appoo Posted December 11, 2019 Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) I'm 40 years old. I've been a Bills fans for as long as I can remember, having immigrated to Buffalo when I was 2 years old. My first memories are of the bickering bills. Jim Kelly playing the Jets as a youngin. Ronnie Harmon dropping that TD in Cleveland, the Bills stadium playing Hootie and the Blowfish after making the Dolphins cry...basically I'm a lifer. And I love/hate it, probably like many of you. This is going to be my first post/thread. Why? A little bit more about my background. As I said above, I immigrated to Buffalo when I was just 2, and my family lived in upstate NY until I was about in 4th or 5th grade, and then we moved to PA. In fact the first Bills SB happened when we moved to good ol Scranton, Pennsylvania (note, not coincidentally the first time I ever cried because of a sporting event also happened in 4th or 5th grade). This, then, is where the story of my hatred of the Pittsburgh Steelers begins. Back in those days, you couldn't watch your team unless they were on national TV, or you lived locally to them. Yet I remember watching the Bills every Sunday with the rest of my family, and it was because my Dad purchased a satellite dish for the sole purpose of getting the Binghampton CBS. Why? Because apparently all of PA is a suburb of Pittsburgh. So actually this wasn't bad in the present, I only retroactively added to my hate for the Steelers wen I realized my Dad had to spend money and go out of his way or for us to be forced to watch the freakin Steelers or paid programming on Sunday afternoons. That hatred only TRULY began when I got to Penn State. Boy. Tell that group you from PA who's not a fan of the Steelers and they look at you like you're an alien. Then tell them you're a Bills fan, they'll turn into the most arrogant aholes you'll meet, acting like they invented football. To this day I tell people that Pittsburgh would be a wonderful city if you just got rid of all Steeler fans. Worst of all, this is where I encountered the awfulness that is the NFL Blackout/locality rules. If your local team wasn't sold out, or it wasn't in the 1pm/4pm time slot, you were watching paid programming. This was when I realized how lucky I was growing up with a satellite dish. This was awful. Now my Sunday football choices was the Eagles, those ugly ass Yellow and Black uniforms, or paid programming? Yea, FU Pittsburgh. (sidenote, I'm kinda/sorta a 2nd hand eagles fan) What's worse, even when the Bills showed the rare signs of life, who was there to stomp on it? Yep, you guessed it. The Villains of PA. There was the Willis McGahee led Bills, running through the AFC, trying to work their way back into the playoffs - only to be turned back by the 2nd string Pittsburgh steelers in the final game of the season. Fitzmagic! Win 3 straight games, start getting some momentum going. Along come the Steelers. We got this. We get to OT. Fitz throws an absolute BEAUTY of a bomb in the back corner of the end zone, that thing must have gone 50 yards and dropped on an absolute dime of a target area. It hits Stevie Johnson right in the hands, I'm screaming my head off, the announcers are yelling in celebration, it's happening! We beat the Steelers.....but no. Even when they DON'T involve the Bills! They're easy to hate. Do we all remember Super Bowl XL? I lived in Seattle between 2011 - 2017, and let me tell you, they will always remember that one. You know what city has a different narrative than the rest of America? You guess it. Ask someone from Pittsburgh about the horrible officiating from SB XL and they'll cite some random missed hold on the Hawks; remind them of phantom touchdowns for the Steelers, phantom OPI that took away a TD, a steeler Offside that caused a hold that negated a TD...and you get blank stares as if none of that ever happened. Because in their minds it was Jerome Bettis Week, and the bus DESERVED to win a title in his hometown, and of course there was no bad officiating, yinze are just jealous. I'm a Bills/Knicks/Mets/Syracuse/Penn State fan. Despair and failure runs thick. The only championship I've "experienced" as an adult was the Melo led Orange in 2003. And of course along the way I've developed some sporting hates. The Yankees, Ohio State - but NOTHING will ever match my personal dislike of the Pittsburgh effing Steelers and that arrogant, smug as crap fanbase. So yea, to HELL with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and lets effing go Buffalo. Pound these guys to nothing. Edited December 11, 2019 by appoo 14 5 8
