The talent was there. The way it was used was just that bad. Many of the same players made this a playoff team in 1975, and actually led the league in scoring. Heck, it was the most points by any team in a 14 game season. Of course, Ahmad Rashad and JD Hill were gone. Bob Chandler by himself was not enough to carry the team. But Simpson and the full Electric Company were still there, and a defense that was outstanding in 75 still had most of the same players.
I went down the comments to see if anyone noticed. Got 3/4 of the way down. Tommy Prothro of the Chargers did the same thing. Chuck Muncie is on film smoking on the side lines. I love it.
Wow this GUY has NO BUISNESS COACHING ANYWHERE. But this video is STILL WAY BETTER than SPIKING the BALL into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!!
He was actually a 10 time Pro Bowl Center who ended up in the HOF and one of the league’s most highly regarded O-line coaches of this era. He remained game fully employed on NFL coaching staffs well into the ‘80s.
@@trevorhembrough1290 including the Bills as offensive line coach under Levy in 1988. Then in 89 they went to Tom Breshnehan got bigger on the o line and went to 4 straight Super Bowls that they unfortunately lost.
I just wish the sports announcers for WGR and other Buffalo-area media groups would be harsh and critical if/when the Bills or Sabres organizations proceed to do colossally dumb shit. Apparently, team ownership/management doesn't take too well to criticism.
*RINGO 1967:* What would you do if I sang out of key? Would you stand up and walk out on me? *RINGO 1977:* What would I do if you played out of key? I'll stand up and walk out on you!
Great video and commentary--I remember this story from when I was a kid. You explained it perfectly, and with a lot more detail than I ever knew. Such a great channel here. Your videos are awesome. Keep up the excellent work!
Jim Ringo was a very good offensive line coach. Buffalo actually brought him back as the offensive line coach under Marv Levy for a while before he was had to retire for health reasons. That was just a horrible team. Saban left a complete mess in Buffalo.
Was it Saban or Ownership. Bob Lustig was the GM from 1967-1978. They generally had a good Offensive line, but the offense most of the years of the 70s even when they were good revolved around O.J. Simpson and Bob Chandler. Knox was still hamstrung by the GM in 1978 then he had a decent run with that team after. Worst thing the Bills did was Draft Tom Cousineau when he did not want to play there and ended up going to the CFL. O.J. Gets hurt and the teams offense Crumbled. Ferguson gets hurt and Gary Marangi who has a chance to make the 100 worst Quarterback list of all time has to play. 1976 was a bad year for Buffalo when the Expansion Bucs nearly win but lose 14-9.
Well, the Seahawks weren't facing Tom Brady either. BTW, Jim Zorn was another good player who became a horrible coach. When he was in Washington, he did some really weird things as head coach.
At last Ringo had the common decency to tell his players his intentions to their faces, which is something I can't say about Petrino. The way Petrino went about his departure from the Falcons and how he conducted himself there were so abhorrent that Warrick Dunn talked trash about him, something Dunn NEVER does.
Yea I’m gonna have to agree w the replies. Petrino literally told Arthur blank that he had himself a head coach and within the very same week, left overnight to take the Arkansas job. Petrino was a dick.
if i can recall, didnt petrino give arthur blank confidence that he was gonna be there and stick it out. because i kno vick got locked up that season and they were on their way to drafting a new qb. it was a monday night, and then the next night he was singing pig suey at arkansas. i couldnt believe it.
Did the old switcharoo to the AFC after the 1976 season with Tampa Bay moving to the NFC. The idea was to introduce the two expansion teams around the entire league.
Did the league have a plan if somehow, one of those teams qualified for the playoffs? They each played every other team in the NFL, once that season. How would they determine their division standings when they didn't play each team twice. TB was in AFC West that season
The Rams and Raiders ran away with the respective divisions in 1975 which had just 4 teams. The NFL probably put the teams in these divisions because they had no realistic chance to make the playoffs or win the divisions. Meanwhile, the other 4 team division in the AFC had 3 teams separated by 2 games, so they might not have wanted the expansion teams in that one. The divisions had no bearing on the playoffs in 1976 or 1977.
Norm Van Brooklyn did something similar, although he did it after a game. Then, his career actually ended in a disastrous way. Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about both of those instances.
Don Criqui 's work during the 1982 classic playoff game with San Diego at Miami earned him the Hall Of Fame of broadcasters and his commentary on this video cements the HOF.
