Forked Thread: This brings up an interesting question

[shelby]

Forked from: How could you still support the NFL if the Bills are moved? (http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/showpost.php?postid=2320840)


Sure its different for someone who is not from Buffalo.

I would root for season ending injuries for all players on the Toronto Bills out of a severe case of spite.

Although I am a huge Yankees fan and if they where moved in a similar fashion(just for example) I would not be a fan.


This got me thinking.....how many of y'all are originally from the Buffalo area, regardless of where you live now?

i'm from Orchard Park.

[Mr. Pink]

Originally Depew but I grew up in North Olmsted, Ohio.

I was packed like luggage when I was 4.

[imbondz]

grew up in Geneseo, NY

[Jan Reimers]

Holland, NY, twenty-five miles south of Buffalo. And I'd move back in a heartbeat, except that my wife hates the weather.

Buffalo is a great town.

[Jeff1220]

CNY - Rome to be exact. Moved away from Utica to Maryland in Jan. 2001. Bills fan since I was a football fan (since about 4).

[Cntrygal]

Penn Yan, NY (back in "the day" - of 55 mph speed limits, it would take about 3 hours to get to Buffalo).

[Philagape]

Depew native

[YardRat]

Born in NC, raised and remain in WNY.

[Buffatexas]

South Buffalo

[Ebenezer]

In the words of Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams...

"I was born here, lived here and I'll die here".

I live 3.5 miles from where I was born - Ebenezer, NY.

[helmetguy]

Penn Yan, NY (back in "the day" - of 55 mph speed limits, it would take about 3 hours to get to Buffalo).

Damn! I'm just south of Corning. Seemed like it took that long to get from here to Pen Yan, "back in the day."

[BlackMetalNinja]

Born and raised in Cuba, NY, 75 miles south of Buffalo... lived in Avon, NY, just outside of Rochester, NY for a year and a half, now residing in Cary, NC for the past year and a half.

[mybills]

Born in New England, will die a Bills fan. Does that count? :D

[hydro]

I have lived in West Valley, NY 40miles directly south of Buffalo all my life so far. Don't plan on moving unless current job or another job opportunity dicates.

[sdbillsfan2]

I grew up on Buffalo's west side ..Left in 77 and wish I would have never left .
Well except for today ..it was about 80 degrees here and sunny !
If the Bills left Buffalo.......I'd probably have to become a Charger fan.
No Bills no Buffalo..No Buffalo ..no Bills !

[tat2dmike77]

Born and lived in Olean. Parents moved to Ohio when i was 10. Then i kicked around the country for awhile before settleing on moving back to ohio. I thought about moving back to olean but well if you have ever been there you know why i didn't. It's nice to visit and i will always consider it home, but after living in Savannah GA, Austin TX, Baton Rouge LA, and Columbus OH it's hard to move back to that small town.

Don't get me wrong i'm proud to be from O-town NY. But it's to small and the job market sucks there. If you make over 25,000 a year your considered rich there, and there are not to many jobs that pay that. But i guess i could go work for the indians at the casino.

Oh and if the bills were to ever move to any city i would stop watching the NFL all together. I wouldn't become anther teams fan, i would root for an expansion team, even if buffalo could pull off what the browns did in 95 i wouldn't care. I would just watch college football.

[LifetimeBillsFan]

I grew up in the First Ward/Perry Projects in Buffalo.

I went away to college in the Summer of 1971 and returned after graduating in the Spring of 1974--although I returned to Buffalo and worked there every summer during this period and spent some time at UB. After 4 months of unsuccessfully looking for a job, I took the advice of an employment counselor who told me that it, didn't matter if I had graduated from Harvard or ECC, there simply were no jobs in the area and that I would be better off going elsewhere. That's when I moved to Connecticutt.

After working in the financial industry there and getting married, I decided to move to the NYC area so that I could go to grad school in Manhattan. I have lived there, in the same house, which we bought in 1984, for more than 30 years.

Still, whenever anyone has asked me, "Where are you from?" I answer, "Buffalo".

Even though I have lived considerably more of my life in the city where I live now than I did in Buffalo and only get back to Buffalo for funerals, weddings and maybe a couple of weeks every summer (when my health now permits), emotionally, Buffalo will always be my hometown. Until the day I die, I guess....

In addition to family, the Bills are a part of my attachment to the city and the area. And, even when they aren't doing so well, they are and have been a source of pride in the place where I was born and the foundations of my life were formed.

[BADTHINGSMAN]

Born in Warsaw and grew up in Portageville(about 50 miles east of Buffalo) and live in Geneseo now.. Looking to move back to Portageville though..

[BlackMetalNinja]

Don't get me wrong i'm proud to be from O-town NY. But it's to small and the job market sucks there. If you make over 25,000 a year your considered rich there, and there are not to many jobs that pay that. But i guess i could go work for the indians at the casino.

Hey! My dad works there! :mad:

[Dude]

:wave: Grew up in Orchard Park. Lived there for 19 years before moving to Ohio.