Chandler#81 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Bob Chandler for me. Poor man's Fred Bilitnikoff. Deserved better teams and QBs. Glad he got a ring with the Raiders before he retired. Died too young. RIP. BC#81 was a starter til Rashad paired with JD Hill. (as are so many names listed in this thread..) Shottenhiemer -his name plate started on his left sleeve, across his whole back and ended on his right sleeve. Lou Piccone Kenny Davis Paul McQuire (LB) Daryl Lamonica Frank Reich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostbitmic Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Garrison Sanborn ... Did this guy ever have a bad snap ? ... Not only that, numerous times he was downfield making the tackle on a punt return. Pat Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve O Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Admittedly just skimmed through the last 9 pages but I didn't see Mike Lodish mentioned. 10th round draft pick, career back up, until recently was the answer to the super bowl trivia question who played played in the most super bowls with 6 (Beebe played on 6 super bowl teams but did not appear in all of the games.) Tom Terrific just played in his seventh. Lodish and Lou Piccone are my picks, think those are the type of guys the OP had in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guffalo Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Alvin Wyatt, CB from late 60's early 70s. Great name, cool single bar facemask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishDave Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 This guy: Conehead! COLD BEER! Get a warm one from me - you get it for free. COLD BEER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearwater cadet Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Thomas Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HT02 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Does Tasker count as a non-star? Also: Kenneth Davis Kurt Shultz Jaime Mueller Leonard Smith Marquise Goodwin James Lofton I don't think a Hall of Famer can qualify as a non-star Darick Holmes Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Billy Brooks put in some great close-out career work in the early glory days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills_fan_in_raleigh Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Conrad Dobler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Chis Spielman and Sam Cowart (his injury ruined his career) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenorthremembers Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 John Holacek Antwoin Smith Kurt Schultz Jeff Burris Angelo Crowell George Wilson Butch Rolle Looking back over the roster I also found my least favorite Bill of all time. Bennie "Turnstyle" Anderson. Those olines in the Losman/Holcomb/Edwards time frame were just God awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCNC Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Sam Cowart comes to mind. Also Chris Speilman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Sam Cowart comes to mind. Also Chris Speilman Bought a Cowart jersey, jinxed him for opening day that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIRIKSMIND Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Shane Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCNC Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Antoine Winfield too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Sam Cowart comes to mind. Also Chris Speilman I literally just said the same a few posts up, how funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianb386 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Sam Gash, I don't know that he was a non-star, because he made the pro-bowl here. But, he was a FB and the position is often overlooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Sam Gash, I don't know that he was a non-star, because he made the pro-bowl here. But, he was a FB and the position is often overlooked. Oh yeah, mortal honours are okay as long as they didn't play 5+ years of glory in town. Sam is a good flashback memory, thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Buffalo Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Tony Greene #43 played opposite Bob James I think or played safety... always smiling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offsides#76FredSmerlas Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Rob Riddick Joe Ferguseson Bryce Paup Frank Lewis Curtis brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJDK Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 (edited) Travis Henry - after years of 2 yard runs by A. Smith. Marcellus Wiley Nate Odomes Antoine Winfield Talley Beebe Jay Remeirsma Stevie Johnson Henry Jones Kenneth Davis Keith McKeller Jeff Wright Terrence McGee George Wilson Clifford Hicks Edited August 30, 2017 by SJDK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderingsquid Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Definitely Mitch Frerotte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4_kidd_4 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Damn that's some Mullet HOF worthiness right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Fan Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Frank Reich Jerry Ostroski Steve Christie Pete Metzellars Jim Richter Kent Hull (R.I.P) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamDMC Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 (edited) The Godsend Jim Leonhard. and Bryan Scott Edited August 31, 2017 by CamDMC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 (edited) I was born into Bills fandom and it got serious in the 1970s. So ... 1970s: Jim Braxton. Somehow ate up 800+ yards as OJ's blocking fullback one year. 1980s: Fred Smerlas. Kind of a poster child for everything Buffalo in 1980s 1990s: Marvcus Patton. Because "Marvcus." 2000s: Peerless Price was without peer (for a year or so) 2010s: now it gets tough. Let me go with ... Scott Chandler. Yeah, he kind of sucked. But that's the whole point - favorite players who really didn't do enough to warrant that label. I still think that "shoveling snow" TD celebration when we played a "home game" in Detroit, destroying the Jets when it seemed to mean something (in the end it didn't) is my favorite Bills moment of the decade. Which is a sad commentary indeed. But there you have it. Runner-up: Kiko. Loved watching him in the brief shining moment we called the Mike Pettine era. Edited August 30, 2017 by The Frankish Reich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmenow Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Tony Greene #43 played opposite Bob James I think or played safety... always smiling.... A real good player!