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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing. Their surprising performance this year has backers dancing on the soggy Astroturf and even thinking about a faraway game in January called the Super Bowl. Not so long ago, the chances of championship rings appearing on Bills' fingers seemed about as likely as finding hammerhead sharks in Lake Erie. In 1985 Buffalo sulked in the National Football League basement with a 2-14 record. The team hasn't made the play-offs since '81, and has never been to a Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Let's Get Ridiculous! Buffalo's Bills | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...were, paradoxically, often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire: "The pastures are stony, the mountains are leonine, the natives are taciturn and venal, the sunsets are red, and in the early evenings you can hear, from the shores of the lake, the brave and innocent voices of little children, singing some gibberish song about what a wonderful time they're having at Camp Wonk-a-tonk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grace Notes | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson opens its season against Providence today in Rhode Island, followed by games against Boston College, Yale, Brown, UNH, Colby and Bowdoin before the Lake Placid Tournament over Christmas Break...

Author: By Caroline Miller, | Title: Icewomen Prepared To Open Season Today | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...Browns are Cleveland's best hope for glory. But they may have missed their shot. Two years in the AFC Championship game and nothing to show for it except thousands of broken hearts along Lake Erie...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Death of a Cleveland Brownie | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

Last year, the Saints marched all the way tothe NCAA Championship but lost, 4-3, in overtimeto Lake Superior...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Who Will Earn an Invitation to...... the ECAC Garden Party? | 11/11/1988 | See Source »

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