The mythical story of the Buffalo Bills could be told like this: Their fans are crazy and live in the snow. They shovel this snow out of their stadium to help their godforsaken(倒霉的；被遗弃的) football team, which, until recently, was most famous for losing the Super Bowl four times in a row(连续地) in the early 1990s. According to one theory, those failures fed into Timothy McVeigh’s derangement(精神错乱) before he planned and executed the Oklahoma City bombing. The franchise was an utter disaster, for the most part, until the 2018 arrival of an otherworldly(超凡的；非尘世的) quarterback named Josh Allen, who has exhibited many heroics. But he has yet to(尚未) bring his team to the Super Bowl.
布法罗比尔队的传奇故事可以这样讲述：他们的球迷很疯狂，生活在雪地里。他们铲掉体育场里的雪，来帮助那支倒霉的橄榄球队——直到最近，这支球队最出名的事还是在1990年代初连续四次输掉超级碗。有一种理论认为，这些失败加剧了蒂莫西·麦克维的精神错乱，最终导致他策划并实施了俄克拉荷马城爆炸案。在很大程度上，这支球队曾是一场彻底的灾难，直到2018年一位名叫乔什·艾伦的非凡四分卫到来，他上演了许多英雄时刻。但他还没能把球队带进超级碗。
Four of his playoff runs have ended with haunting(令人难忘的；萦绕心头的) losses to the quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. The others were cut short(使提前结束；中断) in unromantic(不浪漫的；平淡无奇的) fashion—most recently by one of the sloppier performances of Allen’s career, against the Denver Broncos.
他的四次季后赛之旅都以令人难忘的失利告终，输给了四分卫帕特里克·马霍姆斯和堪萨斯城酋长队。其他几次则平淡无奇地早早结束——最近一次是艾伦职业生涯中较为糟糕的表现之一，对手是丹佛野马队。
From the outside, you might ask: “Can he really do it?” But in Buffalo, the words Josh Allen come out like(说出来像……) “Good morning.” On a Sunday afternoon in September, I sat down in an ancient tavern(酒馆) near the Buffalo River to eat chicken wings and watch the Bills’ division rivals, the New England Patriots, play the Pittsburgh Steelers. An older man joined me and asked, unprompted(主动的；未经提示的), if I liked Josh Allen. “Who doesn’t?” I said. He revealed that he was wearing a Josh Allen shirt under his sweater, said that he would get another one for me out of his car, and then did.(他透露自己毛衣里面穿着一件乔什·艾伦的T恤，还说要从车里再拿一件给我，然后他真的去了。)
从局外人角度看，你可能会问：“他真的能做到吗？”但在布法罗，乔什·艾伦这个名字说出来就像“早上好”一样自然。九月的一个周日下午，我坐在布法罗河附近一家老旧的酒馆里，吃着鸡翅，观看比尔队的分区对手新英格兰爱国者队对阵匹兹堡钢人队。一位年长的男士坐到我旁边，主动问我是否喜欢乔什·艾伦。“谁不喜欢呢？”我说。他透露自己毛衣里面穿着一件乔什·艾伦的T恤，还说要从车里再拿一件给我，然后他真的去了。