LOOKING FOR SIGNS THATS IT'S TIME

[sullim4]

Last offseason, I booked a trip for this year to Patagonia for hiking over the Super Bowl because I was so confident that the Bills would be fighting, at best, for the division this year.  They'd be lucky to win a wild card game.  On Super Bowl Sunday, we are in a small town called El Chalten that lacks reliable cell service and has no landline-based internet.  ESPN Argentina will be carrying the game in Spanish and it is not clear whether our inn gets it or not.

 

This of course means the Bills will be playing.  I suppose the pro is that I won't have to listen to Tom Brady's color commentary.

[LABILLBACKER]

[Philly McButterpants]

11 hours ago, blacklabel said:

Well, if they win the next two games they'll finish the season with 17 total victories. There's a guy on the team who wears #17. He's alright. He's no Art Schlichter but he can throw it probably at least 11 or 12 yards. 

I'll take that bet.... 😋

[Just Jack]

12 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:

I’ve had an erection for 3 1/2 days…so I got that goin for me - which is nice. 

 

Stop looking at pictures of @Gugny

[SectionC3]

10 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:

 

My dad was murdered 30 years ago when I was 18...the Super Bowl this year will be on his Birthday, February 9th.  

 

He was a die hard Niners fan, but I am only a Bills fan because Chris Berman picked the Niners and Bills for 20 years straight to make the SB.  And because of that, as a kid I thought they were natural rivals and my dad and I were competitive, so I gravitated to teams that rivaled the Niners.  Then in 1988 my grandfather (his dad) bought a Buffalo for s**ts and giggles at an auction and stuck it in with our cattle on a piece of land where the Mall in Tracy, CA now sits.  And to a young boy it was like seeing a Dinosaur, I didn't even know Buffalo's still existed having never seen one before despite growing up in the country and going to bull fights, cattle auctions, etc as a kid.  

 

So this combination of Chris Berman, my dad being a Niners fan, and my grandfather buying a Buffalo made me a Bills fan right when they got Kelly, Thurman, Smith, etc and right when I was starting to understand football more and I fell in love with the K-Gun offense and never looked back.  I still have the first SB on VHS tape in my garage from when I recorded it.  

 

Also, I now have my own 2 sons and completed my family this year with my 2nd being born in October.  So this is the first post season with having completed our family with our 2 boys, so they are here as my good luck charms.  My first born was already put through a table when he was born in the offseason that year...and now I will be doing the same with my 3 month old son before kick off of the Bills vs Was/Phi SB.  

 

Everything feels different this year...that Ravens game is the kind of game we lose in the past. When we didn't get the TD and only went up 8, my PTSD kicked in and I was like here we go, Lamar is driving for the TD here I know it (and he did). Then when he threw the 2pt conversion, I was like yup, this is how it goes...until suddenly he dropped it.  Then I looked at my wife who was so excited he dropped the pass and said...way too early to celebrate...the most Billsy way to lose would be staring at certain victory and then botch the onside recovery up only 2 and Ravens getting a quick game winning FG instead.  

 

That onside kick was the most nervous I have been all season...I was like this would be the most heartbreaking...aka so Billsy...way to lose this game.  And then I saw the personnel, and I was like WTF is this, Douglas is our hands guy?  Where is Shakir, Cooper, etc...I didn't see any WR's and Rasul was by himself.  I felt doom creeping in before the kick, then it went right to Douglas and I cringed expecting a last second akward bounce and bobble...

 

...But...it never happened.  He clean scooped it and the Bills offense put the game away and at it was like the weight of the past 35 years of Bills fan hood felt gone, like a dark cloud just blew away.  I looked at my wife and said this is different...this is like when Bill Murray wakes up that last time in the movie Groundhogs Day and was like somethings different and different is good!  

 

About 20 min after the game I was walking through the house and the most incredibly vivid vision popped in my head that felt ultra realistic and it was the confetti coming down, the Lombardi trophy on the stage being handed McD and Josh in their SB champion hats...and I looked at my wife and said "This is it...we are winning it this year."

 

LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope we win for reasons exactly like this.  It's not going to change my life in a meaningful way if the Bills win the Super Bowl.  But I really, really want to see the joy it brings to others.  I'd like to share it with my father and my kids together.  (My dad and I have gone to games together as STHs for about 40 years.)  I spent some time in a hospital this summer--no big deal--but I saw those kids rooms that appear in TV commercials and I was so grateful that I would be out of there in a couple of days.  I was so sad for the kids and the families who had to stick around and worry and wait for weeks or months, and struck by how important the solace and the distraction of those rooms (all Bills and Sabres centric) must be for them.  I hope the Bills win for people like that.  I hope they win for the people who are struggling around here right now (by the grace of God, I'm not there, at least at the moment).  I've never felt this way before--I've always thought about how I would feel if they won.  But now I don't care about that, and I want it badly for everyone else.  

[MJS]

8 hours ago, sullim4 said:

Last offseason, I booked a trip for this year to Patagonia for hiking over the Super Bowl because I was so confident that the Bills would be fighting, at best, for the division this year.  They'd be lucky to win a wild card game.  On Super Bowl Sunday, we are in a small town called El Chalten that lacks reliable cell service and has no landline-based internet.  ESPN Argentina will be carrying the game in Spanish and it is not clear whether our inn gets it or not.

 

This of course means the Bills will be playing.  I suppose the pro is that I won't have to listen to Tom Brady's color commentary.

Serves you right 😆

[Sweats]

13 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:

I’ve had an erection for 3 1/2 days…so I got that goin for me - which is nice. 

 

 

 

 

...........that sounds like a win-win for everybody.

[Draconator]

12 hours ago, Capco said:

I had a dream of a girl wearing a Bills thong last night. 

