If you, too, are feeling like a grab bag of emotions today, you might very well be a football fan like me who’s left questioning your decision to watch the NFL, your sanity, and the structural integrity of your couch.

I settled in yesterday for the first NFL Sunday of the 2025-26 season, feeling full of hope for both of my former teams: I played six seasons with the Buffalo Bills and three with the Atlanta Falcons.

In the early window, my Dirty Birds were down three to our arch-nemesis, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A nail-biter, classic divisional showdown. The Falcons were a field goal away from tying it with the clock winding down. It’s all on the leg of Younghoe Koo , the former Pro Bowler. Snap is good. Hold is perfect. WE GOT THIS!

Er, we did not “got” this. Wide right. The pain. Th

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