1992 AFC Championship Game

[Low Positive]

I am watching the 1992 AFC Championship Game on YouTube

 

I probably watched this game, but it was during the first weekend of the second semester of my freshman year in college so I might have been busy with a hangover. A couple of things jump out:

• Dick Enberg and Bob Trumpy were a really good broadcast team and better than any team currently working in the NFL for any network.
• Bruce Smith was an absolute game-wrecker. I know that we talk a lot about Donald or Parsons now, but Bruce just destroyed Marino in this game.
• The Bills were known for their high-flying passing attack, but they ran the ball a whole lot. 
• There were so many fewer flags. Bryan Cox got a roughing the passer call. It was so egregious that if someone did that in today's league they would have been suspended.
• You could mug WRs back then. I think if Marino had played with today's PI rules he would have won multiple Super Bowls. 
• Kickers are sooooo much better today. They made a huge deal out of a 50-yarder that's routine now.
• Early 90's Honda Accords and Acura Legends were really solid cars with a timeless look
• Kelly was not an accurate passer. He missed wide-open guys and threw a pick in the first quarter that was worse than any that Josh threw in Week 1.

[Low Positive]

Todd Christianson is rocking a suit with a full-permed mullet. Gotta love the early 90s.

[Success]

I distinctly remember not being worried for even a second of that game.

 

Man, was that a team.

 

[Whites Bay]

A few thoughts:

 

1) The hair.  Just...the hair.

2) What a wrecking crew.

3) Those cheerleaders were young when I was young.  Bet they look better than I do.

4) It's a different game, isn't it?

[Sierra Foothills]

Before 1992 when Enberg was staring at Trumpy's neck, he used to stare at Merlin Olsen's neck.

 

Good times... 

[gonzo1105]

I always have said watching this game, it was a very sloppy AFC championship games from both offenses. The Bills may have won but they looked awful on offense and it was an omen for what was about to happen in the Super Bowl unfortunately.  If the Dolphins could have even play above average they would have won that game.

 

The difference in athleticism from that era to now is also incredibly noticeable. Same with kickers like you stated.

[Low Positive]

1 minute ago, gonzo1105 said:

I always have said watching this game, it was a very sloppy AFC championship games from both offenses. The Bills may have won but they looked awful on offense and it was an omen for what was about to happen in the Super Bowl unfortunately.  If the Dolphins could have even play above average they would have won that game.

 

The difference in athleticism from that era to now is also incredibly noticeable. Same with kickers like you stated.

More violent but a lot slower. 

[Buffalo03]

Dick Emberg was the best

[PromoTheRobot]

3 hours ago, FrenchConnection said:

I am watching the 1992 AFC Championship Game on YouTube

 

I probably watched this game, but it was during the first weekend of the second semester of my freshman year in college so I might have been busy with a hangover. A couple of things jump out:

• Dick Enberg and Bob Trumpy were a really good broadcast team and better than any team currently working in the NFL for any network.
• Bruce Smith was an absolute game-wrecker. I know that we talk a lot about Donald or Parsons now, but Bruce just destroyed Marino in this game.
• The Bills were known for their high-flying passing attack, but they ran the ball a whole lot. 
• There were so many fewer flags. Bryan Cox got a roughing the passer call. It was so egregious that if someone did that in today's league they would have been suspended.
• You could mug WRs back then. I think if Marino had played with today's PI rules he would have won multiple Super Bowls. 
• Kickers are sooooo much better today. They made a huge deal out of a 50-yarder that's routine now.
• Early 90's Honda Accords and Acura Legends were really solid cars with a timeless look
• Kelly was not an accurate passer. He missed wide-open guys and threw a pick in the first quarter that was worse than any that Josh threw in Week 1.

 

I was at that game. 

[Einstein]

The commercials were much better back then.

[HomeskillitMoorman]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

I was at that game. 

 

Nice, but I was at The Comeback game. 

[PromoTheRobot]

10 minutes ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:

 

Nice, but I was at The Comeback game. 

 

I had to work. My boss made me because he went to that game.

[bmur66]

I remember someone saying during this game " The Bills were like a bad restaurant closing early".

