JACLYN SPIEZIA
Special to the Lampoon
As all of you know, Buffalo, New York is home to the Buffalo Bills football team. What some of you may not know is that this is not a fact to really be proud of. Well, at least it hasn’t been in almost a decade.
The Bills, somehow still supported by a faithful fanbase, always seem to disappoint. And so, it was not a surprise when the Bills tragically lost their first two games at the start of the season. An optimistic fan might argue that those two games could be turned around if they came back and won two games.
However, being that both teams were teams that the Bills were projected to win against, and that the two games after were ones in which they were projected to lose, many Bills fans started to lose hope. Except the Bills actually won the next two games.
That optimistic die-hard fan must be excited now that the Bills are at a .500 percent, but let’s take a moment and think.
When was the last time the Bills made it to the playoffs? Oh, yes — 1999. Now that the Bills have built up this momentum after winning two games that weren’t projected, people may believe they have a chance. But do they really have a chance?
We don’t want the public to get too excited at what could have been a lucky fluke. We also don’t want the Bills to get too excited and embarrass themselves after such a great turnaround. We believe that the Bills should just call it quits now before they get ahead of themselves and disappoint as usual.
It’s not because we don’t believe in them … well, actually, it is, but it’s also because time and again, they have failed us. Ending things in a tie is better than continuing on false illusions of a chance at the playoffs.