I wanted to watch the Bears thing, but the x-games pushed it back.
Alright, back to the main course, the 1992 Oilers-Bills AFC wildcard game. The NFL's Greatest game presentation of the Oilers-Bills game might be the greatest TV show.....ever!
The 1991-1993 are the equivalent of the 1999-2001 Rams, except they underachieved and never made it to a Super Bowl. They blew a playoff game to the Broncos in 1991 where they really had a shot at winning the Super Bowl. They came back with basically the same team in 1992 with Drew Hill going to the Falcons but adding Pro-Bowler Webster Slaughter.
With Moon injured much of the second half of the season and theteam underachieving all year, they had to win their final game to make the playoffs. In that game they beat the Bills 27-3, injured Jim Kelly, and meant instead of a first round bye the Bill were to face the Oilers again in the Wildcard game.
The Oilers came out firing. They went on two 80 yard drives and took a 14-3 lead. They kept on piling on the points and were up 28-3 at half time. Moon threw for 219 yards and 4 tds the first half. They went up 35-3 when Bubba McDowell picked off a deflected ball and ran it in for a TD.
It all went downhill from there. They decided to squib kick, hit the Buffalo upman, and the Bills hung onto the ball and scored immediately. The Bills onsided the kick, recovered, and drove to make it 35-17. The Bills then rolled out their 3-4 defense they'd used all season instead of the dime/prevent D they'd been running all game. 3-2-6.
From then it was a series of lucky breaks and just completely blown coverage from the Oilers as the game was 35-31 at the end of the third quarter.
The Bills scored a TD to make it 38-35 and then the Oilers drove down the field and settled for a field goal instead of trying to score the TD.
The Oilers chose the ball instead of the wind and after Moon threw a pick the Bills converted a FG to complete the greatest comeback in NFL playoff history.
This was a surreal game to watch and the NFL greatest games made it unitenionally hilarious with all the cuts to the various psychopaths and hillbilies thatt made up the Buffalo Bills fan base.
- Andre Reed tore apart the Oiler's secondary in the second half and showed you why he's in the hall of fame. He also appeared with the weirdest pencil moustache I'd ever seen.
- Spenser Tillman defined choking for 5 minutes like he was interviewing for an analyst job.
- Darryl Talley might be the Charles Barkley or maybe the Charles Murphy of the NFL.
- Marv Levy spent the entire show giggling just thinking about the game.
- Bubba McDowell still can't believe they lost that game....or in 1991....or any other game.
- Don Beebe looks like he's 12 years old.
- Steve Tasker might be the most intense person ever.
- If Warren Moon was talking about how he won the Super Bowl or how his children were eaten by cannibals, he'd probably have the same tone and expression. The guy was just one cool customer.
- Haywood Jeffiries has a super beard, is pretty funny, and probably believes he's the best WR of all time.
- I definitely need to watch this again.
The Bills went on to roll the #1 seed Steelers in Pitt and rolled the Dolphins in Miami before being crushed by the Cowboys. BTW, Webster Slaughter was on the 1986-87 Browns team that lost to Denver twice in the AFC championship teams.
Here is a detailed link about the game.
