Went to that game VS Dallas, with a bunch of Cowboys fans. It was the quietest drive home that I have had. Four silent Cowboys fans, for two hours. It was HEAVEN!
I do too. These are my favorite uniforms. At least they had them for 3 years with the red helmets. The blue pants were worn for 2 of them, in 86 they were only worn in preseason, then ditched in the regular season.
Terrible season record wise for the Bills but these were their best uniforms with the white jerseys and blue pants tagged with the red helmets and blue facemasks. Wonderful video quality too!
I used to look forward to this show every Saturday morning as a kid. This was before we had ESPN. I used to get bummed out because they always seem to skip highlights of that weeks Lions game, and I'd sit through the whole show waiting to see them.
Sometimes you have to sacrifice the present to have a future. Chuck Knox did a great job with a lot of good veteran players and by 1983 they were retiring or getting very old in the tooth. A 5-2 start disintegrated into an 8-8 finish. The decline of the O line and the vulnerability of the secondary was evident. 1984-86 were brutal years, like 1976 to 78 were and 68 to 72 were. 1987 would the be the first hint at how special the Bills would later become. A ton of empty seats at home games. Denying Dallas a playoff berth in 1984 had to be a huge highlight
Art Schlichter (the Colts QB mentioned at 18:37) had an outstanding college career at Ohio State-but ruined his career and his life with a horrendous gambling addiction--he gambled his salary when he signed with the Colts and has been in prison multiple times for stealing/fraud etc to feed his addiction
Were these compiled from HBO'S Inside the NFL highlight segments? I don't see the intro, or the outros with the final score posted on screen but where else would this be from?
The 84 Buffalo bills was a bad and I mean BAD football team, When you have someone called Joe Duflek as your starting Q.B. tells you a lot how bad the team was. Suprising that they actually won 2 games. Maybe one of the worst teams in N.F.L. history.
The 84 Bills were awful. They were in 85 too but they drafted both Bruce Smith and Andre Reed in 85 and Jim Kelly and Marv Levy as HC in 86. By 1988 they were AFC East champs and made it all the way to the AFC Championship game
Bills HC Kay Stephenson ranked as one of the worst head coaches in the Bills' history. The only thing Stephenson accomplished was giving Buffalo a first-round draft pick that resulted in HOF Bruce Smith. It was suggested that Stephenson had undermined Bills HC Chuck Knox in 1982 to their demented owner Ralph Wilson to get his job.
Joe Ferguson was over the hill in 1984, he never looks like 1980, 1981 and the pre-strike 1982. In 1983 had brilliant moments when he was hot in back to back wins over the Dolphins and Colts, but in general, he was sliding. Ralph Wilson ruined the team by firing Chuck Knox. Kay Stephenson was a nice person but not qualified for HC job.
Kay Stephenson was busy stacking this team for the benefit of Marv Levy. Everyone from Andre Reed to Bruce Smith to Jim Kelly and Darryl Talley would be either drafted or brought in during the Stephenson reign. Even Pete Metzelaars, Frank Reich, Jim Ritcher and Scott Norwood are all people brought in while Stephenson led the team.
He was probably the worst coach the Bills ever had--by far-Bill Polian was the architect of the Super Bowl years--Marv Levy was mediocre at best-his stent in Kansas City was unremarkable-while at the same time Chuck Knox was taking the Bills to the playoffs on two occasions after starting with a team that had been 1-13 the year before he arrived--one of the greatest tragedies in Bills history was when their demented owner Ralph WIlson wouldn't renegotiate Knox's contract and he left for Seattle in 1982--if Knox had had the personal that Levy had the Bills would surely had been an elite team for many many years (far more than Levy)
david graham Well probably........they lost a lot of good players from the 1983 team. Sherman White, Frank Lewis, Roland Hooks, Roosevelt Leaks, Jerry Butler was hurt...and they lost Isiah Robertson. The 1984 team....a lot of back up players were starters. Kay Stephenson was a bad coach. Ralph Wilson wanted to clean house
We got to see the opening to NFL Week In Review., so there's a highlight. Sam Spence's music is the other highlight. Yeah, I was scared the Bills were going 0-16 until they beat Dallas.
These were the best uniforms the Bills have ever had. They only had them for three years from 84-86. They had to get stupid in 1987 and put a white facemask on their helmet. I was so pissed !!!
This was the worst Bills team ever, but it handed the Cowboys their biggest embarrassment ever at the time. I guess the Bills sold their souls to the Devil to beat the Cowboys in 84, cause the Cowboys would later beat them in 2 straight SB's.
One of the worst seasons on record for the BILLS. Ralph Wilson as always dispatched his winning coach and settled for Kay Stephenson. This team was a far cry from the team that won under Chuck Knox. Meanwhile '83 first round pick Jim Kelly was in Houston until the 85 season. Ugh.
I became a Bills fan in 82 and from the second I saw Ralph Wilson's face I disliked the man. He NEVER cared about winning if it came at the expense of making a profit. The man was a terrible on the field owner and that is a fact.
couldn't agree more--turned my stomach when this clown was accorded this "hero worship" when he passed away--he was by far the worse owner in the history of the NFL-he surrounded himself with "Yes Men" and demanded to be part of every coaching decision---probably the most ridiculous is when he demanded that head coach Wade Phillips start Rob Johnson instead of Doug Flutie in the "Music City Miracle" game--I will always believe the Bills would have won that game if Flutie had started
There is no Music City Miracle with Flutie. He would have been making the miracles happen out there, not Tennessee. Ralph Wilson was a poor owner much of the 70s and 80s as well as the late 90s and right up until his death. He deserves credit for the good that happened in the early 90s. But that success was closely tied to Polian and Levy. He fired Polian and soon enough the team's fortunes dwindled.
In reality Wilson only hired Bill Polian because he came "cheap"--the previous GM had to resign due to a heart condition and Wilson wanted to hire someone from within the Bills organization to avoid having to pay big money to get someone else--the fact that Polian was a genius picking/drafting talent was just serindipidous luck--and even then Wilson turned around fired Polian in 1993 because Polian didn't get along with the team's treasurer Jeff Lipton--Wilson was more interested in keeping a treasurer than a football genius
@david graham: Right now, the owner that comes closest to Ralphy in cheapness is Mike Brown(Cincinnati Bengals). Like Ralphy, Mike Brown is stingy, prefers to keep "yes-men" around him, and hasn't seen fit to get a real GM, or a better head coach(Marvin Lewis has been the coach since 2003; 125-112-3; 0-7 in playoffs).
