It was a very good day for the Buffalo Payments. The Payments Mafia had causes to have fun on each side of the globe on Sunday.
By Sunday afternoon in upstate New York, the Payments had survived a sloppy AFC wild-card recreation with a 34-31 resolution over the Miami Dolphins.
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And Sunday night (or Monday morning in Melbourne, Australia), Jessica Pegula, the world’s No. 3-ranked girls’s tennis participant, notched her first win of the Australian Open. Pegula, whose mother and father personal the Payments, cruised to a 6-0, 6-1 win over Jaqueline Cristian within the first spherical of the yr’s first Grand Slam.
The Payments have rallied round security Damar Hamlin, who suffered cardiac arrest whereas taking part in in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2. After being discharged from a Cincinnati hospital earlier within the week, Hamlin attended his workforce’s walk-through on Saturday and watched the playoff recreation from his dwelling in Buffalo.
Jessica Pegula wore a No. 3 patch much like what Buffalo Payments gamers wore to honor Damar Hamlin. Cameron Spencer/Getty Photographs
“My coronary heart is with my guys as they compete in the present day! Supporting from dwelling as I give attention to my restoration,” Hamlin tweeted earlier than the sport. “Nothing I need greater than to be on the market with them!”
Throughout her match, Pegula had a No. 3 patch on her tennis skirt, which was much like the uniform patches the Payments wore to honor Hamlin. Afterward, Pegula signed a digital camera lens with “Go Payments,” adopted by “#3” and a coronary heart.
“It is superb to see how nicely [Hamlin has] performed, to see that he is again, that he is seen the workforce. There’s actually no phrases, like a miracle, actually,” Pegula mentioned following her victory.
After all, even Down Beneath, the Payments Mafia wasn’t too far-off to cheer for Pegula.
Payments nation in Melbourne 🏈@JLPegula • @BuffaloBills • @NFL • #AusOpen • #AO2023 pic.twitter.com/XjN4TDmZBi
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 16, 2023