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I know there have been plenty of painful ones but when the Bills have been legit good? I would argue that if losing to the sad sack of 💩 from New Jersey might be the answer.  A -110 point differential when the next lowest team is -56 and possibly have a triplet of Joe Flacco, Frank Gore, and Perriman coaches by that weirdo.  I haven’t punched a wall because of the Bills since the forward lateral game but this might require a wall pinch. 

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1 minute ago, dorquemada said:

Yeah I mean if the Bills lose to the jets, I think it's safe to say the Bills are not 'legit good' or even regular good.

 

 

The fact that you say that shows the Bills are not "Legit good" b.c good teams don't have fans saying things like this against a team that hasn't won't a game.

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10 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

I know there have been plenty of painful ones but when the Bills have been legit good? I would argue that if losing to the sad sack of 💩 from New Jersey might be the answer.  A -110 point differential when the next lowest team is -56 and possibly have a triplet of Joe Flacco, Frank Gore, and Perriman coaches by that weirdo.  I haven’t punched a wall because of the Bills since the forward lateral game but this might require a wall pinch. 

You know, there are lots of plays each game that cause me to pinch a wall, much gentler and doesn't require patching and painting:lol:

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2 minutes ago, TBBills said:

The fact that you say that shows the Bills are not "Legit good" b.c good teams don't have fans saying things like this against a team that hasn't won't a game.


Good teams don’t have fans that understand the basic rhetoric composition of a hypothetical thought?

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The one that immediately comes to mind is the 1988 loss to the Buccaneers, 10-5. Bucs sucked that year, and the loss basically cost us home field for the championship game against the Bengals, which of course we lost.

 

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2 minutes ago, Rubes said:

The one that immediately comes to mind is the 1988 loss to the Buccaneers, 10-5. Bucs sucked that year, and the loss basically cost us home field for the championship game against the Bengals, which of course we lost.

 

This is a great one.

 

Losing to the Steelers 3rd stringers sucked as well for a playoff birth. 

 

*Just not sure that qualifies as a good Bills team though?

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19 minutes ago, Playoffs? said:

Super Bowl 25

That’s a good one. Bills 6.5 favorites and beat them in the regular season and were playing the backup.  At least, that was a SB Giants team though.  

17 minutes ago, Rubes said:

The one that immediately comes to mind is the 1988 loss to the Buccaneers, 10-5. Bucs sucked that year, and the loss basically cost us home field for the championship game against the Bengals, which of course we lost.

 

I was really young for that team but how did the 88 team matchup with the SB teams?

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The Super Bowls. Especially the first.

 

Music City Miscarriage of Justice.

 

The 2004 Steelers game when we lost to their backups. That defense was flat-out sensational but on the day the whole team fell apart.

 

The playoff game when Joe Ferguson had an injured leg and couldn't plant, against the Chargers. That was a good team.

 

Oh, and by the way ...

 

45 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

I know there have been plenty of painful ones but when the Bills have been legit good? I would argue that if losing to the sad sack of 💩 from New Jersey might be the answer.  A -110 point differential when the next lowest team is -56 and possibly have a triplet of Joe Flacco, Frank Gore, and Perriman coaches by that weirdo.  I haven’t punched a wall because of the Bills since the forward lateral game but this might require a wall pinch. 

 

 

Hunh?

 

 

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15 minutes ago, Real McNasty said:

This is a great one.

 

Losing to the Steelers 3rd stringers sucked as well for a playoff birth. 

 

*Just not sure that qualifies as a good Bills team though?

I think the Bills were the hottest team in nfl at the time and could have been dangerous if they got in. They were crushing teams but I remember it being a lot of bad ones though.  But that is a good call.

 

also, some of those Steelers backups were pretty good (Willie Parker, James Harrison). We lost to Tommy Maddox with a 120 yards passing.  🤮 

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200501020buf.htm

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On the flip side of this thread is one of the most surprising wins in Bills history was in 1984. 14-3 over Dallas. The Bills should win this week. I don't think they will be looking ahead to NE but 1984 Bills vs Cowboys is proof anything can happen.

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14 minutes ago, Greg S said:

On the flip side of this thread is one of the most surprising wins in Bills history was in 1984. 14-3 over Dallas. The Bills should win this week. I don't think they will be looking ahead to NE but 1984 Bills vs Cowboys is proof anything can happen.

Bills were more than terrible that year and hadn't won a game yet.  I was living in Miami at the time and my son was a Dolphins fan.  We were at a Company party at Orange bowl that day and when I heard the score I couldn't believe it.  About the only good Bills game that year.

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The case that I most remember isn't a good Bills team loss, but rather a bad Bills team win.

 

In the 1968-69 season, you know - the one where Joe Namath guaranteed a Jets Superbowl win over the Colts - the lowly 1-12-1 Buffalo Bills beat the soon-to-be Superbowl champion NY Jets. The Bills were clearly the worst team in football. It was technically our 2nd worst team of all-time (1-13 in 1971). Those were dark days to be a Bills fan.

 

On September 29th at the Rockpile, we beat Namath and the Jets 37-35. I was at that game and it was fun. It proves a point that even the worst team in football can beat the eventual Superbowl champions on any given Sunday. In that game Tommy Janik had a 100-yard pick-6. Butch Byrd had a 53-yard pick-6 and Booker Edgerson had a 45-yard pick-6.

 

Talk about embarrassing for an elite Superbowl champion!

 

I'm not sure that the good Bills ever had one get away from them like that. But in 1968, the bad Bills snatched one from the elite Jets.

