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The Buffalo Bills kick off the 2022 season tonight in Los Angeles against the defending champion Rams and they do so with something they haven’t felt in quite some time – an overwhelming pressure to win. Not just the season opener, but the whole darn thing.
You know, the Lombardi Trophy and all that goes with that beautiful trophy.
The Bills, a team that hasn’t been to the Super Bowl since they went four straight times in the early 1990s, are the betting favorites to win it all this year. Ask anyone who they think will go to the Super Bowl and chances are they’ll say the Bills, unless the people you ask are fans of other AFC teams who have title hopes but realistically enter this season looking up at Buffalo.
And you know what I have to say about that? It would be pretty darn cool if the Bills and their insane fans went out and won the damn thing.
When I call Bills fans insane I mean that in the nicest way possible. It’s a total compliment. Bills Mafia and their table-breaking ways are some of the most fun fans in all of sports. For years they’ve been making the trek to their old stadium and rooting on teams that really had no chance of contending and seemed to have a really fun (and drunken) time doing it.
Now they have a very serious contender and they deserve to have all the fun in the world this fall and winter, rooting for a stacked squad led by a quarterback, Josh Allen, who seems to have all the weapons that will remind fans of those Jim Kelly days in the 1990s.
Imagine seeing those insane fans tailgating outside of the State Farm Stadium in Arizona before Super Bowl 57 in February? Super Bowl tailgates tend to be the lamest, most corporate places ever. If the Bills make it all I want to see is that guy getting covered in ketchup and mustard with fans going crazy around him.
While Bills fans are known for their partying ways, they’ve also done some really special things for their players and opposing players.
Remember the time they donated a ton of money to charity for then Bengals QB Andy Dalton after he clinched a playoff spot for the Bills with a win over the Ravens? They later gave him a standing ovation when he took on the Bills in Buffalo.
Last year they donated over $1 million to a children’s hospital after the death of Josh Allen’s grandmother.
And just last month Bills fans made huge charitable donations again in honor of tight end Dawson Knox’s brother after he died of cancer.
So yeah, the Bills will be a fun team to root for this year, even if you hate the Bills. This franchise has been through a lot of bad years (and four straight Super Bowl losses) but those bad years are over now.
Pass the ketchup, mustard, and Super Bowl dreams.
It’s football season. Finally!
Quick hits: Best Super Bowl bets… Rory McIlroy’s hilarious shot at LIV golfers… Rougned Odor’s ridiculous slide… And more.
– We know the Bills are the favorites but which other teams should you be thinking of betting on to win the Super Bowl this year? We have some thoughts.
– Rory McIlroy took a perfect (and hilarious) shot at LIV golfers before DP World Tour event.
– Baltimore’s Rougned Odor used a swim move to somehow avoid a tag and we can’t stop watching it
– This beautiful walk-off bunt by the Angels had MLB fans in absolute awe.
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