OT: Other teams fans who are members here

[maust]

Anyone that was following during that time, was the AFC weak? Why did the Bills go 4 straight times?

The AFC was 'weak' only in comparison with just how strong the top of the NFC was. At the top the NFC absolutely dominated. Before the league eviscerated defense some of the best D you'd ever want to see played was happening among the top teams in the NFC, some of them paired to pretty damn good offenses too. The Niners were a juggernaut yet the Giants D gave them fits. The Skins as coached by Gibbs were truly impressive and those early 90's Cowboys teams were stacked. No real FA or salary cap so all you needed to keep your all star team together then was an owner with deep pockets. DeBartolo, Wellington Mara, Jack Kent Cooke and Jerruh all really wanted to win and they spent accordingly.

 

[jimnance]

I was going to ask one of our Steeler fans who posted here a while back - lillloyd29 I think - what he thinks of the Rodgers signing but his profile says he hasn't been around since 2019.

I know we have GreenCow and BillsFanonaPatsforum for the Bills, ReeseBobby and MahomesToKelce for the Chiefs. Lambeau12 for the Pack. JetFan79 for the Jete...

Also Pherein for the Saints... whatever happened to him?

I'm sure I'm forgetting some... Anyone else?

@lilloyd was the best of the bunch imo.
@pherein was cool but lillloyd was a more knowledgeable fan.
Green Cow was just our whipping boy.
Who was the Jete fan that showed up year after year- I thought he was even around during our 2001-04 run- that every preseason said" Jets are set at every position"? Lol dude cracked me up

 

[TommyD4207]

Its always comical when Steelers followers point the finger at the Pats and yell Cheater.

The pee yellow and black won 4 Superbowl's because of steroids. Buffalo Bills players confessed to also doing steroids because they wanted to keep up with Pittsburgh. Hardly any of that era Steelers are still around. Many succumbed to unusual deaths like one Pitt OL cutting a tree and it fell on him. Bradshaw is still functioning, but I'm not convinced that he could add 2 + 2 in his head and come up with the right answer.

They are the most jealous and butthurt for obvious reasons. Brady owned them.

In fairness, I don't know that he ever could.

 

[sb1]

I was really young during that time (around 10 years old) when the Bills were going on their 4 year run. I knew their best players like Kelly, Thomas, Reed, Bruce Smith and Bennett, but didn't get into the stats that I had at my disposal years later in the 90's. I also didn't have the chance to watch many teams on TV, so I really don't know how their teams stacked up to others in the AFC. Anyone that was following during that time, was the AFC weak? Why did the Bills go 4 straight times?

I'd say the Bills were on the top tier of the AFC at the time and the Chiefs Raiders Dolphins and Elway's Broncos were one tier below. The other teams were meh to bad to Patriots. Lol

No surprise that 1990 was their best chance out of the 4 to win it all. Their defense that season was for sure the best of those 4 Bills teams and the league didn't figure out the K gun until the Super Bowl.

 

[neuronet]

that saints fan was a really good poster.

 

[sb1]

There used to be a lot more. Most of the extreme trolls eventually got themselves banned. Between Spygate becoming a thing of the distant past and Brady continuing to play great forever, they no longer had any ammunition.

With the Patriots having back-to-back four-win seasons, we're not occupying nearly as much rent space in their brains as we used to.

There was a Jet fan that went by the screen name Gunnails, he was cool. As you mentioned, Pherein, he was the best of the bunch.

I wasn't a member here at the time but I can imagine what the forum was like with the trolls after 18-1. The ESPN Pats board was unreadable.

 

[signbabybrady]

I'd say the Bills were on the top tier of the AFC at the time and the Chiefs Raiders Dolphins and Elway's Broncos were one tier below. The other teams were meh to bad to Patriots. Lol

No surprise that 1990 was their best chance out of the 4 to win it all. Their defense that season was for sure the best of those 4 Bills teams and the league didn't figure out the K gun until the Super Bowl.

LOL the league or Bill Belichick?

 

[jmt57]

I wasn't a member here at the time but I can imagine what the forum was like with the trolls after 18-1. The ESPN Pats board was unreadable.

Yeah, I remember the ESPN message board. It was pretty good for several years .... until it wasn't.

Prior to that I was active on the Sporting News message boards, which were excellent, quite vibrant. But then the company got sold, sold again, and that was the end of that.

Another one that was good back when dinosaurs were still roaming the earth was when the Globe first went online and had a messageboard. This was in the infancy of Boston.com, with dial up modems. Great messageboard for its time and very good discussions there for a few years.

