Buffalo Bills vs Tampa Buccaneers

A recap

I need to come clean.

Last week I offhandedly mentioned that I had placed a large wager on the NFL game that I was watching, and, as you all thought, objectively recapping.

“Umm, I think you’ve got a little bit of bias stuck in your beard?”

Yeah, you could say that.

Look, it was an unbelievably stupid mistake, and I want to personally apologize to all of my readers.

You’re here for the honest detailing of a professional football game because you know the most loyal of fans will attempt to rewrite history. You know they will embellish certain facts and events in their less than faithful re-tellings. And so you, in turn, have trusted me to keep the historical record. “Just the facts, ma’am.”

And I ruined that trust. I failed you.

And to top it all off, I ended up losing the bet. Half my salary gone. And now I’m in bad shape. Dire straits, as they say.

I’m up shit’s creek without a paddle. It’s bleak.

Anyway, from now on, I’m always going to be honest with you. That is my solemn promise.

And with that, let’s get into tonight’s recap—the Buffalo Bills vs the Tampa Buccaneers.

Look up the definition of “polar opposites” in Webster’s dictionary and it might as well just read, “Buffalo NY and Tampa FL, geographically.”

But guess what? You could say the same about their football teams. These are two teams that are about as far apart as you can be talent-wise.

And here’s a little irony for you: It’s cold in Buffalo but this team is hotter than the surface of the son. And on the flip side, it’s hot in Tampa but they’re colder than the surface of the moon.

The beauty of sports in one paragraph. But let’s get real—there are two teams going in opposite directions.

And they didn’t change course tonight. I’d love to lie through my teeth right now and tell you that we saw one of the greatest upsets of all time, but I made a promise and I won’t falter. I have to earn back that trust. And I hope you don’t shoot the messenger here but let’s go ahead and dub this game the “status quo game” because nothing changed. A lot of the same from both of these teams.

With the one of exception of halftime, which was one of the weirder halftimes I’d ever seen. Josh Allen and the entire Bills offensive line came out and did a few scenes from the 3rd act of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

The audience was riveted. And it really was a tremendous performance all around, but it was just odd. Can’t quite put my finger on it. I wasn’t expecting it, that’s for sure.

See you all next week!