H2o Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I personally will never call a team my own again if the Bills move to L.A. and change their name like the Titans and all. If the Bills leave Buffalo, so does my enthusiasm for the game. How do you guys feel about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackur Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I'll stick with them......thats just my loyalty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prognastic Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Maybe if more Western NYers get off their cheap lazy behinds and actually SUPPORT the team during their home games, they wont have to worry about such nonsense. Â Its inconceivable to think of NOT having an NFL franchise in Buffalo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILLSBACKERINLA Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I will buy season tickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynical Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I would give up the pro game, and just focus on the college game. Â There's no chance 'Bama would leave Tuscaloosa for greener pastures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MavBavButav Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 the mavbavbutav that the world knows would cease to exist. What would be left would be a shell of my former self. I would go through life's daily routine like a zombie. My life would lose all sense of importance and my heart would stop beating within the first year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuntheDamnBall Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I don't see it happening. But if it did, I would still love a lot of the players, I'd hate the organization and the NFL and I would further pour my sports heart into the Sabres and Blue Jays. I'd probably get much more into college football, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drnykterstein Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Prolly I'll pick a new team.. but my interest in the NFL is dropping like a rock. Its too comercial and too many ads and I feel like football is just one bick reebok advertisement. Why do I want to watch that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimBob2232 Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 depends on how i feel about the players on the team at the time. If its a group I really like, I can see moving over my loyalty. Heck im following them from a distance now, whats the real difference? However, If its a team like the rob johnson/antwain smith/eddie robinson type team...I would probably take a bigger interest in a local team (i.e. Carolina, Baltimore, Deadskins)...though it would be painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcali Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I personally will never call a team my own again if the Bills move to L.A. and change their name like the Titans and all. If the Bills leave Buffalo, so does my enthusiasm for the game. How do you guys feel about it? 865890[/snapback] I would hate them more than the Dolphins if they left. I would wish them nothing but misery and constant digestive problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I personally will never call a team my own again if the Bills move to L.A. and change their name like the Titans and all. If the Bills leave Buffalo, so does my enthusiasm for the game. How do you guys feel about it? 865890[/snapback] Â The Bills are from Buffalo. If the franchise goes to another city I am done with them. Should it happen, I would hope they start a new team with no history. At least the city of Cleveland kept the name and stats for the Browns in Cleveland. What a Modell Job that was! Â I wonder how many Los Angeles Rams fans followed them to St. Louis? Â No different to me than Baltimore (Colts), Houston (Oilers), St. Louis (Cardinals), and Cleveland (Ravens?) Â As far as the NFL, I do not know what I would do. I wish R. Wilson could strike a deal that would allow the team to pass from his hands upon his death to another Western NY oriented owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 depends on how i feel about the players on the team at the time. If its a group I really like, I can see moving over my loyalty. Heck im following them from a distance now, whats the real difference? However, If its a team like the rob johnson/antwain smith/eddie robinson type team...I would probably take a bigger interest in a local team (i.e. Carolina, Baltimore, Deadskins)...though it would be painful. 865940[/snapback] I can understand your point. My point of reference has been WNY for 98% of my life. I would have a hard time supporting them if they were West Coast or anywhere but Buffalo. Neither would I hate them - it would be a financial decision, should it happen.  That is just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I am so tired of this. There are DOZENS of reasons all the home games do not sell out.  Cheap and Lazy are maybe number 15 and 16 on any rational list.  Let's start with population and stadium size, instead of just trashing people. When you can do that, I can talk with you on this topic.  Maybe if more Western NYers get off their cheap lazy behinds and actually SUPPORT the team during their home games, they wont have to worry about such nonsense.  Its inconceivable to think of NOT having an NFL franchise in Buffalo. 