Remember that time when Mayor Brown was being all loose with the “keys” to the city? Whoring it around to an athlete who could bring some life back into the Buffalo Bills:

Yeah that wasn’t too fun. Let’s face it, it made Buffalo look pretty pathetic:

Mayor Byron Brown is even giving Owens the key to the city today, despite the fact that the guy has not played a single down in a Bills uniform yet. I guess when your local heroes are all drunks, masturbators, crap rockers, Chloe Sevigny fellatio victims or Jim Kelly, a egomaniac crybaby sounds like a pretty good upgrade.

I think we found an easy quick fix for hizzoner, (besides changing the locks)  that might help Buffalo save face and give us a bit of our pride back. If even just for a moment.

A petition is going around to urge the Mayor to give Ryan Miller a key to the City of Buffalo:

As a long-standing and active member of the Buffalo community, we the undersigned believe Ryan Miller deserves the key to the city of Buffalo. He has represented not only his NHL team, but the city of Buffalo with honor and poise on the international stage during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, bringing home a silver medal and the honor of tournament MVP. Aside from sports, he is an active member in the Buffalo community. Some of his community service includes the Steadfast Foundation and Roswell Park, helping cancer patients and their families. Ryan Miller inspires the Buffalo community to help others and have faith in each other as well as our city. It is for these reasons; we believe Ryan Miller should be given the key to the city.

Sign the petition here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/3039/petition.html

Facebook it:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=338895074181&ref=nf&v=info

Making up for that TO mistake is going to take more than just giving Ryan the key.  So I would urge Mayor Brown to consider giving a key to all of Buffalo’s Olympic medal winners.  As Brian Castner said last week:

There are a little over 300 million Americans, and a little over a million Buffalonians. So, for rough math, one out of every 300 Americans is from Buffalo.

There are 205 athletes on the US Olympic team. Which means, if we’re lucky, we could statistically hope to have one athlete represent our city.

Instead, we have four directly from Buffalo (Matt DePeters, Patty Kane, Steve Mesler and Brooks Orpik), who competed in freestyle skiing, bobsled, and hockey. Between them, they are bringing home a gold and two silvers to Buffalo. Not bad. The British would refer to that as “punching above our weight.”