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Canada
Canada (
/ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km2 (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.
The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain.
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Canisius College
Canisius College ( /kəˈniːʃəs/) is a private Roman Catholic college in Buffalo, New York, United States. The college was founded in 1870 by members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) from Germany and is named after St. Peter Canisius. The college is one of 28 institutions in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. It is distinct from Canisius-Kolleg, a prestigious Berlin high school also run by the Jesuits.
The campus sprawls across over a mile of city blocks and includes dedicated NCAA Division I athletic facilities along with various academic and residence buildings.
The Canisius College of Buffalo, commonly referred to as Canisius, has a long and proud history in the city of Buffalo. The first campus was on Ellicott St. in the city and was created in response to a growing need for higher education in the area. Buffalo was composed of many ethnic groups and one of the larger populations was German in origin. As Europe experienced political turmoil, more and more people left for America especially after the failed revolutions of 1848. By 1866, Prussia had exerted considerable pressure on its Germanic neighbors which caused many more people to leave. One of the places where many Germans settled was Buffalo, NY. Part of the immigrant population included German Jesuits. The college formed with Canisius High School as a natural response to the needs of the Catholic community. The college archives has an extensive collection pertaining to the history of the college and its founding.
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Hofstra University
Coordinates: 40°42′52.58″N 73°36′1.65″W / 40.7146056°N 73.6004583°W / 40.7146056; -73.6004583
Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead, New York, United States, about 25 miles (40 km) east of New York City: less than an hour away by train or car. It originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) called "Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island"; in 1937, the institution separated from NYU and gained independence as Hofstra College, and in 1963, Hofstra College gained university status. The school is noted for a series of prominent Presidential conferences, and hosted the third and final 2008 presidential debate between then Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. It has also been selected as the site of the October 16, 2012, presidential debate. The university organizes a wide range of other international academic conferences (many under the aegis of the Hofstra Cultural Center), holds an annual Shakespeare festival in its own replica of the Globe Theatre, and has both an arboretum and bird sanctuary. It is widely recognized[citation needed] as a leading university for students with physical disabilities.
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Howard University
Howard University is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States. It has a Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education status of RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity).
From its outset it has been nonsectarian and open to people of both genders and all races. In addition to the undergraduate program, Howard has graduate schools of business, pharmacy, law, medicine, dentistry and divinity.
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, members of The First Congregational Society of Washington considered establishing a theological seminary for the education of African-American clergymen. Within a few weeks, the project expanded to include a provision for establishing a university. Within two years, the University consisted of the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Medicine. The new institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero, who was both the founder of the University and, at the time, Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. Howard later served as President of the university from 1869-74.
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Iona Gaels
The Iona Gaels are the athletics teams of Iona College, in New Rochelle, New York, U.S.A. They compete in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) and participate in twenty-two (22) NCAA Division I programs. Other members of the MAAC include Canisius College, Fairfield University, Loyola University Maryland, Manhattan College, Marist College, Niagara University, Rider University, St. Peter's College, and Siena College.
Iona College has been competing in men's basketball since the inception of the school in 1940. Iona is an original member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, which began play in men's basketball with the 1981-82 season. The Gaels have compiled the most victories of any MAAC team since the founding of the conference and have won a league record seven MAAC titles. During their history, the Gaels have participated in eight NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships compiling a record of 1-8. The lone win for the Gaels came in 1980 against Holy Cross, 84-78. The Gaels were the 2011 CollegeInsider.com Tournament runners up.
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London
i/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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Manhattan College
Manhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City, in the U.S. state of New York. Despite the college's name, it is no longer located in Manhattan but in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, roughly 10 miles north of Midtown. Manhattan College offers undergraduate programs in the arts, business, education, engineering and science. Graduate programs are offered for education, business and engineering.
Manhattan College was founded as the Academy of the Holy Infancy in 1853 by five French Lasallian Brothers in a small building on Canal Street. When the need to expand forced them from Lower Manhattan, the college moved to 131st Street and Broadway, in the Manhattanville section of Harlem. Passengers on the uptown 1 line of the New York City Subway will find that there is a short section of above-ground track located near the college's original location. The school's name was changed to Manhattan College in 1863, and moved to its present location in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in 1922 as it outgrew its facilities in Manhattanville. This is often the cause of some confusion as the college is located outside of Manhattan but still within the city limits of New York City.
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New York
New York (/njuː ˈjɔrk/; locally IPA: [nɪu ˈjɔək] or [nuː ˈjɔɹk] (
listen)) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
New York City, with a population of over 8.1 million, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York state. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, New York City is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both the state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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Niagara University
Niagara University is a Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition, located in the Town of Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. Originally founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1856 as Our Lady of Angels Seminary, it became Niagara University in 1883. The University is still run by the Vincentian Fathers. All of Niagara's 25 presidents, including its current president, Father Joseph L. Levesque, C.M., have been Vincentian priests.
Niagara has 3,300 undergraduate students in 50 academic programs. Approximately half of the students are residents, while the other half commutes from the surrounding area. The college is known as a liberal arts school, but offers programs in technical and pre-professional disciplines as well.
The College of Arts and Sciences forms the foundation of the Niagara University's curriculum and serves as the basis for its designation as a liberal arts college. All Niagara students complete a portion of their coursework in the College of Arts and Sciences, as numerous general education courses are housed within this unit.
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Offermann Stadium
Coordinates: 42°54′54″N 78°51′43″W / 42.915114°N 78.862009°W / 42.915114; -78.862009 Offermann Stadium was a stadium in Buffalo, New York. It was primarily used for baseball and was the home of Buffalo Bisons of the International League. The ballpark had a capacity of 14,000 people and opened in 1924. It was located on the block bounded by East Ferry Street (north, third base), Masten Avenue (east, left field), Woodlawn Avenue (south, right field) and Michigan Avenue (west, first base).
After the lease ran out on Olympic Park after the conclusion of the 1888 season, Buffalo Baseball Park was built at East Ferry and Michigan Avenue. It was a wooden structure which opened for professional baseball in 1889, serving the high-minor league club's needs for well over three decades. For 1924, a new steel-and-concrete structure was built on the site. It was initially called Bison Stadium, and was renamed in memory of owner Frank J. Offermann in 1935 following his death.
According to one source, this park was the site of the first high-minor league night game, on July 3, 1930, a year in which many minor league teams resorted to lights during the heat of summer as a means of boosting attendance as the Great Depression began to take effect (the majors would not begin using lights until 1935).
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Siena College
Siena College is an independent Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Loudonville, New York. Siena is a four-year, coeducational, independent college in the Franciscan tradition, founded by the Franciscan Friars in 1937. It has 3,200 full-time students and offers undergraduate degrees in business, liberal arts, and sciences. Tuition for the 2011-2012 academic year is $28,910 and standard room and board is $11,434.
It was named after Saint Bernardino of Siena, the illustrious 15th century Franciscan scholar and friar.
Siena will be giving Derek Jeter its first honorary degree, a doctorate in Humane Letters, on May 13.
The college is an urban campus taking up 174 acres (70 ha) at the northern edge of Loudonville. The campus includes:
Siena College, due to United States Army funding, was forced to shut down their ROTC program, on campus. Current enrolled Cadets are now required to travel to other schools in the region, in order to continue participation in the Reserved Officer Training Corps.
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Toronto
Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/, colloquially /ˈtrɒnoʊ/) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from the Mississaugas of the New Credit. The settlement was later established as the Town of York and proclaimed as the new capital of Upper Canada by its lieutenant-governor, John Graves Simcoe. In 1834, York was incorporated as a city and renamed to its present name. The city was ransacked in the Battle of York during the War of 1812 and damaged in two great fires in 1849 and in 1904. Since its incorporation, Toronto has repeatedly expanded its borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities, most recently in 1998.
With over 2.6 million residents, it is the fifth most populous city in North America. Its metropolitan area has over 5.5 million residents. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which has a population of nearly 9 million people as of 2011. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,583,064, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 6,054,191 in the 2011 Census. Its cosmopolitan and international population reflects its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, with about 49% of the population born outside Canada. Toronto is also consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living Survey.
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Western New York
Western New York is the westernmost region of the state of New York. It includes the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Niagara Falls, the surrounding suburbs, as well as the outlying rural areas of the Great Lakes lowlands, the Genesee Valley, and the Southern Tier. Some historians, scholars and others consider the Western New York border to be at the Monroe–Orleans County line. However, many in the region consider Western New York's easternmost county to be Wayne County.
Western New York consists of 12 western counties in New York State: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Orleans, Niagara, Wyoming, Monroe, Wayne, Livingston and Ontario, with a land area of 8,973 square miles (23,240 km2). Western New York can also be defined as the area of New York within the Buffalo and Rochester media markets. The Buffalo market covers the eight counties of the Holland Purchase (as well as two counties in Pennsylvania; each station varies slightly in its coverage) and the Rochester market covers from Wyoming County northeastward to Wayne County.
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WGR
WGR, or WGR Sports Radio 550, is an all sports radio station in Buffalo, New York that broadcasts on 550 AM. It is the flagship station of the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, and Buffalo Bandits, and is currently the only full-time sports talk station in the city of Buffalo. Its studios are located in Amherst, New York, and transmitter in suburban Hamburg, New York. Although it has a power of 5,000 watts, during the day its signal can be heard as far north as Barrie, Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario, as far west as Windsor, Ontario, as far east as Syracuse, and as far south as Erie, Pennsylvania and Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio. At night its signal can be heard as far north as Sudbury, Barrie and Peterborough, Ontario, as far west as Guelph, Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, as far east as Batavia, and as far south as Jamestown and Olean.
The history of one of Buffalo's earliest radio stations has its roots at sea. On April 1, 1921 the Governor, a passenger ship, sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean after collision with a freighter, the West Hartland. The passenger ship’s assigned radio call letters were WGR. Due to maritime superstition, the call sign was never reissued to another ship and reverted back to a pool of available call signs for new radio stations.
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WGRF
WGRF is a radio station in Buffalo, New York, USA. The station's on air branding is "97 Rock". The station mostly plays Classic rock from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Since 2006, the station has also aired numerous rock-leaning oldies, such as songs from The Beatles, that were displaced by the format change at sister station WHTT. WGRF broadcasts at 96.9 MHz.
The WGRF morning show consists of Larry Norton, Rob Lederman, Chris Klein and their Producer Russ. Other local disc jockeys include John "J.P." Piccollo, Carl Russo, John Hager, Slick Tom Tiberi, Anita West, Jeff Gordon, Cindy Chan, Megan Davis, Jim McGee, and Rick Walters. WGRF's significant local presence and history in the area has made the station nearly as much of the Buffalo culture as chicken wings.
WGRF is owned by Cumulus Media. Previous owners included the Taft Television and Radio Company, Rich Communications, Mercury Radio Communications (who separated the longtime combination with WGR in 1995 when it bought WGRF from Rich Communications, who in turn retained WGR until selling it to the Sinclair Broadcast Group two years later), and Citadel Broadcasting (which merged with Cumulus on September 14, 2011). Its transmitter is located in Buffalo.
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Aaron Schobel
Aaron Ross Schobel ( /ˈʃoʊbəl/; born September 1, 1977 in Columbus, Texas) is a retired American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round (46th overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft and played his entire career for the Bills, retiring before the 2010 season. He played collegiately at Texas Christian University (TCU).
Schobel attended Columbus High School. While there, he was a two-time All-District-22-3A selection, at both tight end and outside linebacker. As a senior he had 105 tackles and during his final two years, he posted 70 receptions for 1,299 yards (18.55 yards per rec. avg.). After high school, Aaron attended Texas Christian University (TCU).
Schobel earned his first Pro Bowl appearance in 2006. His best season as a pro came in 2006 when he posted a career high 14 sacks. Since the 2001 season he ranks second in total sacks, only behind Jason Taylor.
Schobel, a first team alternate for the 2007 Pro Bowl, was called upon to relieve an injured Jason Taylor in the Pro Bowl. This was his second consecutive year in the Pro Bowl.
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Al Bemiller
Albert Delane Bemiller (born April 18, 1938 in Hanover, Pennsylvania) is a former American football offensive lineman for Syracuse University and in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills, playing on two league championship teams.
Bemiller was drafted as an offensive lineman by the Buffalo Bills in 1961, when he immediately became their starting center, replacing Dan McGrew, although the latter was the All-AFL 2nd team center in the Bills' inaugural season of 1960. During the 1961 season, Bemiller played in all 14 games, between fellow rookie Billy Shaw at left offensive guard and second year pro Chuck Muelhaupt at right guard, under head coach Buster Ramsey. In 1962, he continued to play center next to Shaw and new right guard Tom Day under new head coach Lou Saban. These three linemen would play together up to 1963, when the Bills tied for first place in the AFL east division, but lost a playoff game to the Boston Patriots.
In 1964, Bemiller was switched to right offensive guard, playing between veteran center Walt Cudzik and right offensive tackle Dick Hudson, when the Bills won their first AFL championship. They repeated in 1965, when Bemiller became an AFL All-Star at right guard, still next to Hudson but with a new center, Dave Behrman. In 1966, under new head coach Joe Collier, Bemiller switched back to center, playing between Shaw and right guard Joe O'Donnell. From 1967 to 1969, he remained the starting center but also played left offensive tackle in 1967. In 1968, he played between Shaw and Bob Kalsu and in 1969, his final year, between Shaw and O'Donnell.
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Al Davis
Allen "Al" Davis (July 4, 1929 – October 8, 2011) was an American football executive. He was the principal owner of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League from 1972 to 2011. His motto for the team was "Just win, baby."
Born to Rose and Louis Davis in a "relatively affluent" Jewish family in Brockton, Massachusetts, Davis spent his youth in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn and attended Erasmus Hall High School. In contrast to the outlaw image he would later take on, as a teenager Davis won an American Legion medal for "all-around kid."
He attended Wittenberg University and Syracuse University, where he earned a degree in English. Upon graduation, he began his coaching career as the line coach at Adelphi College from 1950 to 1951. From there Davis served as the head coach of the U.S. Army team at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia from 1952 to 1953. His next coaching assignment was as the line coach and chief recruiter for The Citadel. From 1957 to 1959 Davis was an offensive line coach at the University of Southern California.
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Al Jolley
Alvin Jay Jolley was a professional football player and coach. He played for the Cleveland Tigers, Akron Pros, Dayton Triangles, Oorang Indians, Buffalo Bisons, Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians. He was a coach for the Bisons and the Cincinnati Reds. He also played for the Ironton Tanks of the Ohio League.
Jolley was also a Native American. He was a member of the Wyandotte Nation. This made him eligible to join the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe.
In 1929 Jolley coached the Bisons ina season that saw the team winning just one game. Afterwards the team finally folded for good, making Jolley the franchise's last coach. Jolley coached the Dodgers in the first ever NFL night game held on Wednesday September 24, 1930, in Portsmouth, Ohio. The Dodgers lost game 12-0 to the Portsmouth Spartans, the forerunners to the modern day Detroit Lions.
Monday, October 18, 1948, the Ironton Tanks had a reunion. At that reunion Eric Shattuck, a former Tank player, read the list of deceased Tanks as the crowd. Jolley was on the list. How or when he died is still unknown. A date of death for Jolley has been found. According to the Find A Grave website and his Ohio death certificate, the early football star died from carcinoma on August 26, 1948, in Marietta, Ohio. He was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Alec Baldwin
Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.
Baldwin first gained recognition through television for his work, for two seasons (6 and 7), on the soap opera Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as Beetlejuice (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Marrying Man (1991), The Shadow (1994), Notting Hill (1999), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006). His performance in the 2003 film The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Since 2006 he has starred as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, receiving critical acclaim for his performance and winning two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on the show, making him the male performer with most SAG Awards ever.
He is the eldest of the Baldwin brothers working in Hollywood.
Baldwin was born on Long Island, New York, the son of Carolyn Newcomb (née Martineau) and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., a high school history/social studies teacher and football coach. Baldwin was raised in a Roman Catholic family of Irish, English, and French descent. He has three younger brothers, Daniel, William, and Stephen, who also became actors. Baldwin has two sisters, Beth Baldwin Keuchler (born 1955), and Jane Baldwin Sasso (born 1965).[citation needed]
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Alex Carrington
Alex Carrington (born June 19, 1987) is an American football defensive end with the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played formerly with the Arkansas State Red Wolves of Arkansas State University. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 2010 NFL Draft with the 72nd overall pick. With the Red Wolves, Carrington was named the Sun Belt defensive player of the year following the 2008 season after he made 10.5 sacks and 19 tackles for loss in 12 games. In January 2009, Carrington was ranked 55th out of the top 100 returning players in college football in 2009 by College Football News.
Carrington attended Tupelo High School in his hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi.
On July 19, 2010, Carrington signed a four year contract with the Buffalo Bills. At the start of the 2011 Training Camp Carrington was moved to Outside Linebacker.
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Andre Reed
Andre Darnell Reed (born January 29, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is a former professional American football player. He played wide receiver in the National Football League for 16 seasons, 15 with the Buffalo Bills (1985–1999) and one with the Washington Redskins (2000).
Reed ranks tenth in NFL history in total career receptions with 951. In 2009, Reed was elected to the Buffalo Bills 50th Season All-time Team.
Reed was born in Allentown and began his football career at Allentown's Dieruff High School, where he played quarterback and competed in the East Penn Conference (now known as the Lehigh Valley Conference), which is known for producing top collegiate and NFL football talent. In his senior year (1981–1982), Reed helped lead Dieruff to an EPC tri-championship, tying for the championship with Emmaus High School and Whitehall High School.5
Reed then attended Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, where he moved to the wide receiver position and quickly drew the attention of the NFL for his speed and durability at the receiver position.
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Andy Levitre
Andy Levitre (pronounced /ləˈviːtri/; born May 15, 1986) is an American football offensive guard for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted in the second round, 51st overall in the 2009 NFL Draft by the Bills. He played collegiately for the Oregon State Beavers.
Levitre prepped at San Lorenzo Valley High School in Felton, California, where he was a two-way lineman. In his junior season, he recorded 47 tackles, two quarterback sacks and two fumble recoveries. He added more than 60 tackles and three sacks in his senior year.
Considered a only two-star recruit by both Rivals.com and Scout.com, Levitre was not ranked among the nation's top offensive line prospects in 2004. He chose Oregon State over LSU, Fresno State, and Arizona, where his older brother, Erick, played offensive center (2002–06).
Levitre redshirted in 2004, and played in all 11 games as a redshirt-freshman in 2005, while starting vs. Oregon. In his sophomore season, he started in game four of the season after senior starter Josh Linehan injured a knee in game three vs. Idaho. Levitre earned Pac-10 Honorable Mention as a player and academically.
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Arthur Moats
Arthur 'DaBody' Moats (born March 14, 1988) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. Moats played college football at James Madison, where he recorded 90 tackles as a senior. He was also a captain. He is well known for delivering the hit on Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre that ended Favre's streak of consecutive starts the following week at 297.
Moats was born in Norfolk, Virginia and was raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, where he attended Churchland High School. He graduated from James Madison University with a degree in political science.
Moats finished his career at James Madison University with 208 tackles. He played in all of his team's games as a true freshman. He started only 5 games as a sophomore, but became a full-time starter for his junior and senior years. Moats won the 2009 Buck Buchanan Award as the top FCS defensive player.
Moats was drafted in the sixth round, 178th Overall in the 2010 NFL Draft. He is the only Buck Buchanan Award winner to be drafted by the Bills. In the Bills 3-4 defensive scheme, he moved from defensive end to inside linebacker, which is an unusual position change considering most defensive ends move to outside linebacker in 3-4 defensive schemes. After several weeks of failing to generate a consistent pass rush, Bills head coach Chan Gailey decided to move Moats to his more natural position of outside linebacker to utilize his pass rushing skill set.
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Barney Lepper
Howard Emmett Lepper (February 19, 1898 – December 1, 1985) was a professional football player, as well as the manager, for the Buffalo All-Americans. Aside from playing football in Buffalo, Lepper also helped start the team in 1917, when they were called the Buffalo All-Stars, Niagaras and Prospects. All of the early press announcements regarding the Buffalo team, referred to Lepper as the team’s manager. Around 1917, Lepper and Frank McNeil signed a lease for the team to play their home games at Canisius College.
In 1920 the Buffalo All-Americans started their season 7-0. this gave Lepper the best start for a rookie head coach in NFL history. His record was kept intact until 1931, when Potsy Clark of the Portsmouth Spartans broke the record with an 8-0 start. However. Barney kept his second-best start stat until November 1, 2009, when rookie coach Jim Caldwell of the Indianapolis Colts tied his record. A week later Caldwell tied Clark's record, giving Lepper now the third-best start by a rookie coach in the NFL.
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Bill Groman
William Frederick Groman (born July 17, 1936 in Tiffin, Ohio) was an American football player. A wide receiver, he played college football at Heidelberg College, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Houston Oilers from 1960 through 1962 and was on the first two AFL Championship teams. He played for the Denver Broncos in 1963, and for the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and 1965, playing on the Bills' two American Football League Championship teams. In his six years of professional football, he played on four AFL championship teams, the only man ever to do so.
Groman has more yards receiving in a rookie year than any other player (1473 in 1960, when the season was 14 games long rather than the current 16). He was selected as one of the offensive ends on the first Sporting News AFL All-League Team in 1960. He also has the most TDs by receptions in his first 2 years (29: 12 in 1960 and 17 in 1961).
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Bill Polian
Bill Polian is an American football executive. He was the Vice Chairman of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League from 1998 to 2011. He rose to league prominence as the General Manager of the Buffalo Bills, building a team that participated in four straight Super Bowls, losing each time. Following his stint in Buffalo, Polian went on to become the General Manager of the expansion Carolina Panthers.
Prior to Polian's tenure in Buffalo, he began his career in professional football with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago Blitz of the United States Football League, before moving to the Canadian Football League, where he assembled Grey Cup winning teams with the Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Early on in his career, he was a coach for the now defunct football team at the Trinity School in New York City.
Polian was General Manager in Buffalo from 1986-1993. When Bill Polian was promoted to general manager of the Buffalo Bills on Dec. 30, 1985, the Bills were suffering from back to back 2-14 seasons and fan interest was at an all-time low. Polian had been with the Bills since August 2, 1984. He was originally hired as director of pro personnel. Polian was instrumental in the signing of Bruce Smith to his first NFL contract, after which he was promoted to GM in 1985. Polian won the NFL Executive of the Year Award twice in 1988 and in 1991. On February 4, 1993, after the Bills had appeared in, and lost, their 3rd straight Super Bowl, Polian was fired as general manager.
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Billy Shaw
William Lewis "Billy" Shaw (born December 15, 1938 in Natchez, Mississippi) is an American former college and professional football player.
Drafted in 1961 by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills, Billy Shaw of Georgia Tech was the prototypical "pulling guard" who despite his size held his own against much bigger defensive linemen like Ernie Ladd, Earl Faison and Buck Buchanan. With the Bills, he won three straight Eastern Division titles and two American Football League championships in 1964 and 1965.
Shaw was a first-team All-American Football League selection four times (1963 through 1966) and second team All-AFL in 1968 and 1969. He played in eight American Football League All-Star Games and was named to the All-Time All-AFL Team. He made the All-Decade All-pro football team of the 1960s. Shaw played his entire career in the American Football League, and retired after the 1969 AFL season.
Shaw is the only player ever inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame without ever playing in the NFL (The Bills along with the rest of the AFL merged with the NFL the season following his retirement). He is also a member of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame and the Bills' 50th Anniversary Team.
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Bo Roberson
Irvin ("Bo") Roberson (July 23, 1935 – April 19, 2001) was an American track and field athlete and American collegiate and Professional Football player. At Cornell University he excelled in basketball, football and track and field. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy he won the silver medal in the long jump, a centimeter short of the 8.12 m gold medal jump by Ralph Boston.
After the Olympics, Roberson had a seven year Pro Football career as a wide receiver in the American Football League with the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, and Miami Dolphins. He caught three passes for eighty-eight yards in the Bills' 23-0 defeat of the Chargers in the 1965 American Football League Championship Game. .
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Bob Bicknell
Bob Bicknell (born November 13, 1969) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the wide receivers coach for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). Bicknell is the son of former Boston College head coach Jack Bicknell and the brother of Jack Bicknell, Jr., the offensive line coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Bicknell played college football at Boston College, where he was a two-year letterman at tight end from 1989–1990.
Bicknell joined the pro ranks in 1998 as the defensive line coach with the Frankfurt Galaxy of NFL Europe. The following season, he switched to the offensive side of the ball to coach the offensive line. During his two-year tenure in Frankfurt, the Galaxy reached the World Bowl final twice, winning the championship in 1999.
Bicknell was named tight ends coach for the Buffalo Bills on January 27, 2010. Following the departure of former wide receivers coach Stan Hixon to join Penn State's staff under new coach Bill O'Brien, Bicknell was named the Bills wide receivers coach.
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Bob Kalsu
James Robert "Bob" Kalsu (April 13, 1945 – July 21, 1970) was an All-American tackle at the University of Oklahoma and an eighth-round draft pick by the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League in 1968.
Kalsu was a starting guard in 1968. He played the entire season and was the Bills' team rookie-of-the-year. Following the 1968 season, to satisfy his Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) obligation, he entered the Army as a Second Lieutenant and arrived in Vietnam in November 1969 as part of the 101st Airborne Division. He was killed in action on July 21, 1970 when his unit came under enemy mortar fire at FSB Ripcord near the A Shau Valley. His family, out of respect, refused to talk in detail about the circumstances surrounding his death.
Lieutenant Kalsu had one child, a daughter named Jill. At home in Oklahoma City, his wife, Jan Kalsu, gave birth to his son, James Robert Kalsu Jr., on July 23. Mrs. Kalsu was informed of her husband's death only hours later. Kalsu was the only recently active professional football player to lose his life in the Vietnam War.
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Booker Edgerson
Booker Tyrone Edgerson (born July 5, 1939 in Baxter County, Arkansas) is a former American college and Professional Football player. This graduate of Western Illinois University was a cornerstone of the American Football League Buffalo Bills' defense in the mid-1960s, at left cornerback.
A four-year letterman (football, baseball, wrestling, track & field); in 1959 and 1960, he led the WIU football team to the only consecutive undefeated seasons in school history, and is in the WIU Hall of Fame.
Booker signed as a free agent with the Bills in 1962 and stepped into a starting role at left cornerback. He made a career-high six interceptions (including two in his first game, against Hall of Famer George Blanda), and was named to the AFL All-Rookie team.
Edgerson's college background as a sprinter and long jumper served him well in the demanding role of man-to-man pass coverage. The AFL featured many dangerous receivers at that time including San Diego's Lance Alworth. But Edgerson became one of the key components of the league's best defense, and he was the only man ever to catch Alworth from behind in a game.
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Brian Moorman
Brian Donald Moorman (born February 5, 1976) is an American football punter who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1999. He played collegiately at Pittsburg State.
Moorman is a two-time Pro Bowl selection for the Bills. He also possesses rare athleticism for his position and participated in the 2006 Pro Bowl Skills Competition, usually reserved for wide receivers, cornerbacks and the like. Moorman was voted into the Bills's 50th Anniversary Team.
At Sedgwick High School in Sedgwick, Kansas, Moorman lettered in football, track, and basketball. In track, he was a 3× state hurdle champion and received all-state honors in Football and Basketball.
Moorman became the first four-time All-American football player in Pittsburg State University history. He earned first-team NCAA Division II All-America honors as a punter in each of his final two collegiate seasons (1997–98) after earning honorable mention All-America honors his first two years (1995–96). Moorman still holds the school's career punting record (43.97 ypp) and he was named to PSU's prestigious 100th Anniversary Football Team in 2003.
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Bruce DeHaven
Bruce DeHaven is an American football coach who is currently the special teams coach of the Buffalo Bills of the NFL. DeHaven is most known for being the special teams coach of the Bills from 1986 to 1999. He was their special teams coach when, most notably, Scott Norwood missed a 47 yard field goal in Super Bowl XXV, dubbed Wide Right. The Bills lost to the Tennessee Titans in a game called the Music City Miracle, which eventually led to DeHaven's firing. In an interview published on January 30, 2011 in The Buffalo News, DeHaven stated that not seeing the referees' arms go up after Norwood missed the kick was like being shot in the gut. After coaching the Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks special teams units, DeHaven came back to Buffalo to take over a job that he was fired from years earlier. Chan Gailey announced DeHaven's hiring on February 1, 2010. DeHaven was perhaps better known for coaching two special teams stars in Mark Pike and Steve Tasker.
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Bryan Scott
Bryan Anderson Scott (born April 13, 1981 in Warrington Township, Pennsylvania) is an American football safety for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Penn State University. Scott has also been a member of the New Orleans Saints and Tennessee Titans in his career.
Scott was a three-sport standout at Central Bucks East High School in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was a consensus first-team All-American and was named the Associated Press Pennsylvania Big School Player of the Year and the USA Today Pennsylvania Player of the Year his senior year, rushing for more than 3,000 career yards and 53 tackles with three interceptions as a senior defensive back.
He averaged nearly 20 points per game in basketball as a senior and was a Pennsylvania state prep medalist in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
Three-year starter at Penn State, playing in all 48 career games, and finished career with 202 tackles, five interceptions, a fumble recovery and a forced fumble. He played in the 2003 Senior Bowl.
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Bryce Fisher
Bryce Alexander Fisher (born May 12, 1977) is a former American football defensive lineman. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 7th round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Air Force.
Fisher attended an elite college-prep school, Seattle Preparatory School and was a three-year letterman in football. At Prep he played for head coach Rollie Robbins and defensive coordinator Mitch Robbins. As a senior he was an All-League selection and was named the League's Lineman of the Year.
