The sequence I always remember from this game is the Jets quitting early in the fourth quarter; back-to-back handoffs into the line on 3rd and 20 and 4th and 20 and the visceral reaction from the crowd as well as the MNF trio.
This was the season my Giants barely beat the Bills in the SB. It should've been Buffalo, to be honest, but we caught probably the greatest break in our history with Wide Right. I remember watching this game with my buddies, it was my sophomore year of college, I was 20. Early 90s, about 90-93, was a great time for the league. It's a shame the Bills never won at least one, this team was damn good, but I wasn't going to root for them when my hardnosed G-men were playing against them.
I'm a Jet fan so I don't like either of you but I wouldn't exactly call Wide Right a break. It was a 47-yarder which was far from automatic back in the day. The Giants played a perfect game and deserved to win. You hold the ball for over 40 minutes you're really doing something. You also stopped San Francisco's bid for a three-peat in their house without even scoring a touchdown. If that's not Giants I don't know what is (guys trapping balls against their helmets, etc.) Buffalo was a nice team for several years but took advantage of a very weak AFC in the late 80s/early 90s. They deserve a ton of credit for getting there four times, especially in the third year when they were a wildcard and had the miracle comeback at home against Houston before winning two road games just to get to the Super Bowl. The Giants and San Francisco were the best teams in '90. No one was touching Washington in '91, perhaps except for a very good San Francisco team coming on down the stretch but just missing the playoffs on tiebreakers. Dallas and San Francisco were head-and-shoulders the best two teams in the league for the next three years (92-94) and probably a fourth when Green Bay interrupted a '95 NFC Championship Game #4 between the teams.
32:00 that would be a 15-Yd penalty & ejection today… which is sad. Kelso was playing the ball and wound up running right into 84. Guarantee though there would be dirty yellow laundry everywhere
The Bills had come off a 30-7 loss in Miami. Not much is mentioned (although Al Micheals slightly alluded to it at 3:48) about the fact that the Bills owner Ralph Wilson literally had to put down a revolt by many of the players against Marv Levy leading up to this game. Wilson threatened to either suspend or outright release any player who didn't remain loyal to Levy. The Bills were able to go on to have a successful season but never won a single Super Bowl in 4 tries. It was GM Bill Polian who built those teams and yet Levy couldn't win one of them. Maybe the players were right to question Levy all the time.
The former Bills players all speak very highly of Marv Levy. Some of the players at the time were mad at Marv for pulling the starters at Miami in that brutal loss. In many ways, that changed the whole team and culture though moving forward. Look at the Bills record after that loss in Miami. The team went on an absolute four year tear after that Miami loss. The reason they lost four in a row wasn’t due to Marv Levy. The Bills ran into two of the greatest teams of all-time. The 1991 Redskins and the 1992-1995 Dallas Cowboys. The novice will say that the AFC was weak in the Bills dominance and yet ignore the fact that the Dallas Cowboys were a play away in San Francisco from going to four straight Super Bowls as well. Wide right in Super Bowl XXV shouldn’t of happened. The Bills defense couldn’t get off the field. The Bills defensive line was smaller. If Bill Polian ever did anything wrong was his lines he built were smaller or one dimensional. Bill Polian built the Peyton Manning led Colts too and they barely got one Super Bowl win as they struggled with their line play in the playoffs. If you watch Super Bowl XXVI, XXVII, and XXVIII again then you’ll fully notice the Bills lines on both sides of the ball were just getting blown away. Jim Kelly had no time to really throw and Thurman Thomas no holes to run through. The Bills defense couldn’t stop the run or simply put any real pressure on the opposing QBs in those last three Super Bowl games. The novice will tell you 0-4 is choking or whatever. The Bills were great, but in the trenches a bit small, especially on defense.
@@ALastShotonTwoGoodHorses Bill Polian was the brains behind the success of the Bills during the SB era. Levy couldn't win one of those games. Thurman Thomas even said that after the loss to Washington (SB XXVI), "we were simply outcoached". Levy returned as GM in 2005 and hired that useless "milksop" Dick Jauron as coach and the Bills stunk during Levy's "reincarnation". I will always believe that if Chuck Knox had had the personnel that Levy did the Bills would have won at least several of those SB games.
The sequence I always remember from this game is the Jets quitting early in the fourth quarter; back-to-back handoffs into the line on 3rd and 20 and 4th and 20 and the visceral reaction from the crowd as well as the MNF trio.
That FG with about 4 minutes in the first half? If only it happened 16 weeks later.
Upstate NY VS. NYC
Can't get any better than this
New Jersey
@@zalocha33 Bills still playing home regular season games in another COUNTRY (Toronto)? LMAO
I like KABC-TV.
