1993 Houston Wildcard Comeback- Where were you guys

[JoeF]

I was at a 96 Olympics Security Planning Retreat on St. Simons Island, GA.  60 Chiefs/Commanders/Special Agents in Charge of agencies that would be involved in the Olympics.    One of the FBI leads was from WNY---he and I ducked out when it became 35-24 and watched the rest of the game from the hotel bar.  Slowly but surely other folks came out to "find" us -- by the OT field goal half the retreat attendees were watching the game.    If there would have been a breach that caused the Olympic Park bombing (which there wasn't) you probably could have traced it to that day..... 

Edited December 8, 2018 by JoeF

[keepthefaith]

At the game not in our usual seats as we chose not to buy playoff tickets that year given the Bills limping into the playoffs.  It was a decent day weather-wise the game not sold out so my wife and I bought tickets in the upper deck last minute.  A lot of people left at halftime and when Houston went up 35-3 early in 3rd quarter, many others left.  We stuck it out.  Shocked as the Bills came back and won.  Know a couple people that left at 35-3 who heard cheers as they got to their cars but had no intentions of turning around.  Others tried to get back into the stadium and were denied.  Quite an experience.

Edited December 8, 2018 by keepthefaith

[Buffalo03]

I was 6 years old and I distinctly remember my dad listening to the game on the radio. That was the year I really started to get into football. I remember being extremely excited for after the comeback win and that first Bills/Cowboys Super Bowl being my first memory of a Superbowl and us getting blasted 52-17 and being completely bummed when they lost and then my parents telling me it was time for bed because I had school the next day. I wanted no part of going to bed right after that lol

[NewEra]

Was at my buddies house for the first half.  Left at halftime and watched the game with pops.  Glad I did

[Bills4everNY]

At home in Utica watching with my Dad. When the Bills were losing by 32 points, my Dad couldn't watch anymore and he went down cellar and jokingly said:  Call me if the Bills start coming back.

[Gugny]

Watching with my dad in the living room.  He is THE reason I saw it, because I was gonna change the channel and he said, "hey, you never know."

[FLFan]

1 hour ago, Albany,n.y. said:

It was only a very cold day to a Floridian?

It was warm enough that when there was a mist it was rain & not snow or freezing rain. 

I've been to a lot colder games. 

I was living in Albany at the time, and I am from Buffalo, but it would be very cold to me now.  You are right - been to colder games  - always colder when you are losing though.  I don't recall being cold by the end. ?

[CA OC Bills Fan]

Was at the game sitting in end zone seats on the side the last field goal was kicked. Would have left at halftime in a second if my friends who lived in Orchard Park would have said let's go back to our house and party. Would have suggested it myself but I lived in Binghamton and was driving back after the game. Obviously very glad I stayed.

[dollars 2 donuts]

1 hour ago, LSHMEAB said:

Did he bet the ML or take the points? Houston still covered!

 

He was crying so he had to to take them to win.

 

He was a guest in a Bills box and he was being such a dick to men and women and laughing all through half time, pissing on his hosts.

 

The response by us in the box as the tides turned...was far from exemplary.  ?

Edited December 8, 2018 by dollars 2 donuts

[Orlando Tim]

I was at game and freely admit that the only reason we did not leave is that we were in upper deck and saw everyone leaving and did not want to be stuck in the lot. Of course 20 minutes later we were thrilled we did not leave.

[Dablitzkrieg]

Game was blacked out.  Drove to my cousin's in Ontario , literally 10 minutes from my house.  I was 12 years old and the only one that was saying they were going to come back.  It was a fun time

 

[bills7834]

I was in Ethiopia just getting back from a mission in Somalia. I remember telling my friend that I was nervous about the game. I didn't know the final score and I turned on CNN International. They played the highlights as the game progressed. I was bummed out and thought about shutting it off but I wanted to know the final. 

 

I didn't watch the whole game until about 10 years ago.

[KollegeStudnet]

I was a child. Section D2, row 21. ❤️

[That's No Moon]

4 hours ago, Ice bowl 67 said:

At the time? What a game that was. I'm wondering where you guys were almost 26 years ago during that game?

Section M6, row 10, seat 111.  I was 14.

[LSHMEAB]

52 minutes ago, dollars 2 donuts said:

 

He was crying so he had to to take them to win.

