Irish Bills: All-Time Team
Buffalobills.com
03/17/2006 11:41 AM
Buffalobills.com
03/17/2006 11:41 AM
In honor of St. Patrick's Day (March 17), Buffalobills.com took a look back through more than 40 years of Buffalo Bills football to assemble a lineup of past and present Bills players with Irish surnames.
"It's pretty good team overall," said Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly. "I think some of the best ones… Dan O'Leary he's definitely an MVP Irish candidate for me. Oh but the MVP right off the top is Paul Maguire."
Here is the Irish Bills squad, featuring some prominent, and not so prominent, players from Buffalo's past.
Offense | |
QB | Jim Kelly, 1986-96/Tom O'Connell, 1960-61 |
RB | Jeff Kinney, 1976 |
RB | Gary McDermott, 1968 |
FB | Wray Carlton, 1960-67 |
WR | Chris Walsh 1992-93 |
G | Tom Lynch, 1981-84 |
G | Joe O'Donnell, 1964-71 |
C | Bill Conaty, 1997-2002 |
OT | Dave Foley, 1972-77/Mike Brennan, 1991 |
OT | Glenn Parker, 1990-96 |
TE | Dan O'Leary, 2001/Brady McDonnell, 2002 |
Defense | |
DE | Sean McNanie, 1984-87 |
DT | Jim Dunaway, 1963-71 |
DT | Tom Keating, 1964-65 |
DE | Sean Moran, 1996-97 |
LB | Ray Bentley, 1986-91 |
LB | Shane Conlan, 1987-92 |
LB | Chris Keating, 1979-84/John Tracey, 1962-67 |
DB | Jim Crotty, 1961-62 |
DB | Bill Atkins, 1960-63/Rich McCabe, 1960-61 |
S | Bill Hurley, 1983 |
S | Bill Cahill, 1973-74/Mike Kennedy, 1983 |
Special Teams | |
K | Neil O'Donoghue, 1977/Kerry Brady, 1989 |
P | Paul Maguire, 1964-70 |
LS | Ethan Albright, 1996-2000 |