Blame Nike. Nike has the exclusive contract for ALL uniforms in the NFL. This is why the uniforms suck so hard and look tacky (some with digital clock numbers) It also may be the reason there are more injuries... seems they supply the pads too. Nike is unsafe and nasty
For sure. Their internal troubles REALLY started with manager Brian Epstein’s tragic death in 1966 in the wake of their decision to stop touring; all of them would later admit it became much harder for them to tolerate each other’s wildly different tastes and personalities over time without someone like Epstein acting as the diplomatic glue to keep them together. In retrospect, Yoko’s (and Linda’s) arrival into their lives likely hastened the inevitable more than anything. :/
I remember Greg Collins because he played for the Seahawks during our inagural season, he got cut from the seahawks because he was in a car accident on I-90 after leaving training camp in Cheney, WA (yes, not the most desirable town to be in during the summer) ....and he just happened to have the starting quarterback Jim Zorn with him when his car went off the road near Snoqualmie pass...Coach Jack Patera found out about the accident and cut Collins
If I was coach of the 1977 Bills, I would quit. They lost to the Jets and got destroyed by the second-year Seahawks 56-17 and Joe Ferguson led the NFL in interceptions with 24.
1977 was one of the worst years for offense in NFL history. League wide teams averaged only 17 points a game. It was so bad the rules were changed in the off-season to ban defensive backs from touching receivers after 5 yards and the “head slap” was banned.
Ironically, I was 9 & when I heard on the radio the next morning the score of the Bills/Seahawks game, I told my father that I was going to root for the Seahawks. 44 years later I still do..
The second year expansion teams, the Bucs and Seahawks wins were directly involved in 3 coaching vacancies. The Saints, St Louis Cardinals, and here with Ringo.
The only thing I think could come close is Buddy Parker and the Lions in 1957. The volatile yet championship winning coach quit the team during a banquet after the team broke training camp before the 1957 season started. Buddy criticized the team and claimed he couldn't win with this Detroit squad. He promptly left and the Lions went on to win their last ever NFL championship. While Parker resurfaced in Pittsburgh in 1958, he claimed he had a back door deal with Baltimore owner Carroll Rosenbloom to take over for the Colts in 1958. Except Weeb Ewbank and the Colts emerged as the best team in the league. Has anyone else ever heard of Parker's claim of taking over in Baltimore?
A couple errors in this video. First of all the Bills-Seahawks game was not an interconference game. The Seahawks played in the AFC from 1977-2001. Also the final score of that game was 56-17, not 56-10. You must have been thinking about the Bills loss to the Patriots in 2007. But you were right about one thing, the Ringo years were rough.
He actually put on the screen that it was 56-17 my friend. He did make a mistake on the interconference thing, but sad as great as this vid was, the only thing you want to comment on, is one small mistake. Everyone's a critic i guess.
The Bills are a rollercoaster over the decades with coaches; Buster Ramsey, down; Lou Saban I, up; Joe Collier/John Rauch/Harvey Johnson, way down; Saban II, up; Jim Ringo, down; Chuck Knox, up; Kay Stephenson/Hank Bullough, way down; Marv Levy, way up; Wade Phillips, down-but not too far; the miasma of mediocrity, not really down or up, kind of a long curve; Sean McDermott, up again. Let's hope that this up lasts as long as Levy's.
@@tygrkhat4087 Don't forget Dick Jauron, who was yet another one of Ralphy's cheap hires; at the same time, Mike Sherman(better win percentage; more playoff success) was available.
I was at this game. I was named after Bills LB Bo Cornell (he was a UW FB at the time). In fairness, you tend to rip these early Seattle teams. At 5-9 they were the most successful 2nd year team in history. It was a different era. It took longer to build a franchise then. They were young and took many chances. Howard Cosell loved them because they went against traditional philosophy. Just my opinion.
I remember when the Seahawks were on prime time a couple of times in their early existance, Jack Patera would always have a trick play somewhere, a fake field goal or punt. They always seemed to work as well.
Yeah, it's odd because Tampa Bay was horrible in their beginning existence while Seattle was somewhat competitive, and they came in the league the same year
@Sean Jamieson He had a couple good years with the Bengals, but his time in Cleveland and Green Bay makes it easy to see his Super Bowl appearance as a fluke. Especially when you consider the Bengals beat an exhausted Chargers team that clearly wasn't suited to play in cold weather.
@Sean Jamieson I mean, I'm a Packers fan and I would argue that Mike McCarthy is the worst coach to ever win a Super Bowl. He rode a young Aaron Rodgers to glory before opposing defenses were built to stop him and everyone figured out his predictable play calling.
