BillsShredder83 Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Buftex said: This is a repost from about 6 months ago...too lazy, and scarred to re-live it all again! True story...Saturday, January 8th, 2000...I am working as the manager of a Tower Records store. Trying to be the "cool boss", I used to work on Saturday's our busiest day of the week. My ulterior motive, it allowed me to watch the Bills games on Sundays, drink as much as I wanted, and then have Monday's off to sleep it off, if i needed to. But, as luck wold have it, the Bills are playing a Saturday wild-card game. No big deal, I figure. I will record the game on my expensive VCR, using extra HQ tape. All I gotta do, is make it through the day with nobody giving me any score updates. I went in at about 6am, instead of my normal 8:30am, just so I could get out a little earlier. Hey, I'm the boss after all! My store is in Austin, Cowboys country... it was a busy day, but I made all the way to the end of my shift, without knowing what happens to the Bills that day. I was ready to make wings when I got home, stocked the fridge with beer...I was so pumped for this game. I felt like the Bills were returning to the Super Bowl that year. All my employees know that the Bills are the only thing as important as music to me, at that point in time. I had warned all of them, not to let me know, through the course of the day, if they happened to hear anything about the game. It is mostly college age hipsters, they don't give a rats ass about football...I wasn't concerned. Just as I am stepping out the door, my adrenalin pumping, this sweet guy (mentally challenged) I had hired to help out, walks in the store for his closing shift. He holds out his hand for a high-five, and says "Congrats on the Bills! They won!!!".... I was so pissed... but I couldn't get mad at him. I just said "Thanks Jon" and headed out, as I had planned. I was totally deflated. Could feel my face getting hot. Back in those days, especially, Bills football was my reprive from all the other miserable ***** going on in my life...knowing the Bills won, kinda stole all my thunder. As I drove home, I started thinking..."crap..I got up so early, now I am just tired." Knowing the outcome of the game, I figured, what the hell I'll go home, take a little nap, and then watch. I walk into my apartment, and see my phone machine blinking like crazy...I have 8 messages. It is, no doubt, my estranged girlfriend starting ***** with me, or my brother in Atlanta calling to whoop it up...Bills on to the divisional round!! I didn't want to listen to the messages yet...I wanted to see the game. I took my "nap"...ended up sleeping about 3 hours. I get up, crack a beer, start making my wings, and roll the video. The game was intense...a nail biter...it was weird watching it though, knowing that the Bills win the game. The outcome had been already determind. I'm not cursing the tv as much as I might normally, because I know we are going to win. It has already happened. Nail biter! Rob Johnson marches the Bills down the field, with one shoe, and gets them all the way down into field goal range. Chrsitie is money, nails it! Bills win 16-15! Great defense.... As the tape is rolling, the Titans try some bull#### razzle dazzel desperation play in the final seconds...are you kidding me? A touchdown! Wade Phillips is laughing it off, shaking his head, because he knows it won't count. I know it won't count either, because I knew they had already won the game hours earlier. They are looking at the replay...I am happy, the happiness of knowing....I start cleaning up as the refs are mulling it over....throwing out beer bottles, rinsing plates...I push the button on my answering machine...my brother is swearing up a storm...he is livid. As I am trying to figure out why he is so mad (he was a Flutie guy, maybe he thinks it shouldn't have beens so close?)..but then it starts to sink in...the Bills lost....Music City Miracle! Needless to say, it hurt even a little more that it might have if I had watched it in real time, and hadn't been given the bogus result. I called my employee Jon, the next day, and fired him. As if that game wasnt painful enough the normal way f#$%##.... but damn hoss lol you fired the dude 😬
Rocket94 Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) This past game against the Chiefs. I was in a room full of Bear's fans that were rooting for the Chiefs. When the game was unfolding, their true colors were on full display! My comeback was, "Well in reality, you are really Bear's fans...and look at your Bears!" Edited March 15, 2021 by Rocket94
SirAndrew Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 The Music City Miracle. I spent the weekend on a school outing, and recorded the game on VHS to watch when I got home. Instead, some kid on the bus was vocal in his joy about a Bills loss.
Buftex Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 2 hours ago, BillsShredder83 said: As if that game wasnt painful enough the normal way f#$%##.... but damn hoss lol you fired the dude 😬 No...that wsa a joke! 3 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said: I learned this the hard way way too many times. I always tell a bunch of people beforehand too that I am DVRing it. Then, some random friend I haven’t heard from in 5 years texts me because he is watching the game. The worst is when you tell people, and then they try to make ambiguos jokes about the game. 1
Buftex Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 I remember too, in the 80's I had season tickets. I worked at Tops. My normal schedule was to wok on Sunday afternoons. My boss worked out a deal where I could come in really early on Sundays when the Bills were at home, and set up the machinary in the meat room, and cut out of work at 10am. But that was only the weeks when they were at home. When they were on the road, I had to video tape the games. It really irritated my father when I would come home and watch the games on Sunday evenings (we had a 1 television house, with 10 people). One Sunday, during Kelly's first season, the Bills were playing the Bucs. I was watching the video...it was a tight game. The Bills were down by 6 points late in the game. Kelly was driving them for (hopefully) a game winning td. Only about 4 minutes left in the game...my father, just to be a prick, walks in and says "you know they lost, don't you?" He really could be a dick sometimes.
