loyalty to me was it was pretty good. That's

1578
01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 17: all I really got to say.

1579
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, Pat, I appreciate that. I remember this. If

1580
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: you're a friend of Murph, he's gonna yeah, he's oh

1581
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:43,680
Speaker 1: my god, I'll go down. He went to bat for

1582
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 1: John Beeline.

1583
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, like nobody's business because he he was you know,

1584
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 2: it was a he did get a poor he got

1585
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:52,639
Speaker 2: treated poorly.

1586
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 1: They got bounced like ten games into the.

1587
01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 2: Season and Murph was not having it. And you know,

1588
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 2: we're one Bill's we're talking about the Buffalo Bills, another

1589
01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 2: sport in another city, and he goes he went, and

1590
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 2: he went all in and you got to love him

1591
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:12,600
Speaker 2: for it, so you know, and you're right, that's a

1592
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:15,080
Speaker 2: good call by you, Paty. He's you're right, and that's

1593
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 2: that's quintessential, you know, Lockport irishman right there going O's like,

1594
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:23,240
Speaker 2: by golly, I'm going you're not doing that to my

1595
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 2: buddy man, Murph.

1596
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 1: Let him have I loved it.

1597
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 4: It was great.

1598
01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 8: Let's uh, let's go to Maureene out in Lancaster next.

1599
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:30,679
Speaker 8: What's up Maureene?

1600
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:36,519
Speaker 20: Hi, guys. I would reflect on a different part of

1601
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:40,160
Speaker 20: his career that I enjoyed as a young mother and

1602
01:22:40,240 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 20: I'm an old retired lady. But I used to He

1603
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:49,040
Speaker 20: used to have a radio program on the end in

1604
01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:51,759
Speaker 20: the evenings. He would do it on Monday night, Monday

1605
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:57,679
Speaker 20: Night with Larry Feltzer and they would discuss everything obviously

1606
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:01,920
Speaker 20: related to football, but the Bills all in anticipation of

1607
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 20: whoever was playing the Monday night game, and it really

1608
01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 20: was one of the best. It was more than an hour,

1609
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 20: because I believe it started at seven o'clock and went

1610
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 20: up to about quarter to nine, and my kids got

1611
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:17,720
Speaker 20: the longest pass because then I just don't mean leave,

1612
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 20: I don't mean leave them in the tub, but I

1613
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:21,719
Speaker 20: would sit there while they were playing in the tub

1614
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:27,680
Speaker 20: and be able to really enjoy the conversation between two

1615
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 20: guys who really knew sports. You know, now you get

1616
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 20: everybody with their opinions. I'm not referring to you guys,

1617
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 20: because you guys are great, but there are so many

1618
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 20: people that have opinions and they can't pick. Their opinions

1619
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:44,559
Speaker 20: are often so negative. And he really didn't talk about

1620
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,880
Speaker 20: people in a negative way. You know, he had a

1621
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 20: lot of respect for people who had been in the

1622
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 20: game for a while, and you know, even when things

1623
01:23:53,439 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 20: weren't going well, he didn't He didn't drag the whole

1624
01:23:56,400 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 20: team down. He didn't drag the coaching staff and the mud.

1625
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 20: He was just such a he's such a professional, you know,

1626
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:06,080
Speaker 20: And I said, I just I so looked forward to

1627
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 20: that when he went to TV. I actually missed him

1628
01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 20: at night because he didn't get to give as many

1629
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 20: There weren't as many conversations on TV because you only

1630
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 20: have a small window of time. And you know, I

1631
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:22,360
Speaker 20: enjoyed it when he obviously every every week with the

1632
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:25,320
Speaker 20: game calls and stuff like that, you know, turned down

1633
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:27,759
Speaker 20: the volume and turn on the turn out the radio.

1634
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:32,920
Speaker 20: It's just you know, he is an overall class guy.

1635
01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 20: I hope when the Bills get to the super Bowl

1636
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 20: and win the Super Bowl, I hope he is in

1637
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,680
Speaker 20: that booth and is able to call it even if

1638
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:45,960
Speaker 20: it's just that the Bills win the super Bowl, because

1639
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:50,719
Speaker 20: he deserves it. He's been through the really tough days,

1640
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:54,200
Speaker 20: but he has you know, he has so much much

1641
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 20: respect in this area. And you know he's from Buffalo.

1642
01:24:59,160 --> 01:25:02,679
Speaker 20: He is Buffalo, and I think it means it would

1643
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:05,639
Speaker 20: mean a lot to people that are here in Buffalo.

1644
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 20: I know I would love to hear him call that

1645
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 20: adults have won with Super Bowl. Anyway, enjoy your show.

1646
01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 20: It's a great shows. I know it's got to be

1647
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 20: tough at times when it's hard to find things to

1648
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:21,040
Speaker 20: talk about in the off season. Also, you do a

1649
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:21,760
Speaker 20: pretty good job.

1650
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, I appreciate that.

1651
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,920
Speaker 20: No, it's a great it's a great program. I enjoy

1652
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 20: it all right.

1653
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:29,479
Speaker 1: Thanks Maury for the call, Steve.

1654
01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:33,240
Speaker 8: I was not living in Buffalo yet when Murph was

1655
01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 8: doing that evening show on the end, but I just

1656
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 8: being a colleague of mervs and a friend is for

1657
01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 8: as long as I have, I've heard plenty of stories

1658
01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 8: about some of the hygiens that went on that show

1659
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 8: because he had Fred Smurlis on as a weekly guest,

1660
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:52,840
Speaker 8: and for anyone that knows Fred Smurlis, you don't know

1661
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 8: what's coming out of his mouth next, and that can

1662
01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 8: lead to some pretty entertaining stuff and some stuff that

1663
01:25:57,920 --> 01:25:59,240
Speaker 8: you can get you in hot water.

