‘For all his success, though — he was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002 — Kelly did not deliver the city what it wanted most. I asked him if he will be bothered if the Sabres beat the Bills to the city’s first major championship. He sounded earnest. “I don’t think of it as ‘I wish we were the first team to do it,’ but I do wish we would have done it,” he says. “I look at the New England Patriots, how they won two Super Bowls by kicking field goals by the same distance as ours. I wish we would have won a long time ago. I don’t care if the Sabres beat the Bills. Let’s just win a championship.”‘