The Spaz
05-27-2004, 10:16 PM
Growing up in Buffalo, Jim McNally remembers when he and his buddies would sneak into Bills games for free.
"We used to go with a group of four or five guys," McNally recalled with a chuckle. "And we'd say, 'The guy behind me has got the ticket.' And when you got to the last guy, everybody would take off."
Some 44 years later, as the Bills new offensive line coach, McNally still isn't paying for admission. But he'll admit that the stakes are higher.
"There's a little more pressure," McNally said, following a Bills minicamp session Thursday.
More pressure, he noted, than at any of the previous three NFL teams and four colleges that McNally's worked at in his 39-year coaching career. The Bills were not only the team he rooted for as a youngster, but McNally has hundreds of friends and family members -- most of them Bills fans -- that are now literally looking over his shoulder.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/football/nfl/05/27/bc.fbn.bills.mcnally.ap/index.html
"We used to go with a group of four or five guys," McNally recalled with a chuckle. "And we'd say, 'The guy behind me has got the ticket.' And when you got to the last guy, everybody would take off."
Some 44 years later, as the Bills new offensive line coach, McNally still isn't paying for admission. But he'll admit that the stakes are higher.
"There's a little more pressure," McNally said, following a Bills minicamp session Thursday.
More pressure, he noted, than at any of the previous three NFL teams and four colleges that McNally's worked at in his 39-year coaching career. The Bills were not only the team he rooted for as a youngster, but McNally has hundreds of friends and family members -- most of them Bills fans -- that are now literally looking over his shoulder.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/football/nfl/05/27/bc.fbn.bills.mcnally.ap/index.html