- My favourite TV show of all time was in its prime - NYPD Blue
- My childhood football team - The Balmain Tigers - was playing its final season after 92 years in the Australian Rugby League. They were the reason I chose to support the Buffalo Bills. Balmain lost two "deciders" in 1988 & 1989 (the second one with a minute left on the clock, which they then lost in OT) and, sadly, would never be champions in my lifetime:
The pain I felt that day was on a par with "wide right".
So when i learnt that Buffalo had lost 4 straight from 1990 to 1993, there was no other choice - I had to be a Bills fan!! I figured that tortured souls had to stick together.
And I guess that sort of makes it 6 straight losses for me. It's also not a stretch to say that I understood what it meant to feel like a Bills fan before Bills fans knew what it meant to feel like Bills fans!
The irony of the Bengals doing it for us brought additional tears to my eyes.
Apologies for the diversion, but i had to tell the story, on today of all days.