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    Is the Bill's Mafia, etc., full of complainers?

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    30 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

     

    LOL based upon what OTHER FANS think of Josh Allen and Sean McDermott?

     

    With rare exceptions, OTHER FANS never freakin' watch our games.

     

    Check the link given in the OP's link.


    In the minds of the random fans they polled (or who self selected themselves to respond, that part not entirely clear.

     

    Yes, missing the fact that it's just a poll of fan perceptions

    yeah, not exactly a rocket science.

    Is the Bill's Mafia, etc., full of complainers?

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    I didn't see this posted elsewhere, if so moderators please merge or delete.  I found this article (posted below) and while having been on GDTs several times I see some major complaining I don't see it with the coaching and/or JA.  Maybe I am missing something? https://www.wkbw.com/sports/buffalo-bills/bills-mafia-ranks-among-fan-bases-who-complain-the-most-in-the-nfl-according-to-nationwide-poll

    Why Did You Become a Buffalo Bills Fan?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    2 hours ago, NewEra said:

    After writing novels in this same thread 20 times over the last 20 years, I’ll leave it short and sweet.

     

    Grew up a block from Bills training camp in Fredonia. Pops dragged me to camp almost every day for a decade+ (holy **** was that boring for the most part).  Joe Cribbs put me on his shoulders his rookie year and carried me around as he signed autographs for the mob.  Then I got to watch Joe Cribbs play.  It was special.  Hooked

    When was your cousin drafted?

    1992, he is John Fina.  Not that popular on TBD from history searches.

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    Anyone Else Having Trouble Dealing with this Success?

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    1 hour ago, Shaw66 said:

    I have to say I find myself not knowing how to deal with success.  

     

    I can't remember what it was like 30 years ago when the Bills last were a good team.  I don't remember how I felt or I behaved.  

     

    I've spent 30 years wanting the Bills to be good again, and the early indications are that it is happening.  They could collapse, of course, but I believe McDermott knows what he's doing, and he's building a serious winner.  But as the national media begin to notice the Bills, I don't know if I want or like the attention.  

     

    On one of the games last night, one of the announcers said something like "Don't leave Buffalo out of the conversation.  Buffalo is for real."   Something.  I heard it and realized it was the first time I'd heard a genuinely positive comment about the Bills, a full-fledged statement that the Bills are among the best, since the early 90s.   It sounded so unusual, and I realized that I didn't know how to react to it.   A few years ago, I was thrilled just to hear an announcer say the Bills could be trouble for some teams.  But this was different.  This was a statement to the effect that the Bills could beat anybody.  I didn't know how to take it.  

     

    Then I pick up my local paper, which covers the Jets, Giants and Pats, and there's an AP article about how there's an offensive explosion going on in the NFL, and the accompanying photo is an action shot of Josh Allen.   In the article, Jon Gruden says this:  "You watch Buffalo's offense, they can do a lot.  The quarterback can complete passes left-handed.  The guy's a beast standing back there.  They got a pretty good attack."

     

    I find myself hoping friends won't ask me about the Bills, because I don't know what to say.  One thing I do say is, "I told you this was happening."   But then I quickly add, "they aren't good enough yet."  It's like I don't know how to deal with the success.  It was much easier when no one had any expectations for the Bills; losses weren't disappointing then.   But now if they lose, people will want to know what happened, or people will say, "see, same old Bills."  It all feels so strange. 

     

    This is going to take some getting used to.  

    I made an agreement with myself that I won't pay for Sunday Ticket and/or other way of watching the Bills because there have been so many times where they started hot out of the gate and then fell flat, it reminded me of Lucy and the football (and I was Charlie Brown in this narrative).  Now I tell myself I will invest in an AFC East shirt/sweat shirt if they win but in the interim I will try to remain optimistic.  Maybe I am being a jerk, maybe(definitely) I have BBFS.  It is what it is.

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