The Bumbling Bills strike again.

I have seen my share of heartache over the years as a diehard Buffalo Bills fan.

Oh, Cleveland Browns' backer, you think your team is jinxed? I dare you to compile a list of foibles this rueful:

-- Dec. 15, 1985: Bills lead the Steelers 21-0 in 1985 with Bruce Mathison at QB before blowing the lead and losing 30-24 to finish 2-14.

-- Jan. 28, 1990: Wide. Right.

-- The next three Super Bowls: Thurman Thomas can't find his helmet. Jim Kelly can't keep a hold on the football. Thomas finds helmet, can't find a grip on the football. Four Super Bowls, four losses.

-- Jan. 8, 2000: Wade Phillips, he of the perpetual dumbounded look on his mug, benches Doug Flutie in favor of beach bum Rob Johnson. In Johnson's defense, he had the game won, except for ...

The Music City Miracle.

The Bills have not been back to the playoffs since, the longest such streak in the NFL.

Parody, Shmarody. Not in Buffalo.

-- Jan. 2, 2005: Needing to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers' backups and third-stringers to make the playoffs, the Bills lose 29-24. Backup to the backup, Willie Parker, runs for 102 yards on 19 carries.

This is perhaps the most embarrassing loss in Buffalo history.

-- Oct. 8, 2007: Buffalo leads Dallas 24-13 with 3:46 remaining and 24-22 with three seconds left when the Cowboys recover an onside kick and Nick Folk hits not one, but two, 53-yard field goals. The first is negated after Dick Jauron calls timeout.

-- Sept. 14, 2009: Buffalo leads New England 24-13 with 2:06 remaining, but Tom Brady drives the Patriots down the field for a touchdown, Buffalo fumbles the ensuing kickoff and Brady tosses another TD pass.

Game over. Insert knife into heart here.

You see, it is tough being a Bills fan these days. When the opposing team's kicker recovers a key fumble on a kickoff, you know something unexplainable and sinister is at work.

What's next for Buffalo? An exorcism? A visit from Ghost Hunters? Stick-em for Leodis McKelvin?

Something needs to be done. Throwback uniforms aren't working. T.O. definitely isn't working. Maybe the scary woman from Poltergeist can lend a creepy hand.

“This house is clean.”

Well, not yet.