Which Bills Moments Legitimately Made You Cry?

[BuffaloRush]

Again, I’m stealing a really interesting topic from Howard and Jeremy and twisting it around to share here.

 

Question is - what moments in Bills history made you cry?  This is a serious question too - so no embellishing.  I mean - I was thrilled when they broke the playoff streak but I didn’t cry over it (like Russ Brandon was rumored to be doing).  It’s an interesting idea and I’d love to hear your responses.  

 

All of my moments were as a youngster.  I haven’t cried over football but certainly have felt a myriad of different emotions:

 

Super Bowl 25 - I remember losing it when Norwood shanked that kick.  I was literally in tears and finished with Scotty as a kicker.  Looking back, Scotty was on the decline in 1990 and should not have been in that position.  I fault the Bills for holding onto a player that they should have upgraded from for a season too long.  Also there’s a lot of blame to pass around for that game.

 

New England 16, Buffalo 13

I never saw this knew coming.  New England was a terrible team that year and they pulled off a giant upset.  The Bills actually struggled against the Patriots earlier in the season, but I never could have called this one.  I remember having to run around the block after the result of this game.  

 

Jets 24, Bills 17 - 1992

This was “The Dennis Byrd Game.”  I was in shock that the Bills lost to such a bad team.

 

Super Bowl 26

The score made this one seem a lot closer than it was.  To me this just seemed like a slaughter.  Nothing that the Bills did seemed to work on offense and the defense was getting shredded.  Just a clear nightmare.  

 

Houston 27, Buffalo 3 - 1992

This was supposed to be an AFC Showdown.  But instead it was the game that went off the rails for the Bills.  Houston knocked Jim Kelly out of the game and absolutely owned the Bills.  I remember being sad not just because they lost because it seemed their time at the top was nearing an end.  I remember thinking, “well, it’s over.  It was fun while it lasted.”  This game was a Sunday evening game if I can recall and it wasn’t pretty.  

 

Therr were plenty other moments as an adult where I was livid, angry, or pissed off but never reduced to tears.  How about your moments....

 

Edited May 24, 2018 by BuffaloRush

[Buffalo716]

wide right

 

music city miracle 

 

day ralph passed i shed a tear

[Canadian Bills Fan]

Making the playoffs last year

 

 

Also when they retired Kelly's number and Hunter was with him. I was lucky enough to have been at that game. Not a dry eye in the house

[LB3]

When Kevin Everett walked back onto to the field for the first time after his injury.

[Happy]

Made me cry - January, 1981 loss to the San Diego Chargers which finished the short playoff run.  I was a young kid at the time.

Pissed off - Wide right.  We should have won that SB.

Disappointed - too many to list.

Now, I'm optimistic we're headed in the right direction.

[dhg]

Wide Right

 

Kevin Everett 

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

this last year. I welled up some watching the video(s) leading up to the moment the drought was broken.

 

http://www.nfl.com/m/share?p=%2Fvideos%2Fnfl-turning-point%2F0ap3000000902518%2FThe-moment-the-drought-ended-in-Buffalo-NFL-Turning-Point

[row_33]

cry? never

 

but Ronnie Harmon dropping the winning TD pass in that playoff game in Cleveland was the last time I got angry or upset

 

 

[MJS]

The games haven't, but seeing some of the Jim Kelly videos / documentaries surrounding his hard life and cancer fight have.

[row_33]

 

[CNY315]

None. I was pretty tight when Stevie dropped the TD against the Steelers though

[HOUSE]

Every time I pay for parking

[row_33]

8 minutes ago, THE SLAMMER said:

Every time I pay for parking

 

last time it was $15 on someone's front lawn

 

[ricojes]

Listening to GR after the Pegula's bought the team ensuring the Bills would remain in Buffalo.  Some very emotional moments when hearing about the love of the Bills along with family and family tradition stories.  Most were saying it didn't matter how well they do, they would be happy as long as they were here to stay...

 

 

Such liars!

Edited May 24, 2018 by ricojes

[NextYear'sTheOne]

I'm a young guy. I remember the music city "miracle" and that made me cry. A few years later a Monday night game against the cowboys. I was so proud to finally have a prime time game and we were playing really well.. We blew it in spectacular fashion at the end and I went to bed with tears in my eyes. 

