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2010 BUFFALO BILLS FOOTBALL BBUFFALOUFFALO BBILLSILLS vvs.s. NNEWEW EENGLANDNGLAND PPATRIOTSATRIOTS (4-10) (12-2) Regular Season Week 16 | December 26, 2010 | 1:00 PM | Ralph Wilson Stadium | CBS-TV BILLS HOST PATRIOTS AT THE RALPH BROADCAST INFO TELEVISION: CBS The Buffalo Bills return to Ralph Wilson Stadium this week to host PLAY-BY-PLAY: Kevin Harlan the New England Patriots in their second straight AFC East match-up on COLOR ANALYST: Solomon Wilcots Sunday, December 26th at 1:00 PM ET. PRODUCER: Jim Rikhoff This week’s game will mark the 101st regular season meeting be- DIRECTOR: Brian Lilley tween the Bills and Patriots. BILLS RADIO NETWORK With a win over New England on Sunday, Buffalo will: FLAGSHIP: Buffalo – 97 Rock (96.9 FM) and The Edge (103.3 FM); Rochester – WHAM (1180 AM); • Win their fi rst game against the Patriots since 2003 (Week One) Toronto - FAN (590 AM) PLAY-BY-PLAY: John Murphy (24th year, 7th as • Win three consecutive games for the fi rst time since 2008 (Games 1-4) play-by-play) COLOR ANALYST: Mark Kelso (5th year) BILLS-PATRIOTS SEASON SERIES SIDELINE REPORTER: Rich Gaenzler (10th year; • Overall Regular Season Series: 40-59-1 2nd year as sideline) • Bills at home vs. Patriots: 21-27-1 • Last meeting at home: 12/20/09, L 10-17 • First regular season meeting: 9/23/60, W 13-0 at Boston CONTACT INFO • Last regular season meeting: 9/26/10, L 30-38 @ NE Scott Berchtold - Vice President/Communications The Bills will face the New York Jets next week in their season fi nale [email protected]fl .net :: 716-312-8701 on Sunday, January 2nd at 1:00 PM ET in their fi rst game at The New Chris Jenkins - Director of Media Relations Meadowlands Stadium. [email protected]fl .net :: 716-312-8702 Matt Heidt - Manager of Media Services BILLS ON DECEMBER 26th [email protected]fl .net :: 716-312-8704 Dom Rinelli - Media Relations Asst./ Research Analyst This week’s game will be the sixth time the Bills have played a [email protected]fl .net :: 716-312-8707 contest on December 26th. The last time Buffalo played on this date was in 2004 against the San Francisco 49ers, when the Bills won 41-7 at Candle- Stephanie Ohol - Media Relations Offi ce Manager stick Park. [email protected]fl .net :: 716-312-8700 This week’s match up will mark the fi rst time the Bills and Patriots have met on the 26th of December. The Bills are 5-0 in their games on December 26th. Below is a list of team results on December 26th: DECEMBER 26th OVERALL RECORD – 5-0 • 1964, vs. San Diego – Win 20-7 • 1965, @ San Diego – Win 23-0 • 1993, vs. NY Jets – Win 16-14 • 1999, @ New England – Win 13-10 (OT) • 2004, @ San Francisco – Win 41-7 UPCOMING WEEK’S SCHEDULE Tuesday, Dec. 21 Wednesday, Dec. 22 Thursday, Dec. 23 Friday, Dec. 24 Saturday, Dec. 25 Sunday, Dec. 26 Monday, Dec. 27 Players Day Off Patriots WR Deion Open Locker Practice: Walk-Thru Bills vs. Patriots Open Locker Branch Conference Room 11:00 AM CLOSED TO 1:00 PM ET Room: Call: 11:15 AM 11:50 AM- Open to media MEDIA 2:30-3:15 PM Coach Belichick Confer- 12:40 PM 11:00-11:15 AM Coach Gailey: ence Call: 11:30 AM Practice: 1:25- Open Locker 4:00 PM Fieldhouse 11:30 AM: 3:15 PM Room St. Johnson, Fitzpatrick, Open to media: 12:30-1:30 pm TBD 1:25-1:40 PM Coach Gailey: Coach Gailey: Coach Gailey: Post-Practice 12:00 PM Post-Practice Open Locker Room 12:00-12:40/3:15-3:45 Practice: 1:25-3:15 PM Open to media: ALL DATES AND TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE 1:25-1:40 PM 1 2010 BUFFALO BILLS FOOTBALL Regular Season Week 16 | December 26, 2010 | 1:00 PM | Ralph Wilson Stadium | CBS-TV PLAY 60 CHALLENGE GIFT OF WARMTH The Buffalo Bills, Salvation Army and M&T Bank The Buffalo Bills will be recognizing 12 students and are teaming up for the 25th Anniversary of the Gift of 12 teachers from the Buffalo Public School System, Ellicott Warmth Campaign. Elementary in Orchard Park, NY and the Niagara Falls 79th Bills linebacker Reggie Torbor is the Gift of Warmth St. School in a pre-game on-fi eld ceremony as a reward for spokesperson and he met fans at the M&T Bank branch in participating in the 2010 Buffalo Bills Play 60 Challenge. West Seneca on November 30th. The students