What job is the most repetitive, boring, and mundane of all jobs? Well in my short time on this earth I haven’t had many, but I have watched enough Buffalo Bills football to notice that the rhetoric for writers and broadcasters covering the team hasn’t changed for over a decade. The job of a Bills reporter is walk into One Bills Drive and report to the masses the intense and unrelenting misery that is associated with rooting for this team, as if to say: “hey, you picked them, not me.” After the Bills 20-13 loss on Sunday to Indianapolis it appears that the Bills are not backing up against, not staring down, and not really, really, staring down another playoff-less season, they’ve done everything but written the obituary and prepared the snacks for the reception following the funeral. At 4-7 winning out would make the Bills 9-7, which in this season may or may not be good enough to join the rank of teams that have caught lightning in a jar at least once in the past decade. Get r...
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December 01, 2012
