Golden*Wheels Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 My only embarrassment, if it can be called that, having to do with Bills gear is how much I have of it. Do I need 7 Bills Starter jackets (listen, they are dirt cheap on ebay and I LOVED Starter as a kid) or that helmet phone I just bought for my desk? Nope. I'm in CT. I rock my Bills hat and jacket every day. Come at me Pat-bros. I've heard it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVilanch Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 No. It's usually a conversation starter, I live in Oregon so not many bills fans. Most people I run into have a soft spot for them since the tragedy we suffered in the 90s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 18 minutes ago, Augie said: I’ve been wearing the same lucky pair of Bills boxers since our last playoff win. The next time we win a playoff game I’m going to wash them. ummmmmm maybe if you wash them NOW they will win a game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackKemp Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Never ever have I been embarrassed to wear Bills gear. I have had a lot of conversations around the country with fellow Bills fans as a result. I love hearing a Go Bills! out nowhere when I am out and about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbarg12 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Living in Dallas I usually get the "Why the Bills?", when I wear my Bills gear around. I rep it proud though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. L. Hot-Flamethrower Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I think it is the only test of whether you are a TRUE fan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 4 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: ummmmmm maybe if you wash them NOW they will win a game Well, they’re not playing NOW, are they? Maybe I’ll hold off till the regular season. Preseason counts for nothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeF Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 (edited) 10 minutes ago, tbarg12 said: Living in Dallas I usually get the "Why the Bills?", when I wear my Bills gear around. I rep it proud though You and Cole Beasley should bond over this... ? I wear it proudly. My wife wears Bills and Sabres gear all the time even though she is a Niners fan (and SF native). She likes the Bills colors and she has found she really likes meeting displaced WNYers. My daughters and sons wear Bills gear all the time. They all tell me that wearing Bills gear always leads to meeting great people with WNY roots. The Bills bond people together like no other fan base. The Steelers might be close but I think the Bills are still more core to the image of WNY than the Steelers are to Pittsburgh. Wearing the gear is a sign of our pride in not just our team but in our home region. To coin an old phrase "We're talking Proud!!!". 10 minutes ago, Augie said: Well, they’re not playing NOW, are they? Maybe I’ll hold off till the regular season. Preseason counts for nothing. Hazmat units in Atlanta are on standby... Edited March 19, 2019 by JoeF 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobills1212 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Da fuah?! Pppssshhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlCowlingsTaxiService Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 It's called being a fan ... I'm sure Cubs fans weren't embarrassed before they won a Series. I think there's bigger fish to fry in life ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 3 minutes ago, JoeF said: Hazmat units in Atlanta are on standby... It’s not as bad as it sounds, I wear them on the outside. Talk about getting comments about your Bills gear! I get a LOT of attention! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeF Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 2 minutes ago, Augie said: It’s not as bad as it sounds, I wear them on the outside. Talk about getting comments about your Bills gear! I get a LOT of attention! Officer: Sir you are under arrest for indecent exposure but seeing you are a Bills fan, we are taking you for a psych evaluation first.... Augie: You don't understand...they are my unlucky charm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 (edited) 4 minutes ago, JoeF said: Officer: Sir you are under arrest for indecent exposure but seeing you are a Bills fan, we are taking you for a psych evaluation first.... Augie: You don't understand...they are my unlucky charm... Hey now, we should leave the little leprechaun out of this..... This reminds me of a coaster I saw: Officer: You drinking? Driver: You buying? We laughed and laughed! I need bail money. Edited March 19, 2019 by Augie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 It's easy to be a Pats fan. It takes character to be a Bills fan. I wear Bills colors proudly. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPP Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 If i was embarressed i would not buy any to begin with & I would no longer be a fan if thats the case.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Grid Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Not at all! I wear Bills gear around DC all the time and there isn’t a single day I’m out running errands or at a bar that multiple people don’t say go Bills....usually pretty emphatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDubills Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I was reppin that ***** in Mexico. ***** no.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreggTX Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I live just outside Dallas and #%$@ no, I'm not embarrassed to wear Bills gear. If someone doesn't like it, they can go *€^<> themselves. I don't care how many games they win or lose. I wear my Sabres gear too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 2 hours ago, ProcessAccepted said: Proud to wear Bills stuff. Always amazed by how many people comment on it. Buffalo is kinda like that Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, seems like everyone has a tie to the WNY or the team. Yup. I wore Bills stuff skiing last month in CA and got several shout outs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I was working in a bank in Hilton Head, SC when a lady and her daughter walked in. The daughter had a Bills shirt on so I asked if the were from Buffalo. They said yes, from Williamsville. I asked where. She said not actually Williamsville, Swormville. I asked where. She said Ransom Oaks. I asked which street. Fiddlers Green. I asked which house. They lived two doors down from us! I knew the red house, but mainly noticed the giant Newfoundland dogs. Anyway, we became pals and I used look forward to them coming in and chatting. All due to a Bills shirt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Wear my big bright Bills lanyard at work every. single. day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobillsinytown Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Old Guy Bills fan here. Born in Buffalo, been a fan since childhood, season tickets from 1987 to 1996 and then gave them up to get married and start a family. To this day, If I have one spending weakness it's buying Bills gear. I don't live in Buffalo now so wearing Bills stuff is always a conversation starter. I live in Northeast Ohio and Browns fans here have a real affinity for the Bills as both teams are similar: Blue collar towns hard hit by economics but now having a bit of a revival. Also interesting is that over the years the four Super Bowl losses seem to be respected since it's pretty much impossible for one team to get there four years in a row. Jim Kelly has a lot to do with it too. So the team is associated with perseverance, coming back from tough circumstances, etc. Then when fans started donating to Andy Dalton's charity when he helped us into the playoffs, it seems like respect for the fanbase increased quite a bit, and also when fans started the GoFundMe to help Darryl Talley. I know this is a bit long winded but I have a lot of pride in being a Bills fan. