ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Remember when Gisele Bundchen complained after a Super Bowl loss that her then-husband, Tom Brady, couldn’t throw the ball to himself?
Josh Allen’s fiancée, actress Hailee Steinfeld, has a sparkling new ring on her finger and a special man who did.
Allen scored two touchdowns on a single play Sunday night. He scored a couple others, too. And he barely played in the fourth quarter.
As six inches of snow fell inside Highmark Stadium, the Bills annihilated the San Francisco 49ers 35-10 to clinch their fifth straight AFC East championship with five games left over. The Bills’ performance was dominant aside from special teams, but Allen once again asserted himself as superhuman.
“Sunday night and snowing in Orchard Park, anything can happen,” Bills right tackle Spencer Brown said. “When you got 17 on your team, the MVP of the league, he can pretty much do whatever he wants, and we’re OK with it.”
Buffalo coach Sean McDermott agrees, albeit begrudgingly, with that anything-goes sentiment. He said he closed his eyes with about six minutes left in the third quarter, with points virtually guaranteed off a first-and-goal scenario, then Allen’s beseeching gaze signaled receiver Amari Cooper to pitch the ball back to him in the slippery snow.
“I was, like, ‘Oh, geez, here we go,’” McDermott said.
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