Ep. 5 - The Drought Ends: 17 Years of Waiting

December 31, 2017. The Buffalo Bills haven't made the playoffs since 1999. Seventeen seasons. The longest active drought in American professional sports. Then Andy Dalton, a Cincinnati Bengals quarterback with no connection to Buffalo, throws a 49-yard touchdown pass in the final minutes of the final game of the season. And an entire city loses its mind.This is the full story. How a franchise spent nearly two decades cycling through quarterbacks, coaches, and false hope. The years that broke fans and the ones that teased them. The Sunday afternoon when Bills players huddled around a locker room TV watching a game they couldn't control, and what happened in bars and living rooms across Western New York when the clock hit zero. We cover the Dalton donations, the tables that didn't survive, and why this moment meant more than any single win ever could. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.