NobesBLO13 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 What else is there to do in buffalo, besides Applebee's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucci Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 It's in my blood. There you go. We were born in to it and it's just what we do. It's our home team. Many of us here went to our first games with Dad at the Rockpile in the 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 My family moved from Buffalo to Syracuse when I was 10 years old, and I was just starting to get interested in pro sports. Kids in my new school would mock me for rooting for those losers from Buffalo. I took it as a challenge that I'd show them I was right. Plus I couldn't imagine how people could root for a team like Dallas or Miami that they had no relation to other than them being good at the time. They weren't real fans like I was. It's become part of who I am, I couldn't stop if I wanted to. Now I've passed it on to my son, and unfortunately he now experiences the same disappointment with the Bills and Sabres. At least he didn't have to experience the loss of the Braves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I can't just watch football and enjoy it like I do the Bills. I can't cheer for a team like I do the Bills. Not one other team can keep my attention like they can. I can watch thousands of hours of football really like the way that team plays but not care if they win or lose. The only team I can care about is the Bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronyAbounds Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Born in Buffalo, still have the program of the first game I can remember attending (1962 game against Denver), sat in the stands in freezing weather watching the Bills lose to the Pats in the 1963 playoff game, the last real game I attended in Buffalo. Watching the Bills be so inept over the past 14 years is hard. It's like watching a child who has turned bad, perhaps like an addict that keeps going to rehab and you hope he is better this time, only to see them slip back into the same mistakes. Gotta keep loving them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 ! I'm not even putting a quarter of the effort in cheering for this team.... I just don't care anymore...I've got better things to do in my life then Bills football...I will always love them but...they are not worth my time nor effort... What effort goes into watching a game? I mean this seriously? As bad as they are , I am already dreading we only have 6 games left..even if they don't mean anything i love watching/going to the games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 At this point i have no idea. Habit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1B4IDie Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 After the last two games. I don't know. I haven't felt this ****ty about the Bills since the end of the Mauron era. Sometimes I wish they would just move to LA so I could be done with the constant abuse of their fan base. I'm sure I'll be back but I need to try and take a few weeks off. I don't see why I can't since the Bills took last week off too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkington Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Because it's all I know. I have no idea how to be a fan of another team. And frankly, it makes me depressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Dont know any better just kidding CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr1 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 This is how serial killers are created Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkington Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I'd say OBD should see this thread. But it's clear they haven't cared about putting a winning team on the field in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted November 11, 2013 Author Share Posted November 11, 2013 I started rooting for the Bills in the late 70s when the Bills sucked. The Steelers were in the middle of winning their 4 Super Bowls and my brother had become a fan. Even as a little kid I thought that sucked. He wasn't from Pittsburgh (we were living in the LA area at the time) and he was only rooting for them because they won. So I asked him and my Grandfather who the worst team in the NFL was and they both said, "the Bills." I wasn't a football fan at the time (I was only 5-6) but I decided that the Bills would be the team I rooted for just to show my brother that the team didn't have to win to be a fan. Of course, now I'm stuck with this cursed franchise but there's no way I'm not going to abandon them because they lose when that's the very reason I started rooting for them. Sometimes you get what you ask for... This has to be the funniest path to Bills fandom that I have read. Cheers to you my fellow suffering friend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauderswr80 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 What effort goes into watching a game? I mean this seriously? As bad as they are , I am already dreading we only have 6 games left..even if they don't mean anything i love watching/going to the games By effort....I mean cheering them on...finding a bar to go to and watch the games....by finding babysitters to go to live games to cheer for them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubs Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I was beaten as a child so it feels natural Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 (edited) As a child I really loved the game of football, but I didn't have a team that I cheered for. I would cheer for who was winning or the helmet that I liked the most. I was actually a Dolphins fan for a few years. Like I said, I was a child, so give me a break. Being born and raised in San Jose, and throughout the 80's I never embraced the 49'ers. I guess I wanted to show that I could cheer for a team that I chose, instead of cheering for the home team, because it's what your supposed to do. In the mid 80's, Jim Kelly joined the Bills. I remember seeing Kelly in college, and liking him as a player. So I started following the Bills as well as I could. There was no DirecTv back then, so seeing Bills games on the west coast was a rarity. As time went on, I became a fan, and throughout the Super Bowl losses, and the inept coaches, I have remained a loyal fan and will remain so. I will never be abandon the Bills, and become a bandwagon jumper of another team. Yesterday's game was a very sickening experience, but I still stay with them. No matter what. Edited November 11, 2013 by Mark Vader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leelee Phoenix Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Because I grew up with them in the early 90s and can't break them no matter how much I want to. I honestly wish they would move, I'll never go to another game anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjjr Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 We deserve a better team and it will happen. I still believe they are on the right track long term but changing a franchise this bad for this long takes time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilLions Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Like watching a train wreck. I just cannot stop watching - every detail. Painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homey D. Clown Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 No doubt that the results of the game yesterday and this season generally likely killed any slim hopes that the Bills have escaped yet another rebuilding year. I ask a question seriously and not with any contempt for the organization or it's fans - what keeps you coming back? For me the Bills tie me back to the "homeland." I've lived away from B-Lo and WNY since graduation from college. I miss many aspects of life back there and the Bills are my "connection." It is cool to me to meet anyone from WNY anywhere in the world and you can nearly always connect through talk about the Bills or maybe the Sabres. There is also just a pride that comes with knowing that hanging in during the hard years will make the next series of great ones that much better. What do you have to say? I'll be a fan until the devil russ brandon steals the team away from Buffalo. I hold on because there aren't that many seasons left, so why quit now. It's like a guy dying of lung cancer who smokes, why quit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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