The Buffalo Bills set a season ticket record this week. Does first year head coach Rex Ryan perceive this as added pressure?

"No, I’ll tell you what," said Ryan, on Tuesday afternoon. "I was excited about it and I’ll tell you why. I think the commitment by our fan base is tremendous.

"I knew before I even came here, I knew how awesome these fans were. This is just another thing to reinforce it. We’re all excited about this season and it’s not, look at our schedule, I get it man there’s a lot of good teams on our schedule that we’re playing here, but our fans aren’t coming to see the opponent, they’re coming to see the Buffalo Bills.

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"They’re seeing their football team. And that’s what is exciting me, because when you come here, you’re not just playing the Bills, you’re playing this entire, you know, this fan base, you know, our fans, you’re playing our football team obviously, but you’re playing the community, and I think that our community takes a great deal of pride in their football team.

"But this is, this is about us and, you know, was I excited about that? Darn right I was man. Like, 'Come on in here and get a piece of this'."

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