Bills most disappointing loss since the Super Bowls

[South Jersey Bills Fan]

Wow. I remember it as clear as day. I couldn't believe they lost. I thought they had it in the bag after Jeff Burris returned an INT for a TD in the fourth to make it 27-20. I also thought that Kelly probably didn't fumble on his final play (I thought his knee was down). If that doesn't get ruled a fumble, the Bills have a better than even chance at winning.

 

 

I remember the Jacksonville game...my brother and I went at the last minute...we drove my dad's old Chevy S10 pickup and brought a hibachi. We set it up right in front of the truck between the bumper and the guard rail. My brother was lighting it and at the same time suggested I turn on the radio on the cab. It was my 2 or 3rd time driving a stick, so I jumped in, started the engine and turned the radio on. Then I let out the clutch, forgetting to put it in neutral. Man, I never saw my brother move so quick! His head was this close to being popped like a grape. It was a bad start to a bad day. I can't stand Tony Baselli...

 

There's so many to choose from. The Music City Miracle, the week 17 loss to the Steelers' back-ups that prevented us from going to the playoffs, the MNF debacle against New England and the playoff loss at Miami come to mind.

 

If I had to choose one it would be the Music City Miracle, because I thought we had a realistic chance to go to the Super Bowl that year.

 

How about that ALMOST glorious evening against the Cowpoles at home. Man we should have won that game, but to top it all off, we got to watch that jerkoff JJ jump up and down in our stadium. I hate Jerry Jones...

[dave mcbride]

I guess I don't count regular season games, especially for seasons in which the Bills are a sub .500 team. They're expected to lose those games (and they do). No one expected that they'd lose to Jax at home, especially since they had never lost a home playoff game before.

[bills44]

I guess I don't count regular season games, especially for seasons in which the Bills are a sub .500 team. They're expected to lose those games (and they do). No one expected that they'd lose to Jax at home, especially since they had never lost a home playoff game before.

 

or since...

 

[Gordio]

Music city miracle has gotta be the most disappointing but one that I remember that really upset me was a regular season game a few years back against the fins where we surely were winning and then an unknown QB named sage rosenfels rallied up and scored 3 unanswered touchdowns to win the game... N also mnf against the boys and mnf against the brownies with no time left were also stingers...

 

 

I was at that game too. Annual Bills trip with the boys. We were partying down in South Beach that Saturday night & get home around 4 in the morning loaded off our asses. Get up a few hours later & head to the stadium. I just remember being really hung over & it was really hot. We get to our seats(6 of us). We are sitting in the 2nd to last row in the upper decks. Just miserable with the sun beating down on us. 5 minutes into the game my one friends speaks up. He says "I think everybody is thinking this but I am going to be the one to have the guts to say it; Want to leave & watch the rest of the game at Hooters?" None of us said a word, we all just nodded our heeads, walked out of the stadium & went to Hooters. Best decision we made all weekend.

[HuSeYiN1978]

I was at that game too. Annual Bills trip with the boys. We were partying down in South Beach that Saturday night & get home around 4 in the morning loaded off our asses. Get up a few hours later & head to the stadium. I just remember being really hung over & it was really hot. We get to our seats(6 of us). We are sitting in the 2nd to last row in the upper decks. Just miserable with the sun beating down on us. 5 minutes into the game my one friends speaks up. He says "I think everybody is thinking this but I am going to be the one to have the guts to say it; Want to leave & watch the rest of the game at Hooters?" None of us said a word, we all just nodded our heeads, walked out of the stadium & went to Hooters. Best decision we made all weekend.

 

Lol good decision... I on the other hand flung a glass on the wall and almost cried from anger... That game made me evolve into a more calm fan... I'll never let myself get THAT upset over a Bills game again unless if It's another loss in the SB...

[Doc]

But I recall they showed the replay on the big screen and froze the shot right when Kelly's knee was down and he still had the ball.

Yep. As I said, not a fumble.

