JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Bills switched back to base 3-4 personnel in 2nd half after playing dime in first half...Gilbride tried to exploit the mismatches but couldn't as we attacked... And that right there should prove to people that you don't let the other team dictate your approach. One reason I was so in favor of the coaching change - Chan too easily bought into the "they put 8 in the box so we didn't try to run" thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWings Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Charlie Jones was such a classic play by play man "You gotta love it...unless you're in Houston" lol I always loved Charlie Jones...but Todd Christensen was one of the most condescending analysts I've ever listened to. At this point, I've tuned him out and just listened to Jones' calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 I always loved Charlie Jones...but Todd Christensen was one of the most condescending analysts I've ever listened to. At this point, I've tuned him out and just listened to Jones' calls. Love the perm tho... NOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gianelli Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hooked up the VCR and just finished watching the tape. Having been there for the game, I consider it a lifetime highlight. No way was I leaving, even when it was 35-3. I had left the Notre Dame - Houston Cotton Bowl, which was Notre Dame's greatest comeback ever, and swore never again. Some things I noticed watching the tape: - how much production values have improved in 20 years - how few distractions there were on the screen back then: no score updates, no down-and-distance, certainly no fantasy stats - they didn't go to the sideline reporters while the game was in progress (the sideline reporter that day was O.J.) - the relative lack of promos for upcoming shows on the network It seemed much easier to concentrate on the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecoz77 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I remember this well. I was getting progressively angrier as the game went on. At half-time, I turned off the TV and turned on Joe Montana Sports Talk Football for my Genesis (it's been that long). I turn the game back on, and before I knew it, I was standing and jumping on my couch. A few days later, my math teacher, who knew I was a huge Bills fan (I lived in southern NY, Jets/Giants country) brought me a "You Got the Reich One Baby" shirt with the score on the back. I still had that shire until not long ago. Man, we need this team to get good again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills44 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Mark Maddox: "they don't want it!" Carwell Gardner: " it's ours! B-lo! (lifts up helmet and points to it)" Darryl Talley: "this is a team, dammit! We can overcome!" And the classic line from Jeff Wright : " it's Pandemonia! All over!" What a day that was.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Blizzard Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 (edited) It's depressing to talk about the current team, so let's turn back the clock in advance of the 20 year anniversary of "The Comeback." I'm writing a story about this game and would like to incorporate some stories about how fans experienced the game. Everyone in WNY old enough to remember this game has a story about that day. I was at the game and almost left at 35-3- Thank God I didn't! What's your story? My brother-in-law and I were able to score some tickets to the wild card game; no easy feat back in the midst of the Superbowl years. But thanks to the drubbing the Bills had just suffered at the hands of the Oilers the previous weekend, ticket sales were slow, and the game was blacked out. We made the 90 minute trip to Orchard Park, parked in somebody's "lawn turned parking lot" and walked 3/4 of a mile to Rich.. An hour into the game, it looked like we'd wasted our money. We sat there: cold, wet and disgusted, and hoping that somehow the tide would turn in the third quarter. The Bills proceeded to go down yet another 7 points: 35-3 My bro-in-law (who was 20 at the time) said "you wanna leave?". I sat there for a moment, realizing it would be the last Bills game we would see until next fall, because there was no way the Bills were going to pull this one out. I can still remember what I said: "Nah, we paid good money to sit here and freeze". I seriously just wanted to watch some players who I knew would never play in a Bills uniform ever again. Had no idea that we were in for the treat of our football lives. I've been to some very exciting games over the past 25 years: The Frank Reich Monday night game vs the LA Rams(1989), and a 38-24 sunday night game vs the Raiders the following season are two that stick out. But that cold dreary Sunday 20 years ago is a game I will NEVER forget! Edited January 4, 2013 by Mr_Blizzard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I had just returned to Indy from Buffalo that week. Got alot of grief from buddies that the Bills run was over. Watched the game wth my future wife. She gave up at half time and started to read abook but I could not. With Davis TD I told her the tide was turning. It was the greatest time to be a Bills fane in that 2nd half. We screamed like were at the stadium. After the game I called