What to know: I am a Bills fan, that is all.
What does it mean to be a fan?
I have typed and then deleted the first sentence of this little section about 8 times now. I have no idea where to start, where to middle, and where to end. The Buffalo Bills made it to their second AFC Championship in the Josh Allen era, and it ended in heartbreak; for all the reasons we already know.
I was scrolling around Twitter (not for very long at all) and came to a tweet saying something like ‘Bills fans shouldn’t be mad because they have a generational QB and they make the playoffs every year, how can they complain?’ It’s an interesting point. I’m sure fans of 20 teams are saying, “What more can you guys ask for? We’d kill to be in a Championship Game with the second-best QB in the league!”
And although this is a true point, whether you’re the worst team in the league or you lose the AFC Championship, at the end of the day, you lost. It’s a tough league. There are 31 losers and 1 winner.
I wore my Bills hat out on the streets today, and from the stares I was getting, you would thought my hat said: “STARE HERE”. Another tweet from today was, “I don’t know how you wake up today if you’re a Bills fan.”
This brings me back to my initial question: What does it mean to be a fan?
The day we find that one favorite team of ours, little do we know we sign a contract. A contract with no ink. A contract saying that there will be ups and there will be downs. There will be a rebuild and then there will be a prime. We aren’t guaranteed anything but we have no clue of that when we first put those colors on for the first time, or when we buy that first jersey.
Call me an absolute sicko, but that’s what’s special about sports. The bond that you have with your team. Through the ups. And through the downs.
How do you wake up? The same way you do any other day!
We will have our day one day, and it will be against that exact team, in that exact stadium, with that exact QB and Coach, I have no doubt about that!
Thanks for being part of my soapbox.
Go Bills!
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