I have been a Bills fan for as long as I can remember. Which is to say, approximately 16 years. There are only a couple plays that truly stand out in my mind when I conjure up thoughts of my beloved team; Doug Flutie in 1998 scrambling out of the clutches of the entire Jacksonville defensive-line to score a touchdown in the last seconds of the game; and of course, the Music City Travesty. Besides those two plays, it seems the last 14 years has been a ten-layer shit sandwich drenched in the juices collected at the bottom of garbage bags. I remember losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Third Teamers in a win-and-get-in game at some point. I could look it up but I won’t. And besides that, I vaguely remember several limp-armed quarterbacks with some set of intangibles only valuable to a man trying to sabotage a football team and demoralize an already downtrodden City. But those are the ramblings of a broken heart, no longer tethered to hope. Continue reading
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