Bferra13 Posted December 11, 2019 Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) Agreed. Living in Erie, PA I know the feeling man. The sad thing is most of them here are bandwagoners. In grade school in 90s most of my friends were Bills fans. People my age at least. There were a lot of adult Steelers fans (most likely bandwagoners from the 70s).I go into the Marine Corps in 2000 and come back home 5 years later and it turned into a Steelers city and Bills fans became outcasts. So yes, screw Pittsburgh and there obnoxious fans Edited December 11, 2019 by Bferra13 1 1 1
Irv Posted December 11, 2019 Posted December 11, 2019 Awestruck by the violence in your post's title. You've said it all man. Said it all. 1
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 I too hate the Steelers and their yinzer fans 2
Augie Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 2 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said: Heinz ward was kinda cool ....and then.....Dancing With The Stars happened. Nope! ? 3
ChasBB Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 This should bring back some good energy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsW7aPT3BZI 2
Stank_Nasty Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Bferra13 said: Agreed. Living in Erie, PA I know the feeling man. The sad thing is most of them here are bandwagoners. In grade school in 90s most of my friends were Bills fans. People my age at least. There were a lot of adult Steelers fans (most likely bandwagoners from the 70s).I go into the Marine Corps in 2000 and come back home 5 years later and it turned into a Steelers city and Bills fans became outcasts. So yes, screw Pittsburgh and there obnoxious fans also in northwest pa... i'm not ashamed to admit I may hate the steelers more than I hate the pats. the thought of losing to them this week makes my skin crawl and has me completely stressed to the max. I cant put into words how much I cant stand the fan base. the most obnoxious self centered fans I've ever encountered. they act like the team, and they as fans, are a gift to the NFL and nation. they are spoiled as hell and I cant wait for them to deal with life after ben. Edited December 12, 2019 by Stank_Nasty 1 1
ChasBB Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 33 minutes ago, Irv said: Awestruck by the violence in your post's title. You've said it all man. Said it all. Irv would have called them "punks" 1
Steptide Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 Sadly I was at the steelers game in 04 when we lost to the 2nd and 3rd stringers. I was also at the game in 2010 when Stevie dropped that deep bomb. The bills are due to slay the steelers and it will be awesome to do so and clinch a spot in the playoffs 1
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 24 minutes ago, Stank_Nasty said: also in northwest pa... i'm not ashamed to admit I may hate the steelers more than I hate the pats. the thought of losing to them this week makes my skin crawl and has me completely stressed to the max. I cant put into words how much I cant stand the fan base. the most obnoxious self centered fans I've ever encountered. they act like the team, and they as fans, are a gift to the NFL and nation. they are spoiled as hell and I cant wait for them to deal with life after ben. Lol now you know how I felt eagles week. 1
GunnerBill Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 1 minute ago, Joe in Winslow said: Lol now you know how I felt eagles week. I felt like that Eagles week too. And I have no reason why. I just hate the Eagles. I have admitted I wanted the Pats to beat them in the Superbowl (both times) I hate them that much
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 1 minute ago, GunnerBill said: I felt like that Eagles week too. And I have no reason why. I just hate the Eagles. I have admitted I wanted the Pats to beat them in the Superbowl (both times) I hate them that much At least you don't have to live with them. Ha
GunnerBill Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 Just now, Joe in Winslow said: At least you don't have to live with them. Ha Indeed. Must be ***** awful.
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 1 minute ago, GunnerBill said: Indeed. Must be ***** awful. Only way I may be able to relate it to you would be living among Man U hooligans. Lol
GunnerBill Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 1 minute ago, Joe in Winslow said: Only way I may be able to relate it to you would be living among Man U hooligans. Lol Man U don't have hooligans. They got sanitised years ago. Man City still have a few being "new money" but they won't last much longer. 1
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