If you had told me back in 1990, after a steamy, sweaty and scruffy Goo Goo Dolls show in the old Continental, that the band’s singer would one day be tackling “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a packed house at Ralph Wilson Stadium as the Bills and the Patriots prepared to duke it out for first place, I would have likely laughed in your face.And yet that’s exactly what happened Sunday, to cap a week during which civic pride became a tangible entity in the Buffalo area, and new beginnings suggesting an era of possibility pervaded, following the Pegula family’s purchase of the Bills.Choosing Jo