{"id":6571,"date":"2018-10-05T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2018-10-06T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T17:10:41","slug":"nfl-flashback-2018-week-5-bills-vs-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/nfl-flashback-2018-week-5-bills-vs-titans\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Flashback (2018 Week 5) \u2013 Bills vs. Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s NFL flashback features a key meeting between the Bills and Titans, or more accurately Bills and Oilers. No, it’s not The Comeback<\/a>. This one is from an earlier playoff meeting, and is significant because it was the first postseason win for Buffalo during the Jim Kelly<\/a>\/Thurman Thomas<\/a>\/Marv Levy era.<\/p>\n

\"BUFFALO<\/a>
illustration by Jack Davis<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On January 1, 1989 the two teams met at Rich Stadium in the divisional round of the AFC playoffs. After a scoreless first quarter Buffalo struck first with a 1-yard TD run by Robb Riddick<\/a>. Houston answered with a Tony Zendejas<\/a> field goal, but in the third the Bills got what turned out to be the winning score on an 11-yard Thurman Thomas TD run.<\/p>\n

Mike Rozier<\/a> rushed for a Houston touchdown in the fourth quarter to make the score 17-10 but that was it for the scoring. With the victory Buffalo had its first playoff win since 1981 and advanced to the AFC Championship to face the Bengals.<\/p>\n

\"BUFFALO<\/a><\/p>\n

Jim Kelly and Houston’s Warren Moon<\/a> turned in very similar games at QB — Kelly threw for 244 yards and 1 interception while Moon 240 yards and an interception. Thurman Thomas led all rushers with 75 yards; Houston’s Alonzo Highsmith<\/a> ran for 57 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s NFL flashback looks at an important playoff meeting between the Bills and Oilers from the 1988 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[55,82,624,117,91],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-programs","tag-1980s","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-flashback","tag-houston-oilers","tag-nfl","wpcat-61-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6581,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/6581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}