Not a Bills fan, but I can't think of a greater 4 year run than they had in the early 90's. It's a shame they didn't win a super bowl. This coming from a Vikings fan..I know your pain.
Oh man! I was at this game! It was January of 1994 and I was in my senior year at UB. I was wearing all kinds of layers and two coats. I used a piece of Styrofoam to sit on because the aluminum Stadium seats we're way too cold and I probably would have literally stuck to them. At the start of the game the ambient temperature (without wind chill) was 0 degrees and at the end of the game it was like -5 or something. I yelled so much at this game that between sucking in all that cold air and yelling, my voice wasn't right for 2 weeks afterwards!
my beer was freezing in the can faster than i could drink it! beer slushy! AWESOME GAME! best atmosphere i can recall, other than the "90 raider game (51-3) goal posts came down and i almost got trampled, so that beats it, but still an awesome time and great memory.
Awesome I was there with my parents and brother (we were14 and 15yrs old) sitting in the upper deck. The guy sitting in front of us kept offering us whiskey from his flask..my parents let me have a sip! I love buffalo!
I too was at this game remember when Bruce Smith knocked out the great hall of fame r bJoe Montana and they had to bring out the stretcher and and with all those 80,000 fans you couldn't hear a peep. And like the great fans we are we all stood up and clapped to the hero he was..I can say I was at the last game of the great legend JOE MONTANA
To this day this is the coldest Bills home game in history...regular season or playoffs. It hurts just watching those guys hit each other and also slam into that frozen artificial turf. This is back in the days when it was still a man's game
My dad took me and my freind Dan Misner to this game. We had to go to the car at halftime and idk how the hell my dad did it but he convinced the stadium attendees to let us back in. My freins dan was crying bc of how cold he was(i was freezeing as well) we both had our father hunting gear on. It was so cold my dad bought is hotdogs and pepsis and when we got to our seats they were both frozen solid. We were both 10 at the time and it was heaven. RIP Greg Foels. Love you so much. Go Bills
OJ was in his literal "prime". he just had a recurring role in a feature film, had all kinds of endorsements, and he hadnt murdered two people yet, so he garnered some amount of respect in entertainment circles and a ton of respect amongst football circles.
That is the truth. He was a very special weapon. Warren Moon is in the HOF and he isn't. Moon never so much as played in a conference championship game. The NFL HOF is a farce.
this was the first football game I ever watched I was 9 years old and I sat on the floor in front of the TV and decided the Raiders were my favorite team right then and there. Worst decision I ever made.
Watching this before the Bills /Patriots playoff game 2022 and it’s gonna be cold. My dad and I were at this game. My dad got frostbite on his toes and was never able to go outside in the cold for extended period of time again RIP Dad. Miss you.....If he was here I know what he would say. LETS GO BUFFALO!!!!!
Blame Howie Long for his “double agent” four time offsides antics that kept them from having a final possession to win the game. Then, Long is laughing and talking with the enemy while his teammates are crying their eyes out on the plane ride home. Nobody EVER talks about how Howie Long blew things the last six minutes of the game!! I lost total respect for him and to this day, can’t stand hearing him try to analyze games on Fox. I talked with Raider kicker Jeff Jaeger about that loss at a bookstore. Told him how sick I was they lost the game. Let’s just say that the players had a harder time with it than I did…
I said then and have been for the last 30 years that Long was an embarrassment in the fourth quarter. I could swear he was paid off. Pisses me off to this day and will until the day I'm gone.@@markgaston4416
I cant decide whether i love or hate Paul Maguire as an announcer. He rambles on alot, like a delusional grandpa, but he has moments of clarity where he has some pretty good insights. love the vintage commercials, too. They capture the time period and bring back great memories.
@Led Head 1975 yeah I never liked Norwood & he was notorious that year for missing easy field goals. Actually THE NYG are my 2nd favorite team & in 1990 I picked EVERY SINGLE playoff game correctly EXCEPT The Superbowl UNFORTUNATELY
We drove to Buffalo from the Toronto area and saw 4 or 5 cars spun out in ditches along the highway during the drive. It was a brutal day for cold weather and snow and got worse as we got closer to Buffalo. Once there, the tailgaters were still doing their things, saw 2 hot tubs with people in them partying lol. Great day, great game, terrible weather.
I was there with my sister. UI was 14 years old. She wanted to go home by halftime but we stuck it through. You just don't get cold when you are a kid. Lol.
4 Super Bowls and 4 losses this has been a stain on my heart since I was born in 1990 and still to this day and even after moving to Nashville I’m a diehard Bills fan. But the pain of never having the Lombardi is forever and deep .
I am a Raider fan, but oh man, the Bills should have won the SB this year! The Cowboys were a great team, but all those turnovers cost the Bills the Super Bowl. I almost think some of Buffalo’s players were on the take or something. Ugghh...Buffalo should have won at least 2 Super Bowls during their run. They should have beat the Giants and the Cowboys (second time).