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLTbills Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I'll say this, though. I was embarrassed, at times, to be a Bills fan when Rex was the coach. Other than that, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P51 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Never, my last car was bills Blue with red and white lights, license plate covers and flags were all Bills, just had half a meal comped by a restaurant manager in D.C. this past weekend for myself and kids wearing Bills and Sabres gear into the restaurant, almost got into a fist fight in the Denver airport a couple years ago over wearing Bills gear, I have met many great people because of wearing Bills gear from coast to coast. I Wear it proudly every where, Sabres gear as well, had a random Sabres fan buy me a Blue at a Hurricanes game (not playing the Sabres fwiw) a couple weeks a go in Raleigh for wearing my Eichel jersey and Sabres hat to the game, saved me 10 minutes in line... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Fixit Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Nope. Proud. And when the Bills are champs, I’ll be making sure all of the new fans hear that they’re new fans and not ones that stuck through all of the ***** and piss and ballz. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceman_16 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 At work...I ONLY wear Bills' gear when they lose (so a lot the last decade). I hope to be wearing those items less and less in the upcoming decade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollars 2 donuts Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said: Have never stopped wearing Bills gear during even the worst years of the drought, and proudly so. Pulling for this team means more to me than their W-L record year in, year out. It's all about staying true to my inner kid who fell in love with the late 80's early 90's Bills by osmosis through following Jim Kelly, whose hometown was right next to mine in Western PA, and no one will ever take that away from me. It takes a weaker kind of fan I think, to pull for the flavor of the day, like the Pats or the Seahawks, etc., as opposed to a franchise that's so often let one down in the end. Plus, taking grief from all the Steelers fans around me only solidified my "rebellious" allegiance to the Bills. Wearing it now in ATL, I've only ever gotten positive feedback from other fans, either native Buffalonians or otherwise, nothing ever negative. They can take my Bills gear, Huds, when they pry it out of my cold dead hands and peel it off of my rotting corpse. Hopefully many, many, many, many, many years into the future as it would be inappropriate burial attire for someone who died of natural causes, quietly and painlessly, in my own bed. Edited March 19, 2019 by dollars 2 donuts 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlbillsfan1975 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Everytime i wear Bills gear i get a 'Go Bills'. I was in Rome, Italy wearing my pullover and a guy stoped me and talked to me about the team. People love the Bills. When we are good again we will be supported by a ton of people. Football fans in their late 30's on up grew up watching the Bills being good. I think they are waiting for us to be good again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewPort71 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I proudly wear my Bills stuff on a regular basis here in SWV. When Mrs. Lew and I go on a cruise we always wear Bills apparel. Great conversation starter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 33 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said: It's easy to be a Pats fan. It takes character to be a Bills fan. I wear Bills colors proudly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Never embarrassed about the team or the city, but it was embarassing at times to have Ralph as the owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yall Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Bills gear comprises about half of my entire casual wardrobe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That's No Moon Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Codyny13 said: Seriously? Seriously. I got tired of having my balls broken all the time. If it's not fun, why am I doing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Nope- even have a bills football signed by price and moulds on display in my office. Its where im from and part of who I will always be. Im a little embarrassed that I’m related to Patsies fans, but hey can’t win em all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fansince88 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Not at all. Wear the hat every day. That said, it got me 10% off at an antique store near me Sunday. Just because the owner was also a fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Firebaugh Kid Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 HELL NO. If you are then you gotta find a new team. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickelCity Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Wtf is this thread and question? Of course not. And the lean years make it so when you see another fan, you know they're for real. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 31 minutes ago, That's No Moon said: Seriously. I got tired of having my balls broken all the time. If it's not fun, why am I doing it? Seriously? You can’t handle that? Wow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark92 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I live in Vermont which is a mix of Patriots and Giants fans with a sprinkle of Jets fans. I love wearing my bills apparel and have a decal on my truck. I would never and will never be ashamed to show my pride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papazoid Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 never Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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