Tuesday Morning Bills Trivia

by sireric on Jun 30, 2009 8:00 AM EDT in Blog Series

I've been reading a lot of Buffalo Bills-related material lately, the results of which can be found here. The increased Bills knowledge has really improved my trivia contest making skills, if I do say so myself. It is becoming harder and harder to make these without making them super tough. I'm not really sure what the point of saying all of that is other than to have something for the intro, which most of you don't even read. Okay, trivia away.

Mystery Player 1
I was a Cyclone.
I was a defensive end in college but moved to linebacker in the pros.
I was in the same draft class as Joe DeLamielleure.
I wore number 52.

Mystery Player 2
I attended Notre Dame.
My likeness is on Ray Abruzzese's 1964 Topps football card.
I was the color commentator for Bills broadcasts for a time.
I signed Eric's copy of Tale of the Tape. (Hope you paid attention!)

Mystery Player 3
I attended East Tennessee State University.
I also attended Alabama at Birmingham University.
I am currently the defensive backs coach at Austin Peay University.
I played for three NFL teams during my career.

Mystery Player 4
I was a teammate of Jim Kelly's in both Buffalo and with the Houston Gamblers.
Other than the Bills, the only other NFL team that I played for was the Kansas City Chiefs.
I am a member of the Arena Football League Hall Of Fame.
I was an All-American in both 1980 and 1981.

***Extra Credit***
Who caught Jim Kelly's first ever touchdown pass as a Bill? (Hope you watched that video!)
Who or what did the Bills trade to the Seattle Seahawks for Pete Metzelaars?

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Good stuff, eric.

I don’t know any of them. All the Bills I’ve been reading about for the history deal are morphing together in my mind. :-)

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by MattRichWarren on Jun 30, 2009 8:11 AM EDT reply actions

lol

Tennessee WILL beat Georgia on the way to 9+ wins in '09!!!

by VolBrian on Jun 30, 2009 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions

EC 1: Pete Metzelaars?

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by thefourwinds on Jun 30, 2009 9:08 AM EDT reply actions

nope

(Hope you watched that video!)

You know you could have always gone back and watched it again.

No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.

by sireric on Jun 30, 2009 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions

Watching it is cheating!

There was a long TD pass to Andre Reed in that game which I think may have been the first one.

by Pistol on Jun 30, 2009 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Nope

No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.

by sireric on Jun 30, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe I’ve gotten better at it then I thought…

No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.

by sireric on Jun 30, 2009 10:00 AM EDT reply actions

Eric - with knowledge comes power

Tough ones today

I’ll guess at first 2 – both have real Buffalo sounding names

1. Jim Cheyunski
2. Ed Rutkowski

by freddyjj on Jun 30, 2009 10:13 AM EDT reply actions

2 is correct.

while #1 is wrong, the correct answer does have a very Buffalo sounding name.

No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.

by sireric on Jun 30, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions

1. Merv Krakau
2. Ed Rut
3. Dainon Sidney?
4. Durwood Roquemore?
EC Greg Bell and B. Franklin

by BuffaloRepresent on Jun 30, 2009 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions

Did you really know all that off the top of your head?

It went on long enough without anybody getting them so i don’t mind if you cheated, I just want to know how good you really are.

No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.

by sireric on Jun 30, 2009 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions

busted

ah, the power of the internet. No I didn’t really know any, but it’s still not easy to find the answers sometimes. I like doing Bills research and I know how tough it is to come up with Bills trivia that’s difficult enough to not be a gimme, but not so hard that no one could possibly get it, since I do weekly trivia for our Bills Backers club during the season. I can’t do anything harder than who was the Bills punter in their first Super Bowl? (should be a gimme for you) I’ll check back for more trivia because I love it, but if I have to look it up, I’ll keep it to myself in the future.

by BuffaloRepresent on Jun 30, 2009 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions