Another Fan Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 So I checked in my profile yesterday and saw join date of 3/3/2017. Right after BBMB disappeared I found this site. I wasn’t in their long, just a few months before it went down. Wanted a place to vent after Rex’s last game. So we might have found the playoff drought curse wasn’t Doug Flutie or Billy Buffalo but BBMB. Lol Its been fun. Cheers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 I'm also a transplant. Overall, I find that the quality of posts at 2BD is better than BBMB. I'm glad that some of the better BBMB posters jumped over here. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden*Wheels Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 This place is great, and a welcoming home. That being said, BBMB for life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 (edited) While I never was a member there, I find it hard to believe that a team website that would want to control all its content actually housed a fan message board. I know it used to be somewhat common, but makes no sense. Edited March 3, 2022 by YoloinOhio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said: While I never was a member there, I find it hard to believe that a team website that would want to control all its content actually housed a fan message board. I know it used to be somewhat common, but makes no sense. Power to the People! 😁 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 2 hours ago, WhoTom said: I'm also a transplant. Overall, I find that the quality of posts at 2BD is better than BBMB. I'm glad that some of the better BBMB posters jumped over here. I suspect it was rough on the Mods for a while there. I have to give them credit for welcoming all the new folks while establishing expectations. In the end, a lot of great new posters came from that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 RIP BBMB and John Madden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 As a survive of the collapse of BBMB I am happy to be here. The discussions and posts are vastly superior for the most part and there is far less rose colored glass fans. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden*Wheels Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Somewhere in Florida, there is a guy still defending Tom Donahoe. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 20 minutes ago, Golden*Wheels said: Somewhere in Florida, there is a guy still defending Tom Donahoe. He moved back to New Jersey. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 this is really odd that this came up. yesterday my cursor fell over my avatar, and my sign up date as 21017 came up. i was shocked that it had been that long ago. it was a ton of fun and a lot of great people. it's too bad it closed as abruptly as it did, but this board is great. much better football talk here, not that i ever contribute anything to that. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 1 hour ago, BringBackFergy said: RIP BBMB and John Madden. And Geddy Lee's 4th step-cousin from his mother's uncle's (by marriage) side. Fly high, angel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 hours ago, YoloinOhio said: While I never was a member there, I find it hard to believe that a team website that would want to control all its content actually housed a fan message board. I know it used to be somewhat common, but makes no sense. it was an angry bunch too. it was rumored that donahoe absolutely hated it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 11 minutes ago, teef said: it was an angry bunch too. it was rumored that donahoe absolutely hated it. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 2 hours ago, Golden*Wheels said: Somewhere in Florida, there is a guy still defending Tom Donahoe. Lol... are you talking about Flafitz? Donahoe almost shut it down years earlier than that but was talked out of it, hence the short novel called the coc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muppy Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 bbmb was a place where many out of staters kept up with their team the Bills. I chatted there off and on for years. The way the plug was pulled was super sudden and *****. Posters dispersed and many are here. Im grateful for 2BD and have no desire to reminisce all that hard on the past. It was a glorious MESS at times Off the chain...filled with some great posters. Some no longer with us. RIP bbmb. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden*Wheels Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 26 minutes ago, T&C said: Lol... are you talking about Flafitz? Donahoe almost shut it down years earlier than that but was talked out of it, hence the short novel called the coc. Who else? XD I still remember him telling me how he got a signed Christmas card from the guy. 1 hour ago, teef said: it was an angry bunch too. it was rumored that donahoe absolutely hated it. Listen you ^^$&#% jerk, we abso-^#$&*(%-lutely were not an "angry bunch". Trust me GODDAMMIT! I F*(@#*(# know, buddy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden*Wheels Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 JM2C: It was one of the only official team boards, especially at the end. That carried a lot of weight for me, participation wise. The idea that all the saucy ***** we did and etc made it to actual Bills brass at times....that was kind of the appeal to me. I do love this place now but....to me BBMB, for all it's warts, was the major leagues of being an online tool of a fan. Non-offical boards are the minors where the only person you are annoying is some well meaning fan...where it the fun in that? I do feel badly at all the fun we had at the mods expense, most of whom were pretty cool folks, just trying to do a job. I mean, yeah, there were some...um...interesting candidate choices at the end (ahem, rock chalk) but I enjoyed going down with the ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndhall1 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 7 hours ago, Another Fan said: So I checked in my profile yesterday and saw join date of 3/3/2017. Right after BBMB disappeared I found this site. I wasn’t in their long, just a few months before it went down. Wanted a place to vent after Rex’s last game. So we might have found the playoff drought curse wasn’t Doug Flutie or Billy Buffalo but BBMB. Lol Its been fun. Cheers I came here one day later.same reason. Glad I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 31 minutes ago, Golden*Wheels said: JM2C: It was one of the only official team boards, especially at the end. That carried a lot of weight for me, participation wise. The idea that all the saucy ***** we did and etc made it to actual Bills brass at times....that was kind of the appeal to me. I do love this place now but....to me BBMB, for all it's warts, was the major leagues of being an online tool of a fan. Non-offical boards are the minors where the only person you are annoying is some well meaning fan...where it the fun in that? I do feel badly at all the fun we had at the mods expense, most of whom were pretty cool folks, just trying to do a job. I mean, yeah, there were some...um...interesting candidate choices at the end (ahem, rock chalk) but I enjoyed going down with the ship. I'd be shocked if players and executives don't pay attention to some of the TBD content. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 (edited) I miss the good ol days of getting infractions from @T&C. 🤣🤣....I kid. This place is great. Edited March 3, 2022 by RaoulDuke79 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy KGB Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Terrible place. Just terrible 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 BBMBers some good, some bad ZERO politics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 In before this gets moved to PPP. