As someone who was born in Buffalo to parents who were also born and raised there, I really didn’t have much of a choice when it came to my football fandom.

I first became aware of the Buffalo Bills in 1968, the year I turned six years old, and while that was not a good season to start paying attention as it was one of the worst teams in franchise history, nonetheless, the Bills were Buffalo’s team, so they were my team.

I can recall being either in my own house, or at any number of relatives houses, on Sunday afternoons watching the Bills’ road games on television when they were in their final years in the old American Football League. Home games were rarely on TV back then because there was a thing called local blackouts, and if a game didn’t sell out at least 72 hours before kickoff

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