What Is The Worst Bills Game You've Attended

[Alphadawg7]

Last years Bills at Chargers game.  WOW what a disappointment.  Sad too because more than half the stadium seemed like it was Bills fans.  Crazy to hear a "We want Tyrod" chant in the first half too lmao.  

 

Second choice was Bills at SF back after Kelly retired and I forgot what train wreck QB it was but they threw 3 or 4 picks themselves, and I believe 1 or 2 were pick sixes in a major blowout loss too.  

[brianthomas]

4 hours ago, Gugny said:

Saints at Bills - 2001.  Sweltering heat and we got our asses kicked.

 

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200109090buf.htm

 

I remember that game. Season opener. I had sat 7 rows up from the field... bad idea. With the blistering heat it mustve been 120 where our seats were. Horrible game watching Aaron Brooks & Ricky Williams tear apart our defense. Rob Johnson with his 3 interceptions & 5 sack performance. That season opener was a bad omen for what was about to come. 17 years of playoff drought. I had forgot all about that game until i saw your post. Thanks for reminding me about it (sarcasm) haha

[Agent 91]

6-3 Cleveland game

[Paul Costa]

Saints @ Buffalo was pretty bad last year. I’ve been to around 75 games and I can’t think of a worse experience. Dove 7 hours to WNY Saturday night. Got up early to go to the game and then drive back after the game. Guys I went to the game with have had seasons for 30 years and have never left a game early. We left with 4 minutes left in the third. Sad face? 

Edited July 9, 2018 by Paul Costa

[HOUSE]

Was a game in the late 1960's early 70's Cinci at Buffalo. Was a blizzard, only saw about 25minutes of the entire game. Brooker Edgerson stole the Ball from QB Greg Cook for an easy TD. That was the high lite of the game.

Edited July 9, 2018 by THE SLAMMER

[vorpma]

1 hour ago, 707BillsFan said:

Also a West Coaster, that was my worst game too. 

 

Close second, a game in 95 vs the 49ers. Bills & 49ers both 8-4 going into the game, Bills could have took a lead in the 3rd, but Darick Holmes fumbled at the 1, ball was ran back 99yds by the 49ers for a TD to go up 17-10, instead of vice versa. At that point, all 49er fans wanted to fight. Wonderful experience. It was then I realized 49er fans were no better than Raider fans. Oh yeah, Bills lost 27-17, fumble killed the vibe of the game. 

Yes, that was painful!

[Buftex]

5 hours ago, Captain Hindsight said:

6-3 Browns over Bills.

 

Worst sporting event I've ever seen at any level ever

Believe it or not, I was at the Pro Football Hall of Fame a day or two after that game. They made an announcement (a joke I assume, I didn't check it) that they would be showing a rebroadcast of the Bils-Browns game in the theater, at had been inducted into the HOF as the "worst game in modern NFL history".  A lot of people chuckled..I assumed it was a joke for the benefit of the locals, already then, "long suffering" Browns fans.

 

Funny, my worst game ever was also a Bills-Browns game at Rich Stadium, 1984.  The game was in late November, or early December.  My buddy, who I purchased my season tickets with, was already playing hooky on Bills games that year...the team was fricking' awful.  But I went to every stinking game.  I was working at Tops at the time. There was this cute girl I worked with, who had never been to a game.  I asked her to go...she said yes!  She was really excited.  We went with another couple, who had seats in a different section.  Not only was the game miserable (two woefully inept teams), but the weather was brutal.  A potent combo of rain, sleet and wind... I had never left a Bills game early before (and have only done so one other time, witnessing a Patriots beat-down of the Bills on a bitter-cold day, the morining after Christmas..durning the Gaily/Fitz era), but the girl I was with was literally crying..,it was just too cold for her...we went back to the car, but had to wait for our friends until the end of the game.  The Bills lost (as they did 14 other times that season) and as I recall, it was just a fumble fest...the Bills did all the fumbling, the Browns could barely cash in on any of the turnovers...it was tight, score wise, but as I recall, the Bills fumbled a punt late in the game, which the Browns reuturned for the winning td.  Horrible day...

[nmas3]

I drove up from Virginia Beach to see the Bills lose 6-3 again Cleveland.  I almost left my jersey in my seat I was so mad!  The good news is the anger kept me awake for the long drive home.

[The Wiz]

Not because of the game, although that didn't help, but the weather.  It was 05 or 06 against the Giants and it poured the whole game with 40 mph winds.  No one scored at the jumbotron end of the field because it was so windy and wet.

[slipkid]

Like most, the Bills/Browns 6-3 game was the worst game I’ve ever seen.

 

The worst game I have ever attended was the cold, drizzly Bears game in 1979. Bears won 7-0 on a fourth quarter TD. I still have to watch that TD in Walter Payton highlight reels.

