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The Buffalo Bills are one win away from the Super Bowl for the fourth year in a row. This year could finally be different because a curse against them has been lifted by X-Files actor William Davis.
They are finally permitted to win an NFL championship for the first time since 1996.
X-Files, for those who don’t know, is a science-fiction horror thriller series that originally aired 202 episodes over nine seasons. The 20th Century Fox production first aired on September 10, 1993 and ran its series finale on May 19, 2002. A 16-episode reboot ran from 2016 to 2018.
The show revolves around FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. They investigate the eponymous ‘X-Files,’ which are unsolved cases that have to do with paranormal activity.
So what does this have to do with the Buffalo Bills? It dates back to an episode that aired November 17, 1996.
In the episode, titled ‘Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man,’ an actor by the name of William B. Davis plays the aforementioned cigarette smoking man. He is a high-ranking member of a secret organization that works to cover up government conspiracies and potential alien activity— opposite to the X-Files.
The cigarette smoking man declares in the episode that for as long as he is alive, the Buffalo Bills will never win the Super Bowl. They had just lost four consecutive Super Bowls from 1990 to 1993.
