This has been a great thread. Fun Read. I'm a Bills fan from Washington, DC via upstate New York. Excited to head down this weekend for the game. I've been to Jacksonville once this past summer on a baby-moon with my wife, and I'm looking forward to spending the weekend again in the Atlantic Beach area. Beautiful place, great people. We have good friends who moved to the area a year or so ago and they love it.

I get it, you love your team and your city. Well, I'm sure it'll come as no surprise that we love our team too. I've never lived in Buffalo, but I was a season ticket holder for many years until I moved to DC. What fans would you expect not to think their team is going to win? Boasting about your team is what fandom is all about. I'd venture to say that 98% of any team's fans look at their team through Rose colored glasses. There are those realists on every message board, but they're no fun...always trying to keep everything in perspective... And if you're judging an entire city or fan base by a couple of people on a message board hiding their identity, you're not looking hard enough. If you want to know what true Bills fans are like, look at what we're doing to support the Andy Dalton Foundation. Do we have to do that? Of course not. But it gives us joy to say thank you in such a unique and kind way. It's a win-win.

I couldn't be happier to be facing the Jags on Sunday. Not because I know we'll win (Though I do think we've got a shot) but because I'm just happy we're both in post-season! Two teams with long-suffering fans! Congrats to both of us! Yeah, our streak was much longer, but honestly, we're pretty similar. We don't get any respect around the league. We're small markets. We struggle year after year to find that one main piece (QB) thats going to put us over the top. The one main difference though, is that when you guys stink, you really stink! Seems as though you guys have had a top 5 pick for the last 5 years. Unfortunately for us Bills fans, we're usually bad enough to miss the playoffs, but "good enough" to have a mid level pick, far away from drafting the top 1 or 2 QB prospects, unless it's a really bad year for QB's. (See: EJ Manuel, yuk) And thus, instead of ever being truly horrible, we screw ourselves with middle of the road 6-9 to 8-8 seasons that don't allow us a shot at top draft talent. That one time we were good enough for a top 3 pick, we took Marcel Dareus. Ha! Go figure!

The possibility of knocking Doug Marrone out of the Playoffs really does make this that much better for Bills fans. Put yourself in our shoes for a second. It looked like he was turning the team around, and the he left us. It was a rotten situation. However, I don't think there are many that harbor any resentment towards Dareus. He brought a lot of problems on himself and missed a handful of games due to suspensions. I hope he keeps himself clean and motivated for you all.

A win would be nothing but icing on the cake for us. Are we Super Bowl Contenders, no, not right now, but for the first time in 18 years, there's a lot of hope that we might be on the right track, with the right head coach. And I suspect thats where you also find yourselves as Jags fans.

Best of luck on Sunday! Win or Lose, I'm incredibly grateful that I get to witness it first hand! It's been a long time coming! Be prepared for us, there will be a lot of Red, White, and Blue in the crowd on Sunday! We travel well.

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