Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

[BillsOverDolphins]

Discuss.

[OpIv37]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

I don't have any kids of my own, but I do have a nephew and I've given him some Bills stuff over the years. And part of me did feel bad about it in the sense of "why am I trying to put this kid through the same misery that I'm suffering through?"

Then again, my brother lives in Redskins country, so if my nephew doesn't take to the Bills, he'll likely become a Redskins fan. That isn't really any better.

Somehow, they got tickets to the Green Bay game last weekend and went up there. It was his first live football game. Maybe he'll take to GB because of that and he can root for a good team.

[TacklingDummy]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

Everything is a cycle. The way I calculate it the Bills were good from 1962-1964 then consistently good 1988-1999. With a couple flukes (80,81) in the middle.
21 seasons in between.
It's been 13 seasons since 1999.
The Bills will be good again around 2020.

[BillsOverDolphins]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

I don't have any kids of my own, but I do have a nephew and I've given him some Bills stuff over the years. And part of me did feel bad about it in the sense of "why am I trying to put this kid through the same misery that I'm suffering through?"

Then again, my brother lives in Redskins country, so if my nephew doesn't take to the Bills, he'll likely become a Redskins fan. That isn't really any better.

Somehow, they got tickets to the Green Bay game last weekend and went up there. It was his first live football game. Maybe he'll take to GB because of that and he can root for a good team.

Hopefully he takes up the Packers. Great team, with great history and fanbase...still gets the small-town community feel too--and the sense of importance of the team to the community. I don't have kids of my own either (as of now), but when I do they'll probably be Ravens fans. Fandom should be a family heirloom, but I don't have it in me to do this to another human being.

[The King]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

I feel guilty about it, especially since my mother is always pushing Patriots propaganda.

[TacklingDummy]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

I feel guilty about it, especially since my mother is always pushing Patriots propaganda.

By the time your kid knows what football is Brady/belicheck will be gone. The tides will turn and the Pats will be in the basement.

[PTI]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

Character builder. Like naming your kid something that rhymes with a dirty word or after a fruit or something like that.

[DrGraves]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

Being raised as a Sabres and Bills fan, now at the age of 25 my life has been full of nothing but crushing disappointment every single season.

[malvado78]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

My friends have been telling me it is child abuse for 5 years now. I just believe I am teaching my kids humility and that it is a game, do not put all your hopes and dreams into a game someone else plays.

Now if I only believed that myself...

[OpIv37]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

Being raised as a Sabres and Bills fan, now at the age of 25 my life has been full of nothing but crushing disappointment every single season.

You know, no team wins every year. There have been 47 Super Bowls, and no team has more than 6, which means even the best team in the Super Bowl era still had a season ending in disappointment 41 times. And honestly, if our teams won every year, it would be great at first, but eventually it would become routine and it would take the fun and excitement out of it.

But we've never won in hockey or football. 0 for 47 for the Bills and 0 for 41 for the Sabres, 0 for 89 combined. And worse than that, most years we are so bad that we know from the beginning that we don't even have a shot. Most of my extended family are Eagles fans, and they're pissed that they can't win the SB. They get to the playoffs every year and lose. But I'd MUCH rather have that. At least they're in the running. At least they have the talent where they COULD win it if they get a few breaks or get hot at the right time.

This season was the first year that I've thought playoffs were even a remote possibility since about 2004 (and it looks like I was dead wrong about that). Of course I want the Bills to win the SB every year, but more realistically, I just want them to be competitive enough for every game to matter. I hate having 4+ meaningless games at the end of every season. I just want them to be competitive enough to have a shot at the playoffs. Maybe we will get in, and then you never know what will happen. Maybe we won't, but at least we got to see 16 games that were worth getting excited over. I know, I'm doing what I usually complain about: lowering standards and accepting mediocrity. But lately, the Bills haven't even been able to live up to that mediocre standard.

This epic amount of sucking really just destroys my enthusiasm for the team.

[imbondz]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

Character builder. Like naming your kid something that rhymes with a dirty word or after a fruit or something like that.

lol

[imbondz]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

I'm raising my kid to be a Lakers / Yankees / Detroit Red Wings / Packers fan.

[BillsOverDolphins]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

I became a Laker fan the same time I became a Bills fan (around 5 or 6)...thank God for the karmic balance they provide

[MTBillsFan]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

My girls are toast. Bills and Vikings 0-8. Dallas stole the Stanley Cup from both Buffalo and Minneapolis and well, the Timberwolves suck something fierce as well. At least they have the Lynx. Sure the Twins were good 20+ years ago but as long as the Yankees are a team, the Twins will ALWAYS find a way to lose.

[BillsOverDolphins]

Re: Could it be considered child abuse to raise your kids as Bills fans?

My girls are toast. Bills and Vikings 0-8. Dallas stole the Stanley Cup from both Buffalo and Minneapolis and well, the Timberwolves suck something fierce as well. At least they have the Lynx. Sure the Twins were good 20+ years ago but as long as the Yankees are a team, the Twins will ALWAYS find a way to lose.

What's det?