Sunday, December 10, 1978
| BUF | NWE | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | Bills | Roland Hooks 28 yard rush (Tom Dempsey kick) | 7 | 0 |
| Patriots | Sam Cunningham 4 yard rush (David Posey kick) | 7 | 7 | |
| Bills | Tom Dempsey 26 yard field goal | 10 | 7 | |
| 3rd | Bills | Terry Miller 32 yard rush (Tom Dempsey kick) | 17 | 7 |
| Patriots | Steve Grogan 4 yard rush (David Posey kick) | 17 | 14 | |
| 4th | Patriots | Horace Ivory 20 yard rush (David Posey kick) | 17 | 21 |
| Bills | Frank Lewis 21 yard pass from Joe Ferguson (Tom Dempsey kick) | 24 | 21 | |
| Patriots | Safety, Fox ran Jackson out of end zone | 24 | 23 | |
| Patriots | David Posey 21 yard field goal | 24 | 26 |
| BUF | NWE | |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | 16 | 24 |
| Rush-yards-TDs | 35-184-2 | 51-249-3 |
| Comp-Att-Yd-TD-INT | 9-24-133-1-1 | 13-21-160-0-0 |
| Sacked-yards | 1-10 | 1-6 |
| Net pass yards | 123 | 154 |
| Total yards | 307 | 403 |
| Fumbles-lost | 2-1 | 4-3 |
| Turnovers | 2 | 3 |
| Penalties-yards | 3-40 | 2-15 |
| Passing | Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Tm | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng |
| Curtis Brown | BUF | 9 | 53 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 29 | 0 | 21 | ||||||
| Terry Miller | BUF | 14 | 74 | 1 | 32 | ||||||||||
| Joe Ferguson | BUF | 9 | 24 | 133 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| Roland Hooks | BUF | 7 | 49 | 1 | 28 | ||||||||||
| Dennis D. Johnson | BUF | 3 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 28 | ||||||
| Frank Lewis | BUF | 4 | 40 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||||
| Reuben Gant | BUF | 1 | 25 | 0 | 25 | ||||||||||
| Bob Chandler | BUF | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Rusty Jackson | BUF | 1 | -13 | 0 | -13 | ||||||||||
| Steve Grogan | NWE | 13 | 21 | 160 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 8 | 44 | 1 | 23 | ||||
| Horace Ivory | NWE | 16 | 91 | 1 | 20 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 8 | ||||||
| Sam Cunningham | NWE | 19 | 76 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 11 | ||||||
| Stanley Morgan | NWE | 1 | 52 | 0 | 52 | ||||||||||
| Russ Francis | NWE | 3 | 38 | 0 | 20 | ||||||||||
| Andy Johnson | NWE | 8 | 38 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Don Westbrook | NWE | 2 | 30 | 0 | 19 | ||||||||||
| Harold Jackson | NWE | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | ||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Kick Returns | Punt Returns | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Tm | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | FR | Yds | TD | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | ||
| Mike Franckowiak | BUF | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Dennis D. Johnson | BUF | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Keith Moody | BUF | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 66 | 22.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Raymond Clayborn | NWE | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 60 | 30.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Mike Haynes | NWE | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Horace Ivory | NWE | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 21.5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Stanley Morgan | NWE | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 7.7 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Scoring | Punting | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Tm | XPM | XPA | FGM | FGA | Pnt | Yds | Lng | |
| Tom Dempsey | BUF | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rusty Jackson | BUF | 4 | 129 | 32.3 | 0 | ||||
| David Posey | NWE | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jerrel Wilson | NWE | 2 | 41 | 20.5 | 0 | ||||