What is your favorite totally random Bills game?

[Dan Darragh]

1 hour ago, SoCal Deek said:

Totally random? Okay…some similarly old fan can correct me but I think it was a preseason game when James Harris was at QB and he took a quarterback sneak something like 98 yards for a touchdown. I believe it still may be the longest play in Bills history…but being a preseason game it doesn’t register. 

I think he did 2 or 3 QB sneaks at the end of the game, one of them for 50 yards +/- and the Bills scored. Here's what I can find on the game, which I remember watching on TV.

 

 

[JP51]

On 5/2/2025 at 8:13 PM, harmonkillebrew said:

that game was great. and storming the field is an all time highlight for me

Indeed I left the Delaware north box to sit in the end zone with my friends and get rained on... the blocked field goal was coming my way.... then we win the doors open and next thing I know I am taking down a goal post and buying a hat on the way out. 

[BillsPride12]

10 hours ago, Mikie2times said:

That run in 2004 was among the more enjoyable stretches I have had as a fan. It doesn't get a lot of conversation because of the Steelers game. 

 

Such an underrated and fun blip during the Drought years!  Not only did they go on a 6 game winning streak but they were burying teams during that run

[Ned Flanders]

On 5/2/2025 at 11:49 PM, Greg S said:

1980 Bills 10 Rams 7 in OT. Bills first ever win against the Rams. Clinched a playoff spot which they hadn't been in since 1974. Stadium went nuts celebrating a return to the playoffs.

They didn't clinch a playoff spot but were close.  They laid an egg the next week in New England, then had to hang on for dear life against the 49ers in the rain, fog, and mud in San Francisco. I told my mother that right before the Montana Hail Mary at the end of the game, that if the Bills lost, I was throwing myself into the Christmas tree.  Fortunately, the Bills, and the tree, survived. 

[Prospector]

The comeback game against the Pats during our crappy years... I left Buffalo Wild Wings in Tennessee because we were getting smoked, then I had my father in law drive us back to finish the game... so glad we watched till the end!

 

That was my superbowl... we finally beat Brady and the Pats

Edited 2 hours ago by Prospector

[Gregg]

13 minutes ago, Ned Flanders said:

They didn't clinch a playoff spot but were close.  They laid an egg the next week in New England, then had to hang on for dear life against the 49ers in the rain, fog, and mud in San Francisco. I told my mother that right before the Montana Hail Mary at the end of the game, that if the Bills lost, I was throwing myself into the Christmas tree.  Fortunately, the Bills, and the tree, survived. 

 

I know they didn't win the division until they beat the 49ers, but I thought the win vs the Rams clinched at least a WC. It was 45 years so I could be wrong. 

[Metal Man]

On 5/3/2025 at 1:41 AM, Mikie2times said:

 

To me this was the peak of the drought era. I also met my first TBD poster in a crap bar in Kalamazoo Michigan for this game. If you're still here I don't remember your handle, I was formerly Kzoomike. We had so much talent on this roster. 

 

Every time a thread like this comes up this is the first game I think of.

 

Th results of that season notwithstanding, the feeling in the crowd for that opener was one of the best I remember being a part of.

[Roundybout]

On 5/2/2025 at 7:22 PM, LeviF said:

The crazy comeback against Cincinnati in the Fitzy era. Completely irrelevant game that nobody outside of the greater Buffalo and Cincinnati areas saw. But lots of fun to go back and watch. 

Was this the “Why So Serious” game?

[BananaB]

Gotta go with a game I made it to Buffalo. There was a game years ago we played Philly at home. Close game, came down to the end and Bills forced Philly offside so they didn’t have to punt the ball back. Stadium was loud as *****! 

Edited 1 hour ago by BananaB

[Roundybout]

15 hours ago, Rubes said:

Don’t know if it’s been mentioned in the last 6 pages, but one that comes to mind is the game at home against the Packers with Rodgers at QB. Don’t remember the year, probably early-mid 2010s. Super Mario made the strip sack in the end zone to seal the game. Packers were really good that year and beating them was awesome, especially given how many Packers fans I work with.

 

Was going to say this one. 2014, the Bacarri Rambo game. Jordy Nelson dropped a sure-fire touchdown and we sacked Rogers later that drive.
 

That was my first-ever regular season home game at the Ralph and it was a blast. 
 

Here’s one from that same season - Bills/Bears Week 1, 2014. Fred Jackson has a monster run/stiff arm in overtime to set up the game-winning field goal.

Edited 1 hour ago by Roundybout

[LeviF]

9 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

Was this the “Why So Serious” game?

 

Sure was! The game that made him famous before the game and tweet that made him infamous.

[JohnNord]

On 5/2/2025 at 7:12 PM, T.E. said:

Yes, we all love the classics, but what random-ass games stick out for you as a great memory?

 

I'll start by nominating our home game against Miami in the 2002 season. Ricky Williams running wild, the snow coming out of nowhere, Bledsoe and Moulds taking over, Jim Kelly running up and down the sidelines in jubilation. Just a great, fun game all around.

I have a great one.  Buffalo versus NYG, opening night on Sunday Night Football on TNT in 1996.   Game was not that memorable.  Bills won 23-20 with an OT field goal by Christie.  Just remember it because I watched with my dad and we celebrated once the kick went through.  
 

And yes, I was at the home game against Miami.  Before I even got to my seat Williams had scored and it was 7-0.  Once Moulds caught that TD pass I remember the PA announcer playing “Let it Snow” as a very light snowfall started moments earlier.  The entire stadium was signing let it snow.  It was a great moment and a textbook example of the amazing game experience for fans in December 

Edited 1 hour ago by JohnNord

[JohnNord]

28 minutes ago, Metal Man said:

 

Every time a thread like this comes up this is the first game I think of.

 

Th results of that season notwithstanding, the feeling in the crowd for that opener was one of the best I remember being a part of.

I was downtown at a bar with some friends, that were not Bills fans.  I was assuming an ass kicking was in order and had been bracing myself for the 💩 I was going to be getting that day.  
 

By the end, they were like “Wow, the Bills are legit this season.”  Little did we know…

[RoyBatty is alive]

On 5/3/2025 at 2:26 PM, ControllerOfPlanetX said:

It’s NOT Cleveland 6 - Bills 3, I can tell you that.

 

but I enjoyed the blowout over the Fish in the last game of the season, where the Fish needed it for the playoffs.

 

That was the WORST professional football game of all time.

 

The Winning QB, Derek Anderson went something like 2-17 of 26 yards.

[RoyBatty is alive]

On 5/3/2025 at 5:23 PM, sherpa said:

 

Good choice.

Namath said after the Super Bowl that the one win Bills team had a better defense than the NFL champ Colts.

Resulted in him getting a standing ov in next year's game at War Memorial.

 

 

I was around in that era and let suggest it wasn't Namath's comment re the Bills that gave him a standing ovation, all around the AFL that year the Jets were treated like conquering heroes in every AFL stadium they went to.

[sherpa]

Just now, RoyBatty is alive said:

I was around in that era and let suggest it wasn't Namath's comment re the Bills that gave him a standing ovation, all around the AFL that year the Jets were treated like conquering heroes in every AFL stadium they went to.

 

I agree.

The primary reason was the legitimacy he gave the AFL with the Super Bowl win.

But his pro Bills comment didn't hurt, and we had a lot of hurt at that time.

[Toomstone.Part.Duex]

The "Just give it to them" game.   I remember Moulds having this one handed catch that was mind blowing.