Anonymous Buffalo Bills fans begs Toronto to stop cheering for the team, citing ‘curse’

A picture of the poster. (Credit: TSN via Sammy Hudes)

An anonymous Buffalo Bills fan is begging Toronto sports fans to stop cheering for the team, arguing that the city’s sports “curse” could impact the Bills Super Bowl hopes.

“If you love us, you’ll let us go,” a laminated sign, photographed by a Canadian Press reporter at Adelaide and Victoria street, reads.

“Its not us, its you. Halloween may be over, but your curse isn’t.”

The poster appears to have been affixed to a downtown Toronto pole following the Bills loss to the Miami Dolphins last weekend. That loss dropped the Bills record to 6-3 and left the team two games back of the New England Patriots for the AFC Division lead. It also prompted many in Buffalo to express concerns about the team’s up and down season.

The poster sympathizes with Toronto sports fans following the Blue Jays loss in Game 7 of the World Series and calls the Raptors “hopeless.” Nonetheless, the anonymous fan begs Torontonians not to root for Buffalo, for fear of the supposed Toronto curse.

“Niagara Falls is already split - that’s done. We’ll take Lake Erie, and you take Lake Ontario,” the poster’s author proposes.

The Buffalo fan is even worried about Torontonians coming into their city while the Bills are there, proposing a agreement where Torontonians head to Buffalo to visit the popular Trader Joe’s grocery chain “every other weekend (only when the Bills are on the road, of course).”

Not the first Toronto-Buffalo breakup

Another similar poster was spotted in Toronto in October, before the Blue Jays lost the World Series.

That first poster was also signed by Bills Mafia, but it uses Canadian spelling for the word “neighbour,” prompting some on Buffalo Bills and Toronto social media forums to speculate that it could have been written by someone from Toronto.

The first poster came before the end of the Blue Jay’s near miss World Series run, which unfortunately did not help Toronto with its choking hazard reputation.

Toronto and Buffalo have had a long sports relationship with the Bills playing seven games at the Rogers Centre from 2008 to 2013. This past summer, the Bills and Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment even struck a partnership to help grow the game of football in Canada.

With files from the Canadian Press.