From looking at his pro football reference bio, the Bills actually brought him back in the mid 80s as offensive coordinator kind of like the Cowboys bringing Dave Campo back as an assistant after his failed head coaching stint
Damn Don Crique not sure how his last name is spelled was brutal but honest describing Ringo’s play calling. I’ve heard color commentators talk like that but NEVER have I heard a play by play man talk like that! That was the most amazing part of the upload. When he said “alleged professionals” I laughed hard. Ok somehow someway the uploader managed to go through the entire video without mentioning a certain Buffalo bills player & murderer on the team at the time. I’m ok with that 👍.
Here's a story you might want to do. I was looking at a list on NFL rushing touchdowns leaders. I came across a player named Tom Sullivan. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles (1972-1977) and Cleveland Browns (1978). He was NFL rushing touchdown leader in 1974. He died in a car accident in 2002. Sullivan's first wife, from who he separated but never divorced, and second wife both claimed his pension. It was a messy court battle.
the same Jim Ringo who , (now this is an alledged story, but something I've read about), as a player for Green Bay, showed up with an agent to discuss a contract with Vince Lombardi, Lombardi, who hated player agents, excused himself to take a phone call, then returned to tell Ringo that he had just been traded to the Eagles
It’s also important to note that the Buffalo All Americans beat the Houston Oilers in the 1959 American Football League Championship before we were known as the Buffalo Bills.
Fun fact: the '77 Seahawks were 2-0 when Duke Fergerson scored, and 3-9 when he didn't. Fun fact #2: Fergerson never scored again the rest of his career. Fun fact #3: Fergerson finished his career with the Bills in '80.
Ummm fun fact #2 is wrong. Ferguson scored several more passing TDs after this. Fun fact #3 is also wrong. Ferguson played in Buffalo until 1984. He then went on to Detroit, Tampa Bay,and Indianapolis. That was weird.
@@L1573N3R I'm talking about Duke Fergerson, not Joe Ferguson. You must be one of those far left "fact checkers". A quick check of Fergerson's page at Pro Football Reference (and the ability to read names properly) would've been all you needed, but in your demented rush to "prove me wrong" you actually made yourself look foolish.
@@DolFan316 I made a mistake. Sorry about that. You're awfully touchy though. Someday when you make a mistake I hope someone understands more than you did. As for Duke Fergerson, on September 2, 1980, he signed with the Buffalo Bills after a tryout. He scored 2 preseason touchdowns in his first season. He was cut on August 23, 1981. Maybe you should do your research. Have a great day.
@@L1573N3R Yeah, sorry about that. Recent events have gotten me in a sour mood as well as people constantly calling me an idiot (and lots worse) on the internet for speaking the truth. I really did think you were one of those people. I've got to do a better job for sure of not just going off on folks lately. You have a great day too 😊
@@DolFan316 "Truth is fine, but facts are supreme. You are always doomed to fail if your beliefs contradict verifiable facts." -- Ward Defender Take care and be patient, reasonable, and thoughtful.
I think we can start a drinking game where you take a shot each time the narrator says "Which is worse then if you spiked the ball on every single play".
1. Don Criqui would later work with Bob Trumpy, who was known for being quite opinionated on the air himself. 2. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how the Bills almost moved to Seattle. 3. I see what you did at 12:15. And I got nothing for 4:10.
For those wondering...the reason you'd have a better rating by spiking the ball on every play is that your Int % would be 0.0%, and you'd get points for that...0 for 10, for instance, w/ 0 yards, 0 Tds and 0 Ints would yield a passer rating of 40...
When this guy says, "... which is worse than if you spike the ball to the ground on every single play" am I only one who thinks, "Shit, I could do that!"
This wasn't an inter-conference match-up. Both teams were in the AFC. Seattle played their initial season in the NFC, then played in the AFC West from 1977 to 2001 before moving back to the NFC in '02
I went to this game as a kid and I can still see in my minds eye OJ Simpson taking a knee during pregame warmups. I went to the bathroom after a Seahawks touchdown and being a 10 y.o. kid it didn't take long, and looking at the tv screen over the concession stand at what I thought was a replay of the td that I had just seen except the receiver was in a slightly different part of the endzone. FWIW, Simpson was traded to the 49er's not to long after this game.
I'm guessing this wasn't the 1993 AFC Wildcard game where the Bills were losing big early and came back to win the game in what is now known as "The Comeback".
Thank God I found this channel.
The random history vids are amazing.
NCAA game at Bristol Motor Speedway collab coming soon, then? Lol
Hi Darian!
I always get a chuckle out of old clips of coaches smoking on the field/sideline. The last I remember doing it was Bruce Coslet.
The truly crazy part is, the Bills actually did beat the Patriots the next week, a loss which would end up knocking NE out of the playoffs.
