Bills fans, believe it or not, your team does play a football game this Sunday. With the whirlwind of excitement surrounding a new coach for next year, you may have forgotten.

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a team that the Bills are surprisingly familiar with. Though they play in the AFC South, the Jaguars have met Buffalo in four of the last five seasons; a little unusual.

Last season, we all remember the glorious fade toss delivered by Trent Edwards to James Hardy to seal the victory in Jacksonville to start the Bills at 2-0. How long ago that seems now.

That's not why I object to being a Jags supporter. The Bills have actually had success against the Jaguars winning games in 2003, 2006, and 2008. The loss in 2004 roots my dislike for a second team from Florida.

Let's set the scene. The Bills are entering their third season with Drew Bledsoe behind center. After a disappointing start to the Bledsoe era, Bills fans, including yours truly, were pumped to break, what seemed at the time to be, a playoff drought. We're looking at 10 years now.

The Jaguars come to town on opening day, and the game proves to be a defensive battle. Jags quarterback Byron Leftwich struggles mightily throughout, converting on only two third downs, while matching that total in interceptions. With the game seemingly won, the Bills allow a seven-play, 80-yard drive to set up fourth and goal on the seven with four seconds remaining. Leftwich lobs a ball in the back of the end zone to then-rookie Ernest Wilford. He outmuscles three Bills players to secure the touchdown and the win as time expires. Talk about heartbreaking.

This one one of the first times I witnessed such a colossal collapse live...boy, I sure didn't know what I was getting myself into.

At the time, the loss wasn't deemed significant, occurring in the season's first week. But the Bills finished 9-7 that season, one stinking game out of the playoffs. If that pass falls incomplete, we aren't talking about a decade hiatus from the post-season.

That single game itself, I feel, gives me enough reason to cringe whenever I hear the name Jacksonville Jaguars. Sure we paid them back with wins recently, and have suffered countless crushing defeats since, but that game stings more than any other based on the simple fact that the Buffalo Bills would have been in the playoffs had they won that game. Reading "Bills" and "playoffs" in the same sentence is strange, isn't it?

Many of the Bills' other last-second losses have gone, in hope of a playoff berth down the road. This game was a sure thing in hindsight, and one play determined the outcome.

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CHRIS TRAPASSO