Seeing Kyle cry with his kids in the lockeroom was the most recent time ..

 

[Blokestradamus]

The day Ralph passed was a tough one. I never actually expected that it would make me respond quite the way that it did. Having feelings of mourning a perfect stranger is a very surreal experience. Perhaps it wasn't so much his death but the uncertainty that may have followed.

 

Sport seldom makes me cry, good or bad. It's mainly anger with the teams that I support

[Your Brown Eye]

The only time I cried was the last Super Bowl against the Cowboys. I was pretty young, 3rd grade maybe? That's the only time I cried. 

 

I felt gutted when Sam Cowart got hurt when he was having a monster year. It's was a 3 person race to the best LB in the league: Cowart, Spikes, Lewis. And Cowart was every bit as good as them before the cheap shot by the TB lineman.

 

 

[CommonCents]

I was a kid and I don’t remember crying but wide right sure did pop my Bills sadness cherry. 

[Kirby Jackson]

I cry a lot. 

[Soda Popinski]

I was 12 in 91 when wide right happened.   def shed a tear.   I'm not saying I did when I saw the film of Kyle watching the Bengals game, but there was dust in the air or something at the house.  

[WhoTom]

34 minutes ago, LBSeeBallLBGetBall said:

When Kevin Everett walked back onto to the field for the first time after his injury.

 

Ditto.

 

Football is entertainment; nothing about the sport makes me cry. But after watching a man lie still for 20 minutes, be carted away in an ambulance, and be told that if he survives, he's likely to be paralyzed for life ... and then to see him walk back onto the field where the injury occurred - THAT put a lump in my throat.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

• Music City Travesty - First time I ever cried at a sporting event.

 

• Kevin Everett walking onto the field a few weeks after he was told he would never walk again. 

 

• When Ralph passed.

 

• The "Biggest comeback since the Comeback" (as John Murphy put it) against the Patriots* in 2011. 

 

• Playoffs this year.

[DC Tom]

The day I read TRBJ's "Sign Jay Cutler" post.

[4_kidd_4]

Nah.

 

Prob shed a tear if we took it all, but that would be for all the dedicated fam and friends that aren’t here anymore to enjoy it.

[I'm Spartacus]

The day they hired Hank Bullough as head coach.

[Billsfansinceday1]

49 minutes ago, dhg said:

Wide Right

 

Kevin Everett 

Ditto

[whatdrought]

Don't know if I actually cried, but watching Jimbos HOF was pretty emotional (coming from a guy who was too young to watch him play even). 

Also, the videos of the lockeroom this year after the miami game. 

And the KW TD was pretty awe-inspiring but no tears. 

[Irv]

I think it was the 4th.  No wait.  It was the fifth time I got banned on BBMB. 

[elroy16]

48 minutes ago, MJS said:

The games haven't, but seeing some of the Jim Kelly videos / documentaries surrounding his hard life and cancer fight have.

 

 

Same here. The heartbreaking games don't make me cry, they just put me in a furious rage. The Jim Kelly Football Life when he and Jill are talking about Hunter, that got me.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Just now, elroy16 said:

 

 

Same here. The heartbreaking games don't make me cry, they just put me in a furious rage. The Jim Kelly Football Life when he and Jill are talking about Hunter, that got me.

Oh yeah. Four Falls of Buffalo when they showed Jim's cancer story.

[porgyman]

Ponchobilla intro at this year's draft.

[corta765]

Cry:

-98 playoff loss to Dolphins. I was 10 first real Bills pain I remember

-2002 home opener loss to Jets. Really was coming into my own as a fan and it was such a great game to lose that way

-2010 Steelers loss Stevie drop. My wife and I hate the Steelers more then any other team and I actually jumped up celebrating the moment he caught it or so I thought. And then it wasn't to be. That season sucked and that killed badly because it just reinforced every negative stereotype we lived with as Bills fans at the time.

2011- Patriots win. Cried and shot fireworks off on my parents lawn.

