I smoked 15 cigarettes during that game, seriously.
That is 5 cigarettes an hour.
I am not even counting the two that I had during my walk home from my buddies house in the cold rain/snow mix that further compounded my frustration.
The Buffalo Bills effectivley ended any hopes they had of making the playoffs today as they were defeated 10-3 by the hands of the mighty San Francisco 49ers.
Sometimes, I wonder why I still get excited about these games. Sure, I don’t go to many games anymore. There have been too many loses over the years in weather like today that have driven me to the comfort of a friends home where I can drink cheaply and smoke cigarettes without the fear of being ejected from my seats. Never the less, every Sunday I follow the same routine.
I am up by 9am no matter how late I was out the night before. I go to the corner store, buy a copy of the Buffalo News and purchase an orange juice. Sometimes this order is accompanied by a snack of some sorts. Usually though, I have little to no appetite as I anxiously await kickoff.
Every single Sunday for as long as I can remember this is what I have done.
Last night I had a friend offer me two tickets for the Miami game for $90. I told him that I was going to e-mail him on Monday letting him know if I would still be interested. I figure a drunken night before the Bills played their, up to that point, biggest game of the season that it was better not to fork over the money right away.
I am very glad I did not give him the money last night.
As anyone who has read this site for any amount of time knows, I am a big JP Losman supporter. That is not to say that I believe that he should have been starting at any point during the season, but became pretty excited when he came into the game. While Losman didn’t look terrible, the offensive coordinator, Turk Shonert, failed to use Losman’s greatest weapon, his arm.
I suppose that I can take solace in the fact the Lynch looked good. It is kind of hard to take anything away from this game when you lose 10-3 at home in November.
This game was depressing. There were calls that should have gone our way, the play calling was far from excellent, Edwards hurt himself.
I know it sounds silly, but I am almost happy that the Bills didn’t come back just for the fact that I would have to listen to QB controversy talk all week on WGR.
I wish that I had more to add about today, the truth is, I am drunk and sad. The Bills season is effectively over and I don’t know how to not care.
I will be at my corner store next Sunday morning, buying the paper, an orange juice, and getting ready for the Bills next home game, in Toronto.
Tags: 49ers/bills recap, Buffalo Bills, drunk, sad, San Francisco 49ers
December 1, 2008 at 2:19 pm |
That sucked, that was about as agonizing a 3 hours as you could imagine. Worse yet, I had to watch it at a bar with Dolphin fans because they didn’t show it in Syracuse because of the Giants game.
December 1, 2008 at 4:16 pm |
It was a horrific game. Cleveland and San Fran reeked of a Bills team who just doesn’t have enough care or heart to want to win a game.
Lynch is the bright spot but he is clouded by ineffective, and uninspired play calling.
It was like watching two teams failing miserably at a game of “who wants to lose more”.
Good take on that miserable game.
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December 1, 2008 at 6:44 pm |
I figure we have lost games like this before and I am still a fan. What the hell is another 50 years of this crap?
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