Washington Post Article on the Unique Suffering of Bills Fans

[Casey D]

https://wapo.st/4hd9686

[GaryPinC]

No one understands suffering better than the fans of the Buffalo Bills?  Come on.  Browns and Lions do.

[Casey D]

3 minutes ago, GaryPinC said:

No one understands suffering better than the fans of the Buffalo Bills?  Come on.  Browns and Lions do.

Different kind of suffering.  Their suffering is more like our drought suffering.  Bills have unique and exquisitely painful ways(plural) of suffering IMO.

[Goin Breakdown]

5 minutes ago, GaryPinC said:

No one understands suffering better than the fans of the Buffalo Bills?  Come on.  Browns and Lions do.

What about married guys?  Wrong thread?

[Aussie Joe]

I don’t think I’ll be creating the free account to read this one 

[JerseyBills]

Why us?😢

[NewEra]

11 minutes ago, GaryPinC said:

No one understands suffering better than the fans of the Buffalo Bills?  Come on.  Browns and Lions do.

Nah- they never really had a chance-  we’ve had several monumental chances- a lifetime roller roaster of emotions.  Our blood pressure has been places other fans have not.  The lions and browns have had no roller coaster.  Just a Sunday drive of being bad almost every year.  Zero wear and tear on their bodies 

[GaryPinC]

3 minutes ago, Casey D said:

Different kind of suffering.  Their suffering is more like our drought suffering.  Bills have unique and exquisitely painful ways(plural) of suffering IMO.

Sorry, not going to wallow in suffering or stratify it.  We're completely lucky to have Josh and despite the bad ending following the Bills is overall interesting and fun.  We lost a tough, close game in the AFC championship.  Still have Josh.   Woe is us.🤮

Way better than the habitually dark, hopeless tundra that is the Browns.

[Casey D]

12 minutes ago, JerseyBills said:

Why us?😢

 

 

6 minutes ago, GaryPinC said:

Sorry, not going to wallow in suffering or stratify it.  We're completely lucky to have Josh and despite the bad ending following the Bills is overall interesting and fun.  We lost a tough, close game in the AFC championship.  Still have Josh.   Woe is us.🤮

Way better than the habitually dark, hopeless tundra that is the Browns.

Could not agree more.  I just thought it was nice to have our situation as Bills fans recognized.  But wallowing in pity is not an option.

Edited Tuesday at 09:20 PM by Casey D

[zow2]

There was a guy on Sirius today going on a huge “feel sorry” rant for Bills fans. He said he can’t imagine getting kicked in the nuts time and time again like Buffalo fans and he was glad to root for the Bears, because then you at least know there are no chances of a SB.

[ControllerOfPlanetX]

We get kicked in the nuts and most of us do what we always do…B word about the coach and GM and hope they get fired.

 

[Casey D]

9 minutes ago, ControllerOfPlanetX said:

We get kicked in the nuts and most of us do what we always do…B word about the coach and GM and hope they get fired.

 

I don't feel that way at all.  They have done a great job of taking a laughing-stock franchise and turning it into a fantastic organization.  We are the envy of most fans and franchises. If the standard is firing people when the team does not win it all, then 31 teams would turnover each year.  KC just changes the whole dynamic because they defy the odds of everything.

[BuffaloMatt]

You don't know my pain!

[TheMightyMaxio]

4 hours ago, Casey D said:

Different kind of suffering.  Their suffering is more like our drought suffering.  Bills have unique and exquisitely painful ways(plural) of suffering IMO.

To watch your team leave and almost immediately win a Super Bowl in a new city with new uniforms/name is a pain that I don't think I could handle. Yes being a Bills fan is tough, but there are some pleasant memories. Being a Browns fan is a level of hell I could never imagine.

[QCity]

Pretty good read tbh

 

[GaryPinC]

6 hours ago, Casey D said:

 

 

Could not agree more.  I just thought it was nice to have our situation as Bills fans recognized.  But wallowing in pity is not an option.

Yeah, I get that, for me it just rubs the wrong way.  Maybe it seems too similar to all the attention seekers dramatizing their daily struggles on social media as click-bait.😄

[Casey D]

8 hours ago, GaryPinC said:

Yeah, I get that, for me it just rubs the wrong way.  Maybe it seems too similar to all the attention seekers dramatizing their daily struggles on social media as click-bait.😄

I get that!

[Pete]

 No one understands suffering better than the fans of the Buffalo Bills
Over three generations, the Bills and their city have experienced every way to lose.                             

 

The Buffalo Bills’ loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship game on Sunday night was one of those defeats so painful, so gruesome, and yet so relentlessly predictable in all its brutal contours, that you found yourself checking in on all your friends who are Bills fans as if they’d just been in a car accident, or suffered a natural disaster in their hometown. Honestly, I half expected my Buffalo friends to mark themselves “I’m Safe” on Facebook.........

 

......Which of those ways is the worst way to lose? It’s a barroom debate that sports fans have been having for years. But Bills fans, perhaps alone among sports fans, have the lived experience of all three. The way the fates have conspired against them, I fully expect them to discover new, previously unexplored ways to suffer in the years to come. If you see a Bills fan between now and the Super Bowl, you might want to hug them. But it won’t help.

 

 

     

[zow2]

It’s just a shame.  7 years in the league and Allen has no SB appearances.  He and the Bills and us fans should legitimately have 2 SB wins by now.  I’ve always thought Buffalo was somehow a curse, we have been teased with a Championship but just can’t achieve it.  If Allen played in the NFC he’s prob have 5 SB appearances through his career. 

[nuklz2594]

be 61. hell...cubs and red sox won it all with 100 year droughts. i keep saying the law of averages at some point has to work for bills/ wife of 32 years just smiles at me when we gag. i will outlive her out of sheer spite.GO BILLS!