and teachers will form Stampede Row during Fans are encouraged to make a difference in Buf- the Buffalo Bills player introductions. falo this winter by bringing warm clothes, especially gloves The Play 60 Challenge is a classroom-based exercise for teenagers, to any M&T Bank branch from November program for elementary school and middle school students 29th – December 31st. (3rd – 6th grade) that gets children engaged in 60 minutes of daily exercise (30 minutes in school/30 at home). It is sponsored locally by BlueCross BlueShield of Western BILLS-MILITARY CONNECTIONS New York and nationally by the American Heart Associa- • Owner/President Ralph C. Wilson Jr. is a veteran of tion. the Navy and served in World War II. PRONUNCIATION GUIDE • Head Coach Chan Gailey’s father, Thomas Chandler Gailey Sr. served as a Marine in the Philippines during COACHES World War II. Catavolos, George KA-tahv-o-lus D’Alessandris, Joe dal-uh-SAN-dris • Head Certifi ed Athletic Trainer Bud Carpenter served four years in the Air Force and attended the Defense PLAYERS Language Institute in Monterey, Ca. He served as a Ayodele, Akin AY-kin AY-dell Russian linguist while on active duty. Balogun, Mike BOW-luh-gun Byrd, Jairus Jair-iss • LB Paul Posluszny visited United States troops over- Caulcrick, Jehuu Jay-hue Call-Crick seas during a 10-day trip in February 2008. Posluszny Ganther, Quinton Quin-TAHN toured several US military bases in Iraq where he Hangartner, Geoff Jeff watched the Super Bowl with soldiers. Kelsay, Chris KELL-see Levitre, Andy Luh-vee-tree • CB Drayton Florence’s father, Drayton Sr., served in Pears, Erik PEERS the Army for more than 20 years. His sister, Lakisha, is Posluszny, Paul Poz-LUS-nee serving in the Army and carries the rank of E4. Roosevelt, Naaman NAY-man Stupar, Jonathan stew-PAR • C Geoff Hangartner’s brother, Daniel Garinger, is a Whitner, Donte Don-tay member of the Army Special Forces serving in Iraq. Wrotto, Mansfi eld ROT-oh Youboty, Ashton You-boat-ee FOUR UNDRAFTED ROOKIES MAKE ROSTER Four undrafted free agents from this year’s rookie class earned a spot on the Bills’ 53-man roster: LB Antonio Coleman, OL Cordaro Howard and WRs Donald Jones and David Nelson. This marks the seventh out of the last nine sea- sons, at least one undrafted rookie free agent has made the Buffalo Bills opening day roster. Since 2002, the following players have made the opening day roster as undrafted rookie free agents: Joe Burns, Grant Irons and Mike Houghton (2002); Jon Doren- bos and Antonio Brown (2003); Rashad Baker, Jabari Greer, Constantin Ritzmann and Shaud Williams (2004); Jim Leonhard (2005); John DiGiorgio (2006) and Ashlee Palmer and Garrison Sanborn (2009). 2 2010 BUFFALO BILLS FOOTBALL Regular Season Week 16 | December 26, 2010 | 1:00 PM | Ralph Wilson Stadium | CBS-TV BILLS 2010 REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - THROUGH WEEK 15 WON 4, LOST 10 * RUSHING No. Yds Avg Long TD 09/12 L 10-15 Miami 69,295 F. Jackson 196 811 4.1 39 5 09/19 L 7-34 at Green Bay 70,741 Fitzpatrick 39 255 6.5 22 0 09/26 L 30-38 at New England 68,756 Spiller 65 248 3.8 20 0 10/03 L 14-38 New York Jets 69,262 Lynch TM 37 164 4.4 17 0 10/10 L 26-36 Jacksonville 58,304 T. Edwards TM 5 24 4.8 8 0 10/24 L 34-37 OT at Baltimore 71,220 Ganther LG 8 24 3.0 11 0 10/31 L 10-13 OT at Kansas City 66,625 Ganther TM 8 24 3.0 11 0 11/07 L 19-22 Chicago 50,746 Parrish 3 23 7.7 13 0 11/14 W 14-12 Detroit 56,721 McIntyre 4 5 1.3 2 1 11/21 W 49-31 at Cincinnati 55,654 Caulcrick LG 1 2 2.0 2 0 11/28 L 16-19 OT Pittsburgh 69,642 Caulcrick TM 1 2 2.0 2 0 12/05 L 14-38 at Minnesota 64,012 Jones 3 1 0.3 2 0 12/12 W 13- 6 Cleveland 50,861 Moorman 2 1 0.5 1 0 12/19 W 17-14 at Miami 65,511 Sanborn 0 0 --- --- 0 12/26 New England TEAM 363 1558 4.3 39 6 01/02 at New York Jets OPPONENTS 480 2221 4.6 43t 15 Buff. Opp. * RECEIVING No. Yds Avg Long TD TOTAL FIRST DOWNS 241 298 St. Johnson 72 943 13.1 45 10 Rushing 78 116 Evans 37 578 15.6 54 4 Passing 149 165 Parrish 33 400 12.1 37 2 Penalty 14 17 D. Nelson 31 353 11.4 37 3 3rd Down: Made/Att 73/189 82/194 F. Jackson 28 191 6.8 65t 2 3rd Down Pct. 38.6 42.3 Spiller 22 103 4.7 14 1 4th Down: Made/Att 10/21 7/9 Jones 13 159 12.2 29 1 4th Down Pct.