ArtVandalay Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 1 hour ago, VaMilBill said: 3) 2009. Bills lose to Patriots on MNF 25-24. This one stung because again, Bills were big dogs. Tom Brady was still fresh off of his torn ACL recovery and a lot of us was hoping he would never be the same. Bills had been rocking all night. Aaron Schobel had the pick six. Defense had two 4th down stuffs. Then McKelvin, inexplicably returns the ball out of the end zone and fumbles. Couple of plays later Patriots score and we lose. Painful. I was at this game at Gillette. Awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick 'r Mortis Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 1 minute ago, Futilebreadmachine said: Oh dear god I'd somehow forgotten about that one. Wasn't that their first home loss in the post season? That sounds right, but not sure. What I can tell you is that I had to follow the second half of the game on my flip phone as I was getting prepped for my brother's wedding. I was in such a bad mood at the reception 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan714 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 2 minutes ago, ArtVandalay said: I was at this game at Gillette. Awful. And to go back to my anti-clutch reference, before they kicked off, fans who are not professional coaches, were thinking......whatever happens just dont get stood up and let them strip the ball, just get down, and then BAM, stoodup and ball stripped. LIke how can a professional team make that mistake when casual fans know what not to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikie2times Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I have seen a lot of regular season games mentioned. I'm surprised "Just give it to em" has not been brought up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalftimeAdjustment Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Why do these threads keep happening? But... here are my rankings anyhow. SB25 ... SB28 SB27 SB26 ... "Music City Miracle" ... 1989 Ronnie Harmon drop 13 seconds ... Texans playoff loss Chiefs AFC champ loss ... Jim Kelly's last game ... Others Why don't I rank this loss higher? Because we lost to a team that was basically an even match, and we didn't get ripped off by some ref BS or something. We played well and got beat. In SB25, the MCM, and the Ronnie Harmon drop it felt like we lost to a worse team. And the other Super Bowl losses were all crushing regardless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Horseheads Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Wide right, MCM, 13 ***** seconds with honorable mention to The Drop and Fergys broken ankle... Hell no goal too while I'm at it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nextmanup Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 15 minutes ago, ArtVandalay said: I was at this game at Gillette. Awful. That MNF Patriots loss is truly horrible--so was the one against Dallas. But I don't know how anyone can put a regular season loss in the Top 3! I mean, we lost 4 Super Bowls in a row in differing forms of gut wrenching nausea. Those all have to rank higher than ANY regular season loss, don't they? 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donuts and Doritos Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 1 hour ago, JaCrispy said: Wide Right, 13 Seconds, and Music City Miracle- in that order... Agree 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Joe Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Lotta people ranking 13 seconds second behind Wide Right ... I probably feel the same but maybe there is some recency bias... I remember being particularly devestated by the 4th SB loss at the time... Probably knew is was the last throw of the dice with that squad ... and they led at half time...But it was over some time before the end ..so not the torture this latest game was .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gomper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Super Bowl 25. It's not even close. That was a World Championship that got away. As much as 13 seconds sucked and what could been even more demoralizing, it doesn't compare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Joe Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Just now, gomper said: Super Bowl 25. It's not even close. That was a World Championship that got away. As much as 13 seconds sucked and what could been even more demoralizing, it doesn't compare. No... But isn't it sad that there is an even worse loss in their history than 13 seconds? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QCity Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Every Super Bowl loss was worse than 13 seconds. Those were championship games and you knew the end of the Kelly era was upon us. The Allen era is just starting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan714 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 8 minutes ago, Nextmanup said: That MNF Patriots loss is truly horrible--so was the one against Dallas. But I don't know how anyone can put a regular season loss in the Top 3! I mean, we lost 4 Super Bowls in a row in differing forms of gut wrenching nausea. Those all have to rank higher than ANY regular season loss, don't they? 