The talent was there. The way it was used was just that bad. Many of the same players made this a playoff team in 1975, and actually led the league in scoring. Heck, it was the most points by any team in a 14 game season. Of course, Ahmad Rashad and JD Hill were gone. Bob Chandler by himself was not enough to carry the team. But Simpson and the full Electric Company were still there, and a defense that was outstanding in 75 still had most of the same players.
It was the day Tom Brady was born. True fact look it up.
@@kchillhall1968 He was born in August, but nice try
Vontae Davis went from being a highly respected CB in the NFL to one of the least in the matter of a couple of years.
11:56 Ringo smoking a ciggie on the sidelines. Different times.
I went down the comments to see if anyone noticed. Got 3/4 of the way down. Tommy Prothro of the Chargers did the same thing. Chuck Muncie is on film smoking on the side lines. I love it.
Wow this GUY has NO BUISNESS COACHING ANYWHERE. But this video is STILL WAY BETTER than SPIKING the BALL into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!!
He was actually a 10 time Pro Bowl Center who ended up in the HOF and one of the league’s most highly regarded O-line coaches of this era. He remained game fully employed on NFL coaching staffs well into the ‘80s.
@@trevorhembrough1290 it sounds like he was a good coach, but not meant to be a head coach, at least of a pro team
@@trevorhembrough1290 including the Bills as offensive line coach under Levy in 1988. Then in 89 they went to Tom Breshnehan got bigger on the o line and went to 4 straight Super Bowls that they unfortunately lost.
I think he quit because he thought this game would be a win, but instead his team was getting blowed out by a bad team, a tough pill to swallow.
We need more announcers being blunt during games instead of bullshitting, as we see on those sport debate shows.
Unfortunately opinions can end careers these days.
Al Michaels did it just his past season to a degree with the Eagles.
@@kristopherjames1742 Thanks for the information. Didn't know that.
I just wish the sports announcers for WGR and other Buffalo-area media groups would be harsh and critical if/when the Bills or Sabres organizations proceed to do colossally dumb shit. Apparently, team ownership/management doesn't take too well to criticism.
Joe buck did that and whining Giants fans called fox to bitch about it. Joe buck was ripping the luckiest QB ever Eli Manning.
*RINGO 1967:* What would you do if I sang out of key? Would you stand up and walk out on me?
*RINGO 1977:* What would I do if you played out of key? I'll stand up and walk out on you!
Now that’s one hell of a halftime adjustment!😂
Great video and commentary--I remember this story from when I was a kid. You explained it perfectly, and with a lot more detail than I ever knew. Such a great channel here. Your videos are awesome. Keep up the excellent work!
Keep up the positive comments, they keep me motivated to make a positive comment myself and people are already so critical
Jim Ringo was a very good offensive line coach. Buffalo actually brought him back as the offensive line coach under Marv Levy for a while before he was had to retire for health reasons. That was just a horrible team. Saban left a complete mess in Buffalo.
Was it Saban or Ownership. Bob Lustig was the GM from 1967-1978. They generally had a good Offensive line, but the offense most of the years of the 70s even when they were good revolved around O.J. Simpson and Bob Chandler. Knox was still hamstrung by the GM in 1978 then he had a decent run with that team after. Worst thing the Bills did was Draft Tom Cousineau when he did not want to play there and ended up going to the CFL. O.J. Gets hurt and the teams offense Crumbled. Ferguson gets hurt and Gary Marangi who has a chance to make the 100 worst Quarterback list of all time has to play. 1976 was a bad year for Buffalo when the Expansion Bucs nearly win but lose 14-9.
This video is going to get a LOT of fresh traffic what with A.B.'s bizarre antics today...
"...and unlike the Falcons, this lead (28-3) was perfectly safe, and not going anywhere."
That was COLD BLOODED, Charlie Murphy.
Well, the Seahawks weren't facing Tom Brady either. BTW, Jim Zorn was another good player who became a horrible coach. When he was in Washington, he did some really weird things as head coach.
Yeah JaguarGator can be savage with that.
:D
I've never heard Don Criqui get heated like that during a broadcast. Yikes.
True. He was always a professional.
Nothing like seeing your head coach standing on the sidelines, puffing a cigarette away like a choo-choo train, and thinking of the next play.
What would have made it more memorable is him a having a bottle of Jack Daniels to wash down that ciggie.
Yes you wouldn’t see a coach doing that these days.
