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Alaina Getzenberg, ESPNOct 30, 2024, 08:09 PM ET
- Alaina Getzenberg is a staff writer who covers the Buffalo Bills and the NFL. She joined ESPN in 2021. Alaina was previously a beat reporter for the Charlotte Observer and has also worked for CBS Sports and the Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. You can follow her via Twitter @agetzenberg.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Big games in New York state in the fall are nothing new for Josh Allen. This week, however, Allen was watching from the stands.
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Before the Buffalo Bills host the Miami Dolphins on the other side of the state this weekend, Allen and the Bills quarterbacks room took a quick trip to watch the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers face off in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night. Allen said he wanted to treat the team’s quarterbacks — backup Mitch Trubisky, practice squad quarterback Mike White and Shane Buechele, who is on injured reserve — to “something nice.” White, who played baseball in high school and earned first-team All-Broward County honors as a pitcher, is a Yankees fan. “[The quarterbacks have] been helping me out in the quarterback room all year,” Allen said Wednesday. “So, it’s something we talked about and pulled the trigger on and decided to take a quick trip there and made it back in time for meetings, so it was good.”
Josh Allen repping the Yankees at Game 4 pic.twitter.com/s1rX1t5MSU
— Talkin’ Yanks (@TalkinYanks) October 30, 2024
The outing fit between the Bills coming back from a trip across the country — beating the Seahawks 31-10 on Sunday — and ahead of hosting the Dolphins this weekend (1 p.m. ET, CBS). Though Allen was wearing a Yankees hat at the game, the Firebaugh, California, native clarified that he grew up a San Francisco Giants fan, making him “a fan of whoever’s playing the Dodgers.” “I still love the Blue Jays,” Allen said of the team closest to Buffalo geographically. “But yes, I mean, [the Yankees were] 3-0, rooting for the underdog. Obviously, we’re the only [NFL] team in New York, so supporting our local teams, and got to love it, so hopefully they can scratch and claw their way back into this thing.”
