Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight: I Didn't See Nelly Anywhere

St. Louis, Missouri...Budweiser, the Cardinals, the Mississippi, and the Gateway Arch, which is the symbolic gateway to the West, and apparently the gateway to the Rams end zone.

I've seen the Bills in Kansas City, Cleveland and Detroit, and they miserably lost all of those games. I was hesitant to go...Walking out of a stadium in the gear of the away team, after the home team just drubbed them is the second worst feeling in the world (Michigan losing to Ohio State is the worst, but I'm getting used to that happening).

$12 tickets on eBay makes the decision to go see the Bills on the road a lot easier though. The Rams are pitiful, first pick in next year's draft bad, but still there's that thing...it's ingrained in all of us Bills fans. "They're not this good...this is the kind of game they lose, no matter how good they've looked in the last few weeks..." So with that, we entered the Edward Jones Dome, much like the 15 to 20,000 other Bills fans who were in St. Louis Sunday.

It's nice enough inside, but like most domes, there is absolutely no personality, no character to it. Watching the Bills warm up was pretty incredible though. They go AT IT, even in warm ups. Marshawn doesn't stop moving, Stroud hits anything in his sight, and I would not F with Poz.

The game starts, Trent Edwards runs for his life for the entire first half, and they go into halftime down 14-6. Uh oh. The Bills took the kickoff to start the second half, ran it down their throats, and you got the feeling it was over, even though they were still down a point. They shut down Steven Jackson, made Trent Green look like, well, Trent Green, and the second half was a party for all of the Bills fans in attendance.

Walking out, the bitter Ram fans gave us the old, extremely creative "at least we won a Super Bowl." OK -- they also lost a Super Bowl after being a two touchdown favorite...And fuck, the Super Bowl is ONE GAME...We lost four in a row; fantastic, but, for five years the Bills were incredible. That's five years of playing nearly 20 games a year, 20 games in which (other than Super Bowls) we were absolutely un-fucking believable to watch play. That's over a hundred games. I would not trade that for one Super Bowl -- no way. Not to mention that the Super Bowl they won was in the deadest of dead eras for the NFL. It was the pre-Brady/Manning era, it was the post-Elway/Marino/Young era. It was Steve McNair against Kurt Warner...come on now.

It was amazing, despite a few bitter, drunk Ram fans. St. Louis was temporarily Buffalo for a good chunk of Sunday. It was incredible.