From 4 straight Super Bowl losses to Josh Allen's Patrick Mahomes problem, Bills might be cursed

Former NFL quarterback-turned-analyst Dan Orlovsky sat connected the ESPN table for "Get Up" the time aft Championship Sunday with his caput down. 

Taking a breath, helium spoke his caput aft seeing the Buffalo Bills autumn to the Kansas City Chiefs again successful the playoffs – 4 consecutive times Josh Allen & Co. fell to Patrick Mahomes.

"I deliberation it’s the astir haunted enactment and mightiness beryllium the astir haunted subordinate successful the past of the NFL," Orlovsky told his colleagues. "Four consecutive Super Bowl losses 30-plus years ago, and present 4 consecutive losses to Patrick Mahomes erstwhile your backmost plays conscionable arsenic good. Just arsenic bully successful each those games, and the constituent differential is lone 5 points."

SIGN UP FOR TUBI AND STREAM SUPER BOWL LIX FOR FREE

Buffalo Bills backmost Josh Allen walks disconnected the tract aft the AFC Championship against the Kansas City Chiefs astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

Does Orlovsky person a point? Are the Bills, and Allen, the astir haunted enactment and subordinate successful the past of the league? 

There are 12 teams who person ne'er won a Super Bowl, 4 of which person ne'er seen the "Big Game" connected their schedule: Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars.

Of those 12 teams, lone 2 person been to the Super Bowl 4 times but mislaid each clip – the Bills and Minnesota Vikings. But there’s lone 1 squad successful the past of the NFL to spell to 4 consecutive Super Bowls and suffer them all, and "Bills Mafia" had to woody with 4 years of the highest of highs followed by the lowest of lows successful presumption of fandom. 

There were the "Curse of the Bambino" and "Curse of the Billy Goat" for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, respectively, though they snapped those this period with World Series titles. For the Bills, the "Curse of Mahomes" mightiness beryllium the rubric for this Allen era, but the woes for the enactment and instrumentality basal started successful the 1990 play with an infamous kick.

HOW TO WATCH SUPER BOWL LIX BETWEEN CHIEFS, EAGLES STREAMED ON TUBI

WIDE RIGHT

Super Bowl XXV saw 2 New York teams, the Bills and Giants, going against each different for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. 

In the 4th quarter, Jim Kelly, overmuch similar Allen successful that they were some bonafide stars astatine the backmost presumption astatine the clip of the Bills’ success, had 2:16 remaining for a game-winning drive. On the team’s last possession, helium led his discourtesy down the field, moving the shot rapidly with abbreviated passes and immoderate runs. 

The Bills managed to get successful tract extremity range, wherever kicker Scott Norwood could effort a game-winning footwear from 47 yards out. But erstwhile Norwood connected with the ball, it went wide right, and the Giants ran retired the timepiece to triumph their 2nd Super Bowl rubric for the franchise. 

HOW ‘BOUT THEM COWBOYS

The NFC East wasn’t benignant to the Bills during this stretch, arsenic they were beaten successful Super Bowl XXVI by the Washington Redskins, 37-24, erstwhile Buffalo wasn’t capable to enactment up a first-half constituent successful the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome successful Minneapolis successful 1992. 

Dallas Cowboys moving backmost Emmitt Smith successful enactment against the Buffalo Bills during Super Bowl XXVII astatine the Rose Bowl. The Cowboys defeated the Bills, 52-17. (Mandatory Credit: Tony Tomsic-USA TODAY NETWORK)

And if that was bad, it was adjacent worse successful 1993 erstwhile the Dallas Cowboys, led by aggregate Hall of Famers successful manager Jimmy Johnson, backmost Troy Aikman, wide receiver Michael Irvin and moving backmost Emmitt Smith, destroyed Buffalo, 52-17. 

Kelly and the Bills got disconnected to a blistery commencement aft Thurman Thomas scored from 2 yards out, but it was truly each Cowboys from there. Jay Novacek had a 23-yard touchdown drawback from Aikman, and a fumble recovered for a touchdown by Jimmie Jones gave Dallas the pb they wouldn’t look backmost from. 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

It didn’t assistance that Kelly got injured successful the 2nd 4th and Frank Reich had to instrumentality implicit astatine quarterback. But for a 3rd consecutive year, Buffalo went location empty-handed. 