🤔 I agree especially when it was a Bills team that was just so-so, any millenial Bills loss wasnt hard to get over. Its why this one was no.2 on my list. Superbowl 25, last play off the game, execute a FG and you are wold champions. That whole year I knew the Bills were the best team in football. We beat the Giants in there place with their starter Phil Simms in the regular season(pretty sure). This team, really seemed to flip a switch after half time of the Tampa game, In the NFC games, both mvp candidates were knocked out, leave Jimmy G and Stafford. Win this and the next game is at home, where our playoff record is like 10-1. This team could of gone the whole way. I doubt if we would of been an underdog against any of the remaining 3 teams. Rams maybe a push/slight fave because of the locaton. It was that close, I could see it. And boy does it hurt. Because I know this teams been trying for 50 plus years and dont fool yourself, it aint easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pennstate10 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 2 hours ago, BullBuchanan said: This doesn't even make my short list. It was a great game played by great teams. We lost and that sucks, but we didn't get the rug pulled out from under us by external forces or collapse in on ourselves. We just lost. The MNF game to Dallas felt worse. Stevie Johnson drop against the Steelers felt worse. Losing against the Steelers backups and launching the career of Willie Parker felt worse. Watching our 5-1 season slip away was worse. MCM and Wide Right were WAY worse. Sorry dude, youre simply wrong. 13 sec is #2 on the list. We had a clear path to the super bowl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalftimeAdjustment Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 14 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said: No... But isn't it sad that there is an even worse loss in their history than 13 seconds? Yes. We lost a Super Bowl 20-19 to a team that seemed clearly inferior. Our defense couldn't stop them when it counted. Possibly the worst part is knowing that Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick were involved, and hearing Parcells brag "power football wins". They changed the rules on 4th quarter injuries afterwards because Belichick abused the rulebook so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikie2times Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 This also needs some context. Like Super Bowl 25, we missed a FG. The game was in doubt for the majority of the way. We missed a FG that was usually about 60% of in that era on grass. So the play itself wasn't anything that unlucky. It was almost a coin flip outcome, it was just what was at stake that made it so bad. 13 seconds felt a lot more like MCM, but I will give you another comparison that I feel is more accurate. Houston got the ball first in OT for "The Comeback". Odoms picked him off, Christie sealed the game shortly after. If Houston would have drove the field and kicked a FG and we lose, it would have felt the same as 13 seconds. It was the constant emotional jerking around that made the game so difficult. Even MCM was more like a gunshot to the head. You really didn't even know what happened and had little time to process. 13 seconds was like the comeback in the sense that it was a complete emotional roller coaster and you were aware of being on it. No Gunshot to the head. Time to process, time to become ecstatic only to become demoralized, then have it repeated multiple times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan714 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 4 minutes ago, pennstate10 said: Sorry dude, youre simply wrong. 13 sec is #2 on the list. We had a clear path to the super bowl Absolutely right. Maybe somebody can offer up a heartbreaking pre-season game or some scrimmage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billznut Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 2 hours ago, cwater10 said: Wide Right 13 Seconds 1980 Ron Smith Chargers (That crushed me. Truly believe that would be a Lombardi) MCM OK, that's four... But these are The Bills and I've been a fan for 50 years. Limiting to four felt like a nice kind thing to do for myself. Just for fun and to see who's paying attention, does the name Don Nottingham bring down any night terrors for anyone out there? After that playoff loss to the Chargers, 13 year old me went up to my bedroom and broke the curtain rod in my room. That broken curtain rod is still up in my room at my parents house and it’s still broken 41 years later. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhgold Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 For me the killers are SB 25, Home run throw forward & 13 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 I’ll channel my new found inner Brady man in the arena and say the next loss is the worst loss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybrew1 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 There are too many to choose from. We're a 1960 to present team and we only won one AFL championship (one year prior to the first Super Bowl). You can make a list.... 1. - Wide- Right 2. - Homerun throwback. 2. (tie) 13 secs. 3. - the Ronnie Harmon drop. 4. - that playoff loss to San Diego (Chuck Knox) 5. - Ten plus years of mostly losing to the pats. 5. - Ten plus years of losing to the fish. (Tie). 