865892[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills_fan Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I would have my fall Sundays free. Play some golf, watch more hockey & baseball etc. Â I'd never watch the NFL and certainly not follow the team. They'd be dead to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millstone twnsp nj bills fan Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I would hate them more than the Dolphins if they left. I would wish them nothing but misery and constant digestive problems. 865961[/snapback] Â Â I agree 100%! I have been with them since the late 1960"s if they leave town, I'm done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikie2times Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I have no connections to Buffalo, but when you take the city from the team and the history from the team, you just don't have the same team. I couldn't follow them anymore, and don't ever see myself caring about another team as much, or even at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willis da illest Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 i'd watch other teams and be a casual fan...but i grew up and know em as only the BUFFALO Bills...i would refuse to recognize them as anyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I would stop being an NFL fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roch-cha-cha-bill Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I will wait for them to come back...kinda like what happened to the Browns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Balls Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I personally will never call a team my own again if the Bills move to L.A. and change their name like the Titans and all. If the Bills leave Buffalo, so does my enthusiasm for the game. How do you guys feel about it? 865890[/snapback] Â Â I agree. My enthusiasm for the game has steadily waned over the years so why would I watch the NFL if there were no local team? I've just found the NFL product of late to be overly hyped and endlessly dull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stenbar Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I agree. My enthusiasm for the game has steadily waned over the years so why would I watch the NFL if there were no local team? I've just found the NFL product of late to be overly hyped and endlessly dull. 866112[/snapback] The NFL has really changed over the years..I grew up in Dallas in the 70's and early 80's and my Dad took me to see the Cowboys twice a year. I was a Huge Cowboys fan.That era of the Cowboys still holds a special place in my heart. We moved to Buffalo in 83 and My dad took me to my first Bills Game against the Raiders that season. I believe Marc Wilson was the Qb for the raiders and the Bills heavy underdogs almost pulled it out. I guess the point of it all is never say never about changing loyalty's to a football team. It can happen, I now despise the Cowboys of the present and folow the Bills as rabid as I did when I was a Cwboys fan. The more you watch and follow a team the more you begin to root and cheer for them. Would it hurt if the Bills left, of course it would, however, I would find another team to follow. They care no more for me than they care for where the playere cares where he plays. I have paid my price following the Bills over the years, Jim Kelly seats for 8 yrs, seasons for 9 before that. I will not pay anymore for this era product. Too commercialized, to distant, too much greed. I will watch it on tv and enjoy, but never again will I sell my sunday for a football game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2o Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 Good, heartfelt answers you guys. I just don't see myself being able to jump to another team if the Bills go elsewhere. I've been a bills fan since 87'. It was a Bills vs. Browns game where I realized that was going to be my team. I have suffered through 4 straight Super Bowl losses (all during my highschool years), mediocre teams that followed, the "Music City Miracle" (a.k.a. Wychek's forward lateral), the Bledsoe years where he choked in his only "big game" that could've gotten us to the playoffs against the Steelers second and third string guys, and these couple of years that have followed. Finally we have a team of young guys again that look promising and Ralph is talking about the team moving. It's sickening to the stomach. Yeah I would hope some of the players that I like do well if they left, but my days of "having a team" would be over. I would never buy another piece of NFL merchandise. No more jerseys, hats, shirts, jackets, underwear for the wife , nothing. It would be a travesty, a sham, and a mockery of what football is about if the Bills left Buffalo. It would be a traveshamockery!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movinon Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I would cancel my Sunday ticket subscription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattF2000 Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I would never watch NFL Football again. I doubt I could ever be serious about college football either. So my Football days would be done. We'd forever be haunted with memories of wide rights and music city miracles with no hope of ever reaching the promise land. It's the worst thing that could ever happen to us. Maybe Ralph can divy the company up in to 800,000 shares valued at $1000 buxx each and we can all spend any penny saved and buy the Bills.. That'd be great.. Although it'd never happen. If they move I guess i'd follow hockey more.. Maybe go to Church on sunday mornings? I dont know what the hell I'd do on Sunday mornings.. What do non football fans do on Sundays? Maybe I could take up hunting? Anyone know when hunting season starts? It'd be a real shame... