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[jaydub]

Volektricity is a vital component of tiny cans.

[littlefallsmets]

I grew up a Bills fan with a secondary minor rooting interest in the Giants.

So I can cheer for the Giants and cheer against the Patriots Sunday... as being a Bills fan means hating the Dolphins and the Patriots with the passion of a thousand suns.

So, like, it's about as good a scenario for my secondary interests as you can get with my primary team out.

And it all doesn't mean 5% as much as one regular season Mets game does to me.

[AugustWest]

as being a Bills fan means hating the Dolphins and the Patriots with the passion of a thousand suns.

Really? 

As a Dolphin fan I had no idea.

I mean, I'll hate the pond scum, dog ass Jets until the day I die.  But I've always been pretty ambivalent about the Bills.  I liked Marv Levy.

And, like everybody else, I hate the Pats this year (and the past couple of years too, I guess).  But it's not a visceral hate derived from my love of the Phins.  It's a generalized hate, the way I hate the Cowboys or the Yankees.

I just never got a Division Rivalry vibe between the Bills and the Dolphins.

Also, fuck the Jets.  Fuck them in their skanky eye sockets.

[littlefallsmets]

There is no team hated more in the Buffalo area than the Dolphins. You could definitely defend Osama Bin Laden or Hitler in that town before you could Dan Marino. It's just that it's one of those one-way rivalries that I'm pretty sure Florida-area Finsfans have no idea exists.

I imagine it's a lot like how Blue Jays fans consider the Yankees their rival and the Yankees fans barely acknowledge the existence of a Toronto team and so on. Or, indeed, how much more important it is for the Mets to beat the Yankees than vice versa.

Yankees fans want to beat the Red Sox and want to win the World Series and all else is yawn.

[AugustWest]

There is no team hated more in the Buffalo area than the Dolphins. You could definitely defend Osama Bin Laden or Hitler in that town before you could Dan Marino. It's just that it's one of those one-way rivalries that I'm pretty sure Florida-area Finsfans have no idea exists.

I'm certainly not questioning you here, but what it the source of this hatred?  Can you point to particular games?

[littlefallsmets]

Hmmm. There's no particular game that I can think of off-hand.

But the few Bills games I went to, there were a lot of tee-shirts sold with dead dolphins on them and so forth. I seem to remember a stretch in the eighties or nineties when they were the best two in the AFC East and it just carried over from then.

I think a lot of it was about the idea that if they could get Miami in a December home game, the cold weather would always put the advantage in Buffalo's court... unlike against the Jets or the Patriots where, like, they had winter too, just with a little less snow.

EDIT: So it might've been one of those North Versus South things as... as much as Central and Western New York are culturally acclimated to hating the urban coastal cities like Manhattan and Boston... they are much much more inclined to mistrust Southern culture.

[AugustWest]

I think a lot of it was about the idea that if they could get Miami in a December home game, the cold weather would always put the advantage in Buffalo's court... unlike against the Jets or the Patriots where, like, they had winter too, just with a little less snow.

Didn't they get a home game every year?

EDIT: So it might've been one of those North Versus South things as... as much as Central and Western New York are culturally acclimated to hating the urban coastal cities like Manhattan and Boston... they are much much more inclined to mistrust Southern culture.

Certain elements around these parts hate mistrust anybody from north of the Ohio River.

Of course, Miami is about as southern as Hoboken.

[Nabubrush]

Yeah, home game every year, but not necessarily December home game.

[littlefallsmets]

Yeah, that's the thing.

A home game for Buffalo in September or October could well be a pleasant 60-degree "Indian Summer" day that affords them no real advantage other than your general home-game stuff.

It's if they get to play you at Rich Stadium, like, the Sunday before Christmas when it is -10 and three inches of snow on the field. That's where even a mediocre Bills team can come out and upset a very good warm-weather team.

[Golfhaus]

I'm glad my teams all have red-hot rivalries. Mets-Braves. Mets-Yankees. Redskins-Cowboys. Cavaliers-Hokies. Good stuff.

[melack]

God, we need to get some pretend sports back up in this thread. The real sports shit is killing me.

[Nabubrush]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa Keeeeeeeeeeee . . .

[Nabubrush]

Welcome back, Somebody nice.

I probably should have kept my mouth shut.

[linnea]

Welcome back, Somebody nice.

I probably should have kept my mouth shut.

Heh... I suck at this whole fantasy sport thing. But I'm dissatisfied with my 6/6 rating. We'll see how things go.

[Nabubrush]

Heh... I suck at this whole fantasy sport thing. But I'm dissatisfied with my 6/6 rating. We'll see how things go.

I see you unloaded that deadwood Sakic (I'm kidding!)