Five weeks after the Bills' 2018 season ended, Buffalo was brought to a halt for more than two days.
Some of the record-breaking cold that swept across the upper Midwest during the final week of January blew over Lake Erie and into western New York, churning up lake-effect snow and blizzard conditions that made driving difficult and flying nearly impossible.
The vast majority of the about 70 players who finished the regular season on the Bills' roster had scattered shortly after the Dec. 30 finale, making their customary exodus out of one of the NFL's harshest winter climates toward warmer weather and their families.