At halftime of the Buffalo Bills vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers game, roughly 12,000 households in Erie and Niagara counties were still without power following the windstorm that pummeled Western New York on Saturday.
Given Bills fans' morale after the Tom Brady-led Bucs jumped out to a dominant 24-3 lead at halftime, several joked – well, they may not have been joking – that they wished their power was still out.
Kinda wish our power was still out. This game is already a disaster. https://t.co/czXPjGH6QE
— Mike Feigin (@mike_feigin) December 12, 2021
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Our Twitter crowd-source attempt to learn how local football fans were navigating power outages to still watch the Bills game was met with miserable responses.
"They aren't missing much." "Your lucky" (sic). "Don't bother." "Better not to watch."Â
Just got power back. Bills got this lol - oooo maybe a bit to negative
— Christopher Brunner (@theBRUNNERshow) December 12, 2021
My power’s been out for 24+ hours and I’m at my parents’ house to watch the #Bills game. Maybe I should just go home.
— Melissa Holmes (@2MelissaHolmes) December 12, 2021
Roughly 90,000 customers were without power Saturday evening, combining the reports of NYSEG and National Grid. The majority of households saw their power restored late last night or before the game kicked off at 4:25 p.m. Sunday.
