What is your favorite Buffalo Bills memory?

[Kelly the Dog]

Just now, Augie said:

While I didn’t LOVE single digit temps for a SB, we had a blast in Minny. At the hotel we accidentally got on the wrong bus - it was full of a bunch of guys from Germany. Some spoke english, and it quickly became apparent the had little respect for a weak Budweiser or twenty. They all had backpacks full of beer on the ride to the stadium and it was flowing and they were generous. We should invite them to Hammers!  

Minneapolis was amazing. I went to seven Super Bowls total and that city was the best by far. It was freezing, yes, but so much fun. We stayed in the Marriot that was across from seven corners by University of Minnesota. The owner of the bar, Bullwinkles, which was a college bar, wrote a letter to the Buffalo News saying how great the Bills fans were and they never had better customers. That place was nuts. 

[Augie]

1 minute ago, Kelly the Dog said:

Minneapolis was amazing. I went to seven Super Bowls total and that city was the best by far. It was freezing, yes, but so much fun. We stayed in the Marriot that was across from seven corners by University of Minnesota. The owner of the bar, Bullwinkles, which was a college bar, wrote a letter to the Buffalo News saying how great the Bills fans were and they never had better customers. That place was nuts. 

 

THAT, is very cool. That was my only SB, but I’ve been to Minny 3 times. GREAT city! They celebrate summer like crazy! Walking, jogging, biking, flowers everywhere! We went into a restaurant on a Thursday night and had a long wait. Great place, worth the wait. The next night, FRIDAY NIGHT, we walk past and it’s empty! “Where is everybody?”, I ask. They tell me it’s Friday. HUH? Isn’t that a big night? No they tell me, everyone takes a 3-4 day weekends all summer to go to their lake houses. Then you just work all winter. (At least you never have to go outside downtown with all the enclosed skywalks.) 

[Buffalo Boy]

Random memory:

Does anyone remember during the Knox/ Ferguson years; a fan threw a roll of TP on the field. 

A thirty foot strand of it got on the whole D line, then when they got out of it the O line got into it, just blowing down the field.

They had to stop the clock

Edited November 7, 2017 by Buffalo Boy

[Boatdrinks]

51 -3 Vs Raiders AFC Championship . Best game ever and the sense of football euphoria with the entire crowd standing to chant " thank you Bills" in the 4th quarter was impossible to top. Only a SuperBowl win is capable of eclipsing that day. 

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

Things I've personally been involved in:

• First game in November 1970 at the Rockpile
• Being on the Buffalo News "picture page" in my Bills uniform 1970
• Being at the first game at Rich Stadium
• Waiting in line for hours to meet OJ at a Radio Shack in 1973
• Come-back win over the Raiders on MNF - 1974
• Jim Kelly's first game in 1986
• First away game - Bills/Browns Playoff game 1990 (birth of the K-Gun)
• Win over Miami to clinch division 1990
• Playoff win over Miami 1990
• 51-3
• Super Bowl XXV 
  • National Anthem still gives me goosebumps
  • That final drive, the anticipation of the last kick
• Walking into our hotel lobby the night before SB XXVI to find the team checking in - ours was the 'secret hotel'
• The Comeback
• Celebrating signings of Chris Spielman & Takeo Spikes
• Being at the "snow game" vs Miami with my 6 year old son and having him refuse to leave early
• 18 years of TBDAHOTs
• HOF Inductions - JK, Thurman, Bruce & Ralph, Andre
• Memorable road trips (New Orleans being tops)

Edited November 7, 2017 by JÂy RÛßeÒ

[Bills4everNY]

The end of 51-3. Seeing Bruce Smith celebrating on the sideline and Kelly thowing a football into the crowd.

[Peace Frog]

I was at The Comeback game in Jan. 1993 with my dad and a stripper (I used to DJ at Club Diamond Dust and she was a Jeff Wright fan) and should pick this one as my favorite, but I'm going to pick the Miami game, week 16 in 1990 (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199012230buf.htm).  Frank Reich was the starter, we won the AFC East after that game, and the crowd rushed the field and started tearing down the goal posts on the tunnel end, which is where I was seated.  I'll never forget seeing one of the uprights make its way to the top of the visitor's side upper deck by the time I made it out to the parking lot.  Pure insanity!  

[Augie]

5 minutes ago, Peace Frog said:

I was at The Comeback game in Jan. 1993 with my dad and a stripper (I used to DJ at Club Diamond Dust and she was a Jeff Wright fan) and should pick this one as my favorite, but I'm going to pick the Miami game, week 16 in 1990 (https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199012230buf.htm).  Frank Reich was the starter, we won the AFC East after that game, and the crowd rushed the field and started tearing down the goal posts on the tunnel end, which is where I was seated.  I'll never forget seeing one of the uprights make its way to the top of the visitor's side upper deck by the time I made it out to the parking lot.  Pure insanity!  

 

Going to hit the link, but then I realized it wasn’t to the stripper, so.... 

