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Bills' brilliant trick play becomes a footnote as magic turns to misery for Buffalo

It had a chance to be the play that made all the highlight reels, the moment that turned the Bills ' season into a magical, fate-filled run to glory.

Instead, it becomes a footnote.

The Bills faced fourth-and-27 on Thursday night, down four to the Houston Texans , game on the line. And they called for some trickery.

Josh Allen lofted a pass about halfway to the marker to Joshua Palmer, crossing the field right to left.

Crossing just in front of Palmer, left to right, was Khalil Shakir.

Palmer flipped the ball to Shakir, a backward lateral, a bit of a hook-and-ladder, and Shakir was off.

Shakir raced past the first-down marker, Buffalo still in business.

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