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NFL GREATEST GAMES SERIES
BUFFALO BILLS
January 3, 1993
"The Comeback"
NFL/Warner
The 1992 NFL season had not been
so great for the Buffalo Bills, who
failed to defend their AFC East title,
and were forced to play a wild-card
playoff game.
The Buffalo faithful, accustomed to
having a bye week before starting
the divisional finals at home, were so
slow in purchasing tickets for the
Bills/Houton Oilers match-up, that
the game was blacked out in the
Western New York/Southern Ontario
viewing area.
I was lucky enough to have a friend
who had an old time big satellite
dish, and we picked up the game on
what was known as a "raw feed."
The raw feed was just that; no
commercials, and you got to hear
the announcers
and production truck
prattle on during time-outs, which
can be quite interesting. (More on
that, later.)
In any event, the game became
history in the making, and despite an
excellent NFL Films version of the
game, this new DVD is the complete
NBC television broadcast of the
game.
And unless you were/are a Houston
Oilers fan, the game was among the
most exciting and frantic of any
played in NFL history.
Down 35-3 in the third quarter, the
Bills stormed back to victory in
overtime, and I recall that as I
watched it, I really could believe
what I was seeing, and hearing.
For those who were there, or saw
the game on TV, this DVD will shoot
you right back to the moment.
As for the raw feed moment I
mentioned above, a very interesting
thing happened with O J Simpson, a
former Bill, and then working for
NBC as a sideline reporter.
After the game, Simpson was
standing outside the Bills locker
room, waiting to grab some players
for interviews.
Now remember, none of this was
making it to air in the commercial
broadcast-or this DVD-but OJ, who
usually had a perceptual smile on
his mush was holding his mic and
listening to producers in his
ear-piece.
I guess the producer was asking
why it was taking so long for the
BIlls players to come out of the
dressing room, and suddenly,
Simpson erupted in a volcanic rage,
yelling profanely at his producer.
O-100mph in 2 seconds, and then
back to 0, again.
I recall thinking about that raw feed
incident a year and a half later, when
the name OJ Simpson took on a
much different connotation.
BUFFALO BILLS
January 3, 1993
"The Comeback"
NFL/Warner
The 1992 NFL season had not been
so great for the Buffalo Bills, who
failed to defend their AFC East title,
and were forced to play a wild-card
playoff game.
The Buffalo faithful, accustomed to
having a bye week before starting
the divisional finals at home, were so
slow in purchasing tickets for the
Bills/Houton Oilers match-up, that
the game was blacked out in the
Western New York/Southern Ontario
viewing area.
I was lucky enough to have a friend
who had an old time big satellite
dish, and we picked up the game on
what was known as a "raw feed."
The raw feed was just that; no
commercials, and you got to hear
the announcers
and production truck
prattle on during time-outs, which
can be quite interesting. (More on
that, later.)
In any event, the game became
history in the making, and despite an
excellent NFL Films version of the
game, this new DVD is the complete
NBC television broadcast of the
game.
And unless you were/are a Houston
Oilers fan, the game was among the
most exciting and frantic of any
played in NFL history.
Down 35-3 in the third quarter, the
Bills stormed back to victory in
overtime, and I recall that as I
watched it, I really could believe
what I was seeing, and hearing.
For those who were there, or saw
the game on TV, this DVD will shoot
you right back to the moment.
As for the raw feed moment I
mentioned above, a very interesting
thing happened with O J Simpson, a
former Bill, and then working for
NBC as a sideline reporter.
After the game, Simpson was
standing outside the Bills locker
room, waiting to grab some players
for interviews.
Now remember, none of this was
making it to air in the commercial
broadcast-or this DVD-but OJ, who
usually had a perceptual smile on
his mush was holding his mic and
listening to producers in his
ear-piece.
I guess the producer was asking
why it was taking so long for the
BIlls players to come out of the
dressing room, and suddenly,
Simpson erupted in a volcanic rage,
yelling profanely at his producer.
O-100mph in 2 seconds, and then
back to 0, again.
I recall thinking about that raw feed
incident a year and a half later, when
the name OJ Simpson took on a
much different connotation.
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