@@davester1970 ...he probably had a flask somewhere . 😂😂😂
Gotta love seeing an NFL coach smoking a cigarette ON THE FIELD!! The 70s ruled
Jim Ringo was a Packer, he sent his agent to negotiate with Lombardi, result: traded to Philadelphia, who was awful
Bobby Petrino basically did this too with the Falcons
At last Ringo had the common decency to tell his players his intentions to their faces, which is something I can't say about Petrino. The way Petrino went about his departure from the Falcons and how he conducted himself there were so abhorrent that Warrick Dunn talked trash about him, something Dunn NEVER does.
At least Ringo was a hall of famer. And like the poster above, had the decency to tell his players his intentions. Petrino is complete chickenshit.
Yea I’m gonna have to agree w the replies. Petrino literally told Arthur blank that he had himself a head coach and within the very same week, left overnight to take the Arkansas job. Petrino was a dick.
I loved what the Falcons players thought of Petrino. What classless a-hole. I always think of him with his busted up face & the neck brace. Jerk
Outside of a win in November 1988, the Kingdome was a house of horrors for the Buffalo Bills
All do respect to Ringo, at least he TOLD his players he was resigning! UNLIKE BOBBY PETRINO, who flat out just quit without consulting anyone!
I considered this loss the worst in Bills history. The Seahawks scored 49 consecutive points after the Bills led 3-0.
3 point leads are the hardest to protect
The Seahawks have had 5 games in their history where they scored 50 or more points
2 of them were against the buffalo bills
Worst was 'wide right' but yeah
This was 2nd yr expansion team, Seattle. Not the Chuck Knox playoff team of the 80's. Ouch
Still not as bad as Bobby Petrino.
if i can recall, didnt petrino give arthur blank confidence that he was gonna be there and stick it out. because i kno vick got locked up that season and they were on their way to drafting a new qb. it was a monday night, and then the next night he was singing pig suey at arkansas. i couldnt believe it.
A grown man that goes by "Bobby" shouldn't be trusted.n
@@chriso8593 true, so true
At some point, we're gonna need a "the line" counter for this series :)
Good work as always jg9
1-6 before quitting, 2-5 after.... genius motivational ploy!
12:15 Ringo Stared,hardy har har…Keep the content coming
Actually Seattle was in the AFC with Buffalo in 1977.
Did the old switcharoo to the AFC after the 1976 season with Tampa Bay moving to the NFC. The idea was to introduce the two expansion teams around the entire league.
Did the league have a plan if somehow, one of those teams qualified for the playoffs? They each played every other team in the NFL, once that season. How would they determine their division standings when they didn't play each team twice. TB was in AFC West that season
The Rams and Raiders ran away with the respective divisions in 1975 which had just 4 teams. The NFL probably put the teams in these divisions because they had no realistic chance to make the playoffs or win the divisions. Meanwhile, the other 4 team division in the AFC had 3 teams separated by 2 games, so they might not have wanted the expansion teams in that one. The divisions had no bearing on the playoffs in 1976 or 1977.
Norm Van Brooklyn did something similar, although he did it after a game. Then, his career actually ended in a disastrous way. Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about both of those instances.
Put that man in the Hall of Fame. I mean Criqui . Top notch announcing. Sports needs more of that.
Don Criqui 's work during the 1982 classic playoff game with San Diego at Miami earned him the Hall Of Fame of broadcasters and his commentary on this video cements the HOF.
Don Criqui was born in Buffalo. He was letting the world and Ralph Wilson know exactly how the were feeling.
Criqi, Enberg, Keith Jackson...so lucky to have grown up w/ truly great announcers, not like the annoying, overly-jokey losers of today...
THEY SHOULD TAKE A TIME OUT BUT THEY ARE NOT!😁
Jim Ringo makes Bobby Petrino look like a model of commitment.
Ringo could at least say it to their faces I think you got it flipped, petrino was still the biggest chicken shit coach
Those old seattle uniforms were so much better than the garbage they have now.
I agree ☝️
You can say that for almost every team these days.
Blame Nike.
Nike has the exclusive contract for ALL uniforms in the NFL.
This is why the uniforms suck so hard and look tacky (some with digital clock numbers)
It also may be the reason there are more injuries... seems they supply the pads too.
Nike is unsafe and nasty
I agree 👍💯. Seattle Seahawks vintage uniforms are much better than Mountain Navy, Lemon Lime and Concrete Grey uniforms.
+@@d0nKsTaH They look like U.S.F.L. Trump arena underwear.
7:08 The Failcons out here catching strays on a video about a game damn-near 50 years ago😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 As a native Georgian, I love it!!!
4:19 JG9 you never let your fans down 😂
At this point he really is throwing that in just for us. And I love him for it 🥰🥰🥰
"...Ringo starred in what can only be described as a dysfunctional drama."