I think the refs were on the take in the one against Washington and it seemed like the Redskins defensive backs knew it because they hit Bills receivers early about 10 different times in that game with ZERO flags thrown. It was a fuckin joke if you watch that game
Exactly the Bills had a 13-6 lead at half-time and up to that fumble on the 3rd play of the second half which was returned for game tying and moment changing td,Thurman Thomas had 80 total yards (rushing and receiving) and would've continued getting the ball. I really believe,Thurman doesn't fumble there,the Bills continue to wear down the Dallas defense and score more points and win Super Bowl XXVIII. They had already beaten the Cowboys and the other NFC East teams that season. In fact,in 1992,the Bills beat the 49er's in the first ever no punt game. Look it up on RU-vid. Listen to what the NBC live microphone picks up as Kelly is kneeling to run out the clock lol!
What kinda Raider can you be when you don't even realize that my Silver n Black were once again point blank robbed in this game!!!! It shoulda been another Raider cowboy SB again that wasn't!!! or maybe you didn't comprehend the BS as can be PI called on Lionel kid that gave em the ball at the 1 an 7 points that should obviously shouldnt have been that's just one an to he difference alone but course it's us the league won't let us win in the post season especially!!!! Even goes back before the merger as we were robbed in 2 straight championship games 68-69 the second bein in Oakland too not gonna get into details if ya don't know about em on ya own!!!! An now my Raiders cease to BE!!!! Till!!!! OAKLAND!!!!! RAIDERS!!!!! Faeva!!!!🦏🐼🦍🐬🐻🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
1993 Bills was the weakest team of 1990-1993 teams. Their offense explosiveness was gone all season, and I think their longest play of that SB was maybe 23 or 24 yards despite all the throwing Kelly was doing. The defense gave up a lot of yards during the season, but their scoring defense was good because they created so many turnovers. Not a Bills fan, but was cheering for them to win a SB, but everyone knew the Cowboys were clearly a better team.
Wrong. About five months from it. This is IN 1994, but from the 1993 season...as the NFL does it. Everything you referenced would happen June 17th, 1994 later on in the year.
He was still a beast even in his later years. He won the 1996 NFL Defensive Player of the Year in his 12th season in the NFL. Bruce was the first overall pick in the 1985 draft and the Bills also drafted Andre Reed in the 4th round in 85
The NFL's all time leader in QB sacks with 200. NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1990 and 96. Bruce, Lawrence Taylor, and Reggie White are the best pass rushers I've ever seen in my lifetime at least
All playoffs games the bills played in the early 90's this one was the most exciting. Falling behind 17-6 at the half battled back ,Bills only allowed 1first down in the second half. The freezing temperature. More of a team win than the other games.
I was a three going on four when this was Played. My first time seeing this. But It disappoints Me seeing a game scoreless In the first quarter. If the Los Angeles raider Had Managed even one forced safety or buffalo, the raiders Probably would have won. Now Here Is through Hypothetical question. If through raiders Had won, who would they root for the Next day? The Houston oilers who would Have Home field advantage Or the Kansas city chiefs who are the raider's Oldest rival?
In those days, the Bills wore one piece socks that were white on the bottom and red on top That gave the uniforms a more coordinated look. Socks had red tops to match with the helmets. Wish the red helmets would come back !
It would've been Thurman Thomas if Norwood made the FG. Thurman had 135 rushing yards and 60 yards receiving. But Ottis Anderson of the Giants got MVP with 102 rushing yards
Im from Boston was at this game with a friend a Buffalo fan from Rochester I've been to cold games at Pats game but after this game i said to myself never again will i go to a game this cold again but next week went to the AFC Championship game against KC not as cold thank god but back in Boston been to Pats games but never as cold as that Raiders game
Back in the day you always want to play in Buffalo in the snow on Madden or any football game for that matter and jett and Brown was apart of the snowbowl screwjob in new England and if I remember correctly this was Howie Long's final game before retiring and tough luck for Napoleon McCallum that little injury then a year later his career ending injury and one of the freakiest injuries in football history he was a great power back
We had a few chances to put Buffalo away in this game, but conservative play calling and Shell not having the balls to go for it late in the 4th did us in.
I'm a Bills fan and their 1993 team wasn't nearly as good as the 1990 team was. They were starting to age a little bit by the 93 season. And James Lofton retired after the 1992 season so their deep passing game wasn't quite as good
I confused this game with the 50 something blowout a couple years earlier. It was actually pretty close for awhile. The Raiders where never the same after Davis blackballed Marcus Allen. The old ‘pride and poise’ Raiders with their never surrender attitude probably win this game or it goes down to the absolute wire with one of the teams winning by field goal...
The next game featured Allen vs Thurman. Bills spanked Montana and the Chiefs, with Thomas running over thirty times for about 180 yards and three TDs.
That was ridiculous for a veteran of Howie Long’s tenure to commit THAT MANY offsides penalties in such an important game. It cost the Raiders a chance to obtain a final possession. Long lapsed at critical times during the game. Double agent!! Sadly for the Raiders, the team just didn’t score enough points during the Art Shell era to win Super Bowls.