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoTier Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Another BBMB refugee here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 I spent many a liquified evening on the BBMB pouring out my soul during the decade of fail. I love the current regime and the fact that we're an elite team but I have to admit I was more emotionally invested when we were losing. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nextmanup Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 This site was much better before migration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 26 minutes ago, Nextmanup said: This site was much better before migration. Sorry, I disagree. I think there was a difficult migration period, but we gained a LOT of great posters. Hats off to the mods for managing that difficult period, but there are people here now I would miss if they left. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 7 minutes ago, Augie said: Sorry, I disagree. I think there was a difficult migration period, but we gained a LOT of great posters. Hats off to the mods for managing that difficult period, but there are people here now I would miss if they left. I don't get it, what was so difficult? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Just now, T&C said: I don't get it, what was so difficult? There were different levels of what was acceptable, apparently. I never went to BBMB, but I seem to recall a difficult transition. I read now from the BBMB folks it was the Wild, Wild West, and TBD was not having that. I could be wrong, but that is the way I recall the transition. I’m open to the views of others here……. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden*Wheels Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 15 hours ago, Gugny said: I'd be shocked if players and executives don't pay attention to some of the TBD content. Maaaaaaaybe.....but at this point in people paying attention to whatever to gauge anything, message boards might as well be telegrams, or newspapers. They are WAY behind the times. I assume the org does pay a attention to twitter, for better or worse. Even the mere idea that Tom Donahoe yelled at someone who then yelled at Wyo of FlaFitz (as if TD would grace Fla with his actual presence) even once based on some salty thread we had tickles me. It was the official board. When it's not official, I feel like they they just go "who cares, it's the internet." Yes, I am a child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Fan Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 21 hours ago, Golden*Wheels said: This place is great, and a welcoming home. That being said, BBMB for life. I still recall your avatar from that site, the Marty Feldman shot. There was another user who had the never ever ever give up poster with Charlie Brown trying to kick the football as his avatar. Liked it so much I bought that poster 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCockSportif Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 I'm surprised that BBMB lasted as long as it did. The team sucking that hard for so many years, the looneys that came out of the woodwork and were both incapable of joy / and posted the same stuff ad nauseum, the debates about TT vs EJM. It was... a lot, and OBD management must have thought that the entire fan base was off its rockers. In that light, I'm not surprised that they pulled the plug. I'm just wondering what took them so long. Maybe Russ Brandon was actually/secretly participating on BBMB, getting his jollies over trolling folks about how EJM was a good QB or something -- so he insisted that BBMB stay online? Who knows? Having written that, the EJM / trade for Jay Cutler threads, each being at least 100 pages a thread, were comedy gold. I would enjoy reading them each morning over coffee. One of the "QB whisperers" eventually ended up here, kinda started the same kind of schtick, harped on Allen a ton, then basically apologized for being wrong, then stopped posting to TBD from what I can tell. My point being: the quality of TBD is really, really good, and I say this as someone who would much rather read the myriad great takes here -- rather than posting a ton of stuff for no reason. Had I known about TBD sooner, I probably would've never joined BBMB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenorthremembers Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 I am also a transplant. I remember stinker tinkering wondering why the hell I couldnt log in. Now I stinker tinker here, and the tinkering is much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoTier Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 17 hours ago, stuvian said: I spent many a liquified evening on the BBMB pouring out my soul during the decade of fail. I love the current regime and the fact that we're an elite team but I have to admit I was more emotionally invested when we were losing. I'm not less emotionally invested now that the team is elite, it's just that I find a whole lot less to criticize/complain about now. I can't be too critical of whatever decisions were made or not made in the last 13 seconds of regulation in the OT loss to KC because I sat through the last game of the 2004 season when the Bills missed the playoffs because they didn't show up against the Steelers' second teamers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 17 hours ago, Augie said: There were different levels of what was acceptable, apparently. I never went to BBMB, but I seem to recall a difficult transition. I read now from the BBMB folks it was the Wild, Wild West, and TBD was not having that. I could be wrong, but that is the way I recall the transition. I’m open to the views of others here……. You are correct. It went both ways. Some existing TBDers were ***** to the new folks from BBMB. Some BBMB guys were ***** right out of the gate. Lots of "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL FATHER," attitudes that I can recall. Those in both categories found their way to "greener" pastures one way or another. But I do agree with you ... overall, the migration turned out being very positive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Gugny said: Some existing TBDers were ***** to the new folks from BBMB. Some BBMB guys were ***** right out of the gate. Lots of "Y Many BBMBers were treated like ***** by TBDers for no reason at all even when they were once TBDers exiled to the BBMB. (thanks to certain unnamed and unliked former moderators) Anyone registered at that same time was also considered a BBMBer. and former Mods from the BBMB we’re unliked here because the rules there were much stricter and many of the BBMBers who were ####### were purged long ago Edited March 4, 2022 by SlimShady'sSpaceForce 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleezoid Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 After the BBMB went down, I gave up for awhile. Then I stumbled on this place. I don't post much here but I check in a lot! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy KGB Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 20 hours ago, Nextmanup said: This site was much better before migration. it was also better before you spent two years telling us Josh Allen sucks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADOLBILZ Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Two pages and no thanks to @SDS for accepting YOU PEOPLE? Ingrates. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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