From: guthrie@etin.mct.rochester.edu (Barry Guthrie)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: The Alamo Holds
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:23:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY
Originator: guthrie@etin.mct.rochester.edu

The Alamo holds !!!!!!!!
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There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.

I'm still high after the game.

I'm still having trouble talking from yelling so loud at
the game.  I never gave up, not even for a second and
neither did a lot of other Bills fans and Players.  I was
yelling the whole game, from start to finnish.

DE FENCE!

DE FENCE!

I've been to a lot of Bill's games where everyone gets
into the game and fires up the Bills players.  (Raider's,
Broncos, Ram's, Jets, Bengals, Dolphins and many other's
throughout the past years)  When this happens there is
nothing that's not possible.  I don't know if this was
the best one ever?  Each of those other games all had
their own special magic and memories.  This one will stay
with me and other Bills fans forever.

There's no place like Buffalo's Rich Stadium.

I'm glad I yelled, I'm glad I didn't Boo the Bills as
they went into the locker room at half time.  It wasn't
that they played bad, it was that Houston play great.  I
felt that all they needed to do was to make some
adjustments.

O.J.!!!!!
O.J.!!!!!
JUICE!!!!

I'm glad I stayed for the second half and didn't leave.
I was going to stay and encourage the Bills until the
end, no mater what.  So did a lot of other Bills fans who
stayed and remember all of the other games that they came
back and won. (The 12th Man)

DE FENCE!!!!!

DE FENCE!!!!!

If there is ever a place where a team can come back and
win from such a deficit it's at Buffalo.  We all knew
what the score was and we all knew what we had to do.  We
had to let the Bills players know that we were with them
no matter what, that we weren't giving up and that we
weren't going to give up and that we didn't want them the
give up either.  In the third quarter when Reich threw an
interception and Houston scored a touch down.  We all
knew that it was worse. (35 - 3)  So we just yelled
louder and harder.  

The BILLS heard us and they didn't give up.  The coaching
staff made some offence and defence adjustments that put
the players in position where they could play their best,
and they did. 

THE BILLS HAVE THE BALL!!!!! 
THE BILLS HAVE THE BALL!!!!!

We were all out of control.  Every play we were yelling
as hard as we could.  We were all so pumped up and in a
frenzy.  Every play was a big play and we had to be into
it.  We were out of control.  We couldn't stop yelling
even if we tried and no one wanted to.   

4th and 5 on the 18.  No one in the stadium even
considered a field goal.  We all knew that they were
going to go for it.  They just had too much momentum.  I
don't even think it would have mattered if they didn't
even make it.

TOUCH DOWN!!!!!!!!
TOUCH DOWN!!!!!!!!

The Bills are a head.  Absolute Mayhem.  High Fives and
hugs to every one everywhere.

DE FENCE!!!!!!!!!
DE FENCE!!!!!!!!!

The defence holds Houston to a field goal.  OT baby.
Houston wins the toss.  Who cares.

DE FENCE!!!!!!!!!
DE FENCE!!!!!!!!!

INTERCEPTION!!!!!!!!!!!
THE BILLS HAVE THE BALL!!!!!!!
THE BILLS HAVE THE BALL!!!!!!!!

He's the snap,
the KICK,
It's UP,
ITS GOOODDDDDD!!!!!!!!
THE BILLS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE BILLS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was beyond absolute mayhem.  
It was un-BILL-ieavable.

NFL Records for the biggest come back
and the most points scored in a quarter.

The best game for the Bills this season?
The best game for the Bills at Rich Stadium?
The best game for the Bills ever?
The best game in NFL history?  Quite Possibly.


"I was into a really good rhythm," Moon said. "I felt
good about what I was doing.  I could see everything they
(the Bills) were doing....Things really clicked for us."

"I felt good coming into this game.  Our team felt
confident coming in and we played like it for a half or
so.  But, you've got to give Buffalo credit, and that was
the thing that we talked about last week, that even
though they've got some guys nicked up and they're a
little bit down, they're going to fight and scrape and
scratch and this crowd could really get them into the
ballgame and that's basically what happened."

"The crowd got into the ballgame, their team got lifted
and the whole momentum changed, and I've never seen
anything happen like it." 

Nor has anybody else. 
Buffalo News.


"I always believed,"  Talley said. "I was always taught
that as long as there is time on the clock, you never
give up."


The game ball was given to the entire Bills Team.
Everyone played with everything that they had.

As Reich instilled with his one play at a time offence. 
Now it's one game at a time.

Were with you Buffalo.

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  BRG  \,/  \,/     GO BILLS !!!!!!!!! ALL THE WAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Barry R. Guthrie
guthrie@etin.mct.rochester.edu