I see what you did there 😆 🏈
Where's the rim shot?
🥁 _ba-dum tss_
Interestingly, the Beatles were a bit of a dysfunctional drama in their own right.
@@big8dog887 Contrary to popular belief, they were having trouble BEFORE Yoko came into the picture.
For sure. Their internal troubles REALLY started with manager Brian Epstein’s tragic death in 1966 in the wake of their decision to stop touring; all of them would later admit it became much harder for them to tolerate each other’s wildly different tastes and personalities over time without someone like Epstein acting as the diplomatic glue to keep them together. In retrospect, Yoko’s (and Linda’s) arrival into their lives likely hastened the inevitable more than anything. :/
Kind of cool seeing Ringo smoke on the sidelines. LOL.
Looks like DT Lyle Alzado (77) of Denver body slamming Bills QB Joe Ferguson (12) at the 4:18 mark. Man, the QBs back then took a beating.
I remember Greg Collins because he played for the Seahawks during our inagural season, he got cut from the seahawks because he was in a car accident on I-90 after leaving training camp in Cheney, WA (yes, not the most desirable town to be in during the summer) ....and he just happened to have the starting quarterback Jim Zorn with him when his car went off the road near Snoqualmie pass...Coach Jack Patera found out about the accident and cut Collins
If I was coach of the 1977 Bills, I would quit. They lost to the Jets and got destroyed by the second-year Seahawks 56-17 and Joe Ferguson led the NFL in interceptions with 24.
And now look at the Bills, Elite Qb and destroyed Seattle not so long ago. Boy how times change.
Yeah, Ringo stunk it up with the Bills but he rocked with the Beatles.
Good one!
12:16 "Ringo starred...." I see what you did there.
Seattle vs Buffalo was a conference game in 1977 because Seattle was in the AFC West
Spiking the ball on every single play or a normal Nathan Peterman start.
Problem is, whenever Peterman tries to spike the ball into the ground a defender happens to be underneath to intercept.
Joe Ferguson was actually a good qb, it was so frustrating to watch him bounce balls off his receivers hands week after week.
@@CTubeMan Ha!
1977 was one of the worst years for offense in NFL history. League wide teams averaged only 17 points a game. It was so bad the rules were changed in the off-season to ban defensive backs from touching receivers after 5 yards and the “head slap” was banned.
This guy would be a hero in 2021, probably just couldn't take the pressure, looking after his mental health
I know right. Quitters are now heros
Rick Azar's name was pronounced with a long "A" and the accent on the first syllable. Rhymes with "Quasar."
Joe Ferguson was really good at falling on fumbles
Back in the day, when you could smoke cigarettes on the sidelines. Lol
Keep these Bills vids coming!
3:48 They fumbled seven times? Man, that running game will kill you.
great line Douglas considering who Buffalo had running the ball that day.
@@mayduck1 Like Nicole and Ron, you got the point.
Ohh you are so funnyyyyy...not
“Ringo Starred” ☺️☺️
Don Crique, my favorite all time NFL broadcaster..
"Which is worse than if he spiked the ball on every play." I feel like hear this line on every other video from Official JaguarGator9.
44 Years Ago
Ironically, I was 9 & when I heard on the radio the next morning the score of the Bills/Seahawks game, I told my father that I was going to root for the Seahawks.
44 years later I still do..
The second year expansion teams, the Bucs and Seahawks wins were directly involved in 3 coaching vacancies. The Saints, St Louis Cardinals, and here with Ringo.
Vontae Davis retiring at halftime still makes me laugh hard for some reason 😂
It was so random 🤣
Buffalo bills fans are real fans,especially back in the day
What do you get when you combine Jim Ringo and Bart Starr?
A Beatle
The only thing I think could come close is Buddy Parker and the Lions in 1957. The volatile yet championship winning coach quit the team during a banquet after the team broke training camp before the 1957 season started. Buddy criticized the team and claimed he couldn't win with this Detroit squad. He promptly left and the Lions went on to win their last ever NFL championship.
While Parker resurfaced in Pittsburgh in 1958, he claimed he had a back door deal with Baltimore owner Carroll Rosenbloom to take over for the Colts in 1958. Except Weeb Ewbank and the Colts emerged as the best team in the league. Has anyone else ever heard of Parker's claim of taking over in Baltimore?
"Ringo starred" 12:15 LOL
I am a Gator & Buccaneers fan but I love the NFL content.
A couple errors in this video. First of all the Bills-Seahawks game was not an interconference game. The Seahawks played in the AFC from 1977-2001. Also the final score of that game was 56-17, not 56-10. You must have been thinking about the Bills loss to the Patriots in 2007. But you were right about one thing, the Ringo years were rough.
