Sporting a Donte Whitner No. 20 jersey, Johnson had plenty of reasons to smile Sunday despite his favorite team's 03 record. Three weeks after an NFL official threatened to close Johnson's exotic tailgate after witnessing numerous people line up to have shots of Polish cherry liqueur out of the thumbhole of a bowling ball, Johnson, a 21year fixture in the Bills main parking lot, no longer felt welcome in his Sunday home away from home..I proud because to me he really the forerunner that saved all of sports because everybody adopted [the draft] afterwards, Upton Bell said. Can remember commissioners of other sports calling him over a period of time saying, me how you do it, how it works. But on the other hand, and I see two of the greatest selfpromoting groups around ESPN and the NFL and you would never know Bert Bell existed.

"It wasn't an easy day. It was hard to pick clubs in the wind but I enjoy playing in this weather. I wanted to show patience and I showed it wit