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Re: My interest in the Bills over the past decade...
You're not the only one. I was just thinking how dead this board is after another loss. There was a day when this place would be on fire right now. We are getting used to losing.
Re: My interest in the Bills over the past decade...
Originally posted by Novacane
You're not the only one. I was just thinking how dead this board is after another loss. There was a day when this place would be on fire right now. We are getting used to losing.
Yes and no....I have been a Bills fan since 1964. I've seen the best and worst that this team can give us (more worst than best). We are not getting used to losing-- some of us long-suffering fans (like Jan Reimers and myself) are getting f u c k i n g TIRED of losing. After a while it just gets to be too much to deal with year after year after year after year.....
I have become numb (not Comfortably Numb - I love Pink Floyd) to the point that I watch the games and don't even get pissed off over a loss anymore. My wife has noticed this...she's not afraid of me going nonlinear after a Bills loss any more.
As Danny Glover said in one of the Lethal Weapon movies.... "I'm getting too old for this s h i t "
Re: My interest in the Bills over the past decade...
definately not the same now as in the past... went christmas shopping today and really did not care much about the game since it was blacked out... and now even after the loss Im feeling like "whatever" about the bills right now
In my day we did not have self-esteem... we had self-respect, and no more of it then we earned.
Re: My interest in the Bills over the past decade...
Originally posted by Mad Bomber
Yes and no....I have been a Bills fan since 1964. I've seen the best and worst that this team can give us (more worst than best). We are not getting used to losing-- some of us long-suffering fans (like Jan Reimers and myself) are getting f u c k i n g TIRED of losing. After a while it just gets to be too much to deal with year after year after year after year.....
I have become numb (not Comfortably Numb - I love Pink Floyd) to the point that I watch the games and don't even get pissed off over a loss anymore. My wife has noticed this...she's not afraid of me going nonlinear after a Bills loss any more.
As Danny Glover said in one of the Lethal Weapon movies.... "I'm getting too old for this s h i t "
This is exactly how I feel. Went to my first game in 1975 as a teenager. I used to be as big a homer as many of the young guys on here. Now it's just blah. I don't get angry anymore sometimes I don't even watch all the games. Im just in a really strange place. Game day used to really mean something. Now , not so much :/
The Polian Curse
"They're a very special group of men. Cherish them, you will not see their like again."
February 4, 1993 Bill Polian at his closing press conferance after being dismissed as GM of the Buffalo Bills by Ralph Wilson.
Re: My interest in the Bills over the past decade...
i agree. i had friends in town and went for brunch without second thought of missing the first half.
They just are a miserable organization. the scouts still just suck. the 2010 draft is as bad or worse than the 2006 class. Watching the ngata piece on espn, it's absurd.
They literally could pay this board like $200,000 to be split across 50 of us and let us vote on what we think and we'd have fielded a better team. it's not hyperbole.
Ralph wilson was the first bankster. He gets funded year after year after failure and more failure.
Re: My interest in the Bills over the past decade...
I was as die hard as any from early 80's knox era till they just kicked me in the balls this year. Back to back 2-14's, wide right, 4 straight losses in the sb, home run throwback, epic collapses in 02',08' and this year, finding new ways to lose games over and over again the last decade plus (i.e. Dallas monday nighter, 04 home opener, etc...) oh I almost forgot, losing to scrubs with a playoff birth on the line in 04'..... Enough is enough for me. I am taking a break, I still follow out of curiosity, but I am putting a lot of distance between me and them, no jumping up and down excited when the win, or down in the dumps when they lose. It's like they already have left town, cause thats how I will treat them when they do.
Re: My interest in the Bills over the past decade...
I'm 24 years old. This team has literally defined my life. Take that as one of the most pathetic things you have ever read or just something interesting, but the Bills have been why I was ripped on living in Pittsburgh, why my nickname in high school and college was Buffalo, and why I have watched every game this year. Toss in my Bills tattoo and that's where my bandwagon/sometimes real Steeler fan friends respected me.
This team is cursed. I get beyond excited when they do well, but they will forever crush my heart and soul because there is something within this organization that prevents this team from winning.
If it's not talent, it's injuries. If it's not injuries, it's been lack of talent. If both have been OK, it's terrible coordinators. It's a maddening, awful situation that since my first memories has been dug in to my memory and will never go away. If we had 50% of the players that were either on IR or just constantly injured (Wilson, Kelsay, Bell, Hairston), this team would be GOLDEN... But no. Our best players are either done for the year or completely banged up.
As of today, I will say **** this team, but I will constantly be at this board, I will follow the draft, I will be obsessed with FA, and when this team starts off to a 4-2 start next year, I'll get my hopes up...
But let's face it... It's just not going to happen.
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