My best Kemp memory actually happened during a pre - season game in 1967. Philadelphia Eagle come to the Rockpile, first NFL Team to visit Buffalo as the merger slowly formed. Rockpile soldout, everyone in my neighborhood listening to the game on the radio. and both teams played hard keeping starters in for the whole game. Tom Flores and Art Powell lit the sky up with passing and it appeared to look great for the Bills as Lamonica went off to Oakland. Then Tom Flores gets hurt and Jack Kemp enters the game to sellout crowd boos! First play he throws a 70 yard touchdown to Dubenion and the boos turn into a long standing ovation - class, character, intelligence and integrity, highly respected by the entire team.
I seen him speak and was surprised how small he was, somewhere in the video of the 1965 Championship game it showed Ernie Ladd (6'9" 300 pounds) and Kemp talking after a tackle he looked like a little kid!