1664
01:25:59,320 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: That's right.

1665
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:04,240
Speaker 2: So that Yeah, that's how long Murph has been doing

1666
01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 2: it in this in this city, in this region, and

1667
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 2: for these fans.

1668
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 1: So it's sad to turn the page on his career. Uh.

1669
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:19,559
Speaker 2: I'm glad that that he made the decision. No, it

1670
01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 2: wasn't made for him, and uh uh, it's it's just

1671
01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:27,680
Speaker 2: it's quintessential Murph that he goes out on. Certainly a

1672
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 2: tough break, but certainly it did making the decision for himself.

1673
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:34,439
Speaker 2: I thought that was a very good way to handle it.

1674
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:36,960
Speaker 8: Break time for us here some final thoughts on the

1675
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:38,920
Speaker 8: tweet sheet. When we return here on one Bill's Live,

1676
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 8: stay with us.

1677
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 7: You cannot hear yourself think Praty looks down the middle,

1678
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:46,760
Speaker 7: passes tipped in and this in except that picked up

1679
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:49,519
Speaker 7: on Florence at the twenty two, tucks.

1680
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:50,320
Speaker 1: To the left at the.

1681
01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:51,680
Speaker 3: Ten hut the foot.

1682
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:55,519
Speaker 6: Touchdown, touchdown Draighton Florence touched down.

1683
01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:59,560
Speaker 19: Oh Murph, this place is is nuts bedlam petulam it

1684
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:02,840
Speaker 19: or two. For the first time today, the bells had

1685
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:09,679
Speaker 19: to leave. It was cool, calm Ryan Lindell. Here we go,

1686
01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 19: three seconds left, twenty eight yard field goal from the middle.

1687
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:13,599
Speaker 4: Of the field.

1688
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 5: Kick me some dance, got had my pals had.

1689
01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:22,120
Speaker 1: The feet doing Patriots.

1690
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:26,760
Speaker 7: The Bills come roaring back and beating the Patriots thirty.

1691
01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:27,240
Speaker 4: Four thirty one.

1692
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 8: And that's the call, thirty four to thirty one. I

1693
01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:32,640
Speaker 8: had the score wrong, twenty four to twenty one?

1694
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 1: Was that I said?

1695
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:37,760
Speaker 8: Thirty four to thirty one, twenty eleven, And uh, I'll

1696
01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:40,880
Speaker 8: never forget. I get home from that game and my

1697
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 8: wife tells me it was a beautiful day.

1698
01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: It was like seventy degrees.

1699
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:48,679
Speaker 8: Late September, so everybody in the neighborhood had their windows open,

1700
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:51,639
Speaker 8: and so my wife told me when I got home,

1701
01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 8: she goes, I could hear everyone in the neighborhood screaming

1702
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:58,719
Speaker 8: in their homes at the end of that game, after

1703
01:27:58,720 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 8: the field goal went up and through.

1704
01:28:00,240 --> 01:28:04,599
Speaker 1: That's just we are all in it together, bro Yes,

1705
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 1: we are. That is right.

1706
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 8: A couple more tweets before we go from Ryan Nobles,

1707
01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 8: I hope I have that right, NBC News correspondent. When

1708
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:21,360
Speaker 8: I was calling Brockport football games as a student, I

1709
01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:23,920
Speaker 8: timidly approached John Murphy at Bill's camp and asked him

1710
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 8: if he'd review my tapes and offer advice. He immediately

1711
01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 8: said yes, gave me his contact info. Murphy is a

1712
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:32,679
Speaker 8: true class act, and my mom loved him on local

1713
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 8: TV Kevin Maher News twelve Long Island.

1714
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 1: He's a journalist.

1715
01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:41,639
Speaker 8: When New York sports fans talk about having the best announcers,

1716
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:43,360
Speaker 8: they often talk about the voices of the New York

1717
01:28:43,400 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 8: City teams. They overlook John Murphy in Buffalo. That is

1718
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 8: a major mistake. Best of luck to Murph, and then

1719
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:55,639
Speaker 8: we have here. Dean says. John Murphy is a treasure

1720
01:28:56,040 --> 01:28:58,840
Speaker 8: hope to still see at Saint John Fisher for training camp.

1721
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 8: Mike Correem, a Sports Net producer, says John Murphy was

1722
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 8: the voice of the Bills for so many memorable moments.

1723
01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:10,280
Speaker 8: He will be missed, so thanks for all your sentiments

1724
01:29:10,479 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 8: and all the stories that you shared with us here.

1725
01:29:13,200 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 1: As you has announced he's stepping in.

1726
01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 2: Looking for him at the stadium this coming year. Make

1727
01:29:17,439 --> 01:29:19,160
Speaker 2: sure you come up if you see him walking in

1728
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:21,200
Speaker 2: to see come watch the games as he will. Make

1729
01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 2: sure you go up and say hi to him. He'd

1730
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,720
Speaker 2: love to talk to you and give him your best.

1731
01:29:24,760 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 2: You can tell him this stuff in person, which is

1732
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:29,519
Speaker 2: one bright silver lining about this.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, as Susan Rose said, this is not goodbye,

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Speaker 8: it's see you around, and that's what we'll be doing.

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Speaker 1: We'll be seeing him around. Thanks for joining us today.

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Speaker 8: I'll be back with Christiapasso tomorrow here on One Bill's Live.