History of the Bills: 1964-1968

….explains so many all star Bills: the game featured the Bills playing AFL all stars from the rest of the teams in the league. That Bills team was remarkable; there wasn’t a weak link on the defense, which was coached by the best in the business back then: Joe Collier. I don’t think there were many who thought the Bills could win in either 1964 or 1965, though; San Diego was an awsome team on both sides of the ball and had great coaching, and a particulary scary d-line lead by Ernie Ladd and Earl Faison. They had their own genius defensive coach in Chuck Noll, and Gillman was an amazing innovator on offense.
I was really spoiled watching those mid 1960s teams. I first got interested in watching in 1963, so it was just like becoming a fan in 1989, except that they actually won a couple of titles in that great run in the 1960s.
KC was the better team in 1966. It would have been very cool to have gone to that first Super Bowl, but the game probably would have rivalled the 73-0 shellacking the Bears administered to the Redskins in the 1940 title game.
After all those good years it was painful to watch the Bills during the last few years of this 5 year segment, particularly the year they had all the QB injuries and Rutkowski was pressed into service.
Thanks for researching and writing these history stories!