Incoherent ramblings about a stupid team name....Bills

[Judo Thoreau]

Agree 100% about the name. As far as I know, Buffalo Bill had nothing to do with the city. It's like the Panthers rebranding themselves as the Charlotte Brontes. Sure it's historical, but who cares? Honestly, the team should've been relieved when The Silence of the Lambs was made.

[FattyFatFat]

All southerners by nature are incoherent - it started not too far from where I'm sitting right now in a place called Charleston when some fools .......... well you know the rest of the story. :abe:

I can help you pack if you like.

[jasonluckydog]

Bills are better then a gay pirate.

[rayzor]

Atomic Buffalo Turds

[Jangler]

All southerners by nature are incoherent - it started not too far from where I'm sitting right now in a place called Charleston when some fools ..........  well you know the rest of the story. :abe:

 

 

So... another Bills fan who can't stand to live up north?

 

Another northern transplant that thinks he has the south all figured out.

[cardiackat88.]

Bills:

Boy

I

Love

Losing

Super Bowls

[rayzor]

i remember listening on NPR to a bunch of french people in paris sitting at a coffee shop complaining about the U.S. and how we think we're better than everyone and try forcing ourselves on everyone. at some point the journalist recording the discussion pointed out that they were sitting at a starbucks.

 

i feel the same way about yankee transplants in the south complaining about life down here.

[Mother Grabber]

we may think we're better than everyone else, but I KNOW we're better than the damn French!

[P.I.A]

i remember listening on NPR to a bunch of french people in paris sitting at a coffee shop complaining about the U.S. and how we think we're better than everyone and try forcing ourselves on everyone. at some point the journalist recording the discussion pointed out that they were sitting at a starbucks.

 

i feel the same way about yankee transplants in the south complaining about life down here.

"OH YEAH!?!!?1??! WELL WE ARE CIVIL WAR CHAMPS BABYYYyyY, Sccore BOARD!!!"

[Ruff]

It's cool. When the Bills move to Toronto in a couple of years, they will probably change the name.

[Judo Thoreau]

It's cool. When the Bills move to Toronto in a couple of years, they will probably change the name.

Yeah, the Toronto Buffalo Bills.

[Ruff]

Yeah, the Toronto Buffalo Bills.

More like:

Toronto it-doesn't-matter-what-our-team-name-is-it's-still-better-than-Bills.

I'm sure they'll find a way to shorten it, though.

[Brooklyn Bully]

It's weird, but different. Animal team names are so boring. 

[GRWatcher]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills

 

The Bills were named as the result of the winning entry in a local contest by Michael Doucas (son of legendary NFL star Sam Davies), which named the team after the AAFC Buffalo Bills,^[5] a previous football franchise from the All-America Football Conference that merged with the Cleveland Browns in 1950. That team was named after a male bison or "Billy". The name was chosen from a contest that was won by Bill Keenan. The similarity to famous Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody, while used as a play on words in the previous Bills team's iconography, is not (nor has it ever been) used by the current team. The Bills' cheerleaders are known as the Buffalo Jills. The official mascot is Billy Buffalo.

 

 

You need to know the history of the team to follow the connections. But they are named after a male bison not a person.

 

FYI Buffalo was the far west a long time ago. There were bison there then.