Chandler#81 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Back to Back AFL Champions. Without hesitation, the best calendar day in team history! 5 12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuba guy Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Study history for your future Andy Reid does this to add new plays to his offense 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFreeman22 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Not the first one, but the second one i remember vividly, even if i was only 17 days old 😄 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleedbuffaloblue Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Remember both quite well. Was in the stands with my Dad for the 1964 game. 3 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColoradoBills Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsbackto81 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 I remember the second vividly. I was the fastest swimmer in the sac and I proved it the moment we were let out to play.😝 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 Mo’ Title Day pics 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColoradoBills Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 @Chandler#81 do you remember the Super Duper Buffalo Bills pictures? We had all of them! ....and my favorite! 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machine gun kelly Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Chandman, you always bring us back to the roots. There is a guy on Movin the Chains called Adrienne from the Burge,who busted our chops hard before the Stillers game. Now he is making excuses left and right. He said we’ve accomplished nothing,Mandy I’m reminded by these years. I so wanted to be vindictive and tell him you had 11 coaches in 13 years before Knoll, but I held back as fundamentally he’s a decent guy. Never forget like myself too young to know we had a great history with failures, but greatness too. Now we are on our way back to it. Go Bills! Just now, ColoradoBills said: @Chandler#81 do you remember the Super Duper Buffalo Bills pictures? We had all of them! ....and my favorite! That’s where we used to get our groceries in Blasdell on Lake Ave. Right next to Hills. Oh and across from OMGC, my elementary school. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColoradoBills Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said: Chandman, you always bring us back to the roots. There is a guy on Movin the Chains called Adrienne from the Burge,who busted our chops hard before the Stillers game. Now he is making excuses left and right. He said we’ve accomplished nothing,Mandy I’m reminded by these years. I so wanted to be vindictive and tell him you had 11 coaches in 13 years before Knoll, but I held back as fundamentally he’s a decent guy. Never forget like myself too young to know we had a great history with failures, but greatness too. Now we are on our way back to it. Go Bills! That’s where we used to get our groceries in Blasdell on Lake Ave. Right next to Hills. Harlem Rd and William St in good old Cheektowaga! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RochesterLifer Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 I'm afraid I was a late bloomer. I was only 4 and 5 for these championships and didn't hop on the Bills bandwagon until I was 7. I apologize, with my head down in shame, for lateness in embracing the Bills. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSE Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 My father was not born yet 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, HOUSE said: My father was not born yet Mine were probably somewhere in the 4-6 years old range. So long ago Pepperidge farms barely remembers. Though the people that do remember are likely eating their cookies though. Edited December 26, 2020 by The Wiz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 40 minutes ago, Bleedbuffaloblue said: Remember both quite well. Was in the stands with my Dad for the 1964 game. I was exactly 3 days old. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipkid Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 59 minutes ago, SteveFreeman22 said: Not the first one, but the second one i remember vividly, even if i was only 17 days old 😄 Got ya beat. I was at the 1965 game when I was eight days old! I stormed the field and tore up some turf to give to my father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSE Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Oh and by the way, you over paid for that ticket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ExWNYer Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 I was 14 months old for the first and 26 months old for the second so, unfortunately, I was way too young to remember them but my Dad spoke fondly of those teams and is the reason I know about them and the reason I am a lifelong Bills fan. I wish he had lived to see a Bills Super Bowl Championship. Thanks for the memories, @Chandler#81. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmanfan Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 I had just turned 9 years old and was at the Rockpile to see the Hit Heard Round The World - still the greatest play in Bills history. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroutDog Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 I was still in the Gupp but was rooting as hard as I could! 😃 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevWarRifleman Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Thanks for the GREAT memorabilia, Chandler! We must never overlook our AFL Bills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayboy54 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 I was lucky enough to be at the 1964 game at the old rock pile. It was my 2nd year with season tix and my dad and I didn’t miss a game until I left for college in 1972. Great game, and I remember rushing home afterward for a family holiday get-together. I was 9-years old. 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmenow Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 3 hours ago, ColoradoBills said: @Chandler#81 do you remember the Super Duper Buffalo Bills pictures? We had all of them! ....and my favorite! Courtesy of Robert L Smith too. RIP I have a cassette of the 65 afl championship game 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroutDog Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 @ColoradoBills: thank you for getting it!!!! Thought it may have been a reach. 