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Postcard from camp: Bills
Here is an article for SI touring Bills camp. Some Peters opinion, and insight to St. john Fisher. Not alot of substance though
Edited: Please click link to view entire article. - Mr. Miyagi
Here is an article for SI touring Bills camp. Some Peters opinion, and insight to St. john Fisher. Not alot of substance though
Setting The Scene
In 1948 a legendary priest of the Basilian Order, Father Hugh Haffey, saw his tireless efforts rewarded with the establishment of a Basilian institution, St. John Fisher College, in Pittsford, N.Y., a pretty little town in the Rochester suburbs. I know this because when I was at the Bills camp at St. John Fisher, I asked one of the students when the school was founded.
"I never knew it was lost," she said. When the hysterical laughter died down, she said, "Wait right here," and immediately came back with a 55-page historical memoir by Father Haffey, leading up to the laying of the first stone.
"Tomorrow you get graded on this," she said, which didn't worry me because I knew something extra about St. John Fisher, and I knew it because The Flaming Redhead and I have been slaves to the Henry VIII TV series The Tudors. John Fisher was the martyred cardinal (no, not Matt Leinart) who defied the king and got his head chopped.
And so in this idyllic spot close to Lake Ontario, the Bills have set up their training facilities, complete with fan delights such as interactive participation gimmicks and conference rooms and "enhanced sideline vantage points," which means that fans can wander right up to the edge of the stands, a whisper away from the field, without getting Securitied to death.
It's a nice, loose, happy atmosphere, and the guy who brought all this action to his school nine years ago is Russ Brandon, who now bears the title of CEO of the Bills, and you will hear a lot about him in paragraphs to come, yes indeed, quite a bit, so don't go away.
In 1948 a legendary priest of the Basilian Order, Father Hugh Haffey, saw his tireless efforts rewarded with the establishment of a Basilian institution, St. John Fisher College, in Pittsford, N.Y., a pretty little town in the Rochester suburbs. I know this because when I was at the Bills camp at St. John Fisher, I asked one of the students when the school was founded.
"I never knew it was lost," she said. When the hysterical laughter died down, she said, "Wait right here," and immediately came back with a 55-page historical memoir by Father Haffey, leading up to the laying of the first stone.
"Tomorrow you get graded on this," she said, which didn't worry me because I knew something extra about St. John Fisher, and I knew it because The Flaming Redhead and I have been slaves to the Henry VIII TV series The Tudors. John Fisher was the martyred cardinal (no, not Matt Leinart) who defied the king and got his head chopped.
And so in this idyllic spot close to Lake Ontario, the Bills have set up their training facilities, complete with fan delights such as interactive participation gimmicks and conference rooms and "enhanced sideline vantage points," which means that fans can wander right up to the edge of the stands, a whisper away from the field, without getting Securitied to death.
It's a nice, loose, happy atmosphere, and the guy who brought all this action to his school nine years ago is Russ Brandon, who now bears the title of CEO of the Bills, and you will hear a lot about him in paragraphs to come, yes indeed, quite a bit, so don't go away.
" ~ yordad
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