Last Thoughts On Last Night's Bills Game

Really, this is it. I'm ready to move on now.

Seinfeld once suggested that, with the way players change teams so much, we are really rooting for laundry. And for the most part I can't argue with that point.

But I think it's more a matter of simple arithmetic.

See, last night's loss was especially harsh because of the almost impossible chances the Cowboys overcame just to win the game.

Normally, I love watching the nearly mathematically impossible. It just might be the very thing had keeps my interest in sports alive. Except when it victimizes my team.

As fans, we'd like to think that winning vs. losing is a 50% likelihood. Thus, when one thinks of the chances of losing four straight Super Bowls, it would look like the chances are 1 out of 16 (1/2 ^4) and we were victims of mathematical absurdities.

But deep down we also know the other factors influencing those odds--talent or coaching disparity, injuries, home crowds, etc--and that it's rarely an even 50% chance of winning.

But likewise, it's never a 0% chance either. And when you get to watch a team overcome what were said to be long shot odds to win, it makes the win all that much sweeter.

The Bills were :02 away from doing just that. And up to that point they put all the odds on their side but still lost.

And that's what makes this such dirty laundry to have to air out today.