😃 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris heff Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Those teams made me a fan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 21 minutes ago, Helpmenow said: Courtesy of Robert L Smith too. RIP I have a cassette of the 65 afl championship game I do too, thanks to @Buftex! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmenow Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 65 AFL Championship 1965 afl championship in San diego 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marv's Neighbor Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Drove to a Holiday Inn, S of Rochester, right off the Thruway, got a room and watched it there IN COLOR!! At the end of the game, turned out that there were a lot of us there, doing the same thing. It was a tailgate before any of us knew what that was! GOOD Times! That's how I got hooked on the BILLS. I was young and thought we'd see this every year! ....etc... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDingus Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 8 hours ago, ColoradoBills said: Damn that field was a mess! Also, I wish I could see Bills fans rush the field in celebration in the modern NFL. Pro sports don't have that vibe anymore, but if any team's fan could do it, it would be #BillsMafia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ticketssince61 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 My earliest Bills Memory was 1967 but I believe my dad RIP was at the game watched the footage and a few random observations - who was the genius who decided the goal posts should be in the middle of the field - loved the ref's red uniforms - they must have come straight from a barbership quartet to ref the game QUESTION: How do you think the championship teams would do against University of Alabama? I think bama would destroy them because - players are much bigger and stronger today - players in 64 could not match the speed to today's players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F.W. Cyclone Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Nope, I was born in May of 1965 but this is very interesting to me and I wish I could have been there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/groups/442714232814494/permalink/1104180876667823/ ‘64 Title Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Can't remember which of those years but the game was at the Rockpile, frozen field, and the BILLS hired a helo from Prior Aviation, to descend over the frozen field, and fly over trying to thaw the field. Don't think that worked very well, because they didn't clean away the straw layer, that was already there, and the downdraft from the rotors threw the straw all over the stadium, Jefferson & Northhampton streets too. Can't find any story from the News archive but I do remember the pic of the Bell helicopter flying about 20' above the playing field surface. Maybe it was from the Courier Express? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaw66 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 I was searching for another thread and found this thread. I don't recall seeing it last year. Those games were great. I was at 64 and watched 65. The game has changed so much since then, but the thrill is the same. As the old timers recall, fans in Buffalo in the late 50s were either Browns fans or Giants fans, depending on which team you watched every week - Channel 2 or Chane 4. For us Browns fans, 64 was magical - go to the stadium and watch the Bills win the title against the Chargers, then sit at home Sunday and watch the Browns beat the Colts. Two upsets. Two definitive wins. Bills would have won a Super Bowl that year. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderweb Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 On 12/26/2020 at 5:06 PM, HOUSE said: My father was not born yet Oh be quiet !!! 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solomon Grundy Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 On 12/26/2020 at 5:06 PM, HOUSE said: My father was not born yet Mine was on his way to Nam. I wasn’t thought of yet. Lol On 12/27/2020 at 10:54 AM, F.W. Cyclone said: Nope, I was born in May of 1965 but this is very interesting to me and I wish I could have been there. Three years later for me…same month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted August 14, 2021 Author Share Posted August 14, 2021 6 hours ago, Shaw66 said: I was searching for another thread and found this thread. I don't recall seeing it last year. Those games were great. I was at 64 and watched 65. The game has changed so much since then, but the thrill is the same. As the old timers recall, fans in Buffalo in the late 50s were either Browns fans or Giants fans, depending on which team you watched every week - Channel 2 or Chane 4. For us Browns fans, 64 was magical - go to the stadium and watch the Bills win the title against the Chargers, then sit at home Sunday and watch the Browns beat the Colts. Two upsets. Two definitive wins. Bills would have won a Super Bowl that year. I’ve actually had this argument a number of times. ‘64 was a bad year for the Packers so the NFL was basically reduced to Johnny U & Jim Brown. But just as the Pack held Brown to 35 yards rushing in a playoff game, I’m convinced we would have as well. Our Defense was Second to None that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaw66 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 37 minutes ago, Chandler#81 said: I’ve actually had this argument a number of times. ‘64 was a bad year for the Packers so the NFL was basically reduced to Johnny U & Jim Brown. But just as the Pack held Brown to 35 yards rushing in a playoff game, I’m convinced we would have as well. Our Defense was Second to None that year. Yeah, I was an enormous Jim Brown fan, and it hurts to say it, but I think the Bills defense was stopping everyone that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted August 14, 2021 Author Share Posted August 14, 2021 53 minutes ago, Shaw66 said: Yeah, I was an enormous Jim Brown fan, and it hurts to say it, but I think the Bills defense was stopping everyone that year. At this time, our Defense was in the midst of a 17 game streak not allowing a rushing touchdown. It’s worth repeating their names: Day, Dunaway, McDole, Sestak Jacobs, Tracey, Stratton Byrd, Edgerson Yannick, Saimes -and Joe Collier, who was a neighbor of mine then. I had the schoolboy ‘warm’s’ for his daughter and walked her home from school. Their blue, family station wagon had Buffalo Bills all over it. I told her I’d like to meet him, but she said ‘he’s always busy in the basement watching film.. I shoulda pushed my luck🤦♂️🤷♂️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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