Thoughts of a Buffalo Bills Watcher

First, a joke. What do the Buffalo Bills and the Reverend Billy Graham have in common? They can both make 65,000 people jump to their feet and yell “Jesus Christ”.

The annual exercise in frustration, the Buffalo Bills, resumed right where they left off last year. They played a truly frustrating game, they had chance after chance, both on offense and defense, to put the game away, and they just couldn’t do it. So, despite a new coach, despite many new players including last year’s first round draft choice Willis McGahee, despite the fact that Jacksonville needed to convert three fourth downs on the final drive to win, the Bills wound up losing on the last play of the game. And to make things even more frustrating, the play on which Jacksonville won required their receiver to just barely get his feet down inbounds, and then the Bills fans had to wait while the referees reviewed the play. When the final decision was announced, the silence at Rich Stadium was deafening.

It may be a long year for us Buffalo Bills watchers.