Archives for May 10, 2009

‘Jack Kemp was a man that accomplished so many things by the world’s standards. But what I will always admire most about Jack was his willingness to share his time, knowledge and energy to help the people around him-including me. I am still flabbergasted thinking about it today. What a tremendous man.’

‘While other teams, especially those who hovered around .500 last year, typically don’t press rookie offensive linemen into action unless they’re in the top handful of picks, the Bills will likely be forced to do so. Will that mean Wood, who played center in college, but got reps at guard during the team’s rookie camp last weekend? Or Levitre, who lined up mostly on the left side in college, but saw snaps at right guard in last week’s camp? “We may leave them alone,” Bills coach Dick Jauron said. “It just depends on how it goes, but as it moves along we know they have flexibility.”‘

‘”Our father was larger than life, all-encompassing, energetic,” said his daughter Jennifer Andrews, who addressed the crowd along with the Kemp sons and daughter Judith Nolan. As if to prove that point, Jeff Kemp noted that his father taught him to never end sentences in prepositions – but then the younger Kemp added: “I think it might be because he never ended sentences.”‘

‘”He was a man of courage – courage on the football field, courage of his convictions in politics,” Mr. Colson said.’