Bills-Chiefs: Buffalo's Rout of Chiefs Rings Hollow

The NFL is supposed to be easy. Feel good when your team wins, feel sad when your team loses. For the torturous life of a Bills fan, fandom is so much more complex. If it were as easy as it’s supposed to be, the pounding the Bills placed on the Chiefs wouldn’t come off as empty and hollow. See, right or wrong, Western New York’s fragile ego lives and dies through the local professional sports teams. The Sabres are nice to have around, and beloved in Buffalo, but 80 percent of the country could care less about hockey, and the NHL is small potatoes compared to the revenue and interest the NFL generates.    The NFL is not just America’s pastime, but one of America’s biggest businesses. It’s the NFL where Buffalo gets to show a national audience a local identity. When the Bills play well, fans aren’t just proud of the team, they carry a incomparable civic pride.    The Bills started the season hot. They beat some bad teams, jumped ... (link)