I was actually at this game. My brother got married in Buffalo that weekend and we were out there, the Buffalo in-laws hooked us up and there we were in Ralph Wilson stadium. Which I've got to say is pretty much a crap-hole. It kind of looks like a commercial office building complex, with some bleachers and an artificial turf football field. It had been really nice for Halloween weekend in Buffalo, not even jacket weather, until game day. On that day, it sort of rained and sleeted, blew like hell, freezing rain was coming down sideways. Just god-awful. My now-wife, sat with me through that misery for the entire game, everyone else with us, at least all the women, left at halftime. Its kind of a joke now about how it was a perfect test of how life would be married to a Cardinals fan.
We had just beaten Seattle the week before, the game with the 3 fifty yarders, and the season looked like it might be saved. I believe Buffalo was 0-5 and looked completely beatable. Just another of those games where all the Cardinals had to do was step up and take what was clearly theirs for the taking. I guess the outcome was predictable. Hopefully a game like this being a guaranteed loss is a thing of the past but it was sure typical of 2004. I think we also lost to an 0-8 Carolina team a few weeks later. Anyway its pretty awful to think that Wylie is such a POS that he would set us up like that. But apparenty so. Great memories. Actually other than the Cardinals stinking it up for us, it was otherwise a perfect weekend.