What Type of Fan Are You?

[Generalissimus Gibby]

I have been reading some of the threads around here and my God some of you should be professional mourners. I mean I think some of you could ruin the day of someone who just got married to a gorgeous woman who brought a bottle of Viagra and said please take me in every hole and every position, oh and my parents gave us 5 million dollars to do whatever the hell we want with and any kids we have well we'll send em away to a boarding school in Europe and their grandparents will pay their college tuition. I mean some of you --you know who you are, go ahead report me if it makes you feel worse -- would find something to ***** about. So lets see what fans we have.

There's the homers: The Bills could completely self destruct, lose all 9 remaining games by 50-0, and at the end of the day you say, hey that new fifth or sixth string halfback is amazing and our defenders kept playing even when the season was meaningless. I want my seats on the 50 yard line, and hey maybe we're like the Royals 29 years of suck and then we'll have that OMG WE'RE GONNA WIN IT ALL season and you'll say see, I told you this team would eventually get its act together

Cautious Realists: You're the fan who says, maybe not playoffs this season, but definitely next and we are a piece or two from getting there, but we are on the right track. If its december and we are 9-6 going into Foxboro I may just see about getting playoff tickets and planning a road trip.

Realists aka manic depressives: BILLS WIN, WE'RE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL MUTHAF***AS!!!!! Every Sunday we win until we are eliminated from the post season. Honey hide the guns, the knives, rope and shoe string, and the sleeping pills and what is the suicide hotline's number? Every Sunday after a loss.

Cautiously Pessimistic: We did well, over all we are on the right track, but. . . .

Mortuary Workers: You listen to the game in the cemetery. You wear black, you are expecting your kids to die very young. The sun never shines over you. Chopin's Funeral March is your alarm clock tone, its never going to be a good season. The Bills could win the superbowl, but damn it free agency is a coming and Terry is cheap

The I told you so bunch aka masturbators: These are not actually Bills fans, they are fans of their own neurosis/psychosis. They disappear for weeks on end when the Bills are winning, but oh man get even one loss and there they are. There is another variant of this, and this is when a high draft pick actually pans out. If its Dareus well damn it he'll **** up eventually and then oh yeah, I'm there he sucks or this years strain, the Sammy Watkins Hater fanclub. The president and sole member of this sees that Watkins in his rookie season is so good that he merits coverage by the best current defensive back in the division if not the league and even then makes a couple of very nice catches, and then says Watkins disappears in big games, SEE!!!!! Or never mind what he did against Minnesota, or Miami or that his ribs were hurting against the Bears and others or that he had a nice game against Detroit, I would have drafted someone else.

So be honest, have fun. Tell us what fan type you are.

[Night Train]

Re: What Type of Fan Are You?

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[Yasgur's Farm]

Re: What Type of Fan Are You?

Been a fan for over 50 years... If that tells you anything. Always hoping for the best I guess.

[YardRat]

Re: What Type of Fan Are You?

I don't think I fit into any of those.

[Buffalogic]

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I fall under the 'Always right' and 'Would manage the team better if I had the opportunity" fan.

[Fletch]

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LOL

I'm a ready for a MAJOR change fan.

[feldspar]

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I'm the type of fan that watches the games and roots for my team. Most of the time, I manage to enjoy myself. Is this a foreign concept to some people? Any fan's opinion about anything means nothing, really. Doesn't affect the game, whether they are right or wrong. As a Bills fan, I go into every game thinking we can win...as a gambler, I take a different approach, but as a Bills fan, that's what I do. Maybe someone 'round here can tell me how this is wrong.

I don't think there is really all that much to being a fan other than this, for me at least. It's really not all that complicated to sit down and watch a ballgame. Everyone analyzes what happens and has their ideas as to why those things happen, but being a fan means rooting for your team and nothing else. If you don't like "your" team and are in the habit of pissing on them regularly, then I can't see how you are a fan in reality...you are a fan of a pipe-dream, or an idea of what your team "should be." Yeah, "I love this team...just can't stand the sight of them. They make me unhappy always, but I'm still a fan." Sure.

Root for the Bills.

[Fletch]

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Some fans look at the bigger picture, others look at just what's in front of them. That's a huge point of dissension among fans.

[coastal]

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How about... **** you.

that kind of fan.

[feldspar]

Re: What Type of Fan Are You?

Some fans look at the bigger picture, others look at just what's in front of them. That's a huge point of dissension among fans.

No, that's YOUR problem.

There should be no "dissension among fans," not to your degree. You are a ridiculous "fan." You do realize that it doesn't matter one iota what you think, don't you? Probably not. I certainly see that you don't have the ability to graciously agree to disagree, to say the least. You seem to like to harass the real fans with your self-proclaimed superior insight, or whatever. But none of that has to do anything with being a fan. Interpretation of the game is one thing, but being a fan is not a complicated thing.