 

He was a guest in a Bills box and he was being such a dick to men and women and laughing all through half time, pissing on his hosts.

 

The response by us in the box as the tides turned...was far from exemplary.  ?

I looked it up and the Bills were actually only favored by 2 because of Kelly's injury.

 

Glad that poor sap lost.

[billsredneck1]

27 minutes ago, bills7834 said:

I was in Ethiopia just getting back from a mission in Somalia. I remember telling my friend that I was nervous about the game. I didn't know the final score and I turned on CNN International. They played the highlights as the game progressed. I was bummed out and thought about shutting it off but I wanted to know the final. 

 

I didn't watch the whole game until about 10 years ago.

thank you for your service. i'm sure that assignment was no picnic.

i was home watching it. greatest game i ever saw. my daughter who now works in a law firm was 8 months old. i freaked out that day and was so glad i taped it on vhs so i would have it for years to come....

until my daughter was a bit older and taped hannah montana over it.  i actually forgot about that til just now....now i'm p'o'd all over again.

[DrW]

Together with my girlfriend, on our way back to Rochester from a short vacation in Washington, DC. I was listening to the game on the radio until the interception to make it 35-3, then switched the radio off, very disappointed. Some miles later, we had to get gas. The gas station, somewhere in southern Pennsylvania, had the game on TV, with a score of 35-17. Hoping for a miracle, I turned the car radio back on. When the game reached overtime, we were on the US-15 north of Harrisburg; reception was fading. Afraid of losing the signal, I stopped on a very small parking lot, leading down from the US-15 to the Susquehanna, until Christie's winning FG. Girlfriend thought I was crazy, but did not object.

Since then, the parking lot disappeared when the US-15 was widened from two-lane  to four-lane. The car, my first US car, an Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon is long gone. The then-girlfriend is now my wife; we recently had our 20th anniversary.

Edited December 8, 2018 by DrW

[1st&ten]

 

I was at the game. There was 9 of us & we had 2 cars---it was about a 90 minute drive to the game. Four guys left early & five of us stayed. Of course we're glad we did !!!

 

[Luvbills]

In the stands...we were going to leave at the end of the 3rd quarter (took us an extra 45 mins to get there from the Batavia area due to black ice)...we of course then stayed. I have my used/ripped ticket to prove I was there...

[row_33]

5 hours ago, metzelaars_lives said:

Nah it wasn’t even sold out.  At the time capacity was 80,250 but there was only like 75,000 people there.

 

We know, it was a blackout on Buffalo region TV....

 

[snafu]

41 minutes ago, DrW said:

Together with my girlfriend, on our way back to Rochester from a short vacation in Washington, DC. I was listening to the game on the radio until the interception to make it 35-3, then switched the radio off, very disappointed. Some miles later, we had to get gas. The gas station, somewhere in southern Pennsylvania, had the game on TV, with a score of 35-17. Hoping for a miracle, I turned the car radio back on. When the game reached overtime, we were on the US-15 north of Harrisburg; reception was fading. Afraid of losing the signal, I stopped on a very small parking lot, leading down from the US-15 to the Susquehanna, until Christie's winning FG. Girlfriend thought I was crazy, but did not object.

Since then, the parking lot disappeared when the US-15 was widened from two-lane  to four-lane. The car, my first US car, an Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon is long gone. The then-girlfriend is now my wife; we recently had our 20th anniversary.

 

I was watching with my then-girlfriend, now-wife in her tiny apartment in Queens.  We never thought of turning the game off, watched the whole thing. She's always been a Bills fan, even being from NYC. 

 

[leonbus23]

At the game. Was with my brother and two friends. My parents watched the game with a friend who had a satellite TV in West Seneca. 

[mconwxdr]

About four rows up from the field in the southwest corner.  I actually got a ball from the game.  Not the one Christie kicked to win the game unfortunately, but from half-time warm ups.  Chris Mohr shanked a punt that eluded the fielders and it bounced right up into my arms.  It’s in my attic safe and sound.  

[longtimebillsfan]

At half time I left the house and went to buy new tires for my wife's car.  I was watching the start of the third quarter on a TV at Firestone.   I started to get optimistic so we rushed home and caught the 4th quarter. 

[SF Bills Fan]

I was there and didn’t leave

[EasternOHBillsFan]

I was on my way back to college from home and I tried so hard to find the game on the radio, but it just wasn't on any station.

