‘”My first two years here we won the [AFL] championship and I thought it was unfair for me to be paid for the game I was just having so much fun [playing],” Byrd said. “The people were great. They loved the Bills. They supported the Bills. . . . We had been through the good times and the bad times with Buffalo and I was here for both. We won the championship and then in 1969 we won one game. We just happened to beat the Jets who won the Super Bowl that year. We saw the highs and lows of pro football but the people still supported us.”‘