The Frozen Price Of Buffalo Fandom
The Bills are good!
Yes, the offense isn’t spectacular. Yeah, Josh Allen hasn’t thrown for 300 yards yet. Yes, the team has faced a decisively below-average strength of schedule. Playing the AFC North and NFC East will bolster anyone’s record (cough cough PATRIOTS). But that doesn’t change the fact that the Bills are winning games. They are winning thanks to gritty defense grinding down teams. They are winning by controlling the ball. They are winning because Frank Gore personally wills it to happen.
Bottom line, no matter how skeptical you remain of the Buffalo Bills, clinching a wildcard spot in week 15 means you don’t suck. The Bills have earned the 5th seed and will likely keep it going into the postseason. Considering the obnoxious juggernaut that is New England plays in the same division, clinching a wildcard is basically winning a normal division anywhere else. Also let’s be real: the 5th seed is a seed of honor. It always goes to the best team that couldn’t quite win a division. The 6th seed is the joke consolation prize for some mediocre team that farted its way into some extra wins. Like the 2017 Buffalo Bills.
But I find it hard to not be impressed by what Sean McDermott (or as I call him, slightly less angry looking Bill Burr) has been able to do with this team. The Bills are respectable. They do what good teams do: they find ways to win despite adversity, despite doubt, despite negative nancys like me who want to make the easy jokes. I am obviously pulling for them in these playoffs, and the Chiefs are like the only other AFC team I would want to see succeed (unless the Titans grab the consolation seed).
So good for the Bills, and kudos to all those damn nutjobs in the Bills Mafia who waited in the cold to greet the team getting off the plane. I know there isn’t much to do in Buffalo, but that’s still beyond what I’d want to do. It was -2 degrees out there, so there is a non-zero chance that someone got frostbite just to yell WOOO at Josh Allen. Gotta respect that. More like the ChillsMafia.
Big thanks to all the Bills fans who sent me photos on twitter the other day so I could just kill them off in the comic. I wish I had room for everyone who sent a photo, but I have limited time and space.
:: pushes glasses up a bridge of nose with pinky:: well, ACTUALLY, The pats have a better winning percentage outside of their division than with.
>Slightly less angry looking Bill Burr
HA!
I think if you paint him blue he looks like a comic book villain, or something out of sin city.
HA!
As it stands right now the Browns have beaten three playoff teams and lost to three teams picking in the top ten. I haven’t paid much attention, but when was the last time someone managed that?
Try looking up trap games, you’ll hopefully come up with some numbers. Based on how often we hear “It’s a TRAP!” I’m guessing it’s probably not unheard of for a horrible team to beat on 3-4 quality opponents who were looking past them, and then lose to the mediocrity that prepared for them accordingly. Especially when you consider inter-divisional games are between opponents that know each other so well, records don’t mean that much.
New England did it last year
thats quite a disparity between 5th and 6th seeds
Still not as bad as the difference between the #2 and #3 seeds back when the NFL only had 3 divisions per conference.
The fans were even too frozen to throw a “Personal massage” device on the tarmac.
Well, as a Bills fan it’s been a hell of a season. Yes, this team has had a soft schedule but this has been a franchise haunted by playing down to bad teams and losing and rising to make it interesting to good teams…and losing.
This team has its limits. They are in for a rough ride against elite teams in the AFC like the Ravens and Chiefs, never mind the NFC. But playoffs two times in three years after 17 years without playoffs and 20 years without a double digit win season…it’s nice to see progress.
That’s a really well done drawing of a jet in the first panel, dude.
it was so detailed i was honestly looking for some kind of context-specific bit of visual humor
but nope just a really detailed passenger jet
Definitely is! Glad I’m not the only one that noticed that. Being an airplane nerd, I can’t help but remark that I believe it is an Airbus A320-200. A -214 or -221 maybe? Well drawn, especially for a series that has zero to do with airplanes.
I’m really pulling for Buffalo to somehow win their division. They made Brady look awful back in week 4 and have the potential to take it one step further this Saturday with a win. After that all they need to do is beat the Jets and pray that Miami somehow pulls off their annual BTPB (Beat The Patriots Bullshit)
Sorry, Dolphins already lost in Miami. They suck in Foxboro.
Yeah, since Dan Marino retired/Bill Belichick got hired, the Dolphins have only won in Massachusetts 3 times (Belichick’s first year in 2000, 2006, & the Wildcat game in 2008 when New England were 21.5 point favorites). The Dolphins are horrible in New England. Closest they came was in 2016 when Miami nearly came back from a 28-0 halftime lead to lose 31-24 after Tannehill’s hail Mary from just past midfield fell down.
The Titans? Really? The Baby-Eating Sister-Fuckers? Come on Drew!
The jet is well drawn, but the fact you clearly looked up photos of our airport and didn’t just draw a generic one is what sets the quality abive average here.
If that isn’t the most wholesome webcomic you ever saw featuring several frozen corpses.