1999 Buffalo Bills season
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Bills |
0 |
6 |
8 |
0 |
14 |
| • Colts |
7 |
7 |
7 |
10 |
31 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Jets |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
| • Bills |
0 |
7 |
7 |
3 |
17 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Eagles |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Bills |
9 |
10 |
7 |
0 |
26 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Bills |
3 |
10 |
0 |
10 |
23 |
| Dolphins |
6 |
3 |
0 |
9 |
18 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Steelers |
7 |
7 |
0 |
7 |
21 |
| • Bills |
7 |
10 |
7 |
0 |
24 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Raiders |
10 |
3 |
7 |
0 |
20 |
| Bills |
7 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
14 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Bills |
0 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
16 |
| • Seahawks |
13 |
10 |
0 |
3 |
26 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Bills |
0 |
3 |
0 |
10 |
13 |
| Ravens |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
|
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Bills |
3 |
14 |
14 |
3 |
34 |
| Redskins |
7 |
3 |
0 |
7 |
17 |
-
Date: November 7
-
Location: Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, Washington, D.C.
-
Game start: 1:00 p.m.
-
Game weather: 55°F, wind 14
|
The 1999 Buffalo Bills season was the 40th season for the team in the National Football League (NFL). It would be the final season that Bruce Smith, Andre Reed, and Thurman Thomas, the last three players remaining from the Bills' Super Bowl teams were on the same team together. All three were released at the end of the season due to salary cap reasons.
The Bills surrendered only 229 points (14.3 points per game), the lowest total in franchise history in a 16-game season, and second-fewest in the league. Buffalo's 2,675 passing yards and 4,045 total yards allowed were both the fewest totals in the NFL in 1999.
The Bills finished in second place in the AFC East and finished the National Football League's 1999 season with a record of 11 wins and 5 losses. The Bills qualified for the postseason for the seventh time in the decade. They would lose to the Titans in the game called "The Music City Miracle".
As of the 2016 season, this was the last season that Buffalo qualified for the playoffs, making it 16 straight years that the Buffalo Bills have missed the playoffs.
The Music City Miracle is a famous play in the NFL Wild Card Playoffs involving the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills that took place on January 8, 2000 (following the 1999 regular season) at Adelphia Coliseum in Nashville, Tennessee.
Going into the game, Bills coach Wade Phillips created a stir by starting quarterback Rob Johnson, rather than Doug Flutie, who had started 15 games, and who had led the team to the playoffs. Late in the fourth quarter, the stage was set for an exciting finish. Tennessee received the ball with 6:15 remaining. Titans receiver Isaac Byrd's 16-yard punt return and five carries from Eddie George for 17 yards set up a wobbly 36-yard field goal by Del Greco. The Titans took a 15–13 lead with 1:48 to go. On the ensuing drive, with no timeouts remaining, Bills quarterback Johnson led the Bills on a five-play, 37-yard drive to the Titans' 24-yard line. On the last two plays from scrimmage, Johnson played with only one shoe on, as he had lost one and had no time to put it back on, with the clock running out. With only 16 seconds remaining in the game, Steve Christie, the Bills' kicker, made a 41-yard field goal to put Buffalo in the lead, 16–15.
...
Wikipedia