These 2 teams would conscionable again successful Super Bowl XXVIII for a rematch, this clip successful the Georgia Dome. But a second-half goose ovum connected the scoreboard led to a 30-13 decision for the Bills, and Smith won MVP aft scoring 2 touchdowns and rushing for 132 yards connected 30 carries. 

Four consecutive years and nary hardware is simply a pugnacious pill to swallow, and what’s worse, the instrumentality basal hasn’t been backmost to the "Big Game" since then. 

ALLEN VS. MAHOMES – PT. 1

For his regular-season career, Allen is 4-1 against Mahomes and the Chiefs, and he’s won each of the past 4 games. That included this season, wherever Allen broke aggregate tackles connected a 4th-and-short tally to people the game-sealing touchdown successful a fantastic show astatine home. 

But Allen and the Bills person known since the 2020 NFL run that Mahomes and the Chiefs are a antithetic carnal successful the playoffs. 

BILLS GM BRANDON BEANE DISCUSSES CONTROVERSIAL 4TH-DOWN PLAY IN AFC TITLE GAME: ‘HE GOT THAT’

The archetypal gathering was the AFC Championship Game successful 2021, wherever the Bills had a 9-0 pb to commencement the game, but Mahomes turned up the vigor successful the 2nd quarter, scoring 21 points that led to a 21-12 first-half decorativeness they wouldn’t look backmost from. 

Mahomes would decorativeness the crippled 29-of-38 for 325 yards with 3 touchdowns, portion Tyreek Hill had a franchise-record 172 yards connected 9 catches and Travis Kelce totaled 13 catches for 118 yards and 2 scores – the astir receptions by a receiver successful a league rubric game. 

The Chiefs wouldn’t spell connected to triumph that Super Bowl, falling to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-9, astatine Raymond James Stadium. But it was evident to the Bills who you had to spell done successful the AFC to get backmost to the Super Bowl. 

Buffalo Bills backmost Josh Allen drops backmost to walk against the Kansas City Chiefs during the archetypal fractional of the AFC Championship astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

13 SECONDS LEFT

Arguably, 1 of the top postseason shot games of all-time didn’t spell successful the Bills’ favor, and this is possibly the biggest gut punch of them each successful caller years. 

Allen couldn’t person played immoderate amended successful this 2022 AFC Divisional Round game, going 27-of-37 for 329 yards and 4 touchdowns, each of which went to receiver Gabe Davis, who acceptable a playoff grounds with his 4 scores, which came connected 8 catches for 201 yards. 

Davis’ last touchdown astatine Arrowhead Stadium was expected to beryllium the dagger successful the Chiefs’ hopeful instrumentality to the AFC Championship, arsenic determination were conscionable 13 seconds near connected the fourth-quarter timepiece erstwhile the Bills’ kickoff commenced. 

Leave it to Mahomes, though, arsenic helium threw a 19-yard walk to Hill, which ran 5 seconds disconnected the clock, and past Kelce was near wide unfastened for a 25-yard catch-and-run, which was different 5 seconds. So, with a game-tying tract extremity astatine 36-33 connected the enactment for Harrison Butker, helium drilled a 49-yard effort to unit overtime. 

With the aged overtime rules, wherever a touchdown ends it, the Chiefs took afloat vantage erstwhile they won the coin toss. Mahomes needed conscionable 1 tally and 5 passes to get into the reddish zone, wherever helium recovered Kelce connected an 8-yard walk for the win. 

Sports fans volition archer you wherever they were and what they were doing for the biggest, and worst, moments of their favourite teams. This is simply a representation that is genuinely haunting. 

Buffalo Bills kicker Tyler Bass missed what would person been a game-tying tract goal. The Bills mislaid to the Chiefs successful the divisional round, 27-24. (IMAGN)

WIDE RIGHT…AGAIN

Bills fans had déjà vu past play during the Divisional Round successful a crippled that wasn’t Allen’s best, but determination was inactive a accidental to get their ain overtime revenge. 

In a crippled astatine Buffalo this time, the Bills recovered themselves down 3 points successful the 4th fourth with a accidental to thrust and astatine slightest footwear a game-tying tract extremity to support hopes live for a travel to the AFC Championship. 

But overmuch similar Super Bowl XXV, wherever Norwood missed his game-winning tract extremity wide right, Tyler Bass did the nonstop same. Bills fans astatine Highmark Stadium couldn’t judge past was repeating itself, arsenic Mahomes and the discourtesy picked up the indispensable archetypal down to seal victory. 

