A lot of teams’ fans in the NFL complain about not winning the Super Bowl for, say, 20 years.
Now imagine the Buffalo Bills’ pain.
If you are reading this you probably know the Bills’ burden of never being able to win a Super Bowl since the team was founded. You might also know that we went four times in the early 90s, and as if by a limitation by God, the Bills somehow never won anything. So starting in 1995, we started to really give, not earning a playoff berth until 2017 with Josh Allen.
Buffalo sports were saved (presumably) with the arrival of Josh Allen from Wyoming and helped (along with big Shawn) to bring this team up from “the local football team” to a “respectable competitor.”
But what it seems that no Bills fan wants to admit is that even the heroics that Josh Allen and crew have performed for our team, they are just not as great as the antics of Jim Kelly and Co.–we haven’t even made it past the AFC championship, NOR to the final parts of the playoffs most recently!
Our “Super Bowl Ready” posse have gotten even more “Super Bowl Ready” than ever. In general, throughout its history starting around ‘95-’96, the Bills are still on a downward trend. Just because our better-Bills make it to the playoffs, doesn’t mean we’re not the most disappointing team there. Each year our playoff endurance falls further south, and we as their fans (and the NFL in general) think we’re the greatest team to ever exist. Talk about flattery, but you guys need to look further beyond friendly banter and into our true issue–We are the most self-centered team in the league.
And history shows. The early 90’s teams’ best players said it themselves: “We were overconfident.” If it takes a team four tries usually, it usually means in the NFL that you’ve already been there multiple times and your best player is now having a good café chat with retirement–“No, not yet, but WAIT! Just one more try…” (cough cough Tom cough Brady). But with us, we were at our very peaks, and just like a house league soccer club, we forget everything the next game. Nothing speaks to this more than Josh Allen’s absolutely groundbreaking season this year: 14 turnovers, the most by a quarterback in the NFL. By the guy who completely saved us from the horrifying early 2010s.
It is evident that the Buffalo Bills need change. In fact, it is common sense.
It is also common sense that David did not have overconfidence in his play book for overthrowing tyrannical Goliath.
The Bills are not champions.
But they are in their heads.
