Beerball Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 In that vein, I frequently find it frustrating meeting someone from the Buffalo/Rochester area and try to get into a Bills conversation with them--usually, my experience has been, they lack the same intensity and obsessiveness about the team. No chit. I ran into a guy (not literally) in a local grocery store who was wearing Bills gear. I tried to strike up a conversation with him...where you from? I'm from...the usual stuff when you find a compatriot. The guy just stood there mutely and never said a thing. To this day I swear the guy was GBiD.
hit and marshawn Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 How bittersweet will it be to make the playoffs this year, while we get to celebrate making the playoffs, but a gaurentee that we have to watch replays of the music city miracle before every commercial. Guess we better make it a home game so we wont see it being at the stadium!
Bill from NYC Posted June 23, 2008 Posted June 23, 2008 Being a Bills Fan is a big part of my life, although this might qualify me as crazy. Imo, there is no excuse for any life long New Yorker to be a fan of any other team. I never tried to hide the fact that I was once a jet fan. When they left Queens (where I was born, raised, and lived for 35 years) and moved to New Jersey, I said a permanent good-bye and never looked back. Imo, the giants and jests are not NY teams. My wife and daughters are Bills Fans. I make the case that this taught them to never give up. My girls ae success stories, and as banal as it might sound, I believe in my heart that being a Bills Fan afforded them some of the resolve that is needed in this world. What is admittedly troublesome for me is the prospect of the Bills leaving WNY. I truly don't know how I would react. That said, if they stay where thery belong, I will be a Bills Fan until I am dead. They can draft first round defensive backs every year and while I will B word and moan I will support them, this to include my annual (quite costly) trip. GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BillnutinHouston Posted June 25, 2008 Posted June 25, 2008 "Proud" doesn't really describe it for me. The Bills and my Buffalo roots are a part of me like my fingerprints. I couldn't drop them if I tried.
rockpile Posted June 25, 2008 Posted June 25, 2008 Honestly? Ten years ago, I was proud to the point of insanity. Now? I didn't watch the 2001 season. I just couldn't get in to it after 9/11. Since then...my priorities are different. I'm proud of my wife's accomplishments, I'm proud of her niece working two jobs to pull herself out of the gutter (literally) and make sure her kids go to college. I'm proud that my brother's got his PhD and is creating a new lab at UB. But the Bills? Just a game, and I'm just a fan. I thought that was a given! Of any team and any sport, the Bills are number one, but in my life, they are about number 20 - after wife, kids, grandkids, close family, close friends, God, country, and career.
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