No Buffalo sports team has ever won a universally recognized championship in a major league. Fans may be familiar with three events that went against Buffalo: “Wide Right,” “No Goal,” and “Home Run Throwback.” But they serve only as highlights for a century-long, deeply engrained “Sports Curse” affecting every professional team in Buffalo sports history. The significance and expansiveness of The Buffalo Sports Curse is showcased by thirty-two historical Buffalo sports events: the close calls, blown calls, injuries, deaths, nefarious back-office dealings, maladies and weird happenings at just the wrong times that all kept the “Curse” alive.​

About the Author

Greg Tranter is a prominent Buffalo sports historian, curator and collector with expertise in Buffalo Bills history. He has written two books, “Makers, Moments & Memorabilia: A Chronicle of Buffalo Professional Sports” (2019) and “RELICS: The History of the Buffalo Bills in Objects and Memorabilia” (2021). He is also the author of numerous articles on both the Bills and Buffalo sports history that have appeared in The Buffalo News, Gridiron Greats magazine, The Coffin Corner, Sports Collectors Digest, Shout! and Western New York Heritage magazine. He is the Assistant Executive Director of the Pro Football Researchers Association and in 2018 received its Bob Carroll Memorial Writing Award and in 2022 its Nelson Ross Award for “Outstanding recent achievement in pro football research and historiography.”