Still love them Packers!!!
Posted on 01/19/2021 6:30:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Bills fans “are people with American flags and dogs,” said ESPN commentator Dominique Foxworth back in December of 2020. Now they’re people whose team is in the AFC championship as well.
For the first time since 1993, the year in which they got blown out by Troy Aikman and the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVIII, the Buffalo Bills are headed back to the AFC Championship. It is not merely a miracle or lucky season. The team deserves it. Through the engine of 24-year-old quarterback Josh Allen and veteran wideout Stefon Diggs, the team has risen to the challenge offensively. The Bills defense has been lights out as well, shutting down shifty Lamar Jackson prior to his unfortunate injury in the Divisional round on Saturday, and intercepting a ball for a touchdown in the third quarter for 101 yards.
The doubters have continued to be proven wrong, but not everyone is thrilled about Buffalo’s ascent into NFL royalty. In December of this past year, ESPN analyst and commentator Dominique Foxworth made ridiculous comments about both Josh Allen and fans of Buffalo.
“...The people who are telling me that Josh is the second coming and Josh is better than everybody are people with American flags and dogs and skulls and crossbones... If you just take a dip into their tweet history, it’s some really concerning retweets and likes...,” Foxworth said on ESPN program “The Right Time with Bomani Jones.”
Outspoken conservative radio host and Outkick founder Clay Travis had much to say about Foxworth’s prior nonsensical and charged comments. On his website, writer Joe Kinsey accused Foxworth of trying to “bait in the Bills fans and create a feud as a ratings play.” Foxworth’s ad hominem toward Allen in particular was ridiculed by several Bills players, in light of Josh’s gracious charity in the name of his grandmother that has raised over $1 million for John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital.
“Hold up bruh...we not jus letting this slide, yeah?! @espn this what we on now in the sports world!? @foxworth24 we gotta do better my brother...cause this ain’t it,” tweeted Bills cornerback Jordan Poyer.
Foxworth is not the only commentator who has continued to be in a state of disbelief over the success of Buffalo this season. In the Divisional round, four ESPN experts picked the Ravens and the spread misguidedly hovered at -2.5. For a #2 seed that put up 6,343 total yards this regular season, the second most points per game — and for being the second ranked overall offense in the NFL behind Kansas City — this is a shaky spread. Comparatively, Baltimore has put up the 14th least yards in the league ahead of the abysmal Detroit Lions.
Outside New Era Field in Buffalo, there are various dives and shops. Some establishments proudly display Buffalo Bills flags, others adjoined to both an American flag and a Blue Lives Matter one. The city is electric. Fans gather at City Hall to celebrate and high five. Bocce Pizza has a waiting list for orders. These are people proud to be from the city of Buffalo — to participate in a football tradition that stems back to 1960. It is freezing cold and the wind gusts all around, but fans line up to take pictures clutching their gear in front of the stadium on Sunday, Jan. 17 — the day after the game.
Now the Bills will head to Arrowhead stadium to face off against Patrick Mahomes (likely), who just suffered a concussion, but a nonetheless deep and tremendously talented team. Surely the doubters will be loud and vocal for this contest, but one thing is for certain. If Josh Allen can lead Buffalo in a remarkable upset against one of the most high-powered offensive attacks the game has ever seen, the ridicule has to be put to bed. In place of it, if not already given Allen’s ability to pluck the Bills out of obscurity and generations of circling the wagons, there must be a recognition of the legitimacy of the small-town saga turned dynasty.
Should be a good game Sunday.
Screw the un-American NFL. I can’t understand how any American would watch them.
Who cares about these professional sport teams. Adults being paid very good money to play games.
Probably won’t be on my playlist next weekend but good for them. Buffalo is a miserable place. I was forced to go there by the in-laws one winter only to realize the calendar read March. A barren, desolate frozen hell on earth. Throw ‘em a bone if it keeps them warm for one shining moment. Give them something to cheer about. Lord knows they need it.
American flags and dogs? In other words, domestic terrorists. 😱😒
western NY is changing their area code to reflect the last Bills sb run. Going from 716 to 044.
Difference between the Buffalo Bills and a dollar bill? You get 4 quarters from a dollar bill.
But there was tragic news from Buffalo this morning. Scott Norwood never got over missing that field goal which would have won the first SB against the giants. This morning he pulled out a 45 and put it to the side of his head and pulled the trigger. Fortunately, he missed it 3 feet wide right.
Go Bills!
The only miserable thing about Buffalo and the area is its stranglehold by liberals. Our Bills Mafia fan base is world wide and this season has been a distraction from the madness.
We love our team ....and the weather!
Go Bills!
Boy I Love Losing Superbowls
Well I watch them. My choice. Whats remarkable to me is that you would actually read AND comment on the thread.
Just dropped in to piss on the NFL one more time.
Ah yes - Quoth the Ravens: ‘NEVERMORE!’
Ugly - if Lamar wasn’t being a hot dog ...
Buffalo. Erie. Whole different world than the Marxist hellhole NYC
GO BILLS ! Win one for Jim Kelly !
Now that’s funny ! I remember that kick like yesterday
( philly guy Eagles 🦅 Fan here. ). Delerium In 18. Best game ever
Now that’s funny ! I remember that kick like yesterday
( philly guy Eagles 🦅 Fan here. ). Delerium In 18. Best game ever
I wouldn’t say they were wrong. Josh Allen’s career before this season was marked by running hot and cold. Sometimes he was awesome, sometimes he was awful. They gave him a good supporting cast, and coached him. His bottom end is now so-so. A much better swing.
I tried to watch the games this weekend and tried to get into it but I couldn’t. I’ve loved watching NFL football since I was a kid, but the past few years of anti-Americanism have pretty much destroyed my interest in the game. Just don’t care anymore.
I would only like to see Brady win another ring, but I am not watching the games.
Still love them Packers!!!
Remember that the x-files Smoking Man ordered that Buffalo will never win the super bowl.
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