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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 29, 2020 2:07:31 GMT
Bills won the FOX poll for the best fans in the NFL. Winning fans got a billboard anywhere in the world.
Where is the billboard? Orchard Park? Downtown? Niagara Falls? Nope, three miles away from Gillette Stadium. Ha
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Post by twothousandonemark on Dec 29, 2020 2:14:09 GMT
I guess per capita, I can attest. Toronto's US media avenue is Buffalo NY, & they'll run headline Bills stuff in f'n June if they can.
To that point, it seems the Bills have gotta have one of the smaller groups of fans? I haven't run into a lot of Bills fans up here in Toronto area since the early 90's, & most ppl I know who are locked into the NFL have fandom of all sorts of teams... another reason why 'Bills in Toronto' games didn't fare, we're just not that Bills centric as geography might suggest.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 29, 2020 2:22:15 GMT
I guess per capita, I can attest. Toronto's US media avenue is Buffalo NY, & they'll run headline Bills stuff in f'n June if they can. To that point, it seems the Bills have gotta have one of the smaller groups of fans? I haven't run into a lot of Bills fans up here in Toronto area since the early 90's, & most ppl I know who are locked into the NFL have fandom of all sorts of teams... another reason why 'Bills in Toronto' games didn't fare, we're just not that Bills centric as geography might suggest. I always knew the Toronto games were a bad idea. No fans from NY were going up there. Everyone around here was afraid of the team moving up there permanently. And the Bills were so shitty and boring in those days that they weren't going to attract new fans or out of town fans.
It's an odd thing with us Bills fans. We really feel like were HAVE to support the team. We know damn well there are many many larger markets out there for an NFL franchise. It would rip the heart out of the area to see the Bills pack up and leave for San Antonio, Portland, Toronto, wherever. It scared the shit out of all the fans when Ralph Wilson died and we found out that the ironclad guarantee that the Bills would stay after he died wasn't so ironclad. For years, Buffalo rock stations wouldn't play Bon Jovi because he wanted to buy the Bills and move them to Toronto
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 29, 2020 2:23:04 GMT
Not ravens?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 29, 2020 2:24:59 GMT
Nope.
it figures, the best season the Bills have in decades, and no one can go see them live. That stadium would have been gobs of fun
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Post by twothousandonemark on Dec 29, 2020 2:30:53 GMT
I guess per capita, I can attest. Toronto's US media avenue is Buffalo NY, & they'll run headline Bills stuff in f'n June if they can. To that point, it seems the Bills have gotta have one of the smaller groups of fans? I haven't run into a lot of Bills fans up here in Toronto area since the early 90's, & most ppl I know who are locked into the NFL have fandom of all sorts of teams... another reason why 'Bills in Toronto' games didn't fare, we're just not that Bills centric as geography might suggest. I always knew the Toronto games were a bad idea. No fans from NY were going up there. Everyone around here was afraid of the team moving up there permanently. And the Bills were so shitty and boring in those days that they weren't going to attract new fans or out of town fans.
It's an odd thing with us Bills fans. We really feel like were HAVE to support the team. We know damn well there are many many larger markets out there for an NFL franchise. It would rip the heart out of the area to see the Bills pack up and leave for San Antonio, Portland, Toronto, wherever. It scared the shit out of all the fans when Ralph Wilson died and we found out that the ironclad guarantee that the Bills would stay after he died wasn't so ironclad. For years, Buffalo rock stations wouldn't play Bon Jovi because he wanted to buy the Bills and move them to Toronto
The good news for Buffalo Bills fans, I read around that time of Wilson's death, the Trump rumour junk, etc... that New York state might not-so secretly never want the Bills out of Buffalo - lest NY be without an in-state NFL franchise for tax & business purposes... which I'm supposing the Jets & Giants run official business out of New Jersey. NFL vs. New York state would not be a war either side would want to endure.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 29, 2020 2:47:43 GMT
I always knew the Toronto games were a bad idea. No fans from NY were going up there. Everyone around here was afraid of the team moving up there permanently. And the Bills were so shitty and boring in those days that they weren't going to attract new fans or out of town fans.
It's an odd thing with us Bills fans. We really feel like were HAVE to support the team. We know damn well there are many many larger markets out there for an NFL franchise. It would rip the heart out of the area to see the Bills pack up and leave for San Antonio, Portland, Toronto, wherever. It scared the shit out of all the fans when Ralph Wilson died and we found out that the ironclad guarantee that the Bills would stay after he died wasn't so ironclad. For years, Buffalo rock stations wouldn't play Bon Jovi because he wanted to buy the Bills and move them to Toronto
The good news for Buffalo Bills fans, I read around that time of Wilson's death, the Trump rumour junk, etc... that New York state might not-so secretly never want the Bills out of Buffalo - lest NY be without an in-state NFL franchise for tax & business purposes... which I'm supposing the Jets & Giants run official business out of New Jersey. NFL vs. New York state would not be a war either side would want to endure. That was huge, the fact that the Giants and Jets played in Jersey. Trump buying was never going to happen, not after the USFL. Bon Jovi was scarier. And I don't think that the NFL wants to bury the CFL, which might happen if the NFL put a team up north.
