Another Fan Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Well I know there's many but I'll limit this question so you can only pick one season. While I can't argue with anyone that would choose last season with the way it ended but for me personally it'd be 2012. Even during the drought years, I would find something going into each year to be optimistic about. I mean Jauron's teams won 7 games so even those years I felt some kind of hope. But 2012 was the king of disappointment for me as a fan. I figured a solid 10-6/11-5 season where the team finally broke the drought. My reasoning: It sounded as if Fitz struggled the 2nd half of 2011 because he was playing with broken ribs. It actually made me like him more he still played. I figured with the offseason to heel Fitz Magic would be back in full force. Freddie returning from injury. Stevie Johnson being benched the last game in 2011. But he took less money I believe to resign with the Bills in 2012. Which showed to me he was maturing and loved Buffalo. The addition of Mario Williams which I still read from time to time on this site it was like the longest thread or something like that. But that felt huge at the time a player of his magnitude wanting to play in Buffalo. That as well as firing the defense coordinator the year before. It looked like they were trying to address those issues. Plus all the guys on the team were likable and it looked as if Gailey built a culture where guys wanted to play in Buffalo. Needless to say I was in a strictly sports meaning devastated with how that year turned out. Enough so it took me a while to embrace Josh and McDermott's process. It's not that I didn't like what I saw progressing it's that well trust was an issue. But yeah perhaps now that I'm older I could have saw that 2012 team lacked depth. I'm still very very reluctant to call Bills Super Bowl favorites but I'm very confident in saying the team has as good a chance to win as any. Go Bills 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoccesOnTransit Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 All of 'em. Just gimme one and all will be forgiven 8 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 12 minutes ago, Another Fan said: Go Bills What year were you born? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Duffy Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 If I'm participating in this, for me the obvious choice can only be last season. There's no other choice really. I mean for example, you said 2012 season. Why would any of those seasons that always ended at or below .500 range? What's to avenge? lol 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Fan Posted July 14, 2022 Author Share Posted July 14, 2022 12 minutes ago, Beerball said: What year were you born? why should that matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 2 minutes ago, Another Fan said: why should that matter I'm wondering if it was a down year that needs avenging. I'm older than the team so that's not an option for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 4 minutes ago, Another Fan said: why should that matter He’s older than a flat stone in the river. Does that help? Oh…please type in CAPS. He hears it better. 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Lot of old farts on TBD 2 1 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Boy Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 1990 First Super Bowl loss. That was a level of being crushed emotionally I didn’t realize was possible from a sports game. I was 20 at the time and it hurt for months on a daily basis. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 I survived every season to this point. I don’t need to avenge what I’ve already lived. It just made me stronger! GO BILLS!!! 3 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Guapo Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 The Music City Throwback B****hit year. I thought we had a chance that year. That one still leaves me hollow. Last year does too, but feel like we are still in the catbird seat right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 What's in the past is in the past. A Super Bowl Championship for the Bills avenges nothing, so I will just be thrilled when they win it. 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsPride12 Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 The 02-04 era Bills teams. This is the team I thought/was hoping we were getting back then. I thought it was going to be the reincarnation of the 90s Super Bowl teams. I mean we had Drew, Moulds, Price, Travis Henry, Takeo Spikes, Pat Williams, London Fletcher, Sam Adams, Winfield and Clements. It sounded so good on paper....sooooo good! I was wrong, boy was I wrong. After that I never really allowed myself to feel that way again with any of the following regimes/era's until McDermott, Beane, and Allen came along and here we are! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie's Dead Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 2021, when we should have won it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Egg Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Every season from 1960-2021. