Genesis of your screen name

[PonyBoy]

If I told you all, I would have to kill you. 😀

[BruceVilanch]

21 minutes ago, AlfaBill said:

I’m lost? I loved the Gene Hackman film though…

French connection was a forward line of French players on the buffalo sabres

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

Seems self-explanatory

 

[Chicken Boo]

I'm a giant chicken who has a habit of disguising *myself as a human.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Chicken Boo

[Shaw66]

I discovered Bills fan forums in 2005.  I wanted a name that reflected the era I became a Bills fan, and I wanted a name that would remind some fans, and educate others, about the greatness of that era.   Billy Shaw wasn't my favorite player or anything like that, but I decided he would be best because his career in pro football spanned pretty much the entire AFL era, and because of his class and football excellence. 

 

It didn't occur to me at the time to ask permission to use his name and number, because at the time it didn't occur to me that I would write all the stuff I've written over the years. 

 

Only player in the Pro Football Hall of Fame who never played a down in the NFL.   You want to improve the Bills' running game?   Get another Billy Shaw.  

[BruceVilanch]

And my name comes from a South Park joke where people confuse Cartman with Bruce Vilanch

[Chef Jim]

Ummmm…….🤔

[RochesterLifer]

I had to move away for work. But, home will always be home. 

 

Side note: I live in Boston. Here, they have a term for us transplants, “NY State friendly” (notice, not NYC) - it makes me proud.

[Captain Caveman]

My first fantasy football team was name The Captain Cavemans (probably around 2001?) because it made me chuckle, when I signed up here back in the mid 2000s it just seemed like a good fit.

 

Edited October 22, 2022 by Captain Caveman

[Coffeesforclosers]

Glengarry Glen Ross is a great movie.

[LyndonvilleBill]

Like others. Pretty self explanatory. 

 

Just a Bills fan from a tiny town in Upstate NY called Lyndonville ( current population of 791).😁. No longer live there but my heart always will.

[What a Tuel]

He was just the greatest! We miss you Jeff!

[ChronicAndKnuckles]

37 minutes ago, Sammy Watkins' Rib said:

It's been a while but if my memory serves me right Watkins very first injury as a Bill was a rib injury he suffered in the pre-season before his first career game. There was a lot of doom and gloom from the fanbase around the injury. Little did we know at the time it would foretell an entire career of constant injuries for Sammy.

You’ve inspired me to change my name to Tua Tagaviloa’s Concussion

[fergie's ire]

The first bit of football analysis, seeing something that others hadn't pointed out, that I remember doing as a kid was about Joe Ferguson.  I noticed that Ferfuson would be playing great and then something bad would happen like a dropped pass or false start, or a call that he didn't like.  He would get this look of anger on his face and from that point on his game would be crap.  He'd throw reckless interceptions and just make awful mistakes.  It got to the point where I could spot it and go "Oh no!!!!  He has that look."  His ire was not a good thing.

[Stanley Lombardi]

Keepin' my eyes on the prize(s).

[The Wiz]

Family nickname. 

 

Every guy in my family has been called "wiz" or "wizy" at some point. 

[Big Turk]

I was a gym rat and was both jacked and extremely strong as I had elite level lifts for all of the big 3(squat, deadlift, bench) in my weight class.  Already started out with big shoulders as a kid which became even bigger to where people called me a linebacker...

 

My Dad is from Istanbul, so I am Turkish

 

My buddy at work who also worked out also started calling me Big Turk and the name just kinda stuck.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Big Turk

[Buffalo Boy]

   During 2004 season , the Bills played NE the third game.

   I was listening to the Pac Man show in Charlotte and he had on a guy, Jim Noble. Noble started crapping on the Bills hard as they were discussing the upcoming games. 
    I called in and talked some serious Bills smack to him as I had to represent.

    Noble very sanctimoniously started his reply with something like, Slow down there Buffalo Boy, which cracked me up in the moment.

    I’ve actually been coming to TBD since about 2000. I tried signing up back then and think I probably have an AOL or EarthLink account on here somewhere😜

    I resigned up in 2013 as Buffalo Boy when I got a smart phone.

Any time i call the local shows here I use that moniker.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Buffalo Boy

[Shaw66]

4 minutes ago, fergie's ire said:

The first bit of football analysis, seeing something that others hadn't pointed out, that I remember doing as a kid was about Joe Ferguson.  I noticed that Ferfuson would be playing great and then something bad would happen like a dropped pass or false start, or a call that he didn't like.  He would get this look of anger on his face and from that point on his game would be crap.  He'd throw reckless interceptions and just make awful mistakes.  It got to the point where I could spot it and go "Oh no!!!!  He has that look."  His ire was not a good thing.

Ooh, that's great!