He played college football at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs where he was a two-year starter on defensive line at the Air Force Academy. Selected as WAC Defensive Player of the Year in Mountain Division as senior. Started 12 games and recorded career-high 70 tackles, six sacks, and one fumble recovery. Started 12 games as junior he totaled 63 tackles, 1.5 sacks, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery. He played in seven games as backup defensive lineman in sophomore season.
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Buddy Nix
Charles "Buddy" Nix (born December 6, 1939) is currently the General Manager for the Buffalo Bills. He previously was employed by the Buffalo Bills from 1993 to 2000. He joined John Butler and A. J. Smith with the San Diego Chargers from 2001 to 2008, and returned to the Bills in 2009.
Nix was born in Carbon Hill, Alabama where he later attended Talladega High School and played linebacker. Nix attended Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama) in Livingston, Alabama, playing fullback on their football team.
Nix was head coach at Eufaula High School in Eufaula, Alabama, leading the Tigers to their first Border Conference championship in 1966.
Nix had a successful college football coaching career with the Chattanooga Mocs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Nix was responsible for recruiting star wide receiver Terrell Owens.
Nix was a regional scout under John Butler from 1993-2000 for the Buffalo Bills, specializing in the Southeastern United States.
Nix left Buffalo with John Butler and A. J. Smith after the 2000 season. He was initially the Director of Pro Player Personnel (2000–2001), but after Butler died, Smith was promoted to General Manager, and Nix to Assistant General Manager.
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Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), in Le Claire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US Army as a scout. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill became famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes, which he toured in Great Britain and Europe as well as the United States.
William Frederick Cody ("Buffalo Bill") got his nickname after the American Civil War when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody earned the nickname by killing 4,280 American bison (commonly known as buffalo) in eighteen months, (1867–1868).Bill Comstock also had the nickname. Cody and Comstock competed in a buffalo-shooting match over the exclusive right to use the name, which Cody won by killing 69 bison to Comstock's 48.
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Buster Ramsey
Garrard Sliger "Buster" Ramsey (March 16, 1920 – September 16, 2007) was an American football player who starred at William and Mary and was the first head coach of the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1960. Prior to coaching the Bills, and after a stint in the United States Navy during World War II, Ramsey played for the Chicago Cardinals from 1946–1951, a member of the 1947 World Champions. In 1951, Ramsey became a player-coach for the Cardinals before becoming the Defensive Coach for the Detroit Lions in 1952. During his tenure with the Lions, Ramsey is credited with devising the 4-3 defense, a staple of modern football, and being the first coach to blitz linebackers, a package he called Red Dog. The Lions won three World Championships in the 1950s with Ramsey running the defense. He developed Lions greats such as Yale Lary, Jack Christiansen, Jim David, and many others. In 1960, he was lured to the new AFL as coach of the Buffalo Bills. Though fired by Bills' owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr. after the 1961 AFL season, Ramsey is credited for laying the foundation of one of the best defensive teams in the history of the AFL. He also had a brother, Knox Ramsey, who also starred for the College of William and Mary, the Chicago Cardinals, and the Washington Redskins. Ramsey was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978.
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Butch Byrd
George Edward "Butch" Byrd (born September 20, 1941 in Watervliet, New York) was a professional American football defensive back. He started his career playing college football at Boston University. He joined the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and immediately made an impact in the defensive backfield, with seven interceptions. Byrd was also a solid punt returner for his entire career. He is most remembered for a punt return in the 1965 American Football League Championship game against the San Diego Chargers.
Byrd holds the Bills' career records for interceptions (40), interception return yards (666) and interceptions returned for touchdowns (5). He was a five-time American Football League All-Star, and was selected for the second team, All-Time All-AFL. Byrd is a 1980 inductee of the Boston University Hall of Fame, and in 2008 was selected to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.
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Chad Rinehart
Chad Rinehart (born May 4, 1985 in Boone, Iowa) is an American football guard for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Northern Iowa. Rinehart has also been a member of the New York Jets.
Rinehart played high school football at Boone High School in Boone, Iowa, where he also played the cello in the school orchestra.
Rinehart played college football at Northern Iowa.
The Washington Redskins drafted Rinehart in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft. Rinehart signed a four-year contract with the team on July 10, 2008.
He suffered a broken fibula after being rolled up on by Anthony Spencer against the Dallas Cowboys on November 22, 2009. Rinehart returned from the injury and began to improve however the Redskins decided to part ways with the veteran on September 4, 2010 during the final round of roster cuts prior to the start of the season.
On September 29, 2010, the Jets signed Rinehart to the practice squad following the promotion of wide receiver Patrick Turner. Rinehart was released from New York's practice squad on October 13.
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Chan Gailey
Thomas Chandler Gailey, Jr. (born January 5, 1952) is an American professional and college football coach. Gailey is the current head coach of the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL); he was formerly the head coach of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets college football team.
Gailey previously served as offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins in 2000–01 when the Dolphins posted consecutive 11–5 records. He was on the Pittsburgh Steelers staff from 1994-97 when the Steelers won four straight AFC Central titles and coached in one Super Bowl (XXX). He was offensive coordinator in 1997 when Pittsburgh ranked sixth in the NFL in total offense and seventh in scoring. Gailey served as the offensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2008 and three games of the 2009 pre-season before he was relieved of duties by Chiefs head coach Todd Haley.
Gailey was born in Gainesville, Georgia in 1952. He attended Americus High School in Americus, Georgia, where he was an Eagle Scout, and a letterman in high school football, basketball, baseball and golf. In football, he was an all-state selection as quarterback. Gailey graduated from Americus High School in 1970.
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Charley Ferguson
Charles Edward Ferguson (born November 13, 1939 in Dallas, Texas) is a former American college and Professional Football player. He was a tight end with the American Football League's Buffalo Bills. He was in playoff games with the Bills four straight years, 1963 through 1966, and won AFL Championships with them in 1964 and 1965. He was an American Football League All-Star in 1965.
Ferguson also played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns and Minnesota Vikings.
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Chris Berman
Christopher James "Chris" Berman (born May 10, 1955), also known by the nickname Boomer, is an American sportscaster. He anchors SportsCenter, Monday Night Countdown, Sunday NFL Countdown, U.S. Open golf, the Stanley Cup Finals, and other programming on ESPN and ABC Sports.
Berman was born in Greenwich, Connecticut and raised in Irvington, New York. He is Jewish on his father's side. During his childhood he went to Camp Winnebago in Fayette, Maine. In 1970, he attended the Hackley School and Brown University from which he graduated in 1977 with a degree in history.
Berman moved to WNVR in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was eventually hired at Hartford's WVIT-TV to do weekend sports at $23 per shift. He joined ESPN in 1979 a month after its founding and has been with the network since. Along with Bob Ley, he is one of ESPN's longest-tenured employees. Berman, who is generally known to be heavy-set, often jokes that he now uses his original ESPN jacket from 1979 when he was much skinnier. He is the host of Monday Night Countdown, replacing previous host Stuart Scott. In 1988 and 1989, he hosted ESPN's first game show, Boardwalk and Baseball's Super Bowl of Sports Trivia which was taped at the now-defunct Boardwalk and Baseball amusement park in Orlando, Florida.
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Chris Hairston
Chris Hairston (born April 26, 1989) is an American football offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills. He was drafted by the Bills in the fourth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football for the Clemson University Tigers.
Hairston attended Carver High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was named First-team all-state by Associated Press while at Carver High School. He was named an all-region and all-conference as a junior and senior. He played his entire senior year as a 16-year-old facing much older opponents.
Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, he was ranked the No.53 offensive tackle in the nation. He chose an offer from Clemson over Hampton and South Carolina State.
During his career, he played in 47 games, including 36 starts. He was named to the First Team All-ACC in 2011 as a senior.
Hairston was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the fourth round, 122nd overall of the 2011 NFL Draft.
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Chris Kelsay
Christopher Kelsay (born October 31, 1979 in Auburn, Nebraska) is an American football defensive end who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Bills in the second round (48th overall) of the 2003 NFL Draft and was the 6th defensive end selected in the draft. He played collegiately at Nebraska. Kelsay was married on March 13, 2004; his wife’s name is Natalie and they had a daughter, Harper, on February 9, 2006.
He attended Auburn High School, in Auburn, Nebraska. He was an all-state defensive lineman as a senior after recording 142 tackles (69 solos), 14 sacks, 3 fumbles forced, and two fumble recoveries. In 1996 he was an all-state linebacker, leading Auburn to the state semifinals. He also played tight end on offense. In basketball he was a two-time All-Class C-1 basketball selection, averaging 16 points and 8.4 rebounds a game, in helping Auburn to a 17-3 record in 1997-98. In track, he finished fifth in the Class B shot put and had a personal-best throw of 56-11½.
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Chuck Knox
Charles Robert "Chuck" Knox (born April 27, 1932) is a former American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He is best remembered as head coach of three National Football League (NFL) teams, the Seattle Seahawks, the Buffalo Bills, and the Los Angeles Rams, serving two separate stints with the latter team over more than two decades.
Knox was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Whenever Knox felt something was common sense, he would say it was "eighth-grade Sewickley."
The son of a steel worker who had emigrated from Ireland and a Scottish-born mother, Knox developed into a 190-pound tackle at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, playing on both sides of the ball and serving as co-captain of the 1953 unit, the first undefeated team in school history. Also competing in track, Knox graduated in 1954.
Knox then served as an assistant at Juniata that fall. He stayed in the Keystone State the following year as an assistant coach at Tyrone High School, then began the first of three years as head coach at Ellwood City High School in 1956. During his first year at Ellwood, Knox had just 18 players, but by his final year, 85 players were on the squad.
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Color commentator
A color commentator (color analyst, analyst) is a sports commentator who assists the play-by-play announcer, often by filling in any time when play is not in progress. The color analyst and main commentator will often exchange comments freely throughout the broadcast, when the play-by-play announcer is not describing the action. The color commentator provides expert analysis and background information, such as statistics, strategy and injury reports on the teams and athletes, and occasionally anecdotes or light humor. Color commentators are often former athletes or coaches of the sport being broadcast.
The term color refers to levity and insight provided by a secondary announcer. A sports color commentator customarily works alongside the play-by-play broadcaster.
In the United Kingdom, the term 'color commentator' is unknown; rather the role is called 'summariser', 'analyst', 'pundit' or 'co-commentator'. Cricket coverage on Cricinfo.com uses similar terminology.
Commentary teams typically feature one professional commentator describing the passage of play, and another, usually an ex-player or manager, providing supplementary input as the game progresses. The color commentator will usually restrict his input to periods when the ball or puck is out of play or there is no significant action on the field and will defer to the main commentator whenever there is a shot on goal or other significant event, sometimes resulting in their being talked-over or cut short by the primary commentator. Additionally, former players and managers appear as pundits, carrying out a similar role to the co-commentator during the build-up to the match, at half-time and post-game. In American motorsports coverage, there may be as many as two color commentators in the booth for a given broadcast. In addition to the broadcast of the game or event itself, pregame and postgame programs typically feature commentary from one or more analysts.
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Cookie Gilchrist
Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist (May 25, 1935 – January 10, 2011) was a gridiron football player in the American Football League and Canadian Football League.
A star player at Har-Brack High School (Natrona Heights, Pa), in 1953 he led the team to the W.P.I.A.L. co-championship with Donora. As a junior, he was talked into signing a professional football contract with the NFL's Cleveland Browns by Paul Brown. The signing was against NFL rules and likely illegal, and when Brown reneged on his promise that Gilchrist would make the team, Gilchrist left training camp at Hiram College, in Hiram, Ohio, and went to Canada to play. There, in the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU), he received the Jim Shanks (Team MVP) Trophy for the Sarnia Imperials in 1954, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen's Team MVP Award in 1955.
In 1956, he joined the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, helping lead them to a 1957 Grey Cup victory. He spent one season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, rushing for 1,254 yards. He then was traded to the Toronto Argonauts for Tex Schwierer, and played three years in Toronto. In his six years in the CFL, Gilchrist was a divisional All-Star at running back five consecutive years from 1956 to 1960 (there were no All-Canadians selected in those years) and was also an Eastern All-Star at linebacker in 1960. Additionally, in 1960 he was runner up for the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award. In his CFL career, Gilchrist recorded 4,911 rushing yards, 1,068 receiving yards and 12 interceptions.
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Cordy Glenn
Cordy Glenn (born September 18, 1989) is an American football offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He attended the University of Georgia. Glenn earned a 2010 All-American selection and is considered one of the best offensive guards of his class.
Glenn attended Riverdale High School, where he was a two-way lineman and a teammate of Will Rackley. Regarded as a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Glenn was listed as the No. 16 offensive guard prospect in the class of 2008. Glenn was drafted by the Buffalo Bills as the 41st pick in the 2nd round of the 2012 NFL Draft.
As a true freshman, Glenn appeared in 13 games making 10 starts, and was named to College Football News′s All-Freshman First Team.
Glenn ranks tied first all-time at UGA in career starts by an offensive lineman with 50 (tied with Clint Boling), of which 28 were at left guard, 18 at left tackle and four at right guard.
Glenn is regarded as the No. 2 guard available in the 2012 NFL Draft, behind David DeCastro. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the second round (41st pick overall).
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Corey McIntyre
Corey McIntyre (born January 25, 1979 in Stuart, Florida) is an American football fullback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at West Virginia. McIntyre has also played for the Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons.
McIntyre attended Indiantown Middle School and South Fork High School.
McIntyre played in 44 games at West Virginia, primarily as a defensive end and linebacker. He rushed three times for four yards as a fullback, and returned five kickoffs for 36 yards.
McIntyre was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent on April 26, 2002. He was waived by the Eagles on August 24, 2002. McIntyre was re-signed to the Eagles' practice squad on December 10, 2002, and allocated to the Frankfurt Galaxy to participate in the 2003 NFL Europa season on January 30, 2003. In Europe, he helped his team make it to the World Bowl and, in that game, had 12 carries for 76 yards. He was waived by the Eagles on September 1, 2003.
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Cornelius Bennett
Cornelius O'Landa Bennett (born August 25, 1965) is a former American football linebacker who played for the Buffalo Bills from 1987 to 1995, Atlanta Falcons from 1996 to 1998, and the Indianapolis Colts from 1999 to 2000. Bennett was a five time Pro Bowler, being elected in 1988, and 1990–1993, and won the AFC Defensive Player of the Year award twice (1988 and 1991).
Bennett was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He played halfback and several other positions while attending Ensley High School in Birmingham, Alabama. Bennett was an excellent basketball and baseball player during his high school career. Bennett was an all-state performer his senior year, amassing over 1000 yards while carrying the ball 101 times. Bennett was nicknamed "Biscuit" due to his tan complexion. Although originally intended to be racial slur, Bennett decided to embrace the term and thus became a role model and activist for African Americans everywhere.
Bennett played for the University of Alabama from 1983-1986. Bennett was a first selection on the College Football All-America Team 3 times (1984–1986). He is one of only two Alabama players to be named to three All-America teams, the other being fellow linebacker Woodrow Lowe. As a senior, he won the Lombardi Award, SEC Player of the Year honors, and finished 7th in balloting for the Heisman Trophy. In his 4 seasons there, Bennett recorded 287 tackles, 21½ sacks, and 3 fumble recoveries. His most famous play was in 1986 when he leveled Notre Dame quarterback Steve Beuerlein, immortalized in a painting by artist Daniel Moore titled simply, The Sack.' In 2005, Bennett was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. After his college career, he was selected by the Colts with the second pick of the 1987 NFL Draft.
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Curtis Modkins
Curtis Modkins (born November 15, 1970) is an American football coach, currently serving as the offensive coordinator and running backs coach for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.
Modkins was a three-year starting running back at Texas Christian University, where he rushed for 2,763 yards and caught 54 passes during his career. He was a second team all-Southwest Conference selection in 1992.
Modkins began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater TCU in 1995. He was promoted to the position of secondary coach in 1996 and then coached the Horned Frogs' tight ends in 1997.
Modkins spent time learning under head coach Chan Gailey (while they were at Dallas). After Gailey went to Georgia Tech to become its next head coach Modkins followed, becoming the coach of both running backs and defensive backs. When Gailey was fired from Georgia Tech, Modkins went with him to the Kansas City Chiefs, to coach running backs. Gailey was the offensive coordinator. Modkins left his spot with the Chiefs to coach the same position for the Arizona Cardinals. On January 23, 2010 Gailey named Modkins his offensive coordinator, but when Gailey was hired he said he was going to be running the offensive plays, so Modkins will be mainly teaching the running backs.
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Darryl Talley
Darryl Victor Talley (born July 10, 1960) is a former American college and professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. He played college football for West Virginia University, and was recognized as an All-American. Talley played professionally for the Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings of the NFL, and played in four Super Bowls with the Bills.
Talley played college football at West Virginia University. Many scouts were pushed away from him, because he played fullback and linebacker in high school, never settling on either position. He also missed his last seven high school games with a broken ankle.
He was a starter from 1979 to 1982 and led the Mountaineers to the 1981 Peach Bowl and the 1982 Gator Bowl. Against Pitt, he intercepted Dan Marino to set up a Mountaineer field goal and blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown. As a senior in 1982, he was selected as West Virginia's third-ever consensus All-American. He started the season off with a win over Oklahoma and was named WVU's season MVP and was named All-American. He also played in the 1983 Hula Bowl.
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Daryle Lamonica
Daryle Pat Lamonica (born July 17, 1941 in Fresno, California) is a former American collegiate and professional football quarterback who played in the American Football League, and later in the NFL.
Lamonica lettered in four sports and was an All-State Quarterback at Clovis High School in Clovis, California. Clovis High School renamed its football stadium Lamonica Stadium in 1970. After high school, he turned down a professional baseball contract with the Chicago Cubs. Lamonica spent his collegiate career at the University of Notre Dame, and was the team's starting quarterback for three seasons.
After a 20-for-28, 349-yard performance in the 1962 East-West Shrine Game at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, Lamonica was named the game's Most Valuable Player. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 24th round of the 1963 AFL draft. He was also drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 12th round of the 1963 NFL draft. Lamonica played with Buffalo for four seasons, backing up Jack Kemp on a team that won back-to-back AFL championships in 1964 and 1965. He was known as "the Fireman", coming into games if Kemp was hurt or ineffective, and pulling out victories.
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Dave Behrman
David Wesley Behrman (born November 9, 1941 in Dowagiac, Michigan) is a former American football offensive lineman in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills and the Denver Broncos.
Behrman played college football at Michigan State University.
Behrman was the Bills' first-round draft pick in 1963 and played for them that year, but not in 1964. During the 1965 AFL season, Behrman became the Bills' starting center, replacing veteran Walt Cudzik, playing between left offensive guard Billy Shaw and right guard Al Bemiller. However, due to a back injury, Behrman did not play when the Bills won their second AFL Championship game over the San Diego Chargers by a score of 23-0 under head coach Lou Saban. That season, Behrman was an AFL All-Star center. However, he did not play in 1966, replaced by Bemiller.
Behrman ended his career with the AFL's Denver Broncos during the 1967 AFL season when he played in 11 games.
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Dave Wannstedt
Dave Wannstedt (born May 21, 1952) is the defensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League (NFL). He was the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh football team, a position he held for six seasons from 2005–2010. Wannstedt is also the former head coach of the Miami Dolphins and Chicago Bears of the NFL. He also was a long-time assistant to Jimmy Johnson with the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Hurricanes, and Oklahoma State Cowboys as well as an associate of Johnson when both were assistants at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s.
Wannstedt was born in Baldwin, Pennsylvania and attended Baldwin High School. He earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh playing offensive tackle and blocking for future Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett. After a successful career with the Panthers, he was chosen in the fifteenth round of the 1974 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers, but spent his only NFL season on the injured reserve list with a neck injury.
In 1975, Pitt coach Johnny Majors hired him as a graduate assistant coach. He was on the staff when the Panthers won the 1976 NCAA Division I-A national football championship with a victory over the Georgia Bulldogs in the 1977 Sugar Bowl. In 1977, Jimmy Johnson joined the staff of the Pitt Panthers and the two would forge a long lasting personal and professional bond. When Johnson left to become the head coach of the Oklahoma State Cowboys in 1979, he invited Wannstedt to join his staff.
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David Clowney
David Cortez Clowney IV (born July 8, 1985) is an American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia Tech.
Clowney has also played for the New York Jets.
Clowney attended Atlantic Community High School in Delray Beach, Florida. While there he was an honorable mention Class 5A All-State selection as a senior. He lettered four seasons as a receiver and safety for. Clowney was named to the All-Palm Beach County team as published by the Palm Beach Post. He made one of the season's biggest plays, a 99-yard touchdown catch against Blanche Ely High School in the regional finals. Clowney totaled 25 catches for 576 yards and a county-best ten touchdowns. He returned three kicks for 245 yards and two touchdowns. Clowney caught three passes for 120 yards and two touchdowns in a game against Wellington High School. He caught 39 passes his junior season.
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Dean Cain
Dean Cain (born Dean George Tanaka; July 31, 1966) is an American actor. He is most widely known for his role as Clark Kent/Superman in the popular American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
Cain was born as Dean George Tanaka in Mount Clemens, Michigan, the son of actress Sharon Thomas and U.S. Army serviceman Roger Tanaka, who left the family before he was born. Cain is of French Canadian, Irish, Welsh, and Japanese (from his paternal grandfather) descent. In 1969, Cain's mother married film director Christopher Cain, who adopted Dean and his brother (musician Roger Cain), and the family moved to Malibu, California. The couple later had a daughter, Dean's half-sister, actress Krisinda Cain. Both attended Santa Monica High School, where he excelled in sports.
He played on the baseball team, and Chad and Rob Lowe and Charlie Sheen—who played on the baseball team—were among his schoolmates. Cain graduated from high school in 1984 and was offered athletic scholarships to 17 universities, but decided to attend Princeton University.[citation needed] At Princeton, he was captain of the volleyball team and played free safety on the football team, where he had record-setting 12 interceptions in a single season. He was also a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and the Cap & Gown eating club.[citation needed] He dated actress Brooke Shields while at Princeton. Cain graduated from Princeton in 1988 with a BA degree in History; his senior thesis was titled "The History and Development of the Functions of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."
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Delano Howell
Delano Howell (born November 17, 1989) is a rookie strong safety for the Buffalo Bills football team. He wears number 36. He was originally signed as an undrafted free agent on April 30, 2012. Howell played his four years of college football at Stanford University in the same position he has now. He is the younger brother of Dan Howell, who played football for the University of Washington.
Howell attended William S. Hart High School in Newhall, California where he played football for the Indians as a running back and ran track as a sprinter and long jumper and triple jumper. Rivals.com selected him as the number 16 all-purpose back in the country and was chosen by PrepStar to be part of the All-West Region for the class of 2008 as well as a first-team all-state selection. Howell set multiple school records in his time at Hart, including rushing yards (4,502), total touchdowns (82), points scored (494), and yards from scrimmage (5,930). He was named the 2007 CIF-Southern Section Northern Division Offensive Player of the Year.
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Derek Hagan
Derek Steven Hagan, Jr. (born September 21, 1984) is an American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the third round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arizona State. Hagan has also played for the New York Giants and Oakland Raiders.
Hagan attended Palmdale High School in Palmdale, California, where he earned all-conference honors his junior and senior seasons. He caught 65 passes for 843 yards on offense and had 23 tackles and four interceptions on defense as a junior. He caught 78 passes for a school record 1020 yards and five touchdowns as a senior, while adding nine interceptions on defense. He was the team MVP as both a junior and a senior. Hagan also triple jumped 46 feet and averaged 12 points and five rebounds in basketball. He was a team captain in two sports his senior year: football and track.
Hagan was recruited to Arizona State by head coach Dirk Koetter whom he played under for four years. He is second in Pac-10 history for career receptions with 258, and in career receiving yards with 3,939. He concluded his career as Arizona State's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns, 100-yard games (18) and career receiving yards per game (78.8). Hagan also caught a pass in 41 consecutive games to end his career, and had at least one reception in 48 of 50 career games.
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Dick Hudson
Richard "Bill" Hudson (born July 30, 1940 in Memphis, TN) was a four year starting offensive lineman at Memphis State University. In 1961 he was a second-round draft pick by the American Football League's San Diego Chargers.
Traded to the AFL's Buffalo Bills in 1963, he was a part of the 1964 and 1965 AFL Championship teams. Hudson was an AFL Eastern Division All-Star in 1965 and in 1970 was named to the Buffalo Bills Team of the 1960s Decade.
Retiring from pro football, he returned to Paris, Tennessee and served as assistant and head coach of the Henry County High School Patriots football team and vice principal of the high school. He is now retired.
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Dick Jauron
Richard Manuel Jauron (born October 7, 1950) is the defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was the head coach for the Buffalo Bills from 2006 until November 2009. Jauron has previously held head coaching positions with the Chicago Bears and, on an interim basis, with the Detroit Lions. Jauron was named the AP Coach of the Year in 2001 after leading the Bears to a 13-3 record, but this was his only winning season as a head coach in the NFL.
Jauron was born in Peoria, Illinois. He attended Swampscott High School in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was a Parade All-American selection as a senior, and was featured in the November 1968 issue of Sport magazine as Teenage Athlete Of The Month. He has been honored as one of the top ten all-time Massachusetts high school football players by the Boston Globe.
Jauron rushed for 2,947 yards in three seasons, freshmen weren't eligible for the varsity in the 1970s, at Yale, a record that stood until 2000, and was three times named to the All-Ivy League First Team, the first Yale football athlete to be so honored. His school-record streak of 16 consecutive 100-yard rushing games was not broken until 2006. Jauron was awarded the Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Award for sportsmanship following his junior season and the Bulger Lowe Award, given to the best Division I-A/I-AA player in New England, after his senior season.
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Dim Batterson
George Wilder Batterson was a professional football coach with the Buffalo Bisons and Rangers of the early National Football League. He served as an assistant coach in 1925 and 1926, before becoming the team's head coach in 1927. During his NFL coaching career, Batterson posted an 0-5 record.
Batterson was a high school football coach prior to coaching professionally. He would go on to win three consecutive Buffalo City High School Championships (called Harvard Cups) while coaching at Masten Park High School in 1918, 1919 and 1920. He was later elected to Harvard Cup Hall of Fame in 2002. After Batterson left Masten, he became the football coach at the University at Buffalo.
Around 1905, Batterson played for the Buffalo All-Stars, an early semi-pro football team, who would later evolve into the Buffalo All-Americans-Rangers-Bisons franchise.
Dim's father, Thomas J. Batterson, was a traveling merchant. Thomas and his wife, Martha, had ten children. One of Dim's brothers, John P., became an optician.
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Don Beebe
Don Lee Beebe (born December 18, 1964) is a former American football wide receiver who played for the Buffalo Bills (1989–1994), Carolina Panthers (1995) and the Green Bay Packers (1996–1997) of the NFL, and is considered one of the fastest players in NFL history.
Beebe attended Kaneland High School in Maple Park, IL where he lettered in basketball, track and football. He was drafted by the Bills out of unheralded Chadron State College (after transferring from Western Illinois University) in the third round (82nd pick overall) of the 1989 NFL Draft. He created a sensation at the 1989 pre-draft combine, posting times in speed and agility drills that were the marvel of the camp. Most of the coaches and staff were dumb-founded as to where he came from and how he got invited.
In his 9 NFL seasons, Don Beebe caught 219 passes for 3,416 yards, rushed for 28 yards, returned 81 kickoffs for 1,735 yards, and scored 25 touchdowns (23 receiving, 1 kickoff return, 1 fumble recovery). He shares the NFL record for most appearances as a player in Super Bowls. Beebe appeared in six Super Bowls (XXV, XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII with the Buffalo Bills; XXXI and XXXII with the Green Bay Packers), and won the NFL Championship with the Packers in Super Bowl XXXI. Beebe has always been highly respected by players and coaches because of his strong work ethic and character. He was honored as an "Unsung Hero" in 1996 at the NFL Players Association Awards Banquet.
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Donnie Stone
Edward Donald Stone (born January 5, 1937 in Sioux City, Iowa) was an American college and professional football player.
A halfback, Stone played college football at the University of Arkansas, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Denver Broncos from 1961 through 1964, and then for the AFL's Buffalo Bills and Houston Oilers. He was an American Football League All-Star in 1961.
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Dorin Dickerson
Dorin R. Dickerson (born March 31, 1988) is an American football tight end who is currently with the Buffalo Bills. He played collegiate football at the University of Pittsburgh. Dickerson was regarded as one of the best tight end prospects for the 2010 NFL Draft. He was drafted by the Texans in the seventh round.
Dickerson attended West Allegheny High School in Imperial, Pennsylvania, where he played a variety of positions, including wide receiver, running back, quarterback, defensive back and kick returner. As a senior, he rushed for 1,429 yards on 182 carries (7.9 avg.) and scored 30 touchdowns, while also having 22 receptions for 423 yards (19.2 avg.) with six touchdowns. On defense, he intercepted four passes. Dickerson was named AP Pennsylvania Class AAA Player of the Year following his senior season.
Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Dickerson was listed as the No. 5 prospect from Pennsylvania in the class of 2006. He chose Pittsburgh over Iowa, Michigan, and Penn State.
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Doug Whaley
Doug Whaley is the Assistant General Manager and the Director of Player Personnel for the Buffalo Bills.
Whaley worked for the Steelers as a Pro Personnel Coordinator. He worked there for 10 years before accepting the Buffalo Bills job. Whaley worked directly under Kevin Colbert the Director of Football Operations. He is most known for his great scouting ability of Defensive players. In his time with the Steelers Whaley and the Steelers drafted Lamarr Woodley, Troy Polamalu, and Lawrence Timmons.
