Week 3 of the 2025 season. Consecutive game number 85. And not just any game, a back-to-back divisional matchup under the lights in Orchard Park, NY, where the Bills extended their own streak: 13 straight regular-season home wins at Highmark Stadium.

Thursday night games are their own animal. Normally, I say game day starts the second I wake up, but this one felt different. I flew into Buffalo late Wednesday night, close to midnight, and Thursday started less like game day and more like any other workday. Coffee, laptop, hotel Wi-Fi, clocking in early, getting things done. But by 3 p.m., I logged off, shut the laptop, and was pulling into the stadium lot by 4.

From there, it felt like game day for real. Mafia knows my carpool partner well: “Torpedo Dan.” And if you don’t, you’ll never fo

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