Ebenezer
12-23-2003, 12:15 PM
Telephone calls for Van will sadly come to an end
By STEVE LIPMAN
12/21/2003
The telephone company will lose some business after the end of the Bills season. I won't be making any more Van Miller calls.
As any expatriate Buffalonian knows, maintaining your hometown ties is difficult, especially in the cultural miasma of New York City, where I have lived for 20 years. Upon moving to New York, in the middle of the football season, I immediately established a Sunday afternoon ritual. I conduct it about 16 times a year (more during the Bills playoff years).
Sometime during the second half of every game, my parents' phone in Tonawanda rings. "Hi," I say, dispensing with the small talk niceties, "please put Van on."
My mother knows to keep the radio tuned to the Bills' station. She places the radio near the phone, and I listen to Van. No matter if my folks are also watching the game on TV, no matter if - on infrequent Sundays - New York TV is carrying the game.
more (http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031221/2051872.asp)
By STEVE LIPMAN
12/21/2003
The telephone company will lose some business after the end of the Bills season. I won't be making any more Van Miller calls.
As any expatriate Buffalonian knows, maintaining your hometown ties is difficult, especially in the cultural miasma of New York City, where I have lived for 20 years. Upon moving to New York, in the middle of the football season, I immediately established a Sunday afternoon ritual. I conduct it about 16 times a year (more during the Bills playoff years).
Sometime during the second half of every game, my parents' phone in Tonawanda rings. "Hi," I say, dispensing with the small talk niceties, "please put Van on."
My mother knows to keep the radio tuned to the Bills' station. She places the radio near the phone, and I listen to Van. No matter if my folks are also watching the game on TV, no matter if - on infrequent Sundays - New York TV is carrying the game.
more (http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20031221/2051872.asp)