JPPT1974 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Fans that are fans through thick and thin, good and bad, mountains and valleys, highs and lows. Heard Bills Mafia are in the top five in the fans being likable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsPride12 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 As far as passion and showing out for the team I'd say Buffalo has as good of fans as anybody out there As far as behavior we have both some of the most amazing fans and some of the worst. I've always felt like our fanbase feels like some sort of hybrid breeding of Green Bay fans and Philly fans lol. It's definitely unique Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinceThe70s Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Not sure whether the Bills have the best fans or how you even judge that, but as a life-long out-of-towner it's a unique, highly passionate and good-hearted fan base that I'm proud to have an association to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Success Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 The charity thing really set us apart for awhile, though it doesn't seem like we do that as much anymore. But the level of heartache & disappointment also sets us apart. That's not something we control - but it does create a special bond & weirdly, a very unique experience. When I see Bills fans when I'm traveling, it's like seeing family. It's not like that w/ my other sports loyalties. There are a lot of great fanbases, for sure. But there is something about the experience of a Bills fan, especially the older ones. I just don't see its equivalent. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klos63 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On 1/25/2024 at 7:40 PM, SCBills said: All I know if anywhere I go, if I tell people I’m a Bills fan.. they immediately make a reference to Bills Mafia. I don’t know of many teams where random people view their fanbase as iconic. Kinda hard for them not to know about the mafia, have you ever seen a fan base that talks so much about themselves. Loyal? yes, humble ? hardly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On 1/25/2024 at 10:19 PM, QCity said: What’s an expleeetive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 I used to think that we had the best fans in the world . . . and then a certain segment of our fans cheered loudly at a game when Rob Johnson got hurt. Whatever you may have thought about him, it was completely embarrassing that some of our fans would do that. That is when I realized we have some fans that are no better than anyone else (and in some cases worse). There are also other incidents like what happened to Tyler Bass. The fact is we have some very good fans and some who are [Fill in an expletive]. Thankfully, I think most of our fans are very good fans and people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayray808 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Bills fans are the most passionate... meaning you will see 10's and also 0's... on average we are a solid 9 but man, those 0's sure do skew our data from being a 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADOLBILZ Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 What non-Bills fans think of our fan base is something I could not care less about. What was important was that the fanbase unite and become an entity separate from the team, IMO. The group as a whole had to embrace the "whatever" of being a Bills fan the way many of us did showing up every week during the drought despite Ralph Wilson's decades long poor stewardship of the on-field product and he and Jeff Littman ceasing to run a competitive organization for the last decade+ of Ralph's life. In some of the 70's and the mid-80's when Ralph put bad teams on the field people stayed away in droves. We were passionate but the support was much more conditional. The model to me was always Chicago Cubs fans. I attended a number of games at Wrigley and was always impressed by their focus on having fun as a group as much or more than the results on the field. Their embracing of the Cubs fan experience despite 100 years of futility was the example. I just wondered for years how those of us who prioritized our shared fandom above the results on the scoreboard would get that to translate en masse. Then the whole "Bills Mafia" social media driven hokey nonsense took off we were a largely fractured group of passionate consumers. As much as I hated seeing some of the posers and douchebags that jumped on the bandwagon once Bills fans had a fun identity..........it is totally worth it. Having that distinct identity as a fan base has changed everything for the better, IMO. That's all I care about. How it impacts us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBuffalo Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 This question/topic frustrates me for a few reasons. 1. An opinion is debatable but not able to be proven. 2. Stereotypes are an oversimplification of a larger subject matter- good or bad. But thanks for questioning the vast majority of us, based on a minute few, as potentially being “less than” after a gut punch defeat once again. Go Bills and more importantly GO BILLS MAFIA!