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PITTSFORD, N.Y. - None of the youth football players huddled at Jim Kelly's knees were born yet when the Buffalo Bills were tearing up the National Football League in the early 1990s on their way to appearing in a record four consecutive Super Bowls.
Yet when Kelly, the Hall of Fame quarterback, asked if they could tell him the jersey numbers of Andre Reed, Kent Hull and Bruce Smith, "83, 67 and 78" were rattled off with ease. And when Kelly asked, "OK, what was my number?'' the whole group erupted in unison, "12, 12, 12."
"They remember because of their daddies," said Kelly during a break in his one-day football clinic at St. John Fisher College on Tuesday. "Maybe a few watched some video of our games."
Or maybe it's because Jim Kelly has been as much a part of the fabric of western New York in the 17 years he's been retired as in the 11 years he starred for the Bills...
Yet when Kelly, the Hall of Fame quarterback, asked if they could tell him the jersey numbers of Andre Reed, Kent Hull and Bruce Smith, "83, 67 and 78" were rattled off with ease. And when Kelly asked, "OK, what was my number?'' the whole group erupted in unison, "12, 12, 12."
"They remember because of their daddies," said Kelly during a break in his one-day football clinic at St. John Fisher College on Tuesday. "Maybe a few watched some video of our games."
Or maybe it's because Jim Kelly has been as much a part of the fabric of western New York in the 17 years he's been retired as in the 11 years he starred for the Bills...
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