[JoPar_v2]

4 hours ago, blitzboy54 said:

Worst game I actually attended was NY Giants in 2007 at the Ralph. It started as a driving rain and ended in snow. We they had 3 running backs go over 100 yards on us. it was humiliating and so god awful wet and cold. 

 

The giants used that game to spring board the rest of their season and ended up in the SB. 

 

I remember people standing in 6 inches of water while it snowed. It was vicious weather and a humiliating loss. 

Beat me to it. This was a week after the 0-8 loss in Cleveland that I also attended with a bunch of friends. The blizzard in Cleveland was bad, the Giants at home was worse. Tailgate was extremely cold, but the real fun was in the seats. That’s when the ice storm began. From my seats, the wind was blowing the ice directly in our faces. Couldn’t open your eyes. Needless to say didn’t stay long for that one. Bills were blown out of course.

 

those 2 games back to back. Weak AF.

[Albany,n.y.]

4 hours ago, stevewin said:

This.  

 

This subject comes up periodically - and this "game" is head and shoulders below all the rest.  Flying in, we just found out our kids had swine flu.  My son went to the game anyway - and he (also) remembers it as one of the worst experiences of his life.  We had the worst seats I ever had at a game (top corner upper deck) - with the bitter cold wind just cutting into your bones.  I just remember sitting there wishing over and over for it to be over.  The only interesting thing that happened was a drunk tripping while running down the stairs and going full superman airborne right in front of us about 20 rows - had to be a world record.  Can't believe the guy didn't die.  All who attended died a little that day.

 

There was another horrible Cleveland game in the mid-80s I think that was the only rival - freezing cold with rain - I was literally shivering the whole 2nd half thinking WTF am I doing?

 

When Roscoe Parrish fumbled the ball, I was so happy because it meant no overtime.  I always stay until the game ends & I just wanted to go home already by then & a scoreless overtime would have just been more torture.  I just didn't care if it cost the Bills the game, I just wanted to head home-It was a long 5 hour drive that I wanted to start ASAP.  

[That's No Moon]

6 hours ago, Captain Hindsight said:

6-3 Browns over Bills.

 

Worst sporting event I've ever seen at any level ever

Agreed.  I fell asleep in the upper deck. Sober.

[jethro_tull]

nov '76, chargers at bills and it was cold, really cold.  garry effin marangi was 8 for effin 30 with 3 picks. oj had a buck 18 in a losing "effort"  where the bills had one TD, a special teams recovery in the end zone while the "offense" managed 2 field goals.  

[ChasBB]

6 hours ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

I have two which stick out because of how I felt after the game: 

one was 1996 playoffs vs Jags where Natrone Means ran all over us.

about 2005 Bills vs Fins in Miami- I think we were up 20-0 about halfway through third. we lost 21-20 I think.

both games I felt defeated and could not beleive it.

I was at that Miami game.  JP Losman was our QB.  I was also at Baltimore Colts game in Buffalo 1975 where Buffalo was up 21-0 and ending up losing 42-35.  Bert Jones kept tossing screen passes and Buffalo could not stop it to save their lives.  Oh, and that Miami game was the one got Eric Moulds suspended by Mularkey for sideline altercation.

Edited July 10, 2018 by ChasBB
additional info on Miami game

[HardyBoy]

20-3 home loss to the dolphins dec 2003. When the bills won the toss the game was over, because the wind was so crazy. Dolphins took the wind, scored quick and bills couldn't throw.

 

Rode back to Rochester with my buddy, literally spoke no words the entire ride home, and haven't talked about it since.

Edited July 10, 2018 by HardyBoy

[dhg]

10 minutes ago, HardyBoy said:

20-3 home loss to the dolphins dec 3003. When the bills won the toss the game was over, because the wind was so crazy. Dolphins took the wind, scored quick and bills couldn't throw.

 

Rode back to Rochester with my buddy, literally spoke no words the entire ride home, and haven't talked about it since.

Sorcery! 

 

 

[Dadonkadonk]

Bills at Chargers 2017 -  Left before the first half was over

Bills at Raiders 2014 - Terrible stadium. Team did not show up with playoffs still a possibility

Bills at Steelers, Nov 15 1993. Monday Night game on my birthday. Drove from Columbus OH.  Bills were destroyed.

[Freddie's Dead]

4 hours ago, Ned Flanders said:

This and a 1983 stinker at home against the Patriots

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198310230buf.htm

Also, the opener in 2004 vs. Jax, where the Bills lost on the last play of the game, where only moments before, Jax had a fourth and a mile and the Bills "prevent defense" gave up a huge gainer.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200409120buf.htm

 

Nate going for the INT on 4th and 22.  KNOCK IT DOWN!  Ernest !@#$ing Wilford, for Christ's sake!

