According to the Los Angeles Times, the Buffalo Bills are finding losing apparently has peripheral benefits.
After the Bills lost to the Houston Texans, 31-10, on Nov. 1, The Buffalo News ran the headline, Lousy game leads to fewer arrests.
The accompanying story said police made just 14 arrests at the Bills game, about half what is normal. Orchard Park, N.Y., police chief Andrew Benz suggested that the early departures of fans may have been the reason for the low crime count.
Notable among the arrests: three Canadian men who borrowed a golf cart to negotiate the parking lot before the opening kickoff.
Then the game began and the Bills game plan, lacking that kind of on-the-move ingenuity, bored most potential lawbreakers inside the stadium into a quiet kind of submission.