History of Pro Football in Buffalo

Scoring Summary

San Diego

First Quarter
SD FG, JOHN CARNEY 36 YD, 14:47. Drive: 13 plays, 62 yards in 7:46. Key plays: Larsen 15-yard personal foul penalty on Bills' Larsen on 3rd-and-6 to San Diego 37; Harbaugh 12-yard pass to Conway to San Diego 49; Harbaugh 11-yard pass to Graham on 3rd-and-7 to Buffalo 37.

Second Quarter
BUF TD, SAMMY MORRIS 32 YD RUN (STEVE CHRISTIE KICK), 0:55. Drive: 1 play, 32 yards in 0:08. Key plays: Williams recovery of Fortin fumble at San Diego 32.

BUF TD, JERRY OSTROSKI RECOVERED FUMBLE IN END ZONE (STEVE CHRISTIE KICK), 4:07. Drive: 5 plays, 17 yards in 2:19. Key plays: Cowart recovery of Moreno fumble at San Diego 17.

SD TD, CURTIS CONWAY 60 YD PASS FROM JIM HARBAUGH (JOHN CARNEY KICK), 5:45. Drive: 3 plays, 65 yards in 1:38.

Third Quarter
SD TD, JERMAINE FAZANDE 2 YD RUN (JOHN CARNEY KICK), 4:30. Drive: 5 plays, 17 yards in 2:38. Key plays: Lewis 29-yard fumble return to Buffalo 17; Harbaugh 12-yard pass to Conway to Buffalo 3.

SD TD, JEFF GRAHAM 52 YD PASS FROM JIM HARBAUGH (JOHN CARNEY KICK), 6:51. Drive: 2 plays, 52 yards in 0:49.

Fourth Quarter
BUF TD, SHAWN BRYSON 11 YD PASS FROM ROB JOHNSON (STEVE CHRISTIE KICK), 1:12. Drive: 11 plays, 99 yards in 5:11. Key plays: Johnson 28-yard pass to Moulds to Buffalo 45; Johnson 9-yard pass to McDaniel on 3rd-and-5 to San Diego 42; Johnson 11-yard pass to Price plus 10-yard face mask penalty on Chargers' Darden on 4th-and-1 to San Diego 11.

BUF FG, STEVE CHRISTIE 29 YD, 14:53. Drive: 12 plays, 69 yards in 2:26. Key plays: Johnson 17-yard pass to Moulds to Buffalo 37; Johnson 17-yard pass to Moulds to San Diego 46; Johnson 12-yard pass to McDaniel to San Diego 34; Johnson 14-yard pass to Price to San Diego 9.

Overtime
BUF FG, STEVE CHRISTIE 46 YD, 8:26. Drive: 7 plays, 31 yards in 3:01. Key plays: Jones interception at Buffalo 41; Flutie 9-yard pass to Price to midfield; Flutie 21-yard pass to Moulds to San Diego 25.

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2000

Regular Season October 15, 2000

San Diego 24
Bills 27 (OT)

Attendance: 72,351

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- It was the Buffalo Bills, not the San Diego Chargers, who needed two quarterbacks to pull out a victory Sunday.

Doug Flutie, taking over for injured Rob Johnson, marched the Bills 31 yards to Steve Christie's 46-yard field goal in Sunday's 27-24 overtime win over the Chargers.

Flutie was forced into the game in overtime after Johnson separated his right shoulder on Neil Smith's hit at the end of the Bills' first possession of overtime. Johnson will miss 2-4 weeks.

On the Bills' next possession, set up by Henry Jones' interception at the Buffalo 41, Flutie swiftly moved the Bills to the winning score.

"You don't want to let your teammates down. You want to go in and give them the best opportunity to win -- don't make mistakes and make the couple of plays that you can," said Flutie, making his second straight appearance for Johnson, who hurt his elbow in last weekend's 22-13 loss at Miami.

"I just went in the last handful of plays and tried to execute to secure that, to take advantage of the opportunity the rest of the team had given us."

The Bills also got a break on the winning field goal with 6:34 remaining. Christie's first attempt bounced off the right goalpost. But it didn't count because the play had been called dead when Buffalo center Jerry Ostroski false-started.

Christie's second attmempt just sneaked over the bar.

It was a sloppy, dramatic and intense see-saw battle between two teams desperate for a victory.

The Chargers (0-7) squandered a 10-point fourth-quarter lead and are off to their worst start since opening the 1975 season 0-11.

The Bills (3-3), coming off three losses to AFC East rivals, avoided losing four straight for the first time since 1985.

"We're totally stoked, very happy we got a win. We rallied," said Johnson. "We hadn't played well all game, but when it was on the line, we made the plays and we got it into overtime."

Oddly, it was the Chargers who intended to use two quarterbacks, only to watch their experiment failed miserably.

Chargers coach Mike Riley lived up to his word and pulled starter Jim Harbaugh despite a solid first quarter.

Enter Moses Moreno and enter chaos.

Moreno, who missed the last three games with a right shoulder injury, fumbled the snap on his first play from scrimmage. Then, on the Chargers' next drive, Moreno fumbled when sacked by Sam Cowart.

Both turnovers led to touchdowns as the Bills went ahead 14-3 and Moreno was done.

