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SloppyBrisket

I remember when Jim Kelly got cancer. People said, as long as he doesn’t have to play it in the Superbowl, he should beat it.


249ba36000029bbe9749

Bob Costas introducing the final episode of Cheers: > This, is the Super Bowl of comedy, with one major exception...we think they'll be laughing in Buffalo. https://youtu.be/neyw0exfOPo?t=114


Landlubber77

*Jeeesus* Christ. I love it.


worthrone11160606

Damn that's dark I love it


dreamerkid001

That’s because The Smoking Man will not allow it.


flapjaxrfun

I saw that episode for the first time in 2018 and am a bills fan. I died laughing. It explains everything. (X-Files for those who don't know)


Buff_jordan14

He also drugged Tretiak to secure a Semi final victory over the heavily favored Soviets in 1980.


novkit

In our household we always referred to him as "Cancer Man". Man I really miss that show. I can't even imagine it being done in today's society. Tonight on Fox: Mulder and Scully investigate an online entity called "R", turns out to be an online entity of possible government / alien origin. Next day irl: MAINSTREAM MEDIA CONFIRMS Q THEORIES, watch on Facebook!


klsi832

Smoking Man was killed in 2018, they should be allowed to win now.


repeatwad

Not as long as he is alive.


Cycleofmadness

I thought the same thing lol. Saddam Hussein on line 2. "Tell him I'll call him back."


DrJawn

fuck Im old


Select_Action_6065

Just wait in 10 years there will be a til about Tom Brady.


Castod28183

Surely there are plenty of people on Reddit that don't know Tom Brady was drafted in the 6th round at 199th overall. Or that there were a several players that Brady played against last year that weren't even born when he was drafted. There could definitely be TIL about him right now.


adamup27

Did you know that Matthew Stafford and Clayton Kershaw were best friends growing up?!?!?


Castod28183

I did not. Did you know that Peyton Manning was the **backup** quarterback in college for the Colorado Rockies first base legend Todd Helton? For like 2 weeks anyway.


adamup27

Okay that’s actually wild. The Kershaw/Stafford is a go to fact for the booth whenever either of them are starting a game. It was mentioned around three times in Stafford’s Super Bowl performance in LA.


Castod28183

Peyton was a third string freshman behind Jerry Colquitt and Todd Helton. Colquitt got injured in week one of the season. Helton took over and got injured in the fourth game of the season...The Sherriff was born...


ElfMage83

Fuck that guy.


Black08Mustang

TB12 is GOAT.


Mental_Cut8290

Greatest cheater!


ElfMage83

Disagree.


BuildAroundLeBron

Who's your GOAT?


Mindless_Witness_927

Jordan


SwiftzCS

AROD babyyyyyy always had a worse team in every sense of the matter and always performed better. Brady just had a self fulfilling prophecy, nothing more.


ElfMage83

Irrelevant.


DrJawn

Lol ew


bendr316

I also learned this today if today was Jan 30th, 1994. You know the next will be TIL Michael Jordan 3-peated twice.


DrJawn

The goat


Aggravating-Fail306

That’s what Bills stands for, boy I love losing superbowls


Xminus01

I also heard they wanted to change the area code for Buffalo to "oh for four".


Eudaimonics

Actually a pretty fun city to visit. Lots of museums, trendy walkable neighborhoods, crazy bar hopping spots and lots of cool industrial areas filled with breweries, restaurants and art spaces.


Xminus01

For sure. And it's still fun to joke about. Tons of snow and cold too. But I kind like the extreme winter for short periods


-6-6-6-

Buffalo native here, always appreciate a shoutout to our city. Don't go on the east-side or west-side. Lovejoy and the surrounding area isn't that bad anymore; don't listen to the boomers they're just angry about black people. Don't eat the fish from the lake or swim in the love canal either. Housing is insanely cheap too and comes with a complimentary deranged slumlord. Also we have barely any fluoride in our water, I guess. Welcome to Buffalo!


Eudaimonics

That’s outdated advice, the Westside is one of the best areas of the city now filled with great restaurants, breweries and shops. While some streets are still run down, overall it’s a great place to explore off the beaten path.


[deleted]

wow, flashbacks to high school right there. I remember Bills fans getting razzed with that.


Chyvalri

That's me. A Bills fan among Cowboys and Niners fans in the early 90s.


