Bill Brasky
06-21-2006, 01:52 PM
Wide right.
No goal.
It’s painful to be a Buffalo sports fan.
The Bills lost four straight Super Bowls, a streak which commenced in Super Bowl XXV when kicker Scott Norwood’s 47-yard field goal attempt in the dying seconds of the game faded meekly to the right of the uprights.
The Sabres lost the 1998-99 Stanley Cup finals in triple overtime in the sixth game of the series on home ice when Brett Hull of the Dallas Stars slid a puck past Buffalo goalie Dominik Hasek while his skate was clearly in the goal crease, which was against league rules at the time.
The Braves, the city’s NBA franchise, left town and eventually became the Los Angeles Clippers.
OK, so maybe the last thing wasn’t all bad.
Still, rooting for the home team in Buffalo is all about the suffering. It is the close-but-no-cigar town of professional sports.
Buffalo hasn’t won a title in any of the major sports since the Bills beat the San Diego Chargers 23-0 in the 1965 American Football League championship, a league which ceased to exist in 1970.
But, as Reggie Dunlop emphatically told sportswriter Dickie Dunn in the cult hit Slap Shot, that situation is about to change.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13426956/
No goal.
It’s painful to be a Buffalo sports fan.
The Bills lost four straight Super Bowls, a streak which commenced in Super Bowl XXV when kicker Scott Norwood’s 47-yard field goal attempt in the dying seconds of the game faded meekly to the right of the uprights.
The Sabres lost the 1998-99 Stanley Cup finals in triple overtime in the sixth game of the series on home ice when Brett Hull of the Dallas Stars slid a puck past Buffalo goalie Dominik Hasek while his skate was clearly in the goal crease, which was against league rules at the time.
The Braves, the city’s NBA franchise, left town and eventually became the Los Angeles Clippers.
OK, so maybe the last thing wasn’t all bad.
Still, rooting for the home team in Buffalo is all about the suffering. It is the close-but-no-cigar town of professional sports.
Buffalo hasn’t won a title in any of the major sports since the Bills beat the San Diego Chargers 23-0 in the 1965 American Football League championship, a league which ceased to exist in 1970.
But, as Reggie Dunlop emphatically told sportswriter Dickie Dunn in the cult hit Slap Shot, that situation is about to change.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13426956/