Whaley played college football at Pittsburgh as a Safety and Linebacker.
Whaley gained unwanted notoriety in 2007 when an inappropriate e-mail that he had sent to Steelers assistant coach Larry Zierlein was inadvertently forwarded by Zierlein to a large number of high-level NFL employees, including commissioner Roger Goodell. The e-mail reportedly contained a pornographic video. Zierlein apologized for the gaffe, and it is believed that neither he nor Whaley were disciplined by the team or the league.
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Dudley Meredith
Cecil Dudley Meredith (January 16, 1935 – December 22, 1987) was a professional American football defensive end in the American Football League. He played six seasons for the Houston Oilers and the Buffalo Bills.
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Dwan Edwards
Dwan Edwards (born May 16, 1981 in Billings, Montana) is an American football defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon State.
Edwards attended Columbus High School in Columbus, Montana. He lettered in football, basketball, and track and field, and also served as the senior class president. In football, he was a three-year starter, was a three time All-Conference honoree on both, offense and defense. In track and field, he placed third in the shot put and fourth in the discus at the District Finals.
Edwards attended Oregon State University. He was a two-time All-Pacific 10 Conference selection, and finished his career with 12.5 sacks, 159 tackles (30 for a loss), three fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles, and three pass deflections. He graduated in 2003 with a degree in business administration.
Edwards was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the second round (51st overall) in the 2004 NFL Draft. In his rookie season, he played in four games at defensive tackle and finished the season with four tackles. He made his NFL debut in the opening game of the season on September 12 at the Cleveland Browns. The following season saw Edwards get more playing time with 12 games. This was reflected in his tackle count for the season which was a career-high 38. In 2006, he saw action in eight games and finished the campaign with 12 tackles. He was hurt in the Preseason of 2008, and was forced to undergo season ending surgery. Dwan underwent a spinal fusion of the C3 and C4 vertabrae. The surgeon replaced one of his discs with a cadaver's. His contract was up in 2008 and he had to consider whether to stay or go. With little leverage after surgery, he signed a one-year deal. He became a starter in week 6 of 2009.
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Ed Rutkowski
Edward John Anthony Rutkowski (born March 21, 1941 in Kingston, Pennsylvania) is a former American football player, and a former politician in Buffalo, New York. Rutkowksi was a noted college and professional American football player. A wide receiver, he was an American Football League All-Star in 1965, playing for the AFL's Buffalo Bills as a receiver, defensive back, punt and kickoff return man and backup quarterback from 1963 to 1968. In a famous Topps football card mixup, Rutkowski was shown on two Buffalo Bills' football cards, his own, and mistakenly on the card for Ray Abruzzese.
From 1972-78 and again in 1990, Rutkowski served as a color commentator on the Bills' radio broadcasts. In 1979, he became the County Executive of Erie County, New York, succeeeding Edward Regan, who stepped down to become New York State Comptroller. Rutkowski was elected to full terms in 1979 and 1983, following his one year unexpired term, for a total of nine years in office. In 1987, Rutkowski was defeated for reelection by Assemblyman Dennis Gorski, who, in his election campaign, claimed that Rutkowski had mismanaged county finances and spent the county into a deficit.
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Edward Abramoski
Edward "Abe" Abramoski (born Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1933) served as Head Athletic Trainer for the Buffalo Bills in the American Football League and the NFL for a total of 37 years. Prior to his stint in Buffalo, he was an athletic trainer at the University of Detroit, the Detroit Lions, and the United States Military Academy, and has long been recognized as a pioneer athletic trainer in American Professional Football. His service to the Bills and the City of Buffalo was formally recognized in 1999 with the inclusion of his name on the Wall of Fame at Ralph Wilson Stadium, home of the Bills. He is a member of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame (1996), a recipient of the Buffalo Bills Alumni Association Appreciation Award (1990,1994), and a member of the Niagara Frontier for Distinguished Achievements in Sports. Abe was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1986. A frequent volunteer for the New York State Special Olympics, Abe was instrumental in establishing a means for all athletes in Western New York High Schools receiving services from athletic trainers.
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Elbert Dubenion
Elbert Dubenion (nicknamed "Duby" or "Golden Wheels") (born February 16, 1933 in Griffin, Georgia) was an American football wide receiver. He played college football for Bluffton College in northwest Ohio.
As a rookie for the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1960, DuBenion had seven touchdowns and 752 receiving yards on 42 catches, a 17.9 yd/catch average. He ran 16 times for 94 yards and a touchdown, a 5.6 yd/carry average. In 1961, facing tighter and deeper coverages, he upped his production as a runner, rushing for 173 yards and a touchdown on just 17 carries, a 10.3 yd/carry average. He had 31 catches for 461 yards and six touchdowns.
In 1964, Duby had one of the most sensational seasons of any receiver in pro football history, scoring 10 touchdowns among his 42 receptions for 1,139 yards, while collecting 27.1 yards per catch. In nine seasons, he totalled 296 receptions for 5,424 yards and 36 TDs for a career average of 18.3 yd/catch, and rushed for 360 yards and three touchdowns on 48 carries, a career average of seven yds/carry. When Wray Carlton was released by the Bills on September 2, 1968, it made Dubenion the last player from the Bills original roster in 1960 to still be with the club.
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Eric Moulds
Eric Shannon Moulds (born July 17, 1973 in Lucedale, Mississippi) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills 24th overall in the 1996 NFL Draft. He played college football at Mississippi State.
In 2009, Moulds was one of three receivers named to the Buffalo Bills 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
At Mississippi State University, Moulds caught 117 passes for 2,022 yards (averaging 17.1 per catch). Moulds was the 1994 NCAA Division I-A kickoff return champion with a 32.8 yrds/return average.
Moulds was the Bills' first round draft pick (24th overall) in 1996. For his first two seasons, Moulds was stuck on the depth chart behind receivers Andre Reed and Quinn Early.
Moulds finally had his breakout season in 1998, where set a single-season team record with 1,368 receiving yards, a total that led the AFC and was second in the league. (Moulds also has the Bills' second-highest single-season total, with 1,326 in 2002.) Moulds's 20.4 yards per catch was second in the NFL in 1998.
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Eric Wood
For the founder of the American Legion, see Eric Fisher Wood.
Not to be confused with the similarly-named Australian rules football player, Eric Woods.
Eric Wood (born March 18, 1986 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American football center for the Buffalo Bills. He was the team's second pick in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft (28th overall). After starting his team's first 10 games of the 2009 NFL season, he suffered a season-ending injury on November 22, 2009. Wood played his collegiate football at the University of Louisville.
Wood attended Elder High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where played both the tackle and guard positions. His team went 28-2 over the last two seasons, including two consecutive state titles. After playing tight end as a junior, Wood started all 15 games at offensive tackle in his senior year and earned first team All-League honors.
Considered a two-star recruit by both Rivals.com and Scout.com, Wood was not ranked among the nation's top offensive line prospects. He chose Louisville over Bowling Green, Ohio, Cincinnati, Indiana and Columbia.
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Erik Pears
Erik Anders Pears (born June 25, 1982 in Price, Utah) is an American football offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was signed by the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Colorado State.
Pears attended John Fitzgerald Kennedy High School in Denver, Colorado and was a letterman in football, wrestling, and track&field. In football, he was a two-time All-State selection. In wrestling, he was a three time League titlist. He is married and has two kids.
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Ernie Warlick
Ernest "Ernie" "Big Hoss" Warlick (born July 21, 1932 in Washington, D.C.) is a former tight end from North Carolina Central University who played American collegiate and Professional Football as well as Canadian Professional Football. After starring at North Carolina Central, where he also lettered in basketball, he played 4 seasons with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He then joined the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1962. He had an average of 17.2 yd/catch with the Bills, while the team earned three straight Eastern Division titles and two American Football League championships, and a 20.8 yd/catch average in 1964. In 1964, he helped the Bills win their first AFL championship game against the San Diego Chargers, 20-7, when he caught two passes for 41 yards. In the 1965 AFL championship game, when offensive linemen Billy Shaw and Dave Behrman were injured, Warlick helped bolster the Bills' offensive blocking in a double tight end offense. In that game, he also scored the first touchdown in the Bills' 23-0 victory over the Chargers, on an eighteen yard pass from Hall of Fame quarterback Jack Kemp.
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Fendi Onobun
Fendi Onobun is an American football tight end for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Houston. He has also been a member of the Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins, and Jacksonville Jaguars.
Onobun played four years of basketball at the University of Arizona. He joined the Houston Cougars football team in 2009 and played an important role on special teams. He appeared in 11 games and hauled in a 15-yard catch against SMU for the first reception of his career. Onobun blocked two extra points against C-USA rival Southern Miss and caught an 18-yard touchdown against Memphis.
Onobun signed a four-year $1.92 million deal with a signing bonus of $129,000. Onobun, considered a risky pick, made the St. Louis Rams opening day roster in 2010. He was waived during final cuts on September 3, 2011.
On September 13, 2011, the Seattle Seahawks signed Onobun to their practice squad.
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Frank Reich
Frank Michael Reich, Jr. (born December 4, 1961) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, and the Detroit Lions. For a time, he had the distinction of having led his team to the biggest comeback victory ever in both the collegiate and professional ranks. Reich and starter Jim Kelly formed one of the longest-tenured backup-and-starter tandems, playing together for nine years (1986–1994). He is currently the wide receivers coach for the Arizona Cardinals.
Reich attended Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon, Pennsylvania where he played baseball, football, and basketball. Reich started on the football team for his last two years in high school. He played quarterback in the Big 33 Football Classic (known as the "Super Bowl of high school games") his senior year of high school.
Reich was accepted to the University of Maryland on a football scholarship and played backup to Boomer Esiason the first few years. The biggest highlight of his college career was the comeback he led against the University of Miami Hurricanes on November 10, 1984 at the Orange Bowl Stadium. Reich came off the bench to play for Stan Gelbaugh, who had previously replaced him as the starter after Reich separated his shoulder in the fourth week of the season against Wake Forest. Miami quarterback Bernie Kosar had led the 'Canes to a 31-0 lead at halftime. At the start of the third quarter, Reich led the Maryland Terrapins on multiple scoring drives. Three touchdowns in the third quarter and a fourth at the start of the final quarter turned what was a blowout into a close game. With the score 34-28 Miami, Reich hit Greg Hill with a 68-yard touchdown pass which deflected off the hands of Miami safety Darrell Fullington to take the lead. Maryland scored once more to cap a 42-9 second half, and won the game 42-40, completing what was then the biggest comeback in NCAA history.
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Fred Smerlas
Frederic Charles Smerlas (born April 8, 1957) is a former American football defensive lineman who was a 5-time NFL Pro Bowl selection during 14-year career as a nose tackle with the Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers, and New England Patriots.
Smerlas, of Greek-American descent, graduated from Waltham High School in 1975, where he was a star football player and wrestler. He became a defensive lineman for Boston College before embarking on an NFL career. His 1990 autobiography, By a Nose, recounts his eleven years with the Buffalo Bills and their climb from cellar-dwellers to Super Bowl contenders.
Smerlas currently resides in Sudbury, Massachusetts and is a part-time co-host during football season on Sportsradio WEEI with Glenn Ordway & Michael Holley on the Big Show, as well as a contributor to western New York radio stations WGR in Buffalo and WHAM in Rochester. Smerlas is an avid motorcyclist, who often rides to support various Boston based charitable organizations.
Smerlas's company All Pro Productions is the leading telemarketer contractor and fundraiser for police, firefighter, and similar agencies in Massachusetts.
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Garrison Sanborn
Garrison Sanborn (born July 31, 1985) is an American football long snapper for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was signed by the Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Florida State.
A native of Tampa, Florida, Sanborn attended Jesuit High School.
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Gene Sykes
Eugene Charle Sykes (born September 26, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a former American football defensive back. Sykes scored a touchdown in LSU's 25–7 defeat of Colorado in the 1962 Orange Bowl. In 1963 he appeared with the LSU team in the Cotton Bowl, where they defeated Texas 13–0, and in the Hula Bowl All-Star Game.
As a professional, Sykes was drafted by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills, playing for them in 1963 and for their AFL Championship teams of 1964 and 1965. He finished his Professional Football career with the AFL's Denver Broncos in 1966.
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George Catavolos
George Catavolos (born May 8, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois), is the current defensive backs coach for the Buffalo Bills. He was a three-year letterman at Purdue and was the Boilermakers' co-captain during the team's 1967 Rose Bowl Championship season. He began coaching at Purdue in 1967 and spent 17 years in college coaching. He has coached in the National Football League with the Indianapolis Colts for 11 years, the Carolina Panthers, and the Washington Redskins.
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George Saimes
George Thomas Saimes (born September 15, 1941 in Canton, Ohio) is a former American football defensive back and fullback for Michigan State University and the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League, which produced American Football League Championships in 1964 and 1965. In 1964 he had a career-high six interceptions and earned the first of his five American Football League All-Star Game appearances. He made The Sporting News All-AFL Team in 1964, 1965 and 1967. Former Pro Football writer and president of the Pro Football Writers Association, Larry Felser, calls Saimes "the finest open-field tackler in the league."
He achieved All-American Football League honors five times, and is a member of the American Football League All-Time Team, the Buffalo Bills' Wall of Fame, and the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.
Saimes went on to be a professional football scout with the Blesto V Combine, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Washington Redskins, and the Houston Texans.
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Giff Smith
Giff Smith is an American Football coach. He currently serves as the defensive line coach for the Buffalo Bills. He has served in that capacity since 2011. He is credited with helping with the emergence of Kyle Williams.
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Glenn Bass
Glenn Alden Bass (born April 12, 1939 in Wilson, North Carolina) is a former collegiate and professional American football player. He played college football at East Carolina University. A flanker, he played professionally in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills from 1961 through 1966, and for the Houston Oilers in 1966 and 1967. Bass caught fifty passes for the Bills as a rookie. He played in five playoffs with the Bills and Oilers, winning three Eastern Division titles (1964-1966) and two American Football League Championships (1964 and 1965) with the Bills, and an Eastern Division crown with the Oilers (1967).
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Gregg Williams
Gregg Williams (born July 15, 1958) is an American football coach, and former head coach of the Buffalo Bills. Williams is known for running aggressive, attacking 4-3 schemes that put heavy pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
On March 21, 2012, Williams was suspended from the NFL indefinitely as a result of his (admitted) involvement in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, under which bounties were paid for causing injuries that would take targeted players on opponent teams out of games.
Gregg Williams was a head coach for the Class 5 Belton High School Pirate football team in Belton, Missouri. He attended Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) in Kirksville, Missouri. Williams was an assistant coach for the University of Houston under former Redskins head coach, Jack Pardee.
In 1990 Williams became the Special Teams coach of the Houston Oilers under then defensive coordinator, Buddy Ryan. From 1994-1996, Williams was the linebackers coach for the Oilers. From 1997-2000, Williams was promoted to Defensive Coordinator of the now Tennessee Titans after the Oilers moved out of Houston. As the Defensive Coordinator, the Titans led the league in total defense and only gave up 191 points, the third fewest in the NFL since the league adopted the 16-game schedule in 1978. The defense also helped lead the Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV where they lost to the St. Louis Rams.
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Hagood Clarke
Hagood Clarke, III (born June 14, 1942) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive back in the American Football League (AFL) for five seasons during the 1960s. Clarke played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Buffalo Bills of the AFL.
Clarke was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1942. For his high school education, he attended Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he played high school football for the Baylor School Tigers.
Clarke attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a walk-on player for coach Ray Graves' Florida Gators football team from 1961 to 1963. Clarke played both ways for the Gators, playing halfback on offense and safety on defense. Memorably, he caught a nineteen-yard touchdown pass to clinch the Gators' 17–7 upset win over the ninth-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions in the 1962 Gator Bowl, intercepted a third-quarter Joe Namath pass to help preserve a 10–6 upset of the third-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa in 1963, and ran for a seventy-yard touchdown to provide the margin of victory in the Gators' 27–21 win over the Miami Hurricanes later that same season. He was also the Gators' principal punter in 1962, with forty-six punts for 1,884 yards (and average of 41.0 yards per kick). Clarke led the Gators in punt return yardage in 1961 and 1962, and was the recipient of the Gators' Fergie Ferguson Award, recognizing the "senior football player who displays outstanding leadership, courage and character," in 1963.
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Hank Bullough
Henry Charles "Hank" Bullough (born January 24, 1934) is a former American Football player and coach. He played college football at Michigan State and graduated in 1954. Bullough was a starting guard for the Spartans team that won the 1952 Rose Bowl. He was selected by the Green Bay Packers with the 53rd pick in the 5th round of the 1955 NFL Draft.
Bullough's first coaching position was at his alma mater, Michigan State, where he served for 11 seasons. In 1970, he became linebackers coach for the Baltimore Colts under head coach Don McCafferty.
As defensive coordinator for the New England Patriots in the 1970s Bullough is credited, along with his college teammate Chuck Fairbanks, with being a significant figure in bringing the 3-4 defense to the NFL. After Fairbanks was suspended prior to the final game of the 1978 season, Bullough's and fellow assistant Ron Erhardt were named co-head coaches for the remainder of the season. After the season Patriots owner Billy Sullivan appointed Erhadt head coach instead of Bullough. Bullough would remain defensive coordinator for one more season with the Patriots.
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Harry Jacobs
Harry Edwards Jacobs (born February 4, 1937 in Canton, Illinois) is a former American college and Professional Football player.
A linebacker, he played college football for Bradley University and in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots from 1960 through 1962, and for the Buffalo Bills from 1963 through 1969. He played in the playoffs four straight years (1963–1966) with the Bills, and was an AFL All-Star in 1965 and 1969. With John Tracey and Mike Stratton he filled out one of pro football's best linebacking units, which played together for 62 consecutive games from 1963 through 1967, a Professional Football record. They helped the Bills' formidable front four hold opposing teams without a 100-yard rusher for seventeen consecutive games in 1964 and 1965, and achieved American Football League championships in both those years. He is one of only twenty payers who played in the American Football League throughout its ten-year existence.
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Henry Schmidt
For the 1903 Brooklyn Superbas baseball pitcher, see Henry Schmidt (baseball)
Henry Joseph (Hank) Schmidt (born September 28, 1935 in South Gate, California) is a former college and professional American football defensive tackle.
Schmidt played collegiately at the University of Southern California and professionally between 1959 and 1966, starting with the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers and moving to the new American Football League's San Diego Chargers in 1961. He played on the Buffalo Bills 1965 AFL Champions in 1965, earning a place in that year's AFL All-Star Team. He finished his professional football career in 1966 with the AFL's New York Jets
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Jack Donaghy
John Francis "Jack" Donaghy ( /ˈdɒnəɡiː/ DON-ə-gee) is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. He begins the series as the Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric, and later serves as the head of NBC after it is bought by the fictional Kabletown.
Donaghy is played by Alec Baldwin, who has received two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, six Screen Actors Guild Awards and one Television Critics Association Award for his portrayal of this character.
Jack Donaghy had an unhappy and impoverished childhood in South Boston and Sadchester, Massachusetts. When he was two, his father lured him to the edge of a swimming pool with a puppy and pushed him in the pool, and later abandoned his family. His mother Colleen Murphy Donaghy has nagged him his whole life, even blaming him for John F. Kennedy's death and for his father leaving. However, she was also devoted to her children. For example, it was noted that she had traded sexual favors with F. A. O. Schwarz for Christmas presents for Jack and his siblings. Young Jack took to calling his collie "Pop" until the dog was accidentally run over by the mailman and left to die in the street by his mother, which caused him to cry. The dog had earlier been neutered, causing Jack to charge his mother with "cutting off Pop's balls." His mother even tried to send him to Vietnam when he was 12 to make a man out of him. He also played hockey, the piano and the flute as a child, prompting his mother to embarrass him by having him play "The Star-Spangled Banner" on said flute in front of his team. He was also the captain of the diving team.
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Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st congressional district from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.
Before entering politics, Kemp was a professional quarterback for 13 years. He played briefly in the National Football League (NFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL), but became a star in the American Football League (AFL). He served as captain of both the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills and earned the AFL Most Valuable Player award in 1965 after leading the Bills to a second consecutive championship. He played in the AFL for all 10 years of its existence, appeared in its All-Star game seven times, played in its championship game five times, and set many of the league's career passing records. Kemp also co-founded the AFL Players Association, for which he served five terms as president. During the early part of his football career, he served in the United States Army Reserve.
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Jairus Byrd
Jairus Keelon Byrd (born October 7, 1986) is an American football free safety for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bills in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon.
Byrd attended Clayton High School in St. Louis County, Missouri. He played quarterback, wide receiver, safety and special teams. As a senior he was the Missouri 4A offensive player of the year and played a large role in leading the school to the 2004 state championship. As a senior he rushed for 1,480 yards with 26 touchdowns, passed for 1,038 yards with 13 touchdowns, and made six receptions for 125 yards on offense. On defense he had 71 tackles, seven interceptions, three sacks and two fumble recoveries. He also had 10 kickoff returns, 15 punt returns, and 18 punts.
As a freshman in 2005 Byrd was red-shirted. In 2006 Byrd was a freshman All-American second-team selection by The Sporting News and was the Pac-10 co-freshman player of the year (alongside Taylor Mays and Alterraun Verner). He started the last 11 games at cornerback, recording 56 tackles and five interceptions.
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James Lofton
James David Lofton (born July 5, 1956 at Fort Ord, Monterey County, California) is a former American football player and coach. He is a former American football coach for the San Diego Chargers but is best known for his years in the National Football League as a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers (1978–1986), Los Angeles Raiders (1987–1988), the Buffalo Bills (1989–1992), Los Angeles Rams (1993) and Philadelphia Eagles (1993). He was also the NCAA champion in the long jump in 1978 while attending Stanford University. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Lofton prepped at George Washington High School in Los Angeles, California where he played quarterback and safety.
Lofton won the long jump at the 1978 NCAA Track and Field Championships with a wind-aided jump of 26 feet 11¾ inches. He won the long jump at the 1974 CIF California State Meet with a jump of 24 feet 3½ inches after placing sixth in this meet the year before. He was also a sprinter of note, with a best of 20.7 in the 200 meter dash. He has been an active participant in Masters track and field since 1997.
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Jarron Gilbert
Jarron Gilbert (born September 30, 1986) is an American football defensive end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at San Jose State. Gilbert has also been a member of the New York Jets.
Lettered in football, basketball, and track and field at Chino High School in Chino, California. Gilbert was an All-Sierra League selection in football and basketball. His father Daren Gilbert played for the New Orleans Saints in 1985-88.
As a senior in 2008 Gilbert totaled 52 Tackles with 22.0 (which led the NCAA) for losses and 9.5 Sacks. He also had 3 passes defensed, and forced 2 fumbles. He was an All-Western Athletic Conference First-team choice and named the league's co-Defensive Player of the Year. Gilbert was also the team captain was also named the team's Most Valuable Player.
In 2007 Gilbert played and started 12 games and had 39 (23 solo 16 assisted) tackles, (7.5 for a loss) and 4 Sacks and 4 pass defelctions and forced a fumble. He earned 2007 second-team All-Western Athletic Conference.
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Jim Dunaway
James Kenneth Dunaway born September 3, 1941 in Columbia, Mississippi) was an American football player. A defensive tackle, he played college football at the University of Mississippi, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills, as part of a defensive line that held opposing runners without a rushing touchdown for a pro football record seventeen consecutive games in the 1964 and 1965 AFL seasons.
In 1998, Dunaway's ex-wife, Nonniel Dunaway was found dead in a half-empty swimming pool. An autopsy revealed that she had a fractured skull and was unconscious when she was placed in the water by her assailant where she drowned. Prior to this event, Nonniel had won a divorce judgement which gave her more than 800 acres (3.2 km2) of property that the couple owned, $1800 a month in alimony and half of Dunaway's NFL pension. They had been divorced since 1995 and Dunaway was planning to appeal.
Dunaway was charged with her murder but a grand jury chose not to indict Dunaway of the charges. In response, his children filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging that Dunaway was responsible for their mother's death. In 2002, Dunaway was found liable and ordered to pay $579,000 to his children.
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Jim Kelly
James Edward Kelly (born February 14, 1960) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills and the USFL's Houston Gamblers.
Kelly was the third quarterback drafted in the 1983 NFL Draft, the same draft class where John Elway was first overall. Employing the K-Gun offense, known for its hurry up shotgun formations, Kelly lead one of the great NFL scoring juggernauts in the Buffalo Bills. Kelly led the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls, from 1991 to 1994, but lost all four. In 2002, in his first year of eligibility, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jim Kelly's number 12 is the only number ever retired in Buffalo Bills history. In 2009, Kelly was elected to the Buffalo Bills 50th Season All-time Team.
Kelly grew up in the small town of East Brady, Pennsylvania, about 55 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. He was a standout at East Brady High School, where during his high school career he won all-state honors after passing for 3,915 yards and 44 touchdowns. After his senior year, Kelly played in the Big 33 Football Classic.
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Jim Kendrick
James Marcellus Kendrick was a professional football player during the early years of the National Football League with the Toledo Maroons, Canton Bulldogs, Louisville Brecks, Chicago Bears, Hammond Pros, Buffalo Bisons, Rochester Jeffersons, Rock Island Independents, Buffalo Rangers and the New York Giants. Kendrick was a part of the Bulldogs' 1922 NFL championship team and the Giants' 1927 NFL Championship team.
Jim, born in Hillside, Texas on August 22, 1893, was the youngest of nine children to J. M. and Lura Kendrick. In 1904 his family relocated to Waco, Texas where Jim attended Douglas Select School. The school did not have a football team at the time, however Jim did excel on the school's baseball team. In 1911, he was elected as his senior class' president.
Jim did not play organized football until he entered Texas A&M University. There he earned All-Conference honors as an end in 1915. During the 1915 season, Kendrick and the Aggies defeated their rival Texas Longhorns 13–0. Jim also played baseball and basketball for the Aggies.
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Jim Ringo
James Stephen "Jim" Ringo (November 21, 1931 – November 19, 2007) was a professional American football player, a Hall of Fame center and coach. He was a ten time Pro Bowler during his career.
Ringo grew up in Phillipsburg, New Jersey and played high school football at Phillipsburg High School. He went on to play college football at Syracuse University.
The Packers drafted him in the seventh round of the 1953 NFL Draft out of Syracuse. Ringo was considered vastly undersized at 211 pounds.
He was not, however, unfit for the role, using his outstanding quickness and excellent technique to build a 15-year NFL career, including 11 seasons with the Packers, as one of the game's best centers.
Ringo played for four different head coaches in his Packers tenure. In his first six seasons in Green Bay, playing under Gene Ronzani (1953), Lisle Blackbourn (1954–57) and Ray "Scooter" McLean (1958), the Packers went 20-50-2 (.291).
But Vince Lombardi's arrival in 1959 changed everything, and for Ringo's next five seasons the Packers went 50-15-1 (.765) and 2-1 in championship games. Ringo certainly knew individual success before the Lombardi era, attending his first of seven straight Pro Bowls in 1957,but he flourished under the coaching legend, earning consensus All-Pro honors from 1959-63.
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Jim Ritcher
James Alexander Ritcher (born May 21, 1958) is a former American college and professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for sixteen seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Ritcher played college football for North Carolina State University, and received All-American honors. He was picked in the first round of the 1980 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Buffalo Bills and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL.
Ritcher was born in Berea, Ohio. He attended Highland High School in Medina, Ohio, where he played high school football.
He attended North Carolina State University, and played for the NC State Wolfpack football team from 1976 to 1979. As a senior in 1979, he was a consensus first-team was an All-American and won the Outland Trophy as the nation's best college offensive lineman.
In the National Football League, Richer was moved to guard from center by the Buffalo Bills, for whom he played fourteen seasons. He started in all four Super Bowl appearances of the Bills (Super Bowl XXV, Super Bowl XXVI, Super Bowl XXVII, and Super Bowl XXVIII) and was selected to two Pro Bowls. He finished his career with the Atlanta Falcons.
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Joe Auer
Joseph Auer (born October 11, 1941 in Trenton, New Jersey) was an American football running back. He graduated from Coral Gables Senior High School in Coral Gables, Florida and played collegiately for Georgia Tech and professionally in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills (1964–1965), and the Miami Dolphins (1966–1967). He also played in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons.
He is most remembered for returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown for the Miami Dolphins in their first regular-season football game in 1966, against the Oakland Raiders. Subsequently, he was the Dolphins' Most Valuable Player.
Auer founded and is currently the president of International Computer Negotiations.[citation needed]
Auer is best known as a professional American football player. He played college football at Georgia Tech, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering.[citation needed] He was then drafted by the Buffalo Bills, where he played for two years as the starting running back on their 1964 and 1965 championship team. He then played for the Miami Dolphins before ending his career with the Atlanta Falcons.[citation needed] Auer is most famous for taking the opening kickoff in the Miami Dolphins' first-ever game in 1966 and returning it 95 yards for a touchdown. He went on to be the Dolphins’ leading scorer that year and not surprisingly; he became the Dolphins' first MVP.
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Joe Collier
Joel D. Collier (born June 7, 1932) is a former American football coach. He was head coach of the American Football League's Buffalo Bills from 1966 through part of 1968, compiiling a 13–16–1 record.
Collier attended Northwestern University, where he played on the school's football team. In 1952, his junior season, he broke Big Ten Conference records by catching seven touchdown passes and accumulating 650 receiving yards. Following the 1953 college football season, in which he captained the Wildcats, Collier was selected by the New York Giants in the 22nd round of the 1954 NFL Draft. However, Collier decided not to play professional football, instead becoming an assistant coach at Western Illinois University after a three-year stint in the U.S. Army.
