I tweeted and John Murphy read it - when he his topic was the most anticipated openers ever - that that one wasn't the most anticipated (this year and '86 would be that, and that Titans game after Home run Throwback), but it turned out to be the best!
But, I mentioned, and he said Yes, he definitely remembers it - the week leading up, Bob Keuchenberg proclaimed "I will never lose to the Bills" and that did boil our blood for that game (but we figured he was probably right)
That Toomay game - that and the just give it to them game, are the biggest ripoff games in our history.
It knocked us out of the playoffs and I went to that game the next week, where they hung the ref in effigy in the tunnel..........And, it was the snow game vs; the Vikings where Chuck Foreman got hit in the eye.
But earlier that year, I went to this game with my Dad. I can't find a writeup, but it's definitely the game, We are beating the Dolphins by 9 in the 4th quarter and somehow lose. I remember at least one of Jake Scott's INTs being the killer. He might have got them both in the 4th.
I remember walking out of the stadium, with my heart torn out, and there were a bunch of drunks filing out with us, laughing and singing and **** - and my 13 year old brain is saying How can anybody be happy right now?!?
Here's the game. I hope somebody else remembers it. It was one of many heartbreakers with them in the 70s and seems to be forgotten:
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197510260buf.htm