[T master]

10 to 3 age over Bills last year in the play offs ranks up there pretty good !! 

[Mrbojanglezs]

Sunday night football home against the pats

[Augie]

I was going to say any preseason game, but there was on in particular around 1980-81, maybe against the Broncos. I remember 2 of the 3 people I went with. I remember vodka and lemonade. That’s more than I want to remember. Yes....I was that guy that night. 

 

HEY! It was preseason! 

[stony]

3 minutes ago, Augie said:

I was going to say any preseason game, but there was on in particular around 1980-81, maybe against the Broncos. I remember 2 of the 3 people I went with. I remember vodka and lemonade. That’s more than I want to remember. Yes....I was that guy that night. 

 

HEY! It was preseason! 

From what you can remember, at least it sounded fun.  

[Augie]

4 minutes ago, stony said:

From what you can remember, at least it sounded fun.  

 

I remember the hangover as much as the game. I was such a young amateur back then. Now? I make completely different mistakes! ?

8 minutes ago, stony said:

From what you can remember, at least it sounded fun.  

 

I think we actually got a cooler of that poison in the stadium! Hard to believe, but my fuzzy recollection is speaking to me....

[TigerJ]

I've described it before, but it was so long ago, I don't remember a lot of the details.  Since the subject has come up before, I decided to look it up.  The game was Monday October 3, 1983 versus the Jets.  The Bills lost 34-10.  I don't think the game was as close as the score.  The Bills were just terrible, and the crowd, which did a lot of drinking - starting pretty early in the game, and was upset at the terrible game they were watching.  By the half, fan reaction was turning ugly with fights all over Rich Stadium.  Fans, already drunk, were throwing nearly full cups of beer through the night air.  Whether you drank or not, you reaked of beer that night because of the shower from disgruntled fans.  Fortuynately I've attended a good number of games that were far better than that one.

[apuszczalowski]

2 hours ago, The Wiz said:

Not because of the game, although that didn't help, but the weather.  It was 05 or 06 against the Giants and it poured the whole game with 40 mph winds.  No one scored at the jumbotron end of the field because it was so windy and wet.

Was that the game that it changed to snow at half time after the temperatures dropped?

 

I was at that Bills Giants home game and remember getting up early to run to Walmart and by some cheap ponchos for me and my brother  cause they said it was going to rain.

by half time it switched to snow and we were frozen til we got back to my truck at the end....

[klos63]

Jets game in 1974- hurricane type weather, Ferguson was 0-2 passing, Namath 2-18. I remember walking through the concourse almost getting blown away. My mother broke her foot walking into the game and stayed to the end.  We won, but a horrible game to sit through.

[stevewin]

2 hours ago, Buftex said:

Funny, my worst game ever was also a Bills-Browns game at Rich Stadium, 1984.  The game was in late November, or early December.  My buddy, who I purchased my season tickets with, was already playing hooky on Bills games that year...the team was fricking' awful.  But I went to every stinking game.  I was working at Tops at the time. There was this cute girl I worked with, who had never been to a game.  I asked her to go...she said yes!  She was really excited.  We went with another couple, who had seats in a different section.  Not only was the game miserable (two woefully inept teams), but the weather was brutal.  A potent combo of rain, sleet and wind... I had never left a Bills game early before (and have only done so one other time, witnessing a Patriots beat-down of the Bills on a bitter-cold day, the morining after Christmas..durning the Gaily/Fitz era), but the girl I was with was literally crying..,it was just too cold for her...we went back to the car, but had to wait for our friends until the end of the game.  The Bills lost (as they did 14 other times that season) and as I recall, it was just a fumble fest...the Bills did all the fumbling, the Browns could barely cash in on any of the turnovers...it was tight, score wise, but as I recall, the Bills fumbled a punt late in the game, which the Browns reuturned for the winning td.  Horrible day...

This was the other Cleveland game (besides the infamous 6-3 game) I was thinking of (I think you actually identified the actual game for me the last time there was a thread on this subject). .  I don't think I've ever been so cold - shivering on a cold steel bench with my feet on ice.  For years and years it was a running joke with my brother whenever something was bad - "As bad as the Cleveland game?"

 

At least I didn't cry (not on the outside anyway).  What a great date for that girl 

Edited July 10, 2018 by stevewin

[The Firebaugh Kid]

Saints game last year. 47-3? I erased it from my mind. 

