RIP Dan Darragh.

[Eden Tom]

Darragh, Daniel Meyer
https://buffalonews.com/article_c4c260b0-0c7d-502e-9f97-d97d40dcf8cc.html
 

Watched him for a couple of years at The Rock Pile.  He was one of the hopes we had of getting to one of the early Super Bowls between Saban regimes.

[HOUSE]

RIP, I remember him well. 

[RyanC883]

That’s sad.  Somewhat young.  Great guy from what I’ve heard.  

[JP51]

RIP DD, I remember my father and Uncles talking about him... 

[chris heff]

I saw him play.

[Don Otreply]

🙏 

[I'm Spartacus]

I also saw him play.

[chongli]

This thread alarmed me as I had no idea he was a player. I had only seen the poster here by the same name, @Dan Darragh, and became upset. Yikes...I am sorry he (the player) passed. 😥

[qwksilver]

Small World: Marv Levy was his college coach at William and Mary

 

RIP Sir.

[MarlinTheMagician]

Watched him too.  Knew an attorney who worked with him as a lawyer - said he was a good man.  Godspeed Dan.  

[SF Bills Fan]

I went to OP Highschool with his daughter and knew her well as she was in my circle of friends. There were three daughters and all of them were smart and athletic. I met Dan a few times- nice guy. 

[Bob in STL]

I saw him play behind the deteriorated post-Saban Bills teams.   Glory days were over.  

 

1968 -1970:   His coaches were Joe Collier/Harvey Johnson and then two years of John Rauch using OJ as a decoy.  This was a terrible and miserable 3 season span for the Bills.  

 

RIP Dan.  You gave it a good shot.  

 

 

[The Frankish Reich]

1 hour ago, MarlinTheMagician said:

Watched him too.  Knew an attorney who worked with him as a lawyer - said he was a good man.  Godspeed Dan.  

For whatever reason, I love athletes who embarked on an entirely different (not connected to sports) career when their playing days were over. RIP.

[Ennjay]

Not only did I watch him play (yeah I'm old) but I did a transaction with him once in his capacity as a lawyer.  Class guy and well respected in his field.  He was a pleasure to work with.

[Dan Darragh]

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

 

That said, I met Dan when he was a lawyer in Buffalo and I was a lawyer in Rochester.  We had a case against each other, and once on a phone call I said to him "Dan, why is your name so familiar to me?" to which he replied "I used to be the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills."  When we finally met for depositions, he had the patience to sit around when the clients had left and chat about football with me.  It's the only time I had an actual conversation with a Bills player and I cherished my brush with the NFL.

 

Much as with his Bills career, in our case Dan was a loser once again.  But he was a very good natured guy and a fine lawyer.  

 

RIP

Edited September 5, 2025 by Dan Darragh

[Pete]

Career 4 TDs and 22 INTs

[Eden Tom]

Dan was part of an illustrious group of QBs in 1968 after Jack Kemp got hurt. Tom Flores, Benny Russell, and even Ed Rutkowski who was the emergency QB to name a few at the end of our 1-12-1- season.  Well at least we got OJ because of them.

[Dan Darragh]

1 hour ago, Eden Tom said:

Dan was part of an illustrious group of QBs in 1968 after Jack Kemp got hurt. Tom Flores, Benny Russell, and even Ed Rutkowski who was the emergency QB to name a few at the end of our 1-12-1- season.  Well at least we got OJ because of them.

Also Tom Flores

 

Jack - became a Congressman, Secretary of HUD, Republican candidate for VP

Tom - became a successful NFL head coach

Ed - became Erie County Executive

Dan - became a successful lawyer

 

Not much of a quarterback room but those guys were all smart!

[bigK14094]

I watched Dan play on a black and white TV in the EM club at Fort Polk, LA in 1968.  Small screen, the AFL fans, in those days, were closet cases, and the big room color TV's were for the ,then, NFL fans.  This was the time of the AFL/NFL bidding wars, and I had a few debates w the guys from Chicago and NY.  Anyhow, DD had a tough go that season, I think that was the season that allowed the Bills to draft OJ.

[MarlinTheMagician]

As I recall, though, he was pretty accurate.  Showed glimpses, but couldn't stay healthy?