A 'Squirrel' saved Bills' Josh Allen before win over Browns

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen received a neighborly helping hand ahead of Sunday's 31-23 win over the Cleveland Browns. 

The snowstorm that caused the NFL to relocate the Browns-Bills contest from Buffalo to Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions, left a plethora of the white stuff on Allen's driveway and potentially threatened his ability to make the team's flight to Detriot scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Enter Dave Winter, a retired farmer from Orchard Park affectionately known as "Squirrel" who told NBC Sports' Peter King how he saved the day using a John Deere tractor with a massive bucket on its front. 

"I said to my neighbor Norm, who was there, 'You need a path blown through?' He said, 'I don’t know, ask that guy.' Well, I don’t know that guy, an older gentleman, but he says he went to school with my cousin, and so I asked if he needs help here and he says, 'Sure!' So I did the driveway, cleared a good path there, and I get up to the garage and the door opens and Josh [Allen] is standing there," Winter explained via a conversation detailed in King's latest "Football Morning in America" piece. "Probably the whole thing took a half hour. Got out, shook his hand. Told him, 'Good luck tomorrow.'

"I introduced myself. 'Dave. Dave Winter. When you think of snow, think of me, Winter.' I says, 'We got that red machinery shop, the farm just down the road.' Looked like he was in a hurry. Didn’t have time to chit-chat. So that was it."