More than a decade has passed since he played his final NFL snap, but John Wendling still can smell the tailgates in Buffalo and feel the celebratory hand slaps in Detroit.

The Bills and Lions — the home teams in Sunday’s Divisional round playoff games — share a tortured history as two of the seven teams who were around in 1966 but have not yet won the Super Bowl in the championship game’s 57-year history.

So, loads of pent-up frustration will be fueling the raucous atmospheres in an unlikely pairing of home playoff crowds for the Buccaneers-Lions and Chiefs-Bills doubleheader.

“Both of those are similar fan bases of blue-collar people who are loyal to the bitter end,” Wendling told Sports+. “They were some of our biggest fans and our worst critics — not afraid to tell us when we weren’t doing any good — but living and dying with us on every play and with the anticipation of every new season. You could count on them to show up every Sunday.”