7-9 the other three Super Bowls. For some reason I don't have those that high, IDK? We shoooda beat Dallas that second time. I'm still mad at Marv levy for never getting a true ginormous NT.) Or a pass rusher to complement BS..... Now during our Josh Allen days we need a Bruce Smith and so far, none have even faintly resembled him.... Maybe Groot next year? maybe Ed Oliver and Basham can learn to work together as a pair of pass rushing DTs? Groot - Boogie - Ed - Epenesa on third and long. With the job to try and send the opposing QB to the blue tent. Can our DL coach pull out the stops and get these kids ready to really dominate? Will the Pegula Family break the bank and find us a FA situational pass rusher to mix with those four? Can our LB coach pull out all the stops and get Tremaine to resemble Urlacher in some way? He coached them both. I don't know what the huge problem is? Why was Urlacher so much more effective? Could it be the defense and what we askTremaine to do? Man, I hope thePegulas and Beane can find a way to give the keys to JA so he can win us a Super Bowl! 13 sec. Really hurting right now and it is going to get even worse on Sunday. That's when the loss will hurt the worst I think. Then, and again on the Super Bowl. I hope the rams kill the chefs so I can feel like the rams would have beaten us too.... Go Rams! (I kinda like the niners (and the rams) but I feel the Rams are a much better team and more apt to beat the chefs..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullBuchanan Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 1 hour ago, pennstate10 said: Sorry dude, youre simply wrong. 13 sec is #2 on the list. We had a clear path to the super bowl Dude, we lost 4 super bowls. It couldn't possibly be higher than 5 based on that logic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
par73 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 4 hours ago, Bubba Gump said: Exactly what I think. Those three-- easily. The order of the last two? 13 seconds is fresher, but haven't settled on it yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABILLBACKER Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, JaCrispy said: Wide Right, 13 Seconds, and Music City Miracle- in that order... These are my 3, but based on the ridiculous greatness of Josh and how we wasted maybe the greatest single performance by a Bills qb and a pretty good chance to finally win a Lombardi.....I'd rank them 1. 13 2. Wide Right 3. Forward lateral I'm still unnerved and devastated by last Sunday Edited January 26, 2022 by LABILLBACKER 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Joe Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 2 hours ago, BullBuchanan said: Dude, we lost 4 super bowls. It couldn't possibly be higher than 5 based on that logic. Dude... It's opinion and we might all feel differently ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaMilBill Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 8 hours ago, HalftimeAdjustment said: Why do these threads keep happening? But... here are my rankings anyhow. SB25 ... SB28 SB27 SB26 ... "Music City Miracle" ... 1989 Ronnie Harmon drop 13 seconds ... Texans playoff loss Chiefs AFC champ loss ... Jim Kelly's last game ... Others Why don't I rank this loss higher? Because we lost to a team that was basically an even match, and we didn't get ripped off by some ref BS or something. We played well and got beat. In SB25, the MCM, and the Ronnie Harmon drop it felt like we lost to a worse team. And the other Super Bowl losses were all crushing regardless. I will say that I totally agree with you on the ref aspect for the 13 seconds game. I was happy that it wasn’t an external force that cost us the game. It was all on the Bills which makes it just as hard to swallow, but I’m not angry about it 8 hours ago, HalftimeAdjustment said: Yes. We lost a Super Bowl 20-19 to a team that seemed clearly inferior. Our defense couldn't stop them when it counted. Possibly the worst part is knowing that Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick were involved, and hearing Parcells brag "power football wins". They changed the rules on 4th quarter injuries afterwards because Belichick abused the rulebook so much. How did he abuse the rules? I never saw the full game, just highlights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_In_NH Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Number one is wide right. 13 seconds is two right now but had similar feelings after MCM and Ronnie Harmon drop. all of these were close that were swayed by someone not doing their job. MCM it was refs and kick coverage. 13 seconds is all coaching to me. wide right should have been a blowout but the team did not prepare like they should have which is inexcuseable. They were up partying during the week. Tasker recently admitted that on OBL. There was also clock management issues in that game. But if the players did their job and showed up it would have been a Lombardi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalftimeAdjustment Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 1 hour ago, VaMilBill said: How did he abuse the rules? I never saw the full game, just highlights It may not have just been that game... but allegedly, the Giants defensive players were coached to do 2 things to slow the no-huddle: 1) Interfere with the spotting of the ball 2) Fake injuries on the field. Basically these measures were used to give the defense a rest from the no-huddle offense and get prepared for the next play. Granted, these are mostly rumors. Anyhow, how awful is it that they sent Belichick's defensive game plan to the Hall of Fame? 