‘In the past 30 years the city has lost four Super Bowls, two Stanley Cup finals, and an NBA franchise. They’ve suffered through Scott Norwood’s Wide Right, a 47-yard field-goal attempt that might have felled the mighty New York Giants in the Bills’ first Super Bowl appearance. They’ve been beaten with Brett Hull’s foot in the crease in the 1999 Cup final on a goal that should have been disallowed but was dubiously permitted. They’ve lost factories and jobs, the city’s downtown core no buzzing metropolis.’