Since the start of the team in 1960, Maceo Skinner, a Bills fan, was sitting on a bar near the city of Buffalo on Tuesday. From the outside, the temperature was hovered in a single digit, and the lake effect was called a whistle to the side through the picture window.
Inside, the supporter is warmed as a strong heater, a rich drink and the main theme of the city. As everyone in the bar knew that all in the western New York, the bill was still alive in the National Football League playoffs, and even the weather emergency did not cool their time. .
Skinner said, “We endured a lot. “Buffalo needs this.”
There are many sports teams with long supporters, such as Lions Fans, Pirates Fans, Viking supporters and Mets, Jets or Cleveland Guardians. All of them insist on certain levels of misery.
But it is different in buffalo.
Skinner was born in the city in 1945 and sold beer at the old lock file in the 1960s and remains loyalty despite all the pain. To explain it, he carefully extracted the relics from the wallet. It was a ticket to Super Bowl XXVII, a bit sticky and slightly worn around the edge.
He valued it for 32 years. A souvenir of a game that was destroyed by the Dallas Cowboy (52-17). Buffalo’s third straight super ball loss. It is the past where the fans of the bill remain.
Like most Buffalonians, Skinner is expected to someday, probably the bill will come back. They will play patriarchs in Kansas City on Sunday, and if they prioritize, they will finally go back to the Super Bowl in search of the ultimate profits of the ambiguous first NFL title and decades of disappointment.
Lisa Corrin, a therapist who grew up in Buffalo and moved to Boston, said, “This means more to buffalo than it is almost elsewhere.”
The bill and their community share large ties. Under undervalued cities have often been immersed in, and Buffalo stirs friendly and hard citizens who have endured industrial abandonment and snowburns for half a century. Very practical possibilities of the statue I want to see my favorite team play live.
But when the city tries to reaffirm itself, some residents have been parallel to the bill and have been competitors in the last few years, with poor results in the last few years. Now people accept the slogan “Billireve”.
Perhaps Trite is probably a fundamental truth behind Peter Dow, an educator born in Buffalo in 1932. Today, where the bill was once synonymous with Buffalo’s decline, they reflect the hopes of the city.
“The bill shows the desire to rebuild Buffalo’s desire and build a proud future. “We are not there yet, but we are working hard like the bill.”
As a sign of resurrection, he pointed out the stabilization population, the relatively low cost of living, the prominent art scenes with the prominent Philharmonic, and of course the bill.
Even in a bad time, the bill anchored at least a community in football and hockey to be neatly obsessed with a major league village.
Roger Ross, a New York Ovid, about 130 miles east of Buffalo, was in the village for business on Tuesday. He had the opportunity to buy more Bills Merch before Sunday.
“This bill is not just a soccer team.” “The bill is everything here. They are living things in this area. ”
The blood was anemia for most of them. They never won the Super Bowl despite the four painful journey from 1991 to 1994 before the merger with the NFL in 1964 and 1965. He spent three wins from 2000 to 2018.
Enter Josh Allen.
The bill wrote allen in 2018, led the team to playoffs for the last six seasons and appeared as a perennial candidate who won the most valuable player award in the league.
Alan is considered to be humble and humble who loves himself in the western part of New York by accepting this area more than just. He grew up in California farmland I played college soccer In Snowy Wyoming, he actually made KINFOLK to the locals.
Allen told reporters after the practice on Wednesday, “In general, when people think about buffalo, I think about what’s going on now and the eyes and cold. “You must be very hard to stay in this place.”
ALLEN, who arrived almost seven years ago, arrives in a city with a hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip -hip. Many people say it is now “Josh Allentown”, which can serve as a wide range of brands in West New York.
In the yard and playgrounds, the children do a touch football on the 17th Allen uniform and the grandmother wears at the watch party. When the snow rises, the blue and red fans borrow hands and shovels, digging the stadium for $ 20 per hour to get food and hot drinks.
Bills Flags in the suburbs surpasses the US flag, and in every daily conversation, the phrase “Go Bills” acts as a larger buffalo’s “Aloha”.
Buffalo Lawyer Kate Roach said, Kate Roach, a Buffalo lawyer who has a Biles season ticket since the first game 65 years ago. “’Go Bills’ is used for ‘Hello’, ‘Goodbye’ and ‘Have a Good Day’. I am receiving a call with other lawyers, 9 out of 10, and the phone ends with ‘Go Bills’. ”
During Tuesday, the fellow barber of Brandon Richardson and Ready Barbershop talked.
Richardson, who grew up in the New York Rockport, about 35 miles east of the canal, said, “This is a great equalizer. “Sometimes it feels too divided. But we keep all living here and people come in and talk about the bill. It pulls all together. ”
Like many American cities, Buffalo is experiencing racism. But Larry Stitts, the owner of the Golden Cupee Shop in Jefferson Avenue, agreed that most people have something in common. He said the city is still healed from 10 black racist murders by a white gunman in the supermarket in the 2022 Golden Cup.
“They were in the whole neighborhood,” he said. “One thing you can talk about Bills is there when you need a community.”
Stitts, who had a 20 -year Bills season ticket, also mentioned that the team was the only NFL franchise in New York. Jets and Giants play in New Jersey.
But even low jets have things without bills. They won the Super Bowl once in 1969. I rarely feel it recently.
Stitts said, “It was long enough.” “Nobody is more valuable than we. And Josh will take us there. ”
