Was Football Partially To Blame For The Oklahoma City Bombing?

The Buffalo Bills lost four Super Bowls in a row in the early 1990s, 

Among their most heartbroken fans was Timothy McVeigh.

He was a New York native who killed 168 people and injured over 680 more in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
It was their third consecutive Super Bowl loss and it was by far the worst of them all.

McVeigh left New York state, his only real home, a few days later. He would live adrift in a nomadic life of gun shows and spiraling extremism.
McVeigh was a Bills super fan.

He was working for little pay as an overnight security guard at the Buffalo Zoo when he bet $1,000 on the Bills winning the Super Bowl in 1993.
Quarterback Jim Kelly re injured his knee and the Cowboys scored four touchdowns, including two just 15 seconds apart, all before halftime.
The Waco siege happened a few weeks later.

This led to the deaths of 86 people, mostly children when the Branch Davidians cult refused to surrender to the FBI. 

McVeigh saw this and started plotting revenge against the U.S. government.
Two years after Waco, McVeigh targeted the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, with a truck bomb. 

It was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil until September 11, 2001, and remains the worst domestic terrorist attack in American history.
McVeigh was executed in 2001 for carrying out the attack.
McVeigh had a history of being bullied, a broken family.

He stayed in Buffalo with his dad when his mother moved to Florida with his sisters when he was an adolescent.

He spent his free time nursing conspiracy theories about the U.S. government and writing ominous letters to the editor of his local paper.
He reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown and contemplated suicide.

He also possibly suffered from undiagnosed PTSD from serving in the Gulf War.
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