-2014 Pegula buys the Bills press conference. I still have the pictures on my phone of the TV on ESPN saying it was official. Our team was safe.

-2018 New Years Day sat in bed with my wife that morning for probably 2 hrs just listening to WGR and both of us were crying tears of joy that the drought was dead. Probably the funnest week as a Bills fan I've had given I'm 30 and missed the glory days a little. Still tear up thinking of it soo awesome still

1990 Yearbook video on VHS. It was my grandpa's and I always watched it at his house growing up. Still watch it once a year before the season starts to get fired up and shed a tear for him.

 

Anger/You Gotta Be Kidding Me:

99- Music City Miracle- nothing needs to be said

2007- Dallas. Bet my college swim coach an easy practice the next day if the Bills won. He gave me a 14 point spread he was that confident. I hated every minute of that practice even though I won that bet he let me know who won routinely.

2009- at Patriots Mckelvin fumble. As close as I've ever been to throwing a TV out a window and I wasn't even mad someone vandalized his lawn at the time. (In retrospect not cool)

2013- Kansas City home. Jeff Tuel pisses away the game in one throw.

2014- at Houston. EJ Manuel succeeds in pick 6ing a game we should've won.

2014- Kansas City home. McKelvin and Bryce Brown blow a game we should've won that cost us the playoffs. I had to work on my train layout for 3 hours to calm down.

2015- Jacksonville in England- That game finished off any belief I had in Rex and that season being different. Came home and took down all my Bills decorations season was over.

2016- Miami at home. X-Mas eve was ruined for an hour as everyone had to cool off after Rex Ryan punted on 4th down in a game he couldn't lose or tie.

2017- NYJ TNF game. Expected the night to be the first time I see the Bills at 6-2 and celebrate us finally being "for real". Instead they collapse like every team that started hot before crystallizing our worst insecurities and causing me to break my iPhone with a Gronk spike in a bar.

Note the anger rose as the team actually got slightly more competitive the last few years dam expectations lol

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

3 minutes ago, corta765 said:

 

2014- at Houston. EJ Manuel succeeds in pick 6ing a game we should've won.

 

Was at this game. Walking through the concourse, talking **** to all the Texans fans. Didn't even make it back to my seat before JJ Watt ran the ball back. And this city throws a tizzy everytime they see the man's face. So you can imagine the crowd after that.

[Logic]

Kyle Williams' TD run against the Dolphins instantly had me choked up and shedding a few tears. How could you not?

After the fact, watching all the celebration videos -- with the video of Kyle's facial expressions as Boyd is scoring for the Bengals topping the list -- got the tears flowing again. Lastly, the "end of the drought" video that the Bills put together was the capper. 

Everything about the end of the drought and what it meant to Kyle and the team and the fans will be lodged in my memories forever. My favorite moments of Bills fandom (I was too young to properly remember the "glory years").

Edited May 24, 2018 by Logic

[Gugny]

When I found out Tyrod got traded.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Oh, also when we beat the Packers a few years back. But I was highly inebriated, so I don't count that one.

Just now, Gugny said:

When I found out Tyrod got traded.

I believe this.

[Poleshifter]

The day it was confirmed that the Pegulas had successfully purchased the team. That got me choked up a lot.

 

[IDBillzFan]

The day after the BBMB shut down.

[707BillsFan]

First time I believe....1980, I was all of 12, playoff game vs the Chargers (first time in playoffs in my recognizable lifetime). Bills lead the whole game, until Fouts tossed long TD late in the game for the SD win. Then I learned how tough it would be being Bills fan. 

 

Seeing the fan reaction this past year too, I shed a tear. Who didn't? 

 

There were probably a tear shed at other points too, but those stick out. 

 

 

[Mark Vader]

1 hour ago, Blokestradamus said:

The day Ralph passed was a tough one. I never actually expected that it would make me respond quite the way that it did. Having feelings of mourning a perfect stranger is a very surreal experience. Perhaps it wasn't so much his death but the uncertainty that may have followed.

 

Sport seldom makes me cry, good or bad. It's mainly anger with the teams that I support

Me too.

 

I don't cry, I get enraged, then depressed. Which is probably worse. I just HATE losing.