BUFFALO, N.Y. — People here are accustomed to this week’s weather, in which the roads are like bunny slopes and the flake-filled skies occasionally are illuminated by a flash of lightning followed by an ominous roll of thunder.
There’s a name for it: thundersnow, and sometimes the visibility is so poor you can see only a couple of car lengths in front of you. But Buffalo Bills fans, they can see all the way to New Orleans. All it requires is winning at Kansas City on Sunday in the AFC championship game at Arrowhead Stadium.
Although they have beaten the Patrick Mahomes -led Chiefs four times in the regular season, the Bills are 0-3 against them in the playoffs. To Buffalo fans, the Super Bowl seems so close, even though a good portion of them weren’t born, or old enough, to remember when their team last played on the NFL’s biggest stage. It was a historic run.
Four consecutive Super Bowl appearances from 1990 through ’93, and four consecutive heartbreaking defeats. The first ended on a moment so scarring it’s known simply as “Wide Right,” when Scott Norwood ’s final field goal attempt just missed its target from 47 yards and the Bills lost to the New York Giants 20-19. “I was sitting on the floor watching that kick,” said diehard Bills fan Ashleigh Dopp, who was in grade school at the time.
“I was so confused. I remember looking at my mom and asking, ‘What happened?’ And her face was just buried in her hands.” Even in a snowstorm, it’s easy t.