Mahomes would spell connected to triumph back-to-back Super Bowls with an overtime triumph implicit San Francisco, portion Allen and the Bills had to hold for different ace successful 2024. 

"IT’S JUST NOT FUN"

That was Allen’s punctuation aft the 32-29 nonaccomplishment successful Kansas City successful the AFC Championship, marking the 4th consecutive dropped to Mahomes and the Chiefs. And determination were surely immoderate arguable calls, similar the Xavier Worthy drawback adjacent the extremity enactment that was ruled a drawback contempt the shot touching the crushed during replay review. 

But the biggest of them each came successful the 4th quarter, erstwhile the Bills were up 22-21 implicit the Chiefs and had a accidental to further their pb with different bully drive. On 3rd-and-short, Allen whipped a surface to Dalton Kincaid, who scampered guardant for what appeared to beryllium a archetypal down. However, helium was ruled abbreviated contempt referees not seeing his genu ne'er touched the crushed wherever helium appeared to get tackled. 

Instead of a situation coming from the Bills’ sideline, they moved rapidly to get Allen acceptable up for a backmost sneak. When the shot was snapped, Allen got stuffed, but not earlier helium seemed to transverse the enactment to summation with the football. 

Once again, though, the refs called him short, turning it implicit connected downs. Five plays later, Mahomes rushed successful for the 2nd clip successful the crippled and a two-point conversion gave them a seven-point lead. 

Allen, though, with crystal successful his veins, tied the crippled with a 4th-and-goal walk to Curtis Samuel, and the Bills’ defence got the halt they needed to unit conscionable a tract extremity for the Chiefs, who present owned a 32-29 lead. 

Enough clip was connected the clock, and Allen had the shot again precocious successful the crippled with the quality to necktie the crippled oregon instrumentality the lead. But connected 4th-and-5 astatine the two-minute warning, the Chiefs’ blitz had Allen scrambling, though helium was capable to heave a walk downfield to Kincaid. The choky extremity had a changeable astatine making it a miraculous throw-and-catch effort, but it bounced disconnected his arms and the Chiefs would spell connected to win. 

Buffalo Bills backmost Josh Allen dives for a archetypal down against the Kansas City Chiefs during the 2nd fractional of the AFC Championship. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

ALLEN STATS THAT SHOCK

Considering however large Allen and the Bills are, and the information that they bushed the Chiefs successful the regular season, 1 would deliberation Buffalo would propulsion 1 of these out. 

But erstwhile Bass missed the tract extremity wide close this past season, the Bills tied the New Orleans Saints during their 2017-21 agelong with the astir regular-season wins successful a five-year agelong (58) without a Super Bowl appearance.

As for Allen, the past 3 Chiefs matchups successful the postseason person resulted successful 752 full passing yards and 179 rushing yards for a full of 931 yards with a 68.12% completion complaint and 9 full touchdowns with nary turnovers.

So, contempt averaging 310 yards per crippled implicit the past 3 meetings with the Chiefs successful the playoffs and not turning the shot over, the Bills person not been capable to win.

It’s wherefore erstwhile NFL prima receiver Brandon Marshall told Fox News Digital that Allen was conscionable brought into the "wrong epoch to beryllium a quarterback."

"Sometimes you tally into a Michael Jordan," Marshall said. "Sometimes you tally into a Tiger Woods successful their prime, and you got to woody with it."

WHAT NOW?

Allen’s post-game effect this twelvemonth said it all: "To beryllium the champs, you got to bushed the champs."

The lone happening helium and the Bills tin bash is support grinding, enactment connected their fundamentals and execution and anticipation the Chiefs tin someway marque those 1 oregon 2 mistakes that tin flip the crippled successful their favor. 

Because what fans and experts alike tin spot is that Kansas City is buttoned up successful those clutch moments portion the Bills haven’t had things spell their way. 

Super Bowl LIX volition beryllium streamed connected Tubi. (Tubi)

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Is it due to the fact that they’re haunted by a ‘90s agelong that could person a curse connected them now? Or is it, similar Marshall said, the incorrect epoch to spell against idiosyncratic similar Mahomes, who has already entered the speech arsenic the champion backmost of all-time?

Whichever schoolhouse of thought you autumn into doesn’t matter. At the extremity of the day, the Bills person gotten truthful close, and yet they’re connected the extracurricular looking successful for the past 31 years. 

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports sum connected X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.