The Lions have got to be everyone’s second favourite team…right?

[Starr Almighty]

That line about being ok with the Bills losing to them is where you really lost me. Perhaps if they are playing someone else in the AFC.

[Donuts and Doritos]

Not this week, they're not.

[Harold Jackson]

1 hour ago, Billsfed1 said:

Am I the only one who thinks this way?  

 

I’m a sucker for any franchise that has dedicated fans and hasen’t won a championship.  Detroit looks great, if we played them in a Super Bowl (and lost) it would be the first time I’ve watched a Bills Super Bowl in a losing effort and I wouldn’t be crushed, because I would be happy to see another fan base like Detroit’s to get theirs.  
 

What’s not to like?  They have good players, a likeable coach and a fanbase that deserves it.

 

All that being said…Bills by 10.  Those sweet uni’s…and James Cook goes off.  Also, McDermott takes pride in his defensive performances and you know that’s not happening twice.  

 

Josh’s best performance of his career was last Sunday on the ROAD, against a quality opponent with no help whatsoever.  

 

I think this is a “come back to earth” game for both teams but we see these guys again.

Hasn't won? 

Detroit went 3 in a row. 2 of the 2 won.

And another championship a few years later. 

They don't compare to Bills lol 

Except for the thing where Bills rank 29 and Detroit 32 in NFL ranked team profits.

KC is only 22 though, even after all success.

Dallas, number 111111

[Mikie2times]

Hell no, don’t want them anywhere near one before us 

[theRalph]

I live in SE Michigan. There is no comparison to be drawn between the fanbases. It's just not the same. Bills Mafia is unique.

[Mikie2times]

1 hour ago, boyst said:

I lived in Dumpoledo (well outside of it) for a long time and have always appreciated the team. I never met many Lions fans, though. Most folks were Browns fans despite Detroit being 30 minutes away, 45 from us. 

 

Outside of Michigan there are very, very few Lions fans. Oddly enough this topic came up at work and we researched it to find the Lions social media pages are more followed than the Bills and they have more fans than the Bills.

Dumpolotto baby. Fair weather fans. They all just showed up after 25 years.

[Harold Jackson]

Detroit won  enough. 

1935, 52,53,57 

And went in 54 

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/det/index.htm

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41 minutes ago, Harold Jackson said:

Hasn't won? 

Detroit went 3 in a row. 2 of the 2 won.

And another championship a few years later. 

They don't compare to Bills lol 

Except for the thing where Bills rank 29 and Detroit 32 in NFL ranked team profits.

KC is only 22 though, even after all success.

Dallas, number 111111

 

36 minutes ago, Harold Jackson said:

Detroit won  enough. 

1935, 52,53,57 

And went in 54 

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/det/index.htm

 

Interesting that you bring up the pre-Super Bowl era Detroit titles and ignore the '64 and '65 AFL Champion Buffalo Bills...

[WideNine]

I have always wanted a Bills Detroit or Bills Vikings SB.

 

Someone would finally break one of their long curses.

 

 

[zow2]

If it ended up being Detroit vs KC, yeah i’d root for the Lions.  

[Harold Jackson]

4 minutes ago, transient said:

 

 

Interesting that you bring up the pre-Super Bowl era Detroit titles and ignore the '64 and '65 AFL Champion Buffalo Bills...

I didn't ignore it. I'm well aware. 

And profootballreference has it 

And I won't be surprised if bills get to beat Chargers in conference championship. Maybe Pittsburgh 

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

I grew up in Chicago … eff the Lions 🤮

[Ya Digg?]

2 hours ago, VaMilBill said:

I would say I would like to root for Detroit, but after they booed stafford last season during his homecoming, that turned me off. Stafford gave that organization everything he had and was great in the community. He didn’t ask to be traded either. They just traded him to reload. Yet they booed him like he forced his way out of town. Pretty classless of those fans if you ask me. 
 

on top of that, I don’t like how dirty they seem to be playing. That is a culture that is instilled from the head coach down. Let’s not forget that Campbell was in NO during bounty gate. 
 

so no, for me, I will not pull for the lions at all. 

I don’t know, to me that’s a pretty weak reason to call them classless. He is on the opposing team-you boo the guys on the opposing team. Buffalo has done it to former players, does that make us classless? 

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7 minutes ago, WideNine said:

I have always wanted a Bills Detroit or Bills Vikings SB.

 

Someone would finally break one of their long curses.

 

 

I'm petty. If the Bills aren't the next team to win their first SB, I don't want another title-less team to win one either.

[LabattBlue]

Detroit & every other team(except the Bills) who have yet to win a SB, can all go and pound salt.  

[Kelly to Allen]

Yes. I am obviously a bills fan and my father is a Lions fan. This is one of the best seasons I can remember and I hope this is the super bowl preview. It definitely feels like it. 

[Buffalo716]

I don't root for any NFL team besides the Buffalo Bills 

 

There are some teams that I don't dislike as much as others

[US Egg]

2 hours ago, Harold Jackson said:

The city of Detroit is destroyed.

What does this have to do with football?

[Buffalo ill]

I am happy for the one and only Lions fan I have known since childhood.  We stuck with our teams through long playoff droughts.  Other than him, Barry Sanders, and Megatron, I don't really care about the Lions.

 

[stevestojan]

I’m likely in the minority here, but I can’t stand Dan Campbell. He’s too schticky for me. He can’t be that Gronkowski. I think he plays up his big dumb animal persona, and the crying every third press conference is a bit much. 
 

That said, if you asked if I’d prefer him over that clapping buffoon currently wasting Josh Allen’s prime years because he goes fully brain dead in the last 5 minutes of any close game, the answer is of course.