[Meathead]

easiest question ever

 

top three most disappointing games in bills history

 

1. wide right

2. illegal lateral

3. choking to deep scrubs to lose playoff spot

 

questions?

[bills44]

I was at that game too. Annual Bills trip with the boys. We were partying down in South Beach that Saturday night & get home around 4 in the morning loaded off our asses. Get up a few hours later & head to the stadium. I just remember being really hung over & it was really hot. We get to our seats(6 of us). We are sitting in the 2nd to last row in the upper decks. Just miserable with the sun beating down on us. 5 minutes into the game my one friends speaks up. He says "I think everybody is thinking this but I am going to be the one to have the guts to say it; Want to leave & watch the rest of the game at Hooters?" None of us said a word, we all just nodded our heeads, walked out of the stadium & went to Hooters. Best decision we made all weekend.

 

Ha, nice.

[dave mcbride]

easiest question ever

 

top three most disappointing games in bills history

 

1. wide right

2. illegal lateral

3. choking to deep scrubs to lose playoff spot

 

questions?

I don't agree about #3. The Bills weren't that good and wouldn't have done anything in the playoffs that year. They feasted on bad teams that season, and went 1-6 against teams with winning records. Typical Bledsoe. Moreover, it wasn't even a playoff game, and it was a lousy game to boot.

[CBD]

Music City Miracle was a shotgun blast to the chest.

 

I don't even remember that Jacksonville game.

I remember it not being televised.

[st pete gogolak]

This isn't even close to being close. It's the Music City Miracle. That team had a Super Bowl caliber defense and it may have gotten us to the game. I tend to doubt it would have happened because our O-Line was totally beaten up and subpar even when healthy. At the beginning of the season, I thought that the 1996 team could be a Super Bowl team but the reality was that team was OK but far from great. Kelly was on his last legs, the O-Line wasn't very good (sound familiar?) and other veterans were slowing down. As good as Bruce Smith was that year, Tony Boselli absolutely owned him in that playoff game. As also pointed out by other posters, Natrone Means ran all over us. Even if that team had squeaked out a win against JAX, it wasn't going anywhere. The 1999 team was a different story. It lost on a fluke play on the road to a team that came up one yard short of sending the Super Bowl into overtime.

[1B4IDie]

The Titans were probably the better team (they were 13-3, after all, and beat the 14-2 Jags three times before reaching the Super Bowl). While the Bills shouldn't have lost that game, it wasn't as if they were playing at home against an inferior opponent. Moreover, they stupidly started an inferior QB. The 96 loss was the last gasp of a great era, and they were built to win the Super Bowl that year. A lot of prognosticators picked them to go all the way. It was a disappointing season, and the loss at home the Jags was like a punch in the gut. At least that's how I remembered it. After that, there has never been a seaon where I thought they could compete for a Super Bowl.

 

The loss to the Jags was disappointing but the team lost its passion. It played too many games and it was clear that they didn't have the fire anymore. It was the end of an era.

 

The Music City Forward Lateral was by far more disappointing, and I clearly remember looking at the AFC field in the moments before the kickoff and thinking, there is a real shot to make it to the Super Bowl (And lose to the Rams' greatest show on turf)

 

Not to mention that it was clearly a forward lateral, and the Bills should not have lost the game. One player is in front of the yard maker, one player is behind and you can give me whatever garbage you want about the angle of the throw and where his hands were when he made the catch. It looks like a forward lateral in real time, slow motion and any angle you want to bring up.

 

Music City Forward Lateral is the most disappointing because it could have been the start of new era of relevance and winning.

 

It took almost a decade to crawl out of the mess of the Forward Lateral and Ron (spit) Johnson.

 

However the point is still relevant that OC and HC combo have proven to be strong and Gilbride owns two more super bowl rings than the Bills franchise owns.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Why So Serious?

[Rob's House]

But that was just a run-of-the mill regular season game. It sucked, but it was hardly as wrenching as a brutal playoff loss in a season that saw probably the greatest single season performance by a Bill in team history (apologies to OJ).

