When the call from the Buffalo Bills came through, Matt Prater was writing up plays for a football team in Arizona.

“It wasn’t a high school, it’s the youth San Tan football league,” Prater said. "And I was coaching 9- to 11-year-olds.”

The team’s first game is Sept. 27, and Prater’s son Pax plays quarterback. There was plenty to do, until kicking duties called.

Shortly after, he was at the airport, boarding a cross-country flight.

Prater, 41, officially joined the Bills on Thursday, had his first practice Friday, and he kicked the 32-yard game-winner as time expired in the 41-40 thriller over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night.

Sound exhausting? To do it all, he landed in Buffalo from Arizona around 6:30 or 7 a.m. on Thursday, as he joined the Bills practice squad. Then on Friday,

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