Yeah, I was wondering about that "inter conference" comment myself, as well as the final score
He actually put on the screen that it was 56-17 my friend. He did make a mistake on the interconference thing, but sad as great as this vid was, the only thing you want to comment on, is one small mistake. Everyone's a critic i guess.
He must have fixed it sometime in the last hour because when I watched it around 10am eastern time it didn't have it on there
The Bills are a rollercoaster over the decades with coaches; Buster Ramsey, down; Lou Saban I, up; Joe Collier/John Rauch/Harvey Johnson, way down; Saban II, up; Jim Ringo, down; Chuck Knox, up; Kay Stephenson/Hank Bullough, way down; Marv Levy, way up; Wade Phillips, down-but not too far; the miasma of mediocrity, not really down or up, kind of a long curve; Sean McDermott, up again. Let's hope that this up lasts as long as Levy's.
@@tygrkhat4087 Don't forget Dick Jauron, who was yet another one of Ralphy's cheap hires; at the same time, Mike Sherman(better win percentage; more playoff success) was available.
I would have went to the closest bar and drink until I passed out
I think ringo as ol coach helped 78 patriots set NFL rushing record led by John Hannah
I was at this game. I was named after Bills LB Bo Cornell (he was a UW FB at the time). In fairness, you tend to rip these early Seattle teams. At 5-9 they were the most successful 2nd year team in history. It was a different era. It took longer to build a franchise then. They were young and took many chances. Howard Cosell loved them because they went against traditional philosophy. Just my opinion.
I remember when the Seahawks were on prime time a couple of times in their early existance, Jack Patera would always have a trick play somewhere, a fake field goal or punt. They always seemed to work as well.
Yeah, it's odd because Tampa Bay was horrible in their beginning existence while Seattle was somewhat competitive, and they came in the league the same year
Boy those were some dark days for my beloved Bills. I remember going to the 13-0 Miami loss and you just knew they were going to suck.
I never knew Jim Ringo was a coach. I was gonna comment about how Lombardi's players made terrible coaches and you already had it in the vid lol
@Sean Jamieson He had a couple good years with the Bengals, but his time in Cleveland and Green Bay makes it easy to see his Super Bowl appearance as a fluke. Especially when you consider the Bengals beat an exhausted Chargers team that clearly wasn't suited to play in cold weather.
@Sean Jamieson I mean, I'm a Packers fan and I would argue that Mike McCarthy is the worst coach to ever win a Super Bowl. He rode a young Aaron Rodgers to glory before opposing defenses were built to stop him and everyone figured out his predictable play calling.
Most good or great players make terrible coaches because they hold their players to higher expectations than most
Great channel!
From looking at his pro football reference bio, the Bills actually brought him back in the mid 80s as offensive coordinator kind of like the Cowboys bringing Dave Campo back as an assistant after his failed head coaching stint
At least he didn't take his shirt off then run out of the stadium
Why did it take so long to finally get Jerry Kramer into the Hall of Fame?
Somehow joe Ferguson still led the nfl in passing yards in this mess of a season
Damn Don Crique not sure how his last name is spelled was brutal but honest describing Ringo’s play calling. I’ve heard color commentators talk like that but NEVER have I heard a play by play man talk like that! That was the most amazing part of the upload. When he said “alleged professionals” I laughed hard. Ok somehow someway the uploader managed to go through the entire video without mentioning a certain Buffalo bills player & murderer on the team at the time. I’m ok with that 👍.
Here's a story you might want to do. I was looking at a list on NFL rushing touchdowns leaders. I came across a player named Tom Sullivan. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles (1972-1977) and Cleveland Browns (1978). He was NFL rushing touchdown leader in 1974. He died in a car accident in 2002. Sullivan's first wife, from who he separated but never divorced, and second wife both claimed his pension. It was a messy court battle.
the same Jim Ringo who , (now this is an alledged story, but something I've read about), as a player for Green Bay, showed up with an agent to discuss a contract with Vince Lombardi, Lombardi, who hated player agents, excused himself to take a phone call, then returned to tell Ringo that he had just been traded to the Eagles
My only critique is the reporter's name is Rick Azar pronounced (AY'-zar).
7:44 You forgot to compare the passer rating to someone spiking the ball on every play.
However, as he described Zorn's putrid passer rating, we see Sherm Smith spike the ball in the end zone 😉
He can't over indulge us with the line being spoken two times in one video, can he?
It’s also important to note that the Buffalo All Americans beat the Houston Oilers in the 1959 American Football League Championship before we were known as the Buffalo Bills.
