ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — There was a point in the second quarter of Saturday night’s stunning AFC wild-card game when I started thinking back to January 1991.
That was the year of the Buffalo Bills’ first Super Bowl appearance and to get to Tampa they played two of the most remarkable playoff games we’ve ever seen at the place that was then called Rich Stadium.
First there was the 44-34 victory over the arch-rival Dolphins on a snowy afternoon, Jim Kelly outdueling Dan Marino in an epic shootout. And then, of course, the greatest game any Bills team has ever played, the 51-3 annihilation of the Raiders that sent the Bills to Super Bowl 25.