Sunday afternoon, whoever bothers to show up at Gillette Stadium, and anyone who chooses to spend three hours watching on TV, will be watching the Buffalo Bills play the New England Patriots in a game neither team cares about winning.
This doesn’t happen all too often in the NFL, but that’s the situation in the regular-season finale between two teams that are separated by a whopping 10 games in the AFC East standings.
Would the players and coaches on both sides like to win? Well, yeah, winning is always better than losing. If you buy $5 worth of lottery tickets, you’d like to win something, even if you just get your money back, right?