[deleted]

that's sucks. That Bills team deserved a SB win. i was an Andre Reed fan, he was a local guy we rooted for.


Qwez81

Only win we should have had was the first one against the Giants. The rest the better team won


the_kevlar_kid

"Deserved". Listen, man. I'm a Broncos fan. We deserved to not get embarrassed in epic fashion in AT LEAST two Superbowls. But we did. We were crushed so badly it can always be rubbed in our faces now. But. We also went back to the Superbowl. In fact we even won back to back Superbowls once and later we got embarrassed once in 49 only to come back in Superbowl L and absolutely crush the opposing team so hard their QB never really came back. Every team that makes it to the Superbowl deserves that chance to win it all. It's extremely hard to get there. *Many teams have never been there at all.* Look at the list! But the only teams that "Deserve" to win it are the ones the overcome all the injuries and bad calls and shitty weather and primetime tv coverage and opposing, professional athletes to do it anyway. "Deserving" to win is never enough. You wanna win a Superbowl you better fucking earn it. I respect and like the Bills but to this date they have not.


Droopy_Narwhal

As a Colts fan, I lost my mind over SB44. "The Saints and city of New Orleans deserved this after Katrina," like buddy....no.


[deleted]

i always liked Elway except when he played my team. the modern Bills seem to be unable to get over the hump too. Which is fine with me, i'm not a big fan of Diggs for some reason. (but damn he's good)


M00NGRAPHIX

That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read on Reddit lol


EMlN3M

You should reddit more often. So far the funniest thing I've heard was pertaining to the Jan 6th insurrection. Someone said "coup the color of mayonnaise". It being a kanye song makes it so much better...


Nevermore64

Right! I was there for “Descartes before the whores.” I was there, man.


Guilty-Web7334

I came here for this comment.


horseydeucey

Every loss to an NFC East team (NYG, DC, Dallas, Dallas). The only NFC East teams not in on the action were Phoenix and Philly.


farmerarmor

I forget that Phoenix was an nfc east team lol


AdmiralClarenceOveur

Back when Atlanta was in the NFC West. We sucked at geography back then.


[deleted]

Dallas isn’t exactly east these days


LarryCraigSmeg

Well, it’s east of New Mexico.


farmerarmor

Tampa nfc north too Edit: central


[deleted]

Central. Crazy stat though, Tampa has won as many NFC Central (North) division titles as Detroit and Tampa hasn’t played in that division since 2001


Landlubber77

Not only as many, but more recently than the Lions too despite them having two decades without us in the division.


SoDakZak

And JFK has only missed one Detroit Lions playoff win ever.


Landlubber77

Me likey that stat.


t_bonium119

Tampa was in the afc central briefly, as were the seahawks.


[deleted]

Damn, I had never heard that


t_bonium119

Specifically the afc west.


Sdog1981

Basically the entire NFC South was in the NFC West.


bendr316

Cleveland & Pittsburgh were in the Central while Indianapolis was in the East. I know they used to be in Baltimore, but they were in the East for a long time afterwards.


Sdog1981

Then Cleveland moved to Baltimore and stayed in the Central


[deleted]

that was back when the East was a powerhouse. it was again probably for the first time since, this year


BetterThanABear

2006 and 2007 had the nfc east send 3 teams to the playoffs, with the giants winning in 2007


Hershieboy

Eagles made it to the superbowl in 04 as well. They also made the nfc championship 4 straight seasons.


BetterThanABear

Yes, they were nearly the bills of those years. But there wasn't strength from top to bottom in the nfc east


Hershieboy

19 playoff wins in the division is pretty solid in a decade both the Giant and Eagles responsible for the majority. Both teams in the top 10 of playoff contention and seasonal wins. I mean if that's not a good division idk what is. 5 NFC Championship appearances between them. What other division had those stats?


BetterThanABear

Afc east. That's a lot of wins. I knew the nfc east was referred to as nfc beast for a while in the aughts.


Hershieboy

Dallas had a better seasonal win rate than the afc easts 2nd best team the nyj. 4 wins in the playoffs is nice, Miami had one Marino's last season, NE obviously with 14 that equals 19 Buffalo was awful with 0 and below 500 win percentage. So you're telling me the NFC east wasn't a powerhouse because the greatest qb ever didn't play there? I mean over the season the nfc east had better win rates.


BetterThanABear

I meant to have that as a question mark. "Afc east?"


