Fans up early for Miami Dolphins-Buffalo Bills game with storylines on and off the field

MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins play the Buffalo Bills again at Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday night and fans are showing up early to cheer on the home team.

Ronald Paramore can be found in the same spot at every Dolphins game.

“Section 114, row 26, seat 11,” Paramore said.

He was out and about before 9 a.m. to prepare for the Dolphins-Bills game.

The Bills Mafia are a hurdle for the Fins. They have lost four straight games to Buffalo, including in the playoffs. Head coach Mike McDaniel and star quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said the path to a division title likely runs through the Bills.

“There is one team that has won the division two years in a row. You could say they essentially own the division until someone takes the division away from them,” McDaniel said.

“That’s going to be the writing until we do something about it,” Tagovailoa added. “That’s going to be the narrative that we can’t beat the Bills and until we beat them and beat them consistently, that’s not going to change and we have a chance to do that.”

Paramore said this is a must-win and added that the fans will be the team’s 12th man under the spotlight Thursday night.

“We need this win and we haven’t beaten the Bills in years. So this would be a stepping stone,” Paramore said. “We can break through tonight. That’s why I wore this Tua jersey to let him know he’s got a backup and we want to win this game and we need to win this game.”

The dominant storyline this week is The arrest of Tyreek Hill by Miami-Dade police for Sunday’s season opener. Paramore is confident Hill won’t let the incident distract him tonight, as he rushed for 130 yards and a touchdown on Sunday, just hours after being handcuffed.

“He just said, ‘Look. Let that go. We’ll deal with it later. I’m for the team. I have to do my job and that’s exactly what he did,'” Paramore said.

This has been an even rivalry since the beginning. The Dolphins lead the record by just four games.