Broken Hearts...and Chairs.

When you picture a Sports God, what do you see? That's a rhetorical question because I'm going to answer it for you. I'm looking up and you know what I see? An old guy, peppered to very gray hair, depending on the stress level. A man who apparently once got food poisoning from the Anchor Bar and decided "ya know what, I'm gonna screw over the city of Buffalo - Hell, all of Western New York - along with every sports team that resides there, for awhile. Actually no, that's a waste...FOREVER." No other words are needed to describe this man. He could have 3 eyes, 7 noses and 1 toe, I could care less. He could be a genie or be able to grant me millions of dollars or be a beautiful single mid 20s blonde chick. I DON'T CARE ANYMORE.

I haven't written about the Bills game, or anything for that matter, for a few days now. I'll give you 3 options for why this might be... 1. He had so much work there was just never enough time to write a silly little blog because he would NEVER want a reason to procrastinate. Or 2. He was teaching the elderly to learn how to scuba dive. Or 3. He had collect pieces of his laptop, and his shattered hopes and dreams, from the street, conveniently located 2 floors down right outside his room (the one with the hole in the screen) after Monday Night.
Given those options it seems tough to chose a winner, but I think we all know which one it was. Yes, great choice, I do love the elderly.

Where to begin? Lets talk about the positives of the Bills 25-24 loss to the Patriots in front of a national audience on MNF in what would have been one of the biggest wins for the franchise in a decade .... ok now that the positives are out the way lets talk about the negatives. WHAT HAPPENED!! I was halfway through the email to my old roommate from Boston telling him "hahah did ya catch the game there buddy? You know, the game you were supposed to win by 30 but ended up losing by 11? Yeah that one. Tom - I am playing Like Carol - Brady looks TERRIBLE, and so do your chances of winning the AFC east this year." How STUPID can I be?!?! I should of known. Oh, wait I DID KNOW. Because as I sat there watching the Bills crumble like a dried out birthday cake, I wrote down on my pad, "How will they lose it this time?" Even I couldn't of guessed this one.

Bad things happen to good people. But hell, when does it stop?! It almost doesn't even affect me anymore! I skyped with my dad right after the game and we both had nothing to say. We couldn't even be mad. It's like we knew this would happen, we just didn't know how. I think we both actually laughed. Luckily I'm 26000 miles away or else we probably wouldn't be talking for a week. He just hates fixing holes in the wall, I don't get it.

As New England was thinking of ways to win the game, we were thinking of ways to lose it. And that's what it comes down to. Bad teams lose games they should win. Good teams win games they should lose. Bad teams know how to lose. Good teams know how to win. And as much as I would love to think of the Bills as a good team, you can't keep dropping these CLOSE games and consider yourself good. However, once they get over that hump, that's when things will change (I've been saying that for 3 years now). I'm not a big fan of moral victories, but the Bills did show a lot of positive things. Alex Van Pelt called a game good enough to win. Trent played good enough to win as well too. And Fred Jackson is a beast. Him and Marshawn? Scary. The Bills outplayed NE for 55 minutes. Embarrassed them actually. NE should have been up 20 and been already game planning for their Week 2 game against NYJ. And then reality came crashing down on everyone. I've read thousands of descriptions of the game from experts and fans alike, and it still makes me mad. JUST GO DOWN LEODIS.

No need to dwell on the past though. It was one game, and it's over with. If they come out firing against Tampa (which they should because it's at home and Tampa isn't quite NE), then they will be fine. It was a monumental loss, but it still only counts as one loss. It's one game.

Which means I'm fine with 15-1.