Remember last season on Curb Your Enthusiasm when Larry David opened a coffee shop—Latte Larry’s—to spite Mocha Joe? This is sort of like that.
Michael Mansfield who, if you haven’t guessed, is a diehard Buffalo Bills fan, went to extraordinary lengths to spite a neighbor who dared display a Jets flag in his vicinity. A Bloomfield, New York native (that’s about an hour-and-a-half trek to Bills Stadium in Orchard Park), Mansfield upped the spite ante by giving his house a fresh coat of red, white and blue paint in support of his beloved Bills.
“I didn’t think he was actually going to do it like this,” said Eric Jenson, the neighbor who ignited Mansfield’s fire by having the audacity to fly a Jets flag in Western New York, of all places. “But it looks good and we’ll have to find something else to do now.”
While some may see Mansfield’s admittedly creative act of pettiness as an eyesore, standing out like a sore thumb among the more conservatively-painted homes in the neighborhood, the new paint job has earned rave reviews among fellow Bills fans, who have voiced their support by honking whenever they pass it on Route 444.
Mansfield, who must have loved every second of Buffalo’s season-opening 27-17 victory over the Jets (much to the chagrin of Jenson, who probably wishes he had never put up that flag), seems to be reveling in all the attention his Bills shrine is getting. “I’m hoping it doesn’t stop until we win the Super Bowl,” Mansfield told the Buffalo News.
With Tom Brady finally out of the division, many, including a number of our local RDC writers, have pegged the Bills as favorites to win the AFC East, something they haven’t done since Jim Kelly’s heyday in the 1990s. Fresh off a career-high in passing yards (312), third-year quarterback Josh Allen will try to keep the train rolling for Buffalo when the Bills travel south for their Week 2 matchup against Miami.
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