Are The Bills Mafia’s Tailgate Antics An Embarrassment?

[Steve O]

3 minutes ago, section122 said:

 

For me a game day experience is 2 parts.  A giant party before the game then the actual game itself.  Tailgating is one of the main draws for going to the game.  Drinking, grilling, playing kan jam at 9 am on a Sunday?  Awesome.  Take away tailgating? I'm not going to drive 2.5 hours each way for a 3 hour football game.  Combine the 2 and that is what I travel for!

 

Chalk me up as another that has never actually seen a table smash.  It isn't nearly as prevalent as it is made out to be. 

Other than the game day experience for me is 3 parts I agree with everything you said. Part 3 is post game party. (I don't give up a Sunday just to leave the game early and miss post game traffic, and I can't stand post game traffic back to Rochester so I wait until it subsides to leave)

[Needle]

Of course it's embarrassing. I don't personally feel a responsibility but I'm sure the team and NFL have discussed fan behavior across the country. It's not a Buffalo problem exclusively.

 

On a side note, I find the whole Bills Mafia thing to be as lame as you can get. 

[uticaclub]

I’m proud of it. 

[RyanC883]

2 hours ago, May Day 10 said:

Its not an embarrassment. 

 

For my work, I speak to and deal with people from everywhere.  Often, football/the Bills come up.  Not one person has indicated that they are disgusted by it and said anything to shame me.  In fact, most think its funny and they usually mutter something about how they NEED to come up for a game.

 

 

And overall, it is a very small amount of people who do this.  I have tailgated for several hundreds of hours in various hot-button lots, and have seen 1 table get jumped through.

 

If it is me who does this and it goes viral, or drinking out of someone's tush, or what have you, I would be embarrassed for myself.  

 

 

 

same here.  People in Pittsburgh think its funny, and know that it's a tiny amount of the overall tailgaters.  Most folks want to come up for a game because there is a lot of space to have a real tailgate, something you don't see in most other NFL stadiums.  

22 minutes ago, section122 said:

 

For me a game day experience is 2 parts.  A giant party before the game then the actual game itself.  Tailgating is one of the main draws for going to the game.  Drinking, grilling, playing kan jam at 9 am on a Sunday?  Awesome.  Take away tailgating? I'm not going to drive 2.5 hours each way for a 3 hour football game.  Combine the 2 and that is what I travel for!

 

Chalk me up as another that has never actually seen a table smash.  It isn't nearly as prevalent as it is made out to be. 

 

100% spot-on.   A lot of fans travel to come to the games.  It's an all-day or multi-day event (get in night before, go out, tailgate, game, drive home).  

[Best Player Available]

1 hour ago, bobblehead said:

The Faiders fans are known for gang fights in the stadium. 

 

 

 

The worst beatdown I ever witnessed anywhere was at the Coliseum. After a Bills /Raiders game. 

It was a gang attack on a Bills fan wearing a Bills jersey. In a offsite lot. We had our son who was pretty

young then, so any chance of attempting to stop it would have been risky. 911 was the best

we could do. I thought the guy in the beatdown would be in the hospital for awhile.

 

Like the Raiders Oakland fans suck!  The worst in the NFL. 

[wppete]

[rodneykm]

They are literally the coolest group of fans on this planet. Anyone who doesn't like the antics needs to go on over to the retirement home and start watching golf.

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

in some instances   imo    yes some can be.   

 

[4_kidd_4]

So....Did we solve this yet? Or should I check back in a few weeks when the next one of this thread pops up?

[Tenhigh]

1 hour ago, Soda Popinski said:

my brother took a 9 volt to the coconut at a Bucs game, it was the game TKO Spikes got injured.   That kind of crap happens everywhere beer and large crowd of guys get together.   

I think I was at that game, it was like 9K degrees.  Almost too hot to drink. 

[Freddie's Dead]

No more embarrassing than exchanging sexual favors for Bills jerseys.

[Soda Popinski]

4 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:

I think I was at that game, it was like 9K degrees.  Almost too hot to drink. 

yeah, florida even in October is insufferable.  I'm just happy it hasn't rained in 3 whole days.  

[SouthNYfan]

No more or less embarrassing than the 350lb shirtless fans in full body paint screaming their lungs out during a snowstorm game.

(Aka I don't think it's embarrassing)

[Another Fan]

Some of it could make me laugh.  Stuff like this though makes Bills fans look like a bunch of bafoons

 

 

 

[Gordio]

2 minutes ago, Another Fan said:

Some of it could make me laugh.  Stuff like this though makes Bills fans look like a bunch of bafoons

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know I guess I am an immature 45 year old but I think that is fuggin hilarious. 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

6 minutes ago, Another Fan said:

Some of it could make me laugh.  Stuff like this though makes Bills fans look like a bunch of bafoons

 

 

 

 

At least they didn't piss on him

 

[Gordio]

Just now, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

At least they didn't piss on him

 

That would of been even funnier if they did. 

[Matt_In_NH]

I find it funny but also embarrassing if that makes any sense.   I also think someone will get themselves killed if it continues.

[BillsFan4]

I wouldn’t say that smashing through tables is an embarrassment. It’s not something I’d do, ans I’m not crazy about the “drunken buffoon” reputation we seem to be getting in the national media. But hey, to each his own. 

 

I do worry that it is going to ruin tailgating for everyone, though.

 

 

 

What IS truly embarrassing (in my opinion) -

 

The Bills fans who get trashed and treat the opposing fans like ****. 

 

There’s simply no reason for that. 

 

I have (female) family members who live in Boston, and they refuse to even come to Bills games with me anymore because of the way they’ve been treated at the stadium.

 

They are honestly scared to come and that really pisses me off.

 

Buffalo has always been known for how great, and nice, the people are. I brag about that to my family in Boston. Then I bring them to games and they’re like “I thought you said the people here were nice. This is as bad as (or worse than) it is in Boston for opposing fans!”. 

 

To be fair, I’ve met plenty of nice Bills fans at the stadium, who treated them (and me when I’m with them) very well. It’s just that smaller group of !@#$s that ruin it for them (and me).

Edited August 7, 2018 by BillsFan4

[Mr. WEO]

what new downtown stadium?