[SoCal Deek]

4 hours ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

Things I've personally been involved in:

• First game in November 1970 at the Rockpile
• Being on the Buffalo News "picture page" in my Bills uniform 1970
• Being at the first game at Rich Stadium
• Waiting in line for hours to meet OJ at a Radio Shack in 1973
• Come-back win over the Raiders on MNF - 1974
• Jim Kelly's first game in 1986
• First away game - Bills/Browns Playoff game 1990 (birth of the K-Gun)
• Win over Miami to clinch division 1990
• Playoff win over Miami 1990
• 51-3
• Super Bowl XXV 
  • National Anthem still gives me goosebumps
  • That final drive, the anticipation of the last kick
• Walking into our hotel lobby the night before SB XXVI to find the team checking in - ours was the 'secret hotel'
• The Comeback
• Celebrating signings of Chris Spielman & Takeo Spikes
• Being at the "snow game" vs Miami with my 6 year old son and having him refuse to leave early
• 18 years of TBDAHOTs
• HOF Inductions - JK, Thurman, Bruce & Ralph, Andre
• Memorable road trips (New Orleans being tops)

Dude....I think you may actually be....me! 

[Marv's Neighbor]

BILLS 20, Chargers 7...12/26/64.  Saw it, in color, on TV in a Holiday Inn room in Rochester.  Good times!

[SinceThe70s]

5 hours ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

Things I've personally been involved in:

• Waiting in line for hours to meet OJ at a Radio Shack in 1973

 

Unless I missed another post, I think this is the first OJ reference. 

 

From a selfish Bills fan perspective it sucks that his accomplishments as a Bill can no longer be enjoyed. 

 

 

[Jauronimo]

Fitz-scream and the Comeback heard round the world is up there for me.  The week before that featured another huge second half comeback against the Raiders.  Its a bit sad that the Super Bowl years were so long ago that the warm fuzzy Bills memories in my adult brain are comebacks in another 7-9 season.

[Augie]

23 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Unless I missed another post, I think this is the first OJ reference. 

 

From a selfish Bills fan perspective it sucks that his accomplishments as a Bill can no longer be enjoyed. 

 

 

 

OJ was mentioned at least once previously, but I’ll agree it’s strange that wasn’t more of a lead story. 

[SinceThe70s]

1 minute ago, Augie said:

 

OJ was mentioned at least once previously, but I’ll agree it’s strange that wasn’t more of a lead story. 

 

I'll bet some people have great memories of the 2003 yard season. I followed it through the newspapers.

 

Anyway, just sad that an all-time great is (and should be) an after-thought.

[Augie]

Just now, SinceThe70s said:

 

I'll bet some people have great memories of the 2003 yard season. I followed it through the newspapers.

 

Anyway, just sad that an all-time great is (and should be) an after-thought.

 

I lived around the corner from him as a high school kid. It was weird when we’d go by his house and yell stupid stuff to the guys in his front yard hours after a game. 

[Gugny]

The day Doug Flutie left.

 

There isn't even a close second, for me.

[row_33]

9 hours ago, Augie said:

 

OJ was mentioned at least once previously, but I’ll agree it’s strange that wasn’t more of a lead story. 

 

As a gimmick they ran OJ until he had to use a golf cart to get around, Earl got the same treatment.

 

OJ's best moment. for me, was his reflection on his greatest game (to him) for 200 against the Bradshaw Steelers. He said every man on D was exactly textbook where he should have been and that he was able to leap above that thinking and go against where they should be. I have never heard a team complimented like that nor another RB able to tell us he took the game to that level of thought.

 

 

35 minutes ago, Gugny said:

The day Doug Flutie left.

 

There isn't even a close second, for me.

 

I liked Flutie's incredible twisted negative outlook, which he brings to his broadcasts...

 

I was aghast at fans who WORSHIPED!!!! this guy though.... he touched some sad-sack unfair resentment that they held in their heart.

 

Athletes aren't meant to make you feel better about failures and emotional boo-boos when you are 40....

 

[4_kidd_4]

Leaving early and beating the traffic.

 

Can’t remember much  beyond that, it’s been a while

[BarleyNY]

Really enjoyed watching he Jim Kelly Era Bills teams.  It was before I moved to Buffalo and started rooting for the Bills, but it was so much fun to watch them.

 

While watching the comeback over the Oilers in a Cleveland Flats bar my uncle got into an argument about Moon with a guy there.  My uncle kept calling him the biggest choke artist in the game and the other guy kept circling back to it being a racial thing.  He was black and my uncle white). That escalated during the first half and at halftime my uncle bet the guy $20 that Moon would choke the game away and that Houston would lose.  That guy kept getting more and more angry as the game slipped away.  He stormed out right after the Bills took the lead.  I almost felt bad for him.  Luckily the bartender kept the bet money for us.  He was laughing his ass off. 

 

After those it’d have to be Rex getting canned.