[SoCal Deek]

The next day I was at a little hole in the wall ticket office buying seats for the Super Bowl. I had to drive to an office in Anaheim somewhere to get my seats. This was before ticket websites, etc. I honestly don’t recall how I even found those folks but the tickets were legit and even though we got our butts kicked at the Rose Bowl it’s still up there as lifelong memory. I treated my Dad who had paid for season tickets for us growing up all those years in WNY. 

Edited September 22, 2023 by SoCal Deek

[buffblue]

13 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

Dick Emberg was the best

I preferred Merv Albert

[BuffaloBillyG]

10 hours ago, HomeskillitMoorman said:

 

Nice, but I was at The Comeback game. 

So we're 375,000 other people.

[Fleezoid]

57 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

So we're 375,000 other people.

 

And none of them left early.

[hondo in seattle]

17 hours ago, FrenchConnection said:

I am watching the 1992 AFC Championship Game on YouTube

 

I probably watched this game, but it was during the first weekend of the second semester of my freshman year in college so I might have been busy with a hangover. A couple of things jump out:

• Dick Enberg and Bob Trumpy were a really good broadcast team and better than any team currently working in the NFL for any network.
• Bruce Smith was an absolute game-wrecker. I know that we talk a lot about Donald or Parsons now, but Bruce just destroyed Marino in this game.
• The Bills were known for their high-flying passing attack, but they ran the ball a whole lot. 
• There were so many fewer flags. Bryan Cox got a roughing the passer call. It was so egregious that if someone did that in today's league they would have been suspended.
• You could mug WRs back then. I think if Marino had played with today's PI rules he would have won multiple Super Bowls. 
• Kickers are sooooo much better today. They made a huge deal out of a 50-yarder that's routine now.
• Early 90's Honda Accords and Acura Legends were really solid cars with a timeless look
• Kelly was not an accurate passer. He missed wide-open guys and threw a pick in the first quarter that was worse than any that Josh threw in Week 1.

 

 

This was the only Bills playoff game I ever attended.  The Fin fans treated Bills fans horribly that day and it was a ton of fun!  

 

As for Kelly...  Not his best game.  But that was the great thing about the '90s Bills.  When Kelly was cold, we could rely on Thurman.  When Thurman was cold, we could rely on Kelly.  And opposing defenses had a conundrum - how do you stop a team that can both run and pass?    

 

If Kelly had a more normal day, the score would have been even more lopsided.  

[PatsFanNH]

17 hours ago, FrenchConnection said:

I am watching the 1992 AFC Championship Game on YouTube

 

I probably watched this game, but it was during the first weekend of the second semester of my freshman year in college so I might have been busy with a hangover. A couple of things jump out:

• Dick Enberg and Bob Trumpy were a really good broadcast team and better than any team currently working in the NFL for any network.
• Bruce Smith was an absolute game-wrecker. I know that we talk a lot about Donald or Parsons now, but Bruce just destroyed Marino in this game.
• The Bills were known for their high-flying passing attack, but they ran the ball a whole lot. 
• There were so many fewer flags. Bryan Cox got a roughing the passer call. It was so egregious that if someone did that in today's league they would have been suspended.
• You could mug WRs back then. I think if Marino had played with today's PI rules he would have won multiple Super Bowls. 
• Kickers are sooooo much better today. They made a huge deal out of a 50-yarder that's routine now.
• Early 90's Honda Accords and Acura Legends were really solid cars with a timeless look
• Kelly was not an accurate passer. He missed wide-open guys and threw a pick in the first quarter that was worse than any that Josh threw in Week 1.

Disagree about Marino, I think in todays game he been killed behind what would definitely been a faulty line. (I don’t think anyone has a good line anymore) 

 

They changed the rules about corner backs holding and “mugging” receivers after the Colts whined about it after getting smashed by NE and Ty Law intercepted everything Manning threw including his lunch money (lol)

 

Bruce Smith was special and IMO would been a household name if not playing in the same age as Lawrence Taylor..

 

Kickers are definitely better, but the rule changes have helped them too, I am sure what the Pats did last week will be written up and made illegal for next year as an example.. (also not  allowed now to leap frog over the center.. )

[Ned Flanders]

With the Comeback Game, winning in Pittsburgh (which I was at), winning in Miami, scoring the first touchdown in the Super Bowl, I thought for sure this was the Team of Destiny.   But the only thing they were destined for was more heartbreak.  😭