Broncos at Bills 1994

[Buffalo03]

Continuing on with posting old games against upcoming opponents where we are playing them the coming week, since this coming game is a Monday Night game, I am going with Broncos at Bills from Monday Night Football from 1994. This game I remember being blacked out on local TV when I was 8 years old. I do remember that season being the NFL's 75th season and every team in the NFL wearing throwback uniforms in weeks 3 and 4. This game being week 4 we wore a red standing Buffalo helmet instead of the white standing Buffalo helmet. Not sure why. We never saw them again after this game but I found that interesting. The Broncos uniforms in this game I don't remember ever seeing but it could have easily been long before my time. The Bills won this game 27-20 to move to 3-1 on the year before losing 8 of their final 12 games and missing the playoffs after 4 consecutive Super Bowl seasons. If anyone was at this game or remembers it, feel free to post and share it. As always.....Go Bills and let's get back on track this week and start a run. 

 

 

Edited November 13, 2023 by Buffalo03

[Buffalo03]

The red helmets with the white standing Buffalo are weird. I wonder why we wore them. 

[phypon]

OMG!  I had to laugh at the "pet safe anti-freeze - Not safe for drinking" commercial around the 1:44:40 mark.  Never heard of that before, wtf???  Too funny.

[Buffalo03]

3 minutes ago, phypon said:

OMG!  I had to laugh at the "pet safe anti-freeze - Not safe for drinking" commercial around the 1:44:40 mark.  Never heard of that before, wtf???  Too funny.

Yeah, I know, right? Lol. The fact that they put pet safe in there is kinda funny

[RoyBatty is alive]

9 minutes ago, phypon said:

OMG!  I had to laugh at the "pet safe anti-freeze - Not safe for drinking" commercial around the 1:44:40 mark.  Never heard of that before, wtf???  Too funny.

Anti freeze can be very sweet

[Talley56]

This was another good one.  If Denver would have beaten us in this game, they would have clinched the AFC West.  Instead, we came back and won and the next week the Chargers beat the Broncos to win the division.  Back when we were a down-trodden team we actually made an impact on the playoff picture.

 

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200812210den.htm

[MPL]

I was 8 when this game was played and wasn't allowed to stay up to watch it. So my mom taped it and I watched it the next day. I think I ended up watching this tape on repeat for the next year or two. For whatever reason, Karl Mecklenburg is what I remember most from this game. I don't remember what he did or any he plays he made. I just remember the name Karl Mecklenburg. 

[Buffalo03]

10 minutes ago, Talley56 said:

This was another good one.  If Denver would have beaten us in this game, they would have clinched the AFC West.  Instead, we came back and won and the next week the Chargers beat the Broncos to win the division.  Back when we were a down-trodden team we actually made an impact on the playoff picture.

 

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200812210den.htm

Yeah, I went with this game from 1994 since it was a Minday night game and we play them on Monday night tonight 

[Gisele]

Weird to see us run effective screen passes.

[Buffalo03]

21 minutes ago, Gisele said:

Weird to see us run effective screen passes.

Yeah, I feel like we haven't done that in years lol

[Marcus Aurelius]

2 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

The red helmets with the white standing Buffalo are weird. I wonder why we wore them. 

I remember this abortion. 

I asked myself the same question at the time. The consensus was that Ralph was too cheap to pay for a redo of the helmets.

[The Jokeman]

2 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

Continuing on with posting old games against upcoming opponents where we are playing them the coming week, since this coming game is a Monday Night game, I am going with Broncos at Bills from Monday Night Football from 1994. This game I remember being blacked out on local TV when I was 8 years old. I do remember that season being the NFL's 75th season and every team in the NFL wearing throwback uniforms in weeks 3 and 4. This game being week 4 we wore a red standing Buffalo helmet instead of the white standing Buffalo helmet. Not sure why. We never saw them again after this game but I found that interesting. The Broncos uniforms in this game I don't remember ever seeing but it could have easily been long before my time. The Bills won this game 27-20 to move to 3-1 on the year before losing 8 of their final 12 games and missing the playoffs after 4 consecutive Super Bowl seasons. If anyone was at this game or remembers it, feel free to post and share it. As always.....Go Bills and let's get back on track this week and start a run. 

 

 

I was at this game. As recall Thurman went off in the 2nd half.

[Wacka]

The reason for the red helmets was the uniform rules at the time. Players had to wear the same helmet all season unless it was damaged. They couldn't use white ones for just that game.  They had to put the big white standing Buffalo over their normal helmets.

[Buffalo03]

2 minutes ago, Wacka said:

The reason for the red helmets was the uniform rules at the time. Players had to wear the same helmet all season unless it was damaged. They couldn't use white ones for just that game.  They had to put the big white standing Buffalo over their normal helmets.

Wasn't aware. They look weird and they have never worn them again after this game lol

[Wacka]

The league changed the rules since then. That's why TB can wear the creamsicle helmets with the creamsicle  uniforms  when it's throwback time.

[Breakout Squad]

6 hours ago, RoyBatty is alive said:

Anti freeze can be very sweet

I put it on ice cream. Soooo good. 

[Tierlifer]

7 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

Continuing on with posting old games against upcoming opponents where we are playing them the coming week, since this coming game is a Monday Night game, I am going with Broncos at Bills from Monday Night Football from 1994. This game I remember being blacked out on local TV when I was 8 years old. I do remember that season being the NFL's 75th season and every team in the NFL wearing throwback uniforms in weeks 3 and 4. This game being week 4 we wore a red standing Buffalo helmet instead of the white standing Buffalo helmet. Not sure why. We never saw them again after this game but I found that interesting. The Broncos uniforms in this game I don't remember ever seeing but it could have easily been long before my time. The Bills won this game 27-20 to move to 3-1 on the year before losing 8 of their final 12 games and missing the playoffs after 4 consecutive Super Bowl seasons. If anyone was at this game or remembers it, feel free to post and share it. As always.....Go Bills and let's get back on track this week and start a run. 

 

 

Awesome memory and observation! I love sh*t like this and borderline uniform/helmet obsessed with the NFL 

[Chandler#81]

8 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

Continuing on with posting old games against upcoming opponents where we are playing them the coming week, since this coming game is a Monday Night game, I am going with Broncos at Bills from Monday Night Football from 1994. This game I remember being blacked out on local TV when I was 8 years old. I do remember that season being the NFL's 75th season and every team in the NFL wearing throwback uniforms in weeks 3 and 4. This game being week 4 we wore a red standing Buffalo helmet instead of the white standing Buffalo helmet. Not sure why. We never saw them again after this game but I found that interesting. The Broncos uniforms in this game I don't remember ever seeing but it could have easily been long before my time. The Bills won this game 27-20 to move to 3-1 on the year before losing 8 of their final 12 games and missing the playoffs after 4 consecutive Super Bowl seasons. If anyone was at this game or remembers it, feel free to post and share it. As always.....Go Bills and let's get back on track this week and start a run. 

 

 

Honestly, it was determined it would cost too much. Ralph was truly cheap!

They were terrible looking -like a pigeon dropped a load from 20’ on a red helmet.

[Buffalo03]

38 minutes ago, Tierlifer said:

Awesome memory and observation! I love sh*t like this and borderline uniform/helmet obsessed with the NFL 

What's funny is, if you see a picture of a Bills player wearing this helmet, you know it's only ever of 2 games in history that they wore them. Week 3 and 4 of 1994 against the Houston Oilers and Denver Broncos. We haven't worn them since lol

[EffKCChiefs]

Start 3-1 then losing 8 out of last 12 sounds like this year.