Chuck Klosterman recently wrote about how it would be better, in a bid for mythmaking immortality, if the Patriots lost the Superbowl. And perhaps within this is a way to make the best of the four straight Superbowl losses the Bills endured in the early 1990’s. For many Bills fans who came of age around that time, our fandom was forged out of these back-to-back losses. Victories would certainly have been sweet and welcomed. Nonetheless, recognizing our Bills as a tragically flawed hero deepened our devotion to the team and drilled those memories into our minds.
So to all those fans who take every win for granted, we Bills fans can say that the losses have made us more aware of fallibility, and perhaps even made us a bit more human. Because, in extending the hyperbole a bit more, football at its best strives to be a microcosm of all of life, played on a small grassy theater-in-the-round.
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