What was it like going to 4 straight Super Bowls? Inside the NFL tells the story

[Pete]

10 hours ago, Victory Formation said:

What is it like to go to FOUR Super Bowls and lose them back to back to back to back! 

WHAT THE ***** DO YOU THINK IT FELT LIKE?

 

***** OFF MR TROLL!

 

GO BILLS!

[HIT BY SPIKES]

8 hours ago, Pete said:

Strange Brew is a stolen riff from Buddy Guy and Junior Wells song Hey Lawdy Mama.

 

Jim Gordon wrote Layla, Rita Coolidge wrote the Piano part.

 

Clapton stole Patti Boyd from George Harrison.

 

Clapton a slippery thief.

 

 

 

[Nihilarian]

On 9/2/2025 at 3:10 PM, Shaw66 said:

I hate to speak ill of the living, but I've always put it on Levy. Sometime in the aftermath of XXV, Levy was asked something like, "In hindsight, if you had it to do over again, would you have done more to get the team emotionally prepared for the game." He said something like, "these men are professionals, and they don't need me to get them emotionally prepared." 

 

I think the Giants were emotionally prepared, because they had Parcells and Belichick. I think the Bills were not prepared like that, because Levy didn't think it was necessary. 

 

In the same situation, McDermott certainly will take an active role, be the leader of the team, and have his players prepared in all manners. 

In my view, it wasn't Marv Levy who didn't have the team properly prepared. It was a few things that worked against the Bills.

 

First, it was that Levy / Marchibroda allowed QB Jim Kelly to call his own plays, and he should have called more runs with Thurman Thomas, who had 15 rushes for 135 yards. Buffalo should have won that first SB, no question, as I think they were 21-point favorites going into that game. They had already beaten the Giants in their home, Giants Stadium, 17-13, with Jim Kelly getting hurt and Frank Reich coming in for the win.

 

The Giants just destroyed the Bills in time of possession 40:33 to 19:27, by playing keep away with O.J. Anderson running it. This was the Buffalo Bills' weakest area as they built their defense for stopping the pass with smaller, quicker players. During their season, Buffalo would get the lead by running the ball, passing, and scoring, and then let their fierce pass rush with Bruce Smith and Biscuit go wild after the QB. That didn't happen... out-coached perhaps?

 

After that initial SB, another issue was that Buffalo was so beaten up injury-wise wise just winning the AFC was a tough chore. Against Denver in the AFC Championship game, the Bills' offensive line was so decimated by injuries that TE Pete Metzelaars was needed to play tackle. One of those years, the NFL decided to shorten the time between the Championship game and SB by a week, and this also hurt Buffalo badly.

 

Against the Washington Redskins, and before the game, the Buffalo Bills' O-line coach, Chuck Dickerson, before Super Bowl XXVI, Dickerson mocked the Washington Redskins' famed offensive line, "The Hogs", in a television interview. Dickerson said Redskins tackle Joe Jacoby was "a Neanderthal -- he slobbers a lot, he probably kicks dogs in his neighborhood." He also said tackle Jim Lachey "has bad breath. Players will fall down without him even touching them.

 

Redskins coach Joe Gibbs got his hands on some tapes of Dickerson and played them at a team meeting on the night before the game, and by all accounts, it was a factor in the Redskins' 37–24 thumping of the Bills. Levy later described the interview as "the girder that brought down the building.  Levy fired Dickerson three days after the game.

 

It was simply a nightmare matchup of defensive schemes for Buffalo when they faced teams with really good offensive lines. It didn't help that Kelly was concussed and kept playing in one game. Different times, man, different times. 

[HIT BY SPIKES]

36 minutes ago, Nihilarian said:

In my view, it wasn't Marv Levy who didn't have the team properly prepared. It was a few things that worked against the Bills.

 

First, it was that Levy / Marchibroda allowed QB Jim Kelly to call his own plays, and he should have called more runs with Thurman Thomas, who had 15 rushes for 135 yards. Buffalo should have won that first SB, no question, as I think they were 21-point favorites going into that game. They had already beaten the Giants in their home, Giants Stadium, 17-13, with Jim Kelly getting hurt and Frank Reich coming in for the win.

 

The Giants just destroyed the Bills in time of possession 40:33 to 19:27, by playing keep away with O.J. Anderson running it. This was the Buffalo Bills' weakest area as they built their defense for stopping the pass with smaller, quicker players. During their season, Buffalo would get the lead by running the ball, passing, and scoring, and then let their fierce pass rush with Bruce Smith and Biscuit go wild after the QB. That didn't happen... out-coached perhaps?

 

After that initial SB, another issue was that Buffalo was so beaten up injury-wise wise just winning the AFC was a tough chore. Against Denver in the AFC Championship game, the Bills' offensive line was so decimated by injuries that TE Pete Metzelaars was needed to play tackle. One of those years, the NFL decided to shorten the time between the Championship game and SB by a week, and this also hurt Buffalo badly.

 

Against the Washington Redskins, and before the game, the Buffalo Bills' O-line coach, Chuck Dickerson, before Super Bowl XXVI, Dickerson mocked the Washington Redskins' famed offensive line, "The Hogs", in a television interview. Dickerson said Redskins tackle Joe Jacoby was "a Neanderthal -- he slobbers a lot, he probably kicks dogs in his neighborhood." He also said tackle Jim Lachey "has bad breath. Players will fall down without him even touching them.

 

Redskins coach Joe Gibbs got his hands on some tapes of Dickerson and played them at a team meeting on the night before the game, and by all accounts, it was a factor in the Redskins' 37–24 thumping of the Bills. Levy later described the interview as "the girder that brought down the building.  Levy fired Dickerson three days after the game.

 

It was simply a nightmare matchup of defensive schemes for Buffalo when they faced teams with really good offensive lines. It didn't help that Kelly was concussed and kept playing in one game. Different times, man, different times. 

 

AND Jimbo as the QB and THE team Leader was a cocaine using drunk.

[hondo in seattle]

14 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

First, thank you.  Second...dammit!  Lol

 

I left the army a long time ago and still haven't figured out what to say when thanked for my service.  All I can offer, is (1) thanks for saying so, and (2) it was an honor and privilege to serve with those brave men and women.   

 

As for your second point, if I had to miss a Bills game, maybe Wide-Right wasn't the worst game to miss.  Watching live probably would have broken my heart worse than hearing about it hours after the fact. 

 

Tonight I was watching the Bills game.  As the game wound down, a friend and fellow Bills fan texted me "Painful..."  I thought there was a lag in my stream and he had already witnessed Prater missing.  It would've been a Billsy experience.  So happy to be wrong!