 

I went into the dorm common area to turn on the game, and it was the drive on which Beebe scored to make it 35-10.

 

I watched the rest of the game and needless to say it was the very best FOOTBALL game I ever watched, period!

[Golden Goat]

I overslept and woke up at halftime. Grateful to have missed the real-time misery of the first half.

[Airbornetrooper]

I was 5 years old. No idea lol. 

[Rufridr101]

I was 18 living ft myers Florida. Actually turned the game off after the pick 6 in the 2nd half. 30 minutes later friend of mine living in same apartment complex knocked on the door was like dude what a game aren't you watching? What put the game on was like holy smokes we were down 10 I think. I would have missed the greatest comeback in history if he didn't knock.

[Billsfanatic8989]

This game or the Patriots comeback two years ago in the SB. Which one will be most remembered in NFL lure do you think?

 

I choose this game because the Bills had to earn every point they got. Atlanta gave that game away in some ways.

Edited December 9, 2018 by Billsfanatic8989

[Domdab99]

In L.A. watching it on TV. I turned it off at halftime, I was so mad. Couldn't stay away, turned it back off and the Bills were even further behind then at halftime!

 

So I started drinking. 

 

Apparently, it worked. 

[WideNine]

Watched it on TV with my late brother-in-law (RIP - we miss ya Dave).

 

I had just moved out to Minneapolis broke and looking for work and he and my sister, who were recently married, let me stay at their place till I got on my feet. Disgusted with the score, I went back to unpacking boxes and it was Dave who yelled, "Your Bills just scored again - I think they are coming back!".

 

We watched and cheered the rest of the way - I think I turned him into a Bills fan that day. Great game and great memory.

 

 

[The_Dude]

I was at a skating rink. My mom had the game on the radio on the way there. I was crying. I was putting on my skates when my sister told me to quit qrying about the game because I was being a baby. I then threw a skate at her and tried to stab her with the other. We were then kicked out of the skating rink. I was sent to my room when we got home. Hours later (I was still in my room, grounded) I heard the phone ring in the kitchen. My mom answered. “YOURE KIDDING ME?!l THEY WON?!” She called me downstairs to tell me. I thought she was messing with me so I called her a B word. 

 

I spent the bulk of that playoff run grounded. 

[bills7834]

24 minutes ago, The_Dude said:

I was at a skating rink. My mom had the game on the radio on the way there. I was crying. I was putting on my skates when my sister told me to quit qrying about the game because I was being a baby. I then threw a skate at her and tried to stab her with the other. We were then kicked out of the skating rink. I was sent to my room when we got home. Hours later (I was still in my room, grounded) I heard the phone ring in the kitchen. My mom answered. “YOURE KIDDING ME?!l THEY WON?!” She called me downstairs to tell me. I thought she was messing with me so I called her a B word. 

 

I spent the bulk of that playoff run grounded. 

Do you have any kids? If you do hopefully they take after their mother.?

[Augie]

 We were at friends in Hilton Head, SC. My son’s best friends parents. We went only because they promised to have the Bills game on. At the half he announced he was switching to HIS Kentucky basketball. I got a bit....determined, and he went to his bedroom to watch hoops. After an hour or so he came out to watch greatness with the rest of us. 

 

What a day! 

[Freddie's Dead]

Watching at my sister's place in Chittenango.  We pulled in channel 3 from Syracuse, I believe.  One of the best days of my life.

[Clyde Smith]

I was in my 3rd week of Boot camp.

[BigSky]

At home in my wife’s and I new bungalow in Montana. At halftime I took the dog for a walk and decided I would never be a fair weather fan. I went home turned the tv back on watched the the first interception of the second half and grabbed a beer. Never before or since has a beer tasted so good!

[Nihilarian]

I was at the game in my season seats with my wife, kids.

 

At halftime a lot of fans were leaving and my friends around me asked if I were going to leave too. I said nope, I'm staying to boo them off the field at the end of the game.

 

After halftime the stadium looked half empty and by the end of the 3rd quarter it had started to fill up again. My friends that returned told me that the fans who had left started to return by climbing those big fences to get back in. 

 

What was really crazy was the drive home as every Bills fan in the area was out of their house and in their back yard waving and cheering as we drove by. 

 

 

Edited December 9, 2018 by Nihilarian

[Dr.Sack]

At the game