After spending two seasons as an assistant coach with the Boston Patriots of the brand new AFL, Collier joined the Buffalo Bills in 1962 and was promoted to head coach in 1966. The Bills' best season under Collier came in his first year, when they won the Eastern Division with a 9–4–1 record, eventually losing to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFL Championship Game. After coming within one game of an AFL championship, the team slumped to 4–10 in 1967. After a poor performance by the Bills in a 1968 pre-season game, Collier set up a scrimmage for his team. During the practice session, quarterback Jack Kemp broke his right leg, an injury that forced him to undergo season-ending surgery. The Bills fired Collier after a 48–6 loss to the Oakland Raiders in the second week of the regular season.Sports Illustrated opined that "Collier's fate undoubtedly was decided..." by Kemp's injury.
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Joe DeLamielleure
Joseph Michael DeLamielleure (born March 16, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former American football offensive lineman who was an All-American at Michigan State. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 1973 NFL Draft. He won All-Rookie Honors, after finding out a physical condition with his irregular heartbeat was not serious. In 1973 the Buffalo Bills rushing offense led the NFL in yards, yards per carry, as well as rushing touchdowns.
DeLamielleure was perhaps the central figure in the "Electric Company," the Bills' offensive line that paved the way for O.J. Simpson to rush for 2,003 yards in 1973, the first player ever to break that barrier, and the only player ever to do so in a 14-game schedule.
The league leading rushing yardage mark of 3,088 yards is still the 14-game record. Only the 1978 New England Patriots have bettered that mark and did it in 16 games. Individually, O. J. Simpson led the NFL in all four major rushing categories, a "quadruple crown". He also had the longest run in the NFL. The 2003 Yards Simpson rushed for is still the 14 game record (Eric Dickerson, Barry Sanders and Terrell Davis achieved their marks in 16 games). Joe was also on the kickoff return team that blocked for Wallace Francis, who led NFL with 2 TD returns. DeLamielleure played on the wedge of the kickoff return team his entire career in Buffalo.
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Joe Ferguson
Joseph Carlton Ferguson, Jr. (born April 23, 1950 in Alvin, Texas) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL.
He played high school football in Shreveport, Louisiana for Woodlawn High School, guiding the Knights to the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class AAA (the top classification at the time) state championship in 1968. Ferguson succeeded Terry Bradshaw as Woodlawn's starting quarterback.
Ferguson played college football at the University of Arkansas, where he still holds the school's single game record for most completions (31 against Texas A&M in 1971) and in that same season was named the Southwest Conference's Offensive Player of the Year.
The Buffalo Bills selected Ferguson in the third round of the 1973 NFL Draft. Although he is most famous for playing with the Bills from 1973 to 1984, Ferguson also played three seasons for the Detroit Lions and two seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and one final season with the Indianapolis Colts.
Ferguson placed in the top 10 in pass attempts five times, completions and passing yards four times, passing touchdowns six times, and yards per pass three times. At one time he shared, with Ron Jaworski, the NFL record for consecutive starts by a quarterback with 107, until he was replaced by Joe Dufek on September 30, 1984. He has a 1-3 record in the NFL postseason, winning against the New York Jets in 1981. His three losses came from the Cincinnati Bengals in those same playoffs, the San Diego Chargers the year before in 1980, playing the entire game against the Chargers with a sprained ankle, and in 1974 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He retired after the 1990 season after playing only one game with the Colts.
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Joe Foss
Joseph Jacob "Joe" Foss (April 17, 1915–January 1, 2003) was the leading fighter ace of the United States Marine Corps during World War II and a 1943 recipient of the Medal of Honor, recognizing his role in the air combat during the Guadalcanal Campaign. In postwar years, he achieved fame as a General in the Air National Guard, the 20th Governor of South Dakota, and the first commissioner of the American Football League, as well as a career as a television broadcaster.
Born on a farm near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as the oldest son of Olouse and Mary Lacey Foss, Foss grew up in a farmhouse without electricity. When he was 12, he visited a local airfield in Renner to see Charles Lindbergh on tour with his aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis. Four years later, he and his father paid $1.50 apiece to take their first aircraft ride in a Ford Trimotor at Black Hills Airport with a famed South Dakota aviator, Clyde Ice.
In 1933, while coming back from the fields during a storm, his father died when he drove over a downed electrical cable and was electrocuted as he stepped out of his automobile. Dropping out of school, young Foss, at the age of 17, with his mother, took over the running of the family farm. Farming was made difficult by dust storms, which over the next two years took its toll on crops and livestock. After watching a Marine Corps aerial team, led by Capt. Clayton Jerome, perform aerobatics in open-cockpit biplanes, he was determined to become a Marine aviator. Foss worked at a service station to pay for books and college tuition, and to begin flight lessons from Roy Lanning, at the Sioux Skyway Airfield in 1938, scraping up $65 to pay for the instruction. His younger brother took over the management of the farm and allowed Foss to go back to school and graduate from Sioux Falls College.
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John Mazur
John Edward Mazur (born June 17, 1930 in Plymouth, Pennsylvania) is a former football player and coach who was a quarterback for the University of Notre Dame and also served as head coach for the New England Patriots from 1970 to 1972.
Mazur's outstanding quarterback skills at Plymouth High School in Pennsylvania caught the attention of Notre Dame coaches, leading him to play for the Fighting Irish from 1949 to 1951, starting for the 1951 squad that finished 7-2-1. The following year, Mazur went into the Marine Corps, playing quarterback for both the Quantico and Camp Pendleton Marines. Upon his discharge in 1954, Mazur headed to Canada, where he spent one year with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League before suffering a career-ending ankle injury.
In 1955, Mazur entered the coaching ranks, spending the first of three years as an assistant at the Tulane University. He followed that with one year at Marquette University in 1958, before heading east to work three years in a similar capacity for Boston University.
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John Rauch
John "Johnny" Rauch (August 20, 1927 – June 10, 2008) was an American football player and coach. He was head coach of the Oakland Raiders in the team's loss to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl II in 1968.
Rauch's football playing career almost ended before it began. At the age of 14, he was diagnosed with a heart murmur and instructed to give up the sport. Ignoring the dire warnings, Rauch was a three-sport star at Yeadon High School, then put together an outstanding college football career. Earning the starting quarterback slot for the University of Georgia as a true freshman in 1945, he led the Bulldogs to a 36-8-1 record. Included in these victories are four straight bowl game appearances, as well as an undefeated record in 1946. On an individual level, he won first team All American accolades following his senior year, and left the school as college football's all-time passing leader with 4,044 yards.
Rauch was drafted by the Detroit Lions, as the number two pick in the 1949 NFL Draft, but then sent to the transplanted New York Bulldogs in exchange for the rights to Southern Methodist University's Doak Walker. During his first season with the Bulldogs in 1949, Rauch saw action on both sides of the ball, throwing for 169 yards and one touchdown, while also intercepting two passes. The following year, he saw action in eight contests, throwing for 502 yards and six touchdowns, then split time with New York and the Philadelphia Eagles in 1951, combining for 288 yards and one touchdown pass. In 1952, rather than accept a trade to the Pittsburgh Steelers to become a player/coach, he accepted an offer from University of Florida Coach Bob Woodruff to join his staff in Gainesville.
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John Tracey
John Joseph Tracey (June 27, 1933 – September 21, 1978) was an American football linebacker. At Texas A&M University, Tracey held school records for most receptions and most yards receiving. Another "NFL Reject", when he joined the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1962, Lou Saban liked his speed and agility, and used him at linebacker, where with Harry Jacobs and Mike Stratton he filled out the AFL's best linebacking crew, playing together for 62 consecutive games from 1963 through 1967, a professional football record. They helped the formidable front four hold opposing teams without a 100-yard rusher for seventeen consecutive games in 1964 and 1965, and achieved American Football League championships in both those years. In 1963 he led the team with five interceptions. Tracey was an AFL All-Star in 1965 and 1966. He died on September 21, 1978 from lung cancer.
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Joshua Nesbitt
Joshua Leonard Nesbitt (born April 15, 1988 in Greensboro, Georgia) is an American football player, currently a member of the Buffalo Bills'. He was formerly the starting quarterback for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
Nesbitt attended Greene County High School in Greensboro, Georgia from 2003-2007. He was regarded as Georgia's number one recruit at quarterback as a senior. Nesbitt was named to the Scout.com national Hot 100 (No. 76) and the Rivals 250, and was the No. 4 prospect in Georgia according to Scout.com. He was also rated No. 14 in Georgia by Rivals, the No. 9 dual-threat quarterback in the nation by Rivals and the No. 12 quarterback by Scout.com. Nesbitt was a two-time, first-team all-state selection and the Class AA Offensive Player of the Year as a junior. He was named to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Super Southern 100 and preseason Super 11 team before his senior year. As a senior at Greene County High, he passed for 2,256 yards and 32 touchdowns with just four interceptions, completing 134-of-222 passes. Nesbitt also rushed for 493 yards on just 93 carries and scored eight touchdowns, to go with 4 interceptions on defense.
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Kamar Aiken
Kamar Aiken (born May 30, 1989 in Hollywood, Florida) is an American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was signed by the Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Central Florida.
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Kay Stephenson
George Kay Stephenson (born December 17, 1944) is a former American college and professional football player and current coach, whose latter career has seen him work in four different professional leagues. Stephenson played quarterback for the American Football League's San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills. He finished his career in the World Football League playing for the Jacksonville Sharks in 1974 before entering the coaching ranks.
Stephenson was born in DeFuniak Springs, Florida in 1944, and grew up in nearby Pensacola. He attended Pensacola High School, and earned All-State accolades as a quarterback for the Pensacola Tigers high school football team. He received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Ray Graves' Florida Gators football team from 1964 to 1966. His arrival on the Florida campus coincided with that of another standout recruit, Steve Spurrier, who proceeded to become the starting quarterback in 1964, and won the Heisman Trophy in 1966. Stephenson remained a backup.
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Kellen Heard
Kellen Heard (born October 17, 1985 in Wharton, Texas) is an American football defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played college football at Texas A&M, then transferred to the University of Memphis with his last year of eligibility.
After going undrafted in the 2010 NFL Draft, Heard signed with the Oakland Raiders as an undrafted free agent on April 30, 2010. He was waived on September 4, 2010 and re-signed to the practice squad two days later.
On December 11, 2010 Heard was signed off the Raiders practice Squad by the Buffalo Bills.
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Kelvin Sheppard
Kelvin Anthony Sheppard (born January 2, 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills drafted him with the 68th pick in the 3rd round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at LSU.
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Kent Hull
James Kent Hull (January 13, 1961 – October 18, 2011) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League and United States Football League, more precisely a center for the New Jersey Generals of the USFL and Buffalo Bills of the NFL.
A native of Greenwood, Mississippi Kent Hull graduated from Mississippi State University. At Mississippi State, Hull earned four football letters as the Bulldogs' center from 1979 to 1982 before going on to star first in the USFL then in the NFL.
Hull was the starting center for the Generals from 1983 to 1985.
As a rookie for the Buffalo Bills in 1986, Hull immediately became their starting center, replacing Will Grant, hunched between 7-year veteran Jim Ritcher at left offensive guard and fellow rookie Will Wolford at right guard for all 16 games, with Hall-of-Famer Jim Kelly as rookie quarterback under first-year head coach Marv Levy. In 1988, the Bills won the AFC east division with a strong offensive line, Hull playing between Ritcher and Tim Vogler at right guard. They beat the Houston Oilers in the divisional round of the 1988–89 NFL playoffs, as Kelly passed for 244 yards and Thurman Thomas rushed for 75 yards in only 7 carries, but lost the AFC championship game to the Cincinnati Bengals. In 1989, the Bills won the AFC east division title again but lost a divisional round match of the 1989–90 NFL playoffs to the Cleveland Browns.
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Kirk Morrison
Kirk David Morrison (born February 19, 1982 in Oakland, California) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at San Diego State. Morrison has also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Morrison attended elementary school at Sacred Heart, now called St. Martin de Porress, in Oakland, California. After 8th grade graduation he went to Bishop O'Dowd High School which is also in Oakland, California. He won varsity letters in football and track & field. In football, he led his team to two HAAL championships and two Northern California section 3A championships, was a two-time All-HAAL honoree, and as a senior, was the HAAL Defensive Player of the Year.
Morrison attended college at San Diego State University and had an outstanding playing career. While at SDSU, he was two-time Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year.
Morrison played in all 16 games as a rookie, ending the season with 116 tackles and two pass deflections.
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Kraig Urbik
Kraig Urbik (born September 23, 1985) is an American football offensive guard/tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at Wisconsin after graduating from Hudson High School .
Urbik was considered one of the top guard prospects for the 2009 NFL Draft.
Urbik was selected in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers. During his rookie season he remained largely inactive, losing the top backup guard position to rookie Ramon Foster. Urbik was waived on September 3, 2010.
Urbik was claimed off waivers on September 5, 2010.
He is currently slated to start at right guard for them in 2012 after signing his tender.
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Kyle Moore
Kyle Moore (born October 25, 1986) is an American football defensive end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Southern California. He has also been a member of the Detroit Lions.
Moore attended Houston County High School in Warner Robins, Georgia, where he was named Georgia Class 5A Defensive Player of the Year as a senior defensive lineman. He had 93 tackles, 22 sacks, 18 deflections, 8 forced fumbles, 2 fumble recoveries and 1 blocked punt (for a touchdown) in 2004.
As a junior in 2003, he made All-Middle Georgia, All-Region and All-County while getting 110 tackles, 23 tackles for loss and 15 sacks. Moore was rated a Four-Star recruit and chose USC over Miami.
At USC, Moore served as a backup defensive end as a true freshman and sophomore. In 2007, he did a solid job while starting at defensive end, recording 35 tackles, including 3.5 for losses of 29 yards (with 2 sacks for 20 yards), plus 2 interceptions that he returned 38 yards (19.0 avg.), 5 deflections, 1 forced fumble and 1 fumble recovery.
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Leodis McKelvin
Leodis Anquan McKelvin (born September 1, 1985) is an American football cornerback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bills 11th overall in the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Troy.
McKelvin attended Ware County High School in Waycross, Georgia, where he played cornerback for head coach Dan Ragle. As a junior, he recorded 60 tackles and six interceptions, while also returning eight receptions for over 300 yards. In his senior year, he recorded 51 tackles, recovered three fumbles, intercepted six passes and broke up six passes, while helping Ware to a 9-2 record, a regional title and a second-round AAAA playoff appearance in 2003. He was named defensive player of the year in the area as well as to the Georgia Times Union Super 11 team.
Considered only a two-star recruit by Rivals.com, McKelvin was not ranked among the nation's best cornerback prospects. He received only few scholarship offers and picked Troy over Louisville on January 30, 2004.
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Lionel Dotson
Lionel Eugene Dotson, Jr. (born February 11, 1985 in Houston, Texas) is an American football defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the seventh round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arizona.
Dotson has also been a member of the Denver Broncos.
Dotson attended and played high school football at Dobie High School in Pasadena, Texas. He was a two-time letterman in both football and basketball. During his senior season, he recorded 50 tackles and 13 sacks on his way to a nomination for the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. In basketball, he earned first-team all-district honors as a junior and was selected to the Texas High School Coaches All-Star game as a senior.
After graduating from Dobie High School, Dotson played college football for the University of Arizona. As as true freshman in 2003, he was redshirted and was a member of the defensive scout team.
Dotson saw action in seven games including six starts as a redshirt freshman in 2004. He finished the season with 19 tackles (12 solo), 3.5 tackles for a loss and three sacks. Against rival Arizona State, he recorded five tackles, 1.5 tackles for a loss and a sack.
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Lou Piccone
Louis James Piccone (born July 17, 1949 in Vineland, New Jersey) was an American football wide receiver and kick returner who played nine seasons in the National Football League for the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills. He played college football at West Liberty State College.
Piccone caught 100 passes, 1,380 yards and 6 touchdowns in 9 years in the NFL.
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Lou Saban
Louis Henry Saban (October 13, 1921 – March 29, 2009) was an American football player and coach. Saban played for Indiana University in college and as a pro for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference. He was the head coach of the Boston Patriots (1960–1961), Buffalo Bills (1962–1965, 1972–1976), and Denver Broncos (1967–1971) of the American Football League and later the National Football League's American Football Conference, compiling a career AFL/NFL record of 95–99–7. Lou Saban is of Croat origin.
At the time of his death, Saban was the last survivor of the eight coaches of the Original Eight American Football League franchises, the others being Eddie Erdelatz, Frank Filchock, Buster Ramsey, Lou Rymkus, Sammy Baugh, and Hall of Fame coaches Hank Stram and Sid Gillman. Saban was also the head coach at a number of colleges: Case Institute of Technology (1950–1952), Northwestern University (1955), Western Illinois University (1957–1959), the University of Maryland, College Park (1966), the University of Miami (1977–1978), the United States Military Academy (1979), the University of Central Florida (1983–1984), Peru State College (1991), the State University of New York at Canton (1995–2000), and Chowan University (2001–2002), tallying a career college football mark of 94–99–4.
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Marcell Dareus
Marcell Dareus (born November 18, 1989) is an American football defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Alabama, playing defensive end in the Crimson Tide's 3-4 defense. He led the Southeastern Conference in quarterback sacks in the 2009 season, and was also named Defensive MVP of the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.
Dareus attended Huffman High School in Birmingham, Alabama, where an ASWA All-State honorable mention defensive lineman. He totaled 117 tackles and 20 sacks as a senior, and also returned a fumble for a touchdown. He was teammates with Andre Smith. Dareus was listed on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Super Southern 100, as well as the Mobile Press-Register Elite 18.
Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Dareus was listed as the #28 defensive tackle prospect in the class of 2008. He was also ranked the No. 17 overall player on the Alabama Top 35 list. Dareus chose Alabama over scholarship offers from Auburn, Tennessee, North Carolina, among others.
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Marcus Easley
Marcus Landon Easley (born November 2, 1987 in Stratford, Connecticut) is an American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft with the 107th selection.
After playing for Frank Scott Bunnell High School, Marcus went to UConn. Despite spending his first three years as a walk-on, he emerged during his senior year to become the Huskies' best receiver. In his senior year, he produced impressive numbers when he finally received tangible playing time; in the final 10 games of the season he made 48 receptions for 893 yards and 8 touchdowns.
Easley was drafted in the fourth round, 107th Overall by the Buffalo Bills in the 2010 NFL Draft. He is the first-ever Connecticut Husky wide receiver to be drafted in the National Football League.
He was put on injured reserve on September 13, 2011, after it was announced the reasoning of him not playing in the first regular season game: a heart ailment, which is possibly serious.
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Mario Williams
Mario Jerrel Williams (born January 31, 1985) is an American football defensive end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected first overall by the Houston Texans in the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina State University.
Went N.C. State
On October 1, 2006, Williams recorded his first sack and a half against Miami Dolphins' quarterback Daunte Culpepper in the Texans' first win of the season (score 17-15). Three weeks later, Williams sacked Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Byron Leftwich and recovered a fumble in the Texans' 27-7 upset. In the 2006 season, Williams accumulated 47 total tackles, 4.5 sacks, and 1 forced fumble.
Early in the 2007 season, Williams played well, with an outstanding performance in the first game. Williams made five tackles, two sacks, and returned a fumble by Kansas City Chiefs fullback Kris Wilson for a touchdown. He had particularly big games against the Denver Broncos and Tennessee Titans, sacking quarterback Jay Cutler 3.5 times and quarterback Vince Young 2.5 times in one game each. His first sack of 2007 was of Peyton Manning. Before the game, Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy compared Williams to Colts Pro Bowl Defensive End Dwight Freeney. Williams finished the 2007 season with 59 total tackles and 14 sacks.
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Mark Asper
Mark Vaughn Asper (born November 8, 1985 in Rexburg, Idaho) is an American football offensive guard for the Buffalo Bills. He was selected in the sixth round, 178th overall, by the Bills in the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon.
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Mark Kelso
Mark Alan Kelso (born July 23, 1963 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former American football player who was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the tenth round of the 1985 NFL Draft. A 5'11", 177 lbs. safety from North Hills High School and the College of William & Mary.
Kelso played in eight NFL seasons and his entire career with the Buffalo Bills from 1986-1993. His peak performance as a pro came during the 1988 season when he had intercepted 7 passes for 180 yards and one touchdown. Kelso appeared in four consecutive Super Bowl appearances for the Bills from 1990 to 1993. He was well known for wearing a "pro cap" on his helmet which was used to reduce the risk of concussions. He finished his career with 30 interceptions, 8 fumble recoveries, and two defensive touchdowns.
Starting with the 2006 NFL season, Kelso has served as the color commentator for Buffalo Bills radio broadcasts on WGRF 96.9 FM. He is the Development Director (since 2003-2004) at Saint Mary's High School in Lancaster, New York, as well as its varsity football defensive coordinator from the 2003-2010 seasons. Kelso also is a local baseball coach. Prior to that he taught fifth grade at East Aurora Middle School.
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Mark Pike
Mark Harold Pike (born December 27, 1963 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky) is a former American football linebacker and defensive end who played twelve seasons in the National Football League with the Buffalo Bills. He is a graduate of Dixie Heights High School in Erlanger, Kentucky.
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Marty Schottenheimer
Martin Edward "Marty" Schottenheimer (pronounced /ˈʃɒtənhaɪmər/; born September 23, 1943) is the current head coach of the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. Over his career, he has served as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, and San Diego Chargers. He has the most wins of any NFL coach since 1966 to never coach a team in a Super Bowl (which was first held in that year). He was fired from his head coaching position with the San Diego Chargers in 2007, after leading the Chargers to a 14–2 record but a disappointing second round loss.
Schottenheimer was born in McDonald, Pennsylvania. Marty attended high school at Fort Cherry High School in McDonald, Pennsylvania. After attending the University of Pittsburgh, Schottenheimer, a linebacker, was selected in the fourth round of the 1965 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Colts and in the seventh round of the 1965 American Football League draft by the Buffalo Bills. He signed with the Bills and spent the next four (1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968) seasons with Buffalo, including the Bills' 1965 AFL Championship season, when he was selected to the AFL All-Star Team. In 1969, he joined the Boston Patriots and spent the next two seasons with the Pats. He was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1971 but was traded again to the Colts before the beginning of the 1971 season. He retired from football in 1971 and spent the next several years working in the real estate industry. Schottenheimer credits his professional playing career as being his inspiration for coaching.
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Marv Levy
Marvin Daniel Levy (born August 3, 1925) is a former American and Canadian football coach, front office executive and author.
He is a former professional football coach, in the CFL as head coach of the Montreal Alouettes (1973–1977), and in the NFL as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs (1978–1982) and the Buffalo Bills (1986–1997), coaching the Bills to four consecutive American Football Conference Championships. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
Levy's family emigrated from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His father, a decorated World War I veteran, ran a small business on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. He graduated from South Shore High School in Chicago, in 1943. Following graduation, he enlisted in the Army Air Forces and spent the remainder of World War II in the military; Levy was discharged from the army shortly after the war ended. Though he was known to use historical examples to inspire his teams, Levy corrected those who used war and combat metaphors to describe football games by telling them that he actually fought in a war and that football and war were in no way comparable. Referring to the Super Bowl, he once said "This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win".
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Michael Jasper
Michael Jasper is an American football nose tackle/offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bills in the seventh round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Bethel (TN), playing two ways both as a defensive tackle and an offensive guard. Jasper, during his college career, was extremely large even by defensive tackle standards, weighing approximately 450 pounds; he reduced his weight to 375 pounds at the behest of Bills coach Chan Gailey. Jasper was released prior to the start of the 2011 season in final cuts and was placed on the practice squad.
Buffalo signed Jasper to the active roster on December 27, 2011. To make room for him the Bills placed TE Mike Caussin on injured reserve.
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Mike Catalana
Mike Catalana is the Sports Director of WHAM-TV, the ABC affiliate in Rochester, New York. His professional career began in 1986 when he became the Sports Director at WMGC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Binghamton, New York. He came to WOKR (now WHAM) in Rochester as the weekend sports anchor and reporter in December 1987. After 16 months, he was named the station's Sports Director in December 1989.
Mike Catalana is the sideline reporter for the Buffalo Bills Television network during the NFL pre season. He is also a member of the pre game show on the Buffalo Bills Radio Network. Mike also anchors a daily sports report for “The 5 O’clock News Hour” on WHAM radio in Rochester.
Catalana graduated from Ithaca College in 1985 with a B.S. Degree in Television /Radio (Broadcast Journalism). He is a graduate of St. Augustine College Preparatory School in Richland, New Jersey
Catalana gives his thoughts on sports in his "Open Mike" sports blog [1]
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Mike Caussin
Mike Caussin (born February 26, 1987) is an American football tight end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2010. He played college football at James Madison.
Caussin was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Jacksonville Jaguars after the 2010 NFL Draft. He was cut on September 4, 2010, but was signed to the Jaguars' practice squad on September 5, 2010.
Caussin signed with the Buffalo Bills on December 1, 2010.
He was born and currently resides in Springfield, Virginia. He attended West Springfield High School in Springfield, Virginia.
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Mike Mularkey
Michael Rene Mularkey (born November 19, 1961) is an American professional football coach and is currently the head coach for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. He played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played 9 seasons in the NFL as a tight end for the Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He has served as the head coach of the Buffalo Bills, the offensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the tight ends coach for the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL.
Mularkey was born in Miami, Florida. He attended Northeast High School in Oakland Park, Florida, and played quarterback for the Northeast Hurricanes high school football team.
Mularkey attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played tight end for coach Charley Pell's Florida Gators football team from 1980 to 1982.
In 1983, Mularkey was a ninth-round draft pick for the San Francisco 49ers, but was cut before appearing in game. He went on to play with the Minnesota Vikings until the conclusion of the 1988 season. In 1989, he signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers as a free agent for the final three years of his playing career. In his nine NFL seasons, Mularkey played in 114 regular season games, started forty-six of them, and caught 102 passes for 1,222 yards and nine touchdowns.
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Mike Stratton
David Michael Stratton (born April 10, 1941 in Vonore, Tennessee) was an American football linebacker in the AFL and NFL for the Buffalo Bills and San Diego Chargers.
Drafted out of the University of Tennessee in the 13th round of the 1962 AFL Draft, Stratton was selected as an AFL All-Star six straight seasons from 1963 through 1968. Lou Saban used him at linebacker, where with Harry Jacobs and John Tracey he filled out the AFL's best linebacking crew, playing together for 62 consecutive games from 1963 through 1967, a pro football record. They helped the formidable front four hold opposing teams without a 100-yard rusher for seventeen consecutive games in 1964 and 1965, and achieved American Football League championships in both those years.
In the 1964 AFL championship game against the San Diego Chargers, he made the memorable "hit heard 'round the world". The Chargers led 7-0 and were marching toward another score when Stratton tackled the Chargers' Hall of Famer Keith Lincoln, putting him out of the game. The Bills shut out San Diego for the rest of the game, and won, 20-7. Stratton was selected to the All-Time All-AFL second team.
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Milt Woodard
Milton P. "Milt" Woodard (born in Tacoma, Washington on June 4, 1911 – died March 3, 1996) was an American sports writer and sport executive. He attended the College of Puget Sound (now the University of Puget Sound) in Washington, where he played baseball. He graduated in 1933.
Woodard had a distinguished career as a sportswriter for the Tacoma News Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. He also served as President of the American Football League from July 1966 until the NFL officially merged with it in March 1970. At the urging of AFL fans and players, Woodard had a commemorative Ten-year AFL shoulder patch produced for the 1969 AFL Champion Kansas City Chiefs to wear when they played and defeated the NFL Champion Vikings in the fourth and final AFL-NFL World Championship Game after the 1969 pro football season. In 1989, Woodard was inducted into the Washington Sports Hall of Fame, He died in San Jose, California.
Other American Football League executives, contributors, and players
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Naaman Roosevelt
Naaman Roosevelt (born December 24, 1987 in Buffalo, New York) is an American football wide receiver with the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.
Roosevelt attended St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in Buffalo where he played at the quarterback position before staying in Buffalo to attend the University at Buffalo. Roosevelt was the first recruit of new head coach Turner Gill. He started 7 games as a freshman and was converted into a wide receiver, catching 31 passes and 2 touchdowns. In his second year, the wide receiver caught 63 passes and 4 touchdowns. In his junior season, Roosevelt dramatically increased his production, catching 104 passes, primarily from quarterback Drew Willy.
On September 13, 2008 Rooselvelt caught a Hail Mary pass from QB Drew Willy as time expired against the Temple Owls. Also in his junior season, Buffalo won the 2008 MAC Championship Game against Nate Davis and the Ball State Cardinals. Roosevelt's 104 receptions was one short of the MAC Conference record at the time. Roosevelt graduated in 2009 and, the following season, Roosevelt caught 70 passes and 9 touchdowns.
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Nate Odomes
Nathaniel Bernard Odomes (born August 25, 1965 in Columbus, Georgia) is a former professional American football defensive back who played for the Buffalo Bills (1987–1993), Seattle Seahawks (1994–1995), and the Atlanta Falcons (1996). Before his NFL career, he played for University of Wisconsin–Madison and was selected by the Bills in the second round of the 1987 NFL Draft.