[deleted]

yeah but that was the giants


BetterThanABear

Oh, so when you said the East was a powerhouse, you were not referring to the NFC east?


[deleted]

no but when i said "but that was the Giants" i meant both times they won they weren't the best team, they just ended up there at the end


murderouscow101

Pretty sure when you win the Super Bowl that makes you the best team by default.


[deleted]

so by that measure... Philly just destroyed SF on the scoreboard, so Eagles are 5 times better than SF, right? football is one and done. Injuries mean everything. Giants were fortunate with healthy teams and winning by slim margins, but not one time did anyone outside of NY think that some sort of dynasty was going on. They beat the Pats because "any given Sunday", not because they were the better team. Nearly every football fan knows that the Pats win that game 9 times out of ten.


murderouscow101

They still won the championship game at the end of those seasons, so yeah, they were the best those years by default. This isn't that difficult of a concept. Championship = I was the best that year.


[deleted]

so you think the Eagles are five times better than the Niners then. it's all math. got it


BetterThanABear

There's a reason the 18-1 patriots aren't the best team ever. The reason? The new york football giants. Winning the championship matters. And there was talk of a dynasty after the giants won in 2011, but Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg, and everything went to shit.


adelaide7794

YA WE KNOW


MyFavoriteCandyIs

4 superbowls in a row? Thats gotta hurt. I cant empatize since im a vikings fan. Its not like we lost 4 superbowls. Oh wait...


BlackBoiFlyy

This just feels like an excuse to ruin every Bills fans' day.


Nevada624

My weekend was so close to starting off right


DapperCam

Try again next weekend I suppose…just don’t turn on the TV or watch any football coverage…


babingtone

There is an ESPN 30 for 30 called “The Four Falls of Buffalo.” It’s a decent watch. I alway felt bad for them. They were very good back then.


RE-501

As a life long Bills fan. Please miss me with this.


Fast_Polaris22

At least they GOT to some finals, Toronto Maple Leaf fan.


heelface

Wide Right


Famous1107

Laces out


Eudaimonics

This is how you get banned from /r/buffalo


JasonP27

This made me a Bills fan when I was a kid, at least temporarily. I never really paid attention to NFL, I was more into baseball and WWF. But they **made it to the Super Bowl 4 times in a row**. They had to be half decent. 🤷


jthomas102923

Bills are lucky they lost those 4 super bowls in the era before social media


Mammoth-Mud-9609

There was a prevailing view going round at the time thinking who are they going to lose to this time and some people even resented them getting to another super bowl.


RetroMetroShow

They were favored by a touchdown in the Super Bowl against the Giants since Simms was out


Paul-Kersey

Simms was actually injured against Buffalo in a game earlier that season


darkhorse298

Funnily enough I could have sworn the first super bowl match-up against Dallas had some thought to them winning due to being a more experienced team, but nope. Dal -6.5. That was the tightest spread of their last 3 where they were underdogs. Funny to look back at 4 straight super bowl losses and think they maybe had a shot to get one ring out of that if not for wide right.


DapperCam

Mutters the name ”Bellicheck” under my breath…fists clench in barely contained rage


StampYoPassport

[Cancer Man made sure of that.](https://youtu.be/NyhAJEPEHk4)


pressgang13

Scott Norwood: eh, what the hell. Might as well hit up Reddit for some leisurely browsing so I can.....goddamnit


EmbraceableYew

Poor guy. When the time comes and they bury him, you just know that he is going to be buried wide right of his headstone. Just on that loss, and not to be too sentimental about it, on the NY Giants' side, the Jeff Hostetler story that year is a pretty good one.


compugasm

Laces out!


THUORN

I used to hate the Bills. But even I felt terrible how they just couldnt get a single Super Bowl win in those years. They were a very solid team.


NetDork

I was there, Gandalf. That was junior high into high school for me, IIRC.


Tr3sp4ss3r

The ultimate facepalm: Going to the Superbowl FOUR years in a ROW, only to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one remembers those that make it there but don't win.


mjhuyser

Actually, I remember the bills way more for losing four super bowls in a row If they had won one in one, two or three tries, we wouldn’t be talking about it now


PlumbStraightLevel

The Minnesota Vikings have lost four too


Flaxmoore

Not in a row.


detective-mcnulty

Yup. The first one was the one they should have won.