That wasn't a dream for me. Weird. 

[Stroke 17]

1 hour ago, SectionC3 said:

I hope we win for reasons exactly like this.  It's not going to change my life in a meaningful way if the Bills win the Super Bowl.  But I really, really want to see the joy it brings to others.  I'd like to share it with my father and my kids together.  (My dad and I have gone to games together as STHs for about 40 years.)  I spent some time in a hospital this summer--no big deal--but I saw those kids rooms that appear in TV commercials and I was so grateful that I would be out of there in a couple of days.  I was so sad for the kids and the families who had to stick around and worry and wait for weeks or months, and struck by how important the solace and the distraction of those rooms (all Bills and Sabres centric) must be for them.  I hope the Bills win for people like that.  I hope they win for the people who are struggling around here right now (by the grace of God, I'm not there, at least at the moment).  I've never felt this way before--I've always thought about how I would feel if they won.  But now I don't care about that, and I want it badly for everyone else.  

i HAVE A SEASONS FOR 47 YEARS AND RARELY HAVE MISSED A HOME GAME.(2) WHEN MY GIRLS GOT OLDER I BOUGHT THEM SEASONS. THEY FELT MY PAIN FOR ALL THOSE YEARS. LIKE YOU I SURVIVED BUT i REALLY WANT IT MORE FOR THEM THAN I DO FOR ME. 

 

AT THE END OF LAST WEEKS GAME I TOLD THEM TO LOOK AROUND AND FEELAND SEE THE HAPINESS AND LOVE  IN THE STADIUM. TOLD THEM IMAGINE WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE WHEN THEY WIN THE SB,

[That's No Moon]

There is a planetary alignment happening from now until the end of February. 6 planets lining up in the night sky, 4 visible with naked eye.

 

The planets are actually aligning.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

I was scrolling instagram 2 minutes ago and saw a clip of the Kelce podcast and Jason was telling travis ‘best thing I ate in Disney world was this like pepperoni pizza spring roll thing’ and I am now 100% sure the bills are gonna win 

[That's No Moon]

It snowed 8 inches in Pensacola Florida. It was a cold day in hell.

[chris heff]

14 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:

Days or inches don’t matter. If it stays another day, I’ll shellac it. 

Like you haven’t “shellacked” it already 

[Gary Marangi]

The past 4 years in June I have bet 100 for Buffalo to win the SB. Guess who didn't make the bet this year🙂

[Alphadawg7]

2 hours ago, SectionC3 said:

I hope we win for reasons exactly like this.  It's not going to change my life in a meaningful way if the Bills win the Super Bowl.  But I really, really want to see the joy it brings to others.  I'd like to share it with my father and my kids together.  (My dad and I have gone to games together as STHs for about 40 years.)  I spent some time in a hospital this summer--no big deal--but I saw those kids rooms that appear in TV commercials and I was so grateful that I would be out of there in a couple of days.  I was so sad for the kids and the families who had to stick around and worry and wait for weeks or months, and struck by how important the solace and the distraction of those rooms (all Bills and Sabres centric) must be for them.  I hope the Bills win for people like that.  I hope they win for the people who are struggling around here right now (by the grace of God, I'm not there, at least at the moment).  I've never felt this way before--I've always thought about how I would feel if they won.  But now I don't care about that, and I want it badly for everyone else.  

What a beautiful post 👏❤️

[JP51]

1 hour ago, That's No Moon said:

There is a planetary alignment happening from now until the end of February. 6 planets lining up in the night sky, 4 visible with naked eye.

 

The planets are actually aligning.

I will take it

[Sojourner]

 

KANSAS IS GOING DOWN GARY!!!!!!!!

[JP51]

2 hours ago, SectionC3 said:

I hope we win for reasons exactly like this.  It's not going to change my life in a meaningful way if the Bills win the Super Bowl.  But I really, really want to see the joy it brings to others.  I'd like to share it with my father and my kids together.  (My dad and I have gone to games together as STHs for about 40 years.)  I spent some time in a hospital this summer--no big deal--but I saw those kids rooms that appear in TV commercials and I was so grateful that I would be out of there in a couple of days.  I was so sad for the kids and the families who had to stick around and worry and wait for weeks or months, and struck by how important the solace and the distraction of those rooms (all Bills and Sabres centric) must be for them.  I hope the Bills win for people like that.  I hope they win for the people who are struggling around here right now (by the grace of God, I'm not there, at least at the moment).  I've never felt this way before--I've always thought about how I would feel if they won.  But now I don't care about that, and I want it badly for everyone else.  

As I get older I am more and more with you... I think it was what I lived and died for as a kid... now in my 50s I want it for a Region of people, really good people that hang tough through hard times.... live as a community and struggle to get to experience something just once that brings them joy...  for me its not about respect or beating our chests, its more I dont see a community that it would mean more too than ours... kinda like the difference between Bill Gates winning the mega millions and a single mom with 3 kids working 2 jobs to make a go of it... lastly, I would like to see us win it to set an example to others who feel like they are entitled or somehow better than others because they have been fortunate enough to have the experience. I know Bills Mafia would be greatfull, humble and show respect... too little of that these days... I'd like to see us show people how it should be done and what class is... 

[LVGrown]

While born and raised in Las Vegas (1981) my dad was military and we moved around the first several years of my life. 

 

We moved back to Vegas towards the end of 1990 and my first Bills game I ever watched was the SB in 1991. 

 

I moved from Vegas a few years ago for career and career brought me back to Vegas this past December. Now here we are 1 game away from the SB. 

 

Could it be both times I move back to Vegas they end up in that seasons SB??? We will find out on Sunday. 

[ddaryl]

8 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

You have to post the entire URL from what it was you tried to post FYI. I get nothing when I click