Odomes was one of the top defensive backs in the NFL during the early 1990s, assisting the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances, and making the Pro Bowl twice (1992 and 1993). One his more memorable plays was in a 1992 playoff game known as The Comeback, where he intercepted a pass from future hall of fame quarterback Warren Moon to set up Buffalo's game-winning field goal. In the following season, Odomes led the NFL with 9 interceptions, and made a key interception in the second quarter of Super Bowl XXVIII to help his team build a 13–6 halftime lead. However, his team still lost the game 30–13.
After the 1993 season, Odomes signed with Seattle and spent two injury-plagued years with the Seahawks. Before concluding his NFL career, he played one final season with the Atlanta Falcons in 1996. In his eight NFL seasons, Odomes intercepted 26 passes, which he returned for 224 yards and a touchdown. He also recorded 3 sacks and recovered 8 fumbles, returning them for 86 yards and 2 touchdowns.
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Nick Bakay
Nicholas "Nick" Bakay (pronounced /bəˈkaɪ/ bə-KY; born October 8, 1959) is an American writer, actor, voice actor, comedian and sportscaster. He is best known as the voice of Salem Saberhagen on ABC/The WB's Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Sabrina: The Animated Series, and Norbert Beaver on The Angry Beavers. He played Karl on the Fox series 'Til Death as well as serving as a producer of the show until it was canceled by Fox.
Nick Bakay served as a writer on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. He is also the voice of Salem Saberhagen. Bakay also served as a writer for the cartoon series Sabrina, the Animated Series, and as the voice of Norbert on The Angry Beavers.
Bakay is also an avid sport writer and commentator. He writes a weekly column for NFL.com called "Nick Bakay's Manly House of Football", as well as occasional columns for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He appears on Sportscenter on ESPN Wednesday and Thursday mornings during NFL season, and has frequently done segments on NFL Total Access on NFL Network. Bakay also has guest hosted many episodes of Up Close and Talk2, as well as contributed to Jim Rome Is Burning and several other sports shows.
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Nick Barnett
Nicholas Alexander Barnett (born May 27, 1981) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon State.
Barnett was born in Barstow, CA and attended Fontana A.B. Miller High School in Fontana, California.
Barnett was a four year letter winner (1999–2002) at Oregon State, starting the last three seasons at strong side linebacker. As a senior, Barnett was a first team All-Pacific 10 Conference selection. He led the conference in tackles with 121 (62 solo). Barnett registered his single game best against the University of California in 2001 with 18 tackles (11 solo).
He majored in Business Administration and Communications.
Barnett was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft.
On April 10, 2007, Barnett signed a six year contract extension worth $34.85 million.
Barnett missed much of the 2008 season after suffering a torn knee ligament during November 9's game against the Minnesota Vikings.
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Nigel Bradham
Nigel Bradham (born September 4, 1989) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played college football at Florida State University. Bradham was considered one of the best linebackers coming out of high school in 2008, and has been compared to Derrick Brooks by CSTV’s Tom Lemming.
At Wakulla High School, Bradham had consecutive 145-tackle seasons, including a senior campaign in which he also registered 12 sacks and four defensive touchdowns in leading Wakulla to a district championship. As a junior he tallied 145 tackles, eight sacks and four interceptions, two of which he returned for TDs. Bradham recorded over 430 tackles and 20 sacks during his three-year career on the varsity football team at Wakulla.
Bradham was named to All-American teams by Parade, SuperPrep, and USA Today, among others. He was a finalist for the Hall Trophy and recorded four tackles in the 2008 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Considered a five-star recruit and the ranked first among outside linebacker prospects by Rivals.com, Bradham had numerous scholarship offers but decided to attend Florida State early in April 2007.
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Paul Costa
Sebastian Paul Costa (born December 7, 1941 in Port Chester, New York) is a retired American football tight end. He played college football for the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish. The American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs drafted him in his junior year, 1964, and was traded to the AFL's Buffalo Bills for the 1965season. He won a starting job at tight end his rookie year with the Bills, and soon became an excellent tight end, being named an AFL All-Star in his first two seasons.
As a rookie, Costa averaged 19.1 yards per catch. For his career, he averaged 16.7 yards per catch. In his first year, in the 1965 AFL Championship game against the San Diego Chargers, he teamed with Ernie Warlick in one of the first uses of the "double tight end" formation installed by head coach Lou Saban. Costa caught two passes for 32 yards, Warlick caught three for 35 yards and a touchdown as the Bills defeated the Chargers for the second consecutive year, this time shutting them out 23 - 0, the first shutout in AFL Championship game history. In Costa's fifth year in pro football, he moved to offensive tackle and played that position for four years. After playing eight years for the Bills, he retired for one year, then came out of retirement to play for the Birmingham Americans of the World Football League in 1974 and Birmingham Vulcans in 1975.
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Paul Maguire
Paul Leo Maguire (born August 22, 1938) is a former American football player and current television sportscaster.
Maguire attended Ursuline High School, then played tight end at The Citadel where he led the nation in touchdown receptions in 1959.
In 1960, he was selected as an original American Football League Los Angeles Chargers, where he served as both a punter and linebacker. He moved with the team to San Diego in 1961, and stayed there until 1964 when he joined the Buffalo Bills. Maguire was an ace at the "coffin corner" punt. He contributed to three Bills' Eastern Division titles, and their AFL championships in 1964 and 1965. He was involved in one of the most spectacular plays in Bills' history in the 1965 American Football League Championship game against the Chargers. Butch Byrd took a John Hadl punt and with outstanding blocking, took it 74 yards for a TD. The last two blocks were by Maguire, crushing two Chargers.
Maguire played in six of the ten American Football League Championship Games — three with the Chargers and three with the Bills, winning three AFL Championship rings, and he was the league's all-time punter in punts and yardage. He was one of only twenty players who were in the AFL for its entire ten-year existence. After his retirement he was inducted into the Youngstown, Ohio Sports Hall of Fame, and the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.
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Pete Gogolak
Peter Kornel Gogolak (in Hungarian: Gogolák Péter Kornél, born April 18, 1942 in Budapest, Hungary) is a retired American football placekicker in the National Football League for the New York Giants and in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills. He is widely considered the chief figure behind the game's adoption of soccer style placekicking. In 2010 the New York Giants announced that he would be included in the team's new Ring of Honor to be displayed at all home games in their new stadium.
Gogolak attended and played college football at Cornell University where he was elected to the Sphinx Head Society. Gogolak's 41 yard field goal during Cornell's 1961 season, the first by a soccer-style kicker, became a significant moment in the development of college football, and stood as an example of the changes Gogolak would later bring to the professional game. Prior to Gogolak, placekickers approached the ball straight on, with the toe making first contact with the ball. Gogolak, reflecting his roots in European soccer, instead approached the ball at an angle and kicked it with his instep. Upon graduation in 1964, he was signed by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills, bringing yet another innovation to the upstart league that had become known for its experimentation: the unorthodox style that had made Gogolak notable while in college now made him professional football's first "soccer style" (as opposed to "conventional") kicker. In 1965, he scored 115 points and was selected by his peers as a Sporting News AFL All-League player.
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Pete Metzelaars
Peter Henry Metzelaars (born May 24, 1960) is a former American football tight end who played for the Seattle Seahawks, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, and Detroit Lions in a sixteen-year career in the National Football League. Metzelaars is currently the tight end coach for the Buffalo Bills.
He played high school football at Portage Central High School in Portage, Michigan, and played college football at Wabash College, graduating from Wabash in 1982. While at Wabash, he played for an undefeated football team, while also leading the basketball team to the NCAA Division III national championship. In football, he was coached by Stan Parrish.
He was taken in the 3rd round with the 75th pick by Seattle in the 1982 NFL Draft. He played for three seasons in Seattle before being traded to the Bills in 1985. When Jim Kelly joined the Bills in 1986, Metzelaars became a productive part of the offense. He played with the Bills in their 4 Super Bowl losses from 1990–1994, and scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XXVI. Metzelaars' best season was in 1993, when he caught 68 passes for 609 yards and 4 touchdowns.
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Preston Ridlehuber
Howard Preston Ridlehuber (born November 2, 1943 in Greenwood, South Carolina) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football running back in the NFL and the American Football League (AFL). He played one season each for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and the AFL's Oakland Raiders and Buffalo Bills. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 11th round, pick 166 overall, in the 1966 NFL draft and by the New York Jets in the 19th round, pick 168 overall, of the 1966 AFL draft.
Ridlehuber is best known for scoring a touchdown with 33 seconds remaining in a game against the New York Jets, by recovering a fumbled kickoff. It occurred in the Heidi Game, and was not seen by television viewers because NBC switched from football coverage to the 1968 film Heidi. The Heidi Game or Heidi Bowl as it is also known led to a change in the way professional football is televised on network television; games are now shown to their conclusion before evening programming begins.
His most notable Buffalo Bills highlight came during a game against the 0–5 then called Boston Patriots. Preston was a backup running back with the 2–3 Bills. O.J. Simpson had been concussed in Houston the week before and was not dressed for the Patriots game. Fullback Wayne Patrick (number 30) had run 17 times for 131 yards. Max Anderson (number 22) also known as Mini Max Anderson had 10 carries for 46 yards.
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Prince Miller
Prince Miller (born January 14, 1988 in Duncan, South Carolina) is an American football cornerback who is currently a player for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played college football at Georgia.
Miller attended James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, South Carolina, where he played football as a cornerback. He was named team MVP his junior and senior seasons, recording 43 tackles, five interceptions, and three punt returns touchdowns as a junior. As a senior, Miller had four interceptions, three forced fumbles, gained over 2,000 yards total offense, and had 16 total touchdowns and was named an Associated Press South Carolina All-State defensive back. He was named the 2005 South Carolina Mr. Football at the SCADA North-South All-Star game, and played in the 2005 Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas.
Miller was also named Gatorade State Football Player of the Year, the Orlando Sentinel South Carolina Player of the Year, and was named to the Atlanta Journal-Constitutions Super Southern 100. As named to the 2005 FSN South Countdown to Signing Day All-South second team. He was rated by Rivals.com as the No. 26 best athlete, by ESPN.com as the 11th best cornerback in the nation, and by Scout.com as one of the top 20 cornerback prospects in the country.
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Ralph Wilson
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. (born October 17, 1918) is the founder, owner and president of NFL's Buffalo Bills. He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League, the league that the NFL merged with in 1970, and is the last of the original AFL owners still owning his team in its original city. He is the oldest owner in the National Football League, at age 93. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on August 8, 2009.
Wilson grew up in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from the University of Virginia and attended the University of Michigan Law School. At the University of Virginia he joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He is a World War II veteran. After the war ended, he took over the successful insurance business of his father and invested in Michigan area mines and factories. He eventually purchased several manufacturing outlets, construction firms, and radio stations, and founded Ralph Wilson Industries.
A minority owner of the Detroit Lions, Wilson got wind of Lamar Hunt's plans for a new league, the American Football League, to challenge the NFL. He tried to put together a team in Miami, but was turned down. His next choice was Buffalo. In September 1959, Wilson sent Hunt a telegram with the words, "Count me in with Buffalo." He named his new team the Bills, after a previous team that had played in the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949. On October 28, 1959 the Buffalo Bills officially became the seventh AFL team. Wilson made Professional Football a resounding success in a "small market," signing such stars as Cookie Gilchrist, Jack Kemp, Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson' and Tom Sestak and Hall of Famer Billy Shaw.
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Ray Abruzzese
Raymond Lewis Abruzzese, Jr. (October 27, 1937 – August 22, 2011) was an American college and professional football player.
Abruzzese was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A defensive back, he played college football at the University of Alabama, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills from 1962 through 1964, when the Bills won the AFL Championship game, 20–7, over the defending AFL champion San Diego Chargers. He also played for the AFL's New York Jets in 1965 and 1966.
Though it is little-known by today's Professional Football fans, Ray Abruzzese had a major impact on the growth of modern Professional Football. He roomed with Joe Namath when both were at Alabama. When Namath was deciding between signing with the NFL's Cardinals or the AFL's Jets, he told Jets owner Sonny Werblin that he would lean toward the Jets if they would acquire Ray Abruzzese. Bills owner Ralph Wilson cooperated and, for the good of the league, traded Abruzzese to the Jets, who under Namath's leadership went on to defeat the NFL's over-rated Baltimore Colts in the third AFL-NFL World Championship game.[citation needed]
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Ray Bentley
Ray Russell Bentley (born November 25, 1960 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a former professional American football linebacker.
Bentley's first three years in professional football were spent with the Michigan Panthers and Oakland Invaders of the United States Football League.
He later joined the Buffalo Bills, and played six seasons with the team, including their first two Super Bowl years in the 1990s. Bentley's career ended with the Cincinnati Bengals in 1992.
Bentley worked as part of the The NFL on Fox broadcast team for four years from 1998 to 2001, doing both color commentary and play-by-play. He left Fox for a position as head coach and general manager of the Arena Football League's Buffalo Destroyers, and held that position for two years before resigning.
From 2003 to 2006, Bentley was a color commentator alongside play-by-play man Bob Papa on NBC's Arena Football League coverage, and since 2007 has served in that capacity for ESPN. In 2009, he began working for ABC as well. In 2007, Bentley returned to the Buffalo Bills as a play-by-play announcer for their preseason television games, a role he still serves. He is also an advisory member for the revival of the USFL.
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Rian Lindell
Rian Lindell (born January 20, 1977) is an American football placekicker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2000. He played college football at Washington State where he was a part of Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity.
Lindell attended Pacific Junior High School (now Pacific Middle School) in Vancouver, Washington, Mountain View High School in Vancouver.
At Washington State, Lindell played with quarterback Ryan Leaf and made an appearance in the 1998 Rose Bowl as a freshman. The Cougars lost to a Michigan Wolverines team that included future NFL players Brian Griese, Tom Brady (who was Griese's backup for the game) and Charles Woodson.
Lindell was with the Seattle Seahawks for three seasons before joining the Buffalo Bills in 2003; Lindell replaced Mike Hollis, who was allowed to leave as a free agent. He was generally regarded as having a stronger but slightly less accurate leg than Hollis. One of his most notorious missed field goals came at the end of the 2004 season; with Buffalo at 9-6, and leading against the backups of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo had a chance to make the playoffs for the first time in the Tom Donahoe era with a win. However, Lindell missed a field goal in the third quarter, which ended up turning momentum to Pittsburgh. On the running game led by future breakout star running back Willie Parker, Pittsburgh rallied to win the game and knocked Buffalo out of the playoffs for the fifth consecutive year.
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Robert Eddins
Robert Eddins (born October 11, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football for Ball State University.
Detroit, MI native, graduated from Detroit Crockett High School after playing under the great Coach Rod Oden (www.coachrododen.com). After going undrafted in the 2011 NFL Draft, Eddins signed as a free agent with the Buffalo Bills. He was placed on the injured reserve list on September 14, and waived with an injury settlement on September 20. He was signed by the Bills to their practice squad on November 30.
On January 6, 2012, Eddins was signed to the Buffalo Bills.
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Roland Hooks
Roland Hooks (born January 2, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American football running back in the NFL who played for the Buffalo Bills. He played college football at North Carolina State University.
He scored four touchdowns in a single half on his first four carries against the Cincinnati Bengals on September 9, 1979.
Hooks might be best known for best known for a Hail Mary catch he made against the New England Patriots on November 22, 1981. The 36-yard touchdown pass from Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson as time expired won the game for Buffalo, 20-17. The win proved to be crucial in giving Buffalo the final playoff spot in the AFC in 1981.
Hooks is currently a running back coach at Bishop Manogue Catholic High School in Reno, NV.
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Ron Brooks
Ron Brooks is an American football cornerback from Louisiana State University for the Buffalo Bills. He was drafted with the 124th pick in Round 4 of the 2012 NFL Draft.
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Ron McDole
Roland Owen "Ron" McDole (born September 9, 1939 in Chester, Ohio) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football defensive end from the University of Nebraska, Buffalo Bills, and Washington Redskins.
McDole played at left defensive end for the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League from 1963 to 1970 after spending the 1962 season with the AFL's Houston Oilers, anchoring the left side of the Bills' great defensive line.
The Bills finished tied with the Boston Patriots for the AFL's Eastern Division title in 1963, losing the playoff game to the Pats. They would win the division for the next three years, together with two American Football League championships, in 1964 and in 1965. McDole and his defensive linemates (left tackle Jim Dunaway, right tackle Tom Sestak, and right end Tom Day) held the opposition without a rushing touchdown in 17 straight games over the 1964-1965 seasons. McDole was the defensive team captain during those years, an AFL All-Star in 1965 and 1967. He was selected to the All-Time All-AFL second team.
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Ruben Brown
Ruben Parnell Brown (born February 13, 1972 in Englewood, New Jersey) is a former American football guard of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills 14th overall in the 1995 NFL Draft. He played college football at Pittsburgh.
Brown played nine seasons for the Bills and four more for the Chicago Bears, starting all 181 games in which he played. He was a four-time All-Pro and nine-time Pro Bowl selection, including eight consecutive Pro Bowl selections with the Bills from 1996 to 2003. He is the older brother of former NFL linebacker Cornell Brown.
Brown gained acclaim as the starting left guard for the Buffalo Bills. Brown was named to eight consecutive AFC Pro Bowl teams from 1996 to 2003.
In the final game of the 2003 season, the Bills sent Brown home, causing him to miss his first start since 1999. Brown was released by the Bills after the 2003 season.
Brown then signed with the Chicago Bears in 2004. That season, he started only nine games due to injuries. He had a revival in his career in the 2006 season after the Bears made the Super Bowl, and was named to the 2007 Pro Bowl. In 2007, Brown played in 8 games before being placed on injured reserve by the Bears on November 8, 2007 due to an injured shoulder.
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Russ Brandon
Russ Brandon is the Chief Executive Officer of the Buffalo Bills football team.
Brandon is the second-highest ranking official in the Bills organization, second only to owner and President Ralph Wilson, who, due to age and declining health, has ceded most day-to-day operations of the team to Brandon. Brandon was first named to a high-level executive position within the franchise in 2006, being named director of non-football operations alongside general manager Marv Levy. Brandon, although his title did not change, assumed Levy's responsibilities as de facto general manager after Levy retired. Brandon was promoted to CEO upon the hiring of Buddy Nix as the Bills general manager.
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Ruvell Martin
Ruvell Martin (born August 10, 1982) is an American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the San Diego Chargers in 2004. He played college football at Saginaw Valley State. Martin has also played for the Amsterdam Admirals, Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Rams and Seattle Seahawks.
Martin graduated from Muskegon Catholic Central High School where on January 19, 2006 he was honored and put into their elite Walk Of Fame. He played quarterback in high school, then moved to wide receiver in college.
Martin attended Saginaw Valley State University and was a Marketing Major and a letterman in football. In football, he was a three-year letterman after he redshirted as a freshman. As a sophomore, he was named his team's Most Valuable Wide Receiver. As a junior, he was a second team All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection. As a senior, he was a first team All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
Ryan Joseph Fitzpatrick (born November 24, 1982) is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Harvard.
Fitzpatrick was a three-sport (football, basketball and track) athlete at Highland High School in Gilbert, Arizona. Fitzpatrick was a Second-team Class 5A All-state selection, adding Arizona High School All-Star team, Fiesta Region first team and Fiesta Region MVP honors as a senior. He set 12 school records as a Highland Hawk and one state mark (throwing a 99-yard touchdown pass) while leading the team to the state playoffs from 1998–2000 and to the 1999 Fiesta Region title.[citation needed]
At Harvard, Fitzpatrick had five starts during the 2001 and 2002 seasons. In 2001, he completed 25 of 37 passes (67.6 percent) for 323 yards and a pair of touchdowns and followed that in 2002 by completing 94 of 150 attempts (62.7 percent) for 1,155 yards, eight touchdowns and no interceptions. He also ran for five scores and 523 yards on 115 carries (4.5 avg.) that year.
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Scott McKillop
Scott Kenneth McKillop (born March 4, 1986) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. Coming out of the University of Pittsburgh, he was considered one of the top prospects at his position in the 2009 NFL Draft and went in the fifth round.
McKillop attended Kiski Area High School in Allegheny Township, Pennsylvania, where he was a starter for 2½ seasons on both sides of the ball (linebacker and fullback). He totaled 132 tackles his senior season. At fullback McKillop rushed for 1,121 yards and 14 touchdowns over his final two seasons and helped Kiski Area to three consecutive WPIAL Class AAAA playoff berths.
Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, McKillop was listed as the No. 31 outside linebacker prospects in the nation.
After redshirting his initial year at Pittsburgh, McKillop served as the primary backup at middle linebacker behind All-America H. B. Blades, before seizing the starting role in 2007. Still a relatively unknown player as of the beginning of his junior season, McKillop enjoyed one of the most productive seasons ever by a Pitt defender, finishing with 151 total tackles, the third highest single-season total in Pitt history. The centerpiece of a unit that is seventh nationally in total defense, yielding just 297.67 yards per game, McKillop also compiled 9.0 tackles for loss, three sacks, two fumble recoveries, an interception and seven pass breakups.
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Scott Norwood
Scott Allan Norwood (born July 17, 1960) is a former American football placekicker in the NFL who played for the Buffalo Bills. Norwood was an integral part of its offense during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and kicked in Buffalo's first two Super Bowl appearances. Although achieving a modest career in the NFL, Norwood is remembered for missing a 47-yard field goal at the end of Super Bowl XXV against the New York Giants, which was the first in four consecutive Super Bowl losses for the Bills: the first to the New York Giants, the next year to the Washington Redskins, followed by two consecutive losses to the Dallas Cowboys.
Norwood was born in Alexandria, Virginia and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria in 1978. He played both football and soccer at James Madison University and graduated with a business degree in 1982 .
Norwood quickly became an invaluable asset to an offense that was going places as the Bills' general manager, Bill Polian, assembled talent like Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, and Bruce Smith. Within two seasons of Norwood's arrival the Bills had won the AFC East for the first time since 1980 and made it to the conference championship game. He soon overtook O.J. Simpson as the team's all-time leading scorer. In 1990 the Bills advanced to their first-ever Super Bowl.
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Shane Conlan
Shane Patrick Conlan (born March 4, 1964] is a former professional American football player. He played college football at Penn State University, where he won two national championships in 1982 and 1986, although he was red-shirted prior to the start of the 1982 season and did not play that season. In 1981, prior to his Penn State career and after his senior season at Frewsburg High School in which he played under head coach Thomas Sharp, Conlan was voted Western New York high school Player of the Year. During his career at Penn State, Conlan had 274 tackles, including a school-record 186 solos. He finished his football career as a three time all-pro with the NFL's Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams.
Conlan was born in Frewsburg, New York.
Conlan capped his junior season at Penn State in the 1985 national championship game in the Orange Bowl against the University of Oklahoma. The finale to his senior year was in the 1986 national championship game versus the University of Miami in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, Conlan had eight tackles, two interceptions. Most memorably, he returned the second of his two interceptions 38 yards to the Miami 5-yard line to set up D.J. Dozier's game-winning touchdown. With Penn State's 14-10 victory, Conlan's squad completed an undefeated season, securing the 1986 national championship.
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Shaun Weiss
Shaun Weiss (born August 27, 1978) is an American television and film actor. Weiss started his acting career as Elvis on Pee-wee's Playhouse. He is best known for his portrayal of Greg Goldberg in The Mighty Ducks films. Shaun also has a cult following for his role as Josh in the Disney film Heavyweights. He enjoyed a notable run as peripheral freak "Sean" on the short-lived NBC dramedy Freaks and Geeks as well as some cameo appearances on the American sitcom The King of Queens. Most recently, he is seen in a commercial for Captain Morgan's ("Maxi-Mixers are going fast! How about a demo, Phil?"), Castrol, and ESPN Mobile MVP as Mike 'Big Grunz' Grunski. Weiss also appeared in the movie Drillbit Taylor, making an appearance as the School Bus Driver around the beginning of the film. Shaun can also be seen in a 2008 Verizon Wireless Commercial for the LG Voyager.
Weiss was born in Montvale, New Jersey. He has also appeared in over 30 national TV commercials and other television and film roles. He currently resides in Sherman Oaks, California.[citation needed]
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Shawne Merriman
Shawne DeAndre Merriman (born May 25, 1984 in Washington, D.C.) (nicknamed Lights Out) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted 12th overall by the San Diego Chargers in the 2005 NFL Draft. On November 2, 2010, the Chargers waived Merriman. He was acquired through waivers by the Bills on November 3, 2010.
Shawne Merriman was drafted in the 1st round (12th overall) in the 2005 NFL Draft out of the University of Maryland by the San Diego Chargers. He was selected using a pick acquired from the New York Giants as part of the Rivers-Manning trade during the 2004 NFL Draft.
The New York Giants traded Philip Rivers (selected 4th overall in the 2004 Draft), and their 1st round selection for the following year (amongst others) for the rights to sign Eli Manning, who had been selected by the San Diego Chargers with the 1st overall pick that year. Manning had made it clear he was not interested in playing for the Chargers, in a similar fashion to John Elway in 1983 when selected by the Baltimore Colts.
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Stephon Gilmore
Stephon Gilmore (born September 19, 1990) is an American football cornerback who attended the University of South Carolina. Gilmore was drafted 10th overall in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft. Gilmore was regarded as one of the best cornerback prospects of his class.
Gilmore attended South Pointe High School in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where he was a two-way player and helped his team to a perfect 15-0 record and the South Carolina AAAA Division II title as a senior. Among his teammates was Jadeveon Clowney. Playing quarterback on offense, Gilmore rushed for 1,331 yards and 23 touchdowns and passed for 1,771 yards with 14 scores. He earned first-team all-state honors by The State and was named an All-American by Parade and EA Sports. He was also named Mr. Football for the state of South Carolina.
Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Gilmore was listed as the No. 2 overall prospect from South Carolina in the class of 2009. He chose South Carolina over Alabama, Tennessee, and Clemson.
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Steve Christie
Geoffrey Stephen Christie (born November 13, 1967 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a former Canadian American football placekicker in the National Football League, who, as a member of the Buffalo Bills, became known for his ability to kick clutch field goals, even in poor weather.
Christie, who grew up in nearby Oakville, Ontario, graduated from The College of William and Mary and made his NFL debut with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1990. He made all 27 extra point attempts and 23 of 27 field goal tries in his rookie season. He would end up playing two years in Tampa.
From 1992 to 2000, Christie kicked for Buffalo. With the Bills, he would become one of the game's top kickers. He was a key contributor in the Bills comeback win against the Houston Oilers, which occurred after the Bills trailed 35-3 early in the third quarter in a playoff game after the 1992 season. Christie kicked a successful onside kick, which he recovered himself (becoming the first placekicker ever to do so in an NFL playoff game), and also kicked the game winning 32-yard field goal in overtime. His kicking shoe from that game is displayed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. He then went on to kick five field goals in the Bills 29-10 win over the Miami Dolphins in the AFC championship game, helping Buffalo get to their third consecutive Super Bowl.
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Steve Freeman
Steven Jay Freeman (born May 8, 1953 in Lamesa, Texas) is a former American football defensive back.
After playing college football at Mississippi State University, he was selected by the National Football League's New England Patriots in the 1975 NFL Draft. However, he was released by the Patriots before the start of the regular season, and eventually signed with the Buffalo Bills. Freeman spent 12 season with Buffalo, compiling 23 career interceptions and three touchdowns. In 1980 alone, he intercepted seven passes for 107 yards and one touchdown. He spent his last NFL season, 1987, with the Minnesota Vikings after being traded by the Bills.
After retiring as a player, Freeman became an American football official, working in college football's Southeastern Conference and NFL Europe before joining the NFL in 2001 as a back judge. As an official, he wears uniform number 133 and is on the officiating crew headed by referee Jeff Triplette.
One of Freeman's teammates in Buffalo was linebacker Jim Haslett, who later became head coach of the New Orleans Saints. Despite the fact the two men were teammates for several seasons, Freeman was not prohibited from working Saints games during Haslett's six-year tenure as the Saints coach from 2000-2005. While in the SEC, Freeman was prohibited from working Mississippi State games, as league rules do not allow officials to work games involving their alma mater.
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Steve Tasker
Steven Jay Tasker (born April 10, 1962 in Smith Center, Kansas) is a broadcaster for CBS Sports, who previously was a wide receiver/gunner in the National Football League. He was drafted in the ninth round (226th overall) of the 1985 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers. He played college football at Northwestern. He began his college career at Dodge City Community College.
Tasker played most of his pro career with the Buffalo Bills, and was voted by Bills fans to the teams 50th season All-time Team.
Tasker first attended Dodge City Community College. After two years, he transferred to Northwestern University where he played the final two years of his college career before joining the National Football League. After finishing his college football career, and before being drafted into the NFL, he joined the school's rugby team. Although he had never played rugby before, he was named most valuable player at the Big Ten Conference Tournament.
Tasker was selected in the ninth round (226th overall) of the 1985 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers where he played for two seasons. He was claimed off waivers by the Buffalo Bills on November 8, 1986.
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Stew Barber
Stewart C. Barber (born June 14, 1939 in Bradford, Pennsylvania) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player.
An offensive tackle from Penn State University, He played his entire career in the American Football League with the Buffalo Bills from 1961 through 1969.
He was an American Football League All-Star five consecutive years, from 1963 through 1967.
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Tank Carder
Ricky "Tank" Carder, Jr. (born January 18, 1989) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills. Carder played college football at TCU Carder was a 2010 All-American selection by the American Football Coaches Association.
Carder attended Sweeny High School in Texas, where he accounted for 1,200 yards of offense and 116 tackles on defense in his senior year. He was regarded as a two-star recruit by Rivals.com.
In the 2011 Rose Bowl, Carder was named Defensive Player of the Game. He batted down a two point conversion pass late in the fourth quarter that would have tied the game.
