{"id":1742,"date":"2014-05-14T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T19:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2014-05-14T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T19:14:02","slug":"10-things-you-might-not-have-known-about-the-1990-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Should Know &#8211; 1990 Buffalo Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10T1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1747 aligncenter\" alt=\"10T1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10T1.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Buffalo&#8217;s 41 points in a half is still an NFL record (January 20th 1991 vs LA Raiders, AFCC)<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Smith had his best season statistically (19 Sacks (1st), 4 Forced Fumbles (2nd), 101 Tackles (2nd)) He was also named DPOY<\/li>\n<li>NFL Network named the 1990 Bills as one of the five greatest teams to never win a Super Bowl<\/li>\n<li>#1 Draft Pick James Williams was the first player in Bills history to wear number 31.\u00a0 (The number was reserved for merchandising and reflected the spirit of the team)<\/li>\n<li>Jim Kelly had his career best QB Rating in 1990 (101.2)<\/li>\n<li>The best player selected by the Bills in the 1990 draft was 8<sup>th<\/sup> round pick Marvcus Patton. Patton never missed a game in his 12 year career.<\/li>\n<li>Thurman Thomas led the league in yards from scrimmage for his second consecutive year, his streak ended at 4. Still an NFL record.<\/li>\n<li>The Bills won 8 games in a row in 1990, their best streak in the NFL. (Won 9 in a row during the 64 AFL season.<\/li>\n<li>1990 Was Paul Tagliabue\u2019s first full season as NFL Commissioner. The play clock was reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Emmitt Smith was selected one pick after the Bills drafted James Williams.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo&#8217;s 41 points in a half is still an NFL record (January 20th 1991 vs LA Raiders, AFCC) Bruce Smith had his best season statistically (19 Sacks (1st), 4 Forced Fumbles (2nd), 101 Tackles (2nd)) He was also named DPOY NFL Network named the 1990 Bills as one of the five greatest teams to never &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1742\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[154,160,156,155,158,157,161,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}