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Buffalo Bills defensive stats for your Immaculate Grid answers
If you’ve played Immaculate Gridiron before, there have been some times when you were stumped and looking for some choices for your answers. You’re in luck because today, we have some options for you when it comes to the Buffalo Bills defensive record books.
Local football players hit the big leagues: NFL draft picks through the years
The season of tailgating, painting your face in accordance with team colors and spending your Sundays yelling at your television screen is back. Since 1950, more than a dozen players from across the Capital Region have been drafted out of high school or college to play at the professional level.
Pro Football DB Hall of Fame Monitor
The Pro Football Reference Hall of Fame Monitor (HOFm) is a metric designed to estimate a player's chances of making the Pro Football Hall of Fame using AV, Pro Bowls, All-Pros, championships, and various stat milestones. The players listed below are the top 250 HOFm-rated players who played DB starting in 1955 or later for at least 50 career games. A score of 100 is around the average modern-era inductee.
Effort underway to get Butch Byrd on Bills Wall of Fame
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's big-league color barrier 75 years ago today. Major League Baseball retired his No. 42 on the 50th anniversary. Since then, no one on any ballclub wears it - except for today, on Robinson Day, when everyone does. The time has come for the Buffalo Bills to honor their 42, too. Butch Byrd, who wore that number in the 1960s, still holds the franchise record for career interceptions, with 40.
Bills All-Time Team
With the doldrums of the offseason officially upon us I thought it would be fun to do something like this. I did my best to include players from all eras of Bills history, though certain time periods will have more than others just due to the talent on the team at the time. I've also included my reasons for my roster selection below.
Bills Mailbag: What fans should worry about most and a look at AFL snubs
Bills Mailbag: What fans should worry about most and a look at AFL snubs Mitch Morse arguably is one of the top 10 centers in the NFL. James P. McCoy/Buffalo News Here’s a mailbag of reader questions with a month to go before the start of Buffalo Bills training camp: @MickeyG417 asks: Besides Josh Allen’s play, what is the one thing that could derail the Bills’ chances for the AFC East title? Can the dysfunctional owners stay away from the Bills? Mark: I love it.
Who are the best AFL players not in Canton? The countdown is about to begin
The AFL Call for the Hall is about to begin. A week ago we told you that too many AFL players have been ignored and/or forgotten by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but big deal. You knew that. What you didn’t know was that we’re determined to do something about it by promoting the AFL’s top players for Hall-of-Fame consideration. And we’re doing it now.
The best Capital Region football players of all time
"Mount Rushmore" four all made big impacts James Allen May 13, 2020Updated: May 13, 2020 7:52 p.m. Three of the greatest athletes to ever compete at high schools in Albany make up 75 percent of the Times Union's Mount Rushmore list for football. The fourth member of the exclusive quartet grew up in Watervliet. All four players made impacts competing in the National Football League, although one of them never played a single collegiate game.
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