‘Sure, the Sabres are awesome to watch and follow — it’s Dahlinsanity — but like a parent with two kids, you cannot admit you love one more than the other, and there is an inborn need in most red-blooded Americans (and Southern Ontario Canadians) for pigskin, regardless of your hockey fetish. You cannot subsist for more than a month without your fix, your manna, your mafia. You need to hate someone dearly like you despise Tom Brady. Brad Marchand doesn’t cut it.’