When you consider all the others that have come and gone, it's amazing that Ian has been able to keep this one going strong for a quarter century.

 

[State]

Many succumbed to unusual deaths like one Pitt OL cutting a tree and it fell on him.

Steve Courson.

He was trying to save his dog when a tree he had just cut was falling down.

Occasionally, bloggers such as yourself will bring up the steroid use by the Steelers in the late 1970s. Almost as methodical as the East Germans. Outrageous by that formidable OL.

As a boy, I loved seeing the comic book size biceps. But it was cheating on a big scale.

 

[sb1]

Steve Courson.

He was trying to save his dog when a tree he had just cut was falling down.

Occasionally, bloggers such as yourself will bring up the steroid use by the Steelers in the late 1970s. Almost as methodical as the East Germans. Outrageous by that formidable OL.

As a boy, I loved seeing the comic book size biceps. But it was cheating on a big scale.

A lot of Steeler fans defend this stuff saying steroids were legal back then.

They were legal at the time only with a valid prescription and only for medical use. Not to make you bigger and stronger which is why the Steelers and other teams abused them. Abusing any prescription drug was never legal. Their team physician for 20 years was Dr Richard Rydze who was later convicted of distributing anabolic steroids, HGH, oxycodone and I think a couple more drugs like that. I can't remember if the FDA made them a controlled substance after the Ben Johnson scandal at the Olympics or if it was before.

Courson also has a book.

 

[State]

I knew Courson graduated from Gettysburg, Penn., in high school, which is one of my favorite American destinations, but he grew up in Longmeadow, Mass.

His honesty will not be tolerated by the NFL.

 

[State]

Steve Courson’s corpse being guarded by his black lab, which he had given his life to save when wind had redirected the fall of a dead 44 foot tree he had just cut down is an image of memorable pathos. It could be a country song.

 

[They_Hate_We]

I don't know how many of us go as far back as the Usenet days, but alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots (IIRC) was the only place I read and posted until I came across this site. Usenet was notorious for trolling as anyone could post in any teams news group. A Jets fan by the name of bobjenson comes to mind as one of the most delusional of them all.

• alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Ah, Tollbooth Bob Jenson. An epic troll, almost always wrong. The Border Wars were good times.
Then there was Bender the arrogant Bills fan. I baited him into a USENET bet where if I proved him wrong he would not post again for something like 90 days. He lost but was a man of his word.

 

[sb1]

I don't know how many of us go as far back as the Usenet days, but alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots (IIRC) was the only place I read and posted until I came across this site. Usenet was notorious for trolling as anyone could post in any teams news group. A Jets fan by the name of bobjenson comes to mind as one of the most delusional of them all.

• alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots

I lurked way more than posted there but yep I remember him lol. Wasn't there a Dolphins troll too? Forget his name.

 

[Patjew]

Yeah, I remember the ESPN message board. It was pretty good for several years .... until it wasn't.

Prior to that I was active on the Sporting News message boards, which were excellent, quite vibrant. But then the company got sold, sold again, and that was the end of that.

Another one that was good back when dinosaurs were still roaming the earth was when the Globe first went online and had a messageboard. This was in the infancy of Boston.com, with dial up modems. Great messageboard for its time and very good discussions there for a few years.

When you consider all the others that have come and gone, it's amazing that Ian has been able to keep this one going strong for a quarter century.

He's a freak of nature!

 

[h0c2000]

I don't know how many of us go as far back as the Usenet days, but alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots (IIRC) was the only place I read and posted until I came across this site. Usenet was notorious for trolling as anyone could post in any teams news group. A Jets fan by the name of bobjenson comes to mind as one of the most delusional of them all.

• alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots

SAR II was good too.

 

[sb1]

Article from way back on Courson, the Steelers and steroid use.

OTL: Rydze connection is latest Steelers link to PEDs

Steve Courson, Terry Long, Rocky Bleier and others from the team's past were linked to performance-enhancing drugs. Dr. Richard Rydze, who served on the Steelers' medical staff for over two decades, is the latest.

www.espn.com

17 deaths of former Steeler players from that era before age 59. That number is hard to write off as a coincidence.

 

[Brandon_Cox]

1. You know who else was infamous for steroid use back then: the University of Nebraska. You old timers might remember the BS they fed us about their "cornfed linemen" being bigger, faster and stronger than anyone else. It later came out that they were all doing roids.

2. I'm being glib here, but my fandom outside the Pats is purely transactional. I'm a die-hard fan of whoever I bet on that week (or season)

 

[PatsfanTN]

There’s lots of members on here that claim to be Pats fans BUT….