Mike Desmond / WBFO News
There was a sense of hope, steamy breathing and gradually rising noise as Buffalo Bills fans began to fill a blocked-off area of Chippewa Street in downtown Buffalo Sunday evening. Fans were willing to brave the cooling temperatures to support the Bills and Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.
As several of those interviewed suggested, this was a quintessential Buffalo event and fans had two giant screens on which to watch the game.
There was such enthusiasm before the game. Nathan Mikoll spoke of the lean decades of the football team. The last time they did this, I wasn’t alive. So this a first for me, Mikoll said. I got to witness my first Bills game in person last year, Dec. 29. They played the Jets, kind of phoned it in because it was before the playoffs. So Bills Mafia has taken off. Might as well start watching.