Football

The annual series between the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots has become eerily similar to what went on between the Bills and Miami Dolphins in the 1970s, when Don Shula’s rock-solid franchise dominated Buffalo completely, posting a perfect 20-0 record against the Bills for the decade. Watching the Bills try to compete with New … Read More

The Buffalo Bills’ mid-season report card this year is certainly not going to be as positive as it was at the halfway point of 2011, when the team was 5-3 and in a 3-way tie for the lead in the AFC East, and the future appeared to be bright. Unfortunately, the Bills won only one more game … Read More

After picking 12 winners out of the 14 NFL games played in week 9, my record for the season now shows 69 correct and 34 wrong, which calculates to a .710 winning percentage. A lot of NFL head coaches would like to have a winning percentage like that. Here are my week 10 picks: Indianapolis at Jacksonville … Read More

The best thing you can say about the Buffalo Bills’ performance on Sunday, against a far superior opponent in the Houston Texans, is that they didn’t get completely embarrassed, as they were earlier in the year against San Francisco and New England. The Texans won 21-9, but honestly, even though it was only a 12 … Read More

After a mediocre week of picking 7 winners and 7 losers, my season record now stands at 57 games correct and 32 wrong. Here are the week 9 picks: Kansas City at San Diego – the Chargers have gained a reputation as massive underachievers over the years, but Kansas City has major problems, including a … Read More

After a couple of so-so weeks predicting NFL games, week 7 turned out to be a good one, as I nearly pulled off perfection, picking 12 correct winners out of 13. The lone incorrect pick was the Buffalo Bills’ loss to Tennessee, which really should have been a win, but the Bills managed, once again, … Read More

Sunday afternoon’s NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans was certainly an entertaining one, but in the end proved to be just another heartbreak for the Bills’ fan base, as they handed the Titans the ball and basically gifted them the winning touchdown, as Tennessee won, 35-34. For the second week in a … Read More

I wound up week six with a mediocre record, picking 8 winners out of 14 games, pushing the overall mark for the season to 38 correct and 24 wrong. Here are my week 7 choices: Seattle at San Francisco – this week’s Thursday night game is a big divisional clash, between 2 teams that have built … Read More

When Marv Levy coached the Buffalo Bills in their 1990s Super Bowl years, he used to regularly say “it’s hard to win a game in the National Football League, regardless who the opponent is.” After two straight historically bad performances, the Buffalo Bills needed to find a way to not just win, but try to … Read More