Buffalo has to be the 2nd smallest market in the NFL, smallest if you factor Milwaukee with Green Bay. Many handicaps, not the healthiest economic area, a stadium that is probably too big (71,000), the damn weather (I've gone to close to 100 games, only one after the 2nd week of December, 1991 AFC Championship), and years of a crap team. But still we have a team.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 29, 2020 5:02:20 GMT
Bills fans are cool.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 29, 2020 16:12:35 GMT
Nope.
it figures, the best season the Bills have in decades, and no one can go see them live. That stadium would have been gobs of fun
Better crabcakes.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 29, 2020 16:18:21 GMT
That's utterly ridiculous
Starved for a playoff win and starved for any type of thrilling heart stopping action other than shoveling snow does not equate to 'Best Fans in Football'
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 29, 2020 16:22:33 GMT
They're in the Northeast - i.e. the most rabid passionate fans in the World -
So they're in the mix - but not the top -
1. Philly
2. Giants
3. Jets
4. Washington
5. Steelers
6. Ravens
7. Bills
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 29, 2020 16:58:45 GMT
The Eagles fans did the same thing a few years ago. Then the Patriots won the Super Bowl. Of course, that was with Brady so I guess the Bills are getting the last laugh now. I couldn't name the stadium the Bills play in, so good for them. Too bad nobody can go to the games this year, seems like a waste of a good gag.
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Post by sdm3 on Dec 29, 2020 17:02:58 GMT
The Eagles fans did the same thing a few years ago. Then the Patriots won the Super Bowl. Of course, that was with Brady so I guess the Bills are getting the last laugh now. I couldn't name the stadium the Bills play in, so good for them. Too bad nobody can go to the games this year, seems like a waste of a good gag. Yes you could. You almost did. It's Bills Stadium.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 29, 2020 17:29:40 GMT
They're in the Northeast - i.e. the most rabid passionate fans in the World - So they're in the mix - but not the top - 1. Philly 2. Giants 3. Jets 4. Washington 5. Steelers 6. Ravens 7. Bills Weren't you just discussing how dumb and overreactive Philly fans were like yesterday? Then again, I guess we haven't defined what 'best' means in this context. |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Dec 29, 2020 17:31:58 GMT
They're in the Northeast - i.e. the most rabid passionate fans in the World - So they're in the mix - but not the top - 1. Philly 2. Giants 3. Jets 4. Washington 5. Steelers 6. Ravens 7. Bills Weren't you just discussing how dumb and overreactive Philly fans were like yesterday? Then again, I guess we haven't defined what 'best' means in this context. Exactly
Dumb can be passionate
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 29, 2020 17:35:09 GMT
They're in the Northeast - i.e. the most rabid passionate fans in the World - So they're in the mix - but not the top - 1. Philly 2. Giants 3. Jets 4. Washington 5. Steelers 6. Ravens 7. Bills Weren't you just discussing how dumb and overreactive Philly fans were like yesterday? Then again, I guess we haven't defined what 'best' means in this context. Someone is trying to be edgy and pick a Fight. No such luck
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 29, 2020 17:40:18 GMT
Weren't you just discussing how dumb and overreactive Philly fans were like yesterday? Then again, I guess we haven't defined what 'best' means in this context. Someone is trying to be edgy and pick a Fight. No such luck
Wait... him or me? I don't think either of us are, but I'm not sure which one you thought was going for that. |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 29, 2020 17:44:11 GMT
They're in the Northeast - i.e. the most rabid passionate fans in the World - So they're in the mix - but not the top - 1. Philly 2. Giants 3. Jets 4. Washington 5. Steelers 6. Ravens 7. Bills Weren't you just discussing how dumb and overreactive Philly fans were like yesterday? Then again, I guess we haven't defined what 'best' means in this context. He's also including Washington DC as 'the Northeast.' Or did he mean Washington state? Could go either way.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 29, 2020 18:26:47 GMT
Someone is trying to be edgy and pick a Fight. No such luck
Wait... him or me? I don't think either of us are, but I'm not sure which one you thought was going for that. Him, not you
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Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 29, 2020 18:40:10 GMT
Wait... him or me? I don't think either of us are, but I'm not sure which one you thought was going for that. Him, not you
I see, so he's picking a fight with you then? Or just all fans? Or just all people, in the way he sometimes does? |
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