🤮 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 As many others have mentioned. 1. wide right 2. 13 seconds 3. MCM In that order and nothing else is really close. IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickleyjones Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Superbowls. Any other answer is just silliness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realist Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 12 hours ago, JaCrispy said: Wide Right, 13 Seconds, and Music City Miracle- in that order... This, in the same order. MCM hurt but not like this past Sunday. This is a SuperBowl team, MCM we had a great defense, but offense was along for the ride, so not sure we were SuperBowl worthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanSD Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 12 hours ago, billsfan714 said: Older person here: Wide right, 13 seconds, MSM. I dont get how anyone would have MSM ahead of this one. MSM was a wild card card, Rob Johnson at QB, that team was never going to win the superbowl. The team that we had beat in the wild card round came within one yard of winning the super bowl. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 4 minutes ago, dickleyjones said: Superbowls. Any other answer is just silliness. The Washington and Dallas Super Bowls didn't hurt as much because they were blowouts. Maybe the 2nd Cowboys Super Bowl you can make a case because the Bills were leading at half. But things fell apart quickly in the 2nd half and it ended up being a blowout. 13 seconds and MCM we had the games won until a crazy ending in both games. That hurt more than the blowout Super Bowl losses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanSD Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 For me, it's Wide Right and Music City Miracle, with 13 Seconds coming in a very distant third place. Sunday's game wasn't the same as either of those. Wide Right was a last-second SB loss in a game we absolutely should have won. We lost that game to an inferior opponent. Of course that stings. It should. Music City Miracle was "only" a WC game, but the Bills were a legitimate SB contender. The Titans, after all, did advance to the SB and came one yard away from sending it into OT. (In fairness, the Rams were a better team than either the Bills or Titans, but they under-performed in SBs). That game also felt like the end of an era. Flutie was shot, Rob Johnson was at best an unknown commodity, and Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith, and Andre Reed would never play another game for the Bills ever again. There was no reason to expect that that would be the start of a historic 17 year playoff drought, but I think most of us realized that we weren't going to be getting another shot for a while. 13 Seconds is totally different. Yes, we blew a game that we absolutely had won in regulation. Yes, that sucks. But we head into the off-season with a legit superstar at the most important position in North American sports and no serious salary cap problems to worry about. This team should absolutely be right back next year and the year after that and the year after that. This is just a painful speed bump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickleyjones Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 42 minutes ago, Greg S said: The Washington and Dallas Super Bowls didn't hurt as much because they were blowouts. Maybe the 2nd Cowboys Super Bowl you can make a case because the Bills were leading at half. But things fell apart quickly in the 2nd half and it ended up being a blowout. 13 seconds and MCM we had the games won until a crazy ending in both games. That hurt more than the blowout Super Bowl losses. My opinion is that although the close games sting, they were at least good games with our great players making great plays. Getting spanked in the superbowl was just awful from beginning to end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 13 hours ago, hondo in seattle said: Pick three of the Super Bowls at random. This ^^^^^ the younger crowd learned on Sunday just how hard it is to get to a SB much less win one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark80 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 This is so easy for me: Super Bowl 25 Loss Music City Miracle Last Weekend vs Chiefs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba Gump Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 9 hours ago, par73 said: Those three-- easily. The order of the last two? 13 seconds is fresher, but haven't settled on it yet. I think 13 seconds hurts more because it was easily preventable. Stupidity lost that game, bad luck was the miracle game ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan714 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 7 hours ago, BillsFanSD said: The team that we had beat in the wild card round came within one yard of winning the super bowl. Rob Johnson wasnt Steve McNair. Not even close. Keep dreaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 20 hours ago, JaCrispy said: Wide Right, 13 Seconds, and Music City Miracle- in that order... 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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