Those Raiders really matched up well with those Bills - but beating them twice in 5 weeks at Rich Stadium in those days was just too much to ask of any team.
You must not have seen this game!!!! My RAIDERS in usual fashion were ROBBED the most B.S!!!!!! P.I.!!!! Call made on my Raiders believe it was on my boy an tremendously underrated Lionel Washington kid #48 that put the jerky bills in point blank range at the 1 for one of their scores that shoulda never been an that's just one!!!! My Silver n Black had command of this game an in usual fashion it was GiFT wrapped for the opposing team thank you very much!!!! Just one of so very many I watched the league/officials take victory away from my RAIDERS!!!! OAkLAND RAIDERS FAEVA BABY!!!!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐕🐬🐳🐻🐅🐖🐄
YEAH!!!! All those things always fuckin matter when it's another freakin team!!!! But when it's our silver n black it gets swept under the fuckin RUG as if it never even happened!!!! Da fuck outa here!!!!!!! Punks aginst the best, the rest can't handle that!!!! They need the fuckin league ta give them victory n take it away Againtst US!!!! Been witnessing these Crimes!!!! FAEVA!!!! It always comes down ta that!!!! Day 1 we been gettin Robbed!!!!....an well now I take the 5th!!!! Pray!!!!OAKLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!RAIDERS!!!!FAEVA!!!!!be good kid!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐕🐬🐳🐅🐻🐖🐄
Ha. Bunch of fucking cry babies! So one play in the second quarter means you got robbed. Get the fuck out of here!!! It isn't that PI calls fault ya'll could only muster up 6 points in the second half? One bad call in the second quarter is not getting robbed! Shut the fuck up!!!!!
Yeah shit call and it turned the tide in that game, Raiders had all the momentum heading into the half with a chance of a two possession lead and then Brooks trips up on his on damn feet going for the ball and they call PI on Dorn. That fucking play still pisses me off, no it's not the same as the tuck rule, you can't say it directly cost us the game but it was just another example of the Raiders having to play against the refs as the twelvth man as usaull. Man that catch in run by Brown at the end if the third quarter though was amazing, brings back memories. Makes me sick to think about what happened to McCallum against the 49ers on Monday night in the next seasons opener, I thought we were going be heading back to playoffs again the next year, but McCallum had the horrible injury that ended his career and Hostetler would get a shoulder injury later that year that took all his arm strength away and the season went down the drain and we wouldnt be back to the playoffs until 2000, sadly I thought that 6 year stretch was the worst to come, little did I know at the time how bad things could get.
Yes, I am a Bills fan and that was the call that swung the game. It was bogus. Instead of punting the Bills get easy TD on a cold as day when they are hard to come by. Thanks ref and too bad for Art cause he die great
@@haolejohn Hey nice to hear a Bills fan admit how much that call hurt the Raiders. On the road with the crowd and weather against you a moe swinging call like that is backbreaking, I mean even if it didn't happen and we stayed up two possessions going into that half, the Bills may very well have still come back, they were great at coming from behind, just look at what they did to the Oilers, but that call sealed the game and swung the moe.
Had the Raiders defeated the Bills and then went to Arrowhead to play the Chiefs the outcome in the 1993 afc championship game would have ended with the Chiefs going on to the Super Bowl guaranteed
Yes, and you can blame the Ref for that, throwing a BS flag and putting the Bills at the goaline. 3 points would not have won but that TD made the difference in the game. Montana vs Aikman and the boys would have been a tough battle for Joe but probably the most watched SB in history.
Whoopi was appearing in Star Trek TNG. and Robin Williams was alive and kicking! I wonder why John Ritter was excluded. R.I.P. Robin and John. Still miss you.
@@JeanPaulMueller May not have won any Super Bowls but they were still a great team....they couldn't help it if they had to face the NBA's version of the Golden State Warriors 4 straight times!
It's definitely fixed now but I don't believe it was back then. I think 2001 was the year it became more like Pro Wrestling than football. The Tuck Rule game is when I knew for sure it was rigged
It’s hard to argue with success, but what the heck. Why on *earth* was Buffalo still running a hurry up late in the game with a lead? Oakland had already connected on a deep one, so they could do so again and win with only one play. Therefore, had the Bills been unsuccessful on some of their late first downs, they might have granted the Raiders an extra possession that could have been their undoing.
I never realized it snowed during warmups. It was sunny and no snow during the game. I always think of this game and think, damn, the Raiders had them. But like the 1991 RS OT game at the Coli, the Bills rallied. Anyway the Raiders couldn't beat the Chiefs in those days and Marcus would've had another game to stick it to Al.
Except they weren't. They lost their last three Super Bowls by 13, 35, and 17 points. And that 13 point loss wasn't that close. Washington dominated them.
I don't think so......I think the league was going to adopt it anyway to bring more drama (and I mean that in a good way) to the games and make them more competitive. Considering 1994 was the NFL's 75th anniversary, it was also the AFL's 35th anniversary - The AFL used the 2-point conversion during its whole existence in the 60's.
