‘This is life in a town with a tumultuous love for its football team, a community whose hunger to experience a can-it-ever-happen-championship is built on the fierce longing of generations. One element of that passion we annually share, almost as therapy, is the burning days-after analysis – the point by point, how-did-this-happen-yet-again review – when seasons of seemingly high promise come apart, which in Buffalo take up whole shelves in our mental libraries.’