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 22 hours ago, Irv said: The Bills have great fans. But when they are losing, the sordid underbelly comes out in some knuckleheads. I saw a bunch of drunk #######s/Bills fans at the KC game screaming at some poor dudes after the game for no reason whatsoever - challenging them, to a fight. Pretty brave when the odds are 1000:1 against KC fan. Yeah, even the best fanbases have issues when mixed with alcohol and losing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_In_NH Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Unfortunately there is an epidemic of keyboard warriors that affects all of hunanity including some bills fans. One day it will completely change the world as we know it today IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Hooks Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) This kind of stuff is so silly imo. The fact that this is an actual thing an adult person is contemplating makes me kinda sad to be honest. You have some crummy humans, you have better than crummy humans, you have some great humans. You think somehow we just happened by the best of the best regionally here in Buffalo? Ridiculous. All fandoms have the good and the bad. Same as any group including human beings. There’s no best. There’s no hierarchy. We all like a thing and that’s that. The fact that I have to even write this down is icky. Also, I have a hard time believing the OP about ho many instances there were of bad Bills fans behavior. KC fans have become worse than Pats fans in the arrogant a-hole percentage and that’s saying a lot. I would imagine many if not all of them were egged on in some capacity. Just another guy that moved away from Buffalo trying to look cooler than he is, imo. Edited January 27 by Bobby Hooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nextmanup Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 16 hours ago, CountDorkula said: You could literally write this paragraph word for word for about 10-15 fanbases. The funny thing is that a whole bunch of my best friends from WNY, who still live there, could not care less about the Bills and don't really follow them. These are guys who have lived in Buffalo their whole lives. Not everyone in Buffalo gets emotional about the Bills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On 1/25/2024 at 10:19 PM, QCity said: There is no place for this behavior. Plain and simple it is wrong on the part of all who contributed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Otreply Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On 1/25/2024 at 9:23 PM, Meatloaf63 said: I travel a lot for work, Airports, restaurants, malls. This past year I saw Bills fans everywhere where I went. Trips to LA, Phoenix, Dallas, Ft Meyers, Ft. lauderdale Miami. Every trip i went on, I got a “Go Bills” or at least saw people, multiple people representing. This week, went through DC, Baltimore airport, Charlotte, finished up in West Palm Beach today. Saw one guy with a Bills hat all week. It was like people were embarrassed that we lost to KC again. But really the worst thing that made me pause was the treatment and threats to Bass. How embarrassing and really down right dirty low class. I haven’t lived in Buffalo for a long time, and this was the first year I didn’t make it back for a visit. So what’s going on up there? I would hope it was just a small sample size of fans who acted out like that, but damn they were a serious black eye on the mafia. Cant tell you how many friends and co workers mentioned how nasty Bills fans are this week, Buy the end of the eeek i just gave up defending and had to agree to a point. The answer is yes we are, their is always the ten percent of fans that peaked maturity wise as sophomores in high school, and that’s being kind, it would be nice to neuter or spay them so as to reduce the issue going forward…, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Fixit Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 2 hours ago, Bobby Hooks said: This kind of stuff is so silly imo. The fact that this is an actual thing an adult person is contemplating makes me kinda sad to be honest. You have some crummy humans, you have better than crummy humans, you have some great humans. You think somehow we just happened by the best of the best regionally here in Buffalo? Ridiculous. All fandoms have the good and the bad. Same as any group including human beings. There’s no best. There’s no hierarchy. We all like a thing and that’s that. The fact that I have to even write this down is icky. Also, I have a hard time believing the OP about ho many instances there were of bad Bills fans behavior. KC fans have become worse than Pats fans in the arrogant a-hole percentage and that’s saying a lot. I would imagine many if not all of them were egged on in some capacity. Just another guy that moved away from Buffalo trying to look cooler than he is, imo. Ya but did you see my post? TL;DR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On 1/26/2024 at 11:13 AM, Governor said: We aren’t viewed favorably on a national level anymore. People have grown tired of us. There were also mentions of Kermit dolls and Mahomes dolls/figures hanging from nooses in nearby trees, etc near the stadium. Kind of like we’ve grown tired of fake bills fans who only post negative things about the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatdrinks Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 There no way to quantify “ best”. Bills mafia is and should be in the running for the title though. Every fan base has knuckleheads and trolls. Some of those trolling Bass may not be actual Bills fans at all. Can’t let a few heathens give a fan base a bad name. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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