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 I grew up during the drought. Disappointing football was all I knew about. I'm tough. I don't need any of those crap seasons to be avenged. None of them are worth avenging anyway. It's all about the here and now. I watch the team today and I don't think at all about the drought years. I am soaking up what it feels like to be a fan of a good team, a team that is widely respected all around the league and by fans everywhere. It won't last forever. I don't need to waste any thoughts on the crap that came before now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chongli Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 (edited) The Super Bowl years 1990-93. At the start of the 1993 (or maybe it was even 1992) season, Jay Leno of The Tonight Show joked in his monologue something to the effect of: "The NFL season starts Sunday. This is the time that each of the other 27 teams begins to compete to decide who gets to beat Buffalo in the Super Bowl". I was not happy after I heard that. Buffalo had become the laughingstock of the nation. Edited July 14, 2022 by chongli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADOLBILZ Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Another Fan said: Well I know there's many but I'll limit this question so you can only pick one season. While I can't argue with anyone that would choose last season with the way it ended but for me personally it'd be 2012. Even during the drought years, I would find something going into each year to be optimistic about. I mean Jauron's teams won 7 games so even those years I felt some kind of hope. But 2012 was the king of disappointment for me as a fan. I figured a solid 10-6/11-5 season where the team finally broke the drought. My reasoning: It sounded as if Fitz struggled the 2nd half of 2011 because he was playing with broken ribs. It actually made me like him more he still played. I figured with the offseason to heel Fitz Magic would be back in full force. Freddie returning from injury. Stevie Johnson being benched the last game in 2011. But he took less money I believe to resign with the Bills in 2012. Which showed to me he was maturing and loved Buffalo. The addition of Mario Williams which I still read from time to time on this site it was like the longest thread or something like that. But that felt huge at the time a player of his magnitude wanting to play in Buffalo. That as well as firing the defense coordinator the year before. It looked like they were trying to address those issues. Plus all the guys on the team were likable and it looked as if Gailey built a culture where guys wanted to play in Buffalo. Needless to say I was in a strictly sports meaning devastated with how that year turned out. Enough so it took me a while to embrace Josh and McDermott's process. It's not that I didn't like what I saw progressing it's that well trust was an issue. But yeah perhaps now that I'm older I could have saw that 2012 team lacked depth. I'm still very very reluctant to call Bills Super Bowl favorites but I'm very confident in saying the team has as good a chance to win as any. Go Bills I don't see seasons as an opportunity to avenge a prior season...........but if I did, it certainly wouldn't have been some team like the 2012 Bills that weren't expected to be much better than a late season in-the-hunt wildcard graphic team. The game at SF and in Toronto versus Seattle were arguably the most disgusting performances during the drought though. Giving up a franchise record worst 600+ yards to the Alex Smith Niners was sickening........and somehow the Toronto performance was even more embarrassing. What that season really represented was the reminder that you have to actively address a losing culture...........you can't just hire an x and o HC like Chan Gailey and add a handful of defensive play makers and expect to undo the kind of damage that 4 years of playing Jauron Ball inflicts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucci Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Superbowl 25. I was there and still have nightmares Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 All of them of course but the ones that really hurt. 1980 - If they beat the Chargers I have no doubt they would have beaten the Raiders at Rich Stadium in the AFCCG with a good shot to beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl. 1990 - so close damn wide right 1999 - MCM. We had a really good defense that year. Should have stayed with Flutie. He was a winner who found a way to win. See his CFL days 2021 - 13 seconds. Another so close season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2o Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 I just want us to steamroll and beat the brakes off of all these ho's this year. The Chiefs, the Titans, the Bengals, the Steelers, the Rams, the Ravens, the Browns, the Packers, the Pats, the Phins, the Jets, and anyone else that we run up on in the Playoffs/Super Bowl. I know undefeated is not gonna happen, but I want every team to feel the wrath of the Bills for every single short coming, crap call, and heartbreaking defeat since 1965 until present day. