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Bills confront sobering reality: Their fans love to get very drunk before games

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The young man stood above a keg, can of beer already in hand.

He began chugging from a hole punched in the bottom of the 12-ouncer at the same time brew began flowing through the tap. He finished the “shotgun” before an entire cup could be poured, producing a celebratory spike.

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His black T-shirt read, “Bad Choices Make Good Stories.”

Not if you're the Buffalo Bills.

Pregame spectacles of parking-lot inebriation such as this one prior to last week’s matchup against the Jets have become just as much a part of the franchise’s sad-sack lore as seasons without a playoff appearance (16 and counting).