Four Straight

In 1993, Buffalo's football team did something no team had ever done. It won its conference for the fourth season in a row and went back to the big game for a fourth straight January.

The year had everything. A 13-10 win in Dallas, eight months after the Cowboys had beaten them by 35. A Monday night rematch with Houston that ended 35-7. A cornerback who tied for the league lead with nine interceptions, and a tall tight end from a tiny Indiana college who caught more passes than anybody on the team. Forty-seven points in Miami a week before Christmas. A 16-14 win over the Jets at nine degrees. A playoff win over the Raiders at zero. And 186 rushing yards in the conference championship game.

Four Straight tells the 1993 season game by game, with chapters on the takeaway defense, the tight end, and the greatest pass rusher of his era.

Every game chapter has the score, the crowd, the weather and the story, a full-page chart drawn from the box score, and Ray's Take, a few lines of opinion from a lifelong fan from Buffalo's Old First Ward. At the back you'll find fifty bar-trivia questions (four quarters and an overtime) and a complete stats appendix.

A warm, funny, fact-checked holiday gift for anyone who has ever sat in the snow in Orchard Park and would do it again.