My best friend at the time was a Bills' fan. My reaction to the train wreck that was their performance up to that point was a mixture of laughter & pity for my friend.
As far as all of the conspiracy theories, like I said before, it impossible for the refs to have a good angle to see everything that happens on every play. I have no doubt that if an itemized list of every bad call the made would balance themselves out over the course of a season. Its just when bad call goes in favor of the Patriots, the bias that most fans have against them do to their reputation results in fans making such erroneous assumptions.