If you want a sense of just how much the Buffalo Bills mean to Vaughn Washington, here you go.
Washington survived a Covid-19 infection that brought him to the edge. It began with general weakness, with the absence of taste and smell. It quickly became so difficult to draw a breath that Washington asked his brother James for a ride to the hospital.
For 24 days that began in August and ended in mid-September, Washington was a patient at Buffalo General Medical Center, where he spent more than two weeks in an induced coma that he believes saved his life, within intensive care.