Saturday, February 1, 2014

Andre Reed is finally in the football hall of fame

Andre Reed was the big target for Jim Kelly and the K-gun of the Buffalo Bills in the late-eighties and early-to-mid-nineties that brought great regular seasons and remarkable playoff runs to Super Bowl 25-28. With the best movement was the Buffalo Bills playoff comeback against the Houston Oilers being down 35-3 on January 3,1993 101 seconds into the third quarter and the Bills rallied back to win 41-38 and it was a game that western New York and Sothern Ontario did not get to see until the very end because of the stupid local blackout rule that if the game is not sold out. In the end the legacy of Andre Reed and the late-eighties-early-to-mid-nighties was defined by one kick by one kick by Scott Norwood in Super Bowl 25 where he kicked a 47-yard field goal wide right given the New York Giants a 20-19 victory. Also the Bills were defined by the fact that the Bills went to four straight Super Bowl appearances with nothing but pride that left the players and the fans with empty hearts with the feels of what could of been. Andre Reed was drafted by the Bills in 1985 in the fourth round (86 overall)and played 15 seasons with the Bills and was voted to 7 pro bowls and had 941 receptions (951 in his career) for 13,095 (13,198) in 221 games (234) as a Buffalo Bills. He will now join his rightful place besides teammates Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, and Jim Kelly in the Hall Of Fame after a very long wait to get in, It makes me feel soooooo gooooood that the best NFL seasons of the Buffalo Bills being honored just like the players they lost to in the Super Bowls Tom Mehegan

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