"Bad decision by me," said Riley, admitting he considered leaving in Harbaugh, who had just hit six straight passes to set up John Carney's field goal. "It was unfortunate. I would never have expected that. I still have a lot of confidence in (Moreno). I just felt we couldn't let it go on any longer."

Said Harbaugh: "I figured I would get in at some point. I didn't know it was going to be that quick."

Harbaugh, coming off a three-interception performance in last weekend's 21-7 loss against Denver, finished 21-for-33 for 287 yards, with two interceptions and two touchdowns.

Curtis Conway had seven catches for 143 yards and a touchdown, while Jeff Graham finished with nine catches for 113 yards and a touchdown. Jermaine Fazande, on a 2-yard dive, also scored for San Diego.

Johnson, sacked four times, finished 29-for-47 for a career-high 321 yards and one interception. He has now failed to finish three of his last six starts.

Eric Moulds had a career-high 11 catches for 170 yards, his third 100-yard-plus game this season. Sammy Morris rushed for a TD and the Bills also got a rare score from an offensive lineman as Ostroski pounced on Jonathan Linton's fumble as it rolled into the end zone.

After falling behind 24-14, the Bills got back into the game in the fourth quarter.

Johnson, shrugging off boos from the sellout crowd, drew the Bills close with a 99-yard drive capped with an 11-yard screen pass to Shawn Bryson two minutes into the fourth quarter.

The Bills forced overtime when Johnson marched the team 69 yards to set up Christie's 29-yarder with seven seconds left.

"This was a situation where this could've been a big loss for us, but I think this game showed what kind of character we have as a team," Moulds said.

NOTES - The Chargers lost defensive lineman Michael Mohring with a right knee sprain. Mohring, who will undergo an MRI on Monday, was hurt covering a kickoff late in the first quarter. ... The loss was San Diego's first in its last seven trips to the Buffalo-area, going back to 1964, when the Chargers lost the AFL championship game at Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium.

Game Breakdown
	SD	BUF
FIRST DOWNS Passing 3RD-DOWN EFFICIENCY 4TH-DOWN EFFICIENCY TOTAL NET YARDS Total plays Average gain NET YARDS RUSHING Rushes Average per rush NET YARDS PASSING Completed-attempted Yards per pass Sacked-yards lost PUNTS-AVERAGE RETURN YARDAGE Punts-returns Kickoffs-returns Interceptions-returns PENALTIES-YARDS FUMBLES-LOST TIME OF POSSESSION	15 11 5-14 0-0 303 65 4.7 52 27 1.9 251 21-34 6.6 4-36 7-41.9 100 6-51 5-49 1-0 12-88 4-2 32:54	25 18 5-19 1-1 424 82 5.2 95 28 3.4 329 31-50 6.1 4-22 10-43.2 103 1-0 5-101 2-2 10-103 3-1 35:32
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Missed field goals None. San Diego rushing Jermaine Fazande 19-51, Jim Harbaugh 5-1, Terrell Fletcher 2-0, Moses Moreno 1-0. Buffalo rushing Sammy Morris 8-60, Shawn Bryson 9-22, Jonathan Linton 8-10, Rob Johnson 3-3. San Diego passing Jim Harbaugh 21-33 for 287 yards, 2 INT, 2 TD, Moses Moreno 0-1 for 0 yards, 0 INT, 0 TD. Buffalo passing Rob Johnson 29-47 for 321 yards, 1 INT, 1 TD, Doug Flutie 2-3 for 30 yards, 0 INT, 0 TD. San Diego receiving Jeff Graham 9-113, Curtis Conway 7-143, Reggie Jones 2-20, Jermaine Fazande 2-7, Terrell Fletcher 1-4. Buffalo receiving Eric Moulds 11-170, Peerless Price 6-75, Shawn Bryson 6-47, Jeremy Mcdaniel 4-44, Sammy Morris 3-4, Bobby Collins 1-11. San Diego tackles-assists-sacks (unofficial) Junior Seau 10-2-0, Rodney Harrison 9-3-1, Gerald Dixon 7-1-1, Deron Jenkins 5-2-0, Tony Darden 6-0-0, Michael Dumas 4-2-0, Darryll Lewis 4-0-0, Orlando Ruff 3-1-0, John Parrella 2-0-1, Darren Mickell 1-0-0, Albert Fontenot 1-0-1, Greg Jackson 1-0-0, Adrian Dingle 1-0-0, Scott Turner 1-0-0, Jamal Williams 1-0-0. Buffalo tackles-assists-sacks (unofficial) Ted Washington 4-5-0, Sam Cowart 5-2-1, John Holecek 4-3-0, Sam Rogers 5-1-0, Antoine Winfield 5-0-0, Phil Hansen 3-2-0, Marcellus Wiley 2-3-2, Keith Newman 3-0-0, Henry Jones 3-0-0, Pat Williams 1-2-0, Erik Flowers 1-1-1, Donovan Greer 1-0-0, Ken Irvin 1-0-0, Keion Carpenter 1-0-0. Interceptions San Diego (Rodney Harrison 1 for 0 yards); Buffalo (Sam Cowart 1 for 2 yards, Henry Jones 1 for 0 yards). Fumbles lost San Diego (Roman Fortin, Jim Harbaugh); Buffalo (Jonathan Linton). Opponent's fumbles recovered San Diego (Rodney Harrison); Buffalo (Sam Cowart, Marcellus Wiley).

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