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Before you know it, we're gonna be in a Buffalo Bills game. But yesterday these new uniforms got released.

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Oh, are they hideous?

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No. You need to listen. You need to no you need to listen to this audio on why this uniform took a turn and why it's so important. Basically, and I'm I mean, yes, I'm gonna have you listen to it, but the gist is there is a blue collar on the uniform, and they are paying homage to Buffalo and what it is, which is blue collar workers, hard workers.

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They could have done yes, yes, understood that. You have to realize Buffalo many years ago started out as a railroad city, went moved on to a steel city, had to reinvent itself again to do more. But the problem with it is it looks like the Detroit Lions uniforms threw up on the Bills uniforms.

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Listen to the video that they released yesterday honoring the blue collar legacy.

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I started working when I was 12 years old. I've been a union sheet metal worker for almost 30 years now.

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I've run the gamut of blue collar in Buffalo, and it really is the backbone of this city.

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From your family growing up, it just follows generation after generation. We just got up every day and went to work and worked hard and made decisions.

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That's Tony from the south side of Buffalo, just to let you know.

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Hold on a second. You gotta hear this guy say Chick tawaga. It's adorable.

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They're willing to do all that hard work. We grew up in Chictawaga. Chicktawaga, yeah.

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Chicktawaga. I call it Chick to Vegas because of all the signs, you know. Chick tawga, the pew, the pew's another one. I don't know why I sound like I'm from Chicago all of a sudden, but there's a little bit of that.

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You don't like this?

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No, here's the thing. I think what they're doing is beautiful. And yes, the the Bills fans are they're the salt of the earth. They're the grits. They're the grit. They're the people that do they used to work at the Ford plant before, you know, Ford shuttered that.

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They've done everything like getting their hands calloused.

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That Bethlehem Steel when it was there, you know, the all these, yes, Buffalo was a and I mean still has a lot of blue collar, you know, uh, let's say, in its core. And like I said, it's had to evolve it a bit from there. The problem with it is couldn't you put a blue collar on the actual Bills uniform? Look at this uniform. It looks like the Detroit Lions threw up on the Bills.

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It's a little silver bullet-y.

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You need to post for anyone that has not seen this, you've got to post this because I'm sorry. I, you know, you know me, a ride or die for the Bills, but man, it is.

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I'll post it right now.

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It is just not a great look. Give me one second. And I'm not sure what they're thinking with the helmet change either.

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I it's just Oh, you know what? That's so funny. I didn't even look at it. I was so engrossed in the actual like collar and everything.

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I love the blue collar angle, but I the but but it's just ugly. It's just ugly.

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It's just ugly. They probably should have consulted you first. Honest to God, the thing's just hideous. August 15th. Yeah, well, I know preseason, yeah. Pre-season, August 15th. Uh, I think we talked about this yesterday.

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Why wouldn't they have worn the red uniforms more? I love those. Put a little blue collar on that. I don't know. Figure something out.

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So the red uniforms they don't wear that often, right?

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No, I don't even know what they're gonna. Now, here's my question, too. Are they gonna use any of the white or the blue or the red uniforms? Or have we just shifted 100% to this?

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Do you think that they don't use the white because it's hard to clean? I'm serious. Have you tried to clean some sweat stains off of a football jersey?

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I'm gonna bet they got stock and bleach a lot of it.

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Yeah, but you can't bleach it. Sure you can.

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To that sort of material? Of course you can. Um just ask any football mom. They'll tell you how they get it out. Uh-uh. Two points. This is where the Bills have missed the mark twice. Okay. One with the stupid whiteout uniforms, which were hideous. Even the TV announcers are like, this is gonna be a heck of a game to call because we're really having a hard time seeing the the uh players' names and numbers. Those things were hideous. Those white out uniforms, and now this, and it's not like I'm stuck in my ways going, uh, you can't change tradition. I'm saying you can add blue to whatever and make it a tradition, you know, something from blue collar. This uniform is hideous.

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What's the connection? And you might not know this, and I definitely don't know this because I'm not a I was not raised a Buffalonian. Why do they call it the nickel city? Because that's why they they have that silver sheen. What's the deal with that? Do they used to make nickels there? No my god, it's gotta be something with steel, right?

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I did know something about why it was the nickel city, because it was also called the Queen City for a long time. Oh, why is that? I don't know, there's a lot of different things.

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Because the back of the old US Indian head nickel, produced from 1913 to 1938, and commonly called the Buffalo Nickel, featured an American bison. Oh, that's interesting, because in this video that you're gonna watch here in a second, as soon as I posted, they have a Native American guy talking in it too.

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Yeah, yeah. Oh, forgive me for not remembering the whole nickel thing. It's been a few decades.

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Nickel for the bass, blue collar for or uh blue collar for the blue collar workers. It all makes sense, really.

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I I I just want people's opinions. I think this thing's hideous.

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I'm gonna hit I'm gonna hit post right now.

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Okay.