Debbie Haley was unable to do it, not even at the request of her boss.
This was 10 years ago. At least. The framed photo of the two kids had ended up in storage at Highmark Stadium – still known then as “The Ralph” – and one of Haley’s supervisors glanced at the old photo and told her:
About time to throw that out.
Haley looked at the image, two little boys side by side and decked out in Bills regalia, intense and eager faces painted in Bills colors, expressions showing what seems to be some classic shared uh-oh-here-it-comes worry – the younger child looking even just a little bit it’s-been-a-long-day tired – as they watch a Bills game.
Both little guys wear Bills jerseys. One is in a hoodie, the other in an old-school little kid turtleneck, with what seems to be a little face paint dabbed on it. To Haley, they kind of seemed like everybody’s kids in Western New York, looking out from another era.
Haley, of Hamburg, works for the Bills. She’s in charge of cleaning suites at the stadium. She guesses the photo was probably hanging in a suite that changed hands, and some family forgot to take it upon leaving, and that’s what sent it into storage.
Today, Billy the Buffalo serves as the big blue mascot controlled and sanctioned by the team. But for at least one full season decades ago, the rogue “dancing buffalo” was beloved to 80,000 Bills fans in Rich Stadium.
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