Big Turk Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 complete with the big play highlights... I can still see that game in my mind...Reed breaking away for a 72 yard TD, Metcalf going 90 yards for a big return TD right after we scored to take the lead...and of course Harmon dropping a perfectly thrown pas while he was wide open and the subsequent Clay Matthews INT to end it... what a great game...and I agree, it was one of the greatest games nobody ever talks about... https://taylorblitztimes.com/2011/12/02/the-greatest-nfl-game-never-talked-about/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewin Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 When HArmon dropped that ball it may have been the most devastated I've felt as a Bills fan. In the next week's SI there was a frame by frame of the ball going right into and through his hands. I actually cut it out and for years I had it in the room in my house where my weights were and channeled the anger/grief in my workouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That's No Moon Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 complete with the big play highlights... I can still see that game in my mind...Reed breaking away for a 72 yard TD, Metcalf going 90 yards for a big return TD right after we scored to take the lead...and of course Harmon dropping a perfectly thrown pas while he was wide open and the subsequent Clay Matthews INT to end it... what a great game...and I agree, it was one of the greatest games nobody ever talks about... https://taylorblitztimes.com/2011/12/02/the-greatest-nfl-game-never-talked-about/ It's fun to go back in these old games and count up how many penalties would be called today. Hint. It's tons. And the NFL wonders why ratings are down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 (edited) Watched that game with my roommate who was from Cleveland. Ronnie !@#$ing Harmon. Edited October 22, 2016 by KD in CA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LI_Bills Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Everyone remembers the next 4 years, but the run included 1989 and to a lesser extent 1988 and 1994. That loss to the Browns was devastating but it was also when I knew the Bills had arrived. I remember listening to the 1988 loss to the Bengals on the radio from the back seat (long ride home from grandmas funeral) and as I recall the Bills hung tough until some bad penalties by the goal line (maybe Bruce Smith on one?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Horseheads Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Ronnie Harmon.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talley56 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Bills Browns and playoff all in the same sentence. That's when you know you are going way back in the archives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites Bay Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 We used to joke that Ronnie Harmon was buried at the Sheldon Family Cemetery while we were "standing there" after several adult beverages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samwell Tarly Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Remember that heartbreaking game, back when we were all young and naive, and had no idea what a special team we had in the making, or how much we would miss them after the run was over....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester43 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I wish I could see Ronnie Harmon today....I would give him a hug. A LOT of dropped passes that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 (edited) When HArmon dropped that ball it may have been the most devastated I've felt as a Bills fan. In the next week's SI there was a frame by frame of the ball going right into and through his hands. I actually cut it out and for years I had it in the room in my house where my weights were and channeled the anger/grief in my workouts.This is analogous to Bill Buckner and the Red Sox in 1986. As time passes everyone remembers Buckner's error, but that moment did not lose the game. Harmon's drop did not end the game for the Bills. Kelly's goalline interception to Clay Matthews on the very next play did. Edited October 22, 2016 by PromoTheRobot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I sadly remember Ronnie Harmon's drop. But I had forgotten how great this game was before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADOLBILZ Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 The deeper background on this was that Harmon had long before been accused of fixing a bowl game when he was a college star at Iowa.........and he was maybe THE BEST receiving back in the NFL at this point......and it went thru his hands like he was legally blind? Yeah, it seemed an unlikely turn of events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF Bills Fan Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I remember the game well. Cleveland had to paint their awful muddy field green. No wonder the team split. But what a game. That was the last time the Browns were great and we were just at beginning of greatness. Everyone remembers the next 4 years, but the run included 1989 and to a lesser extent 1988 and 1994. That loss to the Browns was devastating but it was also when I knew the Bills had arrived. I remember listening to the 1988 loss to the Bengals on the radio from the back seat (long ride home from grandmas funeral) and as I recall the Bills hung tough until some bad penalties by the goal line (maybe Bruce Smith on one?). Bruce had a phantom face mask that day on Boomer that kept a key bengals drive alive that was paramount to them winning. The bills could have competed big time with the Niners in the Super Bowl that year. Still mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurmal34 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 That game put the Bills on the map. I will never forget it, or the loss to the Bungholes in the AFC champ game the year before. Same thing is gonna happen this year. The Bills may not win it all, but they are going to firmly place themselves in the discussion. The future is bright. Buy in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF Bills Fan Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 ^ agreed- I feel the Bills are making a name this year. They are building a system. It's not the best players but it is the best team. It's that winning identity. You don't need rock stars to win with this system they are building. The important thing is they believe they can win any game- Pats, Seahawks. No team is intimidating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Watched that game with my roommate who was from Cleveland. Ronnie !@#$ing Harmon. He blew the Rose Bowl for Iowa too! First thing my new boss said to me when I moved to Rock Island: "Don't feel bad, he blew the Rose Bowl for us too!" Gee... Thanks boss! In good BFLo torture, I just shipped my son off to be a Hawkeye! I was at the Cleveland game in 1989... w/girlfriend... She almost got me killed while sitting in a sea of brutal Bernie Brownie fans! I am a lover not a fighter! Funny thing about Harmon. I recall him making a better catch than the Beckham grab. Was a game against INDY, middle of the endzone, he was almost horizontal in the air and pulled the ball in with one out stretched hand. First drive to start third 1/4 I think? Does anybody remember that circus catch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookie Man Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Wow I totally forgot about that missed PAT to pull within 3. Ahhhh Buffalo... That was one of the first games I watched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 It's fun to go back in these old games and count up how many penalties would be called today. Hint. It's tons. And the NFL wonders why ratings are down... On that note, last Sunday I watched the entire "no punt" game ('92) since the Bills were playing the Niners, and thought the same thing. It was incredible. I really wish somebody with some common sense could get into the commissioner's head and help him understand that simpler is better -- you know, the time-tested K.I.S.S. principle. The NFL rule book is an overly complicated mess. They could simplify things immensely while still protecting players -- and stop focusing on nonsense like player celebrations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I attended that game.Their old stadium made the rock pile ;ook like a pale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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