I used to have a Bills flag flying in front of my house in a neighborhood I lived in several years ago here in the Atlanta suburbs. One day, not long after I had moved in, I was walking my dog and another neighbor came up and scolded me for the flag saying it would be offensive to my next door neighbor. I was wondering to myself, is he a Falcons fan, Patriots, Dolphins? Either way, I didn't care, I was going to keep flying my flag with pride.
A couple of weeks later as I started getting to know the neighbors better, I asked the one who mentioned my flag what the deal was. Turns out, he didn't get a good look at it and thought it was a confederate flag. He was shocked I would fly it because my next door neighbor was black. I got a lot of mileage giving him crap about that one for the rest of the football season.