home. My late father was bummed out about the game. When I told him we won, he did not believe me so he turned on the radio and learned that I was right. It made his day. I wished I could have heard the radio broadcast and listen to Van Miller. The TV crew that day sucked. Boomer Berman on ESPN was shocked as they did the highlights. AHHHHHH what a day. It truely was FANDEMONIUM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowery4 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I went to NYC that weekend, I watched the first half in a bar on 2nd ave. After the pitcher of beer we thought we getting kind of buzzed and we need to go visit an artist's studio still (we were running a not for profit gallery in Buffalo at the time),so I said; they lost this game let's give him a call, so we did and he said, yeah come right over. So, we missed the 2nd half. The next day we are sitting on a subway train going somewhere and on the back page of someone's NYPost is a picture of Christy being carried off the field and a caption "They Choke!!" I was like no effing way! I went and bought a paper and read about it. Unreal, greatest comeback ever and it was the Bills and I missed it, damn. Who ever posted that link, today after 20 years, I just watched it (at least the second half and OT) which I never saw before (of course I did see high lights before but never every play), thanks for that! One last thing, Talley was a monster LBer maybe my favorite player on that team, I missed maybe his best performance too that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredo G. Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Watched the game at my apartment with my girlfriend(not a football fan), when the Oilers went up 35-3 she said I'm going home you're not going to be much fun tonight. I said you know what its been a good run, I'm watching the rest of this game. The Bills score once then twice, my brother calls from Chicago, I say I'm not talking to anybody,i'm not moving, I got to take a wicked piss. I sat on that couch, the phone rang and I didn't move till the game was over! I went nuts had 20 calls from Buffalo. I called my girlfriend and said guess what they came back!.. Come over!,. hit that ass all night long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRH Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Watched the game at my apartment with my girlfriend(not a football fan), when the Oilers went up 35-3 she said I'm going home you're not going to be much fun tonight. I said you know what its been a good run, I'm watching the rest of this game. The Bills score once then twice, my brother calls from Chicago, I say I'm not talking to anybody,i'm not moving, I got to take a wicked piss. I sat on that couch, the phone rang and I didn't move till the game was over! I went nuts had 20 calls from Buffalo. I called my girlfriend and said guess what they came back!.. Come over!,. hit that ass all night long That just may be the best debut post of all time on this board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Carwell Gardner: " it's ours! B-lo! (lifts up helmet and points to it)" I'm pretty sure he was channeling Solomon Wilcotts there and said "Beeohs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 http://audio.wgr550.com/a/69448632/1-3-van-miller-mark-stout-remember-the-greatest-comeback-game-w-john-murphy.htm I still have this game on VHS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowery4 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Watched the game at my apartment with my girlfriend(not a football fan), when the Oilers went up 35-3 she said I'm going home you're not going to be much fun tonight. I said you know what its been a good run, I'm watching the rest of this game. The Bills score once then twice, my brother calls from Chicago, I say I'm not talking to anybody,i'm not moving, I got to take a wicked piss. I sat on that couch, the phone rang and I didn't move till the game was over! I went nuts had 20 calls from Buffalo. I called my girlfriend and said guess what they came back!.. Come over!,. hit that ass all night long That's what will happen if you don't pee all day, it's like viagra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I remember this well. I was getting progressively angrier as the game went on. At half-time, I turned off the TV and turned on Joe Montana Sports Talk Football for my Genesis (it's been that long). I turn the game back on, and before I knew it, I was standing and jumping on my couch. A few days later, my math teacher, who knew I was a huge Bills fan (I lived in southern NY, Jets/Giants country) brought me a "You Got the Reich One Baby" shirt with the score on the back. I still had that shire until not long ago. Man, we need this team to get good again. "Better hurry...better hurry" Lol!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
49er Fan Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I remember missing the game due to the blackout but I was annoyed that they completed the comeback because Buffalo was the one team I did not want to see SF face in a potential Super Bowl. Buffalo beat Miami in the AFCCG and I thought it was going to be SF-BUF but Alvin Harper running free for 60+ yards late in the NFCCG crushed those hopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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