Toilet Bowl Sports... with Andrew Tilden

    "And I thought I had it Bad" 

          As a Jets fan I find my self going to school (SUNY Brockport) in Bills territory, and it baffles me how this team even has a fan base at this point. Buffalo Bills fans are fascinating creatures to me. This team hasn’t been relevant since it lost 4 straight super bowls in the early 90s. Its shining moment of the 90’s was its most famous player being acquitted of murder….since then they’ve made the playoffs 3 times, the last coming in 1999, which they managed to lose in heart breaking fashion with the music city miracle…point is as a Mets, Jets, Islanders and Knicks fan I think I have it pretty bad. I’ve never seen one of my teams win a championship. Sadly is seems that the Islanders are about to pack up and move to Kansas City. 

        Some how though year after year the people of western New York manage to pick themselves up, break out the J.P Losman jersey  and brand new throw back  81 and convince themselves it cant get any worse then last year. It seems that Bills fans don’t watch games expecting to win they watch to see how the Bills are going to loose. Take last years lost to the Cleveland Browns on a last second field goal by Phil Dawson on Monday Night Football and this past Sundays 6-3 Pop Warner like loss to the same Browns, this time the Browns were 0-4. Now don’t forget Leodis Mckelvins masterful performance against the Patriots in the season opener. The Bills don’t just lose. They find a new and exciting way to rip out its fans hearts and take a massive dump on them.

             One of the best parts of Western New York is the people. They are a lot more polite and and relaxed then people in the Metropolitan area, but this is probably their biggest problem. They need to seriously stay enough is enough. A billboard is is a nice way to voice your opinion without hurting anyones feelings, but give me a fucking break; Dick Jauron is your coach. Your team is terrible. TO might be getting old and drops a lot of balls he should catch. Between him and Lee Evans all Trent Edwards has to do is drop back, maybe give fake a hand off to throw off the defense and air it out. Eventually someone in a Bills jersey is going to come down with it. If I rooted for the bills I would have slit my wrists a long time ago..Last year the bills started 4-0. People were decked out in Bills regalia talking shit all over the place, sure they knew it wasn't going to last and probably wanted to get their moneys worth while they could, before Dick Jauron started to fuck everything up, I cant blame them. But since then that’s the last sign of life ive seen from them.          

         This kid who started this billboard campaign isn't even from new york ….pathetic… letting some unemployed 18 year old from Pennsylvania do your dirty work. The best Upstate New York can muster is a bunch of drunks leaving Ralph Wilson stadium trying to steal a statue of Thurman Thomas, which a canadian loaded in his truck and took home for a safe keeping….makes me wanna be sick.  

            I cant say I sympathize with Bills fans. They don’t seem like they want to see their team improve. Its like the blind leading the mentally challenged. Im not saying they need to burn down Ralph Wilson stadium to make a point but at the very least have some pride..dont let CANADA sneak in and take your team right out from under you.





The Music City Miracle in 1999