JPicc2114 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/305301_10150306963265642_514245641_7966992_1176467047_n.jpg Edited September 29, 2011 by Mr. Negative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Good avatar! Never saw this logo before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPicc2114 Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 Haha.. nice I see you got the picture from ESPN I found this looking up my uncle who played for the 49 Bills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtbag Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Haha.. nice I see you got the picture from ESPN I found this looking up my uncle who played for the 49 Bills what's his name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cotton Fitzsimmons Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) Now there's a throwback, gents! It exudes style and elegance with a little bit of an edge to it that says "Our guys are nastier than your guys" Edited September 29, 2011 by Cotton Fitzsimmons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Who owned the team back then and how long did they last before Ralph took over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.cooldude Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 James Breuil was the owner and they lasted for three seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meathead Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 actually i think that is ralph wilson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Who owned the team back then and how long did they last before Ralph took over? Ralph didn't 'take over' anything. Paging KRC... History lesson paging KRC.. <crackling over PA system> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckeyeBill Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I didn't think anything was in color back then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakesbills16 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I remember coming across this logo along time ago in an old antique shop in cape-cod. Strange location I know... I remember wondering if it had any correlation to our Bills, but looked past it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrags Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Ive seen this before. If you look at alot of the team logos they are very cartoony like ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollars 2 donuts Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) As some of the Buffalo Pro-football historians will mention around here...we got screwed...royally. When the league folded around 1950 the NFL took the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts and, by all accounts, should have taken the Buffalo Bills - a reasonably successful and very well supported franchise with many national supporters... ...so of course they took San Francisco. Edited September 29, 2011 by dollars 2 donuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanInLV Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Sorta looks like Fitzpatrick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Those Bills were part of the defunct All America Football Conf. The NFL merged 3 franchises, SF, CLE, and BAL even though Buffalo was the best-supported team of the 3, and Buffalo was the 14th largest city in the USA at that time. (650K) If you believe the Wikipedia article, George Halas himself nixed Buffalo personally because of our weather and the city's rep for being "culturally backward." 10 years later Ralph Wilson assumed the Bills name for his AFL team. Also the orignal Bills were first called the Bisons, but changed to the Bills in 1949. PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clancynut Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 PTR, thanks for the history lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDD Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Sorta looks like Fitzpatrick. I was thinking more along the lines of Colonel Sanders on ectasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 I was thinking more along the lines of Colonel Sanders on ectasy. Can someone Photoshop Fitz's face on that logo? PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPicc2114 Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) what's his name? My Uncles name was Tommy Colella. He played RB and DB and punted. He was from Albion New York. My Aunt is STILL alive at 93 and STILL gets pension from the NFL. Crazy Edited September 29, 2011 by Mr. Negative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypetrobot Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 So Wikipedia suggests that the AAFC Bills we're actually named after a popular Buffalo barbershop quartet of the era (of whom was named after the frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody). It is also suggested that Ralph got his name from the AAFC team. So, are our Bills an homage to a defunct singing group too? Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills_%28AAFC%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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