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ (not THAT RJ) Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I would never watch NFL Football again. I doubt I could ever be serious about college football either. So my Football days would be done. We'd forever be haunted with memories of wide rights and music city miracles with no hope of ever reaching the promise land. It's the worst thing that could ever happen to us. Maybe Ralph can divy the company up in to 800,000 shares valued at $1000 buxx each and we can all spend any penny saved and buy the Bills.. That'd be great.. Although it'd never happen. If they move I guess i'd follow hockey more.. Maybe go to Church on sunday mornings? I dont know what the hell I'd do on Sunday mornings.. What do non football fans do on Sundays? Maybe I could take up hunting? Anyone know when hunting season starts? It'd be a real shame... 866687[/snapback]   Amen to that. The NFL would cease to exist for me. I would be even more bitter than I already am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKC Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Â I wonder how many Los Angeles Rams fans followed them to St. Louis? Â 865964[/snapback] Â I'd guess about 20% of their old LA fan base has remained loyal throughout, seeing the inevitable "Patriots effect" after their Super Bowl win with a whole new slew of "lifetime Ram's fans". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I personally will never call a team my own again if the Bills move to L.A. and change their name like the Titans and all. If the Bills leave Buffalo, so does my enthusiasm for the game. How do you guys feel about it? 865890[/snapback] Â If the bills moved, i would root for all 4 AFC East teams to rot in hell instead of just 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkady Renko Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 My father was a Baltimore Colts fan. Until I got him back into it with the Bills, he was done with the NFL, not giving a rat's ass about what happened. Let me note that my grandfather died right before the Colts moved. It was like adding insult to injury to him. Â I will follow his example and then some. Not only will I stop caring about the NFL, I will root for its demise. If I ever become a billionaire, I will move the team back. If I ever have an opportunity to get revenge on the NFL, I will take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spun Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Just as when Buffalo lost it's NBA team, the Buffalo Braves, back in the late 70's, I would be done with the NFL. Â Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkady Renko Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 It would be weird for me in that I would have very little to care about in regards to sports. I care about MLB and the Orioles and the NFL with the Bills. Â It is tough to care about MLB and the Orioles considering how much a mess both are and if the Bills moved, I would like have no sports to care about. Â A lot of free time... maybe college football? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWings Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I'd only worry about this IF it happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiew Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 A big part of why I still support the Bills is because of Buffalo memories. When I lived in Buffalo, going to the games with my kids and all the great games we watched together became a huge part of my life. Â The memories of the glory years have kept my loyalty alive since being gone. But now, an even bigger part of that is going back to Buffalo every season for games, the people of WNY, the northern accents, the food, the sights and sounds of tailgating, the Pinto...even more memories have been made over the years since I've left. Â If the team were to move? There are no memories in LA for me to "go back" to, no Sahlen's Hot dogs, no wings, no white pizza, no beef on weck, no WNY accents or culture, no Niagara Falls. It would just be a generic football team with a different uniform and perhaps a new name and a lot of new players. A shell. Â No thanks. I would surely continue my annual trecks back to Buffalo. I love it that much. But I would probably eventually become a Texans fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankeedawg Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I would give up the pro game, and just focus on the college game. There's no chance 'Bama would leave Tuscaloosa for greener pastures. 865906[/snapback]  Greetings from Pell City, AL, Roll Tide!!! Seriously, I would do the same to the NFL as I did to the NBA when the Braves left Buffalo. Never watch another NFL Game. I may be the only person in the world to never have seen Michael Jordan play and I could care less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisheralum Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I'd probably still have to root for them anyway. Will always be a Bills fan. Maybe we should ask Baltimore fans what they did. Or maybe ask Houston fans how they feel. My Ex brother in law was in Peru for a year. It was the year a lot of that moving happened. The Rams moving to St Louis, the Browns to Baltimore and all. It was before internet was everywhere, so he really had been out of touch. About blew his mind. That's when I told him the Beatles had a new album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhbillsfan Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Easy, Green Bay all the way. No way they'll be moving out of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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