To me it was the most gut wrenching regular season game ever. We hadn't beaten the Pats in years, just got TO, it was the can TE be the guy season, & we start the season dominating the Pats just to piss it all away at the end. And the guy that sat next to me at work was a Pats fan. It's the only time in the last 10 years I let a football game negatively affect my mood for more than 20 minutes after the game.

[dave mcbride]

This isn't even close to being close. It's the Music City Miracle. That team had a Super Bowl caliber defense and it may have gotten us to the game. I tend to doubt it would have happened because our O-Line was totally beaten up and subpar even when healthy. At the beginning of the season, I thought that the 1996 team could be a Super Bowl team but the reality was that team was OK but far from great. Kelly was on his last legs, the O-Line wasn't very good (sound familiar?) and other veterans were slowing down. As good as Bruce Smith was that year, Tony Boselli absolutely owned him in that playoff game. As also pointed out by other posters, Natrone Means ran all over us. Even if that team had squeaked out a win against JAX, it wasn't going anywhere. The 1999 team was a different story. It lost on a fluke play on the road to a team that came up one yard short of sending the Super Bowl into overtime.

There was no way that a QB as bad as Rob Johnson would have gotten the Bills to the SB. I think that they would have been soundly beaten the next week in Indy. Failing that, the Jags would have killed them. The notion that the Bills were a SB caliber team in 1999 is a pervasive myth that fails to account for the central problem on that team: the starting QB.

Edited February 6, 2012 by dave mcbride

[KD in CA]

easiest question ever

 

top three most disappointing games in bills history

 

1. wide right

2. illegal lateral

3. choking to deep scrubs to lose playoff spot

 

questions?

 

You have got to be joking. I've never understood why people here overrate that game so badly. They were a mediocre team who lost to a playoff team and it cost the Bills what, a chance to squeak in and get waxed the following week? Big deal.

 

There are probably 20 more heartbreaking games than that one in Bills history. The Ronnie Harmon game? San Diego playoff game (Fergy's ankle)? The AFC Championship @ Cincy (delay of game)? The other 3 SBs? Good grief, I could go on all day.

Edited February 6, 2012 by KD in CT

[bills44]

There was no way that a QB as bad as Rob Johnson would have gotten the Bills to the SB. I think that they would have been soundly beaten the next week in Indy. Failing that, the Jags would have killed them. The notion that the Bills were a SB caliber team in 1999 is a pervasive myth that fails to account for the central problem on that team: the starting QB.

 

The '99 team was better than the '96 team and had a better chance to make a post-season run.

[first_and_ten]

You have got to be joking. I've never understood why people here overrate that game so badly. They were a mediocre team who lost to a playoff team and it cost the Bills what, a chance to squeak in and get waxed the following week? Big deal.

 

There are probably 20 more heartbreaking games than that one in Bills history. The Ronnie Harmon game? San Diego playoff game (Fergy's ankle)? The AFC Championship @ Cincy (delay of game)? The other 3 SBs? Good grief, I could go on all day.

yes, plenty of heartbreak to choose from

[Cornerville]

easiest question ever

 

top three most disappointing games in bills history

 

1. wide right

2. illegal lateral

3. choking to deep scrubs to lose playoff spot

 

questions?

 

 

And I give you the easiest 'F' ever on your answer, because the question is SINCE the Super Bowls!!

 

Most underrated hurtful game since the Super Bowls:

 

The 'Just give it to em' Game at New England in 1998, when you couple that WITH the Vinny Tesaverde 'phantom' TD the Jets got against Seattle (2 obvious calls that a novice ref can make) that cost the Bills a 2 seed in the AFC.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Cornerville

[Homey D. Clown]

Music City Mistake, absolutely no contest, everything else is an argument for 2nd worst.

[tennesseeboy]

The Music City Miracle, which brought about the never ending curse of Doug Flutie.