The prevailing
question is WHY do Buffalo sports teams always
come up short in bringing home a championship to
the city of Buffalo?
Every
team from the Bills, Sabres, and even long
departed Buffalo Braves have showed promise,
inspired hope and raised expectations only to
ultimately disappoint their ever so loyal fans.
Now there has been banners raised on a lower
level with glorious juggernauts such as the
Buffalo Stampede in Roller Hockey in 1994, or the
Buffalo Bandits LaCrosse Championship of 1996.
The
Buffalo Bills captured back to back AFL titles in
1964 and 65. However this was when the AFL was in
it's infancy and got little if any national
attention. Several years
later the young upstart AFL merged with the
established NFL and this ushered in the Super
Bowl Championship.
Since
that time Buffalo sports fans have gone through
one devastating loss after another from both of
their two remaining major sports teams. (The
Sabres being the latest to disappoint) Here at BuffaloCurse.comwe have pondered
this perplexing subject and have found a possible
answer to the WHY. It can be linked to a major
event that took place in the city of Buffalo over
one hundred years ago.
The
city of Buffalo was the site of the Pan American
Exposition in 1901. This was considered a major national
event, and a huge victory for the
city to host it. This of course was the first
time Buffalo had such a national
spotlight. President
William McKinley was invited to the Exposition
and arrived for the opening days events. On
September 6, 1901 the president was shot twice by
Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Exposition. Doctors
thought McKinley would recover, and he
convalesced at the home of the expositions
director in Buffalo. However little more than a
week after he was shot, he died of his wounds on
September 14, 1901.
This
of course was a major blow to a city trying to
make a positive name for itself with it's first
big national event. Ever since this event
whenever the city of Buffalo is in a national spotlight, bad things
happen! Now naturally
the rebuttal to this Voodoo speculation would
be...why has Dallas not been affected by some
curse, or even Washington DC for that matter?
Perhaps because McKinley was a Freemason and to
most religious groups, Freemasonry is viewed as
an occult or "evil power".
Perhaps
what the city of Buffalo needs is some sort of
exorcism held at the site of the assassination,
which was at that time the Temple of Music on
Exposition grounds. At this point most Buffalo
sports fans would piss on a spark plug if it
could turn things around! One things for sure,
the Buffalo Curse lives on. And
regardless of the reason or cause, the poor
suffering souls who continue to sell out games,
buy merchandise, pay for football and hockey on
satellite services..all are forced to acknowledge
that something HAS
to be going on here!
The infamous NO GOAL of
1999 sending the Sabres to defeat
in the Stanley Cup Finals.
"Wide
Right"..enough said!
And look what happened to Bills great
OJ Simpson, could this be Karma or Curse?
