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Buffalo Won’t Give Up the Bills Without a Fight

May 6, 2014   ·     ·   Jump to comments

Thanks to the NFL RedZone channel and fantasy football, NFL Sundays are less provincial than ever. It doesn’t matter if the Jaguars are 1-10—Jeff in Jacksonville is too busy watching the RedZone’s quad, hoping Cincinnati’s Giovani Bernard can punch in a touchdown for his fantasy squad.
That’s not going down in Buffalo, though. Bills games still run that town despite the team's 14-year playoff drought. Watching the Bills is Sunday worship; heading to The Ralph is going to church.
Exaggeration? Slightly...perhaps.
Peter Tasca, along with his partners Phil Gangi and Stephen Butler, filmed the documentary Almost a Dynasty: A Fan Story about the Bills’ glory years in the early 1990s. He paraphrases what a prominent Buffalo sports columnist once told him: “You can’t sit around a bar on Sundays and talk about the Buffalo Philharmonic.”
Win or lose, this doesn’t change.
Gangi and Tasca are at Pearl S...

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