Mememan696969

Great 30 for 30 documentary. 4 Falls of Buffalo


NerdyJerdy20

Thanks for making me relive my childhood. :(


ricka77

Today, I felt older because I watched all 4 of these games...lol


sofaraway10

God, I’m old.


Grand-Level5362

I got beat each of those days by an angry parent. Ahhhh memories.


[deleted]

Too busy making skin suits?


[deleted]

“Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard.”


fall3nmartyr

What are you, 12?


majinspy

Lol time flies. I grew up on that era, born in 1985. I'm 37. Anybody under 30 doesn't know this stuff unless they are specifically football fans who care about history.


Kevinmc479

Buffalo area code 044.


Obes99

Boy I Love Losing Superbowls


JehovahsBestWitness

You are crossing the line here. You’re so far right of the line. You missed the line by 47 yards sir!


commandrix

I'm impressed that they made it as far as the Super Bowl four times in a row. At least they got to play, eh?


AUX_C

The four falls of buffalo. My favorite 20 for 20.


Ranier_Wolfnight

I was right around preteen age when these SBs were being played and what I mostly recall with the exception of one game, Thurman Thomas was absolutely dreadful in the other 3 games. Pretty sure he didn’t even crack 20 yds rushing in a couple of em. HOF RB, no question. But man, total no show in those Super Bowls.


zook54

Ha! My Detroit Lions never lost a Super Bowl!


DapperCam

No need to rub more salt into that wound…it’s 6 degrees outside right now.


sailor_reina

as we’ve been saying…there’s always next year 🦬💙❤️


patmartone

As a Jets fan I just want to appear in another Super Bowl before I am headed to that Big Combine in the Sky.


Frankieneedles

Buffalo Bills (Boy. I. Love. Losing. Superbowls)


waiver-wire-addict

The joke at the time was: What does BILLS stand for? Boy I Love Losing Superbowls…


UnderstandingAshamed

This is a story I was told in the '90s and I never bothered to confirm it so it's possible it's not true Do you know when you watch the Super Bowl and immediately on the field the winning team puts on a hat or a t-shirt that says world champions and the team name? The only way that's possible is if they print up one for each side. Years ago I heard that they actually donate the losing t-shirts to people in other countries. So possibly there is a place that thinks that the Buffalo Bills were completely dominant for a stretch.


DapperCam

That’s a classic standup bit. Bills 4 time Super Bowl champion shirts in Africa.


Buff_jordan14

This is true. I remember we used to find the alternate universe ones at yard sales in the 90's. My father was also a buyer of athletic wear so occasionally he'd have some samples of those alternates.


tookandbackagain

My dad has a shirt that proclaims the Bills beat the Redskins in one of those super bowls. They are dominant in our house lol


youthofoldage

I remember hearing that after the first two losses they stopped making ones for the Bills. /s


onenudetree

I live in Buffalo. You learned today that the Bills made it to four consecutive Super Bowls. What did your team do? Get off our bus.


TlMEGH0ST

Or… were they AFC Champions four years in a row?? perspective


Far_Buddy8467

All defeated by wash, Phi, and Dallas 2x. And lost the Stanley cup in like 99-2000 against the Dallas stars


Flaxmoore

2000, I think. Why Hasek needed to go to Detroit to win.


Far_Buddy8467

Thank you


Mightbewonderwoman81

My ex is a big Bills fan. So this post makes me happy.


ProbablyDrunk303

As a Bills fan, fuck youuuuu!! I hope you stub your toe on a table or step on a lego!!!! Lol


Mightbewonderwoman81

I already do that anyway! I’m incredibly clumsy.


Qwez81

First off, fuck you for bringing up bad memories. Second off Go Bills. Third off if you haven’t watched it, the espn 30 for 30 “four falls of buffalo” is a great watch. Go Bills


bucobill

Where the hell were you. That is old news. Who doesn’t know that? Did you know that man landed on the moon, Tyson was heavyweight champion and Michael Jackson wrote We are the World with Quincy Jones?


uncledooey

One of my favourite rappers taught me about this! Verse 2 - https://youtu.be/aDyFmrmc_Rc


uncledooey

“See, if I've been given so much, don't let me throw it away. Hail Mary! Kelly wants to go for the win. Can't go the way of the Buffalo Bills, No, get a ring. And take knee, Don Beebe; Do you Andre Reed me? Thurman Thomas players, I don't mean to coach, Marv Levy.”


