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Who should the next member of the Wall of Fame be?

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Who should the next member of the Wall of Fame be?  

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  1. 1. Who should the next member of the Wall of Fame be?

    • Van Miller
      30
    • Lou Saban
      8
    • Doug Flutie
      1
    • Eric Moulds
      9
    • John Butler
      1
    • Steve Christie
      1
    • Chris Mohr
      0
    • Brian Moorman
      1
    • Ruben Brown
      8
    • Cornelius Bennett
      22
    • Aaron Schobel
      3
    • Drew Bledsoe
      0
    • Frank Reich
      5
    • James Lofton
      0
    • Chris Spielman
      1
    • Travis Henry
      0
    • Willis McGahee
      0
    • Henry Jones
      0
    • Other
      11

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Van Miller.

 

More so than any player in my opinion.

 

For many of us who couldn't watch the games, he was the voice of the Buffalo Bills for almost 40 years and has an entire club section named after him.

 

 

 

You should edit your poll to include the two most deserving Bills players not on the wall:

 

Butch Byrd: He is most remembered for a punt return in the 1965 American Football League Championship game against the San Diego Chargers.

 

Byrd holds the Bills' career records for interceptions (40), interception return yards (666) and interceptions returned for touchdowns (5).

 

He was a five-time American Football League All-Star, and was selected for the second team, All-Time All-AFL. Byrd is a 1980 inductee of the Boston University Hall of Fame, and in 2008 was selected to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Byrd

 

Cookie Gilchrist: While with Buffalo, Gilchrist played fullback and kicked, though he insisted he could have played both ways.

 

He was the first 1,000-yard American Football League rusher, with 1,096 yards in a 14-game schedule in 1962.

 

That year he set the all-time AFL record for touchdowns with 13, and he earned AFL MVP honors. Gilchrist rushed for a professional football record 243 yards and five touchdowns in a single game against the New York Jets in 1963.

 

Though he was with the Bills for only three years (1962–1964), he remains the team's fifth-leading rusher all-time, and led the league in scoring in each of his three years as a Bill. Gilchrist ran for 122 yards in the Bills' 1964 American Football League championship defeat of the San Diego Chargers, 20-7. His 4.5 yard/rush average is second as a Bill only to O.J. Simpson.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_Gilchrist

 

For these guys to be lumped into "other" invalidates the poll.

 

Problem is most people don't care.

 

When they honored the WOF members at the Panthers game, the stadium was quiet ( a golf clap) when players from the 70's and before were announced. When Kelly, Andre, etc from mid 80's on were announced, the place went nuts.

 

My friend, whose a Panthers fan, actually commented how odd that was.

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Problem is most people don't care.

 

When they honored the WOF members at the Panthers game, the stadium was quiet ( a golf clap) when players from the 70's and before were announced. When Kelly, Andre, etc from mid 80's on were announced, the place went nuts.

 

My friend, whose a Panthers fan, actually commented how odd that was.

 

There's no question that there's a generational divide and that players from the Bills AFL glory years are less relevant than players from more recent years.

 

That said, the ignorance of fans shouldn't have any bearing on the historical importance of players and how those players are honored.

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There's no question that there's a generational divide and that players from the Bills AFL glory years are less relevant than players from more recent years.

 

That said, the ignorance of fans shouldn't have any bearing on the historical importance of players and how those players are honored.

 

If the WOF was truly there to honor players, then I agree.

 

But I have a feeling that Brandon sees it more as a marketing ploy than a true honoring system.

 

The WOF announcement games are always promoted like crazy. And they're never the home opener when they know they'll sell out.

 

If I'm right, then putting an older player on the all who fans don't care about doesn't matter much to them.

 

Or maybe I'm just way off.

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There's no question that there's a generational divide and that players from the Bills AFL glory years are less relevant than players from more recent years.

 

That said, the ignorance of fans shouldn't have any bearing on the historical importance of players and how those players are honored.

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As much as I love Van, I don't know about putting announcers on the wall. I get that they work for the team, but announcers should be impartial and not a part of things like this.

 

Moulds was the best player remaining from the list.

 

What?

 

Home team announcers are not supposed to be partial.

 

There are home team announcers on multiple wall of fames across many sports.

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What?

 

Home team announcers are not supposed to be partial.

 

There are home team announcers on multiple wall of fames across many sports.

I know, but it's still weird to me. Van was for the home team, but he was still professional. I hate homer announcing like Bentley and Tasker in preseason where it's just embarrassing.

 

Moulds was a better player than Butch Byrd or Cookie Gilchrist?

I have Byrd and Dunaway (who will never go in) ahead of Moulds. Knowing Ralph, there's probably some silly reason Byrd isn't in yet too.

 

Cookie was only here 3 years. Even if those were great years, he doesn't seem fitting for the wall.

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Cookie Gilchrist and Jim Brown were the two greatest mofo man children to ever walk on a football field. JMO.

Whoa! Credit Canadian ignorance of American lingo. Thought Manchild was a good thing, like, you know, Macho or something like that.

I remember Cookie's days in Canada and followed him in Buffalo afterwards. Admired him for what he was able to do on the field but also off of it viz the AFL all star game That was to be played in NO. He was a man. Forget the child part.

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I think any player from this century needs to be omitted from the discussion. McGahee? Seriously? after the way he bad-mouthed the area? What I propose is putting the date Jan 3, 1993 on the Wall, that way you pay tribute to all those guys involved in perhaps the greatest moment in Bills history: Reich, Beebe, Kenny Davis, Christie, Jones...

 

 

This!

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