He was selected in the 5th round, 147th overall in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills.
Carder received the nickname "Tank" after weighing 33 pounds only 18 months after birth. When he was 10 years old, Carder was a BMX World Champion.
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Tashard Choice
Tashard J. Choice (born November 20, 1984 in Thomasville, Georgia ), is an American football running back for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played collegiately at Georgia Tech. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
Choice began his collegiate career at The University of Oklahoma but transferred to Georgia Tech in 2005. Choice played high school football for Lovejoy High School, in Lovejoy, Georgia where he recorded for 40 career all-purpose touchdowns. Choice graduated with a degree in History, Technology and Society in December 2007, and earned All-Big 12 Academic Honor Roll in 2004 along with All-ACC Academic Honor Roll in 2005-2006.
Choice redshirted in 2003. Kejuan Jones and Renaldo Works led the Oklahoma rushing attack into the BCS National Championship Game. Oklahoma featured Heisman Trophy winner Jason White quarterbacking the high-powered Sooner offense, which scored over 42 points per game.
In 2004, Choice served as a backup to true freshman Adrian Peterson. Peterson went on to be a Heisman Trophy finalist and Oklahoma found itself in the BCS title game once again. Choice only took 22 carries and gained 100 yards the entire year (all in two games). His best game at Oklahoma saw him garner 71 yards on 16 carries against Texas Tech. At the end of the season, his mother fell ill and Choice applied for a medical hardship to return home and play for Georgia Tech. His hardship was granted and he transferred to Tech by Spring 2005.
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Terrence McGee
Terrence Dewayne McGee (born October 14, 1980 in Smith County, Texas) is an American football cornerback and kick returner who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by Bills in the fourth round (111th overall) of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played high school football at Athens High School in Athens, Texas, and played collegiately at Northwestern State.
He is considered a versatile threat for his kick return skills as well as his defensive play. On Christmas Eve 2005 against the Cincinnati Bengals, he became the first player to score touchdowns on an interception and a kick return in the same game.
McGee exhibited his speed in the 2007 Dallas game. Six minutes into the third quarter, McGee returned a kickoff 103 yards. He ranks second in team history with six return touchdowns.
On December 22, 2009, McGee was placed on Injured Reserve due to a shoulder injury.
After the departure of Antoine Winfield the Bills Acquired CB Troy Vincent who was injured and replaced. McGee was inserted as a starting cornerback alongside Nate Clements. McGee has put in solid numbers and is a major contributor to Buffalo's defense. He ran a fumble back for a touchdown in a loss against the Indianapolis Colts.
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Thurman Thomas
Thurman Lee Thomas (born May 16, 1966) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back who spent most of his National Football League (NFL) career with the Buffalo Bills. Thomas was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007 and into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.
Thomas was born in Houston, Texas. He grew up playing football on the Missouri City Junior High School (now Missouri City Middle School) and Willowridge High School.
Thomas attended college at Oklahoma State University where he was a teammate of running back Barry Sanders. At Oklahoma State, Thomas had 897 rushes for 4,595 yards, 43 touchdowns, 5,146 total yards, and 21 100-yard rushing games. He was also a Heisman Trophy candidate in his senior year, finishing seventh in voting. He was a first team selection on the College Football All-America Team in 1985 and 1987.
In the 1987 Sun Bowl, Thomas ran for 157 yards and four touchdowns in the 35-33 victory over West Virginia, keeping Barry Sanders on the sidelines for the majority of the game. Thomas left OSU as the school's all-time leading rusher and his number 34 is one of only three jerseys retired at Oklahoma State.
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Tim Russert
Timothy John "Tim" Russert (May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted an eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball. Russert covered several presidential elections, and he presented the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey on the NBC Nightly News during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Time magazine included Russert in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. Russert was posthumously revealed as a 30-year source for syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
Russert was born in Buffalo, New York to Irish American Catholic parents Elizabeth (Betty), a homemaker, and Timothy Joseph "Big Russ" Russert (November 29, 1923 – September 24, 2009), a sanitation worker. Elizabeth and Joseph were married for 30 years before separating in 1976. He was the second of four children; his sisters are Betty Ann (B.A.), Kathleen (Kathy) and Patricia (Trish). He received a Jesuit education from Canisius High School in Buffalo.
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Tim Vogler
Timothy Gene Vogler (born October 2, 1956 in Troy, Ohio) was an American football guard in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills. He played college football at Ohio State University.
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Tom Day
Thomas Frederick Day ("Tippy") (August 20, 1935 — August 21, 2000) was an American football player. A defensive end, he played college football at North Carolina A&T State University, and professionally in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills and the San Diego Chargers. He was part of the Bills' defense which did not allow a rushing touchdown for 17 consecutive games over a portion of the 1964 and 1965 seasons, winning the American Football League Championship in both years. Day was an AFL All-Star in 1965.
Day said of winning the AFL championship, "Winning the championship is like making love to the most beautiful woman in the world."
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Tom Donahoe
Tom Donahoe is a former general manager of both the Buffalo Bills and the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL.
Donahoe was born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon. He is a grandson of longtime Pittsburgh mayor and Pennsylvania Governor David L. Lawrence.[1] He was "director of football operations" (GM) for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1991-1999. In what was largely seen as a power struggle between himself and head coach Bill Cowher, Donahoe left the team following the 1999 season.
In 2000, Donahoe took on a job at ESPN.com for the following year.
Before the 2001 season, Donahoe was selected to replace John Butler as general manager of the Buffalo Bills, as well as take over the position of team president from a retiring Ralph Wilson. Wilson, while still maintaining ownership of the team, wanted to step aside from the day-to-day operations of the franchise, and chose Donahoe to take his place.[citation needed]
After the 2005 season, Donahoe was fired. The team had been 31-48 during his tenure with the team from 2001-2005, and he drafted only three players who would go on to make the Pro Bowl with the team.
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Tom Janik
Thomas Alvin Janik (September 6, 1940 – November 21, 2009) was an American college and Professional Football player who was born in Poth, Texas. He attended the Texas College of Arts and Industries (now Texas A&M), where he was an all-conference running back and punter. He was inducted to the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982. Janik was a safety for nine seasons of Professional Football. He played for the American Football League's Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills, and Boston Patriots, and for the NFL's Patriots. He was an AFL All-Star in 1965, when he played for the AFL Champion Bills, and again in 1967.
One of Janik's biggest games was the September 18, 1968 contest at home against the New York Jets, in which the Bills' defensive backfield picked off Joe Namath seven times, three times for TDs as Butch Byrd and Booker Edgerson had 53 and 45-yard TD interceptions within 1:02, and Janik had one of two picks go for a 100-yard score. The Bills won a barn-burner, 37–35, which was Buffalo's only win of the season. The Jets went on to finish 11–3, and won the AFL title before going on to defeat the overrated Colts in the Third AFL-NFL World Championship Game.
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Tom Sestak
Thomas Joseph Sestak (March 9, 1936 - April 3, 1987) was an American collegiate Professional Football defensive lineman for the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League.
In 1962, following an innovative AFL trend of drafting players from small colleges, the Bills drafted Sestak as a tight end in the 17th round from McNeese State University. Sestak would never play that position for the Bills, but instead became one of the league's greatest defensive tackles. At 6-4, he had the size, speed and strength to handle any offensive lineman.
Sestak was a starter in his rookie year and, until a series of knee injuries ended his career after the 1967 season,used his strength to dominate the line of scrimmage. Sestak was a three-time selection to All-American Football League teams and a unanimous All-AFL defensive tackle in three consecutive years; 1963, 1964 and 1965. Sestak served as the cornerstone of a defense that took the Bills to the playoffs four straight years (1963–1966) and consecutive AFL championships in 1964 and 1965. Over the 1964 and 1965 seasons, Sestak and his defense mates held opposing rushers without a touchdown for seventeen consecutive games, a Professional Football record that still stands. Twice during his outstanding career he realized the defensive lineman's "dream", returning interceptions for touchdowns, and once returned a recovered fumble for a score.
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Tommy Hughitt
Ernest Fredrick "Tommy" Hughitt (December 27, 1892 – December 27, 1961) was a National Football League utility player and coach. He was also an All-American quarterback for the University of Michigan in 1913.
Hughitt was born in Genoa, British Columbia, but grew up in Escanaba, Michigan, where he attended high school. Upon graduation he went to the University of Michigan, where he played quarterback for the Wolverines.
From 1915 to 1916, Hughitt was the head football coach at the University of Maine. He compiled a 6–7–3 overall record, including the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship in 1915. An article in The Michigan Technic commented on Hughitt's success at Maine:
"Due to the excellent coaching of 'Tommy' Hughitt, former varsity quarterback, the University of Maine football tam won the state championship this season. Hughitt showed the effectiveness of the Yost system of coaching by developing a bunch of green material, a tam which staged a real 'comeback' after a bad start last year. Maine is highly pleased with the work of Hughitt and has engaged him for this season."
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Tony Greene
Anthony Greene (born August 29, 1949 in Gaithersburg, Maryland) was an American football safety in the NFL who played for the Buffalo Bills. He played college football at the University of Maryland.
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Torell Troup
Torell Troup (born June 23, 1987) is an American football defensive tackle. He currently plays with the Buffalo Bills. Troup was chosen by the Buffalo Bills in the 2nd round of the 2010 NFL Draft.
Troup attended Salem High School in Conyers, Georgia, where he was a two-time first-team all-state performer as a junior and senior. He finished his senior season with 96 total tackles (50 solo stops), six tackles for loss and three quarterback sacks.
Considered a two-star recruit by Rivals.com, Troup was not listed among the top defensive tackle prospects in 2006. He chose Central Florida over Minnesota, Maryland, and Ole Miss.
As a true freshman at the University of Central Florida, Troup saw action in nine games, including three starts at defensive tackle. By his sophomore season he had established himself as a key part of the rotation and started 11 of 14 games on the defensive line.
In his junior season, Troup earned All-Conference USA Second Team honors, after starting all 12 games and logging 52 tackles, 12.5 tackles for a loss (2nd on the team), and two sacks. A team captain in his senior year, he started all 13 games and helped the Knights lead Conference USA in rushing defense for the second consecutive season and post C-USA's top total defense.
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Tyler Thigpen
Tyler Beckham Thigpen (born April 14, 1984) is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). Thigpen was drafted out of Coastal Carolina University in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft (217th overall) by the Minnesota Vikings.
Tyler Thigpen was the first quarterback to play for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team. He led the Chanticleers program to a 30–8 record as starting quarterback. Thigpen holds the single-season and career passing records in every major statistical category at Coastal Carolina.
After seeing little playing time in 2007, Thigpen entered the 2008 Kansas City Chiefs season as the third-string quarterback, but emerged as the starting quarterback following season-ending injuries to Brodie Croyle and Damon Huard. The Chiefs subsequently altered their offensive gameplan to a spread offense to help Thigpen and the rest of the young Chiefs team to play to the best of their abilities. Thigpen recorded 22 touchdowns (18 passing, 3 rushing and 1 receiving) against 12 interceptions in 11 starts, though he led the Chiefs to a 1–10 record. During the 2009 season, the Chiefs acquired quarterback Matt Cassel and Thigpen was later traded to the Miami Dolphins.
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Van Miller
Van Miller (born 1927) is a retired former radio and television sports announcer from Dunkirk, New York, where he began his career at Dunkirk radio station WFCB calling play-by-play for high school football games. In the 1950s, he moved to Buffalo where he became the chief play-by-play announcer for the Buffalo Bills Radio Network, the official radio broadcasting arm of the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League from the team's inception as an AFL team in 1960 to 1971, and again from 1977 to 2003. At the time of his retirement in 2003, Miller was the longest-tenured commentator with one team (37 years) in pro football history.
On July 30, 1960, Van Miller debuted on the air at War Memorial Stadium to call play-by-play for the Bills' inaugural contest against the Boston Patriots. In his 55 years in the business, Miller has earned legend status in Buffalo by doing everything imaginable behind the microphone. Besides his status as the "Voice of the Bills," Miller was the sports director for WBEN-TV/WIVB-TV for many years. During that time, he served as a sportscaster, weather reporter, and as host of the local version of It's Academic, among other shows. He also hosted a popular afternoon program for many years on WBEN radio.
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Vince Young
Vincent Paul Young, Jr. (born May 18, 1983), nicknamed "VY", is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played college football at The University of Texas. Young was drafted by the Tennessee Titans with the third overall draft pick in the 2006 NFL Draft. He spent the first five seasons of his career with the Titans. In his rookie season, Young was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and earned a roster spot on the AFC Pro Bowl team. In 2009, Young earned his second Pro Bowl Selection and was named Sporting News NFL Comeback Player of the Year. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2011.
As a junior in college, Young finished second behind Reggie Bush in the voting for the Heisman Trophy (though Bush later vacated the award). He won the Davey O'Brien Award which is given annually to the best collegiate quarterback in the nation. Following the Heisman voting, Young led his team to a BCS National Championship against the defending BCS national champion, University of Southern California, in the 2006 Rose Bowl. The game was called one of the most-anticipated games in the history of college football. Texas retired Young's jersey on August 30, 2008.
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Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo is an American film director and actor. Though he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Goodfellas, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo '66, which he wrote, directed, did the music for and starred in; The Brown Bunny, which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed; Arizona Dream; The Funeral; and Palookaville. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Gallo was a painter in the New York City art scene showing with famed art dealer Annina Nosei, performed in a rap duo and was part of the first hip hop television broadcast Graffiti Rock, and played in an industrial band called Bohack which released an album title It Took Several Wives. In the early 2000s, he released several solo recordings on WARP records. Gallo is known for his outspoken views and generally sarcastic nature, once stating: "I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings; and I did it out of spite."
Gallo was awarded the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor at the 67th Venice International Film Festival for his performance as a wordless escaping Muslim prisoner in Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing. His own feature film Promises Written In Water, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, also screened In Competition at the festival. In spring 2012 Gallo took part in the three month exposition of Whitney Biennial.
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Wade Phillips
Wade Allen Phillips (born June 21, 1947) is the defensive coordinator for the Houston Texans and former head coach for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, and Buffalo Bills. He was also an interim head coach for the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons. His career winning percentage as a head coach is .581.
Wade is the son of former NFL coach Bum Phillips. Wade and wife Laurie have two children together. His daughter, dancer/choreographer Tracy Phillips, appeared as Helena in My Chemical Romance's music video for the song "Helena"; his son, Wes Phillips, is an assistant coach with the Cowboys.
Phillips attended Port Neches-Groves High School in Port Neches, Texas, and went on to the University of Houston, where he was a three-year starter at linebacker from 1966–68. He held the school record for career assisted tackles (228) until 2011 when the record was broken by Marcus McGraw
Phillips began his coaching career as graduate assistant to Bill Yeoman at the University of Houston in 1969. From 1970–72 he served as defensive coordinator at the former Lutcher Stark High School (now West Orange-Stark High School) in Orange, Texas. He then coached the linebackers at Oklahoma State University from 1973–1974, under his father who was OSU defensive coordinator at that time. In 1975, Phillips coached the defensive line at the University of Kansas.
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Walt Cudzik
Walter Jacob Cudzik (February 21, 1932 – December 11, 2005) was an American football center in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He also played in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots and the Buffalo Bills.
Cudzik played college football at Purdue University.
Cudzik was drafted in the eighteenth round of the 1954 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins, where he played up to 1959.
Cudzik was taken by the Boston Patriots in their inaugural season of 1960, where he played up to 1963. In his final year (1964), Cudzik became a member of the Buffalo Bills as their starting center, replacing Al Bemiller, who was moved to right offensive guard to accommodate him. That year, the Bills scored 400 points (28.6 points/game), 1st among 8 teams in the AFL, and won the AFL championship under head coach Lou Saban. In 1965, Cudzick was replaced by Dave Behrman.
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Walter Koppisch
Walter Frederic "Wally" Koppisch (June 6, 1901 – November 2, 1952) was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bisons and New York Giants. He attended Columbia University. At 23 years old, Koppisch, a local celebrity and high school football star, was named the head coach of the Buffalo Bisons, making him among the youngest head coaches in NFL history. Koppisch is considered one of the earliest busts in the NFL, having spectacularly failed to meet the high expectations of him in his lone season in Buffalo, although the expectations may have been unwarranted due to changes outside of his control.
He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981.
While playing high school ball at Masten Park High, now City Honors School, in Buffalo, New York. While there, he led his team to three consecutive Harvard Cup championships, which denoted Buffalo city champions. Upon graduation, Koppisch went on to star at Columbia University, where he captained the Lions for three seasons. While playing Columbia's backfield, Koppisch was teammates with, future New York Yankee, Lou Gehrig. In 1924 he was received All-American honors by Walter Camp.
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Wray Carlton
Linwood Wray Carlton (born June 18, 1937) is a former American collegiate and professional football running back who played professionally in both Canada and the U.S.
Unable to come to terms with the Philadelphia Eagles, who had selected him in the 1959 NFL Draft, Carlton, a Duke University running back, traveled to Toronto and the Canadian Football League to play for the Argonauts. His Canadian career lasted only four games before he declined a trade to Vancouver, British Columbia, and went home. But another league and another opportunity was in his future.
In his early years with the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League, Carlton formed a virtually unstoppable backfield tandem with Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist.
On September 18, 1960, in Buffalo's home opener, a 27-21 loss to the Denver Broncos, Carlton made history in the second quarter when he scored the team's first touchdown on a one-yard run. Carlton gained exactly 1,000 yards from scrimmage (533 rushing- 477 receiving) and 11 TDs in the Bills first season.
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Zebrie Sanders
Zebrie Sanders (born December 4, 1989) is an American football offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills. He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles. He is considered one of the best offensive tackle prospects for the 2012 NFL Draft.
Sanders has been a starter for the Seminoles since his freshman year and had started 37 games prior to his senior year.
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Buffalo Bills 2012
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A video on the Buffalo Bills I made to show what really encompass them, their resiliency and why they give the fans a reason to Billieve.
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A video on the Buffalo Bills I made to show what really encompass them, their resiliency and why they give the fans a reason to Billieve.
Buffalo Bills NFL Primetime 1990 1
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Highlights of all 16 games played by the 13-3 Buffalo Bills
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Highlights of all 16 games played by the 13-3 Buffalo Bills
- published: 04 Mar 2012
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The Buffalo Bills
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A tribute to the ups and downs of a team that's been through many. Go Bills!
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A tribute to the ups and downs of a team that's been through many. Go Bills!
- published: 30 Sep 2011
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1991 Buffalo Bills NFL PrimeTime
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NFL PrimeTime highlights of the 1991 AFC Champion Buffalo Bills
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NFL PrimeTime highlights of the 1991 AFC Champion Buffalo Bills
- published: 29 Jul 2012
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Buffalo Bills 1991 Yearbook - Part 1
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Buffalo Bills 1991 Yearbook - Part 1
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KB: Panghimagas: 1917: Buffalo Bill's death
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Madden NFL 13: Connected Careers Mode | Introducing NEW Coach Lance Bitches And The Buffalo Bills
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- This is the first episode to my Buffalo Bills Madden 13 Connected Careers Coach! - In this video you will see me set up my Madden Connected Careers by first having to find the menu LOL ! but once I get rolling the commentary becomes VERY funny ! I also create coach Lance Bitches ! Hope you enjoy - Those Sliders - www.operationsports.com - That Beat was By: IPrinceMike soundcloud.com "Audio file(s) provided by www.audiomicro.com" - But uh watch this video , comment it , like this hoe and favorite it for a young brother lol - Follow My Twitter - http - Like My Facebook - www.facebook.com - Add My PSN - StaxMontana Madden NFL 13 : Connected Careers Mode | Introducing "Coach Lance Bitches And The Buffalo Bills" How to run in Madden 13 How to spin move in Madden 13 How to truck stick in Madden 13 How to juke in Madden 13 How to tackle in Madden 13 How to hit stick in Madden 13 How to intercept a pass in Madden 13 How to sack in Madden 13 How to pass in Madden 13 How to throw accurate passes in Madden 13 How to scramble in Madden 13 How to stay in the pocket in Madden 13 How to become better in Madden 13
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- This is the first episode to my Buffalo Bills Madden 13 Connected Careers Coach! - In this video you will see me set up my Madden Connected Careers by first having to find the menu LOL ! but once I get rolling the commentary becomes VERY funny ! I also create coach Lance Bitches ! Hope you enjoy - Those Sliders - www.operationsports.com - That Beat was By: IPrinceMike soundcloud.com "Audio file(s) provided by www.audiomicro.com" - But uh watch this video , comment it , like this hoe and favorite it for a young brother lol - Follow My Twitter - http - Like My Facebook - www.facebook.com - Add My PSN - StaxMontana Madden NFL 13 : Connected Careers Mode | Introducing "Coach Lance Bitches And The Buffalo Bills" How to run in Madden 13 How to spin move in Madden 13 How to truck stick in Madden 13 How to juke in Madden 13 How to tackle in Madden 13 How to hit stick in Madden 13 How to intercept a pass in Madden 13 How to sack in Madden 13 How to pass in Madden 13 How to throw accurate passes in Madden 13 How to scramble in Madden 13 How to stay in the pocket in Madden 13 How to become better in Madden 13
- published: 12 Jan 2013
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Buffalo. For Real TV - Buffalo Bills Tailgating
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The fourth episode of Buffalo. For Real TV takes viewers to Ralph Wilson Stadium to experience Buffalo Bills Tailgating. Produced by Visit Buffalo Niagara and First + Main Media.
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The fourth episode of Buffalo. For Real TV takes viewers to Ralph Wilson Stadium to experience Buffalo Bills Tailgating. Produced by Visit Buffalo Niagara and First + Main Media.
- published: 03 Nov 2011
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BUFFALO BILLS GAME
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Went to the Buffalo Bills vs. Washington Redskins preseason opener with Brian (ONLYUSEmeBLADE) and high school classmate, Dan (DJ KEEMSTAR). Bills lost 7-6 but I got to see RG3 throw his first pro touchdown. GO BILLS!
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Went to the Buffalo Bills vs. Washington Redskins preseason opener with Brian (ONLYUSEmeBLADE) and high school classmate, Dan (DJ KEEMSTAR). Bills lost 7-6 but I got to see RG3 throw his first pro touchdown. GO BILLS!
- published: 11 Aug 2012
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[HD] Seattle Seahawks vs. Buffalo Bills _ 15th Matchday _ 12/16/2012 _ Madden 13 Forecast
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Seattle Seahawks vs. Buffalo Bills 15th Matchday 12/16/2012 Madden 13 Forecast
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Seattle Seahawks vs. Buffalo Bills 15th Matchday 12/16/2012 Madden 13 Forecast
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Buffalo Bills Highlights
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A tribute to the history of the Buffalo Bills and the greatest fans in the NFL
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A tribute to the history of the Buffalo Bills and the greatest fans in the NFL
- published: 02 May 2012
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BUFFALO BILL IN TOMAHAWK TERRITORY, 1952, Full Movie, English, Cinetel
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Interesting western, starring Clayton Moore (know by The Lone Ranger Series) as Buffalo Bill, the famous cowboy, and Slim Andrews as his sidekick Cactus. They together will try to stop the continous attacks of indians to a caravan. Soon, they will discover the indians are really outlaws in disguise trying to make easy money....
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Interesting western, starring Clayton Moore (know by The Lone Ranger Series) as Buffalo Bill, the famous cowboy, and Slim Andrews as his sidekick Cactus. They together will try to stop the continous attacks of indians to a caravan. Soon, they will discover the indians are really outlaws in disguise trying to make easy money....
- published: 16 Jul 2011
- views: 51825
- author: CINETELMULTIMEDIA
Madden '13: Buffalo Bills Connected Careers (Season 1) - Week 1 @ New York Jets
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 41:54
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
My Connected Careers Mode begins as my Buffalo Bills are at the New York Jets for Week 1. This is the start of my first Connected Careers/Franchise Mode in Madden '13. I will be playing as the Buffalo Bills, my favorite NFL team. Just as a heads up, before the start of the season, I traded Ryan Fitzpatrick and a 3rd round draft pick for Alex Smith of the 49ers. . *I am not planning on commentating these videos because of the amount of time it takes, but if you guys really want it just tell me *I play on All-Pro difficulty ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Subscribe to my channel: www.youtube.com
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My Connected Careers Mode begins as my Buffalo Bills are at the New York Jets for Week 1. This is the start of my first Connected Careers/Franchise Mode in Madden '13. I will be playing as the Buffalo Bills, my favorite NFL team. Just as a heads up, before the start of the season, I traded Ryan Fitzpatrick and a 3rd round draft pick for Alex Smith of the 49ers. . *I am not planning on commentating these videos because of the amount of time it takes, but if you guys really want it just tell me *I play on All-Pro difficulty ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Subscribe to my channel: www.youtube.com
- published: 01 Jan 2013
- views: 178
- author: xDGGamingHDx
Madden NFL 13 Online Gameplay: Buffalo Bills (Kush77) vs. Baltimore Ravens (ReNeGaDe IX) Xbox 360
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 31:54
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
My Madden 13 Review -- www.chicagonow.com
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My Madden 13 Review -- www.chicagonow.com
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 5889
- author: TheGameGuysBlog
Buffalo Bill Dance Scene
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:50
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
"Goodbye Horses" Twitter: www.twitter.com
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"Goodbye Horses" Twitter: www.twitter.com
- published: 26 Jan 2010
- views: 172041
- author: tommyballard85
Fred Jackson Buffalo Bills RB
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:57
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Longest run for Buffalo Bills in 20 years.
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"Street Games" with Stevie Johnson Trailer - The NOC
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:16
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Buffalo Bills star Stevie Johnson hits the streets with a wad of cash to challenge unsuspecting pedestrians to a series of crazy dares and high-stakes competitions. Subscribe to The NOC to catch every episode of "Street Games," premiering Thursday, September 27! ABOUT US: The NOC is an entertainment channel about the personalities and lives of athletes. Catch the world's most famous sports stars saying and doing the unexpected each week on The NOC! SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com LIKE us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com FOLLOW us on TWITTER: twitter.com
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Buffalo Bills star Stevie Johnson hits the streets with a wad of cash to challenge unsuspecting pedestrians to a series of crazy dares and high-stakes competitions. Subscribe to The NOC to catch every episode of "Street Games," premiering Thursday, September 27! ABOUT US: The NOC is an entertainment channel about the personalities and lives of athletes. Catch the world's most famous sports stars saying and doing the unexpected each week on The NOC! SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com LIKE us on FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com FOLLOW us on TWITTER: twitter.com
- published: 24 Sep 2012
- views: 8440
- author: NOC
1991 Buffalo Bills NFL PrimeTime 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:24
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
NFL PrimeTime highlights of the 1991 AFC Champion Buffalo Bills
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NFL PrimeTime highlights of the 1991 AFC Champion Buffalo Bills
- published: 30 Jul 2012
- views: 2006
- author: Andy Provin
Madden '13: Buffalo Bills Connected Careers (Season 1) - Week 2 vs. Kansas City Chiefs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 39:42
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
My Buffalo Bills face off against the Kansas City Chiefs for their first home game of the year. I did do some more free agent signings that I did not include in the recording. These are the players that I signed to one-year contracts: - Josh Cribbs (WR/KR) - Greg Zuerlein (K) - Andrew Hawkins (WR) In order to make these adjustments, I had to release some players. This list included: - Rian Lindell (K) - Fred Jackson (RB) ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Subscribe to my channel: www.youtube.com
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My Buffalo Bills face off against the Kansas City Chiefs for their first home game of the year. I did do some more free agent signings that I did not include in the recording. These are the players that I signed to one-year contracts: - Josh Cribbs (WR/KR) - Greg Zuerlein (K) - Andrew Hawkins (WR) In order to make these adjustments, I had to release some players. This list included: - Rian Lindell (K) - Fred Jackson (RB) ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Subscribe to my channel: www.youtube.com
- published: 02 Jan 2013
- views: 63
- author: xDGGamingHDx
Tailgate32 EP22: Buffalo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:54
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
The crew shoots over to Buffalo for a divisional showdown against the Dolphins. First things first, it's time to figure out whose wings will make John cry harder, Anchor Bar or Duffs? Then it's off to the tailgate where they carouse with legendary characters Hammer, Pinto Ron, and Captain Buffalo. And to finish things off Mike partakes in a bizarre tradition where he gets covered in ketchup and mustard by some of the most colorful Bills fans. Episode home: tailgate32.com tailgate32.com http twitter.com Produced by Mike and John Trupiano Directed and Edited by Aidan Brezonick Cinematography by Dustin Supencheck Production Manager: Matt Clement Motion graphics by Simian Design Group Tailgate32 theme: "Faust" by Secret Colours Additional music provided by PlainFire and Dead Sheriff Special thanks to Football Nation, Big Green Egg, The Buffalo Bills, Hammer, Ken Johnson, and Anchor Bar.
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The crew shoots over to Buffalo for a divisional showdown against the Dolphins. First things first, it's time to figure out whose wings will make John cry harder, Anchor Bar or Duffs? Then it's off to the tailgate where they carouse with legendary characters Hammer, Pinto Ron, and Captain Buffalo. And to finish things off Mike partakes in a bizarre tradition where he gets covered in ketchup and mustard by some of the most colorful Bills fans. Episode home: tailgate32.com tailgate32.com http twitter.com Produced by Mike and John Trupiano Directed and Edited by Aidan Brezonick Cinematography by Dustin Supencheck Production Manager: Matt Clement Motion graphics by Simian Design Group Tailgate32 theme: "Faust" by Secret Colours Additional music provided by PlainFire and Dead Sheriff Special thanks to Football Nation, Big Green Egg, The Buffalo Bills, Hammer, Ken Johnson, and Anchor Bar.
