Maybe this felt like the year for the Bills, an emotional season that would culminate in a long-awaited Super Bowl. GregBishopSI on the Bills, and the Super Bowl contender who rolled into Buffalo with other plans
The script, it seemed, had been crafted. This was late-January playoff football in Buffalo. This was snow swirling, traffic jamming, andThis was at the end of, after the blizzard to end all blizzards and the racist mass shooting at a grocery store and Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest.
Here's how Buffalo’s moment evaporated into the snowy night: The Bengals scored a touchdown on their first possession. The Bills went three-and-out. The Bengals scored a touchdown on their second possession. The Bills went three-and-out. Throughout, Joe Burrow looked like Joe Montana: calm, cool, efficient and dangerous, the best player on the field.
Would it change? Maybe! The Bengals again moved the ball down field. They would finish the first two quarters with 275 yards. They would average 6.7 yards per play. They would convert 60% of their third downs. At the two-minute warning of the first half on Sunday, the big screens at Highmark Stadium flashed to a suite. With the snow and the glare from the lights, it was difficult to see anything on the screen, let alone anyone. But suddenly, the picture became clearer. There was Hamlin, holding up both hands, through which he formed a heart. To say the stands erupted doesn’t do the moment justice. All of Buffalo stood and turnedfrom the field.
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