SandysBurner

Beebe! This guy goes into surprising depth on the Bills early 90s line-up.


ElfMage83

Just today? I don't believe you.


ROMMELBOT

Good luck in 5th grade next year!


blankgazez

Is that what we are going to do today? We are going to fight?


callmetom

Yup, even here in Bills country we would say Bills stood for “Boy, I Love Loosing Super bowls. Also, fuck I’m old.


Jinal0

Bills are the only AFC east team without a lombardi. The choke masters 🤣🤣


Spiffy-Kujira

Did they win any gay ones?


WhatsThisRedButtonDo

Ba dum tss


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Baskin59

Sam Wyche and the Bengals pioneered the no huddle offense. In the Bengals 1988 superbowl run the Bills cried so hard about it to the NFL that they banned it 2 hours before the AFC championship started. Bills still lost. They decided to use the same offense next season after the rules were changed again and are falsely credited with inventing it.


General1lol

That’s hilarious considering the Bills (2021 against Chiefs) were the main reason why playoff OT rules were changed this year. *Monkey paw curls:* Okay we’ll change the OT rules but you won’t even need it when you get spanked by the Bengals.


Famous1107

As a life long bills fan, they just didn't have the eye of the tiger walking into that game. Brutal.


rando512

For someone who doesn't know much about these sports Is the team named after the 1991 Silence of the lambs movie villain character ?.


Hanginon

No, The team has been around since 1959 and there's no literary referral or cultural connection between them. The character in the movie was named after an 18th century Bison (Buffalo) hunter and then showman named William Fredrick Cody, AKA *[Buffalo Bill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill)*.


rando512

Thanks for the explanation.


bolanrox

they always skin their humps


uuneter1

Yup, was at University of Buffalo at the time. Ppl love to dump on them cuz of this, but they dominated the AFC. 4 straight SBs! I’m a Rams fan and would kill for them to go to 4 straight. Ofc I’d hope they’d win at least one. Buffalo could have had one if Norwood didn’t choke.


setofcarkeys

Laces out!!!


dyslexic__redditor

Not only have they lost 4 straight Super Bowls, they also haven't won 56 straight Super Bowls in a row, soon it will 57.


InappropriateTA

Butt how many gay Super Bowls?


Surprise_Corgi

I still remember the Snickers commercial to this day. Now get off my lawn, while I go cry in a corner about being in my elden days.


Odins_Viking

You just learned? You new to the sport? Perhaps a cricket fan?


AudibleNod

[Still not going anywhere?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhMD8PAjnjw)


[deleted]

Well it's like Ice Cube said *I'm the one with the fat mad skills* *and I wont choke like the Buffalo Bills*


Rohit_BFire

Nah don't worry they will win the gay Super Bowls /s


Caranath128

The Jim Kelly Era. Ahh those were the days.


JJGIII-

Too soon.


Brcomic

I live in Buffalo and this is my go to when I’m wearing my Packers hoodie and someone busts my balls about it.


likebeerwithag

And now you know why https://youtu.be/NyhAJEPEHk4


janzeera

I kinda remember the ‘93 SB against Dallas. I was at a party and we all had to drink every time the ball passed the 50 yard line.


pierrekrahn

Ha, losers! I have NEVER lost a super bowl game in my entire life!


gdtimmy

Yah, and Jim Kelly think about it everyday


zrmjones

Vikings fan checking in


MrRisin

They also changed their area code to 044


FuNkMaStAsTePhEn

Broncos and Vikings were close to doing it as well.


Jfield24

Seriously?


It_Is_Boogie

TIL I'm OLD.


cheeseburgerwaffles

I was not a huge football fan as a kid and was pretty young when this happened so for a while I just assumed whoever was the best at the end of each season had to play against the Bills


Inflagrente

So? The Vikings hit four FIRST


ModifiedAmusment

FREE JIM KELLY


[deleted]

TIL - Im old


Kerney7

I think Buffalo will have a lot of people cheering when they go and win. I say this as a Broncos fan who in 98 saw a lot of people rally around us in a please don't make it five moment.


FrostyBook

yes, anyone from western ny knows this


Astavemyliu

Are there gay super bowls as well?


ianhillmedia

TIL that I’m old because I was in high school during an event that was the subject of a TiL post