- published: 20 Dec 2012
- views: 9058
- author: tailgate32
1995 Buffalo Bills at Denver Broncos first half
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 79:33
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
First half of the 1995 Buffalo Bills at Denver Broncos game. This was the season opener for both teams. It was also Mike Shanahan's Denver Broncos head coaching debut.
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First half of the 1995 Buffalo Bills at Denver Broncos game. This was the season opener for both teams. It was also Mike Shanahan's Denver Broncos head coaching debut.
- published: 15 Jan 2013
- views: 3
- author: dipsomaniac1976
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14 Jan 2013
Bamako/Paris - French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital, Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north ... Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said France’s intervention on Friday prevented the advancing rebels from seizing Bamako and vowed air strikes would continue ... – ... Doubt....(size: 6.6Kb)
photo: AP / Kevin Frayer
14 Jan 2013
Allahabad. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings ... "I am ecstatic ... Agence France-Presse ....(size: 4.2Kb)
photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny
15 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON. Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year. The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic ... Last year’s total is the highest since the Pentagon began closely tracking suicides in 2001 ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
photo: AP / Arshad Butt
15 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Desperate times call for desperate measures. In the case regarding Pakistani Shias, a minority population in Pakistan, some are refusing to bury their dead until the government deepens its commitment to protect them and the army provides better security. This comes on the heels of another suicide terrorist attack that killed 92 people and wounded more than 100 ... (1) Crilly, Rob ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
14 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to use it as a bargaining chip. "To even entertain the idea of the United States of America not paying our bills is irresponsible. It's absurd," Obama said in a press conference ... And they better choose quickly because time is running short ... Congress authorizes us to pay our bills." ... ....(size: 10.3Kb)
Buffalo News
16 Jan 2013
Erie County expects to pay $103 million during the course of a proposed 10-year lease deal with the Buffalo Bills for Ralph Wilson Stadium for renovation work and subsidies to the team ... “I’ve heard some criticism out there saying, ‘Oh, this means that taxes are going to be going up as a direct result of the Buffalo Bills lease,’ ” Poloncarz told Erie County legislators on Tuesday....(size: 7.2Kb)
Detroit Free Press
16 Jan 2013
The Lions got a new running backs coach Monday in former Buffalo Bills assistant Curtis Modkins, and Joique Bell got back an old sounding board. Bell, the Lions' second-leading rusher this season with 414 yards, began his NFL career three years ago with a brief stint in Buffalo, where Modkins was his offensive coordinator and position coach....(size: 1.7Kb)
Buffalo News
16 Jan 2013
Safety Jairus Byrd and left guard Andy Levitre are the Buffalo Bills’ big-ticket soon-to-be unrestricted free agents ... Here’s a look at that “second tier” of unrestricted free agents for the Bills, excluding Levitre and Byrd ... McKelvin also started four games at cornerback as the Bills played musical chairs at the position behind Stephon Gilmore for most of the season ... He hopes that comes with the Bills....(size: 10.4Kb)
Buffalo News
16 Jan 2013
Doug Marrone continues to round out his coaching staff with the Buffalo Bills, announcing 10 new hires Tuesday. Marrone tapped into his old staff at Syracuse for four of those joining him with the Bills ... Joining the Bills will be. ... • Assistant defensive backs coach Samson Brown – Joins the Bills after two years with the Jets as a coaching assistant....(size: 3.8Kb)
The Washington Post
16 Jan 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A person familiar with the situation says the Carolina Panthers interviewed Bobby April on Tuesday for their special teams coordinator position ... Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections? ... Louis Rams and Buffalo Bills ... ....(size: 1.6Kb)
my SA
16 Jan 2013
Sporting News
16 Jan 2013
South Carolina wide receiver Ace Sanders appears to be entering the 2013 NFL Draft after all. Sanders previously indicated via Instagram, but the junior has decided to turn pro ... (AP Photo). Tuesday night, Sanders wrote on his Twitter account ... Current and former teammates hit social media to wish Sanders luck, including former Gamecocks defensive back Stephon Gilmore, who was drafted 10th overall by the Buffalo Bills last year ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
Baltimore Sun
16 Jan 2013
Outside linebacker Paul Kruger emerged as a dangerous pass rusher this season. Inside linebacker Dannell Ellerbe tapped into his potential as a versatile three-down defender, proving capable of chasing down running backs or blitzing quarterbacks ... Last year, Kamerion Wimbley signed a $35 million deal with the Tennessee Titans and Mark Anderson received $28 million from the Buffalo Bills ... "It's an awesome place to play ... He's their No ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
The Examiner
16 Jan 2013
It’s no wonder things seem quiet in the historic district on the Island, but don’t let that fool you. It’s a silent buzz, as everyone prepares for Mardi Gras this year! To liven things up a bit in this dreary cold weather Restaurant Week has come to the rescue from January 13-26 ... Restaurant Week. Tremont House ... This hotel can boast of guests from the good old days such as Buffalo Bill all the way to recent visitors like William Shatner ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
15 Jan 2013
The vision to share the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection—embraced by the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and its Plains Indian Museum—gathered even more momentum with two additional grants received in late 2012 ... Buffalo Bill Historical Center....(size: 4.1Kb)
Syracuse
15 Jan 2013
The exodus of Syracuse football coaches to Buffalo continues. The Buffalo Bills announced the addition of 10 coaches to Doug Marrone's staff today and the list includes four coaches from Marrone's prior staff at Syracuse ... will join Marrone in Buffalo....(size: 1.3Kb)
TSN Canada
15 Jan 2013
-- Newly hired Bills coach Doug Marrone turned to several of his former assistants at Syracuse in continuing to fill out his new staff in Buffalo. The Bills announced on Tuesday that they've hired 10 assistants, a majority of them having little or no NFL experience ... Hackett, last week, to serve as the Bills offensive co-ordinator....(size: 1.7Kb)
The Washington Post
15 Jan 2013
— The Buffalo Bills have hired 10 assistant coaches, a majority with little or no NFL experience, in continuing to fill out new coach Doug Marrone’s staff ... Several assistants have ties to the New York Jets, where they worked under Buffalo’s new defensive ......(size: 1.6Kb)
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The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the East Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). They play their home games in the suburb of Orchard Park, and since the 2008 NFL season, play one home game per season and three pre-season games in Toronto as part of the 5-year Bills Toronto Series. The Bills began competitive play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.[1]
The Bills won two consecutive American Football League titles in 1964 and 1965, but the club has not won a league championship since then. Buffalo is also the only team to win four consecutive American Football Conference Championships, the only team in either conference to play in four consecutive Super Bowl games, and the only team ever to lose those four consecutive Super Bowls, consequently to the NFC East.
The Bills were named as the result of the winning entry in a local contest by Michael Doucas, which named the team after the AAFC Buffalo Bills, a previous football franchise from the All-America Football Conference that merged with the Cleveland Browns in 1950. That team was named after the historic "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The Bills' cheerleaders are known as the Buffalo Jills. The official mascot is Billy Buffalo; Cody is not used in the team's iconography at all.
They are the only New York NFL team to play their home games within New York state proper. Both the New York Giants and the New York Jets play in East Rutherford, New Jersey, nine miles from their headquarters in New York City. With the inception of the 5-year Bills Toronto Series deal in 2008, that is good through 2012, they are the only NFL team to play a home game in Canada and one of only two (the St. Louis Rams, with their regular hosting of the NFL International Series in London, being the other) to play home games outside the United States. The Bills conduct summer training camp at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, New York, an eastern suburb of Rochester.[2]
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History[link]
Main article: History of the Buffalo Bills
Main article: List of Buffalo Bills seasons
Logos and uniforms[link]
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Buffalo Bills uniform: 1975-1983
*solid red socks were worn from '82-'83
*solid red socks were worn from '82-'83
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Buffalo Bills uniform: 1987-2001
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Buffalo Bills uniform 2002-2010
In 1962, the standing red bison was designated as the logo and took its place on a white helmet.[3] In 1962, the team's colors also changed to red, white, and blue. The team switched to blue jerseys with red and white stripes on the shoulders. the helmets were white with a red center stripe.[4] By 1965, red and blue center stripes were put on the helmets.[5]
The Bills introduced blue pants worn with the white jerseys in 1973, the last year of the standing buffalo helmet. The blue pants remained through 1985. The face mask on the helmet was blue from 1974 through 1986 before changing to white.
In 1974, the standing bison logo was replaced by a blue charging one with a red slanting stripe streaming from its horn. In 1984, the helmet's background color was changed from white to red, primarily to help Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson distinguish them more readily from three of their division rivals at that time, the Indianapolis Colts, the Miami Dolphins, and the New England Patriots, who all also wore white helmets at that point. Ferguson said that "Everyone we played had white helmets at that time. Our new head coach Kay Stephenson just wanted to get more of a contrast on the field that may help spot a receiver down the field."[6] (The Patriots now use a silver helmet, the Colts have since been realigned to the AFC South, and the New York Jets, who switched to green helmets after the 1978 season, have since switched back to white helmets.)
In 2002, under the direction of general manager Tom Donahoe, the Bills' uniforms went through radical changes. A darker shade of blue was introduced as the main jersey color, and nickel gray was introduced as an accent color. Both the blue and white jerseys featured red side panels. The white jerseys included a dark blue shoulder yoke and royal blue numbers. The helmet remained primarily red with one navy blue, two nickel, two royal blue, two white stripes, and white face mask. A new logo, a stylized "B" consisting of two bullets and a more detailed buffalo head on top, was proposed and had been released (it can be seen on a few baseball caps that were released for sale), but fan backlash led to the team retaining the running bison logo. The helmet logo adopted in 1974 -- a charging royal blue bison, with a red streak, white horn and eyeball -- remained unchanged.
In 2005, the Bills revived the standing bison helmet and uniform of the mid-1960s as a throwback uniform.
The Bills usually wore the all-blue combination at home and the all-white combination on the road when not wearing the throwback uniforms. They stopped wearing blue-on-white after 2006, while the white-on-blue was not worn after 2007.
For the 2011 season, the Bills unveiled a new uniform design, an updated rendition of the 1975–83 design. This change includes a return to the white helmets with "charging buffalo" logo, and a return to royal blue instead of navy.
Buffalo sporadically wore white at home in the 1980s, but stopped doing so before their Super Bowl years. On November 6, 2011 against the New York Jets, the Bills wore white at home for the first time since 1986.
Playoffs[link]
- 1963 AFL Eastern Division Play off: Boston Patriots 26, Buffalo Bills 8
- 1964 AFL Championship: Buffalo Bills 20, San Diego Chargers 7
- 1965 AFL Championship: Buffalo Bills 23, San Diego Chargers 0
- 1966 AFL Championship: Kansas City Chiefs 31, Buffalo Bills 7
- 1974 Divisional Playoffs: Pittsburgh Steelers 32, Buffalo Bills 14
- 1980 Divisional Playoffs: San Diego Chargers 20, Buffalo Bills 14
- 1981 Wild Card Game: Buffalo Bills 31, New York Jets 27
- 1981 Divisional Playoffs: Cincinnati Bengals 28, Buffalo Bills 21
- 1988 Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 17, Houston Oilers 10
- 1988 AFC Championship: Cincinnati Bengals 21, Buffalo Bills 10
- 1989 Divisional Playoffs: Cleveland Browns 34, Buffalo Bills 30
- 1990 Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 44, Miami Dolphins 34
- 1990 AFC Championship: Buffalo Bills 51, Los Angeles Raiders 3
- Super Bowl XXV: New York Giants 20, Buffalo Bills 19
- 1991 Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 37, Kansas City Chiefs 14
- AFC Championship: Buffalo Bills 10, Denver Broncos 7
- Super Bowl XXVI: Washington Redskins 37, Buffalo Bills 24
- 1992 AFC Wild Card Game: Buffalo Bills 41, Houston Oilers 38 OT
- 1992 AFC Championship: Buffalo Bills 29, Miami Dolphins 10
- Super Bowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys 52, Buffalo Bills 17
- 1993 Divisional Playoffs: Buffalo Bills 29, Los Angeles Raiders 23
- AFC Championship: Buffalo Bills 30, Kansas City Chiefs 13
- Super Bowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys 30, Buffalo Bills 13
- 1995 Divisional Playoffs: Pittsburgh Steelers 40, Buffalo Bills 21
- 1996 Wild Card Game: Jacksonville Jaguars 30, Buffalo Bills 27
- 1998 Wild Card Game: Miami Dolphins 24, Buffalo Bills 17
- 1999 Wild Card Game: Tennessee Titans 22, Buffalo Bills 16
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- Playoff record 10 wins, 16 losses [7]
Players of note[link]
O.J. Simpson, Jack Kemp, Joe Ferguson, Joe DeLamielleure, Jim Kelly, Fred Smerlas, Kent Hull, Darryl Talley, Jim Ritcher, Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed, Steve Tasker, Bruce Smith, Booker Edgerson, Phil Hansen, Cookie Gilchrist, Elbert Dubenion, Cornelius Bennett.
Current players[link]
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Distinguished Service Award Recipients[link]
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- O.J. Simpson (1985)
- Billy Shaw (1999)
- Marv Levy (2001)
- Jim Kelly (2002)
- James Lofton (2003)
- Joe DeLamielleure (2003)
- Thurman Thomas (2007)
- Bruce Smith (2009)
- Ralph Wilson (2009)
Retired numbers[link]
- 12 Jim Kelly, QB, 1986–96[13]; previously worn by Joe Ferguson, QB, 1973–84
Unofficially retired
- 32 O.J. Simpson, RB, 1969–77
- 34 Thurman Thomas, RB, 1988–99; Cookie Gilchrist, RB, 1962–64
- 78 Bruce Smith, DE, 1985–99 (although guard Ruben Brown used 78 as his practice jersey; he wore 79 on the field)
Reduced circulation[14]
- 15 Jack Kemp, QB, 1962–69
- 44 Elbert Dubenion, WR, 1960–68
- 66 Billy Shaw, OG, 1961–69
- 83 Andre Reed, WR, 1985–99 (Lee Evans III wore 83 by special permission)
- 94, see below
Since the earliest days of the team, the number 31 was not supposed to be issued to any other player. The Bills had stationery and various other team merchandise showing a running player wearing that number, and it was not supposed to represent any specific person, but the 'spirit of the team.' The tradition was broken in 1969 when reserve running back Preston Ridlehuber was issued number 31 for one game while his normal number 36 jersey was repaired by equipment manager Tony Marchitte. The number 31 was not issued again until 1990 when first round draft choice James (J.D.) Williams wore it for his first two seasons. The number has since been released for use by any player and is currently being worn by starting free safety Jairus Byrd. Byrd had used number 32 in college, but switched to 31 because the team does not issue Simpson's former number 32.[14]
Number 94 is also in reduced circulation, and for reasons unknown went unissued until the 1987 season, when two replacement players wore the number during the players' strike that year. It has traditionally been reserved for quality defensive players; among those that have worn it include special teams standout Mark Pike, defensive end Bryce Fisher, defensive end Aaron Schobel, and current user, defensive tackle Mario Williams.[15]
All-time first round draft picks[link]
Main article: List of Buffalo Bills first-round draft picks
Recent Pro Bowl selections[link]
- 2011 Season - No selections
- 2010 Season - Kyle Williams (Defensive Tackle - Injury Replacement) [16]
- 2009 Season - Jairus Byrd (Safety)
- 2008 Season - Jason Peters (Starting Offensive Tackle), Marshawn Lynch (Running Back - Injury Replacement)[17]
- 2007 Season - Jason Peters (Offensive Tackle), Aaron Schobel (Defensive End - Injury Replacement)[18]
- 2006 Season - Aaron Schobel (Defensive End), Brian Moorman (Punter)[19]
- 2005 Season - Brian Moorman (Punter), Mike Schneck (Need Player)[20]
- 2004 Season - Takeo Spikes (Linebacker), Ruben Brown (Offensive Guard)[21]
- 2002 Season - Drew Bledsoe (Quarterback), Ruben Brown (Offensive Guard), Eric Moulds (Wide Receiver), Travis Henry (Running Back - Injury Replacement)[22]
Coaches of note[link]
Head coaches[link]
Main article: List of Buffalo Bills head coaches
Current staff[link]
Front Office
Head Coaches
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Radio and television[link]
Main article: List of Buffalo Bills broadcasters
The Buffalo Bills Radio Network is currently flagshipped at WGR, AM 550 in Buffalo. John Murphy is the team's current play-by-play announcer; he was a color commentator alongside, and eventually succeeded, longtime voice Van Miller after Miller's retirement at the end of the 2003 NFL season. Mark Kelso serves as the color analyst. The Bills radio network has approximately seventeen affiliates in upstate New York and one affiliate, CJCL 590AM (The Fan) in Toronto. As of early 2012, it is composed mostly of WGR, Entercom's sister stations WCMF (96.5 FM) and WROC-AM 950 in Rochester, and a fleet of independent AM and FM stations across upstate New York from Jamestown east to Albany. Previous flagship Citadel Broadcasting was purchased by Cumulus Media, who in turn ceased carrying Bills games at the end of the 2011 season, leaving the network without affiliates in Syracuse, Binghamton, and Erie.
Buffalo is one of ten teams that is contracted with Compass Media Networks to syndicate selected games nationwide.
During the preseason, most games are televised on Buffalo's ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV channel 7, with several other affiliates in western New York. These games are simulcast on sister stations WTVH in Syracuse, WICU in Erie, WHAM-TV in Rochester, and beginning in 2008, CITY-TV in Toronto. Ray Bentley, a former Bills linebacker and current AFL on ESPN analyst, does play by play, while CBS analyst and former Bills special teams player Steve Tasker does color commentary on these games. WHAM-TV sports anchor Mike Catalana is the sideline reporter. Since 2008, preseason games have been broadcast in high definition.
In the event that regular season (or preseason) games are broadcast by a cable outlet (ESPN or NFL Network), WKBW-TV carries the ESPN or NFL Network feed.
Training camp sites[link]
- 1960-1962 Roycroft Inn, East Aurora, New York
- 1963-1967 Camelot Hotel, Blasdell, New York
- 1968-1980 Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York
- 1981-1999 State University at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York
- 2000–Present, St. John Fisher College, Pittsford, New York
Mascots, cheerleaders and marching band[link]
The Bills' official mascot is Billy Buffalo, an eight-foot tall, anthropomorphic blue American bison who wears the jersey "number" BB.
The Bills' cheerleaders are known as the Buffalo Jills. The Jills are not owned by the Bills, but instead are a separate organization funded primarily by the Buffalo Bills Radio Network, a subsidiary of Entercom.
The Attica High School Marching Band is the official marching band of the Buffalo Bills. Along with the Baltimore Ravens and the Washington Redskins, the Bills are one of only three teams in the NFL to designate an official marching band. The Marching Band performs yearly pregame.
In the bone-chilling winter, it is not uncommon to see shirtless fans painted with Bills decals, especially the "B-I-L-L-S" lettering.
In popular culture[link]
Howard University's mascot, the Bison, is designed identically to the Buffalo Bills' "charging buffalo" logo.
In the 1996 X-Files episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", the titular character, a member of a shadowy government cabal, states that the Buffalo Bills will not win a Super Bowl while he lives.
The Buffalo Bills were featured on the direct-to-TV movie, Second String and in the Vincent Gallo drama Buffalo 66. The Buffalo Bills are mentioned in the 1995 movie Heavyweights. The character Josh (Shaun Weiss) says, "Perkis caved like the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl", referring to their string of four straight Super Bowl losses in the early 1990s.
In the 1996 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode S04E01, "Lord of the Flies", Clark picks up a blue Buffalo Bills hat with the Charging Buffalo emblem in the center and uses it to help disguise himself. Dean Cain, who played Clark Kent/Superman, had previously tried out for the Bills. In a later episode, he lets it be known that the Metropolis Mammoths were playing the Bills.
The Bills are one of the favorite teams of ESPN announcer Chris Berman, who picked the Bills to reach the Super Bowl nearly every year in the 1990s. Berman often uses the catchphrase "no one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills!" Berman gave the induction speech for Bills owner Ralph Wilson when Wilson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009. The Bills were also a favorite of late NBC political commentator Tim Russert, a South Buffalo native, who often referred to the Bills on his Sunday morning talk show, Meet the Press. Actor Nick Bakay, a Buffalo native, is also a well-known Bills fan; he has discussed the team in segments of NFL Top 10.
1n an April 2011 episode of the television series 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy discovers that, in an alternate future, he would not only be wealthier and more successful, but he would also be the owner of a "New York football team." He later is disappointed to learn that the team is not the New York Giants or New York Jets, but the Buffalo Bills.
See also[link]
- List of American Football League players
- List of Buffalo Bills seasons
- Major North American professional sports teams
External links[link]
- Official website
- Years of Glory, Years of Pain: 25 Years of Buffalo Bills football, 1960-1984 (video)
Notes and references[link]
- ^ http://www.profootballhof.com/history/stats/franchises.aspx
- ^ http://www.buffalobills.com/team/training-camp/index.html
- ^ "Elbert Dubenion - 1960". Hometown.aol.com. http://hometown.aol.com/bkbubco/60-Buf.html. Retrieved 2010-12-30. [unreliable source?]
- ^ http://hometown.aol.com/bkbubco/62-Buf.html[dead link]
- ^ Billy Shaw & Tom Sestak - 1965[dead link]
- ^ "Untold uniform stories: Fergie behind helmet color change". Buffalo Bills. http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-2/Untold-uniform-stories-Fergie-behind-helmet-color-change/363e8e60-8573-42ac-8f4a-2bb56169e127. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
- ^ NFL Record and fact Book ISBN 978-1-60320-833-8
- ^ By Mark Gaughan (2010-08-06). "The billboard: A daily dose from Bills training camp - Bills & NFL". The Buffalo News. http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/bills-nfl/article95278.ece. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
- ^ New Wall of Famer named
- ^ Steady Hansen will go on Bills' Wall of Fame
- ^ Polian named Bills 28th Wall of Famer
- ^ http://www.buffalobills.com/team/team-profootball-hall-of-fame.html
- ^ Buffalo Bill Retired Numbers
- ^ a b Brown, Chris (2011-06-17). The untouchable numbers. BuffaloBills.com. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
- ^ Gaughan, Mark (May 22, 2012). Super Mario will wear No. 94 with Bills; fresh uniform start for Buffalo's prized free-agent acquisition. The Buffalo News. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ^ Maiorana, Sal (Jan 7, 2011). "Buffalo Bills DT Kyle Williams named to Pro Bowl". rocnow.com. http://rocnow.com/article/bills/2011101070331. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
- ^ Brown, Chris (Jan 29, 2009). "Lynch headed to Pro Bowl". Buffalo Bills.com. http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-1/lynch-headed-to-pro-bowl-/388a14b3-9fca-4148-9415-ac41532f87fc. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
- ^ "2008 Pro Bowl rosters". Nfl.com. 2008-02-04. http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8053b226&template=without-video&confirm=true. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
- ^ 3:37 a.m. ET (2007-02-10). "2007 Pro Bowl rosters". MSNBC.com. http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/16287024/. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
- ^ "2005 AFC Pro Bowl roster". ESPN. 2006-02-07. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2267705. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
- ^ "2004 Pro Bowl Roster - AFC". Football.about.com. 2010-06-14. http://football.about.com/cs/history/a/afcprobowl2004.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
- ^ "AFC Pro Bowl squad". ESPN.com. 2003-01-31. http://static.espn.go.com/nfl/probowl03/s/afcprobowl03.html. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
- ^ Buffalo Bills Training Camp History
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| Born | William Frederick Cody (1846-02-26)February 26, 1846 near Le Claire, Iowa |
| Died | January 10, 1917(1917-01-10) (aged 70) Denver, Colorado, United States |
| Cause of death | Kidney failure |
| Resting place | Lookout Mountain, Golden, Colorado |
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William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), in Le Claire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US Army as a scout. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill became famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes, which he toured in Great Britain and Europe as well as the United States.
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Nickname and work[link]
William Frederick Cody ("Buffalo Bill") got his nickname after the American Civil War when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody earned the nickname by killing 4,280 American bison (commonly known as buffalo) in eighteen months, (1867–1868).[1] Bill Comstock also had the nickname.[2] Cody and Comstock competed in a buffalo-shooting match over the exclusive right to use the name, which Cody won by killing 69 bison to Comstock's 48.[2]
Cody had documented service as a soldier during the Civil War and as Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry during the Plains Wars. He claimed to have had many jobs, including as a trapper, bullwhacker, "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and a hotel manager, but historians have had difficulty documenting them, and he may have fabricated some for publicity.
He became world famous for his Wild West Shows, which toured in Great Britain and Europe. Audiences were enthusiastic about seeing a piece of the American West.[3] The adventure story writer Emilio Salgari met Buffalo Bill in Italy, saw his show, and later featured him as a hero in some of his novels.
Early life and education[link]
William Frederick Cody was born on February 26, 1846 on a farm just outside of Le Claire, Iowa.[4] He was baptized as William Cody in the Dixie Union Chapel in Peel County (present-day Peel Region), Ontario, Canada in 1847, not far from his family's farm. His parents Isaac and Mary Cody were Canadians. The Chapel was built with Cody money and the land was donated by Philip Cody of Toronto Township.[5] The Cody family were originally Quakers and opposed to slavery. They had emigrated from the United States with other Quaker families from Vermont, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, shortly before or after the Revolutionary War, when slavery was still legal in those states, to buy land and farm in York, Peel, and Ontario counties.
In 1853 Isaac Cody sold his land in rural Scott County, Iowa for $2000 and he and his family moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory.[4] In these years before the Civil War, Kansas was running high with emotion and physical conflict on both sides of the slavery question. When his father gave an antislavery speech at the local trading post, pro-slavery men formed a mob and one stabbed him. The boy helped to drag his father to safety, although he never fully recovered from his injuries.
In Kansas, the family was frequently persecuted by pro-slavery supporters, forcing Isaac Cody to spend much of his time away from home. His enemies learned of a planned visit to his family and plotted to kill him on the way. The young Cody, despite his youth and the fact that he was ill, rode 30 miles (48 km) to warn his father. Cody's father died in 1857 from complications from his stabbing.[6]
After the father's death, the Cody family suffered financially. At age 11, Bill Cody took a job with a freight carrier as a "boy extra." He would ride up and down the length of a wagon train, and deliver messages to the drivers and workmen. Next he joined Johnston's Army as an unofficial member of the scouts assigned to guide the Army to Utah to put down a rumored rebellion by the Mormon population of Salt Lake City.[6] According to Cody's account in Buffalo Bill's Own Story, the Utah War was where he first began his career as an "Indian fighter".
Presently the moon rose, dead ahead of me; and painted boldly across its face was the figure of an Indian. He wore this war-bonnet of the Sioux, at his shoulder was a rifle pointed at someone in the river-bottom 30 feet (9 m) below; in another second he would drop one of my friends. I raised my old muzzle-loader and fired. The figure collapsed, tumbled down the bank and landed with a splash in the water. 'What is it?' called McCarthy, as he hurried back. 'It's over there in the water.' 'Hi!' he cried. 'Little Billy's killed an Indian all by himself!' So began my career as an Indian fighter.
At the age of 14, Cody was struck by gold fever, but on his way to the gold fields, he met an agent for the Pony Express. He signed with them, and after building several stations and corrals, Cody was given a job as a rider, which he kept until he was called home to his sick mother's bedside.[1]
Cody was active in the concordant bodies of Freemasonry, being initiated in Platte Valley Lodge No. 32, North Platte, Nebraska, on March 5, 1870. He received his 2nd and 3rd degrees on April 2, 1870, and January 10, 1871, respectively. He became a Knight Templar in 1889 and received his 32 degree in Scottish Rite Masonry in 1894.[7][8]
Military service[link]
After his mother recovered, Cody wished to enlist as a soldier, but was refused for his age. He began working with a United States freight caravan which delivered supplies to Fort Laramie. In 1863 he enlisted as a teamster with the rank of Private in Company H, 7th Kansas Cavalry and served until discharged in 1865.[1][6]
The next year Cody married Louisa Frederici, and they had four children together. Two died young.
From 1868 until 1872 Cody was employed as a scout by the United States Army. Part of the time he scouted for Indians. At other times, he hunted and killed bison to supply the Army and the Kansas Pacific Railroad. In January 1872 Cody was a scout for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia's highly publicized royal hunt.[9]
Medal of Honor[link]
In 1872, Cody was awarded a Medal of Honor for "gallantry in action" while serving as a civilian scout for the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. In 1917, the U.S. Army—after Congress revised the standards for award of the medal—removed from the rolls 911 medals previously awarded either to civilians, or for actions that would not warrant a Medal of Honor under the new higher standards. Among those revoked was Cody's.
In 1977, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker's medal was restored, and other reviews began. Cody's medal—along with those given to four other civilian scouts—was re-instated on June 12, 1989.[10][11]
Buffalo Bill's Wild West[link]
In December 1872 Cody traveled to Chicago to make his stage debut with friend Texas Jack Omohundro in The Scouts of the Prairie, one of the original Wild West shows produced by Ned Buntline.[12] During the 1873–1874 season, Cody and Omohundro invited their friend James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok to join them in a new play called Scouts of the Plains.[13]
The troupe toured for ten years. Cody's part typically included an 1876 incident at the Warbonnet Creek, where he claimed to have scalped a Cheyenne warrior. He said it was in revenge for the death of George Armstrong Custer.[14][not in citation given]
In 1883, in the area of North Platte, Nebraska, Cody founded "Buffalo Bill's Wild West", a circus-like attraction that toured annually. (Despite popular misconception, the word "show" was not a part of the title.)[3] With his show, Cody traveled throughout the United States and Europe and made many contacts. He stayed, for instance, in Garden City, Kansas, in the presidential suite of the former Windsor Hotel. He was befriended by the mayor and state representative, a frontier scout, rancher, and hunter named Charles "Buffalo" Jones.[15]
In 1893 Cody changed the title to "Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World". The show began with a parade on horseback, with participants from horse-culture groups that included US and other military, American Indians, and performers from all over the world in their best attire. Turks, Gauchos, Arabs, Mongols and Georgians, displayed their distinctive horses and colorful costumes. Visitors would see main events, feats of skill, staged races, and sideshows. Many historical western figures participated in the show. For example, Sitting Bull appeared with a band of 20 of his braves.
