‘Perhaps no other athlete in Buffalo pro sports history made a bigger splash in just three seasons than Gilchrist did. He was 6-foot-3, 250 pounds, with a legend larger than life. He clashed often with coach Lou Saban and owner Ralph Wilson, but Bills fans loved his Brown-like run-over-and-through-you style. Billy Shaw, the Hall of Fame guard, once told The Buffalo News: “I have scars in my back from when somebody would stalemate me at the line, and here comes Cookie from behind me. He didn’t care what color jersey you had on, he was going forward.”’