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1 hour ago, Rubes said:

The one that immediately comes to mind is the 1988 loss to the Buccaneers, 10-5. Bucs sucked that year, and the loss basically cost us home field for the championship game against the Bengals, which of course we lost.

 

I think it was 11-5.  Rotten game.  One of my guests walked over and clipped a branch off our Christmas tree because it blocked her view.  

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What in God's name is the purpose of a thread like this?  Looking at the in game crap spewed by people the last two weeks, and now this, I am convince that as much as we like to brag about the Bills fans being the best, and how great the Bills Mafia is, in reality a sizeable portion of the fans of this team are weak, pessimistic nuts who secretly want this team to do badly for some insane reason.

 

What has happened the last two weeks is that we lost to the two teams that played for the conference championship last year, and that they exposed some flaws that have to be addressed, namely the D line. we have seen McD teams go through this before and pull themsleves out of it, and that was without a more capable Allen and the weapons he has around him now.  To conflate the Titans and Chiefs games into a presumption that we are now going to lose to the Jets is simply absurd, and the only thing more absurd that the original post is how many people are jumping on the negative band wagon.

 

 

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Home Thurs Night game vs Dallas. Won for 58 minutes and blew it in the most impossible way in front of an awesome home crowd going nuts.

Flushed my Bills hat down the hotel toilet that night. It didn't get all the way down but it was stuffed in the hole but good, right where it should have been.

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28 minutes ago, TC in St. Louis said:

I think it was 11-5.  Rotten game.  One of my guests walked over and clipped a branch off our Christmas tree because it blocked her view.  

 

Nope, 10-5. The only TD in that game was a run by Vinny Testaverde. Bruce got a sack for a safety in the second half.

 

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198812040tam.htm

 

The Bills were 11-2 going into that game, the Bucs 3-10. Bills had a total of 39 yards rushing against a crappy Bucs team.

 

I vividly remember the front page of the Buffalo News sports section the next day, showing a picture of a victorious Eugene Marve, the LB who had been traded to the Bucs from the Bills before the season.

 

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1 hour ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

I was really young for that team but how did the 88 team matchup with the SB teams?

 

That was the first year the Bills were really good, finishing 12-4, so nobody really knew what to expect. But the sense throughout the season (except for that Bucs game flop) was that they were one of the top teams and could play with anyone. Definitely belonged in the final 4 with the Bengals, 49ers, and Bears, although the Bills lost pretty handily to both the Bears and Bengals during the regular season. Both of those games were looked at as big tests for the young resurgent Bills, and they pretty much crapped the bed both times.

 

Those were the only two losses of the season prior to the Bucs debacle.

 

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53 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:

What in God's name is the purpose of a thread like this?  Looking at the in game crap spewed by people the last two weeks, and now this, I am convince that as much as we like to brag about the Bills fans being the best, and how great the Bills Mafia is, in reality a sizeable portion of the fans of this team are weak, pessimistic nuts who secretly want this team to do badly for some insane reason.

 

What has happened the last two weeks is that we lost to the two teams that played for the conference championship last year, and that they exposed some flaws that have to be addressed, namely the D line. we have seen McD teams go through this before and pull themsleves out of it, and that was without a more capable Allen and the weapons he has around him now.  To conflate the Titans and Chiefs games into a presumption that we are now going to lose to the Jets is simply absurd, and the only thing more absurd that the original post is how many people are jumping on the negative band wagon.

 

 

 

You're, a, just figuring this out? Most of it is a form of PTSD. It the most severe cases, it's a BFPD, Bills Fan Personality Disorder. For these poor souls, the level of masochistic negativity needs no trigger, it's pervasive in the way they interpret the world. Unless they truly want help, all we can do is pray for them. 

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2 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

I know there have been plenty of painful ones but when the Bills have been legit good? I would argue that if losing to the sad sack of 💩 from New Jersey might be the answer.  A -110 point differential when the next lowest team is -56 and possibly have a triplet of Joe Flacco, Frank Gore, and Perriman coaches by that weirdo.  I haven’t punched a wall because of the Bills since the forward lateral game but this might require a wall pinch. 

 

This is a trick question because the Bills are never considered good.

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2 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

I know there have been plenty of painful ones but when the Bills have been legit good? I would argue that if losing to the sad sack of 💩 from New Jersey might be the answer.  A -110 point differential when the next lowest team is -56 and possibly have a triplet of Joe Flacco, Frank Gore, and Perriman coaches by that weirdo.  I haven’t punched a wall because of the Bills since the forward lateral game but this might require a wall pinch. 

 

Jeebus, can we play the game first before we go here?

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2 hours ago, Real McNasty said:

This is a great one.

 

Losing to the Steelers 3rd stringers sucked as well for a playoff birth. 

 

*Just not sure that qualifies as a good Bills team though?

 

I love how this ridiculous take lives forever on this board.

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3 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

I know there have been plenty of painful ones but when the Bills have been legit good? I would argue that if losing to the sad sack of 💩 from New Jersey might be the answer.  A -110 point differential when the next lowest team is -56 and possibly have a triplet of Joe Flacco, Frank Gore, and Perriman coaches by that weirdo.  I haven’t punched a wall because of the Bills since the forward lateral game but this might require a wall pinch. 

 

Welcome to the board, Leodis!

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5 minutes ago, Brennan Huff said:


Definitely a weird take on that game. We were literally the hottest team in the league until we got smoked by a bunch of 3rd stringers 

I still remember Wille Parker absolutely ripping our hearts out. 😭

 

Game straight up sucked.

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