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 It is not a season. I would like the Bills to win a SB so I can be there with my dad and wife together to celebrate. My father has loved the Bills like crazy and it has always been a thing together. His mother/my grandma was a huge Bills fan and I have great memories of us watching games together win/loss. My mother's parents also were huge Bills fans. I have said that when the Bills win I am going to graves of each with shot glasses to do one with them to celebrate with them. I have told people forever I was born a Sabres fan but married the Bills and that's the truth. I was always a massive Bills fan, but I grew up going to more Sabres games and played hockey. As I entered college and met my wife it didn't as much switch as my fandom for the Bills took over tenfold because it was such a shared love between us. For as bad as many of the drought years were, we have had a blast together from 2009 to today through the years regardless of wins or losses. So yea its not avenging much as it is just to get that moment. My father is 66 and thankfully in great health but time is what time is and he use to joke just one before the bell rings and now it is slightly more real. So yea please win this year Bills haha 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhode Island Red Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 9 hours ago, I am the egg man said: Every season from 1960-2021. No, ‘64 & ‘65….remember?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DallasMac Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Wouldn't mind deleting those Rex Ryan years from memory. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 4 minutes ago, DallasMac said: Wouldn't mind deleting those Rex Ryan years from memory. If we can delete years I vote for 1984 and 1985. Any Bills fan who was around for those will tell you it was 100% miserable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigby Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 23 minutes ago, DallasMac said: Wouldn't mind deleting those Rex Ryan years from memory. Yep for sure and I just want us to gain a foothold on the rest of the league early this season and really show who the best team is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your Brown Eye Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 The 1973 season really chaps my ass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 12 hours ago, Mark Vader said: What's in the past is in the past. A Super Bowl Championship for the Bills avenges nothing, so I will just be thrilled when they win it. I agree with the Vader the San Josean. I don't care about vengeance. I just want to witness the Bills winning a Super Bowl. As my favorite sweatshirt says: "Just one before I die." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homey D. Clown Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 All of them. seriously. Other than the seasons that ended in titles before I was born, all of them. These hasn't been a season that didn't end in apathetic disappointment, or soul crushing misery. Win a champoinship already, dammit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABILLBACKER Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 (edited) If we win the SB it avenges all of them. There isn't one that stands out over another. It avenges all the crap years of the 80's. All the lost SB's of the 90's. The music city/ Robo-Flutie debate craziness. Then the drought years. It's ALL a collective. One Championship wipes them all away. Edited July 14, 2022 by LABILLBACKER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 I've got to say I don't really understand the premise of this thread at all. A Super Bowl win will cement the greatest season in Buffalo Bills history. It doesn't "avenge" anything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALLEN1QB Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ManRaid Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Greg S said: If we can delete years I vote for 1984 and 1985. Any Bills fan who was around for those will tell you it was 100% miserable. Oh good, I won't be born then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jauronimo Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 (edited) Duck hunting season. I hope the Bills win the super bowl for all the ducks that gave their lives defending our precious ponds and lakes from those disgusting fish. Edited July 14, 2022 by Jauronimo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logic Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 16 hours ago, BoccesOnTransit said: Just gimme one and all will be forgiven This. My cousin and I have an ongoing argument. He always says he won't be satisfied unless and until the Bills win multiple titles. That's a fair hope/expectation, I guess, since Josh Allen is so good and since the Bills seem to have the talent and stability to field a dynasty. Me? I just need one. That's it. Give me one world championship and I'll be a happy man for life. Just one. All I need. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Otreply Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 (edited) I’m thinking every season that we didn’t win the Super Bowl, but that’s probably a just me sorta thing…, just one, that’s all I really want…. Okay, I lied, I want every damn Super Bowl starting with this season…, Go Bills!!! Edited July 14, 2022 by Don Otreply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 4 hours ago, Don Otreply said: I’m thinking every season that we didn’t win the Super Bowl, but that’s probably a just me sorta thing…, just one, that’s all I really want…. Okay, I lied, I want every damn Super Bowl starting with this season…, Go Bills!!! It's the old want vs need. I want multiple. I need one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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