Sept. 7, 1980 - Bills 17, Dolphins 7

Three-hundred seventy days earlier, Buffalo Bills offensive guard Reggie McKenzie - the longest-tenured man on the roster, having come to Buffalo in the 1972 NFL Draft - sat at his locker at Rich Stadium with a glazed, disbelieving look on his face.

The Bills had just blown their best chance in a decade to defeat the Miami Dolphins and thus end what at the time was an 18-game losing streak. It crept up to 19 on that day when Tom Dempsey inexplicably missed a 34-yard field goal as time expired, and it grew to 20 when the Bills lost in Miami six weeks later.

It’s almost unfathomable to consider that one NFL team could lose 20 consecutive games to another, a streak that neatly encompassed the entire decade of the 1970s and established an NFL record

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