Mcdermott

1973 was the first year of the 72 hour rule. The game had to be sold out 3 days before game day. This game, as well as several others, weren’t and thus, a local black out.

It was blacked out. Listened to whole game on radio.

I’ll go to my grave believing that the BB defensive game was overrated. The Bills has the ball 20 minutes and scored 19 points and should of had 22. This was lost when the Bills offense was on the sidelines for an hour and a half real time from the last drive of the first half through the first drive of the second half. 90 minutes standing on the sidelines. The Bills offense could have given the ball to Thurman more but this game was all on the Bills defense.

over $20 million each year. Not going to happen

randy wasn’t really a local boy but that team was awesome and ahead of its time. They could’ve been the champs after they added Moses Malone but then they did Buffalo things.

Exactly

The pilot of the Pegula jet gave his wife a diamond ring.

He signed the contract. They had a press conference and everything, Rules were different back then. It was allowed to combat the USFL.

The Bills chose Smith because he was clearly better then Childress. You are right, he didn’t hold out but they didn’t draft him because they could sign him. As for Flutie, he ended up going in the 6th or 7th round which goes to show you how smart fans are.

Shaw wasn’t very good. He had no arm and teams figured that out after a surprisingly good rookie year. Best thing he did for Buffalo was being traded for Bobby Moore a/k/a Ahmad Rashad. Also, someone upbthread said something about other clown drafted with Cousineau but he must have been confused because that draft may have been one of best drafts ever. Butler, Smerlas, Haslett, Baby Johnson, Jeff Nixon. Knox built his team around that draft. Probably would have gone down as one of best drafts ever if they picked Mike Bell or Dan Hampton instead of Cousineau.

I always forget about Little.

Guy actually handled kick offs for a few years while Blanda handled field goals. A friend pointed out that the Raiders also drafted Sebastian Janikowski in first round and before the common draft Charlie Gogolak was drafted in first round. So, in NFL history, 3 kickers and 1 punter selected in first round.

For the record, the Saints drafted Russell Erxleben in the first round to be both punter and kicker but ended up only being a punter.

That’s actually not true, but you know, why let the facts....... He, like a lot us, was twice burned by saying out loud that he thought it was different that year. How can anyone blame people for being skeptical. I’m eternally optimistic but I get the other side.