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Lot # 1513: 1965 AFL Champion Buffalo Bills Team-Signed Football

Starting Bid: $200.00

Bids: 21 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "2024 Summer Classic",
which ran from 6/9/2024 12:00 PM to
6/29/2024 10:00 PM



Displayed is a 1965 American Football League Champion Buffalo Bills team-signed ball with (34) autographs. The '65 Bills were coached by Lou Saban and played home games at Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium. The team had a regular season record of 10-3-1 and in the AFL Championship Game, the East Division Champion Bills defeated the West Division Champion San Diego Chargers 23-0 to win the AFL title. In those days, prior to the merger between the AFL and the NFL, the Bills had no Super Bowl opportunity, and the team ended the season at the league's pinnacle. Autographs: Jack Kemp (a star quarterback, 2-time AFL Champion, and later a United States Congressman), Daryle Lamonica, Marty Schottenheimer, Dudley Meredith, Jim Dunaway, Gene Sykes, Hagood Clarke, Wray Carlton, Booker Edgerson, Butch Byrd, Charley Ferguson, Ed Rutkowski, George Flint, Bill Groman, Glen Bass, Joe O'Donnell, Charley Warner, Tom Keating, Bill Laskey, Billy Joe, Stew Barber, Dave Behrman, Pete Gogolak (pro football's first soccer-style kicker), Bob Smith, Donnie Stone, Dick Hudson, John Tracey, and more. The ball holds its shape with minor deflating. The offered football is a Spalding American Football League with a facsimile signature of AFL Commissioner Joe Foss, a noted World War II Marine hero. The signatures are in black marker, and they are bold and neatly scripted. The ball shows some wear. Most of the signatures are clear and dark, but some of the signatures, at areas at or near the ball's white stripes, are lighter or partially faded. Some of the white surface color on the ball at the stripes has rubbed off, perhaps from being griped and/or thrown. Overall, the ball and signatures are in good condition and the signed ball makes a fine, vintage remembrance of the Buffalo Bills and the AFL's early years.

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