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hey FunPolice your getting a little too fun right now

Not meant as a shot more a reflection; the fact so many fans long for 1pm games show how bad the Bills were and how irrelevant they were during the drought. The NFL changed over those two decades where if you were remotely decent/or at least had some players worth watching you had 2-3 night games and 2-3 games in the 4pm spot. The Bills literally had seasons where they had 15 1pm games which in todays NFL is wild given the amount of primetime spots they make available. Again no shot at you as I also enjoy the 1pm games and personally would prefer week 1 to always be at 1pm (or TNF ), but its wild how two decades worth of fans got conditioned to 1pm because the team was so bad haha

My guess has been 2x SNF games this year given the high profile opponents they face. Thanksgiving night would be spicy

I am honestly stunned because the Bills would have been the road team and with Josh as MVP I really thought they were going to lean into that.

They cannot got too much later due to network deals and scheduling. It was moved to May so in years the draft has some big QB hype and players they can build off of it. Get ready for Arch Manning to be on 3x when he comes in the league in a year or two.

AFC gets 9 home games this year. Given this is the last year at highmark my thought has been they open at home if they are away week 18. Again could be wrong, but all coaches wish they could open and close at home so I gotta believe if they are roadies week 18 they are home week 1. I actually made some good money on betting Rome's fall thanks for the reminder

Only reason I do not think it will happen is the Bills are most likely closing on the road week 18 if Xmas is the regular season finale. It is not completely unheard of although rare to open on the road AND close on the road, but my guess is they are home.

Hold on we only ranked the past 25 years. This game will have to wait 24 more to join the last 50 year rankings. Sorry those are the rules I didn't make them

It was blacked out although if you had satellite back then apparently you could get the game as my dad watched it at his uncles who had satellite. And yes the correct number in attendance was 750k and the snowbowl had 300k vs IND

2004 had a level of desperation as Bledsoe was aging but there still was a shot to be something otherwise it was going to get bad. The defense looked good until the final drive and so many what if moments. Freaking Ernest Wilford

Typically at home they lose one you are not expecting. That may be my pick this year for the reasons you said, especially if that game is earlier in the year and the secondary/d-line is figuring itself out. The game in 2017 was a straight up shootout and could see that again.

That Colts Broncos game in 2022 on TNF where Al Michaels was actively ripping on the game and apologizing to the fans is the only one I've seen come close to the despair that was this sh*t show. By the way Al deserved an award for his commentary that game it was hysterical.

They were not just good that loss cost them the 1 seed and instead of hosting Seattle they went there. We all know how that unfolded

That was our second Bills party and first victory and to this day our favorite. We were so excited we ran down our street with like 20 friends and family waving flags and playing the shout song. My wife's cousin jumped on our shed (no idea how he didn't fall through) waving the Bills flag. Ended up partying until like 10 pm celebrating because why not. Morning was not as fun haha Fred's run was something else, but I always forget Kyle Williams had a really big INT also. Robert Woods also had a gem of a catch late making me even more sad we couldn't keep him.

I should have added this subnote on this game. After the coin toss for OT my dad stepped away in the kitchen to use the bathroom and figured he had time. He heard me start yelling oh no this isn't good they might score and it changed quickly from semi joking to oh crap this is happening. He came out and I was like "we blew it the Jets ran another one back" and he goes "yea I could hear in the bathroom your tone changed quickly" lol. If there is one thing during the bad years I get a smile is the amount of good memories I have with my dad and later on my wife with all of these games. Luckily he is still kicking well, but I do not take it for granted.

Gailey intentionally took a safety late because he didn’t trust the offense to convert 4th down. It was a very very dull game

This was my early days as a Bills fan since I was 13/14 so it was a bummer but my investment wasn’t the same so can’t compare. But Bledsoe coming was super big deal

Home opener 2017. We do a big Bills party every year (since 2014) with family and friends. The game was billed as the toilet bowl as expectations were so low between the Jets & Bills. Yet it was a truly beautiful fall day, the game was very exciting and fun, and it was the start of the whole change even if we did not know it.

It is not perfect by any means but it is also the best guide available for reasonable guesses on the year and who may be good

Yall are crushing my dream one day at a time over here haha

Weeks 2-18 are the responsibility of @Kirby Jackson

Believe you are correct and they took the goal posts down also. There was another in 88 or 89 where they opened in Miami and Kelly ran it in last second. My dad said my uncle was so excited he nearly threw the TV through the window.

Def would've been top ten prob top five for me as I was in college senior year and we had a house full of Bills fans going wild. The worst thing about that loss too was it just cemented they were not going anywhere with Jauron. The prior two years they had floated near .500 with some major losses in big moments. They were the definition of in the hunt, but you hoped once you were actually over the hump to be in the dance. You had hoped the coach and QB had learned enough to take the step where you at least could be a wildcard team. PLUS with the ownership situation you knew things were not stellar so you were clinging to life. Lucky for us the we had a 6-3 loss coming a few weeks later!

2021 opener in terms of pain wasn't bad for me for three reasons: 1. Just having fans back and COVID going rearview mirror was so reliving and refreshing 2. PIT was a solid team still and BUF while good was not fully established yet.. so hiccups were not a surprise and Buffalo wasn't awful as much as the offense just had some miscues. 3. The Bills had a very favorable schedule and figured it out in the first half before that weird middle happened and they still got it together to be rolling at seasons end. Also my youngest son was born 2 days before the game. We were just happy to be home with home and our family so it was just nice having football by that point haha.

Irony is Miami buffalo was week 1 a lot during the 80/90s