‘It has been 30 years since the Bills lost the last of their four straight Super Bowl defeats. For most of those many years, they were searching desperately, sometimes comically, for a franchise quarterback who could be at least a vague approximation of Jim Kelly. And now here was Allen, transformed after a shaky couple of seasons into a boss-level version of Buffalo’s Hall of Famer, throwing the ball all over the place, making huge completions in high-stress situations, and occasionally running the ball himself like a freight train with failed brakes.’