The latest Buff News fan article - The New Bills Normal

[Kelly the Dog]

Here is the latest installment of the Fan article. Please read. Comment. Share. Argue. Pick nits. Have spearing contests in the parking lot. Rinse. Repeat.

 

https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/voice-of-the-fan-it-might-feel-abnormal-but-embrace-the-new-bills-normal/article_b1dca5ca-0316-11eb-a15a-6f7f809fda0a.html

 

An excerpt...

 

"This year, this time, the Bills were the ones that got the call at the end of the game we needed. Sure, to most of our eyes, it was at least clearly illegal contact and an automatic first down. 

 

But it has been decades since we got that call and won that game. We have been told in this entire century, and witnessed from the opposite sideline and grandstands, that good teams make their own breaks. We never, of course, got them in a generation, because we just were not one of those good teams.

 

Well, seemingly, we are now. 

 

The old Bills were behind by a ton, made a ridiculous comeback, and eventually, inevitably, lost on a late four-minute, length of the field drive, complete with giving up third-and-22s, and getting the late controversial flag on fourth down.

 

They were us and we were them. 

 

But Allen’s Bills late-game heroics are the New Bills Normal. He has 10 comeback wins in 31 starts, with eight in the fourth quarter. In his last 14 games, he has accounted for 33 touchdowns and thrown three interceptions, one of which wasn’t even an interception.

 

We no longer have Captain Checkdown, we have Captain America. The Bills have an actual Big Game Field General that is not a field or game manager. He's George freakin’ Washington.

 

No more moral victories, we have amoral wins, where entire other cities complain “we wuz robbed.” Yes, the Bills new normal feels abnormal because the #BillsMafia has been missing it for so long. Decades. But it is different this year.

 

They are us and we are them."

 

Edited September 30, 2020 by Kelly the Dog

[smuvtalker]

Damn, that was a great read!!  Thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end....still chuckling at Taron Johnson "might still be chasing down Rams receivers" 😆😆

 

Well-written piece my friend, and well worth using the last of my 10 free articles to read.  Keep em coming! 👍

[Chandler#81]

Love the flair! Outstanding job, Dog!

[clayboy54]

Excellent work Kelly! Your best one yet. Are you trying to get a job at the News? LOL

[Casey D]

That was just excellent writing!!!  Thanks for the read.

[NoHuddleKelly12]

[Kelly the Dog]

1 hour ago, clayboy54 said:

Excellent work Kelly! Your best one yet. Are you trying to get a job at the News? LOL

No. Not at all. But I wouldn't be against it. Thx.

[I'm Spartacus]

You've come a long way since "Captain Rock Crystal and The Galápagos Turtles"!