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedy Beebe Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Beebe is a good one. When the Bills played in the Super Bowl in Atlanta, my dad took me to the hotel the Bills were staying at so I could see the players in the lobby....I was 12. I probably got about 40 autographs....included OJ. Ralph Wilson had his arm around me during a picture. Beebe was walking by and my dad just said hi. Beebe stopped and talked with my dad for literally 20 minutes....just chit chatting. The coolest one was Pete Metzellars (sp?)....I went to get a drink from the gift shop and Pete was buying a book. I just said "Hi Mr. Metzellars, I'm a big fan of yours. Would you mind if you signed my card?" He signed my card, my hat, my Bills banner and took a pic with me. He then asked if I was reading any books right now and I said whatever the school makes me. He laughed a little. He had these round glasses and spoke very intelligently....I was taken back because he was a football player and at 12 years old, you don't think football players talk like that. He reminded me of a college professor with the elbow patches. I met Beebe when I was a kid at training camp in Fredonia. Everyone was trying to get autographs from Kelly, Thurman etc, I went up to Beebe got his autograph and he talked to me for about ten minutes. Since then he's always been my favorite Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norton20 Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 (edited) Mack Yoho. Kenny Davis. Terrence McGee. Is Fred Jackson too big of a name? Bob Kalsu. Lou Piccone. Tony Greene and Robert James Edited August 31, 2017 by norton20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent 91 Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 This guy: Conehead! COLD BEER! Get a warm one from me - you get it for free. COLD BEER! YES!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevestojan Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Jay Riemersma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddogblitz Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 (edited) Damn that's some Mullet HOF worthiness right there. He was a head of his time. Kyle Orton Edited August 31, 2017 by reddogblitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternOHBillsFan Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Leonard Smith (obviously) John Holocek (BEAST!) Nickell Robey (playmaker, should have been retained) Jim Leonhard (playmaker, should have been retained) Chris Hogan (OBVIOUSLY) I was born into Bills fandom and it got serious in the 1970s. So ... 1980s: Fred Smerlas. Kind of a poster child for everything Buffalo in 1980s NEVER. This Massh*le homer will NEVER get any praise from me... talk crap about the Bills to the enemy, get the horns, MFer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Jim Braxton Bob Chandler Jim Cheyunski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternOHBillsFan Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Jim Cheyunski I met him when he was coaching football in Charlotte and he autographed his card for me... great guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Leonard Smith (obviously) John Holocek (BEAST!) Nickell Robey (playmaker, should have been retained) Jim Leonhard (playmaker, should have been retained) Chris Hogan (OBVIOUSLY) NEVER. This Massh*le homer will NEVER get any praise from me... talk crap about the Bills to the enemy, get the horns, MFer. I haven't paid any attention to what Smerlas has been doing for the last quarter century, but now that I look it up .... Pats fan, but cozied up to Goodell during the time of deflategate. Special guest at a Trump fundraiser. Apparently will do anything for a buck. Something to offend everyone. I will begin looking for another 1980s favorite player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternOHBillsFan Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 I haven't paid any attention to what Smerlas has been doing for the last quarter century, but now that I look it up .... Pats fan, but cozied up to Goodell during the time of deflategate. Special guest at a Trump fundraiser. Apparently will do anything for a buck. Something to offend everyone. I will begin looking for another 1980s favorite player. Might I suggest Jerry Butler? He was a really high class good player who was drafted at the wrong time in Bills history... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatdrinks Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 I haven't paid any attention to what Smerlas has been doing for the last quarter century, but now that I look it up .... Pats fan, but cozied up to Goodell during the time of deflategate. Special guest at a Trump fundraiser. Apparently will do anything for a buck. Something to offend everyone. I will begin looking for another 1980s favorite player. I loved Smerlas as a hilarious interview and a tough player. He has become way too much of a Pats blowhard in the Brady era ( yeah I get he's a Mass. native) and I can't stand to listen to him when he's on lavas radio in Buffalo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo86 Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 It's been 7 hours and 908 daysSince you took Alonso awayI go out every night and sleep all daySince you took Alonso away Was also a big fan of Sam Cowart, but not to the extent that I sang songs about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 So the likes of Jim Kelly, Andre Reed, Bruce Smith, Kyle Williams, Joe D, Shaw etc.....wouldn't count. These are players that were contributors, may not have been a top contributor, but someone you always rooted for. Maybe someone that does all the dirty work and didn't get the accolades. Maybe players in which the casual NFL never even heard of. For me, it's Carwell Gardner, Kurt Schultz, Brad Butler (hated he retired early) and Gabe Northern. Jamie Mueller, FULL BACK BABY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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