"The big picture" for a fan is deciding whether or not to watch the game and root for your team...not much else. Be excited to watch the team on game-day. Lot's of fans just like to shoot the **** about their team, not invest their egos into their opinions. I like those guys. Some humps make it sound like they know how to build a championship team and can't shut up about it...talk about nothing else. I like those guys not so much.

Armchair quarterbacking is one thing, but some douchebags take that to a ridiculous level. The internet is a great place for those guys, because face-to-face (at a bar or the kitchen table or wherever), most people would tune them out very quickly, as it's beyond obnoxious. Social media gives them free reign to be douchebags. Don't worry, I know you don't understand this...just tell me why I'm wrong. I'm all ears...or maybe I just won't read what you write.

[Fletch]

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You do realize that it doesn't matter one iota what you think, don't you? Probably not. I certainly see that you don't have the ability to graciously agree to disagree, to say the least.

It's actually quite the opposite. I state often that it doesn't matter what any of us think, particularly myself. If you really knew me and what I write as well as you think you do then you'd know that as a solid fact.

Therein lies a huge part of the problem. You read more the name-calling directed at me and read what other people say about me that are complete lies, like I think that Watkins sucks. Never said that. But you can't even be honest enough to acknowledge that, can you? No, you can't. I don't really think that's much of a measure of a man to not be capable of being honest. This forum is full of those types. You make up what others say to overcome your own shortcomings in faulty asssessments and analysis. You can't handle being wrong so you turn on fellow fans. It happened incessantly long before I began posting here regularly, that much is obvious.

You and other have trouble handling reality, not those of us on this side of the fence.

As to what I do on game days, how I react while watching the games, what I eat, drink, etc., how the **** do you know? I don't recall seeing you at the locations where I watch the games or over at my Jets buddy's house, so what kind of presumptuous ******* do you have to be to insist that you know?

This is exactly the problem here, the intolerance of a whole bunch of people that don't read what some others write, don't care to engage beyond the headline or unsubstantiated opinion or W/L level, and yet feel compelled to slander and put down the posts of people that do.

I've never ever called anyone a name or made a poke at anyone other than in obvious good fun that hasn't first made a non-friendly dig at me. So go figure that out you conceited liar, if no one did it to me or others, guess what there Einstein, it wouldn't ever happen here.

People like you are too shallow to read or engage the likes of OP, Tackledummy, coastal, Spiked, and a bunch of others, but for some ****ing reason you self-serving narcissists always seem to know what they think without reading or engaging further.

I've taken several people on quite civilly lately upon their challenges, funny though, most of them leave those challenges hanging once I start asking the tough questions and challenging their posts. What does that say? Not much.

You think that only you want a winning team? Talk about the height of arrogance.

I actually post here because probably the single biggest thing that I enjoy is watching the self-proclaimed geniuses here stumble all over themselves as they lay out their assinine opinions. There's nothing more entertaining that the progression of opinion throughout the season here amongst you so-called better fans, except of course game day threads which as I said before resemble a 30-year timelapse of a small village of women on going through decades of PMS cycles.

Either way, once again you're wrong, you're just too stubborn, arrogant, and narcissistic to admit it.

Other than that some of us just analyze football better. Sorry to once again be the one to inform you of that. No, not all people are intellectually equal despite anyone's insistance that it's the case.

[ServoBillieves]

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Love this team, want them to succeed, obsess if you will: yet every time I see a 3rd and long, or a decent lead, I think "how will they blow this one?" or "who's going to drop this ball?" or "When is the interception coming?"

Ecstatic after a win, whole week is great. A loss? "They are who we thought they were."

It's frustrating, but I believe this team can win and I'm sick of seeing them NOT do it.

[Fletch]

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You seem to like to harass the real fans with your self-proclaimed superior insight, or whatever.

And if you want to talk about intelligence, tell me this, I've had in my signature for well over a month Whaley's own admission that he was the one responsible for bringing Manuel here.

Yet, to this day people still argue with me and insist that that's not the case despite the quotes and video of him saying that very thing and even going to the extent that his job should be on the line if it doesn't work out.

Am I supposed to consider them to be intelligent? People make their own perceptions of intelligence, blatantly ignoring reality is hardly one of the means of accomplishing that like so many here do routinely.

[feldspar]

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The game your playing on this board is not too difficult to decipher, Fletch; in fact, it's transparent. I don't care if you're really a douchebag or just play one on the Internet. The net result remains the same as far as I'm concerned.

[Mace]

Re: What Type of Fan Are You?

To be honest, I'm a cautious realist homer mortuary attendant, and as Night Train said, old.

I get excited, know better, expect the worst, want the best, suspect it won't work out well and love the games and the team anyway.

I've been through this before, too many years.