{"id":7464,"date":"2025-02-28T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:15:22","slug":"ticket-please-12-buffalo-bills-vs-new-england-patriots-12-20-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/ticket-please-12-buffalo-bills-vs-new-england-patriots-12-20-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket Please #12: Buffalo Bills vs. New England Patriots, 12\/20\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 50th anniversary season of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportspaper.info\/football-publications\/national-football-league-publications\/american-football-conference-afc-publications\/afc-east\/buffalo-bills\/\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> was, no matter how you look at it, a letdown. The slide into mediocrity that began a few years prior continued in earnest as the team finished with a 6-10 record and fired head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JaurDi00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.sportspaper.info&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-28_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dick Jauron<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But hey, at least they had a lot of past achievements to celebrate. One of those was their four straight appearances in the AFC Championship, as commemorated on their December 20 game ticket against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportspaper.info\/football-publications\/national-football-league-publications\/american-football-conference-afc-publications\/afc-east\/new-england-patriots\/\">New England Patriots<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nfl-ticket_2009-12-20_ne-buf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nfl-ticket_2009-12-20_ne-buf-1024x314.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo Bills vs. New England Patriots ticket, 12\/20\/2009\" class=\"wp-image-7465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nfl-ticket_2009-12-20_ne-buf-1024x314.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nfl-ticket_2009-12-20_ne-buf-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nfl-ticket_2009-12-20_ne-buf-768x236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nfl-ticket_2009-12-20_ne-buf-1422x436.jpg 1422w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nfl-ticket_2009-12-20_ne-buf-1074x330.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/nfl-ticket_2009-12-20_ne-buf.jpg 1473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alas, that game was also a loss (17-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more Bills publications from the 2009 season, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportspaper.info\/2009-buffalo-bills-publications\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sportspaper.info\/2009-buffalo-bills-publications\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50th anniversary season of the Buffalo Bills was, no matter how you look at it, a letdown. The slide into mediocrity that began a few years prior continued in earnest as the team finished with a 6-10 record and fired head coach Dick Jauron in November. But hey, at least they had a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[284,772,82,89,111],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticket-please","tag-2000s","tag-772","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-tickets","wpcat-110-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464","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=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7470,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions\/7470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}