January 18, 2026

2 WINS, 2 LOSSES FOR BILLS FAN PAUL LANGDON LAST NIGHT, AS BEARS HOSTED ALLISTON IN JR. C GAME

BRACEBRIDGE — Buffalo Bills fans missed most of the second period of the Bears game here last night at home as they kept one eye on the ice and the other on the NFL AFC division game on a new lobby TV behind the Bracebridge arena net.

Muskoka’s Jr. C team had a 2-0 over the Alliston Hornets following the first period on goals by Nicholas Cooper (his first as a Bear) and Liam Cardiff (his fifth).

Among the 251 fans on hand was Paul Langdon, of Gravenhurst, who joined about 50 of them watching the final minutes of the football game, through the hockey intermission — and then when the Bears and Hornets returned to the ice for the second stanza they were glued to the tube for the exciting finish that went into overtime when Buffalo tied Denver 30-30 on thilling last second field goal.

The hockey fans raised a beer and cheered.

Then the Bills dropped several passes and couldn’t match the Broncos who first scored their three-point OT field for the eventual win.

Langdon, like the others at the Muskoka Lumber Community Centre, could only groan and hang their heads.

That’s when Rebecca Penwell compared the Bills to the Leafs (who on Hockey Night in Canada beat Winnipeg in OT with a beautiful goal by Max Domi set up by captain Austen Matthews just months after they scrimmaged in Bracebridge in September).

Others sports lobbyists could be heard moaning “A-r-r-r-g-os!”

Meanwhile out on the ice the disappointed footballers missed five goals — four by Alliston and one by the Bears’ Emmitt Robillard (his third with his new team).

Alliston scored two more in the third for a 6-3 win and South Muskoka’s 24^th loss.

Langdon’s teams may have lost two games, but he won $261 in the 50/50 draw.

He donated $100 to the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Foundation, which had a booth in the lobby. So a win for him and them, too.

“I’m off to buy a round at Chuck’s,” he lamented leaving the rink.

The only other disappointed one was Bob Jacob who taped the NFL game and didn’t know about the outcome until he was surprised walking out of the Bears game when fans let him know.