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In honor of the latest Wall of Fame inductee (well, not yet, but soon), Booker Edgerson.......and the fact that this team has not made the playoffs this millennium, it's time to come up with a Buffalo Bills Wall of Shame!
Here's my inaugural class:
--OJ Simpson. Sorry. But The Juice has shamed the city. He can stay on the Wall of Fame because of his accomplishments on the field, but he's going on my Wall of Shame because of what he brought to and represents to the organization OFF of it.
--Ronnie Harmon. My all-time least favorite Bill. I was in Cleveland in January 1990 when he dropped the pass in the end zone that would've sent the team to their first SB the year before they finally made it. It still plays in my head 20 years later.
--Billy Joe Hobert. Dude didn't care enough about his QB job in Buffalo to study the damn playbook. Hey, BJ (perfect first two initials for you, by the way), how'd everything work out for you in New Orleans after that? errrrr....how 'bout Indy? Oops, sorry.
--Greg Williams/Mike Mularkey/Dick Jauron. Yeah, they're all going on at once, under the same heading. Because I honestly can't tell the difference between the exact same ****ty football I've watched over the last ten years, when any of the three was the head coach.
--Tom Donahoe & JP Losman. Yep, another Wall "partnership." Why not? TD made some decent moves (trading down and grabbing Nate Clements, drafting Schobel in round 2, drafting Terrence McGee and Lee Evans), but he ultimately hitched his Bills legacy wagon to Losman. He even traded our #1 in 2005 to get this guy (and Aaron Rodgers would've been there with that pick). And Losman sucked. Sucked enough to go on the Wall with a little help. So, separately, neither guy goes up because there have been worse GMs and there really have been worse QBs. But together, it was a shameful partnership.
--Chris Watson. I kinda feel bad putting Chris on my Wall. But when your own coach (Wade Phillips) refers to you - a punt returner - as a "punt catcher," that pretty much is a good indication that you blow. Chris was a DB, though, and could've made us forget about his punt return (lack of) abilities. But he pretty much blew there, too. So, it was shameful watching him suit up in a Bills uniform every week for a few years.
--Bryan Cox. I know, I know. This is the Bills Wall of Shame. But Bryan gets special consideration because of his special relationship with us, the Bills fans. From grabbing his crotch as he walked out of the tunnel yelling obscenities at us, to flipping the bird to the entire Ralph Wilson Stadium crowd, to saying in an interview that he'd "retire tomorrow" if he was ever traded to Buffalo, Bryan will always hold a special place in all out hearts as the #1 Bills villain. So, for that, he gets a special place on my Wall of Shame, to forever be immortalized.
--Vince Ferragamo. Starting QB for nine games on maybe the worst Bills team in history, 1985. How bout these for stats? 1-8 record. 5 TD 17 INT. Sacked 19 times. Good God! This guy makes Edwards/Fitzpatrick combo look like the glory years of Bills football. And here's the worst part.....the Bills gave up TE Tony Hunter to get him. And although Hunter didn't last many years in the NFL, he did catch 50 passes in 1985 for a Rams team that went to the NFC title game. Ugh.
--Brett Hull. Seriously. Why the Hell not?!?!
--Mike Williams. There have been plenty of 1st round busts over the years, but Mike is probably the biggest (both figuratively and literally) representation of what a bust the entire last decade of Bills football has been.
Well, that's mine. At least the ones I thought of while sitting here and writing this. Who's on your Wall and why?
Here's my inaugural class:
--OJ Simpson. Sorry. But The Juice has shamed the city. He can stay on the Wall of Fame because of his accomplishments on the field, but he's going on my Wall of Shame because of what he brought to and represents to the organization OFF of it.
--Ronnie Harmon. My all-time least favorite Bill. I was in Cleveland in January 1990 when he dropped the pass in the end zone that would've sent the team to their first SB the year before they finally made it. It still plays in my head 20 years later.
--Billy Joe Hobert. Dude didn't care enough about his QB job in Buffalo to study the damn playbook. Hey, BJ (perfect first two initials for you, by the way), how'd everything work out for you in New Orleans after that? errrrr....how 'bout Indy? Oops, sorry.
--Greg Williams/Mike Mularkey/Dick Jauron. Yeah, they're all going on at once, under the same heading. Because I honestly can't tell the difference between the exact same ****ty football I've watched over the last ten years, when any of the three was the head coach.
--Tom Donahoe & JP Losman. Yep, another Wall "partnership." Why not? TD made some decent moves (trading down and grabbing Nate Clements, drafting Schobel in round 2, drafting Terrence McGee and Lee Evans), but he ultimately hitched his Bills legacy wagon to Losman. He even traded our #1 in 2005 to get this guy (and Aaron Rodgers would've been there with that pick). And Losman sucked. Sucked enough to go on the Wall with a little help. So, separately, neither guy goes up because there have been worse GMs and there really have been worse QBs. But together, it was a shameful partnership.
--Chris Watson. I kinda feel bad putting Chris on my Wall. But when your own coach (Wade Phillips) refers to you - a punt returner - as a "punt catcher," that pretty much is a good indication that you blow. Chris was a DB, though, and could've made us forget about his punt return (lack of) abilities. But he pretty much blew there, too. So, it was shameful watching him suit up in a Bills uniform every week for a few years.
--Bryan Cox. I know, I know. This is the Bills Wall of Shame. But Bryan gets special consideration because of his special relationship with us, the Bills fans. From grabbing his crotch as he walked out of the tunnel yelling obscenities at us, to flipping the bird to the entire Ralph Wilson Stadium crowd, to saying in an interview that he'd "retire tomorrow" if he was ever traded to Buffalo, Bryan will always hold a special place in all out hearts as the #1 Bills villain. So, for that, he gets a special place on my Wall of Shame, to forever be immortalized.
--Vince Ferragamo. Starting QB for nine games on maybe the worst Bills team in history, 1985. How bout these for stats? 1-8 record. 5 TD 17 INT. Sacked 19 times. Good God! This guy makes Edwards/Fitzpatrick combo look like the glory years of Bills football. And here's the worst part.....the Bills gave up TE Tony Hunter to get him. And although Hunter didn't last many years in the NFL, he did catch 50 passes in 1985 for a Rams team that went to the NFC title game. Ugh.
--Brett Hull. Seriously. Why the Hell not?!?!
--Mike Williams. There have been plenty of 1st round busts over the years, but Mike is probably the biggest (both figuratively and literally) representation of what a bust the entire last decade of Bills football has been.
Well, that's mine. At least the ones I thought of while sitting here and writing this. Who's on your Wall and why?
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