From: mrn3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MATTHEW R. NARBY)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Dallas/Buffalo
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:36:06 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1k3mloINNpmr@menudo.uh.edu>, HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.
) writes:
>In <1993Jan26.143256.10995@pixel.kodak.com> fbrown@ssd.kodak.com writes:
>
>> In article <1jp1ktINN7u1@menudo.uh.edu> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY
A.) writes:
>> >In <1993Jan21.210410.18917@pixel.kodak.com> fbrown@ssd.kodak.com writes:
>
>> >> interception. I think that 32 pt comeback showed that the Bills are a team
>> >> of destiny. They cant lose!
>> >
>> >  They most certainly can.  They lost several games this season, just like
>> >everybody else in the league.
>> >
>> I did not mean that they will never lose another game. I do not think
>> another pro team can equal Miami`s undefeated year. I do think they will
>> win the SB though.
>
>  I know what you meant.  I was just pointing out we have evidence to the
>contrary.  Yes, they *can* lose the SB.  They are not a team of "destiny".
>They are a good team with a good shot at winning.
>
>> >  They also had the good fortune to play the single worst-choking team I
>> >have ever known.  The 32-point 1st half is indicative of weakness, the come-
>>
>> What 32-point 1st half are you talking about. If you are talking about the
>> Bills comeback game the score at the half was 28-3. First you misinterpret
>> my saying the Bills cant lose the SB and now you have a 32 point 1st half
>> that in actuality was the margin for the comeback. You have to be high
>> on drugs or something. :^)
>
>  My apologies.  I got a little confused.  I meant the comeback margin, after
>a 25 point 1st half lead.  Sorry.
>
>> >back indicative of guts and tenacity.  But the fact the Oiler's played
>> >like pithed frogs no doubt played a part...
>
>  At least you don't disagree with this! :-)
>
>
>semper fi,
>
>Jammer Jim Miller
>Texas A&M University '89 and '91
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Being at the Game in question, I don't think that it was as much an Oilers
Collapse as it was an inspiried Bills team coming together to play like a
team, under the confidence of a true team player/leader. The Oilers offense
didn't make a second half appearence until the score was 35-17, already on the
way to a comeback. They weren't dejected soilders coming onto the field, but
they certainly weren't as excited to be playing that series as the Bills. The
Bills held them to three and out, not necessarily a collapse but something
that happens, and the Bills got a good runback. So then it becomes 35-24, and
now houston gets a little scared and puts the ball in the air, and it is
intercepted. Then, holding the bills, Reich decides to go for it on 4th and 3
or 4, and whammo, its 35-31. The next Oiler drive is the missed field goal,
which in the words of the Oiler punter who held the ball was divine
intervention. These words are not bills words, they are Oiler words. Then the
teams trade punts, and the Bills score again, and Houston gets a field goal to
tie. Then in overtime, the Bills intercept deep in oiler territory and get the
game winner. So it wasn't that the Oilers laid back on their lead, but I think
a more conservative Oiler approach to holding onto a lead, with a ball-control
offense, would have ensured an Oiler victory.
-- 
-Matthew Narby-
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Orchard Park, N.Y.
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