[SoCal Deek]

Reading through these gems really brings back some memories!  Ugh!  I was actually at many of the games listed, which is a bit odd seeing as how I haven't lived in WNY for over 35 years.  (I've picked some really, really, really bad road games to attend!)  But...I have to say that last year's Chargers game was about as bad as it gets. Everything went down hill fast and by halftime the many Bills fans in attendance, myself included, were nothing short of furious with the Team.  It's really hard for me to believe that just a few weeks later I was running around my living room screaming like a little kid on New Year's Eve.

GO BILLS....always and forever.

[Ol Dirty B]

1 hour ago, Mrbojanglezs said:

Sunday night football home against the pats

 

That was brutal.

 

Red's first game at home vs the Pats, the N.O. game this past year, and the captain checkdown Monday night game.

[Tsaikotic]

the worst game for me was 1/15/94 Bills vs. Raiders....we won (29 - 23), but I was cold as F*** ...the back window of my car blew out in some guys yard I parked in, so I had to drive home (back to wayne county) in a blizzard with no back window...I've only been to like 5 or 6 games but I haven't been to one yet they lost in...well maybe a preseason game or 2 but I don't count those

Edited July 10, 2018 by Tsaikotic

[fansince88]

That isca hard question for me. We have won every game I have been to.  Anyone want to get me season tickets? lol

[boco357]

2000 game at home vs Dolphins. Lost big to Jay Fiedler.

2005 game at SD.  Lost 48 to 10

[dollars 2 donuts]

16 hours ago, corta765 said:

I have a feeling many people will respond similar. Worst game I have ever seen was that New England SNF game in 2007 when we lost 52-13. The tailgate was fun, but it felt like a blink of an eye and the game was 35-7. Just never even felt close at any point.

 

After that the 2010 season I saw the Bills get smoked by the Jets at home in the rain which was awful and the home finale against NE they lost 34-3 on a frigid like 10 degree day with snow. The lot we parked in literally consisted of are group and a few other groups while otherwise looking like the barren wastelands of Hoth haha.

 

Probably the most boring game I have seen was the Bills Dolphins TNF game in 2014 it was 3-3 at halftime and neither team had any interest in scoring.

 

 

Corta, I read the thread title and before I came in I thought of this game, the Pats game.  This was a kick to the teeth.  Especially when the went for it on fourth up by more than 20 points (I believe).  It really was Belichek letting, not th Bills but the fans, know what he thinks of us.

[IslandBillsFan]

Last year I had the pleasure of attending both BUF @ CAR, 9-3 and BUF @ JAC, 10-3.  Both were pretty painful.

[vorpma]

11 hours ago, slipkid said:

Like most, the Bills/Browns 6-3 game was the worst game I’ve ever seen.

 

The worst game I have ever attended was the cold, drizzly Bears game in 1979. Bears won 7-0 on a fourth quarter TD. I still have to watch that TD in Walter Payton highlight reels.

I was at that game; painful!

[CLTbills]

17 hours ago, corta765 said:

I have a feeling many people will respond similar. Worst game I have ever seen was that New England SNF game in 2007 when we lost 52-13. The tailgate was fun, but it felt like a blink of an eye and the game was 35-7. Just never even felt close at any point.

 

After that the 2010 season I saw the Bills get smoked by the Jets at home in the rain which was awful and the home finale against NE they lost 34-3 on a frigid like 10 degree day with snow. The lot we parked in literally consisted of are group and a few other groups while otherwise looking like the barren wastelands of Hoth haha.

 

Probably the most boring game I have seen was the Bills Dolphins TNF game in 2014 it was 3-3 at halftime and neither team had any interest in scoring.

I was going to say, that SNF game against the Pats in '07.

 

Randy Moss and his wife are actually customers of mine now and I still tell them how bad he torched us that night. I think he had 4 TDs if I recall in a 56-10 drubbing.

[nucci]

Superbowls 25, 26 and 27

9 hours ago, klos63 said:

Jets game in 1974- hurricane type weather, Ferguson was 0-2 passing, Namath 2-18. I remember walking through the concourse almost getting blown away. My mother broke her foot walking into the game and stayed to the end.  We won, but a horrible game to sit through.

Tough Mom

[corta765]

1 hour ago, IslandBillsFan said:

Last year I had the pleasure of attending both BUF @ CAR, 9-3 and BUF @ JAC, 10-3.  Both were pretty painful.

 OUCH

2 hours ago, fansince88 said:

That isca hard question for me. We have won every game I have been to.  Anyone want to get me season tickets? lol

 

That's pretty decent. My wife and I went on a 10 game winning streak from 2011-2015 where we didn't see them lose. Of course the game that killed that streak was NE in 2015 when we tried to break the sound barrier. The funny thing is there were a bunch of games I straight up expected them to lose during our streak including KC 2012, CAR/BAL 2013, GB 2014, and IND 2015 where heading into those game the Bills were underdogs.