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Will I be a bills fan again?

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Okay so ten years ago I moved from the Thousand Islands in waaaay upstate NY to New Paltz, NY in order to go to college.
this move marks the time in which i severed all relations to the Buffalo Bills.

I went from knowing everything to knowing nothing. I came from the era of Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, Jim Kelly, Lofton, Reich, Tasker, Hull, etc... man... those were the days that i thought the world was ending on a byweek. I was left elated, and deflated every sunday and the occasional monday...

then... nothing... i didn't even watch football. i might have even forgotten how the whole thing worked... even if i wanted to watch football, i would have been surrounded by giants and jets fans. my heart wasn't in it.
well now here i am... in buffalo. what a perfect opportunity to regain my interest in football, right? relearn all the players? watch every game and maybe even GO to one? oh what a concept!

only problem is that lauren hates sports. Hates the competativeness of it all. (obviously this doesn't apply to when she plays frogger or scrabble)

so now i have to convince her that it is all in good fun. or i should just give up. she has already said she is more likely to get into hockey than football - but i don't care enough about hockey... so... only time will tell i guess...
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💬 13 comments

  1. lauren ·

    Uhhhhhhh. Football sucks.
  2. jason ·

    Both sports have their merits. Both force the athlete to make some very, very quick decisions. Both have hard hits. With football you have to deal with TV breaks every damn 30 seconds. With hockey that is not the case.

    If you do go back to the Bills, I give you credit!
  3. james ·

    There has been a few changes to the game since you left. For your benefit I will list and describe them below:

    The 40-yard rule: If the ball is within 40-yards of the opponents goal, it is considered off-sides and control of the ball is given to the other team.

    Never too late for sandwiches rule: In the event that the highest paying endorsement by any member of the home team is exceeded by the guest team that member of the guest team will provide endorsement for a local eating establishment, free of charge.

    Dungeon Master's rule: if referees cannot come to an agreement a single member of each time will do combat with a Dungeons & Dragons character each wearing banded armor and caring a 1D6 long sword. No saving throws for acid damage.
  4. drew ·

    Ditch lauren and watch football. @janelle and I have a deal--she gets to watch Gilmore Girls and I get to watch football. Maybe Lauren would like to watch some old gilmore girls DVD's with her, and we can watch football. (Although I like watching the Steelers more, I plan to keep up with the Bills since I am a Buffalo guy now.
  5. leetee ·

    psstt... @drew, that deal you have with @janelle kinda bites. The Gilmore Girls had the final show in the spring. How fair is it you get to watch all new NOT re-run sports and all she gets is re-runs of the world's best show?!
  6. drew ·

    She agreed to the deal when we got married. It's not my fault she didn't realize the NFL would outlast some crappy-whiny-girl show.

    Dang. Now I sleep alone tonight.
  7. jason ·

    Hahaha. Brilliant, Drew!
  8. janelle ·

    Oh, hell yeah, you're on the couch by yourself tonight, byatch!
  9. drew ·

    Hey, wait, Leetee totally slammed you, Drew, and you didn't get it.
    And I have Gilmore Girls on DVD so I get Gilmore Girls time whenever, wherever...
  10. fellyconnelly ·

    oooo this is gettin good!

    but really lauren will be way too busy with school and books and whatnot... so - all the time in the world i get!
  11. fellyconnelly ·

    and james - the Dungeon Masters rule may or may not have made more sense to me than I will ever let on.
  12. jenks ·

    totally off topic- but you do know anything about a coed fraternity in New Paltz? Apparently it doesn't have a greek name... I just know a friend was (is?) in this fraternity, and has a shirt that just says "new paltz alumni" which I thought was weird.
  13. fellyconnelly ·

    i know there was a coed frat - mostly was theater students and whatnot - lauren's bro was a member... but it did use greek letters so i'm not sure...

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