Sunday in barfalo= Chicago 1985 MNF

[iwastherein1972]

We were on a mission that night to protect 17-0 and the Orange Bowl reached new heights of fan electricity and emotion. We WERE NOT going to lose. No matter how good the bears were, they were not winning. Period.

Sunday was upstate ny's equivalent of that game. We all saw it coming but didn't want to believe it. Whatever. Done.

Bring on the Chiefs. We will likely crush them.

 

[gregorygrant83]

We were on a mission that night to protect 17-0 and the Orange Bowl reached new heights of fan electricity and emotion. We WERE NOT going to lose. No matter how good the bears were, they were not winning. Period.

Sunday was upstate ny's equivalent of that game. We all saw it coming but didn't want to believe it. Whatever. Done.

Bring on the Chiefs. We will likely crush them.

Bears fans are laughing their you know what off that you are comparing a win against a perennial .500 team to an upset against a team with one of the most dominate defense in NFL history.

 

[J. David Wannyheimer]

Bears fans are laughing their you know what off that you are comparing a win against a perennial .500 team to an upset against a team with one of the most dominate defense in NFL history.

I don't necessarily agree with him (I think the Bills simply beat the stuffing out of us), but Bills fans were screaming at us before the game that it was going to be an insane atmosphere, and the most amped up the Bills have been in ages.

I don't think it hurt them any.

 

[Archaeopteryx]

If this was the equivalent to that game, what do we call last years 19-0 beatdown in Buffalo?

 

[Serik]

I have that game on DVD watch it twice a year :)

 

[gregorygrant83]

I don't necessarily agree with him (I think the Bills simply beat the stuffing out of us), but Bills fans were screaming at us before the game that it was going to be an insane atmosphere, and the most amped up the Bills have been in ages.

I don't think it hurt them any.

I'm sure the OP is talking about the atmosphere at the game and not significance of the game, but they're still laughing.

 

[Awsi Dooger]

I think early season home anti revenge was the entirety of their advantage, along with simply matching up well against us. The Jim Kelly situation and ownership issue were merely very recent and convenient sloppy reference points. Fans and media want to believe in things like that as opposed to acknowledging that anti revenge is more powerful than revenge.

Bottom line you can't afford to lose that home game to a division rival. It sets up the anti revenge situation on their home field. In this case it bit us twice, once late last season and then again when we received a horrible break when the road game at Buffalo was very early in the season. On the day the NFL schedule was announced I posted that the thing I hated was the early road date at the Bills. Last week I tried to pretend we could overcome a deficit in the second half. Not close.

BTW, I had a tape of that 1985 Bears game on YouTube in its entirety until the NFL complained and forced me to remove it.

 

[bird33]

comparing a 5-7 win buffalo team to one of the greatest teams in the history of the nfl is...only something youd read on finheaven...

 

[gregorygrant83]

comparing a 5-7 win buffalo team to one of the greatest teams in the history of the nfl is...only something youd read on finheaven...

In fairness he's comparing how energized the Bills and their crowd were for the game, not the talent level of the teams.

 

[ForksPhin]

We will likely crush the Chiefs????? That is news to me.

 

[Roman529]

How can you compare the SECOND game of the season to a Monday Night game late in the season to keep the Bears from going unbeaten in 1985??

 

[Rhinocoach]

How can you compare the SECOND game of the season to a Monday Night game late in the season to keep the Bears from going unbeaten in 1985??

It was a comparison of the home fans rabid infusion of energy.
I tried to tell you guys how important this game was to Bills fans.
Imagine if Marino beat cancer, or you just spent 6 months listening to every ESPN reading peeon finishing every sentence with "Toronto Bills"!!!! or "Bon Jovi owns your team"!!!!! only to have the hand of god reach down and lift us from the depths of hell and have a local guy with billions to spare stop by and say "I want the Buffalo Bills and will keep theme here and might even want to turn them into a contender..."
Or Mark Clayton getting into the HoF (Andre Reed) or the widow of the only owner the team ever knew sharing her love for the fans.

I honestly don't know what would put Dolphins fans over the top but Sunday was a perfect storm for Bills fans. God as my witness I honestly believed Jim Kelly would have mugged Kyle Orton and stole his uni if E.J. had gone down in this game.
This was just that big for us.

 

[olivadotti]

 

[buxster07]

We were on a mission that night to protect 17-0 and the Orange Bowl reached new heights of fan electricity and emotion. We WERE NOT going to lose. No matter how good the bears were, they were not winning. Period.

Sunday was upstate ny's equivalent of that game. We all saw it coming but didn't want to believe it. Whatever. Done.

Bring on the Chiefs. We will likely crush them.

I remember that game against the Bears (damn i'm old). It was soo intense! One of the best Dolphin games ever :)

 

[Kinzua]

It was a comparison of the home fans rabid infusion of energy.
I tried to tell you guys how important this game was to Bills fans.
Imagine if Marino beat cancer, or you just spent 6 months listening to every ESPN reading peeon finishing every sentence with "Toronto Bills"!!!! or "Bon Jovi owns your team"!!!!! only to have the hand of god reach down and lift us from the depths of hell and have a local guy with billions to spare stop by and say "I want the Buffalo Bills and will keep theme here and might even want to turn them into a contender..."
Or Mark Clayton getting into the HoF (Andre Reed) or the widow of the only owner the team ever knew sharing her love for the fans.

I honestly don't know what would put Dolphins fans over the top but Sunday was a perfect storm for Bills fans. God as my witness I honestly believed Jim Kelly would have mugged Kyle Orton and stole his uni if E.J. had gone down in this game.
This was just that big for us.

It's hard for Miami fans to understand the special connection between the Bills and the Buffalo/WNY community because that kind of connection doesn't exist between the Fins and South Florida -- or between most pro teams and their local areas. Usually it's because there is just too large a percentage of locals who are totally uninterested in the team and might not even know it exists. The Bills/Buffalo connection is more like the connection between a college team and its city where the two become synomous: Michigan/Ann Arbor, Alabama/Tuscaloosa, Notre Dame/South Bend, etc.