Classic Buffalo Bills: 10/16/89 vs. Rams (via BillCody1960)
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- I always liked Chrissy Jim Everett throwing the ball to Henry Ellard and Flipper Anderson.
- Anybody else notice future Bills D-Coordinator Jerry Gray playing DB for the Rams?
- Scott Norwood doesn’t get the recognition that he should. He was a good kicker.
No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.
by sireric on Jun 26, 2009 1:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Please refrain from using the words good kicker and Scott Norwood in the same sentence. Unless, of course, your statement is Scott Norwood is anything but a good kicker.
He only kicked 60% from 40-49 yards and an abismal 20% from 50+ yards.
by Buffalo Mo on Jun 26, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
His lifetime average was 72.3%, he was the AFC Pro-Bowl kicker in 1988, and he made many clutch kicks for the Bills. Just one less then we would all like. He wasn’t the best Bills kicker ever, that was Steve Christie, but Norwood was better then most give him credit for.
No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.
by sireric on Jun 26, 2009 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He had one good year….take that year away and hes at 69%. Hell..he can have 72.3%…There wasn’t ONE kicker who had that low of a percentage last year. The guy SUCKED.
by Buffalo Mo on Jun 26, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I stand corrected...there was one at 72.2%
And the redskins picked up another kicker this offseason to compete with this guy.
by Buffalo Mo on Jun 26, 2009 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
So I take it you don’t send him Christmas cards.
He also played his home games in one of the windiest stadiums in the NFL. I didn’t say he was great, I said he was good, and that he is better then some give him credit for. I stand by that.
Oh and you can’t take his bets season away from him.
No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.
by sireric on Jun 26, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If I saw him walking down the street I would boo him like that old lady did in Princess Bride.
by Buffalo Mo on Jun 26, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
by Kurupt on Jun 27, 2009 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jim Rome…what a loser.
"I know I'm a true receiver..." Roscoe Parrish, Buffalo Bills - May 2009
"In my heart, I know I'm funny." Lt Steven Hauk, Good Morning Vietnam - 1987
by thefourwinds on Jun 29, 2009 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love it when Frank Caliendo make fun of him.
No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.
by sireric on Jun 29, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
PHA-nominal!
"I know I'm a true receiver..." Roscoe Parrish, Buffalo Bills - May 2009
"In my heart, I know I'm funny." Lt Steven Hauk, Good Morning Vietnam - 1987
by thefourwinds on Jun 29, 2009 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Norwood was alright, but his numbers aren’t exactly great….He made 72% of his career FG’s and actually missed 7 extra points. Compare that to Lindell who’s made 83% and never missed an XP. Norwood had one season where he finished above 80% and just one (that one) where he finished in the top 10 in the league in accuracy.
He was an average kicker, maybe slight above average, but doesn’t deserve the scorn and ridicule he’s received. He also shouldn’t be called a good or top kicker….
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
by Kurupt on Jun 27, 2009 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think he was average at best, even for his time. The guy was simply terrible on grass, and had very poor range (even by 80’s standards).
I think it’s actually the opposite these days- it’s like he’s become overrated in revisionist history. Not too many people blame him for that kick in Tampa anymore (it was a 50/50 shot even for the best kickers back then).
Nobody seems to ever mention the extra point he missed in Cleveland in ‘89 playoffs that changed the complexion of that game, or that headcase-type meltdown he had in LA/Oakland in his last season in Buffalo. The guy just wasn’t very good.
by Make a play Whitner on Jun 28, 2009 1:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If records were kept for yards gained while running backwards or sideways....
……Thurman would be the all time leader by a mile.
by Gino Parilli on Jun 26, 2009 10:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
and it wouldn’t even be close….
~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
by Kurupt on Jun 27, 2009 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Right, you are.
Nobody could change directions faster, and at angles that seemed to defy the realities of human anatomy.
by Gino Parilli on Jun 27, 2009 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think what Gino is getting at is not direction of travel but direction he was facing. Thurman was always moving forward, but he’d do it facing backwards or sideways because he’d twist to get through the lines. That always infuriated me, compared to watching Emmitt Smith burst through the gaping holes the Cowboys’ Oline opened up. Thurman couldn’t keep up a full head of steam, because he’d have to twist to get through the cracks in the line.
"I know I'm a true receiver..." Roscoe Parrish, Buffalo Bills - May 2009
"In my heart, I know I'm funny." Lt Steven Hauk, Good Morning Vietnam - 1987
by thefourwinds on Jun 27, 2009 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No doubt Thurman was a mover… I loved watching him slice and dice his way to daylight, but Barry made guys look stupid for a living. I swear the guy never took a clean shot his entire career. It’s scary to imagine what he would have been like behind a mammoth line like the Cowboys had. He’d probably have averaged like 9.0 YPC…
by Mark Parisi on Jun 28, 2009 1:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That brought back some good memories
It was great to see some of my favorite Bills in action again. Thurman, Andre, Bruuuuce, etc.
Wasn’t this a sort of breakout game for Reich? I don’t think he had been under this kind of pressure situation before, playing on Monday night football, against a very good 5-0 Rams team. I think the Bills were 3-2 going into that game.
Classic Bills football – love it!
Get the Bills back to the big game!
by Blitz on Jun 27, 2009 11:42 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
*Kelso diggin for the ball…. good play at 3:15 or so.
*Must have been a boring game.
*That was a dangerously close pass interference call on the Bills at 6:30.
*What a terrible fumble by Thurman at 7:40. But what do you do? Keep feeding him the ball.
*One helluva final drive by Buffalo.
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by MattRichWarren on Jun 29, 2009 12:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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