Is following the Bills a fun pastime for you?

[EmotionallyUnstable]

Tradition, food, family, friends. As long as I’m watching football on Sunday’s, I’m happy. It would just be nice if the bills would put something enjoyable to watch on consistently. Either way, I’ll watch each week. Being a bills fan for me is not simply about the bills, but the community and the culture. 

[Another Fan]

12 minutes ago, BillsPride12 said:

I still enjoy the camaraderie with fellow Bills fans even though we've been in a constant state of mourning for almost 20 years now.  But yeah the connections and bonds I have with other die-hard Bills fans make it a fun past-time right now while the actual product isn't a fun past time at all.  

Agreed.  What other group of people can you have intelligent discussions about Beavis and Butthead nowadays? ?

[Bill_with_it]

Anytime that I live in a country, choose my own profession, take care of my family, and get to watch my favorite sports team regardless of w/l is a fun time. 

[RaoulDuke79]

23 minutes ago, no name said:

becoming less fun. not so much because they have failed to really be a true contender for nearly a quarter century, but more because of the rule changes and all the penalties.

 

no, I wouldn't call it fun but more of an interest in watching the game and although  considered entertainment that could be translated in to fun, I don't consider it a fun past time anymore.

 

could it change? well, after 25 years of no real change and following them 45 years, I don't know if I'll live long enough to see a true contender in the buffalo bills?

I think this is a huge part of my growing indifference towards football. I was watching the Sunday night game last night and I think there was a commercial followed by 3 penalty flags or 3 penalty flags following by a commercial. Either way, I had enough and turned it off and went to bed.

[JMF2006]

13 minutes ago, Jay_Fixit said:

Yes. It’s sports.

 

If you don’t find it fun, you’re probably not fun.

 

If you don't find it fun.......your team probably stinks

[1st Ammendment NoMas]

It's a labor of love that's in my blood from growing up in Buffalo. I'm loyal so I don't swap teams. I'm with these lovable losers 'til the end.

[frostbitmic]

It comes down to either following the Bills or clubbing baby seals ... I end up with less blood on my clothes clubbing seals.

[Formerly Allan in MD]

It's a necessary past time for one who cares.  I wouldn't necessarily call it fun under the circumstances.  In fact, at times it's like a bad dream.  But optimism becomes a habit.

[row_33]

Good with Juice, good with Cribbs, great with Kelly, all downhill since Kelly basically

 

 

[Lurker]

It's past time I stopped paying attention to this sport...

[chaccof]

It's all about hope....intellectually I know that the Bills are a team that loses much more than they win (since 1960 I think the team has had something like 18 or 19 winning seasons out of 58)), I also know, having grown up in WNY and having lived in other NFL cities since I left in 1978 that the WNY area lives and dies with their Bills (and to a certain extent the Sabers, but I always felt like the Bills ruled the area).  And so the hope, every week, of a win, and how great that is for the city and  at work, where friends and co-workers always congratulate me (I live in VA now) on the few wins over the last 20 years.  And when the Bills lose and I go back to work, like today, people feel bad for me.  I do find the hope fun, and the conversations rooting for the Bills outside of Buffalo brings is fun.  

[Fadingpain]

1 hour ago, PlayoffsPlease said:

Is following the Bills a fun past time for you?   I loved the Vikings game, most excited about the Bills I have been in years, it was a lot fun.  What is makes following the Bills fun for you currently? 

*pastime*

 

 

 

[PlayoffsPlease]

Just now, Fadingpain said:

*pastime*

 

fun just oozes from your personality

 

 

[Strethor]

Football went from a 11v11 battle to the NBA

 

Who thinks this is any fun? 

 

My time spent following the Bills has drastically fallen it's a great timesink on Sunday's nothing more - the team is not worth much more time or money then that 

[stuvian]

I feel fortunate not to have seen the last two games and will similarly avoid the upcoming MNF bloodbath

[BoccesOnTransit]

Still fun

[DRA3196]

For me its watching Allen develop. Like most fans I have really high hopes for the kid. I have fun watching the defense when it isn't getting shredded and the line is getting pressure on the QB. Tre is a stud and although Edmunds is learning he is probably one of the most athletic LB's the Bills have ever had in their history. This O-line is improving each week, as I expected they would, they are starting to jell. Through the 18yrs of ineptitude my loyalty has remained.  Probably the most fun I have is when our family is at New Era enjoying a Bills game with the 72k+ singing the shout song and watching GB fans leave at halftime or watching Cowboy fans crying in their $12 beer as they are experiencing a good old fashioned Buffalo beat down.

Edited October 23, 2018 by DRA3196

[Billsatlastin2018]

As a Season Tix holder, from 1989-1994, it was an 11 out of 10 in excitement!

 

Today, as a once a year visitor, it is a -11!

 

This is simply one of the worst, most dispiriting Offensive teams in NFL history.

 

And only fools believe this crop at OBD will turn it around. They have made some woeful choices already.

[Tcali]

the fans of wny have been crapped on by this franchise for 2 decades. expecting the bills to win is like going to a casino--u usually leave unhappy,but u just win enough to perpetuate the addiction.

 

its gonna be excruciating watching a methuselah at qb make a complete fool of us next wk. so im taking a few weeks off

[K-9]

Me and the girls enjoy the game playing in the background as we do our quilting.