It’s hard to believe this picture was taken 8 years ago with a 1.5 megapixel camera phonePoor T. First Arian Foster with his hamstring, then Kenny Britt going down for the year, and finally having a league high 438 points scored against. To put that in perspective, Joey only has 289.5 against. Hopefully things will change for you now that division play begins this week.
And on a separate note, I just wanted to weigh in on why I’m still not able to get behind the Bills even after their 3-0 start.
It’s like dating a girl for years, and the two of you love each other deeply. You think there is nothing that can come between you. Then one day she starts treating you differently, you think it’s not a big deal so you ignore it. Well before long she starts to become flat out hostile to you, insulting and demeaning you. Unsure of how to react you stick it out because the two of you have been through so much together.
Soon you realize that what you once had is gone, and her love for you has changed to contempt. Then she starts seeing someone new (Toronto?! Really?! Ralph Wilson owns the stadium & team outright and pockets roughly $40 million a year in profit but he HAD to outsource games to Toronto to stay economically viable).
At this point it has become painfully clear that there is no going back to the way things were.
Then a couple of years later she comes back into your life, and she’s looking good. She’s been calling you for three weeks in a row. All your friends are telling you how the two of you belong together, that you had been through so many good times with one another and it would be best for everyone if you just made up and got back together.
Unfortunately, this is where people fail to understand relationships. Nothing has changed. She might look different, and tell me how she was wrong, but the reality is she is the exact same person that insulted, degraded and cheated on me. Who broke my heart with no remorse.
That’s why I can’t get behind this team until Ralph Wilson is dead. These “new look Bills” (which I am still not sold on as being for real) are still the byproduct of Ralph Wilson’s penny pinching, horrible personnel hiring, desire to maximize the bottom line, and indifference to the fans.
If you want to go back to someone who has repeatedly shown you that their feelings toward you range from indifference to hostility, that’s fine. Everyone has their own journey in life, and it’s not my place to tell them how to live.
The organization has gone out of its way to alienate the dedicated fan base (parking price increases, subjective gate dismissals, parking restrictions, a hotline for text messages to report people being unruly in the stadium, entry restrictions to the stadium creating longer lines, slamming the gate in our faces on Monday Night against Cleveland!). All of this was done at a time when the team was in the gutter, when the franchise was little more than a punch line throughout the NFL. Now because they’ve won three games, I’m supposed to forgive all the mistreatment I’ve suffered? I supported them when so few others would and my loyalty was spat on!
It’s finally happened; I genuinely don’t care about the Bills anymore. And sometimes, I wonder if I will ever be able to do so again.
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