ticketssince61 Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 5 hours ago, CA OC Bills Fan said: Love the topic OP! Until this year, for the past many years I've been DVRing the games and watching later. Most weekend days I volunteer refereeing or coaching youth soccer. In California it's quite easy to not know the scores of games, no one cares about football there. But, I normally would call my parents on Sundays, frequently before I'd have time to sit down and watch the games. I remember one game against the Fish, can't remember the year. My mother called and during the conversation I told her I was going to sit down and watch the game after I hung up. My mother said that it's a great ending, I'll enjoy it. Then when I got angry, she said "What, I didn't tell you anything." I still watched the game but after that I refused to talk to her before watching the game. If she called, I wouldn't talk to her and just said I'd call back later. A lot of times people think giving details of a game but not the score isn't giving anything away. A friend of mine taped a basketball game and his friend said "Great game 3OT - but I won't tell you the result" 1
BillsFan619 Posted March 15, 2021 Author Posted March 15, 2021 7 hours ago, ToBillsFan said: I went to Europe a few years back and had the season opener recorded for when I got back. I made it the whole 3 weeks, turned off all notifications and the day of the game I didn’t look at my phone whatsoever. I made it all the way back to the airport in Canada and my wife handed me her phone and just at that second my mother in law messaged her and asked if I was happy the bills won we still joke about it to this day but I can tell you that one message almost negated my whole trip! Bro, major props for making it three weeks though. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of someone having to wait so long. Not even close!
US Egg Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 DVR every game and watch later just to avoid the dragging out of the game for commercials and announcer babble. Having a few FF teams and playing draft kings make it tough to not check scoring Also, like to go enjoy the numerous fall weekend events, pre-Covid of course. Yeah, it can be tough to get to watching the game post from when it starts and not know the results previous.
TBBills Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 Arizona game, I turned it off after the Bills scored and came onto this site to find out the Cards scored like 45sec later...
machine gun kelly Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) 11 hours ago, BillsfaninSB said: Many times when people text me. Very frustrating. I will turn off the phone if I’m only behind an hour or so watching the game which I like to do to zip past the commercials. With night games I sometimes watch the first half and dvr the second. I’m up between 4:30-5 am each work day so keep rhythm I’ll get up at 4 am and watch the second half I’m the am. It’s why I turn off the phone and won’t look at tbd until after I watch it. As far as terrible moments, I’ve never been so angry when McKelvin fumbled when we had the lead on the Pats. Uggh!!! Did I mention my freakin brother told me before I saw it. I wasn’t sure who I was more angry at after the play. Edited March 15, 2021 by machine gun kelly
BobbyC81 Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 10 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said: I learned this the hard way way too many times. I always tell a bunch of people beforehand too that I am DVRing it. Then, some random friend I haven’t heard from in 5 years texts me because he is watching the game. I started doing what you do— just turn it off. It’s tough though when you can’t see the game until Much later. the other thing that drove me nuts Were texts during the playoff games, especially from my well-meaning non-Bills fans friends. I would watch the games live, so spoilers weren’t an issue. But I just couldn’t handle the stress and distraction of a bunch of in-game texts. I just shut my phone off. I had just taken over my wife’s iPhone and didn’t realize it was set up with those banner messages. I had DVR’d the game and was watching it when my phone rang so I looked to see who it was and there was a banner of a text from somebody talking about the Bills win.
The Firebaugh Kid Posted March 15, 2021 Posted March 15, 2021 Week 4 a few years ago...it was 80 and sunny and EJ was qb. We took our boat out and dvr-ed the game... avoiding all interactions. As I'm walking in the door of my house, my ***** neighbor yells "come online EJ!" super loud at me. This was the game he blew in Houston...if I recall Watt had a big game. Tough to avoid people when everyone knows you're a Bills fan.
BillsFan619 Posted March 16, 2021 Author Posted March 16, 2021 21 hours ago, TBBills said: Arizona game, I turned it off after the Bills scored and came onto this site to find out the Cards scored like 45sec later... That must’ve been brutal.
Mark92 Posted March 16, 2021 Posted March 16, 2021 The Thanksgiving Day game against Dallas in 2019. My wife was in the hospital but me and my son went to my parents for dinner to keep the tradition alive for him. I dvrd the game and sat down to watch the game around 9pm. Almost got to half time before my sister texted to see how my wife was doing. "By the way, I am so happy the Bills beat the Cowboys today"! 🤬. I continued watching the game but the element of surprise and joy was gone.
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