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It's Not Easy Being A Buffalo Bills Fan

But we always have next year right?

Haley Case
Dec 13, 2016
University at Buffalo - SUNY
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It's Not Easy Being A Buffalo Bills Fan
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The Bills have the longest playoff drought out of any team in the NFL. Even crazier than this, they actually have the longest current drought out of any major sports team in North America, and that includes baseball, basketball, hockey, and football. After 16 seasons, the Bills haven't made it past their regular games in the 21st century.

So while this time of the year is usually filled with joy for the holidays, it is usually a much different case for Bills fans. We start the NFL season filled with hope and cries of "this year being our year," sure we will finally win the title of Super Bowl champs that our franchise has never seen. And then usually after a few weeks those hopes turn a little bit more realistic, with the belief that we will at least break the streak and make the long eluded playoffs. But finally December rolls around and the chances that we will even make the playoffs dwindles down to somewhere between 0-10%.

Our high expectations for this season are all but gone, but one thing Bills fans are is resilient. We already start looking forward to the next season before this one even finishes. Calls for coaching and QB changes are ever prevalent in the hopes that we can finally bring Buffalo the winning combination it needs. Each year brings a lot of disappointment for the Bills Mafia, but as hardened and tough Buffalonians we can handle it. We've lived through four Super Bowl losses in a row and we deal with one of the most brutal winters in the country but the Bills are one of the things we can all rally behind. So maybe 2016 wasn't actually our year, but we always have next year. Or the year after that. Or the year after that. (Just one Super Bowl win before I die please).

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