{"id":871595,"date":"2026-04-22T03:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:36:19","slug":"josh-allen-chugs-beer-before-playoff-game-to-hype-up-sabres-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871595\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Allen chugs beer before playoff game to hype up Sabres fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if Sabres fans didn\u2019t have enough to lose their minds over as Buffalo\u2019s NHL team looked to take a 2-0 series lead over the Bruins, Josh Allen did his darndest to hype the crowd up even more at KeyBank Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allen was in attendance for Game 2 on Tuesday night and was the honorary person to bang the drum to get a \u201cLet\u2019s Go Buffalo\u201d chant going.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39159043\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/buffalo-bills-quarterback-josh-allen-126130006.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen hyping up the crowd at a Buffalo Sabres game.\" class=\"wp-image-39159043\"  \/>Josh Allen hypes the Buffalo crowd before the first period of the Sabres\u2019 4-2 home loss to the Bruins in Game 2 on April 21, 2026. AP<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the Bills\u2019 star quarterback do that, but he also chugged a bear to the delight of the crowd, electrifying the building even more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After three rounds of getting the chant going, he flipped the mallet that he used to beat the drum and pulled out a Corona Extra to start chugging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allen then slammed the can to the ground and raised his arms in the air to motivate the crowd to cheer even louder.<\/p>\n<p>The former MVP had been in town for the team\u2019s voluntary minicamp and had told reporters on Monday that he was \u201choping to\u201d be at Game 2 of the Sabres series with the Bruins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allen could feel the buzz in the city over the excitement surrounding the Sabres\u2019 playoff run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think just for the city of Buffalo, I think it\u2019s a better place when the Sabres are playing well, and it being the first playoff game in, was it 15 years?\u201d Allen said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/buffalo-bills\/2026\/04\/bills-josh-allen-just-did-the-most-buffalo-thing-ever-at-the-sabres-playoff-game-watch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to Syracuse.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talked about \u2018One Buffalo\u2019 for the longest time and it\u2019s been fun to watch them progress, and now going into these playoffs rolling,\u201d Allen also said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39159041\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/buffalo-bills-quarterback-josh-allen-126130249.jpg\" alt=\"Josh Allen wearing a black Sabres jersey and hat, spilling beer from a can he's drinking.\" class=\"wp-image-39159041\"  \/>Bills quarterback Josh Allen chugs a beer to hype up the crowd before the first period of the Sabres\u2019 4-2 home loss to the Bruins in Game 2. AP<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres had gone into Game 2 coming off a dramatic come-from-behind win in the first game that saw the Bruins blow a two-goal lead in the third period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo scored four goals in the final 10 minutes of the game to erase the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>But unfortunately, for Buffalo, they couldn\u2019t match its Game 1 heroics on Tuesday night as the Sabres fell 4-2 to the Bruins in Game 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As if Sabres fans didn\u2019t have enough to lose their minds over as Buffalo\u2019s NHL team looked to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,20614,2086,7,872,6,4475,5317,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-871595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalo-sabres","12":"tag-buffalobills","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-josh-allen","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-playoffs","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}