Bills bounced back from a 30-7 loss on the road vs a division rival, with a 30-7 win on the road vs a division rival
After that 30-7 loss in Miami the Bills went on a four year tear.
2:31:34 actually, virtually no one watched Cop Rock - but I did, 26 years after it originally aired
A very young 32 year old Pete Carrol here as Jets defensive cooridinator.
Kelso sleazy hit up high
Pete Carroll turned 39 in 1990 (born in 1951).
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This was the season my Giants barely beat the Bills in the SB. It should've been Buffalo, to be honest, but we caught probably the greatest break in our history with Wide Right. I remember watching this game with my buddies, it was my sophomore year of college, I was 20. Early 90s, about 90-93, was a great time for the league. It's a shame the Bills never won at least one, this team was damn good, but I wasn't going to root for them when my hardnosed G-men were playing against them.
I'm a Jet fan so I don't like either of you but I wouldn't exactly call Wide Right a break. It was a 47-yarder which was far from automatic back in the day. The Giants played a perfect game and deserved to win. You hold the ball for over 40 minutes you're really doing something. You also stopped San Francisco's bid for a three-peat in their house without even scoring a touchdown. If that's not Giants I don't know what is (guys trapping balls against their helmets, etc.)
Buffalo was a nice team for several years but took advantage of a very weak AFC in the late 80s/early 90s. They deserve a ton of credit for getting there four times, especially in the third year when they were a wildcard and had the miracle comeback at home against Houston before winning two road games just to get to the Super Bowl.
The Giants and San Francisco were the best teams in '90. No one was touching Washington in '91, perhaps except for a very good San Francisco team coming on down the stretch but just missing the playoffs on tiebreakers. Dallas and San Francisco were head-and-shoulders the best two teams in the league for the next three years (92-94) and probably a fourth when Green Bay interrupted a '95 NFC Championship Game #4 between the teams.
32:00 that would be a 15-Yd penalty & ejection today… which is sad.
Kelso was playing the ball and wound up running right into 84. Guarantee though there would be dirty yellow laundry everywhere
Watered down NFL now. The Refs yellow flagged Mahomes to another rigged ring.
That's how it is in NYC hun Kansas city
The Bills had come off a 30-7 loss in Miami. Not much is mentioned (although Al Micheals slightly alluded to it at 3:48) about the fact that the Bills owner Ralph Wilson literally had to put down a revolt by many of the players against Marv Levy leading up to this game. Wilson threatened to either suspend or outright release any player who didn't remain loyal to Levy. The Bills were able to go on to have a successful season but never won a single Super Bowl in 4 tries. It was GM Bill Polian who built those teams and yet Levy couldn't win one of them. Maybe the players were right to question Levy all the time.
The former Bills players all speak very highly of Marv Levy. Some of the players at the time were mad at Marv for pulling the starters at Miami in that brutal loss. In many ways, that changed the whole team and culture though moving forward. Look at the Bills record after that loss in Miami. The team went on an absolute four year tear after that Miami loss. The reason they lost four in a row wasn’t due to Marv Levy. The Bills ran into two of the greatest teams of all-time. The 1991 Redskins and the 1992-1995 Dallas Cowboys. The novice will say that the AFC was weak in the Bills dominance and yet ignore the fact that the Dallas Cowboys were a play away in San Francisco from going to four straight Super Bowls as well. Wide right in Super Bowl XXV shouldn’t of happened. The Bills defense couldn’t get off the field. The Bills defensive line was smaller. If Bill Polian ever did anything wrong was his lines he built were smaller or one dimensional. Bill Polian built the Peyton Manning led Colts too and they barely got one Super Bowl win as they struggled with their line play in the playoffs. If you watch Super Bowl XXVI, XXVII, and XXVIII again then you’ll fully notice the Bills lines on both sides of the ball were just getting blown away. Jim Kelly had no time to really throw and Thurman Thomas no holes to run through. The Bills defense couldn’t stop the run or simply put any real pressure on the opposing QBs in those last three Super Bowl games. The novice will tell you 0-4 is choking or whatever. The Bills were great, but in the trenches a bit small, especially on defense.
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Also, after the Jets ran it up the gut on 4th & 20 early in the 4th quarter, Gifford wondered if maybe Levy would pull his starters.
@@ALastShotonTwoGoodHorses Bill Polian was the brains behind the success of the Bills during the SB era. Levy couldn't win one of those games. Thurman Thomas even said that after the loss to Washington (SB XXVI), "we were simply outcoached". Levy returned as GM in 2005 and hired that useless "milksop" Dick Jauron as coach and the Bills stunk during Levy's "reincarnation". I will always believe that if Chuck Knox had had the personnel that Levy did the Bills would have won at least several of those SB games.