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The Bills ended a streak of four consecutive losing seasons by winning the AFC East. They finished the 1988 season with a record of twelve wins and four losses; it was the club's first winning season since 1981 , its first 12-win season since the 1964 AFL championship season , and only the fifth double-digit win season in team history.
The Bills had only 10 first downs, one more than the AFC Championship record for the fewest ever, and failed to convert any of their 10 third down conversion attempts. Just like their previous game, the Bengals did not get much of a performance from NFL MVP Boomer Esiason , who completed only 11 of 20 passes for 94 yards, with a touchdown and ...
The Bills–Titans rivalry is a National Football League rivalry between the Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans.The series originated during the American Football League's inaugural season in 1960, as both the Titans, then known as the Houston Oilers, and Bills were charter teams in the league, playing as divisional opponents in the AFL's East division.
That 1988 Bills team was 11-1 when it clinched, but it lost three of its last four games and frittered away homefield advantage for the AFC Championship Game which it lost in Cincinnati.
Johnny Grier became the first African-American in NFL history to be promoted to referee. [2] Grier replaced long time referee Bob Frederic, who retired in the offseason. Grier was the field judge in the previous season's Super Bowl XXII, which was the same game that Doug Williams of the Washington Redskins became the first African-American quarterback to win the Super
Buffalo Bills playoff picture: When they could clinch AFC East title Bills Josh Allen celebrates with a teammate after beating the Kansas City Chiefs at home in Orchard Park, Nov.17, 2024.
It just wasn’t to be for the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night. With a spot in the AFC Championship game on the line, Buffalo was trailing by three points against their old foes, the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Bills won the AFC East in 1988 under third-year coach Marv Levy to reach their third postseason in the 1980s. They lost in the AFC Championship (their first championship appearance in AFC history), but it would be the first of six consecutive playoff appearances. In the 1990 season, they won the AFC Championship to reach their first Super Bowl.