todzilla Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Most fun game I ever attended. Just a 3+ hour celebration of the Bills and the country. The USA chants gave me chills and chanting "Thank You Bills" and "Super Bowl" during the 4th quarter still makes me smile. We stayed up all night to get tickets at an M&T bank. I have the USA Today copy from monday with an awesome article about the Bills and the juxtaposition of the war, and my friends and I are in the picture of the crowd going crazy. It was a perfect day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 I was just reminded tonight about that. It was spine tingling, goose bump causing unbridled patriotism..........Flags just all over the place out of nowhere, everybody singing as loud as they could, fly-by iirc.........I remember back then trying to find a recording and I dont' think NBC had done a good job, if they even had us on (they kept switching to war coverage during the game)..........Is there anyway to find that video? Does anybody remember how incredible that was? My friends and I drank so much for that game that the only thing I can remember is never sitting down because the Bills kept scoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbuk3 Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I57EZLhJn7g Best 10 minutes that I spent today. Makes one realize how pitiful the Bills offense has been the last 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsNYC Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 I got chills watching that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsNYC Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Wow, they went for it on 4th and goal up 21-3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgrid Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Didn't Bo Jackson get injurred in the previous round against the Bengals? BO don't know snow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsPhan Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 I am not thinking of Whitney at all..........It was the AFC Championship game. The first national event since the start of the war earlier that week. I was there, but I wasn't at the Super Bowl...........It was something I'd never forget or mix up with soemthing else. I was at the game with my future wife, and we both cried our eyes out during that anthem. You know, I seem to remember that our game may have been the second major sporting event on TV since the Gulf War started, although I could be wrong about this. (After missing the playoffs for 10 straight years, thinking back to the actual beginning of the greatest Bills teams ever is really getting more and more difficult!). Was there an NHL game on national TV from Chicago played perhaps the Saturday evening before our game, where I remember the fans taking the roof off old Chicago Stadium during that anthem? Whatever, I'm glad you brought our National Anthem up for that game, since I did not attend the SB the next week, and was there at our game to experience the anthem, as opposed to watching Whitney Houston on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Anybody that has a video of the game, if you send it to me, I'll get the anthem or whatever NBC showed of it up on YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted January 12, 2010 Author Share Posted January 12, 2010 I was at the game with my future wife, and we both cried our eyes out during that anthem. You know, I seem to remember that our game may have been the second major sporting event on TV since the Gulf War started, although I could be wrong about this. (After missing the playoffs for 10 straight years, thinking back to the actual beginning of the greatest Bills teams ever is really getting more and more difficult!). Was there an NHL game on national TV from Chicago played perhaps the Saturday evening before our game, where I remember the fans taking the roof off old Chicago Stadium during that anthem? Whatever, I'm glad you brought our National Anthem up for that game, since I did not attend the SB the next week, and was there at our game to experience the anthem, as opposed to watching Whitney Houston on TV. There may have been some NHL game or something like that in between the start of the war, and our game, but ours was the first what I would call national event. Something where a huge part of the population would be watching. It also was such a different time, which somebody younger wouldn't really understand why it was so emotional........It was our first real war since Vietnam, which was over 15 years before that, a very long time, esp. to most young people at that game. It was not like this decade, where war has been a constant. (Plus, there was fear and machismo and patriotism and alcohol to turn this into such a rush - we weren't sure if the Iraqis would win this war - they were the veteran warriors.) And, terror was not something that was on our minds much yet. But, when the NBC cameras came in front of us, they had pictures of terrorists tape all up and down them, so that the cameramen could spot any in the crowd. Then, we were like Whoa, this is serious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 It also was such a different time, which somebody younger wouldn't really understand why it was so emotional........It was our first real war since Vietnam, which was over 15 years before that, a very long time, esp. to most young people at that game. It was not like this decade, where war has been a constant. (Plus, there was fear and machismo and patriotism and alcohol to turn this into such a rush - we weren't sure if the Iraqis would win this war - they were the veteran warriors.) Born in 1970, I stayed up all night that first night of the bombing watching the news. I can't remember when I went to bed, I do remember my Dad going to work the next morning asking me if anything had happened overnight. I think my reply was something like "we're kicking the **** outta them with the bombing". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 I remember it. Sharon Jones sang it(wife of Rusty Jones). She had a very good voice. Crowd was very loud (was at the game).I have the telecast recorded (somewhere). They had some audio problems. NBC was showing gulf war coverage and Bob Costas broke in and they switched to live coverage of Jones' national anthem and America the beautiful. Great stuff. I believe this is right. Losing Sharon Jones was almost as bad as losing Rusty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalkie Gerzowski Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I57EZLhJn7g My knee was in worse shape than Kelly's but when Talley picked that ball off and took it to the house I think I jumped about two feet in the air at least 10 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted January 12, 2010 Author Share Posted January 12, 2010 Born in 1970, I stayed up all night that first night of the bombing watching the news. I can't remember when I went to bed, I do remember my Dad going to work the next morning asking me if anything had happened overnight. I think my reply was something like "we're kicking the **** outta them with the bombing". Yeah, I remember doing that. Watching it non stop, staying up late. I asked my father how he made it through WWII. My emotions were up and down by the hour and we were only a few days in and, unlike him, I wasn't doing the fighting. Thanks for volunteering to get anything that anybody has up on youtube. That would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalkie Gerzowski Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 I was at the game with my future wife, and we both cried our eyes out during that anthem. You know, I seem to remember that our game may have been the second major sporting event on TV since the Gulf War started, although I could be wrong about this. (After missing the playoffs for 10 straight years, thinking back to the actual beginning of the greatest Bills teams ever is really getting more and more difficult!). Was there an NHL game on national TV from Chicago played perhaps the Saturday evening before our game, where I remember the fans taking the roof off old Chicago Stadium during that anthem? Whatever, I'm glad you brought our National Anthem up for that game, since I did not attend the SB the next week, and was there at our game to experience the anthem, as opposed to watching Whitney Houston on TV. The NHL All-Star game was in Chicago the day before the Bills-Raiders game. Chicago was real loud for the anthem, so was OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 The NHL All-Star game was in Chicago the day before the Bills-Raiders game. Chicago was real loud for the anthem, so was OP. Like I said, ours was the first national event with people watching! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 Good job to both of you on remembering that All Star Game, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB2004 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 I got chills watching that. Wow that was special to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hb123 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Wow that was special to watch. Best and loudest game I've ever been to. Great memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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