Archives for May 2002

‘Kailbourne helped save the Bills, spearheading the drive to help the Bills sell $11 million worth of suites and premium seats, ensuring they’d stay in Buffalo for at least five years. Now Erkie Kailbourne, the 60-year-old retired banker who grew up in Wellsville, faces another gigantic challenge – helping save Adelphia Communications, which controls the fate of Buffalo’s other major-league franchise, the Sabres.’

DETAILS OF UNVEILING EVENT ON JUNE 8:

Gates will open at 12:30 PM and the event will start at 1:30 PM. While the festivities will be open to the public and free to attend, a ticket will be required for admission. Specific ticket information will be announced separately.

Questions need to be answered include who lines up at left end, what are we going to see from Erik Flowers and will Eddie Robinson, London Fletcher and Keith Newman be third down LBs as well.

Questions need to be answered include Two TE set, role of FB, who will be playing RB and LT and whether Fina will show up at all. The Bills 6 day mini-camp starts on Thursday.

Buffalo Bills safety Tony Driver, offensive lineman Robert Hunt, defensive tackle Demetrious Maxie, wide receiver Andre Rone and mascot Billy Buffalo made a special visit to Garden's Nursing Home in the city of Buffalo.

One resident made a request as the players left – "Get us in the playoffs," he said.

Do you remember Buffalo's first jersey in 1960? What about the white helmets with a blue and red charging buffalo that the Bills wore from 1974-83? Send buffalobills.com your memories of Buffalo's uniforms and helmets.

Bob Lamb explains why Bills players are not longing for the good old days.

Bills offensive lineman Jerry Ostroski will be among the participants in the National Kidney Foundation Gift of Life walk this Sunday, May 19 at Ralph Wilson Stadium.

Over the years many coveted pieces of the Bills storied past have been scattered not only across Western New York but around the world. The Archives department is busy hunting these treasures down.

‘Gilbride loves to throw the intermediate and deep routes, an area in which Bledsoe excels. Bledsoe says one of the things he likes about Gilbride is that the coach is flexible, which implies that the system Bill Belichick wanted Bledsoe to run in with the Patriots was not.’

‘Winfield hasn’t made the Pro Bowl yet, but he will. He’s a tough guy who can play solid man coverage.’

‘"He’s our guy," Saurer said. "We evaluate things every season and … the (Bills) broadcast speaks for itself. Up against any other NFL broadcasters, few if any are as exciting as Van."’

A closer look shows the Bills need minimal money to sign picks. The Bills need only to free up a maximum worst case of $420,000 to sign all of their draft picks right now, even assuming that Tom Donahoe uses every dollar of the rookie allocation of $5.139 Million. This amount of cap space hardly necessitates the release of any players being talked about like John Fina, let alone Jay Riemersma.

After playing the 1960 and ’61 seasons in their original silver/gray and blue uniforms, the Bills made a switch prior to the 1962 regular season.

‘Frankfurt Galaxy running back Curtis Alexander (Buffalo Bills), who left Saturday’s game against the Rhein Fire after two plays, was suffering from food poisoning.’