 

When I wrote mine, I was thinking about a list of names that represented the name I might have chosen from different decades.   Joe was the obvious choice for the 70.  Smerlas, Talley, Moulds, Freddy and Kyle. 

[Rico]

Annoying troll name for a long gone Dolphins board I used to mess with over 20 years ago before FinHeaven even existed, never changed it when I signed up here. Miami Herald? Not sure but it was the biggest one at the time. I was the main Bills troll, RayRay was the Jets main troll, Pats didn’t have any one because they didn’t matter back then.

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

In a Simpsons episode Homer dies and is doing things to try to get into heaven. Marge gives him a list of chores and he says I’m just trying to get into heaven, I’m not running for Jesus. And at that point Brian moorman was my favorite player. The irony is I barely watch the Simpsons anymore and I’m not even religious. Just made it in the beginning…had it for BBMB, stuck with it.

[mushypeaches]

We had to do fake elections back in grammar school in the 80's, and our group came up with the Mushy Peaches Party as just something meaningless and juvenile.  Have used it as my team name for football pools and other assorted nonsense ever since

[muppy]

My best friend in high school was nicknamed Luppy, a play off of her last name.  I became Muppy as a  play off of my name. 

[yall]

Nickname from college. After being stationed down south and exposed to so many southerners in the Army, it's easy to pick up on some of the vernacular.

 

The kids at Fredonia thought it was funny that I said "y'all" and started calling me the same. Nickname has stuck ever since IRL.

[eSJayDee]

Just my names initials spelled out phonetically.

[djp14150]

Mine should be self evident…..

[Dan]

It’s my name. 

[GymShorts84]

Jim Schwartz should have been the HC instead of Rex. He did great with the Cold Front , then was great in Philly as DC. 
 

it all worked out in the end. 

Edited October 22, 2022 by GymShorts84
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[WhitewalkerInPhilly]

Back about a decade ago bleacher report ran a story about what would happen if GRRM wrote the NFL season. You know, back when Game of Thrones was good.

 

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1206370-if-george-rr-martin-wrote-the-script-to-the-2012-nfl-season

 

It's a funny bit, and I liked the idea of the Bills being the Others/Whitewalkers and I liked the picture of Shawn Merriman as one.

 

Well Merriman left the team but as a pale blue eyed thing walking the southern lands of South Jersey I pivoted. 

[bobobonators]

Good friend from college his nickname was bobo. I might have been drunk when I created this username. 🥴

[Tommy Shelby]

Favorite character from the TV show Peaky Blinders.

By order of the Peaky f'n Blinders 

[goober]

When the board changed to not allow anonymous posts anymore I just entered the first word that popped into my head.  

[US Egg]

46 minutes ago, HOUSE said:

Sarcastic TV character that best exemplifies truth justice and the American way...

 

…..so I was wrong. It isn’t because of his suave English accent.

[Coach Tuesday]

Is this really just an @Einstein bait thread?

[Don Otreply]

I was getting inundated for a time with emails with “Donotreply”’in the title, (mostly insurance/medical/Hospital bills) sooo, I ran with it, 

[billsbackto81]

1 hour ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

pretty self explanatory...😉

Ditto 👍

[slipkid]

58 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

Favorite band + my first name

 

Same band.

 

i was “Zippy” on a previous board. Something happened to that username. (And no. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t banned—generally don’t post controversial stuff.) i then became “marangi” because I loved the guy for like two games as a kid. I then realized that I was using variations of “marangi” for passwords at the time, freaked out, and deleted the account. I settled on this when I decided to create another username. ,

[BADOLBILZ]

 

 

I bought my girlfriend a Bills themed tweety night shirt on Abbott before a game during the last SB season.   Tweety had a pissed off look sitting in his cage saying Bad ol' Bills.   And that's how other teams and their fans felt about the Bills and their traveling "pack of huns" fanbase(as one New England parking lot attendant described Bills fans in an SI article).   I had first considered "Big Bad Bills"........the title of the great picture from the SI cover with Jay Schroeder getting his helmet yanked sideways by the facemark by Darryl Talley but it was too "on the nose" and serious.   

[HappyDays]

Happy Gilmore is my favorite comedy of all time. I made my username as a play on that title and the fact that I believed happy days would come for Bills fans before long. I made the username in 2013 right after we drafted EJ Manuel so I was a few years off.

[Nick the Greek]

1 hour ago, Chandler#81 said:

Playing football in the neighborhood growing up, EVERYBODY was Bobby Chandler. Make a diving catch? “BOBBY CHANDLER!’. Toe drag catch at the sideline or end line of the endzone? “BOBBY CHANDLER!” 3 reasons; like every kid in the ‘hood, he was smallish & white & then he was Great!

I always figured your name was in reference to Scott Chandler who was a good tight end for the Bills a few years back. Guess I’m wrong.