Bills begin paring their roster as full team reports to camp
With the full team due to report to One Bills Drive Tuesday, the Bills have apparently made a decision regarding their roster size. If NFL teams have more than 80 players in camp, they have to split the squad and conduct separate practices until the official roster cut to 80 occurs on Aug. 17.
If they get down to 80 now - for the Bills it’s actually 81 because Christian Wade does not count in the equation - the full team can
practice together. After cutting Ray-Ray McCloud and Garrett McGhin, the Bills are at 86, so more cuts could come Tuesday.
The Famous 1992 Bills-49ers No Punt Game
This was a game that had my head spinning. The Bills and 49ers marched up and down the field, it was as if playing defense was merely a suggestion. Jim Kelly and Steve Young both surpassed 400 yards passing, and what was really crazy is that the Bills allowed 598 yards - and won!
Of course, as a byproduct of all that offense, the punters took a day off. Buffalo’s Chris Mohr and San Francisco’s Klaus Wilmsmeyer stood on the sidelines all day and became part of history - this was the first game in NFL history where neither team punted, and there have only been three since then.
June 26, 1998: Paul O’Neill lights up the Subway Series
Dynasty: Yankees 1996-2000 continues with the first Subway Series game of 1998, and Paul O'Neill hit a huge go-ahead HR to beat the Mets in the opener at Shea Stadium, which sounded a lot like Yankee Stadium when the ball cleared the fence.
On today’s podcast, I welcome as my guest Mike Catalana, the sports director at WHAM-13 in Rochester. The Bills are the topic, and Mike and I share some thoughts on what it will be liking covering the team without actually speaking personally with any of the players or coaches.
If you’re a Buffalo sports fan – especially someone who grew up in the 1970s – I think you, or perhaps someone you know, will really enjoy my newest book.
For most of that decade, the city had three major-league teams – the Bills, the Sabres, and the Braves. There were certainly some lean years, but not during the period between the fall of 1973 and the spring of 1976 which is what the book focuses on.
That was a time of great excitement, winning teams, and true superstars – O.J. Simpson, Gilbert Perreault and Bob McAdoo – who called Buffalo home.
The book takes a deep dive into the three seasons for each team and you will get reintroduced to many of the players from that era who you may have forgotten, and you will relive the great games and performances that we bore witness to in what I refer to as the golden age of Buffalo sports.