A Perfect Story Has Been Set Up For The Buffalo Bills

Bills fans have been yearning for a Super Bowl title since the AFL and NFL merged in 1966. We’ve been to that great game four times, no need to go over the well-known history. Bills fans, Buffalo sports fans in general, are a tortured bunch who have had so many second-place finishes. But that’s not the only sore point. There have also been SO many absolutely horrible teams. A 17-year drought for the Bills that has lasted most of this century. A 13-year drought is currently underway for the Sabres: the longest active streak in professional sports and the longest in NHL history. Bills fans had a lot of pain in the ’70s and ’80s. The Sabres also had their struggles in the mid-to-late ’80s.

Thank God for the Buffalo Bandits who are multiple world champions.

But that’s not enough to dampen most people’s enthusiasm. A Sabres victory would be huge. A Bills victory would be everything.

And why not? It’s the biggest league in the world (after football, arguably). Winning a Super Bowl is a kind of large-scale validation that would have everyone talking with pride for years to come. There are people who truly believe that the city and the community itself will completely change and be repaired if the Bills win it all. Let’s be honest, that’s not what would happen. However, it would be an injection of unity, positivity, and hope into this community that it so desperately needs.

That’s why I want this to be the Bills’ year.

Of course, we want that to be the case every year. It’s not like I sat here last season and said, ‘I don’t want that this year.’ They’ve had good runs and good teams, but they haven’t been to the Super Bowl with Josh Allen yet, and while I would have given a lot to see one of those previous teams win it all, this is the team I want to win it all.

The negativity of loudmouth NFL pundits toward Josh Allen, in particular, is the reason.

Everyone thinks this team is in a rebuild. They criticize Josh Allen, saying he has no weapons and will suffer a huge drop in production, not to mention claiming he is overrated; a ridiculous statement. They claim the Bills defense, as well as the offensive line, are greatly weakened by the players they lost in the offseason. Many are betting on the Jets or Dolphins to win the division, as well as the Bills to miss the playoffs.

This infuriates me. Not because all bad things can’t happen, but because the data back up doesn’t suggest such a decline.

Nevertheless, it makes for a perfect story.

The forgotten, rejected team. The QB that so many people disrespected. The fans who deserve it more than anyone else.

For Josh, the MVP award is literally sitting in front of him. The way the commentators describe the Bills receivers as a Division 2 college group, when they are not, has him perfectly prepared to “rise above” and win the MVP award this season. That would be awesome, but I want it all.

I want to throw the disrespect back in the haters’ faces in a year where they think our team is dead and our QB is hopeless when in fact there is no reason to think that.

This is a perfect story for the NFL. Make it happen, Bills.