11th season in franchise history, first in the National Football League
The 1970 Buffalo Bills season was the franchise's first season in the National Football League , and eleventh overall. The team looked to improve on its 4–10 record from 1969 and make the playoffs for the first time since 1966 . However, the Bills started out on the wrong foot, losing four of their first five games. After winning two consecutive road games against the Patriots and Jets and suffering a blowout loss to the Cincinnati Bengals , the Bills and Colts played to a 17–17 draw in week 9, Buffalo's first tie since 1968 . The Bills would then lose five straight to end the season and finished 3–10–1, for fourth place in the AFC East . Their Week 5 game against the Miami Dolphins would start an era of futility during which the Bills would lose twenty consecutive games against the Dolphins. The Bills would not defeat the Dolphins at any point during the 1970s and next beat Miami in 1980 . This would become known as "The Streak".
Offseason [ edit ] NFL Draft [ edit ] [1]
Personnel [ edit ] Coaches/Staff [ edit ] 1970 Buffalo Bills staff Front office Coaching staff
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Final roster [ edit ] 1970 Buffalo Bills roster Quarterbacks Running backs
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Rookies in italics
Regular season [ edit ] Schedule [ edit ] Week Date Opponent Result Record Venue Attendance 1 September 20 Denver Broncos L 10–25 0–1 War Memorial Stadium 34,882 2 September 27 Los Angeles Rams L 0–19 0–2 War Memorial Stadium 46,206 3 October 4 New York Jets W 34–31 1–2 War Memorial Stadium 46,206 4 October 11 at Pittsburgh Steelers L 10–23 1–3 Three Rivers Stadium 42,140 5 October 18 Miami Dolphins L 14–33 1–4 War Memorial Stadium 41,312 6 October 25 at New York Jets W 10–6 2–4 Shea Stadium 62,712 7 November 1 at Boston Patriots W 45–10 3–4 Harvard Stadium 31,148 8 November 8 Cincinnati Bengals L 14–43 3–5 War Memorial Stadium 43,587 9 November 15 at Baltimore Colts T 17–17 3–5–1 Memorial Stadium 60,240 10 November 22 at Chicago Bears L 13–31 3–6–1 Wrigley Field 41,015 11 November 29 Boston Patriots L 10–14 3–7–1 War Memorial Stadium 31,427 12 December 6 at New York Giants L 6–20 3–8–1 Yankee Stadium 62,870 13 December 13 Baltimore Colts L 14–20 3–9–1 War Memorial Stadium 34,346 14 December 20 at Miami Dolphins L 7–45 3–10–1 Miami Orange Bowl 70,990 Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Season summary [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total • Broncos 0 5 7 13 25 Bills 7 3 0 0 10
1 2 3 4 Total • Rams 3 13 0 3 19 Bills 0 0 0 0 0
Date: September 27Location: War Memorial Stadium
1 2 3 4 Total Jets 17 7 7 0 31 • Bills 7 6 7 14 34
Date: October 4Location: War Memorial Stadium
1 2 3 4 Total Bills 3 0 7 0 10 • Steelers 3 7 3 10 23
1 2 3 4 Total • Dolphins 10 3 7 13 33 Bills 0 7 7 0 14
Date: October 18Location: War Memorial Stadium
1 2 3 4 Total • Bills 0 3 0 7 10 Jets 0 0 6 0 6
1 2 3 4 Total • Bills 10 21 0 14 45 Patriots 0 0 3 7 10
1 2 3 4 Total • Bengals 3 20 13 7 43 Bills 7 7 0 0 14
Date: November 8Location: War Memorial Stadium
1 2 3 4 Total Bills 7 7 0 3 17 Colts 0 7 7 3 17
Week 10 [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Bills 6 0 0 7 13 • Bears 0 14 7 10 31
Week 11 [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total • Patriots 0 7 7 0 14 Bills 0 3 0 7 10
Date: November 29Location: War Memorial Stadium
Week 12 [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Bills 0 6 0 0 6 • Giants 0 3 3 14 20
Week 13 [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total • Colts 10 0 7 3 20 Bills 7 7 0 0 14
Date: December 13Location: War Memorial Stadium
Week 14 [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Bills 0 0 0 7 7 • Dolphins 21 10 7 7 45
Standings [ edit ] Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972. Awards and honors [ edit ] This section is empty. You can help by
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