‘As the starting center and captain of the Boston Patriots, he faced Buffalo’s defensive tackles Tom Sestak and Jim Dunaway and middle linebacker Harry Jacobs in the Bills’ very first playoff game in 1963. After both teams finished the regular season with 7-6-1 records, they met in a snowy War Memorial Stadium on a sub-freezing late December afternoon for the division title. "I’ll tell you what we had to do," recalls Cudzik. "Before the game, they had us doing some of the manual labor to get the field cleared enough to play. We were out there with shovels trying to get the markers and yard-lines clean. I don’t think we did the whole thing, but I thought that was kind of interesting."’