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I get it.  But he got us to 4.  As much as that s%&^ hurt I will forever cherish those days.

Well said and such a great man.  I haven’t seen him recently but last time I say him, he looked great. But things can change quickly when you get old.  I hope he is still doing great. 
 

And I was young for the SB teams but I remember thinking they should have had a better DC because that defense should have been much better than it was.

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Well said and such a great man.  I haven’t seen him recently but last time I say him, he looked great. But things can change quickly when you get old.  I hope he is still doing great. 
 

And I was young for the SB teams but I remember thinking they should have had a better DC because that defense should have been much better than it was.

The SB days for me were 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade.  Formative years.  Probably has a lot to do with the way my brain works these days lol.

 

Had to look Marv's age up...he's 95.  Good for him!  Guy always had a great spirit and attitude.  Probably helps with his longevity.

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Forget the coaching part of it.

 

Marv Levy is a great man. Period.

 

In his honor, and in the words of his usual celebratory song:

 

”Hooray for Marv

Hooray at last

Hooray for Marv

he’s a horse’s ass!”

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43 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

Well said and such a great man.  I haven’t seen him recently but last time I say him, he looked great. But things can change quickly when you get old.  I hope he is still doing great. 
 

And I was young for the SB teams but I remember thinking they should have had a better DC because that defense should have been much better than it was.

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1 hour ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

Well said and such a great man.  I haven’t seen him recently but last time I say him, he looked great. But things can change quickly when you get old.  I hope he is still doing great. 
 

And I was young for the SB teams but I remember thinking they should have had a better DC because that defense should have been much better than it was.

6th in points allowed, average vs the run. 

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1 hour ago, Johnnycage46 said:

The SB days for me were 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade.  Formative years.  Probably has a lot to do with the way my brain works these days lol.

 

Had to look Marv's age up...he's 95.  Good for him!  Guy always had a great spirit and attitude.  Probably helps with his longevity.

My great aunt was in great shape at 95 and then she just went so fast.   Hopefully Marv has many more birthdays left.  What a great human being. 

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21 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

6th in points allowed, average vs the run. 

Like I said, I was going but I just remember them being a little soft for all the talent they had.  That season was definitely the high point of the SB defenses.  
 

also, a great offense can help a defense when they get early leads and make teams one dimensional.  I’d love to see that more this years group.

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14 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

My great aunt was in great shape at 95 and then she just went so fast.   Hopefully Marv has many more birthdays left.  What a great human being. 

 

My wife's grandmother turned 96 this past July. She's slowed down, obviously, but she's still sharp as a tack and has never worn glasses or contacts...although her hearing (or difficulty with it) is like you'd expect from a 96 year old.

 

Happy Birthday, Marv! Here's to hoping for more. :beer:

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38 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

Like I said, I was going but I just remember them being a little soft for all the talent they had.  That season was definitely the high point of the SB defenses.  
 

also, a great offense can help a defense when they get early leads and make teams one dimensional.  I’d love to see that more this years group.


yep- I remember them being soft up the middle and teams used to be able to run with power inside.  

 

But they also averaged like 40 minutes per game on the field because of the no huddle O, which didn’t help them. 

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1 hour ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

My great aunt was in great shape at 95 and then she just went so fast.   Hopefully Marv has many more birthdays left.  What a great human being. 

Yeah it is crazy how fast it can come.  The same happened to my fraternal grandparents.  Both were driving, playing cards, visiting with friends in their 90s, then when it started to happen they went downhill in a matter of days.  Crazy stuff.

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3 hours ago, Gugny said:

One.  You couldn't win ONE?!?!?!?!?!

 

How much different the city would be viewed had this moment been a positive one. Still my all-time favorite SB picture moment for the team, despite the outcome.

 

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32 minutes ago, Beast said:

If they kept Smerlas one more year the Bills would have won a SB. With Smerlas at NT they wouldn't have been manhandled on the line like the Giants did to them.

 

You are conveniently forgetting that Freddie was probably 35 at the time and not exactly a full time player.  They let him go at EXACTLY the right time, the mistake was thinking that a lightweight mullet Jeff Wright could man the position competently.  

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Back in '89, I was the sports director of the campus TV station at SUNY Cortland. (Not much glam, but gave me something else to do besides drinking.) I sent letters to every sports team, pro or college, with any kind of national or state level juice, to see if we could interview some of their players for a show we were producing at the time.

 

I heard back from 2 teams. The Syracuse University football coach, Dick MacPherson, assigned a grad student to arrange for a few interviews with some players with aspirations of going pro. (I think he wanted them to get some added interviewing experience, before it meant anything.) So that was nice.

 

The only other call I got was from the Buffalo Bills, and it was from Marv Levy himself!! I almost swallowed the phone in my crappy Cortland apartment when I heard that gravelly voice I'd heard 100 times before on the other end. Of course he was calling to let me know he wouldn't be able to arrange any interviews with Bills players. But he did it in such a classy, appreciative way, along with the fact that it was coming from the man himself, I hung up the phone feeling like I'd just gotten an award, rather than a gentle brush off.

 

Marv became a hero of mine that day, and that memory has mentored me ever since.

 

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3 hours ago, Johnnycage46 said:

Yeah it is crazy how fast it can come.  The same happened to my fraternal grandparents.  Both were driving, playing cards, visiting with friends in their 90s, then when it started to happen they went downhill in a matter of days.  Crazy stuff.

Like wise for my grandmother...made it to 94 with few health issues, and sharp as a tack. But it unraveled in the space of about a month. Honestly, not a bad way to go.

 

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Like wise for my grandmother...made it to 94 with few health issues, and sharp as a tack. But it unraveled in the space of about a month. Honestly, not a bad way to go.

 

 

Yeah, it's one of those things that is obviously sad, but you look back and think "hey 90+ good healthy years...hard to beat that".  My maternal grandparents passed away before I even knew them so out of the two options I'll take 90s please lol.

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45 minutes ago, mushypeaches said:

 

You are conveniently forgetting that Freddie was probably 35 at the time and not exactly a full time player.  They let him go at EXACTLY the right time, the mistake was thinking that a lightweight mullet Jeff Wright could man the position competently.  

 

I'm not conveniently forgetting anything. Fred Smerlas was still a better player at that age than Jeff Wright ever was. Wright couldn't plug a drain much less the middle of an NFL offensive line. Smerlas could.

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4 minutes ago, Beast said:

 

I'm not conveniently forgetting anything. Fred Smerlas was still a better player at that age than Jeff Wright ever was. Wright couldn't plug a drain much less the middle of an NFL offensive line. Smerlas could.

 

Let's agree to meet in the middle and wish that they had Ted Washington from 1995

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12 minutes ago, Johnnycage46 said:

 

Yeah, it's one of those things that is obviously sad, but you look back and think "hey 90+ good healthy years...hard to beat that".  My maternal grandparents passed away before I even knew them so out of the two options I'll take 90s please lol.

My other grandmother battled dementia for the last 10 years of her life...that was painful.

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12 hours ago, Seasons1992 said:

 

How much different the city would be viewed had this moment been a positive one. Still my all-time favorite SB picture moment for the team, despite the outcome.

 

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That's a good one but nothing beats this...

 

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A few years ago, we saw him in the Buffalo airport.  We were flying back to Tampa as we go up for a family reunion and then a Bills game every September.  He was very gracious and stopped to take a pic with my two sons, and asked them about their sports.  He didn’t have to do that, but was very nice.  I really appreciated that moment.

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