No it’s not? Why would that be “important to note”? It has literally NOTHING to do with the subject being discussed…
Antonio Brown empathizes with Jimmy Ringo
Ralph… love the extension he gave Jauron. Good times/
Dick Jauron... that's a coach whose tenure with the Bills should've ended the morning after that MNF game against Dallas.
Fun fact: the '77 Seahawks were 2-0 when Duke Fergerson scored, and 3-9 when he didn't.
Fun fact #2: Fergerson never scored again the rest of his career.
Fun fact #3: Fergerson finished his career with the Bills in '80.
Ummm fun fact #2 is wrong. Ferguson scored several more passing TDs after this.
Fun fact #3 is also wrong. Ferguson played in Buffalo until 1984. He then went on to Detroit, Tampa Bay,and Indianapolis.
That was weird.
@@L1573N3R I'm talking about Duke Fergerson, not Joe Ferguson. You must be one of those far left "fact checkers". A quick check of Fergerson's page at Pro Football Reference (and the ability to read names properly) would've been all you needed, but in your demented rush to "prove me wrong" you actually made yourself look foolish.
@@DolFan316 I made a mistake. Sorry about that. You're awfully touchy though. Someday when you make a mistake I hope someone understands more than you did.
As for Duke Fergerson, on September 2, 1980, he signed with the Buffalo Bills after a tryout. He scored 2 preseason touchdowns in his first season. He was cut on August 23, 1981.
Maybe you should do your research. Have a great day.
@@L1573N3R Yeah, sorry about that. Recent events have gotten me in a sour mood as well as people constantly calling me an idiot (and lots worse) on the internet for speaking the truth. I really did think you were one of those people. I've got to do a better job for sure of not just going off on folks lately. You have a great day too 😊
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Ringo was brought back to the Bills as the OC for 4 season in the 80s..Hard to believe
@1:25 he even looked done. You can see it all over his face 🤣🤣🤣
I think we can start a drinking game where you take a shot each time the narrator says "Which is worse then if you spiked the ball on every single play".
Somebody wants alcohol poisoning!
Damn that commentator was laying in on Ringo.
I quit on my first job as a teenager, I work burger king for 2 weeks and threw the apron at the register and dipped midway during the shift lol
1. Don Criqui would later work with Bob Trumpy, who was known for being quite opinionated on the air himself.
2. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how the Bills almost moved to Seattle.
3. I see what you did at 12:15. And I got nothing for 4:10.
I miss the days when people were allowed to tell the truth about what they saw (sighs).
Criqui’s also a lifelong Buffalo resident, btw.
@@trevorhembrough1290 Him and Trumpy were very good IMO
@@danmount9462 Cool story
These videos > sleep
For those wondering...the reason you'd have a better rating by spiking the ball on every play is that your Int % would be 0.0%, and you'd get points for that...0 for 10, for instance, w/ 0 yards, 0 Tds and 0 Ints would yield a passer rating of 40...
Chuck Knox had them in the playoffs by 1980. Almost beat the Chargers in San Diego. As a Chargers fan I was very scared that game.
the best part is the coach smoking a cigarette on the field at the end.
When this guy says, "... which is worse than if you spike the ball to the ground on every single play" am I only one who thinks, "Shit, I could do that!"
Maybe the first 500 times. Now I just think "For the love of GOD, stop saying that in EVERY video!"
This wasn't an inter-conference match-up. Both teams were in the AFC. Seattle played their initial season in the NFC, then played in the AFC West from 1977 to 2001 before moving back to the NFC in '02
oops. I missread
I went to this game as a kid and I can still see in my minds eye OJ Simpson taking a knee during pregame warmups. I went to the bathroom after a Seahawks touchdown and being a 10 y.o. kid it didn't take long, and looking at the tv screen over the concession stand at what I thought was a replay of the td that I had just seen except the receiver was in a slightly different part of the endzone. FWIW, Simpson was traded to the 49er's not to long after this game.
I'm guessing this wasn't the 1993 AFC Wildcard game where the Bills were losing big early and came back to win the game in what is now known as "The Comeback".
Well since it was the 70’s and not 1993 I would say that’s a pretty safe guess….
@ 9:11, the Atlanta Falcons were an expansion team (1966)
Spot the Gabbert at 4:18
You do realize the film clip shows the score as Seattle 56 - Buffalo 17? You said the final score was 56-10????
I grew up thinking Joe Ferguson wasn't that bad, but poor Coach Ringo was just unable to coach......sad.
"We don't quit at halftime! You don't score... until you SCORE!" - The Stif-Meister