Funny thing after last night's Monday Night debacle

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Buffacuse · #1 Post by **Buffacuse** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:57 pm

I had at least three people call me to see "If you're ok."

Hey, I'm a fan, but I'm not getting out a big vat of purple flavor-aid...

T_Bone0806 · #2 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:43 pm

It was a far cry from "wide right" or the "Music City Miracle" as far as punch in your gut moments for me as a Bills fan go, but it didn't exactly fill me with warm fuzzies to see (insert insulting adjective of your choice here) Jerry Jones whooping it up in our house either.

Monday night left me grouchy all day yesterday. I was going back and forth between baseball and football (and "Heroes", too..my clicker thumb still hurts), and after watching my Yankees go down in flames, I figured I could at least take solace in my football team pulling off an upset over a team I dislike intensely..then they lose it on the last play of the game for the second time this season.

I hate sports.

However, I throw my support to the Indians and Rockies in their respective series. As a Yankee fan, I cannot of course root for the Sox, and I have hated the D'Backs since 2001 Game 6 of the Series, when, after the D'Backs trashed the Yanks in Arizona, the PA system blasted "New York, New York" to mock them. Had it been any other year, it would've been merely annoying. This was 6 weeks after 9/11, however, and that song carried a little different meaning than it had a couple of months earlier. Although I'm sure that hadn't crossed their minds in their rush to taunt the visiting team, I found it one of the most classless acts in recent sports-related memory (heck, I'll admit it..it was the type of thing you'd expect from Steinbrenner in his prime!) and I've held a grudge against the team since. Plus, they lose points for having a freakin' swimming pool in the stadium! You're there to watch a ballgame..go to the lake if you wanna swim!

Apologies for any sensibilities offended to Red Sox, Cowboys, and D'Back supporters. Then again, being a Yankees fan, I have heard far worse than the comments I made above

As for my Bills, I will continue to root for them wi or lose, until/unless they become the LA Bills, Toronto Bills, Outer Mongolia Bills, etc. Unfortunately, what some of us thought optimistically might be an 8 and 8 season on our way back to the playoffs soon has become an injury-riddled "wait'll next year" just 5 games in. Time to start scouting the top draft possibilities.

Sigh.

I hate sports.

#3 Post by **tubadave** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:27 pm

I can imagine that the level of (happy) shock on this side of the final score is probably not nearly as intense as the (not-so-happy) shock on that side.

I've never seen a team play worse and still win. Hopefully, Dallas (Tony Romo in particular) can get their act together before this coming weekend, or Bills fans will wind up taking solace in watching the Patriots pound them, because the Cowboys won't eek out a win against that team with that sort of performance.

My hats off to the Buffalo, though....everyone had it figured as an easy Dallas victory, but the Bills really stepped up and made an incredible game of it.

TheCalvinator24 · #4 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:40 pm

T_Bone0806 wrote:Apologies for any sensibilities offended to Red Sox, Cowboys, and D'Back supporters. Then again, being a Yankees fan, I have heard far worse than the comments I made above

We Cowboys fans are used to the jealousy-induced whining we hear from the fans of the inferior teams in the league.

T_Bone0806 · #5 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:04 pm

TheCalvinator24 wrote:We Cowboys fans are used to the jealousy-induced whining we hear from the fans of the inferior teams in the league.

I admit, it IS rather ironic that most of the reasons I dislike the Cowboys so much are the same reasons why so many hate my favorite baseball team.

As for the Yanks, I was pretty much BORN a Yankee fan, so I just don't know no better!

T_Bone0806 · #6 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:09 pm

tubadave wrote:My hats off to the Buffalo, though....everyone had it figured as an easy Dallas victory, but the Bills really stepped up and made an incredible game of it.

It was a pulse-pounder, that's for sure. The good teams will find a way to win, even when they're not at their best. The bad teams will find a way to lose, even when they've been handed the keys to the bank.

The thing that irked me more than anything else was listening to Tony K belittle not just the Bills, but taking a couple of cheap shots at Buffalo as well.

The man is a jackass.

NFL_Referee · #7 Post by **NFL_Referee** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:56 pm

peacock2121 · #8 Post by **peacock2121** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:08 am

"someone" described the game to me. All I could hear during the description was 'how amazing that the Bills could pull that off." How amazing that people could take positions that were not 'theirs' and perform.

Okay - they blew it in the end - and - how amazing they could hold it together for so long.

Very cool.

earendel · #9 Post by **earendel** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:26 am

T_Bone0806 wrote:
TheCalvinator24 wrote:As for the Yanks, I was pretty much BORN a Yankee fan, so I just don't know no better!

Growing up in Oklahoma I learned to root for the Cowboys, the Yankees (Mickey Mantle) and the OU Sooners, not necessarily in that order. I still retain a certain loyalty to each of the teams, although my cheering for the Cowboys has been rather subdued because of the shabby way that Tom Landry was treated.