Cody's headline performers were well known in their own right. People such as Annie Oakley and her husband Frank Butler did sharp shooting, together with the likes of Gabriel Dumont. Performers re-enacted the riding of the Pony Express, Indian attacks on wagon trains, and stagecoach robberies. The show was said to end with a re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand, in which Cody portrayed General Custer, but this is more legend than fact. The finale was typically a portrayal of an Indian attack on a settler's cabin. Cody would ride in with an entourage of cowboys to defend a settler and his family. This finale was featured predominantly as early as 1886, but vanished after 1907; in total, it was used in 23 of 33 tours.[16] The show influenced many 20th-century portrayals of "the West" in cinema and literature.[3]
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With his profits, Cody purchased a 4,000-acre (16 km2) ranch near North Platte, Nebraska, in 1886. Scout's Rest Ranch included an eighteen-room mansion and a large barn for winter storage of the show's livestock.
In 1887 Cody took the show to Great Britain in celebration of the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria. It played in London before going on to Birmingham and Salford near Manchester, where it stayed for five months.[17]
In 1889 the show toured Europe, and in 1890 Cody met Pope Leo XIII. He set up an independent exhibition near the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, which greatly contributed to his popularity. It vexed the promoters of the fair, who had first rejected his request to participate.
In 1908 Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill joined forces and created the "Two Bills" show. That show was foreclosed on when it was playing in Denver, Colorado.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Tours Europe[link]
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West toured Europe eight times, the first four tours were between 1887 and 1892, and the last four were from 1902 to 1906.[18]
The Wild West first came to London in 1887 as part of the American Exhibition[19] that coincided with the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, requested a private preview of the Wild West performance, he was impressed enough to arrange a command performance for Queen Victoria. The Queen enjoyed the show and meeting the performers, setting the stage for another command performance on June 20, 1887 for her Jubilee guests. Royalty from all over Europe attended, including the future Kaiser Wilhelm II and future King George V,[20] these royal encounters provided Buffalo Bill’s Wild West an endorsement and publicity that ensured its success. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West closed its successful London run in October 1887 after over 300 performances and more than two and a half million tickets sold.[21] The tour made stops in Birmingham and Manchester before returning to the U.S. in May 1888 for a short summer tour.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West returned to Europe in May 1889 as part of the Exposition Universelle in Paris France, an event that commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille and featured the debut of the Eiffel Tower.[22] The tour moved to the South of France and Barcelona Spain then on to Italy. While in Rome a Wild West delegation was received by Pope Leo XIII.[23] Buffalo Bill was disappointed that the condition of the Colosseum did not allow it to be a venue however at Verona the Wild West did perform in an ancient Roman amphitheater.[24] The tour finished with stops in Austria-Hungary and Germany.
The Wild West tour returned to Germany in 1891 and moved through Belgium and the Netherlands before returning to Great Britain to close the season. The 1892 tour was confined to Great Britain and featured another command performance for Queen Victoria. The tour finished with a sixth month run in London before leaving Europe for nearly a decade.[25]
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West returned to Europe in December 1902 with a fourteen-week run in London complete with a visit from King Edward VII and the future King George V. The Wild West traveled throughout Great Britain during the 1902-03 tour as well as the 1904 tour, performing in nearly every city large enough to support it.[26] The 1905 tour began in April with a two-month run in Paris and proceeded to the rest of France, performing mostly one-night stands, concluding in December. The final tour of 1906 began in France on March 4, and then quickly moved on to Italy for two months. The Wild West then traveled east performing in Austria, the Balkans, Hungary, Romania, and the Ukraine before coming back west to visit Poland, The Czech Republic, Germany, and Belgium.[27]
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West was enormously successful in Europe making Buffalo Bill an international celebrity and an American icon.[28] It was a genuine American cultural export; Mark Twain commented, “…It is often said on the other side of the water that none of the exhibitions which we send to England are purely and distinctly American. If you will take the Wild West show over there you can remove that reproach.”[29] The Wild West brought an exotic foreign world to life for its European audiences, allowing a last glimpse at the fading American frontier.
Life in Cody, Wyoming[link]
In 1895, Cody was instrumental in the founding of Cody, the seat of Park County in northwestern Wyoming. The Old Trail Town museum is at the center of the community and honors the traditions of Western life. Cody first passed through the region in the 1870s. He was so impressed by the development possibilities from irrigation, rich soil, grand scenery, hunting, and proximity to Yellowstone Park that he returned in the mid-1890s to start a town. He brought with him associates for whom streets were named: Beck, Alger, Rumsey, Bleistein and Salsbury. The town was incorporated in 1901.
In November 1902, Cody opened the Irma Hotel, which he named after his daughter. He envisioned a growing number of tourists coming to Cody via the recently opened Burlington rail line. He expected that they would proceed up the Cody Road along the North Fork of the Shoshone River to visit Yellowstone Park. To accommodate travelers, Cody completed construction of the Wapiti Inn and Pahaska Tepee in 1905 along the Cody Road [30] with the assistance of artist and rancher Abraham Archibald Anderson.
Cody also established the TE Ranch, located on the South Fork of the Shoshone River about thirty-five miles from Cody. When he acquired the TE property, he sent cattle from Nebraska and South Dakota. His new herd carried the TE brand. The late 1890s were relatively prosperous years for "Buffalo Bill's Wild West", and he bought more land to add to the TE Ranch. Eventually Cody held around 8,000 acres (32 km²) of private land for grazing operations and ran about 1,000 head of cattle. He also operated a dude ranch, pack horse camping trips, and big game hunting business at and from the TE Ranch. In his spacious ranch house, he entertained notable guests from Europe and America.
Irrigation[link]
Larry McMurtry, along with historians such as RL Wilson, asserts that at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, Buffalo Bill Cody was the most recognizable celebrity on earth.[3] While Cody's show brought appreciation for the Western and American Indian cultures, he saw the American West change dramatically during his life. Bison herds, which had once numbered in the millions, were now threatened with extinction. Railroads crossed the plains, barbed wire, and other types of fences divided the land for farmers and ranchers, and the once-threatening Indian tribes were now confined to reservations. Wyoming's resources of coal, oil and natural gas were beginning to be exploited toward the end of his life.[3]
Even the Shoshone River was dammed for hydroelectric power as well as for irrigation. In 1897 and 1899 Cody and his associates acquired from the State of Wyoming the right to take water from the Shoshone River to irrigate about 169,000 acres (680 km2) of land in the Big Horn Basin. They began developing a canal to carry water diverted from the river, but their plans did not include a water storage reservoir. Cody and his associates were unable to raise sufficient capital to complete their plan. Early in 1903 they joined with the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners in urging the federal government to step in and help with irrigation development in the valley.
The Shoshone Project became one of the first federal water development projects undertaken by the newly formed Reclamation Service, later to become known as the Bureau of Reclamation. After Reclamation took over the project in 1903, investigating engineers recommended constructing a dam on the Shoshone River in the canyon west of Cody. Construction of the Shoshone Dam started in 1905, a year after the Shoshone Project was authorized. When it was completed in 1910, it was the tallest dam in the world. Almost three decades after its construction, the name of the dam and reservoir was changed to Buffalo Bill Dam by an act of Congress to honor Cody.[31]
Life in Staten Island, New York[link]
Cody brought his "Wild West Show" to an area of Mariners Harbor called Erastina (named for Staten Island promoter Erastus Wiman) for two seasons from June to October in 1886 and again in 1887. During the winter of 1886, the show moved indoors to Madison Square Garden. His show, featuring Native Americans, trick riders, "the smallest cowboy" and sharpshooters (including Annie Oakley), is said to have drawn millions of visitors to the island.
His 1879 autobiography is titled The Life and Adventures of Buffalo Bill.[32] A final autobiography, titled "The Great West That Was: 'Buffalo Bill's' Life Story," was serialized in Hearst's International Magazine from August 1916 to July 1917[33] and ghostwritten by James J. Montague.[34] It contained a number of errors, in part because of its completion after Cody's death in July 1917.[33]
Death[link]
Cody died of kidney failure on January 10, 1917, surrounded by family and friends at his sister's house in Denver. Cody was baptized into the Catholic Church the day before his death by Father Christopher Walsh of the Denver Cathedral.[35][36][37] He received a full masonic funeral.[7] Upon the news of Cody's death, tributes were made by King George V of the United Kingdom, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Imperial Germany, and President Woodrow Wilson.[38] His funeral was in Denver at the Elks Lodge Hall. The Wyoming governor John B. Kendrick, a friend of Cody's, led the funeral procession.
Cody's grave lies atop Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colorado.
At his death, Cody's once great fortune had dwindled to less than $100,000. He left his burial arrangements up to his wife Louisa. She said that he had always said he wanted to be buried on Lookout Mountain, which was corroborated by their daughter Irma, Cody's sisters, and family friends. But other family members joined the people of Cody to say Buffalo Bill should be buried in the town he founded. The controversy continued.[citation needed]
On June 3, 1917, Cody was buried on Colorado's Lookout Mountain in Golden, west of the city of Denver, on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, overlooking the Great Plains. His burial site was selected by his sister, Mary Decker.[39] In 1948 the Cody chapter of the American Legion offered a reward for the 'return' of the body, so the Denver chapter mounted a guard over the grave until a deeper shaft could be blasted into the rock.[38]
Philosophy[link]
As a frontier scout, he respected Native Americans and supported their rights. He employed many more natives than Sitting Bull, as he thought his show offered them good pay for a better life. He called them "the former foe, present friend, the American", and once said, "Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government."[3]
Buffalo Bill also supported the rights of women.[3] He said, "What we want to do is give women even more liberty than they have. Let them do any kind of work they see fit, and if they do it as well as men, give them the same pay."[40]
In his shows the Indians were usually depicted attacking stagecoaches and wagon trains in order to be driven off by cowboys and soldiers. He also had the wives and children of his Indian performers set up camp – as they would in the homelands – as part of the show, so that the paying public could see the human side of the "fierce warriors"; that they were families like any other, just part of a different culture.[3]
He supported conservation by speaking out against hide-hunting and pushing for a hunting season.[3]
Legacy and honors[link]
Buffalo Bill and his exploits became well known in American culture and he was portrayed in many literary works, television shows, and movies, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, when they were most popular. He is featured as a character in the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun.
He was honored by two U.S. postage stamps.[3] One was a 15¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.
On television, his character was featured on shows such as Bat Masterson and even Bonanza. His persona has been portrayed as anything from an elder statesman to a flamboyant, self-serving exhibitionist. He has been played by a wide variety of actors over the years.
In 2011, Bill's picture at age 19 was used on the cover of Tyler The Creator's 2nd studio album "Goblin".
[edit] Buffalo Bill's / defunct
A free verse poem on mortality by E. E. Cummings uses Buffalo Bill as an image of life and vibrancy. The poem is commonly known by its first two lines: "Buffalo Bill's / defunct". In Poetry, edited by J. Hunter, it is titled "portrait". The poet expresses Buffalo Bill's showmanship by describing his "watersmooth-silver / stallion", and using a staccato beat for the quick shooting of clay pigeons.
Other Buffalo Bills[link]
- Buffalo Bill is also the name of a musician, producer, and M.C. from the group Mechanics of Sound. He is best known for his work with Melodic Undertone Production Group and his help in the underground hip hop movement of San Antonio.
- "Buffalo Bill" was the first song written by Australian country music singer Sara Storer. Living in Camooweal, north of Mount Isa, she met a retired water buffalo shooter whose stories inspired her to write the song, which won a Golden Guitar at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 2001 for New Talent of the Year and appears on her first album, Chasing Buffalos.
- Buffalo Bill is also the name of a fictional character from Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs, who was also parodied in the movie Joe Dirt under the name Buffalo Bob.
- Two television series, Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955–56) starring Dickie Jones and 'Buffalo Bill (1983–84) starring Dabney Coleman, had nothing to do with the historic person.
- The Buffalo Bills, an NFL team based in Buffalo, New York, was named after Buffalo Bill. Prior to that team's existence, other early football teams (such as the Buffalo Bills of the AAFC) used the nickname, solely due to name recognition, as Bill Cody had no special connection with the city.
- The Buffalo Bills are a barbershop-quartet singing group consisting of Vern Reed, Al Shea, Bill Spangenberg, and Wayne Ward. They appeared in the original Broadway cast of The Music Man (opened 1957) and in the 1962 motion-picture version of that play.
- "Buffalo Bill" is the title of a song by the jam band Phish.
- Buffalo Bill is the name of a bluegrass band in Wisconsin.
- Samuel Cowdery, buffalo hunter, "wild west" showman and aviation pioneer changed his surname to Cody and was often taken for the original Buffalo Bill in his touring show Captain Cody King of the Cowboys.
- William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn is a retired Lieutenant General and Silver Star recipient. He served in World War II as a colonel and became a full colonel in Korea; at the end of the Korean War he became a brigadier general.
- "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" is the title of a song by the Beatles that indirectly refers to Buffalo Bill.
- "Buffalo Bill" is the title of a song by American rapper Eminem.
- In The Three Stooges short Goofs and Saddles, Moe Howard's character is known as Buffalo Bill.
- Bubble O' Bill is the name of an ice-cream available in New Zealand and Australia with a label depicting Buffalo Bill with a gum ball for his nose.
- The image of 19 year-old Buffalo Bill was used as the cover of Tyler, The Creator's sophomore release, Goblin.
- Buffalo Bills is also the name of a bar and nightclub in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
See also[link]
- Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead
- List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars
- Ned Buntline: Contemporary of Buffalo Bill and author of successful dime novel series "Buffalo Bill Cody – King of the Border Men"
- William "Doc" Carver
- Pony Express
- Show Indians
References[link]
- ^ a b c Cody, Col. William F: The Adventures of Buffalo Bill Cody, 1st ed. page viii. New York and London: Harper & Brother, 1904
- ^ a b Herring, Hal (2008). Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok's Colt Revolvers to Geronimo's Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History. TwoDot. p. 224. ISBN 0-7627-4508-8. http://books.google.com/?id=BVMmjWgZB2AC&pg=PA29.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wilson, R.L. (1998). Buffalo Bill's Wild West: An American Legend. Random House. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-375-50106-7.
- ^ a b http://www.scottcountyiowa.com/conservation/buffalobill_history.php
- ^ "Historical Plaques of Peel Region". http://www.waynecook.com/apeel.html.
- ^ a b c Carter, Robert A. (2002). Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend. Wiley. p. 512. ISBN 978-0-471-07780-0.
- ^ a b "'Buffalo Bill' Cody". A Few Famous Freemasons: American Founders. Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon A.F. & A.M.. http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/cody_w/cody_w.html. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
- ^ Goppert, Ennest J.. "Buffalo Bill - Cody". Masonic World. http://masonicworld.com/education/files/may03/buffalo_bill.htm. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier, Dayton Duncan, U of Nebraska Press, 2000 ISBN 0-8032-6627-8, ISBN 978-0-8032-6627-8
- ^ Polanski, Charles (2006). "The Medal's History". Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928073912/http://www.cmohs.com/medal/medal_history.htm.
- ^ Sterner, C. Douglas (1999–2009). "Restoration of 6 Awards Previously Purged From The Roll of Honor". HomeOfHeroes.com. http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/corrections/restorations.html.
- ^ Performing the American Frontier, 1870–1906, Roger A. Hall, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p.54, ISBN 0-521-79320-3, ISBN 978-0-521-79320-9
- ^ The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and guide. An autobiography, F. E. Bliss. Hartford, CT, 1879, p329
- ^ "The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave". Retrieved June 7, 2008]
- ^ "Buffalo Jones". h-net.msu.edu. http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-shgape&month=0008&week=c&msg=4ZaC2nPza053qdx7jtInAg&user=&pw=. Retrieved September 4, 2010.
- ^ Louis S. Warren, "Cody's Last Stand: Masculine Anxiety, the Custer Myth, and the Frontier of Domesticity in Buffalo Bill's Wild West", in, The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol 34. No. 1 (Spring 2003) pp. 55 of 49–69
- ^ "Could Building Site be burial ground of the lost warrior from Buffalo Bill's show?", Daily Mail, Retrieved on April 25, 2008
- ^ Griffen, Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill, p. xviii.
- ^ William F. Cody Archive [1].
- ^ Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, pp. 330-331.
- ^ Gallop, Buffalo Bill's British Wild West, p. 129.
- ^ Jonnes, Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a Count.
- ^ Gallop, Buffalo Bill's British Wild West, p. 157.
- ^ Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, p. 352.
- ^ Griffen, Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill, p. xxi.
- ^ Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, p. 439.
- ^ Moses, Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933, p. 189.
- ^ Kasson, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, p. 88.
- ^ Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, p. 321.
- ^ Kensel, W. Hudson. Pahaska Tepee, Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge and Hotel, A History, 1901–1946. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1987.
- ^ "Buffalo Bill Dam History". http://www.bbdvc.com/Buffalo_Bill_Dam_History.php. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- ^ Staten Island on the Web: Famous Staten Islanders.
- ^ a b Don Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, 1979.
- ^ Richard H. Montague, Memory Street, 1962.
- ^ Russell, Don (1979). The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 469. ISBN 978-1-4343-4148-8.
- ^ Weber, Francis J. (1979). America's Catholic heritage: some bicentennial reflections, 1776–1976. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin – Madison. p. 49.
- ^ Mosesl, L.G. (1999). The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill. New Mexico: UNM Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-8263-2089-6.
- ^ a b Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John. The Book of General Ignorance. Faber & Faber, 2006.
- ^ Colorado Transcript, May 17, 1917.
- ^ Exhibit, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth, Texas
Bibliography[link]
- Cunningham, Tom F. (2007) Your Fathers Ghosts: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Scotland, Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing, ISBN 1-84502-117-7
- Gallop, Alan (2001) Buffalo Bill's British Wild West, Stroud: Sutton, ISBN 0-7509-2702-X
- Griffin, Charles Eldridge (2010) Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-3465-1
- Jonnes, Jill (2010) Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count, New York: Penguin, ISBN 0-14-311729-7
- Kasson, Joy S. (2000) Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History, New York: Hill and Wang, ISBN 0-8090-3244-9
- Moses, L.G. (1996) Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883–1933, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 0-8263-2089-9
- Russell, Don (1960) The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-1537-8
- Rydell, Robert W.; Kroes, Rob (2005) Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922 Chicago:University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-73242-8
Further reading[link]
- Buffalo Bill Days (June 22–24, 2007). A 20-page special section of The Sheridan Press, published in June 2007 by Sheridan Newspapers, Inc., 144 Grinnell Avenue, Post Office Box 2006, Sheridan, Wyoming, 82801, USA. (Includes extensive information about Buffalo Bill, as well as the schedule of the annual three-day event held in Sheridan, Wyoming.)
- Story of the Wild West and Camp-Fire Chats by Buffalo Bill (Hon. W.F. Cody.) "A Full and Complete History of the Renowned Pioneer Quartette, Boone, Crockett, Carson and Buffalo Bill.", c1888 by HS Smith, published 1889 by Standard Publishing Co., Philadelphia, PA.
- The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and guide. An autobiography, F. E. Bliss. Hartford, Conn, 1879 Digitized from the Library of Congress.
- "Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory and Popular History", by Joy S. Kasson, published by Hill & Wang publishing co., 2001
External links[link]
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- William F. Cody Archive
- "The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave". http://www.buffalobill.org/. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Works by Buffalo Bill at Project Gutenberg
- "Meet Buffalo Bill and the West he loved.". Buffalo Bill Historical Center. http://www.bbhc.org/explore/buffalo-bill/. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- "Hidden Horsham – Buffalo Bill's Wild West". http://www.hiddenhorsham.co.uk/56/buffalobill.htm. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- "William Wilson Quinn: Lieutenant General, United States Army". Arlington National Cemetery. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/wwquinn.htm. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Heppler, Jason. "The Wild West Show and the Progressive Image of American Indians". University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Library of Congress: excerpt from chapter 1 of Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man behind the Legend
- In Hotel Lobbies: Buffalo Bill at the Willard Hotel
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| Name | William Frederick Cody |
| Alternative names | Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill |
| Short description | frontiersman, showman |
| Date of birth | February 26, 1846 |
| Place of birth | near LeClaire, Iowa, United States |
| Date of death | January 10, 1917 |
| Place of death | Denver, Colorado, United States |
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| Address | 31700 Las Vegas Boulevard Primm, Nevada, U.S. 89019 |
| Opening date | May 14, 1994 |
| No. of rooms | 1,242 |
| Total gaming space | 46,000 sq ft (4,300 m2) |
| Notable restaurants | Denny's |
| Casino type | Land-Based |
| Owner | Affinity Gaming |
| Years renovated | 1995, 2004, 2010 |
| Website | Official website |
Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino is a hotel and casino located in Primm, Nevada, United States, at the California stateline. It has 1,242 guest rooms and suites. The hotel is home to the Desperado roller coaster, one of the tallest (225 foot drop) and fastest (80 mph) roller coasters in the world, as well as a pool in the shape of a buffalo. The hotel-casino has two hotel room towers: the Annie Oakley Tower (the A Tower) and the Buffalo Bill Tower (B Tower).
The 46,000-square-foot (4,300 m2) casino has over 1,700 slot machines, as well as table games, poker, and a race and sports book. Buffalo Bill's Resort and Casino is owned by Primm Valley Resorts.
Buffalo Bill's is also home of the Star of the Desert Arena, a 6500 seat arena designed for concerts.
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History[link]
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Logo used from 1994 to 2007 prior to the acquisition by Herbst Gaming. Currently used as a secondary logo.
The casino opened on May 14, 1994[1] with 592 hotel rooms, and a new tower was added in 1995.[2]
The ribbon cutting for the change of ownership for Primm Valley Resorts from MGM Mirage to Herbst Gaming was held at Buffalo Bill's on April 10, 2007.[3]
Herbst undertook a marketing strategy of appealing especially to California Latinos, including the addition of Spanish-speaking dealers, charter bus trips from the Inland Empire, concerts by norteño musician Ramón Ayala, and a Mexican restaurant branded with Ayala's name.[4]
Tram to Primm Valley[link]
A tram links Buffalo Bill's to nearby Terrible's Primm Valley Resort and Casino[5]. The multi-car tram was designed by Schwager-Davis to their UniTrak standard. Despite its name, the tram actually runs on two guideways. Each car accommodates 24 people; the four-car trains can seat 96 people with no standees. The system can transport 2,200 people, per hour, per direction (pphpd). An attendant supervises each tram, although the tram is controlled by a computer.
After disembarking at the Primm Valley Resort station, passengers can connect to a free single-car tram across the I-15 to Whiskey Pete's[6], although the connection takes a walk across the entire hotel.
References[link]
- ^ Benston, Liz (2009-07-02). "Primm’s lure: Freebies". Las Vegas Sun. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/02/free-turns-profit/. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
- ^ "Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino Fact Sheet". Primm Valley Resorts. 2002. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20031203222412/http://www.primadonna.com/pages/pvr_frameset.asp. Retrieved 2004-01-16.
- ^ "Herbst Gaming". Las Vegas Review-Journal: p. D1.
- ^ Lapan, Tovin (18 February 2012). "New restaurant in Primm pays homage to ‘King of the Accordion’". Las Vegas Sun. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/feb/18/new-restaurant-primm-pays-homage-king-accordion/. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
- ^ "Primadonna-Buffalo Bill's UniTrak People Mover". Schwager-Davis. http://www.schwagerdavis.com/pdf/15_JR15PrimmUniJR.pdf. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
- ^ "Primadonna Shuttle System Retrofit". Schwager-Davis. http://www.schwagerdavis.com/pdf/16_JR16PrimmJR.pdf. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
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For the 2009 film, see For Real (film).
| For Real | |
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| Genres | R&B, pop, dance |
| Years active | 1993–1999 |
| Labels | Arista Records A&M Records, Rowdy Records |
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| Wendi Williams Latanyia Baldwin Josina Elder Necia Bray-Gates |
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For Real was an American R&B and soul quartet, that formed in 1993.[1] In the latter part of that decade they were nominated for a Grammy, Billboard Music Award, and Soul Train Music Award.
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For Real secured their recording contract by accident. "We were picking up our manager from the airport. So we decided to greet him with an acappella song. Someone from A&M Records just happened to be in the airport and heard them perform. Not long after, they were signed," said Latanyia Baldwin.[2]
The band released their debut album, It's a Natural Thang, with production from Brian McKnight on A&M Records in 1994, and it became a critical success, including a rare four stars from Rolling Stone magazine.[3] Their first single, "You Don't Wanna Miss" hit #28 on the Billboard chart, courtesy of a danceable new jack swing remix by Steve "Silk" Hurley, which was featured in the song's video. A second single, "Easy to Love", peaked at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album scored another chart hit with the a cappella love song, "You Don't Know Nothin'", which was written and produced by Mervyn Warren, and which peaked at #27. The song peaked at #54 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1995.[4] The album sold over one million copies worldwide, and peaked at #80 on the Billboard 200.
In 1995, the band appeared in Italian Vogue, modeling men's suits. They toured alongside Stevie Wonder,[5] and lent their voices to the Martin Scorsese film project Grace of My Heart. The foursome also forayed into acting with appearances in the film Shake, Rattle and Rock! starring Renée Zellweger and Howie Mandel[6] on Showtime.
They also hit the US Top 20 with the single "Freedom (Theme from Panther)" featuring Aaliyah, TLC, En Vogue, BlackGirl, SWV, and Vanessa Williams from the film Panther. They also recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder called "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", which appeared on the Marvin Gaye tribute album, Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye.[7] For Real also recorded songs for the soundtracks of the films Waiting to Exhale and Fled.
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Paying homage to the Motown sound with "Like I Do", the Marvelettes-inspired first single and video from their second album, Free (their first for Rowdy Records), they call their sound an answer to "counterfeit R&B". "During the Motown era, artists sang with passion," says Josina, who founded the group back in 1986 in Los Angeles. "That's what's missing from a lot of today's music. But don't worry, we're bringing it back!" |
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After a label change from A&M to Dallas Austin's Arista imprint Rowdy Records in 1996, For Real struck again with the Austin-produced, 60s-leaning single "Like I Do", from their second album Free. "Like I Do" hit #10 on the Billboard singles chart. The video also earned a Billboard nomination for Best R&B Clip; the album made the Top 100, and sold nearly 400,000 copies in the US. The album's next and last single was the Diane Warren-penned pop ballad "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" which hit #65 on the Top 100 singles chart. The band performed "Saddest Song" on the TV series All That. Free included production from top R&B/pop producers like Babyface, Mario Winans, and Jon B..
The band also recorded three songs ("I Do", "Born to Love That Boy" and "Unwanted Number") and appeared in the critically acclaimed film Grace of My Heart. The film's soundstrack won a Satellite Award in 1997.[9][10]
In January 1997, the band won an American Music Award for their work on the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack, in Summer 1997, the group earned a Soul Train Award nomination for Album of the Year (By a Group, Band or Duo) for Free.
In 1999, Wendi Williams lent her voice to the Emmy-winning film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge with Halle Berry, in which Berry plays a singer but Williams is behind her singing voice.[11]
In 2002, their song "Love Will Be Waiting at Home" appeared in the film Two Can Play That Game, which starred Vivica A. Fox and Morris Chestnut.
In 2009, CoryLavel began to work with Josina Elder on her new album.
Discography[link]
Main article: For Real discography
- It's a Natural Thang (1994)
- Free (1996)
Awards and nominations[link]
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| 1996 | Nominated | Grammy Award | Album of the Year |
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| 1997 | Nominated | Billboard Music Award | Best Clip – R&B |
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| 1998 | Nominated | Soul Train Music Award | Album of the Year (By a Group, Band or Duo) |
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References[link]
- ^ "Jet - Google 圖書". Books.google.com.tw. http://books.google.com.tw/books?id=9MADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36&dq=%22SOUL+TRAIN+AWARDS%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&as_pt=MAGAZINES&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22SOUL%20TRAIN%20AWARDS%22&f=false. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ Alamhof.org
- ^ Rollingstone.com
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 207. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "Jet - Google Books". Books.google.com. 1995-05-08. http://books.google.com/books?id=ezkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=%22Stevie+Wonder%22+%22For+Real%22+%22Conversation+Peace%22&source=bl&ots=PuFfFmehJC&sig=MqpvPtox6tjf0G6-v1gBK42uJWM&hl=en&ei=VhVWTISkHoT68AbVu8SPBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDUQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Stevie%20Wonder%22%20%22For%20Real%22%20%22Conversation%20Peace%22&f=false. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ IMDb.com
- ^ Discogs.com
- ^ Looksmartparents.com
- ^ Discogs.com
- ^ Allmovie.com
- ^ Edition.cnn.com
External links[link]
- SingingFool.com Streaming music videos for "Like I Do" and "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard"
- Allmusic[dead link] Discography, biographies, and pictures
- IUMA Group photos, lyrics, message board, audio streams, and biography
- Google Album info, photos, and lyrics
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